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interesting again I'm going off Arbiter live that's what I'm seeing I could you know could be wrong I'm happy anybody wants to correct me on that one but uh going to get going to get some rest yeah yeah and I know like you know some of these Thursday games also because of the refs so they have to kind of spread that out but that is a little odd for high school with the exception of their last game with thaning right right so want to also give a quick shout out to our crew tonight Macky maatap kotab and Jeff Hall appreciate you guys stepping in here today and bringing us all the uh wonderful Audio and Video making us look and sound good you know actually we look good because we don't go on camera you're just hearing our voices we're we're great voices but you know this crew I mean they're here I came a little bit early for my daughter's game they're here setting up um getting everything ready so hardworking crew over here bringing live broadcast cast to many of the ashin games exited to be indoors on a chilly night last day of September third set underway Lily vidy hitting for the clockers clockers down two sets To None here they got to pull out a win here and Millis once again scores the first point of the set that's three sets in a row now it's kind of scary when you and I start thinking alike it's the 516 connection 56 it is we're we're different we on who we root for at the pro we seem to share a brain yes but we have we have some some similarities over here here's Macy Sur serving for the Mohawks I tell Gabby just has such a quick release on those hits at the net and look who it is number five Meredith gats with another Ace just shooting a incredible velocity on that shot great control just put it right right inside the line again we saw a lot of her during the warm-ups what makes it challenging is she can go down the line cross it and can hit on can hit in either side oh yeah ton of velocity okay Eliza took a little too much off on that left-handed hit another point for the Mohawks quickly out to a three nothing lead here in the third set yeah second set very very competitive just you know at the end couldn't stop uh Millis they had this great run only Millis can stop Millis as Ser serves into the net clockers get their first point of the night regain serve looks like this will be Marissa Carroll heading to the backline for the clockers junior one of our many Juniors on this young Ashlin Team Soft Serve handled nicely by Millis here's the big hit can hear the entire crowd react to that sir Pina so they definitely have some kind of yeah they definitely have a history there it's great yeah I I would have just ducked our just just ran so I would probably would have turned my body so that like my you know where I have some extra padding could take that one but again they they there's a rival here fun competitive they must know each other I think you mentioned absolutely so which is great like you get to see these young athletes playing in school out of school when they kind of compete with each other so that's served by Millis by Addison getting another point for the Mohawks they're up 5 to one now here in the third set Quinn digs it out Lily over to Siri took something off that one caught Millis sleeping a little bit big hit at the net nothing Millis can do on that one is Siri unloads at the net I think that was a Revenge hit oh absolutely oh actually had a huge grit on her face great she looked back looked right at Meredith when she did it okay so uh Ali politica checking in here Gabby heads to the bench Ally will serve for the lockers they're down 5 to2 here in the third [Applause] set again my favorite uh nebor over here Ali ptica nice serve wow great take by Rose just to get a hand on that one but it sails out of bounds I think the freshman just realized that's what it's like digging little overmatched on that one a little bit but you know she's stuck in there so Isabella abiona serving here for the mohawk she had a really good run behind the line there in the second set see if the clockers can break her early Rose digs this one out over to Siri passing cross to Quinn free ball coming over going to call that one out yeah another smile from Quinn yep so Eliza heads to the bench Isabelle comes in for the clockers so Isabelle and and Rose on the back line at the moment quiner labero nice deep serve soft over the top Siri couldn't get there and couldn't close the distance Ms up 73 yeah she's done that a bunch of times where it looks like she's about to get ready and then just kind of lays off a little bit and just finds that open shows fast ball and delivers change up absolutely soft one over just skimmed over the top of the net and Rose couldn't handle it knocked that one out out of bounds Millis up 83 here in the third set you that's come I I don't think that's her greatest part of her complete game um from Merith is a serve but that was a great serve a s serve yep coming over Isabelle gets it to Quinn free ball going deep it's good idea Millis handles it big hit blocked at the net play continues Millis handled it nicely another big hit little softer this time Isabelle to Quinn over to Lily going crosscourt soft hit [Music] [Applause] wow how did Rose play that one beautiful Siri going deep near Collision Millis continues and we've got a stoppage we got the whistle four hits is called on the Mohawks they're all looking at each other and I thought they were oh he's calling one off the head was one of the hits it looks [Music] like okay quick conversation and as no surprise there the refs ruling stands clockers get the point they're down 8 to four Siri pacina serving for the clockers skims the net somehow Millis is able to play this now Isabelle to Quinn up top to Lily labero calls it off and number eight Tessa malari Ser hits into the net keep W to say service she hits it into the net you know I'll give B lot CR you can actually hear the communication I thought 84 at the beginning of the last there 8 to five okay yeah 8 five okay tough play there but played nonetheless we've got a stoppage a carry is it double hit double hit okay we're getting a little bit of everything right now getting called against Millis clockers are happy to take it they're down eight to six and Pina trying to go on a run here deep play yeah sir got away with that one is I think it was that Madison Adams who played it again it's kind of a tough one to kind of Let It Drop but it might have went deep mhm but hey yeah that one looked to me like it was sailing out of bounds but again on the floor it's a totally different angle and you know if you're going to got to play that you're going to play it yep agree took too much off that one it looked like the either the serve or the approach it was not the same as last time but just something in that in fundamentals there something yeah all right number three we got Madison Adams 97 Millis third set by call that one off toid here we go okay terrific set and kill by by Lily vidy on that play clocker Down 9 to8 we got middle we got Gabby V coming in Collins good deep serve [Applause] Isabelle to Marissa gets it over the front line diving play nicely played by Millis free ball coming over right let's see if they get a good wow great terrific volley but great play on both sides right now off Isabelle and off Emily Collins and out of bounds hate to see uh anybody lose a point that's so well contested but that one goes ms's way AG agree agree You Know M had a really good dig by the laera so what we got 108 competitive game competitive set over here wi that's going to be a tough play right of the net so again this is the this is the where we've seen the biggest challenge for the clockers tonight is those uncontrolled digs heading to the right to the net and just put in places where the front line can't handle it yep so 118 Millis as Ashley continues to serve Siri got this one Isabelle diving for it Marissa free ball going over gives mils a chance to set up their big hit there it is but right into the net I might have been blocked at the net been blocked by Lily yep think vidly I would give her credit for that block okay Eliza checking in for Isabel as Lily vidy heads to the back line to [Applause] serve see your front line right now Marissa Eliza and Gabby van beak number n g Gabby shaking shaking her head after that one yeah she could have had that one number nine Isabella we got serving number four Macy another senior Siri the vidy to Van Beek V for [Music] victory feel like I want to see the the the guy that uh the Yankee gay the Yankee uh famous production Sterling yeah you know it's he's got a couple really cool cetch rages in the way we got to develop one of these for uh for next year sure cuz Vivy and Van Beek will be back next year going be saying their names a lot next year that's for sure but plenty of volleyball left in this season Brian of course by the way I was going to mention you we talked about this could be our final volleyball broadcast of the year should the girls go to the playoffs and it's looking good right now if we get a home game I expect that we'll be live that so stay tuned s kind of backhanded that one over the net play continues big hit nothing that uh Queen could do on that one no just another great hit by number five so Millis with the lead 14-10 they hold serve this will be Addison think it's our second time serving in this set as they say they've gone to the rotation Quinn up top to Lily big hit by Gabby got it blocked but quick recovery gets it over the net tough angle there but Millis gets it over the net Lily passing to Siri mils able to handle that one oh she found a great hole right in the middle of that defense power and now finesse yep but you know high quality volleyball we're seeing right now absolutely so hope there's a timeout Maybe not good serve really good serve okay kind of caught the cruise there on that one caught her short 16 to 10 Millis here in the third set and I know the camera's facing away from The Stance but we have an entire Student Center that's completely packed right now mhm again you're going to attribute some of that to senior night of course plenty of parents here tonight is that Millis surf sails out of bounds clockers gain serve 1611 Mohawks in the lead here in the third set hanging around over here favorite neighbor Alex [Applause] CLA known for her very high velocity serve boom let that go all [Applause] right again I what I love about volleyball is just the reactions when they win a point lose a point great serve though by Ali I mean there's just so many points in every game like you can't get hung up on any one of them agree you just got to let it go and and you see it on just about every girl on both of these teams and every game we' we've seen like they all know how to you know like be a goldfish right put that put that last point right in the rearview mirror love it be a goldfish that's actually and again I've been watching a little bit more college volleyball it's the same thing you just got to win the point next game mhm nice serve nice dig play it off the net they got it great job by the Ashlin great Point Let's see if they can turn this into something now they finally got a break there at the net clocker down 17713 Isabelle lay checks back in Eliza heads to the bench and Isabelle will be serving here for the clockers she's to join on the back line by De Cruz and herder here's the serve big hit blocked to the net and falls to the ground so tough break there for the clock it's just a one-point serve that time you it's F not that Ash but midis is not a very tall team but man they could uh on that line when when they want to do a good kill it's impressive number five mer it just seems like every dig goes right to middle front row yeah agree everyone just so consistent Ms with another point there 1913 is their lead and Merith gats about to serve but Ashlin calls timeout timely timeout over here okay so again a quick recap clockers dropped the first set 2513 and then in the second set Bills won that one as well a much more competitive set by the clockers but still came up short they are down 1913 here in the third set want to take a moment to give a quick shout out to the clocker club the official booster club of ashin high school sports in the past 12 years they provided more than $100,000 to Asal Athletics their signature fundraising events include a golf tournament which took place uh recently earlier this month again last day of September so still earlier this month and of course the famous pancake breakfast on Super Bowl Sunday if you'd like to get involved they meet here at the high school the first Wednesday of every month at 700 p.m.

so that next one's coming up this could be this week yeah October 2nd to learn more about getting involved and or purchasing a membership and of course to verify if that meeting is taking place this Wednesday at 7:00 be sure to check out clocker club.org that's clocker club.org do we know who won the golf tournament this uh at Shiny Rock a couple weeks ago I don't have that information I don't either okay play continues here in the third set free balls almost a sneaky play there by Lily vidy play continues great dig by herder Isabelle over to Siri blocked at the net bis gets the point make it 20-3 now for the mohawks [Applause] to Cruz Isabelle quick hit there by Emily Collins and found the hole in that defense yeah clockers get the ball back and Siri Bina heads to the back line she's been their most consistent server all night yep I think we need a little Siri run over here keep this game keep the match going on over here this the part where you say Hey Siri ah couldn't catch the couldn't get the couldn't get the net to cooperate on that one so make it 2114 Millis got got Madison [Music] Adams jump serve just cleared the net that's going to be a tough one right at the net Isabelle couldn't handle it she's got a little bit of a hop with that jump serve mhm 2214 now as Millis tries to shut down the third set and W go home a winner tonight Quinn up front Isabelle tracks it down free ball hit by Emily Collins Millis sets to The Far Side Ball's live the Cruz and herder both tried to get there and fall short 2314 Millis yeah I mean the effort was there just a great Spike by Millis and just unfortunate but uh again great offensive play by Millis 2314 to Cruz Isabelle over to [Applause] bidy going to call a carry on that one Yep looks like it oh or double hit double hit either one clocker point so clockers on the ropes not giving up hope they're down 2315 this is Emily serving for the clockers Deep serve dug out again right to Front Middle over to the side for the big hit blocked to the net Isabelle can't close the gap ball drops we it's set point now set and match 2415 for the Mohawks and that's Ashley the labero trying to seal the win for the Mohawks yeah I'm watching the coacho there she's definitely giving instructions on how these serves she looks like she's staring her down yeah Isabelle for the second hit Siri beautiful shot by Siri gets the point so 2416 clockers out their back against the wall yep so we need a nice at least eight-point run over here by Junior Lily vidy to keep this set going on you sound like me at the blackjack table asking for one less than I need one more one more yeah big hit by Lily sending him deep playable up front D Cruz to vidy back to D Cruz good tipped at the net play continues herder vidy de Cruz finds the in the corner that was a tough one cuz you know she wasn't her momentum wasn't moving towards the net mhm I thought that was a risky uh kill there but what do I know great job and you know Elliot doesn't have a lot of height but still able to make a terrific play at the net here's vidy again deep serve playable big hit at the net and that'll do it Gabby tried to get the block and only was able to deflect it slightly so they already reset the score but did you catch the final I did it was 20 257 so 2513 2519 257 okay so the Mohawks take it in straight sets tonight over Ashland so uh the clockers are going to fall [Music] to have lost their records here but billis will improve to six and five so I appreciate the compliments in the post game from uh Dave viddy friend and neighbor who is a neighbor y won you be my neighbor and a very good golfer by the way I'll take your word on that so again tough break there for the clockers tonight they on senior night they fall short getting swept three sets to none and uh that'll just about do it here Brian any final thoughts you know again very impressed with Millis um but overall I love senior Knights at any school because it brings in a ton of people parents can kind of uh in a way almost a nice little goodbye for for the years of uh the athletes but huge crowd good good game by ashon I think Millis obviously I think was the better team today and too bad it's it's a non- Le game so that there's no rematch but you never we certainly saw plenty of quality volleyball here tonight from both sides so okay so that'll do it from Ashlin high school tonight again your final clockers drop straight sets 3 nothing to the Millis mohawks for Brian s Macky kotob Jeff Hall Paul Bowden I'm Josh Abram saying thanks for watching Ashlin clocker girls volleyball on waca go clockers

[Music] good morning I'm Stephen and I'm Cammy and this is C TV News last week the ASL class with Miss narcisso requested the wishes a great school year and a welcome back let's take a look e thanks miss narcisso that was very very nice of you two weeks ago was back to school night here's some highlights [Music] for [Music] oh that was so cool anyway last Tuesday I did a broadcast and an interview with 98.7 The Coast on their annual School tour let's take a look hi I'm Cammy here with Cat TV news with 98 .7 the coast host Mark Hunter right here and after interviewing a select few students I think it's only fair we ask you a few questions okay so the first thing that we want to ask is just tell us a little bit about your station like where you're centered what you usually cover on and so forth oh thank you very much uh 987 to Coast is a local radio station we've been in Kate May County for over 30 years uh we do like to focus on a lot of community events such as the back to school tour um we also play some music we like to play uh a lot of pop music uh artists like Lady Gaga and uh Sabrina Carpenter Bruno Mars stuff like that um but also we like to provide a lot of local news coverage we do cover uh some high school sports like basketball football and uh we just love to talk about things going on in the community and we are just we're just thrilled to have been here for the back to school Tour all right and a little more about that back to school store for any oncoming students or freshman that just came in um is this an annual thing absolutely this is an annual event uh and we stop at five high schools throughout Cap May County we started uh with Wildwood this year and then we went to Middle Township uh we uh visited the Wawa Catholic Academy we also visited lower K May Regional and the final stop has traditionally been here at K May Technical High School and it's always been a blast all right now I've heard a little something from Mr Jones Is it true that Tech is your favorite school to visit I love the fact that uh every year uh Tech has the the conclusion of the broadcast uh with with Hannah Toof and the animals but really I one thing I love about Cape Tech is just the variety of programs that you guys offer and it always seems to change it's amazing to hear about the conference center and uh uh you know the the the new dining restaurant and all the things that have been added the volleyball team and uh yeah I I really do love broadcasting here every school brings a little something but I always look forward to coming here to Tech each and every year to find out what's new and there's always something amazing to learn so yes it's definitely my favorite all right well that's all we need from you um thank you for coming out and we hope we set your tour off with a blast thank you so much for having us and appreciate it and thanks for the interview back to me in the studio I think I did a good job anyway for those unfamiliar with the school store here's Max to tell you a little bit about it hey Hawks welcome to the tech store here we're with Mr Bren and uh do you guys have a name for this place yet uh we're currently working on it I posted a survey for all my seniors and I'm soon going to post that to all faculty and and administrators so they can give me their input as well and then uh we'll go from there that sounds great so when is this place open well it's actually open now we opened up for back to school night and uh we are currently open now okay that sounds great when can we visit uh you can visit during either Lunch Period so we're open during both lunch periods however uh we do have a QR code so you can actually scan that and place an order at any time and pick it up during one of the lunch periods okay that sounds great you can scan the QR code right here and what do you guys sell here well we sell um hats we have two types of hats we have baseball caps and knit hats we sell hoodies warm-ups uh long sleeve and short sleeve shirts okay that sounds great thank you oh you're welcome back to the studio Thanks Max and for anyone is willing to donate me $20 so I could buy a Cape Tech football t-shirt hit me up he's going to use the money for food anyway let's look at question of the week the question was what's your favorite comfort food what are your guys' comfort food uh I like chicken alfredo with broccoli mine's prels French toast SpaghettiOs and my mom's fried fish my favorite comfort food is rice what's your comfort food waa donuts with jimmies mac and cheese chicken tenders Pizza my favorite comfort food is nachos what's your favorite comfort food probably pasta BR short ribs hi my name is Ari and my comfort food is probably Bia tacos Pizza salt and vinegar potato chips my favorite comfort food is probably some chocolate chip pancakes with home fries and sausage my favorite comfort food is my 7 a.m.

question that I did um ask in our study session that I thought brought a lot of perspective so one of the questions I did ask was what do you think is going to work this year that didn't work last year and I think Dr Pomo gave me a great explanation of that um last time and it had to do with DNA um just because if you if you don't mind giving or Dr dupin a little context of the benchmarking that we used to have before and how we switched over to DNA and how it is aligned more with the outcomes I if maybe somebody can give a little bit of explanation on that Dr Poma would you like to or would you try I'll give it a go and then you can fill in fill in the blanks she's I I shared on Saturday how grateful I am for Dr pombo because of how much I've learned working with her and I'm very very grateful so we discussed a couple of things uh that are different about learning this year number one is we are in the the second year of deep implementation of our new newly adopted math instructional resources those materials are the the title is into maath the publisher is hmh and the board approved the purchase two two years prior we had piloted went through an extensive process to select but anytime you adopt high quality instructional materials there's a learning curve and our staff have been focusing diligently on learning to use those resources effectively and so we anticipate at greater impact from those inputs those materials uh over the course of time um as evident by this year's work so we're going to be continuing to support that work very very closely to ensure our teachers are well supported in using inth and that we're incorporating that data into the learning walks that we share with you when we report on our guard rails um in addition to that we've been on a we're in a two-year journey to implement implement the datawise process datawise comes to us from Harvard University um Dr Pomo was actually the person who introduced it to our leadership team formally and last year we worked really just with our leaders to understand an eight eight phase process in which we can organize for Collective work and focus our conversations around problems of practice for ourselves and learning centered problems that we can address with our students and we repeat keep that process over and over using relevant relevant is that better using relevant uh instructional resources uh in order I've never had it usually it's not that bad it's because the air conditioning I think my apologies it's I usually can project well you're just so deir Eric yeah very you're very Demir I am very di mindful I'm mindful um so so we're we're in the step we're implementing datawise and now we're working to really take the data wise process into the work of our teachers each of our leaders is developing plans of action to support teachers and using the data wise process so whether we're talking about these kinds of data sets or other data set such as the Panorama surveys or our learning walk data we're now having deeper and more frequent critical conversations action oriented conversations about the challenges that we face and the goals that we're trying to achieve yes one of the beautiful epiphanies that I had in the in the study session when they were discussing datawise is that we have a certain amount of guard rails right and one of our guard rails um it talks about how we will not allow adult convenience to get prioritized on the on behalf of the students basically and what he just said with data wise literally puts the perspective but back as what am I as an administrator what am I as a governing board member what am I as a teacher doing that's causing the the this this hurdle where kids are not moving the needle and it's never about our students it's always about the adults and that's what this framework kind of brings us to it's coming to the realization and getting and stuff implemented like that datawise that really puts what we're doing as an institution and what we have to do to meet the needs of the students so when that new form these are the kind of questions that we like to ask during progress monitoring because we start finding out well what are you doing different I get we have this data that's been been happening for years and years what is different and through those conversations and through them connecting the guard rail with the goals we came out with something new that was Data wise and that's something new that we're going to try and it sounds like it's super aligned with kind of the language and the jargon already that we have going on with the student outcomes Focus governance framework and it's coming from Harvard so it's not something that I I know people like to speculate about the work that we're doing um we're one of four school districts in the whole state of Arizona that are going this way right now so there's a lot of stuff going out there and it's research evidencebased information that we we're obviously lacking and this is going to take us to the right direction to start finding what's working and what's not so I appreciated that and I appreciated that explanation and one of the things as we start looking into the data I always want people to remember that it's not a good or a bad thing it's not that we had good people or bad people it's literally the systems that we have in place that have not been working and some of them have been implemented kind of like our discipline policy since the 1800s the Inception of the school district so it's time to change and this work is exactly what is doing it's pushing us to think out of the box bring new things and make sure that the stuff that we do have at the district is working not only for our students but obviously for our community members so I appreciated that and if I can give a shout out just because I don't know that a lot of people do this but um you talked about this small number of groups that are doing the sofg work in Arizona there's also a very small number of districts you had to apply and be accepted but there was a very small number of districts that were accepted this summer to go to Harvard to um get more specific fine-tuned training on the data wise program and and our team was one of those groups so we were able to send a five-person team that included um Dr dupin it included Dr pombo um our special education director Gretchen Kaiser who on the back miss Emily wolak um and Mr Ivon Carvajal and so and the selection of who went was not was also not random because you know one of the things when we look at our breakdowns when we have conversations about you know our our different subpopulations of students we wanted to make sure that we're doing this work for all students within the district so that's why we were making certain that we had representation from special education we had representation from general education effective schools and Mr Carvajal um super important that so actually there was a time when I was going and I and and he took my seat which I was very excited about because what that allowed was for him to bring back the perspective of how do we extend this work to our community and to our families and So you you're seeing some of that start to happen I know these are not the goals we're on tonight but when we get to talking about goals three and four you will see some of that impact in some of the things we're doing this year to connect with families around our um English language development goals and so um I'm just so thankful to the team for them to give up a week this summer to to go and get this training and not just go and get it for themselves they have since come back and worked as a team to provide the training to our um principles and assistant principls and directors and with a focus on then creating time for them at each at the end of each of the meetings to work on how they're going to take it back to their schools and then provide that information to the teaching staff and support staff at their School site so that way we can start to get this all the way down to the student level um before this year is out so we this is the second year we've been doing datawise but the first year really was very high level of implementation and you're starting to see it you'll start to see it penetrate into the system this year and I think that was one of the things Dr pombo shared with us on Saturday so I'm not really this smart I just paid attention on Saturday you are very smart that's like you're a superintendent um yeah um that's that's awesome information and um do we have any questions and I just want to let everybody know that these progress monitorings we have to adopt them every meeting because these eventually will get tied to our superintendent's evaluation to hold our superintendent accountable for what we hired him to do so it's very important that we ask the questions now and that we have Clarity if there's any inklings of anything that you don't understand and it now is the time or you know when you're having your 101s but once we adopt this then now we're accountable for this too because we're saying I understand what you're saying Dr dupin this makes sense I I understand the changes and why we're not going to meet it but it looks like we are doing so we have to vet this and make sure that we're convinced that our administrators are doing the different things that they need to to move the needle so I just want to make sure that's clarified with everybody and then um our community know that these will be tied to a superintendent evaluation once we get to that point and just to clarify while this indicates based on the information we talked about on Saturday that we're not on track doesn't mean that we don't meet it right so the reason we watch to see if we're on track is to then make midar adjustments so that way we get back on track as best we can doesn't mean we'll be perfect every time but it won't be for lack of effort yep it's bringing in the team and saying hey we need to fix something before we go to the next quarter and we always like to look at Sports in this and everything that you do that's what you do you're in a game first quarter you huddle with your coach what's going on what do we need to change it just makes sense that we're doing that in this education space what's going on with our kids they did this what do we need to change what needs to happen so I'm really proud of all the collaborative work um do we have any other quad measure this specific in measure 1.1 okay looks like we can move on to the next in measure so one to thing things I want to point out before I move slides is we've labeled this as a current measure because when you're thinking about student growth there's two things we want to monitor one is what's happening right now in this case goal one focusing on eighth graders what's happening with this year's eighth graders currently so that's the the methodology between current measure but then for the um inner measure 1.2 what about the kids that are going to be the eighth graders in 2028 those are our fifth graders right right now so we want to monitor their progress and their growth as well so that's the rationale behind interm measure 1.2 so we're following these students we had a great conversation on Saturday about how to how we will continue to track the progress of these students So eventually we we imagine this graph is going to get pretty long because we're going to follow the kids that are enrolled as fifth graders throughout their time with us until the the termination date of our goal so that we can be continuously making the needed adjustments to accom to accomplish our goal um so in our analysis a couple of highlights are that the August 2024 rate of fifth grade students scoring minimally proficient was 95% on the preest and it remained in line so we see that same Trend as with the eighth grade assessment they there's that high level of minimal proficiency followed by a substantial decrease by the end of the year so that is positive now is it enough that's what we want to make sure that we're continuing to push so that we're reducing that minimal proficiency to reach our ultimate goal and then to reach inter measure 1.1 by May of 2025 uh we need to decrease minimal proficiency by about 16% so the we're at the 95 level now we want to get down to 79 our trend has been able to to to do that but we're we're really going to push um our current year fifth graders came in at the at the end of fourth grade 86% of them are at the minimal proficiency level so that's kind of challenges to get from 86 to to 79 with that current group of students we'll be watching them very very closely and we are currently on track to meet this in this interim measure 1 point2 thank you and um I'm not going to ask any other questions because my initial question would have been what do you think happened you know like what are we doing different from 2020 23 post that we had 63 to 2023 24 post but one of those explanations was already given which was the data wise and then one thing that we didn't really talk today but we also had a whole bunch of learning learning walks and on our guardrails and what that actually looks like and what it does when they're actually doing the learning walks and that gave us a better of explanation how they're really being intention intentional on observing what's going on and connecting the missing dots on whether it's if a student's receiving something or not but that's what the learning walks are and that's something different that we're going to be doing so hopefully we see a little bit um of a pivot change Miss kson mle and just to clarify you're saying that conversation about the learning walks happened on Saturday on that wonderful video you can R yes yes the sixh hour lovely video we're putting you on our marketing team but um but one of the things I want to share too that was talked about on Saturday that I think was really powerful I don't remember if it was here or if it was you know when we get to the what's working what needs more attention um but since you mentioned the learning walks the other piece that happened was it just last Friday it's been a really long couple of weeks I think it was just last Friday um uh Miss MC cheffrey was able to join us when we worked with our kraton kids Congress kids and so um we had this opportunity to bring in student representatives from each of our schools and um a couple of our coaches and along with um you know Dr pombo and and Miss MC cheffrey and Dr dupin they were able to have conversations with the students about um so what's happening in your math classroom so we we got thear learning walk data which is us going into the classrooms um you know which is both you know Folks at the site level leadership and also at the district level leadership um we've shifted to hitting pretty much every classroom when they're doing those those learning walks at the schools but that's the adults coming in the room and having adult observation what we were able to do last Friday was talk to a representative group of students and find out what their experience has been with some of the things that are happening with math and our math and instruction in our classrooms and the things that we have been trying to implement to improve learning and are they seeing those things occur in the classroom and and get their perspective on all of that which I don't I've never seen another District do that I'm not saying we're the first because they don't do that I I I I was told that we're the first district in this framework to include student voice that way so your your assumptions are correct and then also um the folks and kids Congress are not all just the top academic performers yeah yeah our our seel the selection criteria we provide to our principles is we're not necessarily looking for the valedictorians we're looking for kids who are willing to talk to adults and speak up and share their perspective and in point of fact with no disrespect to any of the students we've we've literally had students who have shared with us that you know they they sometimes get in trouble in school like so they're not you know just always the best behaved or the best academically we're trying to get kids who are kind of the informal leaders on their campus that are brave enough to come and tell the adults you know what's really happening and a similar group of kids some of them were the same from last year some are are new to us this year but they were the same kids that uh the board engaged with around the student outcomes Focus governance goals as well so yeah and I just love that component piece for anybody listening that we really have centered student voice in this to it's kind of me ironic how we do all these implementations at all these rules and expect students to do a lot and we leave that's the first voice that we leave out so that's we've been very adamant and I'm so happy that without even board Direction the cabinet just came and told us and was like by the way we changed a couple of things because our students are experiencing X Y and Z and this is why we think stuff needs to be changed and I wish just in awe and it shows the intention of actually doing this for the students where you know in other places it can be like whatever we're we're just writing and doing things to them and there's a lot of intention being put into this and I'm so thankful for that because it's a heavy lift to like I said change systems where for years the same thing has happened look at us who would have thought yeah yes so do we have any other questions or comments regarding the specific inra measure 1.2 unless you needed to add something else Dr dupin I didn't mean you out all right it doesn't look like we have anything else and I believe the last slide um if you just want to go over the last slide please we speak about what's working and What needs more attention uh we do see more evidence of use of the curriculum and instructional resources we do intend in future written up written progress monitoring reports to include Some of That explicit data from the students uh so some of the things that they told us that are working are that they are using the instructional resources they are getting access to in an inconsistent way and we have data to go with this but but sometimes yes sometimes no the teachers are clarifying learning targets but there's lot a lot less frequent use of success criteria and the success criteria are how you as a student know that you're you've learned what was intended so we I've identified that as a as an area of future progress not only from our learning walk data but also uh with our students um we have adjust Ed Craton professional learning to provide additional opportunities for teachers to participate in targeted professional development in mathematics um what we next need to do is really make sure that that content is Flowing to Fifth and eighth grade teachers explicitly um so shifting into what needs more attention making sure that we have that we're providing greater awareness about the current and interim measure and annual targets at the teacher level so we brainstormed even on Saturday of strategies for getting the message out to really help uh We've also you know we're working to distribute awareness and accountability for these goals so under Mr man's leadership we're currently in the process of as we confer with all of our principles around goal setting we're in the process of re rewriting the administrative evaluation in instrument to reflect the annual targets as well as the the guard rails and so then that will provide clar and focus at the school level uh our teaching and learning coaching team has been working really diligently to support teachers who are new to the district as we move deeper into the gear we're going to want to make sure that we're pivoting that Focus to help support the the fifth and eighth grade teachers in mathematics specifically and then we are by the end of the week we have our last round of learning walks we're going to hit our goal of 200 learning walks for this quarter we have our last round at built more on Thursday morning um and we while we're proud of the fact that we've met that goal we know that that's that's probably not sufficient we need to do some additional targeted work in fifth and eth grade to ensure that we're really uh providing the clarity and support to accomplish these interims I'm really appreciative of what needs more intention I've been a governing board member for four years and this is the first time I've had an actual conversation with administrators on their week spots and what they're going to do to make it better so I appreciate the transparency I know it's not easy um and just the fact that it says in here you know the teaching and learning coaching team needs to adjust case loads to maximize the focus in fifth and eighth grade math teachers doing Quarter Two you guys this already shows me that there's a game plan on what that second quarter what's failing and this is perfect so I I'm just so happy to see this and have these convers Sation so we as governing board members know where the pressure needs to be applied what what do we need to approve when stuff comes to us what's working so I appreciate it and and thank you for the board's leadership because you know we talked a little bit on Saturday about through lines and vertical articulation right and so I think to me the most powerful thing is when there is articulation that flows all the way from the leadership of the governing board down through the superintendent's office the executive team to our principals and directors and assistant principls through to our teachers and staff and hopefully all the way through to our students um I think I share I don't know if I've managed to share this with all of you but you know one of our principals shared with me um some photos of the goal setting work that's happening you know directly with students and it was I must have been having a rough day and I didn't know it but this principal knew I was so to cheer me up what she sent me was pictures of um student goal setting she goes I know this is your favorite this should cheer you up so um so you know shout out for that because that really did make that day much better but that is really ultimately what the goal is we we want to have everybody working on the same things in the same direction if we're all working together and we're all moving in the same direction there's nothing that can hold us back or stop us from being successful yeah Miss Gibson did you have something oh I'm sorry just laughing when I scratched my face sorry no it's okay yeah it's beautiful to see and that's the most important thing school um systems are built for student outcomes and to make sure that they feel empowered and it's so beautiful when a third grader is coming to you and telling them yep I know what I'm supposed to be doing this is my goal for this class and this is what I'm going to do and it's just so amazing to even see their lights face up when they understand why they are in the place they are or why they understand that they have to have a certain goal and teaching them that at this age is going to do wonderful things for them later on I didn't start learning about goal setting and smart goals until I was like in my late 20s so the endless possibilities that we're giving to these students and learning at this age is just so powerful and that's exactly why I personally am here to do is that our students feel empowered any other questions or comments before I move on to approving oh this is so exciting all right I am going to go ahead and make the motion that the governing board approve the progress monitoring report for October 1st 2024 24 all those in favor I yay thank you so much for that and thank you thank you thank you thank you and I will never stop thanking all the administrators for all the hard work because I know this takes a lot it's a lot of thinking of other things and and I also hope it's a renewed of refreshness of like okay now we have a goal let's let's get it done and that brings us to 5A which is public comments it looks like we have one public comment if I can have Miss Anne Campbell come up please I filled out the right card yes this is perfect thank you so much and you will have three minutes Oh I thought I had five it's three okay well you're gonna have to cut me off oh yeah the the the timer yeah you'll hear it well um good evening members of the school board staff parents and students thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak today I'm here to express my hope that the cron school district will bring school resource officers or sros back to our schools uh as we well know the safety and well-being of our children is a top priority schools are meant to be safe spaces for learning growth and development but in today's world the unfortunate reality is that schools are not immune to the dangers we see in society whether it's violence drugs or threats from outside the school Community that's where school resource officers come in SRO serve as an essential part of our school safety strategy and their presence provides a visible deterrent to potential threats there are trained law enforcement professionals who understand how to respond to emergencies deescalate conflicts and manage critical situations their quick response can make all the difference in a crisis whether it's stopping an active threat or intervening in a serious incident now I know that there are some concerns have been raised about the presence of police officers in schools and I respect that importance of discussing those concerns however I believe that with proper training and clear guidelines in place sro's can and should focus on being a positive presence not a punitive one many SRO already undergo specialized training in dealing with youth conflict resolution and even mental health issues when they're used correctly they're not there to criminalize minor misb behavior they're there to support students insurance safety and help resolve issues constructively moreover SRO programs can be continuously improved we can work together with enforcement to make sure SRO have the tools and training to address unique needs of our school Community by fostering dialogue and collaboration between schools families and law enforcement we can ensure that the presence of SRO is a benefit tall in conclusion the presence of school resource officers in our schools is a critical element in creating a safe and secure learning environment they deter threats respond to emergencies and most importantly they build positive relationship with students by supporting SRO we not just enhancing school safety but also investing in the well-being of our entire School Community um the State of Arizona has 15 million dollar that assigned uh to uh fund for the school's SRO um I have given the contact information to Mr man I want to thank you for your time and consider duration I urge you to bring back the school resource officer programs in our schools thank you thank you that brings us to 6A which is approval of consent I move the governing board approve consent agenda items a through F in accordance with policy go V5 second excuse me all those in favor I I sorry all right and that brings us to 12a Future agenda items do we have any future agenda items hearing none that brings us to 13A I move the governing board adjourn second all those in favor I much graas W noes thank you for coming for

[Music] Cameron we're back for our third year with a proed teacher Rockstar I'm super excited it's one of the highlights of my Year and no better place really to start than here at the newly renovated Wing Del elementary school and I can't wait to show off some of the new learning environments here it's going to be really cool but the reason we're here is to highlight an amazing teacher doing an exceptional job with our students and tell us who that's going to be um their first rock star of the season is Sandra Scag she's the instructional coach here at wayale elementary and Steve Pro fed's excited to be here too I can't believe it's been three years been doing these videos it flies by let's go meet her [Music] Sandra tell us a little bit about what an instructional coach does a little a little bit of everything um mostly supporting the classroom teachers however possible uh the new teachers get a lot of my attention and even working with kids and collecting data for them whatever they need resources I also support the principal um and following through on some things that she asked me to do but you hit on working with those new teachers and when we have new teachers in the district it's so important to kind of help them bring them up to speed with the other teachers tell us a little bit of what that looks like um they do get the orientation but a lot of times when you get into the classroom it's a totally different deal a lot of classroom management with the new teachers ways that you can support them um modeling specific lessons sitting in on their grade level collaboration to make sure they understand what's going on and answer questions that they have they email me for resources or just support technically on power school or how to use schoolagy and find materials that are online yeah and I think classroom management is it's one of those things that's so hard as a new teacher even when I have my interns it's like how do I do all these different personalities different age groups and stuff so that's really cool that you can lend help and advice to these teachers that's amazing tell us now a little bit about coaching is a unique position you don't just help teachers but you're doing all these different state tests I ready dibles uh you help out after school with programs there's so many things that you're in charge of that really make you a rock star yes we um we for example last night we had a parent night so we stayed after and we made sure we got the information that those third grade parents need the new information about I read uh I can go in and also do some individual data collection uh next week we'll be having data meetings with the teachers so that analyzing of data and helping them decide what teaching strategies to use next that's that's cool and really data data data you're looking at every student so we can get every student succeeding and then eventually on into graduation right so thank you so much for being a rockstar you're our first one of this school year if anybody deserves it it's definitely you Karen tell us a little bit about what proed has well proed um has a gift card for you so thank you very much you are definitely a rockar and first Wilkerson design they do these nice shirts for all the rock stars so everybody that's a rockstar this year will get a first focus in design Rockstar t-shirt so thank you very much congratulations thank you and Karen something new this year we would love to give a proed gift card to every single amazing teacher in the district but we just can't do that so we also have an additional sponsor every year and I'm super excited about this one salvator's Italian restaurant maybe one of my favorite restaurants if not my favorite restaurant and that is going to go to one lucky winner at the end of this video from Haley Elementary School thank you salvatores for sponsoring fwcs teachers [Music] good evening everyone Welcome to our first Facebook live with the superintendent for the 2024 25 school year I'm Christa Stockman the director of communication and marketing for Fort Wayne Community Schools and of course we have Dr Daniel the superintendent with us and tonight we will also have Elementary director Haley SAU and executive director of partnersh [Music] here's the music there we go all right just a little extra music to start the evening all right so um in the background uh playing music for us is Steve Armstrong so thanks Steve for that all right so Dr Daniel here we are um almost to the end of the first nine weeks of the school year the first grading period so how are things going so far well I I think they've gone amazingly well for us for the start of a school year many things happening um so the first thing I look at is first day of school buses and transportation and I want to give a huge shout out to our transportation team our drivers our staff members our routers uh managers it's really been quite an incredible start um I attribute that to the fact that more drivers so again kudos to our HR team and again our folks finding other drivers and bringing them on board training them quickly getting their CDLs and it's been really amazing so what that is meant for us is that we're able to provide some after school transportation for say clubs or for tutoring that's been happening um we'd like to expand that like to see that grow um but again if you look at a start of a school year how do you get students how do you pick them up how do you deliver them safely to school and then how do you pick them up from school and deliver deliver them safely to their drop offs and again phenomenal job so hey if you're bus driver or you're part of that department thanks for all you do and parents and others from the community who may be on here please give a shout out to those individuals second of all a lot of uh we we launched our schools of success throughout all of our high schools and wow that's been an incredible event all freshman now wall toall having these case challenges and every one of our uh everyone of our high schools and quite frankly no one's doing what we're doing and the experience of students are receiving uh Second To None and uh again as I'm with Business Leaders they will say your kids are different your kids are different because they've had these experiences they've learned some life skills and they're executing those life skills and it's noticeable so I'm talking about maturity levels I'm talking about um their ability to communicate they're all going to be better for this and again sure we're teaching the standard sure we're doing what we need to do within the classroom but these are experiences that are enriching our students and I call those life skills um success skills so um kudos to Junior Achievement uh for providing this programming for us but more importantly kudos to our staff who are implementing um and supporting our kids it's I'm telling you folks it's it's amazing so I would also say that you know as I look at um the number of dual credits we're now offering and our plan is to continue to expand this every freshman now is in a dual credit class so they're getting college credit we'll be meeting with our local universities and colleges and how to create a coalition so those hopefully those credits will be seamless they'll transfer from one institution to the next but the plan ultimately is how do we move these students to where they're truly planning what they're doing uh the Monday after graduation which means what are they planning in regards to their continuous learning year 13 year 14 year 15 year 16 so again it doesn't just finish in the 12th grade what are they doing in the 13th 14th 15th and 16th so again these things are coming to pass uh these are not just now theoretical they're not just on paper but the two years plus of planning and the training professional learning for our staff they've all come together and with this culmination of implementation I'll also say that this goes all the way into our prek through through eighth grade as well other words we no longer just have field trips we have experiences and those experiences are tied to these life success skills and yes um an example is you go to the zoo absolutely everyone loves the zoo but also how do you connect this to again cultural agility communic ation problem solving critical thinking analytical thinking um teamwork and collaboration and then ultimately also this whole self-direction piece so again tying all those into all these various pieces evolving into one connected sphere and it's very complex but again I cannot tell you how appreciative I am and the level of implementation um it's a e e all right all right we're back I don't know what happened yeah you know sometimes those things happen so but now we are back so I think you were uh talking about um the guaranteed experiences experi so as we have these guaranteed experiences again wanting to have more and more of those again we have transportation so we're able to facilitate those um and I'll just give you an example today I was at the 122nd Airborne um which by the way over a thousand employees out at the 122nd um and unbelievable what programs they have out there so the discussion was well how do we open up opportunities and I like to say experiences for for our kids to see well yes you can roll into postsecondary you can be employed but you can also enlist and what's happening out there in that space uh we're very very fortunate to have the 122nd Airborne Division out there so what I'm talking about this is National um National reserves and again how do we move how do we have our students either going there to see the site to hear all the different occupations that exist but also I was talking about how they could perhaps join join us with ja a3de where they present a problem to our students our students solve that problem and therefore they gain uh in first of all they're engaged and they're problem solving but they also start to understand what are the opportunities um with the 21st Airborne but that's just an example but I'll just say the business Community is raving over what we're doing and right now we have about 35 business partners through ja 3de will be expanding to over 75 so this is a continuous build again all freshman this year but it will continue so I'm very very encouraged by what's happening in that space so guaranteed experiences I've told you about the business community and how they're raving for what we're doing and then I will also say this we are way ahead whatever the diploma requirements are going to be and um again I with uh someone from from the Indiana Department of Ed this afternoon as well and they're saying Fort Wayne is ready for anything that happens Fort Wayne Community Schools whether it's the traditional academic honors diploma if they go that route or whether they go the route of um more flexibility it's all about work-based learning experiences but it's also about flexibility so we've been talking about how to ramp up our dual credits we know that that's critical we're giving students AB as freshmen students will still will soon be receiving a dual credit from IB Tech that's phenomenal but a dual credit means nothing unless we have means and the number one deterrent is do I have financial means to continue my postsecondary training in other words training in my college or at a community or at ivtech the community college or university or in some type of additional training and you know we've just seen a major the wood foundation with Questa just did a major survey and the number one deterrent is do I have money to go on well guess what we can start to figure those things out as well and helping our parents by helping students gain these dual credits so they are several would love to say two years ahead of what's Happening upon graduation and then connecting them with other resources Financial Resources to make that happen and again I just mention one if they become the Air National Guard that would be one as well so again um it fits very nicely with whatever the diploma is going to be I hear some qualms about well you're going to have internships how can you have all all these students out having internships we're already working on that where it there will be groups and you can do things through a hybrid uh in other words some might be remote I.E through virtual and then some maybe in person a combination of both will most likely happen and Ja a3de is helping us work through that phenomenon but they're saying work-based learning for about a 100 hours well those 100 hours can start as freshman and we're starting to log those hours today not waiting for their senior year so again Kudos of fwcs and their ability to track but also thinking three four years down the road and being ready for what's going to happen in the class of I'll say class of uh probably class of 28 so that's really my cap my summary um super proud of what's going on regards the various implementations I know Haley's going to speak to some things and Matt will speak to some some different things and we can catch up but again we've had phenomenal gains um our I read scores phenomenal growth the last three years over 12% growth uh we're celebrating that right now in our various elementary schools going into those and just sharing a little bit of a uh you know a cookie or so with the staff and but just saying wow some major movement in that space but also we're seeing some phenomenal things in behavior and I think with what we've done with the school reform or the school um the referendum for safer schools that has been um and Matt you can you can explain that in more detail but moving that that metric in regards to behavior we're seeing less and less inappropriate behavior more and more appropriate behavior and I'm trying to see if you're going to talk about these I'm sure you're going to talk we'll bring it up soon but there are things in place that are providing resources for our teachers so our teachers can focus on teaching and we need to help students that aren't able to self-regulate that's our job we need to do that and we need to do that most likely if we can't do it in the classroom we can't do it within the school we need to do it at another location and we need to we need to provide those services for our for our kids and then they become involved they return to their school when they're able to have these I'll also say and I know you're going to talk about prek Haley prek is critical and I'm going to let Haley speak about prek okay when it's time but boy we're seeing some good movement in that so I'm going to finish with just one other thing we believe that we're an educational institution we used to think you know with Public Schools public flow dollars flow to us we know that we are in a market driven system we have to have better programs than other schools that surround us whether they're public or not Public Schools we have to be aggressive to find Revenue sources from every Revenue stream that may mean on my way prek dollars that may mean through Title One funds or title funds that may mean through CSA which are our career savings accounts these are all in my terms they're all vouchers and we're a public school but we have to think of how do we tap into every voucher that is available because those funds are going elsewhere if we don't find a way to connect to them they will go elsewhere leaving us with less dollars to do less things so we are turning that we're flipping our mindset and saying we are after every Revenue stream to provide maximum number of services for our kids and finally we have to use private we have to connect with private donations private foundations private folks that are going to enable us to do things like a Early Learning Center that is going to provide not just an opportunity for our teenage mothers to have their kids in a educational institution but also training for future daycare providers so in other words our career kids able to focus on that so I'm I'm going to tell you these are exciting times challenging times but exciting times and I just want to say this to our parents we need you to be alongside of us as we do these things as we talk about conscious discipline we need you to know about conscious discipline so we're a team working together we need you to know about the opportunities your kids have and our kids taking advantage of those opportunities and Matt make a note here you you get to talk about robotics I mean that's a beautiful thing talk about what happens when you have private sector coming in assisting us in our educational Mission so I'm GNA be the one of the greatest things that that we've had uh is the opportunity uh to expand our first robotics program uh from one High School uh which was Northside High School last year we added SN High School in the first robotics program and uh Snider's uh Team actually made it to the World Championships in Houston and uh now we have partnered with uh Doug Herer in medical informatics engineering uh and he is helping sponsor all five of our high schools so if you think about it uh three years ago we had no first robotics uh teams and first robotics are very challenging robotics programs uh we uh had none in Fort Wayne Community Schools and this year we'll have five uh and uh Doug and medical informatics engineering is actually building a practice space for our team so that they'll have a realistic uh practice field uh to uh work on because again those aren't common around our region uh either so through that partnership and also through the help of Steel Dynamics who has been sponsoring Northside all along we've been able to provide uh these programs that are very expensive and one of the reasons that we haven't had them uh is because they've been cost prohibitive uh in the past schools do fundraisers but when you're looking at programs that are $25,000 a piece uh you have to have help from the community so we are really uh fortunate and blessed uh that two of our companies Steel Dynamics and medical informatics engineering have stepped up uh to provide uh this worthy cause that will prepare our kids uh to work uh in in high-tech whether it's right out of high school or whether they're going to become engineers and computer programmers in college and then also that leading into programs in middle school and Elementary School with Legos and so forth and different yes what what we eventually want to do uh we've had a pretty robust Vex program in in middle school and uh in elementary we would like to continue to scale that up so that it aligns with what we're doing with our high schools so uh if we can become more and more uh complex at our middle and elementary schools all the better and then Matt you're multi-talented so tell them a little bit about what's happening amp lab having a satellite lab at the Pearl Arts yeah so the the Pearl Arts by the Surak Foundation is an amazing uh experience and it's multifaceted so one of the things that we are trying to do for second semester is to actually have an amp lab program at the Pearl Art Center uh which uh has its grand opening in mid October but we already have some private lessons that are taking place there but our amp lab students who are interested in entrepreneurship as it relates to the Performing Arts would actually have their classes at the Pearl Arts where they then can encounter professional musicians professional recording studios uh staging all those kind of different things that allow that entrepreneur ship to really Foster as it uh regards to music secondly at Pearl Arts uh we've been challenged by Chuck Surak to get at least a hundred of our students taking private lessons at the Pearl Arts and I'm happy to report that right now we have 165 uh students uh from elementary all the way through high school that have signed up to take private lessons uh at Pearl Arts and then beyond that we're actually working on some guaranteed experiences for our musicians so we already have two performances one by hip hop Orchestra and one uh from a Mara player who is internationally renowned in October and November uh and each of our secondary schools will be able to send 14 uh students to those performances free performances at the Pearl Arts which is not only a uh a vibrant musical Community but there is Art artwork and um you know it it's centrally located downtown it's definitely going to be a hub of not only instruction for music but also having a performance venue as well that we hope to have a lot of our students perform in so as you can hear Christa and we're just I mean we have Indiana Tech doing a partnership with us at amplab for advanced manufacturing we have as Matt just said and Matt's a musician that's why I said he's multi-talented so he's M he's very interested in this as well but I'm telling you folks when you can connect with the professionals that we have in the area of arts and it's at what we can afford I mean it this is truly a private public Partnership of which and I I love to say this uh you know we have some angels and I would say the sarak Enterprises is one of those angels and they are providing these Services if you again what you can afford so where else you're going to get this and absolutely these kids could then move from the Pearl Arts having these experiences to PFW and you know they're going to build a multi-million dollar facility for exactly what we're talking about and on produce Fort Wayne's campus so you can start to see the connections and these connections are beyond anything that quite frankly I've ever seen and what I've ever heard um you just don't have these connections but we do in Fort Wayne Community Schools and we want our students and our parents to hopefully have these experiences and truly truly engage in these again these are not just opportunities these are real world experiences so I'll finish with that one um I could talk about flag football with our girls and that being sponsored by the by the Indianapolis Colts but that program happening phenomenal and I can't wait to see what happens as they go down the playoff um again Fort Wayne Community Schools leading the way all right Christ it's all yours so um one of the questions that we have is about um you know one of the Great things about education uh when kids are in school is that they get to experience a lot of different things and that they can just sort of stumble across something that they never realized they were passionate about and I know we've heard this concern um with schools of success that is it too prescriptive then is it putting kids on a path where then they aren't able to experience other things and maybe find a passion um that they didn't know a hidden talent they didn't know was there so can you talk about that and maybe Matt and even Haley you know from an elementary perspective how we will make sure that that that sense of wonder that Curiosity Still Remains in the programs I think the important thing is is trying to get those guaranteed experiences to happen you know we we talk a lot about high school but they have to start in in kindergarten so uh we met uh last week with the Fort Wayne fire department where we started talking about what kinds of experiences can our students have beginning at kindergarten and all the way through Elementary how can Fort Wayne fire department partner with us we are talking with the uh Fort Wayne Police Department about having uh work-based um experiences for our high school students that are interested in becoming Law Enforcement Officers so since we have SRO in our middle schools right now what a great work-based learning experience it be for juniors and seniors uh who are interested uh in having those uh those opportunities and kind of like Dr Daniel has said there there are plenty of experiences uh in the community where businesses and and universities are reaching out to us I mean I have yet to really encounter a business or a university that when we say can we partner uh we always get a positive answer we uh we had the great opportunity to meet uh nationally uh with a member ERS from Google uh last week who are ready uh to partner with us once their data center uh gets open we have a meeting this coming uh week with h the University of St Francis that wants to know more about our locally created uh music pathway we've met with uh Purdue School of uh engineering technology and computer science has become a 3de uh partner we've met with IU's school of medicine that wants to provide more and more opportunities for our kids so as as we continue to reach out companies and businesses are reaching uh to us and it's a really symbiotic relationship and and I'm just excited to be able to have that many opportunities I don't remember being a student all the those years ago where where we really worked with uh resources outside the school it just seemed that everything that happened at school was just contained locally uh in the building and we are so far beyond that now haly your turn sharing you know I just want to add that we even consider our prek students in with our portrait of explorers so we have our portrait of graduate at the high school level and then our connectors in middle school and then we are the Explorers so it's pretty exciting as we will roll out more of this over the next um year next two years and making connections to what we already do in elementary um with our guaranteed experiences and you know elementary kids typically change their career choices or their career path or college path or professional sports path uh several times in elementary school but we're making sure that students are getting those connections and making connections to our community and we do we have so many so many volunteers from um everyone around the fwcs community and it's so exciting to see guest speakers come in we tie our field trips to careers and opportunities and so we're proud of what we're doing and now we're just making it a little bit more um tied to specific uh careers and the schools of success so we're trying to create that path and we don't want to say okay this is what you're going to do when you leave fifth grade but as they experience these things they'll have a better idea when they get into middle school and their a connector so it's exciting we do include our prek though we don't want to forget about them which I will talk about in a little bit and again it's about experiences it's not about locking a kid into a particular career or pathway it's them finding where their passion is where their I'll just say their gifts are and then they're heading in that direction um but the success skills the life success skills they work across anything so again if I'm talking about collaboration teamwork if I'm talking about communication if I'm talking about cultural agility if I'm talking about self-direction again those things they do not know a subject they only know this is a life experience and how do I understand where I am in those attainment of those skill sets and those skill sets will take them anywhere um but yes I would love for students to get a jump start and and again if they're not there they're not there and we'll allow them to especially in the high school you know freshman year is all about exploration sophomore year you start down in a career in one of our schools of success which we've identified those we have the health uh services and Human Services path you know schools of success which they will be in small learning communities so if I'm in Project Le Project Lead the Way biomedical that would be in that area but I have another house which is engineering technology manufacturing trades that maybe I'm in Project Lead the Way pre-engineering very natural fit but I also have a third which is business and the Arts which is entrepreneurship and that sort of thing which is a high flexible area but again we're not locking a student in oh you have to be in manufacturing no we want you to be in an area where you has some interest and I want you to see why the curriculum is important so we like to say this breathe breathe real world into the curriculum so kids understand why we're teaching what we're teaching and therefore Watch What Happens engagement just it's exponential in growth engage kids learn it's when kids tune out they don't learn and we're about engagement so we do engage we create engagement through experiences experience create interest and interest creates hopefully academic success as well as success of being around adults that are mentoring them and that's probably I think that's probably the most critical piece we now have not just Educators in our buildings mentoring kids and teaching kids we also now have volunteers coming into our building and mentoring our kids and we love to see that grow and that's part of the plan how do you expand this to where hey folks um a kid's not going to have a chance to uh have a chance in regards to being inappropriate they will know and they'll have this expectation not an expectation that is minimal we want maximum expectations for our kids and quite frankly you know what are the metrics we're looking at absolutely graduation rates absolutely IAD scores absolutely um Behavior metrics and attendance metrics all those are important but they all lead to the success of of the student so but quite frankly I I see the numbers climbing up a little bit on our viewership here it doesn't happen unless we have the entire enire unit I.E parent student Educators Community all coming together it doesn't happen so but we're seeing it come together which is really really exciting and can't wait to see what happens in 2028 the graduating class of 2028 I'm going to tell you is going to be a different class so speaking of mentors and people in the buildings who are there to support students um let's bring Matt in on this one um so that he can talk a little bit um give us a safety update and safety for us means not just um you know making sure that doors are locked although that is an important part but also making sure that students and staff but students in particular have the support they need so Matt this year we're not quite 100% of our schools having student Advocates yet but talk about what their role has been in the school buildings and then at the high school level uh what the the peacemakers are doing and I happen to have my be the piece shirt on right now um just supporting that initiative so tell us more about that sure so we uh went to the voters back in November of last year and asked to make our schools move from safe to safer uh and really the focus of that referendum was to improve student well-being as well as uh security and so um when that money became available in January we have started to implement so when we look on the uh The Human Side the well-being side our first uh group of people that we really enjoyed hiring and getting to work have been our student Advocates so student Advocates just like the referendum uh have a role in both security uh but also in wellbeing so from a security role uh they are checking to make sure all classroom doors are locked they are checking exterior doors they're checking the perimeter of the building the parking lot uh they help our students safely transition in the morning uh from either the bus or cars uh into the building and vice versa at the end of the day uh they also have that spatial awareness uh to make sure that they're constantly on an alert uh for people that are or are not not supposed to be in the building as we start to roll out the weapon detectors uh they will have a vital role in doing that uh as well so in addition to uh their activities as it regards to uh security uh they also have a well-being component and so they are constantly in the hallways in classrooms and they're really looking for students uh that are having a rough time either they're sad or they're anxious or they're angry R all circumstances that can either come from uh their arrival or happen during the school day and really what those Advocates do is is try to help those students regulate uh be an open and active listener uh with really the ultimate goal of of getting the students back into the classroom but also knowing that in some cases students aren't ready to go back to the classroom so then where can we take those students and sometimes uh they're going to a mental health therapist sometimes they're going at they're in a high school uh to the peace room to work with a peace Advocate uh they might go to the guidance counsel an assistant principal whoever really is best served uh to meet their needs uh in that moment and so as Dr Daniel talked about before as we continue to do this one of the pieces of data I've looked at is the number of serious Behavior events we've had over the past three years and I know that even though our population in Fort Wayne Community Schools has increased the number of serious incidents in Fort Wayne Community Schools has actually decreased so uh that's a good correlation and we hope to keep that relationship moving uh for the rest of the year we are excited as you said it was a peace week last week uh we do have peace advocates in all five of our high schools uh they also have a Afterschool club uh of peacemakers students who helped us in a uh a food drive for feeding Uh Hungry families that was initiated by our board member Steve Corona and we were able to donate 1300 lounds of food to the Community Harvest Food Bank and that was all really driven uh by these high school students that are trying to really bring the six principles of nonviolence that were created by Dr Martin Luther King uh as a way for our climate and culture uh to be a peaceful nonviolent uh location in each one of our buildings so we hope to expand The Peacemaker program down to Middle Schools we're talking about a potential pilot next year with two of our uh middle schools and so we hope just kind of continue that that piece as as we talk about uh throughout our entire uh District so you did ask about the open Gates weapon detectors so that's the next part of our referendum that we've been implementing started at the high schools first uh you can see a picture that Steve is provided for us of what the weapon detectors look like uh we are really looking for weapons of mass destruction so we're looking for um guns large knives and anything that might be bomb making material so they're actually kind of an intelligent metal detector we don't want to set them at the level that they detect every piece of metal like they would at an airport because if they did that it would take hours to get our students uh into school so we really want this to be something something uh that students can walk through there are some items as you can see in the bottom picture that the metal detector uh does uh detect at the setting that we have it so sometimes we know that that it will detect umbrellas sometimes large metal water bottles sometimes stearing binders so part of the uh initial practice that we do uh for a week before we actually go live uh helps us determine what items students are bringing that are perfectly fine but that might set off the detector so that we can pass those around the detector so that we can keep it moving and I'm proud to report that all of our high schools now have had their week of practice and now have gone live uh and that that's pretty exciting we uh started uh today in fact at amp lab and also at the anthus career center and we started practicing today at Jefferson and Blackhawk Middle School so every single week we're either practicing or implementing we'll have all of our uh secondary schools high schools and middle schools uh done by about mid November uh and then uh in another week or two we start using them at the elementary school to screen visitors so even though we're passing high school and middle school students through the weapon detectors we don't think developmentally that we should be passing large numbers of elementary kids uh through those so they will be there to screen guests as they also are being used at the secondary schools but there may be those occasions for a student that arrives late at an elementary when they arrive late they have to go into the main office so our late arriving elementary kids probably will pass through those metal detectors uh and if they alert we'll have to we'll have to search backpacks which is what we have to do uh at the middle in the high school U it's unfortunate I think that we have to do that but again the community uh when we did our referendum said that was one of the things that they wanted to do uh and and so uh we we as I think Dr Daniel was always emphasized we need to listen to the uh uh the the will of our community and that was one of the things that people spoke loudly about and so I think again like Dr Daniel said we're ahead of the curb I don't think there are too many other districts in Allen County that are doing this to the extent uh that we are doing so um that's that's where we're at we are we are busy but we are moving forward and I can't thank our staffs and students enough because they've really done an excellent job of listening to the teaching and and moving through them so that the weapons detectors really don't ever become an impediment to getting to class on time you know we want we want the process to work so that kids walk through they walk through quickly uh they get to they get to where they need to be on time so that's our ultimate goal and so far our high schools have done an amazing job so kudos to them so Matt one of the questions that we have is how are we keeping uh special needs students safe and special needs students we have uh some schools that have um applied skills programs um severe and profound programs for students how are we making sure that those students are also safe I think the biggest thing with with our special Edge students as we speak about them as a subgroup is really making sure that their individual education plan is followed uh that there is a behavior plan in there uh that helps them and in their really specifying what specific supports they need because many of those supports will not only make them feel academically safe but make them feel socially emotionally uh safe as well I think the other thing too that we need to rely on with all students is parent input so if if students are communicating to parents that they don't feel safe that's a really important time for parents to reach out to the school principal to the special ed teacher to the teacher a record uh so that we can make sure that uh that we are keeping them safe because when you think about it um the the needs of special ed students to feel safe should be uh the needs of all students to feel safe you know to feel that they're welcome that they belong that if uh things are not going well for them that they have a safe and trusted adult in the building uh that they can communicate to but I can't say enough that that that when parents believe uh that the safety of their child is in question that they got to communicate that uh to the building principal or assistant principal and then if the building principal or assistant principal needs support or extra resources that's when our department the security department can provide additional supports as well and they go through the weapons detection just like General ed students correct yeah for the most part we have a very small number of students uh our students that are may be severe and profound that that are that are wheelchair bound or have a very low cognitive uh ability uh some of them are not screen it's a very small number but generally all of our special ed students are treated like our Genet students uh and so just like in the real world when you go through an airport everybody goes through screening so part of part of what we have to prepare uh students whether or not they have special needs is we have to prepare them for the real world and in the real world whether you're gin Ed or special ed um if you go ride an airplane there are certain accommodations that you have to do to be able to get on that airplane so uh we do we do want them to have those experiences yes all right well thank you for that um if we have any other questions uh before the end of our time here I'll let you know but in the meantime um Haley let's talk about prek okay and if I could add one thing about The Advocates the schools that have added so far at the elementary and then looking to January when we get to add the other AD Advocates it's just amazing to see what that means to our schools and providing our students and our staff one more um adult touch point so thankful for the referend being passed and being able to provide this to all of our schools so it's been a great blessing and a great addition um so prek wow we are growing and I can also say that there's constant talks about how we can continue to grow and even have more seats available for our future Fort rain Community School students and so we are sitting right now at 760 seats filled so that has been an amazing uh number to reach but we plan to even grow more and we've actually added a new program a new pre program at Harris um which will start later here in October and it is already filled so we will continue to grow as best we can and you know one of the things that well there's multiple things why we're so proud of our prek programs in Fort Wing um one of the reasons is the high quality curriculum that our teachers and our assistants have been trained on and so our students are getting this high quality curriculum from highly trained staff um to make sure that they are providing that in an environment that is best suited for our little ones our pre students and so for those those of you that do not uh know the acronym na our programs are all NY accredited which is um National Association for the education of young children and what's great about being nationally accredited it supports our high standards and expectations for our instruction our curriculum and then also for um The Learning of our students too so we keep up with our accreditation when that comes up um every so many years for each of our programs and it's a very strenuous very uh detailed um accreditation uh but it does give us so much to provide what we need to provide for our students um the other you know areas of uh our prek opportunities and why it's so important for our students to participate and be enrolled in our prek programs because it's going to give our students a great start to their educational career in Fort rain Community Schools and U many of you have heard our fwcs focus is on literacy numeracy and well-being and this begins with our prek students so the more students that we could have enrolled in our programs it gives us the opportunity to get that started right for them and then when they join us the next year and it's kindergarten students then we're ready to take off right where we left off and so we um support uh we responsive to parents and their questions about prek and so make sure to contact your attendance area if you have any questions about our prek programs and you can also call GLE as we have several people that can speak to what we have to offer Dr Daniel I think you wanted to add a few things here as well well I'd add that when you have certified teachers with four year olds that's Second To None I mean there is I don't know of any program or programs around us that have that kind of instruction and we want to expand this so next year we want to see more programs and we're trying to expand these classrooms and Hal I think we probably by the time we at Harris We'll have over 51 classrooms so you think about that um she's giv you some that are on prek but we also have some Services we we provide for our students with disabilities that again every student should be afforded this opportunity and we know that there are limited openings across our across our city matter of fact there are limited openings for prek across our country and I think again Fort Wayne Community Schools is being very very proactive and very very aggressive and how we expand these programs because they're so critical for the success of our kids I'd also like to say next year when we start this enrollment process we're going to have everyone fill out the the on my way prek application and you may not receive the the benefit but you could and that means it helps us again as I said at the very beginning we need to find all revenue streams th that Revenue stream enables us to provide these Services because we are not funded directly by the state you have to go through this on my way prek Grant process which is another voucher in my opinion and we have to be aggressive in signing up our family so we receive those those dollars and I believe we had approximately 100 I think we're up to like 126 students this year that's a huge gain from what we had last year but those dollars again enable us to expand the program so I'm going to say this right now this will happen next year and we're going to figure out how to make it happen for All Families to be involved in the application process and then hopefully enough revenue generated at from the state because the state then provides us those dollars and yes you have to attend you have to be there on a daily basis that's how we receive those funds but I can tell you when we start to connect this with our families and this is how we handle structure this is how we create structure for our kids this is how we teach them to understand their letters understand their numbers this is how we start to expand it into word recognition oh my gosh we will achieve the goal of 95% of our kids reading at third grade level at the end of third grade which by the way is not an option if your little one is not there at the end of third grade and we will have a summer school they by law will be mained so we don't want that to be a number that is not manageable we want that 95% and you know you're gonna speak Haley why don't you speak speak to the IAD results that we had last spring I don't have them right in front of me but the growth that we're celebrating and you mentioned the growth earlier um I think we are visiting I want to say around 17 18 schools uh for a certain percentage of growth and so many more are right there and everything that we're doing instruction wise with um focus on literacy focus on youly and making sure that we are once again um highly trained teachers when it comes to literacy instruction and making sure that that's happening that's going to help ensure that we have our students passing this test and we're seeing a gain in our second graders passing this test which shows that it's working and so they take this as a second grader and if they pass they don't have to take it as a third grader so we're hoping to see that flip to where we have less and less third graders needing to take it because we have advanced them so far with their reading skills and you know when you talked about uh attendance and doing all this together when we start with the prek attendance is huge absolutely because that consistency for students to learn routine and be there for um that instruction which is developmentally appropriate we're not trying to push kids so fast that they can't handle it developmentally but this goes for all of our grade levels and that's why it's so important that students are in school they're in their classrooms because this instruction starts as soon as that bell rings and you have to be there you have to be there for that instruction to learn so when we think about the specific I read and the growth we've made we believe that we're going to to blow that out of the water this year too and so students need to be there teachers need to be able to teach and then we're going to make those gains great all right I'm not seeing any other questions in our chat um that we can answer tonight I've answered quite a few just um within the chat um so just a couple upcoming important dates we have fall break October 11th and 14th and so the district is closed that's our traditional fall fall break that were completely closed on October 11th on October 14th that's Monday the district offices will be open all students and teachers are off that day so there may be some administrators who are working people in central office who are working um some people may decide to take a vacation day that day um so completely closed on the 11th if you need to reach us we'll be back on the 14th and then parent teacher conferences are November 6th and 7th and so then of course students and staff will have the eighth off um again district offices are open on that day if you need to reach us but uh students and staff will be off uh from the buildings this is the this year this is the only time that we are doing um scheduled parent teacher conferences so the parent teacher conferences that we would traditionally have in February uh those were less well attended um a lot of a lot of the feedback we got when we asked about it was that these the November parent teacher conferences were more important than February so um so we're just going to have one this year we encourage parents of course family amilies keep in touch with your children's teachers teachers keep in touch with families and you can always meet anytime um and then our next Facebook live is in March so we're just going to do a couple of these this year unless for some reason there's a Hot Topic where we need to come back and do a a special Facebook live but otherwise um we're here today and then we'll be back in March any other comments from anybody I think we covered everything appreciate it all right well thank you to everyone for being here thank you for all of our viewers who are watching this and who will come uh who will see this in the coming days um that's one thing we've learned over time is that we have maybe a small number who watch live but lots of people will watch later on so thank you all for joining us have a good night good night [Music]

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okay I don't I don't know what we say like how Club went you were in club too okay so um they saw our first and second tell him about third what do you mean about the third round oh how we lost because um supports kept managing to keep tank you got to speak too I don't know stop flying around like you're playing a video game you have to speak too okay you're right tell tell them how the club match went how did uh Team friendship managed to carry us through two matches point the mic at him when you tell we got 75 MERS uh while pushing not too too good yeah not that bad either not that bad you're right but score is located right here yeah we got one point we got one one it was pretty good I did I did the best sure uhhuh yeah he he did better than everyone the support I've never played the support he never played managed to get us yeah yeah yeah just had to figure out some placements we switch back to the action now all right right so it's F1 to get to AER yeah so if you wanted to watch exploded F1 there's ball ball over here like sitting in the corners Oho uh I am free to say first names okay nice ker is cooking on Kiri for absolutely no reason I love how Kinder is just such a good support Ru rule outro rule grammar love it of course Eli is already good at Hamer mhm he's he's always good at hamster that's just who he Mains so wait who do we all have we have Hanzo team yeah we're we are blue so we got a we Hanzo Juno then hamper okay so Kiri ball Juno Widow and Hanzo not bad that's actually not a bad comp if they manage to play it well uh so far it's like not a win it's just they're keeping them back oh they are are yeah I think so um why is there two different things there's this one and then uh that's the uh support that's the club sub yeah that's the sub team so I'd say they're handling Point pretty well they are yeah they're holding them back at least they're keeping them in their spawn yeah they're keep them at spawn which is tank running yeah I know it's not 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play hog I've seen him play uh what is it mostly yeah that's really all I've seen him play cassid is going in to to everyone yeah now they're being smart but they're not going on to the point well I guess they do oh Kinder just hitting pretty much every shot yeah I know and they all know not to attack Sigma actually amazing Tracer haven't seen Dominic play this one yet I believe they got close to a team kill but there's no one on it so and yeah there we go they held so they didn't have to go very mm that that's a pretty good yeah that's their second round so that's their second round I believe unless that yes sir W Dom let's see what this is he had a 3K he did he did yeah he did pretty good I was better totally yeah yeah trust yeah totally wasn't negative no trust I won yeah you you won no plays of the game but I did the best absolutely you had the most damage most heals mitigation ask what I don't know I don't watch their ranks I believe I don't know I believe silver but no they're they're higher than silver I know Hunter silver well he's Varsity sub Hunter's not Varsity sub he's a sub he yes he is not just straight Varsity he is a sub no look hey there's colon up there the ash over there with the with the what is it saw off yeah just flying into the sky yeah why is it frozen I don't know I want to watch that I want to watch that there's nothing going on right now I want to watch that hey look over in the top left it's you oh it's me okay we're going in so how do you think this game is going to play out well they're a lot better than us so I definitely think also just watching that second that second round know I think they got this like yeah ker on uh tank Ker's on tank that's unprecedented never seen he's playing R yeah I know so either they're trying something new or they're trying to make it easier for the other team that's so mean mean it to be mean but yeah they kind of clay you're supposed to be kind that was kind sure Bud what do you have to say for yourself I don't know there you have it folks they haven't finished placement matches Oh I thought I know yeah I thought they would have done I know Hunter has Hunter has his done what did Hunter get oh is that why you said silver Jaden on yeah Jaden on Reaper not terrible huh oh Zenyatta the support yeah that's Zen oh my Aiden already cooking I mean you can just go onto one person all right you come on Eli Eli you're supposed to be better there we go okay Eli got it Brig Reaper Jaden on on Reaper that's new okay yeah that wasn't that bad yeah I think this match is going to play out just like their last one St the wall stop climbing on walls I hate it when they start climbing the walls it looks so weird you're spending a little too much time on maybe switch there you go Kinder just sitting out I can't pronounce R I'm trying my healing is not good Noam Ram I can't pronounce Ram apparently because I just tried to say red wrote I'm just F I'm just be wanting this Zen the guy that likes to punch a lot and shoot that guy the one with the staff to sta you guy oh okay so this is a Slaughter yeah this is this is a Slaughter this is kind of mean yeah and Jaden has Blossom not sitting on point yeah I know they're actually like going up and so it's like not pushing that're pushing them back they're keeping them in their spawn like they did last round Jaden Reaper with Jaden with Jaden if Jaden doesn't get POG dude that was insane I know that was good that that was really good that was definitely play of the game right there yeah if it wasn't I would be very surprised it has to be CU that yeah that was a 4K they're done yeah so yeah I believe they're done we think we don't know we never watched our first round we were still on our third yeah four getting destroyed oh yeah you're right say congratulations congratulations varsity team uh very well played yeah other team decent decent you did okay yeah trying to think of proper words got stuck in your spawn they they really did 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[Music] hi and welcome to another edition of all politics is local I'm your host John featherston on tonight's episode of all politics logo we're talking about the 2024 ballot questions there's five questions on the ballot and if you haven't been paying attention there's a lot that we're going to go over tonight question one's going to be the state auditor authority to audit the legislature I think that one pretty much makes common sense question two is getting a lot of media play right now the elimination of the MCAS as a high school gradu graduation requirement question three is unionization for transportation network drivers question four this could be an interesting one a limited legalization and regulation of certain natural psychedelic substances maybe we'll touch on that in a future episode and tonight we have an expert we have uh Chris Lane the former political director of mass GOP and a holster for signal to talk about minimum wage for tip workers Chris welcome to all politics is local John thanks for having me good to see hey it's a pleasure good to see you again thanks for coming in absolutely so question five sounds pretty simple sounds pretty good if you're a a tipped worker you're going to maybe get a pay raise so it s sounds good yeah if if you get 4 seconds into the conversation uh this the story really changes um but he the the idea is that um a radical group from California came in called one Fair wage and their idea was to raise the minimum wage of tipped workers and again who doesn't want to see their local bartender down at the the you know the local spot make good money and make a livable wage everybody wants that absolutely yeah but when you dig just an inch deeper on what this question actually does it takes the minimum wage and and puts it to $15 an hour and the the restaurants responsible for that so first it's bad for restaurants because every single full-time employee uh will that'll cost restaurants $118,500 per employee wow second for the servers themselves all of their tips now go into what they call a tip pool so they're no longer receiving when you fill out that check when that money is supposed to go to them that will no longer be the case it will go into a giant pot and then be redistributed throughout the entire restaurant so servers will make less money bartenders will make less money that that's a fact not an opinion and then the third part of it it's just bad for communities and and for consumers this has been tried in other places this has been tried in Washington DC in the first six months this was tried in Washington DC 10% of the restaurant industry went out of business so that cost thousands of jobs each one of those buildings that houses these restaurants go vacant downtowns are decimated and this is just bad all around it's bad policy it's not what these workers want it's being driven by a very very very radical Progressive group from California so let's break it down I mean come out of co uh due to inflation everything is more expensive in a restaurant or a bar right now to- Go containers price of food uh supplies a good employee is more expensive than it used to be so number one you've have restaurants that are really just hanging on if they're lucky and very few unfortunately are probably flourishing so this adds your words $118,500 per employee expense to somebody who's trying to hold on right now with his fingernails to his business so immediately it's going to put you know a small little mom and pop place out of business and that is precisely who it hurts the most the big big chains might be able to afford this the super wealthy high-end restaurants will probably be okay it is your middle class family restaurants that simply won't survive it it this will cost the average family restaurant between $250 and $350,000 a year and ask any one of those um owners and operators there is not $300,000 extra sitting in their margins no not at all and and so we're going to we're going to be driven into this world where it's only going to be takeout in Chipotle and these fast service places or your high restaurants the middle class American restaurant will disappear from Massachusetts and it will be absolutely devastating uh for for every Community across the state so you you must talk to bartenders waiters waitresses I mean what's what's the feedback that you're getting from them yeah so uh I've been working on this campaign for for the better part of a year and when I first started talking to bartenders about the question itself uh very few people even knew it was happening uh and and but instantly once they learned what it was I I've had literally unanimous consent that this is a bad idea uh I know that sounds hyperbolic but I I have now asked this to hundreds of tipped workers in restaurants and I can't find one that's in favor of this so the people that this is quote unquote designed to help are the people that unanimously uh rejected so the weight staff doesn't want it the bartenders don't want it quite obviously no owner wants $300,000 added to his bottom line so you mentioned this group out of California what's their motive their motive is they believe like most Progressive groups that everything is um you know this the system stacked against us and the big bad restaurant owners are are being greedy and uh that this is should be distrib the wealth should be redistributed across the you know the whole Spectrum here and and the fact of the matter is that the people who live and work in restaurants the people who will be impacted the most um are going to be hurt by this the most uh ask any uh waiter waitress bartender uh they know that their income will go down not up because of this and and that's where on paper just reading this it sounds like a pay increase it is fundamentally a pay decrease so let's drill down a little bit on what one thing that you said and let's get get into the details a little bit so now if you're a waiter or bartender you might have to you know tip out like a bus boy or a bar back or something like that now under this new plan all tips will go into a pool and then restaurant management gets to decide how that so he could give he could give a 100 bucks to the dishwasher that night which I'm not saying is a bad thing but I mean you you earn the tips for your good service but now you canot dictate even like where your money goes is that what I'm hearing correctly you were completely subjected to everyone else's work ethic and how they work with their customers and and imagine this too the average restaurant in DC now has a service fee included in this and so what they've seen the numbers and and tips have gone down also when you're tipping you're tipping about your experience with your waiter or waitress with your bartender once you know that that money is not going towards them the natural human thing is you're going to tip less you're going to tip less absolutely and where's the incentive for that waiter waitress bartender to provide excellent service start to finish when you know that that money is just going to go somewhere else and so in a in a postco world where the service industry has been through so much we're now going to put them through this too it's just a it's just a bad idea all right so let let's a yes vote on this would increase the minimum hourly wage an employer must pay a tip worker to the full State minimum wage implemented over 5 years so it would start in 2005 and max out in 2029 at which point employers could pull all tips and distribute them to all non-management workers so that's one good thing and the management doesn't get any a no vote would make no change in the law governing tip pooling or minimum wage for tip workers So currently in Massachusetts a tipped employee please tell me if I'm wrong what do they make six and a quarter an hour I think it's 675 675 675 but don't quote me on there it's somewhere in that ball right so it's it's not the minimum wage of a wood is 15 so it would be a sliding scale from 2025 to 2029 are is that tip pool not go in till 29 or does that start in 2025 it would start immediately it would start immediately and and the other so that's even worse it's even worse the other part that again and I had no idea this was the case before I started on on this work the 675 minimum wage if you went to work that night and you did not not make $15 an hour with your tips it is already uh mandated by state law that your employer has to make it up for it so the idea that you're only making 675 an hour is also fundamentally untrue because if for whatever reason slow night empty restaurant bad tipping whatever the thing may be if you don't make $15 an hour it is the law that your employer already has to make it up so this is where I have a really hard time understanding the other side and you know John we're we're we're Massachusetts Republicans we we typically have to understand where the other side's coming from in order to get things done and and even though I may not agree with it often I can rationally bring myself to understand what the motivation is I simply can't do it on this one because it just doesn't make sense you beat me to it because I was going to say the law is already in place that if you didn't make the money tonight your employer has to you know compensate you or send you home and you know uh and you still have to make minimum wage so I really don't there there's more to this than meets the eye I think is this like a step one of this Progressive uh group coming in and is this a way for them to eventually maybe unionize all uh restaurants I mean so yeah they they have a whole bunch of goals in mind and and in fact they they've gone after this in in almost a dozen states across the country Most states have actually thrown this off the ballot because of it's uh it's unconstitutional in a lot of ways uh especially the idea of taking people's money and dist redistributing it to others um but this is where I love the fact that it's on the ballot here in Massachusetts because from their perspective outside of maybe California and a few other states they see Massachusetts as a layup they see this as an opportunity to get the ball rolling and have this progress into every state they possibly can and that's where I love Massachusetts voters we have a long history of um sure we're blue in nature but we have a long history to standing up to craziness uh true and and we've displayed that by having Republican and Democratic Governors Republican and Democratic senators um and here's a great opportunity to fundamentally reject a progressive idea that does not move our state forward it moves it backward and it destroys an industry it doesn't help it so you must be talking with a ma Mass Restaurant Association I mean what's their stance on all yeah mass mass Restaurant Association has been uh spearheading uh this effort uh the no on five campaign and and I can't say enough about the people uh there and and frankly restaurant workers across the state um you know as you mentioned I'm I'm I'm a pollster and I've done some polling work here uh if you look at the the favorable unfavorable of people who work in restaurants bartenders tip workers it it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 75 to5 it people love their industry workers and my biggest fear is the great people in that industry will have no choice but to go do something else because they simply won't be able to support themselves the way that they always have right so I mean I mean speaking you know personally I was in the hospitality business for many many years I mean I worked my way through college you know working tips and you know I'm like oh tuition's due I got to go out and work x amount of shifts to make my you're going to lose that ability you're going to lose more importantly you're going to you're going to any good waiter wants to provide excellent service because they understand at the end of at the end of that meal or the end of that drink they provide great service they're going to they're going to get well compensated they might not get 20% but they're going to get 15% they might not always get 30% but they know if they build that yeah they're building return business because you always want to go back to that bartender or a waitress that takes care of you it's it's just human nature and you you become friendly with them you become concerned about them so you're going to maybe tip them a little bit more you're going to eliminate that entire floor right there and the restaurant owner is going to add $300,000 to his bottom line like you said it's just going to put him out of business so let's talk about because all politics is local you lose in a we're taping here in uh ashin Massachusetts a midsize town in Massachusetts let's let's look at a midsize town because Ashland's a good comp for most of Massachusetts If ashon lost five restaurants we wouldn't have any restaurants then you flip it to Boston let's just say you lost only 20 restaurants because of this what does that do to the landscape in Boston though too you know are you going to lose you know some uh some businesses down on Newberry Street are you going to lose businesses you know in the south end or in the North End you what would that impact be already you know the you know the fight with the uh with the mayor in the North End in Boston right now you know that they have to pay for other stuff you know for outdoor uh seating that other organizations don't you had another $300,000 you could lose an Institutional like a well-known institutional restaurant in the North End just based on this I mean it doesn't make any sense so so let's talk about Boston because this is an interesting angle that um we we've been thinking a lot about mayor woo in in an effort to help uh black black and brown communities um has uh created a whole lot more liquor licenses that are are going to be uh used Boston and a a crazy amount of liquor a huge amount right and and regardless of of that fact of whether that's good or bad or or indifferent I think it's 225 liquor I think you're right yeah um more the the threshold that this will create in order to even open a restaurant will be so enormously High it will put it out of reach you could create 10,000 liquor licenses it's a fake number it's it's fraudulent because no one will be able to afford to open these places to have them function and so if the idea is is to say that you want to help disenfranchise people get off the ground and and and and really help themselves in their community so now you're going to implement this idea that will make it even more difficult and in in a by the way the restaurant industry is notorious for being really hard as is and how quickly they open and close and so now a it's going to make it that much harder to open them and then if you do you're going to create an extra $300,000 a year to to that bottom line to try to make out for the margins on these things are already so small um in fact uh I I I won't be able to cite the specific study but I read the other day that the gap between making food at home and making and uh the margin on that food and the food at the restaurant is tighter than it's ever been uh and so it's not like restaurants are cleaning up off people here they're doing everything they can to keep prices as low as possible because they've gone up so much already and and so it's just really it's hard for me to understand how we got to this point uh and and frankly the legislature hted this because they didn't think it was a good idea if they thought it was a good idea they would have voted for it themselves you talk to any restaurant owner Democrat Republican independent whatever they're all going to tell you they pass their cost on to the consumer they have no choice they have no choice that's that's what they have to do just to go containers alone I have a good friend who owns a few uh Asian restaurants he's like I I can't even afford to buy to go containers anymore paper products anymore because the margins are so ridiculous when I'm spending more on you know to go containers because of inflation not on top of what I have to pay for chicken wings now or what I have to pay for liquor now it's it's it's putting me out of business adding this to them will only accelerate it uh but any restaurant as I'm saying will will tell you that I pass my cost right on to my consumer so that $300,000 is going to be added to every restaurant and it doesn't matter how big or small the restaurant is it's going to be about $300,000 who do you think is going to pay for that so that $30 you know to go order that you got now it's going to be $35 it's going to be $38 and the restaurant is going to be like who I got to pass it along to somebody eventually the money runs out you know socialism is a great idea until there's no until other people's money runs out that's what we're kind of looking at right here it's precisely what we're looking at and and I think the other part of this that we have to remember is those who have studied this and and where it has been implemented they've seen prices gone gone up about 20% and there's a whole bunch of people who um you know most of us can only go out to eat so often anyway if it's 20% more than that you're going to go out even less than than you already are and and then we're create this ripple effect of restaurants not only making less money because of the margins but less money because people won't be able to come in because it'll be 20% more and then you'll have waiters and waitresses and bartenders who will make less because people aren't coming in as often and round and round we go so it's just it's a NeverEnding sea of problems and and I hate to belabor the point I just again I can typically try to come to a reasonable middle on a whole lot of issues and and understand where both sides are coming from with good intentions for good things and and on this one it's bad for consumers it's bad for servers it's bad for restaurants it's bad for communities so I don't know who wins if question five passes you brought up a point earlier though too is with you know the expansion of like Amazon you know you go to the mall nowadays mall traffic is way off you know and uh a lot of s are closing maybe even becoming Amazon Fulfillment centers and so forth you start losing restaurants in your community you're not going to fill them back up they're just going to sit vacant so what is that do to your downtown district what is that do to your your appear appearance of your town like you have empty restaurants you have empty storefronts uh are people thinking about that is that coming up in your polling or anything yeah it's it's something we we've talked about a lot uh and we actually did some focus groups around this and how people felt and um you know the overwhelming sentiment was that initially we like the idea of supporting these people but but once we get to those types of consequences imagine if 10% of the restaurant industry closes and that means 10% of of of those buildings are now vacant and and and what that means for the the buildings nearby and the other shops nearby and the parking nearby and the just everything and and we talk about this all the time with you know high taxes and and the ripple effect that has that's that's essentially what we're talking about here uh we're going to strangle businesses that then will have to raise money uh uh in other ways and by charging more to Consumers and then uh waiters and waitresses won't get the same cut that they're used to getting for the hard hard hard work that they do and you know like you I I worked in a restaurant in high school and it it was one of the hardest things I've ever done and it's just extremely difficult and and the reason they get paid far far more than the average person far far more than minimum wage by the way it's because of how hard it is and and the idea of making minimum wage is is supposed to be a selling point to these to these hardworking people I don't think so what we found is uh most restaurant workers make 20$ 2540 an hour which is much more conducive to uh their lifestyle that that they need in order to survive right right it's being in the restaurant business is not for everybody I think everybody should work in it because you can learn a lot about you know the human race by working in the restaurant and dealing with people in difficult situations but if you're a good person you can make a very good career and make a sixf figure income in the right in the right industry and uh and kudos to you for doing so but you're not going to be making six figures anymore if you got to If your manager is going to decide how he's going to break up your tip pull so doesn't make any sense so you're here today to say no on question five I I am and and think about um also just to to close up here sure uh think about how hard it was for restaurants to reopen postco because they couldn't find the bodies right and so now if this happens the people most inclined to leave are your older more experienced highlevel employees and think about the incredible drop off of service you're going to have if those people leave and then who will be there to fill in that Gap it'll either be a no one or B someone who's not going to provide the same experience for the consumer for the restaurant that we're used to seeing and if you didn't go out of business when you lost that good guy you're definitely going to go out of business because your your service standards have gone down and people aren't going to pay for it anymore I can't tell you how many restaurants I go to because of the service that I perceive from certain people especially the individuals forget the entities the individual servers make those experiences what they are you for me I'd rather go to a restaurant with B+ food with A+ service than A+ food and D service right there it's about it's about that experience and if we take away from that experience which this will fundamentally do we're going to have a real problem on our hands so we've talked for years on this program about you know all politics is local and you know you've got the big uh one on November 5th of course you've got Cala Harris versus Donald Trump I have said for years that it's the local issues that have bigger impacts on you your friends your family your kids education we've got a couple minutes left here so let's just run down the five questions that are going to impact Massachusetts in the uh 24 uh election question one state Auditors authority to audit the legislature my words Nob brainer yeah uh WB and mass Inc just put out a poll yesterday uh that showed this is going to pass over overwhelmingly and and I think it's a great thing the the only thing I find ironic is uh that they had to work so hard for this to happen uh the the auditor whose job is to audit uh wanted to audit the legislature and was met with every resistance on Earth uh which forced her to do this ballot question and it's nice to see uh you know transparency wins uh for once you know I've had people come up to me and go it doesn't already happen like how can this not already happen I mean you know we can we can do a whole program about you know Sunshine laws don't you know and open meeting laws don't you know are affect of the legislature but I think it would be good if people just know I mean you know and you know I could understand why the legislature doesn't want somebody to look at their books but I think the public wants you know how is my money being spent I think it's a simple Nob brainer woman seems like a pretty reasonable ask pretty reasonable ask question two elimination of mcast is a high school graduation requirement yeah um again that same poll that came out and in you know from people that I talked to who are working on these things uh that's going to be incredibly tight uh I think you're going to see that one fall much more on partisan lines uh Democrats and and teachers unions in particular are fighting like hell to do this and and you know to get rid of it to get rid of it and uh you you know you're more republican-leaning voters not necessarily registered Republicans um but but Republican leaning voters uh like the accountability uh and if you're not measuring what you're doing how can you determine whether you're being successful or not so I think that's going to be really close I I think um the amount of money that's going to be spent over the next 40 days on this question is going to be astronomical um and uh you know we'll we'll see how it plays out just this week it came out that uh last year's mcast uh we're not good we're not good so you is it is it that the teachers union is kind of pushing let's let's get get rid of this because it makes the teachers I don't think it makes teachers look bad but I think it makes the teachers union look a little bit bad if mcast stores are keep going you know down CU yeah we we have to create a difference between teachers and teachers unions it's fundamentally different um and and it turns out when you close schools for years on end that it may or may not have had an impact on kids' ability to learn and um now we're seeing the results of that and just because we don't like the results we're going to eliminate the test the test tells us that I mean I think it opens up another can of worms that for two two and a half years you had kids you know learning on a computer uh I'm just speaking personally I would have never I wouldn't have learned anything you know going to school virtually and everything uh what but I I just think it it it also enhances that there there's a mental health crisis in this country right now and you know the a lot of 11 12y old 13y old kids who only know school by you know a zoom screen they got to be messed up and we need to you know kind of re-evaluate what's going on with our youth because they're never going to get that back you know so what I won't attribute this quote to to anyone only because I I don't want them to have to to deal with what I'm saying now but when I was an intern at the State House at 17 years old uh I had a politician who I very much like and respect say that the Massachusetts Teachers Association is the modern day Mafia uh and he was being hyperbolic I don't actually think that but what his point was that the tremendous power that they yield and and how much they're able to influence it and so this is going to be a real test of that uh between now and November it's going to be interesting question three unionization for transportation network drivers which is is that a fancy way of saying Uber and lift drivers yeah exactly right um from from what I see and read um it it sounds like this is going to pass as well um probably by some sort of margin of close to 60 to 40 if I had to guess okay question four The Limited legalization and regulation of certain natural psychedelic substances so basically mushrooms yeah this one's interesting and it's going to be really close and and all the early polling has indicated so uh it it sort of goes back to the conversation we were having 6 four8 10 years ago uh about medical marijuana and and you know should it be able to be used in that sense and if you're going to do it should it be regulated and and try to make sure that it's been doing it in the right way so you know there's a there's a sound argument on both sides for this one that I I think we'll see how it plays out we'll see how the the money flows in on this side on this too because if if we're being frank about how these things work there's one side that you know desperately wants to see this happen because they have Financial benefits of of it happening and this is where no campaigns are difficult sometimes because it's hard to consolidate people against an idea when there's no natural base to do that uh on question five for example This Will Destroy restaurants right so restaurants are highly incentivized to come together and that's where I I'm I'm curious uh if the money will have a real impact on this down the stretch to see where that one lands you know just you a personal antidote you know when I was the chairman of the board of health in my my community uh I had concerns about the legalization of cannabis and marijuana not because what you do in the safety of your own home and I've never worried about that I was worried that the state didn't have a plan in place and you kind of fast forward now you can't tell me the Massachusetts Canabis commission it has their things in place CU they don't have any leadership they have Chaos on their own board tell me why this wouldn't happen with this too I where's the jurisdiction of this going to be under yeah the Cannabis commission I don't I don't have a good answer for you so I don't think anybody does yeah so it's going to be interesting to see how it all plays out we'll see how public perception plays on this because obviously you know where marijuana started 10 years ago where it is now are drastically different places so is there a spillover effect what of you know acceptance on that front or um is there some fear of the possible repercussions any feedback you've heard from uh local law enforcement Public Safety individuals on this uh it would be disingenous I I haven't talked to those folks to to say enough about that and neither have I because this this one's not getting a lot of uh you know ads right now maybe in the next 40 days it'll pick up and then once again Chris Lane upholster with signal you're here today mostly to talk about minimum wage for tip workers one thing that we didn't add and I was interested this is also like nail salons and uh it's not just necessarily 100% uh restaurant and bartenders it's it's it's other like tipped employees as well too nail salons hair salons I mean there's a whole bunch of other things I think just most people identify it with restaurants and and and that probably is the large bulk of it but you're absolutely right this goes Way Beyond uh just restaurants and and you know my fear is what's next on that front and and um I can tell you personally if we Lo if my wife lost her favorite bartender or waitress she'd be upset about it but she'd be really upset if her nail lady left the business because I mean that woman walks on water for far as far as my wife is concerned and I mean we joke about it but it's it's important to my wife and it's important to a lot of people so yeah I mean we talk about sitting at a bar and and getting a drink and having that personal experience you know what's more intimate and personal than than what you just described and I can tell you right now uh getting my to go anywhere than other than the spot she goes with her lady is is an impossible pitch as well so yeah this this has huge huge implications I would just encourage people uh even if you don't agree with everything I've said today or you've said today just look into this idea see who's funding the other side and what their goals are um because this was not created in Massachusetts this was not an uprising of workers in Massachusetts this was not tipped workers coming together and say whoa we don't like the way this is going it's the exact opposite of that it's an outside group who's coming in and trying to dictate what's best for other people and unfortunately for them what's best for the people in Massachusetts is the exact opposite of what they're trying to do there you go Chris Lane upholster with signal talking about the ballot questions the election's a big one this year Tuesday November 5th you got to get out you've got to get your information one nice thing that Massachusetts does is they do mail this to all the Reg boter take your time uh if if we piqued your interest tonight learn more what's on the ballot because this is the real important stuff folks so get out there and as I always say if you don't vote you don't get a chance to complain but you do have an opportunity to vote on November 5th you've been watching all politics is local right here on waa and we'll be back again real soon [Music]

[Music] hello clockers welcome to another segment of waa news blog my name is hi silver and today I will be giving you a brief summary of the Ashton Town manager's newsletter Route 135 sidewalk project nears completion crews are making significant progress on the Route 135 sidewalk project the curbs are set and workers are currently preparing for the concrete paid inst pad installation expected in the coming weeks once the guard system is removed the ADA Compliant sidewalks will ensure accessible routs for all residents particularly children commuting to and from school the project is on track for completion by the end of November providing safer pedestrian access along the corridor rashash Shana begins on October 2nd lanaa as rashash Shana begins on October 2nd we extend warm wishes to all those celebrating the Jewish New Year may this time bring reflection renewal and joyful celebration to you and your loved ones there's an upcoming vaccine clinic in Ashland so mark your calendars Ashland Town Hall will host a vaccine clinic on Tuesday October 8th from 11:00 a.m.

popsicles my favorite comfort food I would say is pasta any pasta with a lot of cheese mine is a sushi for sure for sure my favorite comfort food is Pizza I live in Ocean City so there's like a a plethora of places to go on the balks like MOS is the most famous place but my favorite is uh preps because they put like the sauce on top of on top of the cheese um also I get Dominoes and pizza is my guilty pleasure too thanks uh my favorite comfort food is probably instant cup Ramen my favorite comfort food is Chicken and watermelon my favorite comfort food is probably like Chick-fil-A or ice cream my favorite comfort food is probably like raisin canes or Chipotle uh my favorite comfort food has to be uh garlic knots and mega fries from Panini Andes and wood mine those sounded pretty good what's your favorite comt food cam mine's probably fried rice what about you banana pudding definitely well that's all for this week I'm Steven and I'm Cammy and we'll see you next time on Cat TV news

to 1: p.m. vaccines for flu covid RSV tetanus shingles HPV and hepatitis B will be available covid booster doses will be provided on a first come first serve basis don't forget to bring your insurance card and pre-register using the provided link for more information call the ashin Board of Health at 0100 extension1 1975 Town survey on climate vulnerability Ashland residents keep an eye on your mailboxes the town is conducting a quick two-minute survey to gather feedback on climate vulnerabilities your responses will help shape future sustainability efforts historic town hall under renovation renovations to Ashley's historic town hall have begun focusing on replacing siding weather related repairs and a Fresh coat of paint wor work is expected to last 2 months with some areas of the parking lot closed although certain access points will be restricted Town Hall remains open during business hours residents are encouraged to park along Main Street and walk to the drop off boxes for bills and ballots comprehensive plan survey open for feedback Ashland's comprehensive plan steering committee is seeking feedback on their draft Vision core themes and goals the survey is open until early October the committee will also present at the dragonall street fair to gather input visit the town's website to learn more and participate in shaping Ashton's future Route 126 Paving set for October 3rd to 4th final Paving of Route 126 from Elliot Street to the Holliston line will take place overnight on October 4th side street Paving will begin during the day on October 3rd possibly extending into the evening drivers are urged to exercise caution as they navigate the area during this town Town job openings the town of ashin is looking to fill several key positions including a van driver Outreach coordinator and Human Services case manager at the community center as well as water technicians and heavy equipment operators in the DPW visit the town's website for a full list of available positions stage two water ban is in effect due to a lack of rainfall Ashlin has entered stage two outdoor water use restrictions residents are encouraged to conserve water to avoid potential Reliance on the costly emergency MW connection protecting our Water Resources now can help keep future rates lower open space and Recreation survey now live the open space and Recreation committee is updating its plan and needs your input residents are invited to complete a new survey to help identify priorities for preserving open space enhancing recreational resources in maintaining the town's character the results will guide future land use decisions and state Grant eligibility visit the town website to participate Ashland cultural Council Grant Cycle open the FY 25 grant cycle for the ashin cultural council is now open with applications due by October 16th at midnight grants are available for projects that enrich the community and must be accessible to Ashton residents the council is also asking residents to complete a quick survey to help align its work with Community needs now some important dates coming up oil Mercury paint and electronics drop off on on Saturday October 5th from 9:00 a.m.

to 12:00 p.m. residents can safely dispose of H hazardous items at the DPW on Ponderosa Road items include motor oil thermostats fluorescent bulbs TVs PCS AC units and more yard waste collection starting Monday October 7th yard waste will be collected every Monday through November 25th make sure to have your leaf bags or barrels at the curb by 700 a.m. textile clothing recycling don't forget textile pickups are by appointment only call 866 83550 68 to schedule your collection car seat check the Ashen fire department is offering free car seat checks on Saturday October 12th from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the ashin community center ensure your child's seat is installed correctly for their safety some upcoming election and special town meeting information early inperson voting early voting for The November 5th election begins October 19th and runs through November 1st voting errors vary by day so be sure to check the schedule last day to register to vote the last Daye of register is Saturday October 26th you can visit the town clerk's office from 9:00 a.m.

to 5:00 p.m. or register online the last day of request vote by mail be sure to request your mail and ballot by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday October 29th election day mark your calendars for Tuesday November 5th polls will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Ashlin High School special town meeting set for Tuesday November 19th at 700 p.m. at ashin high school so make sure you're prepared for all these important events the department Spotlight the ashin public library the Ashland Public Library is a Cornerstone of the community offering a wealth of programs and resources for residents of all ages from children stories to adult literacy programs the library nurtures a love for learning what fostering Community engagement explore more about the library 1 minutes impact by watching their feature Video available online last week's poll results and new poll in last week's poll we asked if residents plan to attend the dragonfly Street Fair out of 61 responses 40 said yes and 21 said no for this week we're asking have you completed the comprehensive plan survey this survey plays a key role in shaping Ash and future for the next decade participate now to have your voice heard events on Saturday October 5th fire prevention month open house join the ashon department for their open house from 11:00 a.m.

to 1:00 p.m. at the public safety building 12 Union Street bring food donations for the Ashen food pantry and learn about the importance of working smoke alarm the dragonfly Street Fair 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. downtown ashin featuring live music on October 5th dance performances food and over 30 vendors will be there no rain date so fingers crossed for Clear Skies Ashley and Fall Fest in fishing game 5:00 p.m. to 11: p.m. an adult only Community event benefiting Ashlin flag football and AHS girls Sports enjoy live bands barbecue and more this is a 21 up event some other noteworthy events The Rocky Horror Show join the Ashlin Community Theater for The Rocky Horror Show featuring live music and acting dates October 24th to the 26th at 8:00 p.m. October 27th at 400 p.m. tickets will be available online and if you can attend considered donating to support the theater lastly for the event summary of the Salem end Sanctuary cave walk on Saturday October 26 10: a.m.

to 12:00 p.m. located in the Ashland Town Forest Winter Street parking lot ashin Mass join us for a captivating walk through the Ashland toown Forest while we explore the rich history of the land this event will cover significant stories including nitm settlements refugees from the Salem witch trials and the ongoing efforts to preserve the forest against invasive species don't miss this opportunity to connect with the history of ashin and its natural beauty so make sure to mark your calendars for all of these exciting local events that is all for today thank you to our town manager Michael Herbert for writing the newsletter and keeping us all informed and thank you all for tuning in today my name is hi silver with waa and this has been your Weekly News summary good night and go clockers [Music]

e e e for the oversight on the holiday today um and we'll do a little bit different in the future I would have thought that the clerk's office might have given me a um notification to just not hold this meeting today but I appreciate everybody attending um in spite of that so it's 7:04 and we'll get started if it's okay with everybody I was going to start with the DDA and their presentation on their new projects that they have going forward um so uh I'm not sure who would like to start Sandra would you like to start um I'll let Amber take it from the beginning but I am Sandra I'm from the DDA I work with Amber I'm a program specialist hi everyone I'm Amber Miller I oversee capital projects and planning for the city's Downtown Development Authority um and I'll Hannah why don't you introduce yourself as well while I um share my screen here hi I'm Hannah Kirkpatrick I'm the art and public director at the Ann Arbor Art Center and we're working with the DDA um and helping launch the lf8 program so um putting out helping putting out the calls and communicating with artists and installation needs um so yeah all all the project management um things so anyways I'll let Amber get back to it great all right can everyone see my screen yes all right well thank you so much for giving us your time tonight so we are here to talk about a new CDA program called Elevate we wanted to make sure that you all are aware of this program and we also wanted to tee up our request to have a public Arts commission member serve on each of our selection committees so we can talk about that a little bit more as we go through the presentation so tonight we'll give you a little bit of an overview of the program and then talk about the exciting part which are the planned projects and we have one coming up through a capital project in 2026 and then some that are planned for 204 and 2025 before we jump into the program just for those of you who are not um familiar with the Downtown Development Authority we are a component unit of the city of Van Arbor we focus exclusively on enhancing and building a resilient and thriving downtown and we do this primarily through infrastructure Investments most of our funding is tax increment financing we refer to it as Tiff um and you'll hear that a couple of times throughout this presentation our aim with this program is to fund public art and placemaking installations that enhance the downtown experience for all people our program goals are just as you see on the screen there history and storytelling diversity equity and inclusion play interaction and creativity and placemaking and because we're an infrastructure program that is focused on downtown our emphasis um often is on placemaking in the work that we do and especially for this program focusing on designing cities for people strengthening the connection between people and the places they share and celebrating and enhancing the unique quality of place that we have downtown so there are two um major components of the Elevate program one is with our Capital project so our board has directed us that with each Capital project moving forward 1% of the construction budget will be allocated for art and placemaking as part of that project and then the other component of the Elevate program is an annual budget for installations and with that annual budget um we have a framework of about five categories just to help diversify the installations um that you all are seeing downtown and that we're installing downtown so we're focusing on large scale permanent installations oh sorry I see we have a question yeah I just had a question will we be able to access this uh presentation afterwards absolutely um we can share this presentation with Bita and then also um our the details of our program that were approved by our board great thank you so um as part of the annual funding we have large scale permanent install ations and some of that funding is coming from Tiff and then we also operate the parking system so a portion of that is coming from parking as well um we're also wanting to install seasonally temporary rotating interactive art installations so we're starting to see this in other um cities cities like Green Rapids and Boston often in the winter time they're bringing in these really fun interactive kind of light and sound displays to help bring people downtown kind of during the slower season of the year um we'd also like to focus on some small scale installations and then maintenance is an important component of this as well we want to be able to maintain what we're installing um and when it comes to procuring Art we'll be following um pretty closely with the how the city is procuring public art so most of our public art will be procured through calls for entry um we did want to allow for open submission so that people felt like they could approach us and share their ideas with us um we don't know that we'll have too much funding for that in the early years as we're really trying to get out calls for um new art but that is part of our program and then there may be times where we have soul sourcing or off-the-shelf products um that we are installing as well and for the um projects where we're doing a call for art for most or all of the we'd like to have a selection committee and this is where we were hoping that you all would be willing to volunteer your time for each of those calls that um someone from the public art commission could be a part of our selection committee could be the same person for each selection committee um or you could volunteer a different person for each different project so we're hoping if you have interest that you can communicate that to Vita and Vita the you don't mind um helping us identify selection committee [Music] members all right so now to talk to you all about projects this first one is planned as one of our capital projects and it's a capital project that is scheduled for 2026 so we still have some time to develop it this project is focused on Fourth Avenue between William and Liberty and the focus of this project is really on improving the experience for Transit Riders and also um the operations of Transit on this street and we would like to just make this a more welcoming interesting space for people who are waiting for the bus and um spending time on this block and right now that visual of the parking structure certainly doesn't do that so this is just an example um but looking to provide some level of screening on the parking structure as part of our 4th Avenue project so that one you should hear more about as we develop it further over the next year um and with that I'm going to hand it over to Sandra to talk about the annual installations that we are working on okay great go to the next slide so yeah so we have um budgeted we started our planning last year which super awesome that means that we started our budgeting last year so by the time we're ready to start rolling these out next year we'll have by July three years of funding so for our kickoff year we're going to have a lot of flexibility and we're hoping to have a big impact to get people excited about all the programs and artwork we're bringing in um so this is just an overview of um we'll talk about each one of these large scale projects that we're working on in more detail uh so to start we from talking to the neighborhoods throughout the years we identified with some of the needs in the specific districts areas um and trying to combine the place making with those needs um so we'll go again we'll go through these in detail but just to run down the list we're going to be doing a mural and Liberty Plaza which we're partnering with an river parks with uh a sun shade and the Farmers Market a wayfinding project from the Anne Ashley parking structure to Cary Town um and we're still putting together we're going to plan to put together something for South you that's interactive U probably start working on that in the winter and then a scavenger hunt throughout downtown and again we're focusing this first year and uh play and interaction so um Hanah I'll let you talk about these next and then I'll take the end okay so this is um I think everybody's probably familiar with Liberty Plaza um and uh the city is looking to uh Create A Renewed interest in the plaza through ART and event programming um so we are going to be launching a call starting on October 19th um and the call will close we usually do six weeks for a call um on December 1st uh and um this is a really fun uh space I think for artists to think about because there's three different levels and varying different height walls um but the mural should focus uh on the concrete walls uh and possibly the stairs and railings um as other extra elements to think about in the design um but concentrating in the middle section uh which you can see on the lower left uh corner I'm bad with my left and right but um and then radiating out from there to the upper upper and low lower level um the parks will parks and recck will be putting in new plantings as well that will be bright colorful and showy and so this mural is also um you know we're asking artists to submit designs that are um bright colorful and non-representational so pattern based or geometric um things like that uh what else um and the install should be in summerfall of 20125 uh next slide uh the next one is the farmers market sun shade uh so this is an interesting project where there's a functional need to provide shade uh for a comfortable space at the farmers market under above these um picnic tables and um there are these existing poles in the space already so uh artists are going to be asked to attach to the poles um and create a sun shade to span over it whether that's out of fabric or rigid materials um the this call is currently open it's been open SE since September 7th it's going to close on October 20th um um you know it's a national call but we're also um marketing locally to um the U ofm faculty in in Todman College of architecture and urban planning stamps College for Creative Studies in um Detroit so trying to um also uh reach the local network too um because there's a lot of talented people here and um install hopefully for summer when the sun is shining and we and uh we want to sun shade on there uh so we're we're aiming for summer 2025 um and the work should be again something colorful uh you know and and um fun and then oh here are just some examples of something we may expect to be proposed um but uh I'm sure there will be a lot of creative artists bringing in lots of different ideas okay and then um the other call that's open right now is a wayfinding call from the um parking structure on Miller the an Ashley parking structure um with a focus on using the facade on Miller so the tower the windows spaces the openings um and then the wayfinding continuing uh in the amenity Zone uh towards the farmers market um and so uh we're marketing the call to oh go back one second um we're marketing the call to a bunch of different types of artists because this could be you know 2D based kind of a mural approach um um or it could be sculptural uh so lots of different options um uh and this is not like a text Heavy way finding system this is supposed to be visual fun and engaging for people traveling from the parking structure to the farmers market um and then these are just some examples uh of way finding um y so it could be something attached to poles it could be sculp you know kind of a flat sculpture on the street maybe they're series of benches um I'm sure we'll be surprised with uh what people apply with um and there it we're also um letting artists propose groundwork too as another way of way finding um you know and groundwork could be a mural but uh those might have maintenance issues where they have to be repainted uh sooner than later it could be um a mosaic it could be you know some kind of breadcrumb leading you um from the parking garage to the farmers market um so these are just some other examples out there and then I think okay and then the uh other project we were working on with the DDA is South U um uh South univers they're Desiring something that to encourage more families um to visit the neighborhood and so the approach will be focused on interaction play and placemaking um the project is to be determined uh starting in the winter uh and these are just some examples of you know uh something that's durable uh and fun it could be a mural it could be some kind of lights that act get you know activate at night it could be some kind of ground game um as well I can pick it up so um one of the other big things we're working on for the kickoff we thought it would be fun to have David Zin um who better everybody knows David Zen to do some permanent installations throughout town that are um part of a scavenger hunt again focusing on play interaction and creativity um we're hoping to start this fall but it might be in you know next spring who knows but um we're we're really close to getting started so hopefully this fall fingers crossed um but yeah so we'll choose places throughout town uh he has a list he provided with to us um including like the library uh the arcade we have some of the parking structures the library so just guiding um families around town in a fun way or adults never know um so super exciting so for that temporary installation we're looking to do it in Liberty Plaza this January through March um and that will be three years of funding which we won't eat up with this first year but we'll get to do something pretty fun and exciting um so again it'll go in Liberty Plaza during the cold months so we're hoping it'll be a draw to downtown January February March um something fun for the family so it's called oscillation and it's a Quebec based company called Creos um they've done this I believe New York City um and Dublin and other countries and it's from everybody I've talked to it's been a lot of fun and people have loved it um they're Giant Crystals that come alive through with movement uh there I believe five of them that will be throughout the plaza um and it interacts and creates sound Shadows when you get close to it the sounds change there's more pictures yeah so each module has three sensors that'll activate with light and sound components as people approach them and move around them um a mirror effect and they light up at night so this should be a ton of fun we're excited about this and you'll hear more about it come January next step so again David zins the closest thing to being installed and getting rolling uh we're working on finalizing that contract right now and then as Hannah talked about the Ann Ashley wayfinding and the sun shade are both those calls are out and in progress so that selection committee we I got to start working on that but that'll be coming soon in the winter months um Liberty Plaza mural that call will be going out on October so again fall um next summer fall installation and then the temporary install will be in January that's it Amber do you w to does anybody have questions I guess it's a good Next Step I know that maryles has offered and is very excited about having um help during this project so I can Circle back with you and and get you her contact information so that you have that yeah I'd be willing to help as well um to volunteer on the Committees I did have one question um as part of the work that we do we review all the CIP projects um annually and several of those often include DDA projects and we recommend um adding design work to those projects this seems to be completely separate from that and those recommendations am I accurate in that or is there any um consideration of the work that we've done around that yeah so what this does is it um it bakes in a public art component so it it's essentially saying with all of our capital projects we plan to have a 1% set aside for public art um and we certainly still welcome you all encouraging us if you think we should be doing more than 1% um and we'll keep you updated on those projects but as a baseline what we're saying is we're committing to public art with every project but the 1% your pulling aside is it going to be related to that specific project or just into a pool that it gets used for public art um both so the two components to the Elevate program one is tied directly to the capital project so 1% of that project will be installed as public art as part of that project um unless it simply doesn't make sense for that project like um I'm trying to think of an example our sidewalk repairs um we may instead pull a small amount of sidewalk repair dollars into the larger Elevate program but for the most part those large capital projects will have um public art component then we have we also have the annual program that's $175,000 a year for public art installations downtown great I'm super excited to see more public art happening so I'm really glad you guys are doing this work thank you I see your hand raised or Peggy I'm sorry um I would be willing to serve on the um placemaking in the placemaking program too and I'm super excited about this program but also just to see the variety in the art that you're going to be placing around town so super excited very fun thank you John um I'm also excited and uh I really applaud what you're doing and uh it it ties into the history of this public art Commission in fact it started with the DDA in the 19 uh 90s uh when uh the DDA started taking over the parking structure they built the fourth and Washington parking structure they formed a Committee for Public art and that committee actually was responsible and it was uh that uh uh commissioned all the artwork that's on that fourth and Washington as a result of that everyone was just applauding the work of this committee that committee turned into the commission for art and public places cap and uh that cap sorted had big big plans and you might want to go back they had a wonderful plan for the parking structure that you're thinking about on Fourth um and that group uh evolved into this particular group which started in 2008 for the percent for art program which was designed to do exactly what you're doing is uh try to set aside uh all uh Capital Improvement projects and pull the monies from those that may not necessarily like sidewalks have public art but there is public art particularly in Seattle on sidewalks so you know there are stamps and all kinds of other things that that you can you can use for public art uh so I really applaud what you're doing you're you're bringing it back the public the percent percent for art program was ended in 2013 uh it's unfortunate but you have brought it back to life I am tickled to see that um and um the the the current and temporary um head of uh um uh uh Services it's vanita's boss uh uh started the public art program per for art so she's very familiar with what's happening was happening you know Nationwide um and maybe if you could make some sense of something that this art commission was unable to do uh that the city might see a way of bringing back that percent for art um because the structure of it is all in place um but I also uh applaud you using David Zin he he's he is a genius he's a treasure for Ann Arbor and he travels all over the world we should have see more of David's work here and uh I applaud what you're doing I can't think of anybody better to serve on some of these committees than Mary thil I mean she's doing this day and night and she's very familiar with what can be done and very familiar with the history I'm talking about so um all of this is to say kudos to what you're doing and I think it's absolutely terrific and uh I just see this old idea that I thought was absolutely spectacular and it was unfortunate that it fell prey to the Tea Party Movement and a whole other set of circumstances outside of our control as cultureal War but you've brought it back to life and focused it into the DDA I also want to let you know that uh I'm on the historical Foundation I'm part of the uh Street exhibit program and a good friend of Ray dter who's passed away recently um and um Ry started uh the street exhibit program and those began as works of public art it was a way to look through the past to see the present and if you there were little foot pads if you stand just right you can see this projection of this historic photograph on the present all of those are uh accepted as public art um for a couple couple of reasons one uh that the public art ordinance uh there was some question of um not who owns it the city owns it but who maintains it so Craig hoopy um I think uh and uh Vanita will know the date uh you know five six seven years ago change the public art ordinance so that every work of public art in the city is um uh is uh maintained and repaired by the department where it's located so that's a part of the ordinance and that will help you in terms of being able to maintain this there there's no necessarily money to create the artwork but you're doing that um through what we tried to do with a percent for art and failed you're doing it exactly the way we had planned to do it set aside 1% of um of the capital Improvement projects so for the maintenance there's already a build-in ordinance that identifies all this public all all of your public art uh who maintains it and who's responsible for it and you might want to familiarize yourself with that so that as moving forward you'll know exactly how to allocate money it's the the city's responsible whatever department is in there and um the uh these 21 glass panels along with all the other Street exhibits which amounts to well over a million dollars um and the other part is it's insured so the city self- insures but it has a rider on its insurance policy specifically for public art as long as it is identified in a public art inventory that's kept by Venita so you should include these pieces of public art as a part of that inventory to make sure that it's on that insurance Rider and also to make sure that it's maintained by the appropriate Department um and there's um uh a new uh historic marker for the Jones School I don't know whether you're familiar with it or not uh but that's in the process of being um uh uh built and uh I know that I'm supposed to be meeting uh with Chris frost to go over how this thing who owns it who maintains it the the historical Foundation is paying or helping to pay for building it but they can't possibly maintain it and you know it's you know as your program sort of uh evolves you you're you know you're going to come up against maintaining these projects some of them are going to be very expensive uh the the light structure in in the uh the uh the courthouse you know is very difficult because it is electricity and light so the same thing with the dry cidal uh um uh piece that's in front of City Hall that involves a bunch of pumps and stuff like that something is very simple like a piece of sculpture but other art May uh involve more maintenance which should be a part of your selection process the the cost of maintaining all of these so sorry to go on but I wanted to Jack that congratulations for what you're doing I applaud what you're doing I've stayed on this commission hoping that this whole idea would would come alive again and you've made my day my week my month so thank you very much and I'll help in whatever way I can but I think Mary thil would really be an ideal person you've already had people uh that have volunteered so go get them thank you John hi Sophie oh hi yeah um thanks for for all that information John um I was just kind of say it's great that we have three different projects and three different volunteers already to to be on those um commit commissions what what were they committees so I think that going to work out great and we'll have different angles and different views on it which would be really nice to get add to the diversity of aming diversity of different programs that you're you're putting forward um and I just wanted to say how much I hope that one day we'll be able to uh extend this kind of thing beyond the downtown and have it spreading to different parts of the town as well but parts of the city because um it would be wonderful I think to have something larger and more permanent in some other parts of an alra as well which you know would really benefit from that so occasionally we get things coming up from different groups but something more programmatic I think would be really wonderful Amber can I ask a question sure so are these projects already part of the current CIP you all have your information the CIP too as well right so these are CIP projects so um yep the Fourth Avenue which is the capital project that I talked about at the the start of kind of the project portion of the presentation that is already in the um CIP and and it is already called out as including public art um and then we are actually putting the Elevate program itself into the capital Improvement plan because we're seeing it as an investment in in infrastructure so that program that $175,000 a year is also in the CIP okay when we look at some of the uh like John was talking about some of the maintenance um if I'm not misunderstanding some of the DDA crisscrosses with city right are there areas where we are doing this already where the city is maintaining some things within the DDA or will that need to be addressed a little differently well so with the Elevate program we're setting aside um I'd have to go back and look at the specific numbers but it's at least $5,000 a year for um maintenance and we plan to just set that aside and let our maintenance um dollars AC crew until one of these installation needs maintenance so we plan to maintain what we're installing through this program thank you nice projects thank you see them happening um they seem look to be really really neat things that are very vibrant within the city too so that's going to be particip good for folks to be real hands thanks for sharing this appreciate that yeah thank you all so much for letting us attend tonight yeah thank you I just wanted to say one thing before before you sign off I think is a fantastic project and uh I think something that the art commission has talked about um as well is supporting um other types of art performing arts and um I think with these types of projects um did I get muted good okay um that the unveiling of these projects and context um in terms of you know public art in an arbor um could potentially the unveiling of these projects could include uh Performing Arts um in the community that's all yeah that'd be awesome I love that idea Sophie did you have something else yeah I just had one one more quick word I'd like to add which is um the the projects were all described as being very colorful and you know I love colorful projects but I just like to put in a word for more monochrome stuff just for the balance so that it wouldn't have to be that everything was was colorful that you know the artists could suggest whether they want what kind of color scheme they do want to put in that place and you could take that into account in the judging the the Ben the value of that project yeah that's a very good point okay well again thank you all for giving us your time tonight we look forward to bringing you updates and um having you on our steering committees great have a nice even than thanks so much Bita yes uh H do we need to officially have a roll call and all of that and make sure we have a yes should start all over so you are you ready I'll I I did open the meeting but I will do a roll call right now if that's okay for everybody shouldn't our shouldn't our chair do that I'm so sorry it was like last time I was probably busy with another meeting just by Wednesday time conflict I'm so sorry I should catch up with so many things yeah just wanted probably was eager to continue so sorry about that yeah no no you are doing perfect job to Li on all these conversations about the cap or is public you know installations coming up I'm so excited like uh uh Sophie is talking about you know like we have the we have the talents David Zing we have mer we have all these local artists you know and and all these volunteers on our commission who could contribute all your time and efforts into making all these projects coming into fruit in the next two years I'm looking for I've already seen a big vibrant Downtown Arena colorful already you know a lots of murals maybe some of them was done by the tree town I didn't know that in particular but yeah let's go back to our roll call so and uh Vanita um Jamal is waiting to get l in oh yeah I was wondering yeah yeah where is Jamal yeah he's oh you're inal okay yeah now he is thank you okay let's call the meeting to the order first let's do the roll call and uh can we do one by one or should I call your name ven usually calls it I think yeah I can sure um so I have Alison Neil present and an arbor I have megie Peggy Leonard I can't hear you are you on I'm now I'm on present from Ann Arbor Sophie G muted you're muted Sophie presid in West Yus M Massachusetts marinetta Porter presid Ann Arbor Jamal Bufford president ianny Township about that Jamal no problem John patari president an arbor Sarah Fuller present in Chelsea bang Zing present in pitville Township in Michigan yes and we know that Mary is absent and we have council member Cynthia Harrison president and an arbor thank you we have a CL so now the approv of the agenda is that it f i move that that the agenda be approved as presented yeah I agree what do you think a motion I just made a motion I mov that and Sarah second it I think there a second there yes so then all in favor [Music] um see so now we have the agenda yeah I can go down the agenda if you like H is that okay yeah could you please share the screen maybe with the agenda will that me well I received one from Vita I I think we all received an email yeah we in the email yes I opened that but Bonita if you can I think after the agenda approval is the special presentation by the DDA which has already been done and then the approval of minutes that youve also shared yeah I I I don't have minutes but what I do have um are old minutes from our last meeting but I do have old business next on the agenda if you like I can move that along and and discuss that a little bit if You' like yes be great all right so the um flag project is moving forward we do have a organization that is printing all of our materials and what we need to do next is we have an ordinance that's going to city council I believe it's going on um I think it's sometime October the the second or the 7th it will be on the council agenda um and this will be coming from the city clerk's office um for budget and fiscal impact that will be shared with the public and we've got a legistar file that's attached um that should arrive um in the queue for the council members to to uh approve and this is just the last project of closing the the flag uh project down um invoices have been sent to um for payment we're paying for the funding for the by U through the bicentennial fund um and I did share at one point all of the items that we're ordering so we're ordering um parade Flags we're doing stickers we're also ordering um nine large flags and a new flag as well for City uh council chambers um folks seem to be really excited about it I'm very excited too um we're working with a local printer um who's done a really good job at providing us with um wonderful funding and um we hope to see in a couple of maybe three or four weeks some uh items actually displayed uh Sophie oh that's just what I was going to ask whether there will be flags flying um before the end of the year and if we know when but you're saying in a couple of weeks I I think but I'm saying by the end of the month by the end of the month we do have flying outside Council buildings or yes we're gonna have we're putting up new flags at all of our uh facilities okay great and I what I don't know is I think that um I can't remember the total cost but the flags that we have are um we do have larger ones that be will be ready for folks to purchase what the cost for those is I don't know that the city clerk has yet determined what the cost will be for the public to actually purchase one say for their home or some other property that they may own are the public schools likely to be flying a flag do we know or do they would they get a budget or be given them or how would it work if they wanted to I don't know about that i' have to I can ask that question I can ask that question I don't know if the public schools currently fly the city flag [Music] okay marionetta sorry oh I was I was just thinking as you U think about expanding maybe the merchandise have you guys talked about maybe sweat sweatshirts or tote bags things that people might carry with them be become kind of human display boards in a sense I love the logo and I think if it was a sweatshirt I'd buy it in a minute okay I can check with our city clerk on that um I did get some definite items from her but I can certainly ask those things as well especially as they're just now the printer is just now getting started so it might be a good idea if we need to add tote bags [Music] um that would be thank you for that and so what I have next again is the city flag that's talking about the stickers um um we had presentation we have a hand up oh oh oh hi there Sarah sorry oh no totally fine I just had a question about so how are these items sold is it on online I'm assuming is that part of the city's website to kind of have a e-commerce section I'd have to check with the city clerk this is really this is really her project this a city cler CL project um I'm just was an advocate for it and participated so I can certainly any other questions that you guys have um but I do know that everything will go to the clerk's office for purchase um I would assume also that they will probably do the same thing down in the customer service area um but my last information was that everything's going to go through the clerk's office okay very fantastic and if there's any questions about e-commerce or that type of retail I think um marinetta brought up a good point about merch uh everyone loves merch and this is an exciting year um and a great way to show off um how much we love our city and this new design so um that is my area of expertise if there are any questions or anything like that please feel feel free to um include me in those I also know there were already doing Bicentennial merch there were Shirts and Things available at the big launch thing um and underground printing was responsible for those so I think he was doing them printed on a as ordered basis so you don't waste a bunch of money printing a bunch of them so that might be something that would be just you know streamlined through what's already in place that makes sense Peggy John you can go first you had your hand up go real quick all I'm saying is that um you might recommend that the clerk uh contact Chicago the city of Chicago they they are using the city flag in a number of ways in fact the mayor uh when he first brought this forward to the art commission several years ago mentioned the fact that uh because Chicago is doing it so effectively so I mean businesses are using it it's it's on the dump trucks and the the garbage trucks it's it's everywhere so if they just you know touch base with Chicago see how Chicago's doing it and see what makes sense for an arbor go ahead Peggy sorry well I also was just wondering in terms of marketing and and getting the design out there we have a big election coming up in November I wondered if maybe there would be some stickers that could be passed out at the elections of the new City flag to sign we used to do the I vote ones but thought it might be fun to have the city design too just thow it up we do have City flag stickers good perfect that you maybe we'll pass out at the election yeah sites oh great great we have two election we'll have a second election site if everybody's aware that we're working on a a newer election site off of Miller Road at Miller and is that 94 or 23 um so most of our election um process now we'll move to that new location date that they're opening it I think they're doing some um changing in there now and doing some making some different areas more usable for the public um so if you haven't heard that keep an eye out from that we may have a whole new election center that residents will now have to go to thank you you're welcome um so my next one was just circling back with um Chris Wall he did the art um process and and he was looking for somebody to provide some assistance for the roundabout project that he talked about at our last meeting um I was going to put him in touch with Mary and I think that Mary had volunteered I just uh reach back out to folks to see if anybody's interested in helping him walk through some things regarding the Nixon road project and some of the things that he'd like to do there and just get some support um I believe this is his first time hi there Sophie yeah I I um I don't know what kind of help he needs but you know I might be able to help I don't know I'm not sure looking for all right appreciate that I I think he's just trying to understand our internal process I've given him the public art design process um as a as a as a an outline of how he should get started with everything um but I figured if he had some additional questions um he could actually talk with one of you guys so I appreciate that and for new business um um I had the it seems to it beginning to work on adding a new art tour for the historical markers um it sounds like we're gonna we have a art Tour on our website now this will be a second website for the historical markers only and we're going to try to work within a time frame of over the next two months um we'll have to do a little bit of redesigning because the current program will not allow us to just um install the others and the process will have to be different for the markers um John did you have a question a suggestion that when you're doing this public art tour with these uh historic markers you might suggest uh that uh uh the person get a hold of Chris Crockett she is the chair of the historical foundation and they're instrumental in uh in in getting all of these markers uh together and we're part of uh doing the tours and stuff like that so they have a lot of material available uh for uh for it that'd be great we we're gonna we were having some trouble with that um our intern Jesse was going to go out and take photos so if they have um there are there's a complete description at the public library on their website so you can you can pull down photographs and um uh so suggest that they they they educate themselves at that um uh public an arbor uh the an arbor public library site for and then they have kind of a walking tour so um I'm sure you could use a lot of material there and Chris Crockett I mean really connect with with her she's she's very active in this and I can send you contact information for her I have her y I have her information y thank you John I appreciate that and I don't know that I have anything else for myself I would ask if anybody has anything from your um committees any updates to share business owners development work group let me just go first and say there there hasn't been a uh a meeting of the design review board and there's some question of whether it will continue but there is a scheduled meeting I think in a week or so but uh if I could come back to that historic markers uh that um uh there's this uh A Jones School marker I don't know if you're familiar Vanita but it's and I don't know what Chris fro Frost needs to know but uh I've been asked because I'm on the historical Foundation as well to uh bring him up to speed what I know about public art and about these markers being public art and being on the public art inventory and that's what I'm going to present to him that uh as a result I don't know whether this body needs to accept that Jones marker as a donation of public art from the committee or historical Foundation whatever but uh I assume that would make it you know obviously you know public art and we've uh accepted it as public art but if you could help me before I meet with Chris frost I can help him so thank you you're welcome so can I try you maybe over the next couple of days oh yeah yeah just just email me whatever thank you you're welcome thank you um how about the capital Improvement project any updates no updates no update oh more group Outreach I think that's me y'all might have already talked about it at the last meeting that I missed but there is an Instagram page yes um I you I just created a Gmail to create the Instagram um Benita I don't know if there's an email we should be using but we do have a Gmail account now if needed yeah you're perfectly fine it said it was perfect and ready to go so it was perfectly fine appreciate you doing that no problem so and are you are you yourself in charge of that or or you kind I mean I'm cool with taking the responsibility if there's things that need to be posted but everybody has access to okay right okay remind us sorry just remind us Jamal what the um the name of it is the page so we can add it or whatever it is aa.

she unseen right e e e you good evening everyone all right if we're gonna laugh we gotta share Sor you're fine thank you all for being here this evening um if you are able actually real quick I'm still gonna welcome people thank you Matt for being here this evening we appreciate our fine officers and uh security guards being here each week with us or each month with us I do appreciate that now if you are able let's stand and have please I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all Stay The Pledge all good things all right moving on to item number three four I'm with the numbers tonight item number four is adoption of the agenda um I'll make a motion off the agenda anyone have anything to take off the agenda first perfect motion on the floor second I second all in favor I I thank you number five is call to the public do we have any cards for call to the public fantastic anyone else would like to speak did I fill it up the card just pluging along then item number six is our information and discussion items and before we get into all of them I Believe Miss wolf you would like to do a volunteer Recon yes you so um our transportation department has um had um not enough bus drivers and helpers so we asked our wonderful staff here at the district office if they would like to help and everybody volunteered um to help out and go to dispatch and we all learned very quickly how to be dispatchers and I really appreciate all of their hard work and dedication and um the and our stories and our laughter after afterwards um because some of us had never been dispatchers before and some had pretty much all of us yeah I think Charlie was the only one that's actually done that so I go like to go ahead and call forward Cheyenne and so Lor's here from the foundation the foundation sponsor the goodies in the bag the stickers in there for as brand ambassador so you have to read what's on the the thing though um cheyen base to over what does that mean because Heidi was a participant I was not because even though I'm in the district office in my pre-end office I don't ever know what's going on so Heidi now you have a retirement CL yes I do shell to model our together John Transco is my middle name jary thank you for being an amazing volunteer at transo Rhonda thank you for being helpful you Rhonda's not here these are all our district office staff who you never get to see too to dispatch only experiencea thanks for keeping our kids safe answer the Spanish phone calls cha you're amazing but we already knew that who knew the bus bar could be so fun have the best stories and Julie maybe I will get my CDC CDL Cindy since you didn't want one and tried to hide it you are appreciated too thank thank you guys that's amazing I think all of you know I work for the town and our our motto is one toown one team and I just want to say that if that's not the epitome of one district one team I don't know what is so good job they've been awesome and you guys could go home are you st say it's up to you so then we will go ahead and go with our human resources and health office update who is going first I'm going first because um Catherine's too um humorous and I can't follow that Al righty so um for our effective staff um on the next slide we have hiring qualified and CER High sorry hiring qualified certified and classified staff currently we have all of our teaching positions have been filled and I gave you some data on that where people are in process of getting their it's on the screen I didn't give you guys a copy sorry about that so um anyways so at territorial we have 29 two are in process of finishing and then um so out of a total of 31 teachers Del Rio 25 are in process that means that they're either finishing up their certificate right now maybe they need a couple take a couple of tests or they'll be done by the end of the year um and then at Heritage we have four and one we have is just a substitute we're trying to talk him into actually going into like teachers of tomorrow or getting his degree with NAU so we have somebody we're talking to a former a student of ours and then at the high school we have eight but four of them will probably be done by December because they're wrapping up with their process and the other two or three from that eight will be done by um June and then we have one that'll be one more year in her uh program but they all have us certificates and they um are in process sub certs um alternative teaching CS other items so it just gives you an idea where we're at most of them were ones that started last year it's not because we have a couple in there in process because ad is now updating their certification system and their reciprocity is kind of like on hold but they have teaching Sears from other states we're just waiting for that to be processed they're a little bit slow yeah Al righty and then we attended the uh 2024 presc Valley job fair Shelley and I and we've got one busid out of it which to us is a win because a lot of times we go and we do not get one person and we found that that particular um uh job fair we had a lot more people who were actually looking for jobs um and we're interested we talk to more people so we hopefully they'll be looking on our website for other positions um and then also we're just continuing to monit to Monitor and adjust um our classified positions always looking for a pair of professionals it seems like a bus drivers and that's our Focus that list there um because we also need class classified Subs of usay classified subs subs custodians maintenance one and coaching wrestling and softball we might have a softball coach so I'm really excited um and then um one of the things that we do in the um in the department is we make sure that we update all of the teachers um information applications called Tia and we go in and make sure everybody that we put in their fingerprints are up to date uh certification is up to date we do that annually and update again in um in January and with the years of service they have um next we have retention of staff and um and even though we do that everywhere we're we really focus on as a district recognizing our staff members monthly quarterly like tonight the ladies who've helped out in dispatch um we in order to be fair and consistent we've updated our cell phone and time clock procedures because we want to make sure that everybody's uh following the rules and also that we're not missing out on people that should have should be reimbursed for a cell phone because they're on call um and they need to be that to be done um we also attended online the asrs annual conference and that's helping us give upto-date information regarding retirement to our staff um and then the last two days I just came back from the Title Nine training Flagstaff I'll have more information on that but um just keeping us up to dat in compliance and able to protect our our staff our students within title L um and then we're always looking at um Shell's going to the um Arizona School Personnel Association conference in November we always get great ideas from that and we're constantly monitoring staff certification and ivp cards and updating just are and putting policies and procedures in place um to ensure consistency and fairness um and then on our updating our next slide updating salary schedules and job descriptions we last month we completed the human resources department I'm currently working on transportation and other the principles and assistant principles hopefully I'll have those two for you next month and then I'm kind of going like I'm trying to do two a month that's my goal sometimes that happens in Des but we want to make sure we're paying everybody fairly and consistent with um um salaries within this area and then the next slide updating job evaluations um we have the we did the director of Athletics evaluation and I'm working on the coaching and for um staff for HMS and cvhs that should be on next month's uh board meeting and then principles assistant principal should be on December so I'm trying to take a little chunk at a time and work my way through that with the help of Shelly and lastly any questions likey busy yes everybody's busy job thank you that means a lot and now I'll let the the um humorous person as funny as the health office can be yes um hello everybody mine's pretty pretty short this Catherine verer yeah I'm Katherine verer I'm the district nurse um so the biggest thing that we're trying to get going and today's day two is the Medicare Medicaid reimbursement um both Misty agular is the RN over at Territorial and myself we have a training in September on the system that we are going to use to submit billing basically where we document what we've done and so we both attended that training um and then for October we're going to be completing hearing screens um the state requires that we do hearing and vision screens um for every child receiving special services but they also require grade level screenings so we have most of the vision screenings done most of the um grade level Vision screenings done and then we need to get our hearing screenings done that's really important because obviously if a child is not hearing well then they are not learning well so that is one thing that the grade level screenings are for and then for the district so far as the the business office and there is it's a pool of Revenue that could be relatively sizable um based off of student population that is U Medicaid eligible they don't necessarily have to have special services as part of their individual education plan so that is brand new I will have to have another update for you because right now it's just an idea that we'll be doing that in October um the end of October we should have all of the grade levels done just so you guys know um every student in Chino Valley has um that's enrolled with us and public schools in Arizona first entry into school no matter what age they have to have a hearing and vision screen and then Kinder if that's not their first entry into school they have to have a hearing and vision screen and then first grade they get a hearing screen third grade they get hearing and vision fifth grade they get hearing and vision seventh grade they get hearing Envision ninth grade they get hearing so these kids get screened a lot and hopefully with all of that we rule out any kind of deficit so far as their Vision or hearing goes so that's that's a big job that we do in the health office and hopefully now that the state will allow us to submit Medicaid reimbursement for that we can bring some money back into the district so that that's on that um the other uh goal that I had at the beginning of the year was to increase our staff participation in wellness events so in September on September 18th we had a staff vaccination clinic uh and it was at every campus it's open to all staff and to no cost if you are a subscriber to the district insurance policy so I have data from them it's not broken down by person so I don't actually know how many staff members participated but they did administer 70 vaccinations total so there were five options that people could get um that's not going to represent individual people because some people could have gotten more than one shot but seven 70 vaccinations were administered uh flew the num mcole which is um really important for anybody the 55 plus range especially because in schools we tend to like to spread our respiratory viruses around um covid vaccination was offered it is not required and RSV is a brand new one and that's something that affects older individuals 65 plus but also newborns so this is a respiratory virus that this is a brand new vaccination that I'm very happy about because because it is in the same vein as the other upper respiratory tract infections that there are certain demographics that this can be life-threatening and infants so if you are vaccinated then infants aren't going to get it but now we can actually vaccinate infants and then the older population and then um shingles and MMR and since we have five confirmed cases of measles in Arizona two of one of them was here in yape County um being able to offer the MMR that's meel mons rubella to our staff again respiratory viruses we love to share them especially in classrooms um with Littles and so being able to offer that to our staff members I'm hoping that we have fewer illnesses that's the whole point of that so those are my two things um any questions quick question when you talked about the Medicaid reimbursement is that to our staff who administers those tests or to the parents of the children who you know get test you know hearing and vision testing so the funds actually come back to the school so it comes to the district it's um I work for the district if I do a service and I and the Medicaid reimbursement it comes back to my employer yeah so so those monies will go to John Livingston not personally John livon retirement fund yes okay well that's good so we actually are getting reimbursed for the time we are spending doing these testing in in other words correct that's that's the goal like I said um it started this quarter so yesterday was the first day we could start submitting reimbursements so we haven't recouped any money yet but that's what we're hoping will happen it applies to therapies and other things as well and our rough estimate was that it could bring uh about a quarter of a million dollars into the district annually and the reason I focused on hearing screens was because there's lots of things that happen with individual students and there's a lot of things that happen in the world of special services but hearing and vision screens happen to so many children in the general population that if this works out how we have planned because hasn't actually happened yet but if it works out how we have planned this is a a significant source of revenue for the district as long as it's an a registered nurse performing the screening so you don't have to be a nurse to perform the screening but you have to be a registered nurse to be able to build for the screening we've had a significant uptick in Special Services related therapies and testing um occupational therapy for example J $64,000 and because we have so many students special needs students who require OT this is a way for us to help recoup some of those costs our special ed portion of the budget consumed about $1.4 million in spending last year this is a way to help offset that so I I cannot say enough good things so Christina who's sitting out there who was a great dispatcher and who also does our food service ordering stuff um and our food service program half of her job is to do the a lot of the computer interface with reporting and billing to help get the money to get the money flowing into the district so it's a way to help us cover um increased costs so so that you guys know um I personally did over 1,400 hearing screens last year and that's pretty average I mean that's that's that's how many students the state requires that we screen not the number but the grade levels so once you get through all those grade level screenings it's about 1,400 students students give her KCK but that's annually because as kiddos come up they get screened I think I didn't realize the importance of screening to be completely honest and then when my oldest boy we didn't know couldn't see out of one of his eyes till he was in school and they caught it and we went in and got it you know fixed right away because he had to like wear a patch and stuff but I never even knew because he just compensated never complain about it but if it wasn't for the school test testing for it we wouldn't have know and that's why these programs are are that's why legislators work hard to get these programs to be so robust because kids are very good at just making do with what they've got and so in in the school setting we're not diagnosing by any means we are just screening so it it lets parents know hey there's something that's not working well enough that it could impact what's happening in the classroom and then I I wanted just thinking about that um I am part of the National Association of School nurses and they partner with BP who's actually our vision insurance provider but because of that Association I get vouchers every year I I can have up to 25 vouchers and it covers an exam and and then any prescription that would be necessary for kiddos at no cost to the family um and it's good for a year so so that's again with our demographic having a lot of kiddos that qualified for Medicaid and that's just one more thing that we can do and and with hearing we have the um co-op with asdb they actually have an audiologist will come in and do full evaluations so Chino and and the schools in Arizona have a pretty good setup on getting kids screened and then supporting the families to get the evaluations they need to come up with a diagnosis to get treatment he's great at her job by the way guess that see great anything else perfect thank you Catherine thank you all right item Six B is our superintendent report Miss Tas okay there were what I did this month since it was a really short month in between board meetings um I asked everybody instead of filling out their forms just to shoot me an email with some great stuff that's going on maybe things they're still working on and I just put it in a long thing for you and instead of having him do the chart because it was such a short month and we are missing administrators this evening because we have um conferences going on in some of the schools so that's why it's kind of thin in the room tonight too with admins so um couple things I wanted to highlight is um the thing that we started with tonight recognizing brand ambassadors and you know the things the important tenants that we identified on that May 29th work day that we have um schools that are safe for students and staff that we work together and that students leave Chino Valley Unified School District prepared to meet the future whether it's Workforce or continued education so um I have been asking folk to nominate people who they think represent the brand and we have been pushing those out through social media so Kevin shonfeld was the very first one and Debbie golden had nominated him a fellow employee his um photo appeared then Our IT staff was the next round um we didn't take pictures tonight because the ladies would have been like don't you dare put my picture on social media so but I might think some other maybe they're badge photos that so anyway um that's we're doing that to really recognize that promote the schools and I wanted to tell you something I had a Community member stop me today and say there is a huge difference in Chino Valley Unified School District and everybody's talking about it and this is someone who's a business person in our community and I was I was like really he said yes and especially the stuff they're seeing on social media traffic has been great it's been positive seeing what we're doing he said it's really made people feel positive about the district so I thought that was kind of cool so um the other thing I wanted to point out is that our staff of the quarter we're still doing that recognition Donna from jeds is sponsoring that and one of the the group that I really want to point out they're from Brandy school um two of our autism program employes were nominated for employee of the quarter a teacher and a parpro and that was Holly defus and Remington Weatherhead and they were both just shocked to be nominated and they are knocking it out of the park in that program I would say you could come visit it but don't because when we go in the room and they it's you know it's like triggering for the kids they you know it upsets the beautiful balance in there at Del Rio is Kylie Gomez Who's an extended resource teacher and Kier Moody who's one of our English language learner teachers um at Heritage Middle School it's Kim range who is language arts teacher and our athletic director at Heritage Raymond agular who is our new Behavior coach there Riley Davidson who's one of Brian's employees and CTE she supports students with all of the online component with their CTE classes and um registration with the college and all that stuff um and then Jenny Ginger the our band director and our district employee right there was Christina she is like the trifecta of awards tonight um we are so proud of these people it really has been wonderful um academic accomplishment that Julie submitted that I would like to highlight is that our Spanish speaking parent nights have been a success this evening is um you know in partnership with Chino Valley Education Foundation we are offering English as a second language class classes for our Spanish-speaking parents Mike's wife Wendy and mega former Chino Valley teacher are leading that we had 13 pre-registrations going into tonight's info night so we are providing child care and the foundation is paying for the materials and the snacks and the time for the ladies who are preparing it so I wanted to point that out that they're they are of and running with that this evening um Ed Moody even though he's not here tonight I think he really made sure he got the message to you Mike there's a he reported lots of um data from their um quarterly benchmarks in here and Del Rio is showing um growth across the board which is pretty exciting so that's all in here I did notice that it's great but there's but there is something that I gotta point out point it out especially because that's not here really exct let's look under fourth grade second item I think that's math ma atically impossible but 55% have 55% have made growth yeah I don't know what that is academic 70 yeah up from 70 well right yeah up from 70 new M I miss you know we'll give them a bad time for you exactly thank you thank you Heritage reported um that uh Mrs GB and the Heritage ARS teacher they are consistently submitting rigorous lesson plans sharing their knowledge with the staff and department and her weekly lessons were used by the principal as an example for how to implement all the strategies they learned out the training so Heritage is really working really really working hard on their academic rigor this year at Chino Valley High School I wanted to point out that Eric rednick who is our educational technology coach and IT person from Terr tutal he did a training at the high school about all the ways to maximize using their smart technology in the classroom and our instructional coach there is doing monthly mini lessons as well so they are hitting PD every single month really trying to to knock that out of the park at um in our special ed Department um one thing that Nicole did not report but she shared with me is that we have had um a significant spike in very high needs students Randy can attest to that a lot of them are at our school last month or two months ago last month you guys approved adding that additional teacher for our autism program and how many at Brandy School alone how many students in our two classroom program 14 last year we had six yeah so I wanted to also say in current technical Ed Brian presented that the teachers are using their pacing guides and their scope and sequence to help them keep track of the standards they're accomplishing with their kids in it um we have rolled to our um Mass Cisco dual Duo deployment so if you're having trouble getting into your District email or anything um Larry Fulmer will work with you on the new two-factor authentication I know some of you maybe have a done that with him yet so he'll help you with that and then Chris is here not only did he have the light bulbs in her in place so we can see today without the Romantic lighting um that we've gone to T8 fluorescent we've removed them all at the parking lot at the high school and replaced them with the LED so that's a cost savings and they are much brighter I can almost see them from my house truthfully and he has submitted rebates to APS for 10 hbac unit so far right he is knocking out of the park with the rebates so far over 30,000 is that I think what we've asked for so far 30,000 come from back from uh HMS right now the 10 I just submitted right um for this building the band and sports and the two on the back of uh the high school uh gym so he's doing a great job trying to help us recoup some of those costs one of the questions I've been asked um a lady from Channel 15 called and asked do do we think that it's going to cost us a lot more money now because we have HVAC and I'll use her words and global warming and I was like I don't know we don't know yet right because we're only like 45% of the way done with the project and we run it most in like August this year September why it's so hot I have no idea and then April and May so yes we'll have an up tick in cost Chris applying for the rebates will help offset some of that but right now John I don't think we have good data on increased APS bills yet it's a little murky we do see the high school gym the East gym has had a slight increase that's the only one that we've been able to I really like just year over years see a little increase but we don't think we're going to go over there and click the lights here I I did do a report on May for the past the first year May at Del Rio I did a report for the swamp coolers I did for May with the AC units and I'm waiting for this next year because the economizers will be fully affected so I'll have the three years seeing what the difference is but from the swamp cooler and the first May and then the second May with the AC units actually went up 3,000 so but with the economizers that should drop that down tremendously we I had to show APS HMS to get that 30,000 we did a a site visit there um and it was 12:00 in the afternoon on a Friday um not one AC unit was running because we're running the ecomize at night when it's 50 degrees outside I'm pulling that cold air in subcooling the building and not one AC unit was running during the day so it is helping so this should be a huge difference come to the next build so is it increasing the it's n the whole story is yet to be told so you heard Katherine's good update about the myips billing and about her second RN um we for transpo we are doing classroom training with a new driver yay so we will be minimally staffed but fully staffed in transpo the Monday after break which is why we all think that we're not going back to being dispatching after break so did a great job oh no it was hysterical when I'm like transp this is Cindy they're like wait what I thought I dialed I'm like you did so um in HR I wrote this she found a bus driver she really found a bus Aid and the Title Nine training we can't say enough good about that because it's required now someone has to be trained and then we're GNA take a little field trip in just a second um we received a large emergency response trailer from Finley Toyota that was a 100% donation and starting next week they're going to be disbanding the inside of it to in um make sure it's insulated so we can get um a roof unit on there for heating and cooling probably just cooling um we'll be working on getting the generator for it we're in the process of gathering all of the input from administrators from our district safety consultant about all the kinds of things that should be in the trailer and then Matt Santos is helping us work with Dignity Health to um hopefully they'll pay for a new wrap for the trailer we how we're it's a good thing we're not quite approved yet because we can't figure out what we want to put on it um but it it's for two things if we have an emergency on a campus that we could pull it to that other campus and have everything we need in it to respond to an emergency situation whether we're um you know having parents come because we have like a water man broke or you know something like that or whether we need to evacuate students and have an off-campus off-site reunification everything would be in there that we need to run that effectively or Mike would remember he was in the district at the time second to last day of school in 2008 we had uh three of our buses had an accident with each other and a vehicle at 4 North and 89 and it was at highway speed in those days 65 and the first bus hit a truck second bus hit the first bus third bus hit the second bus and one thing we really learned that day was without a way to mobilize District emergency resources people were rushing the scene they were taking their kids we didn't know who'd been on what bus we didn't know who had injuries that needed to be transported the helicopter was coming in for students and one of our drivers and it was chaotic and we couldn't manage the scene effectively and so we've learned lots of things since then but we'll be working with um the administrative team and our safety consultant to make sure the things are in there that we need Chris has the vehicle they'll get the call they'll hook up and go where we need to go and I want to say Miss Julie Bryce you went with me to get the trailer and and I loved it and it was very exciting because is something that Brandy and no wait it gets better and and what I cried yes she did I thought you were gonna say she got to drive it oh no no no she cried I was it was so nice to finally see something come and be available for us something that we have dreamt about on the sa for years so so is that what we see we're going out there Mike and we're gonna go look at it we're just GNA take a minute so I just want to remind you a couple things safety wise on October 22nd we are having a Safety Town Hall at Heritage Middle School at six o'clock and that is to just introduce the community imp parents to all of the things that mean safety to schools because it's everything from food served at the right temperature to air quality which Chris works on to emergency responses to campus per so we're going to to have our first town hall and then um each probably for about three months we'll do a monthly session that's more in depth on certain things like reunification downloading the emergency app for if you have to come and pick up your kid what would you do and how do you use the app things like that so we have we're starting that one the first one is um the 22nd and we'll do a soft post for that in case you guys decide you'd like to come that'll will be in the library at Heritage um I want to in red big letters I wrote in here this is very celebratory every campus in the district has had 94% or higher attendance since the first day of school wonderful that's so good so that is really good and then I just want to remind you that first quarter comes to an end um tomorrow and schools will be on a much deserved Hiatus for a week it's hard to believe it's gone by Chris you have the keys shall we go take a look oh sorry before we do that yes if I can Madam president yes please Daniels takes the responsibility of celebrating everyone else in the district who gets the responsibility of celebrating her we do yes so I would like to make a point bring out uh something in a report that I wonder if anybody else caught on the first page right at the bottom HMS has filled all teaching positions I will be arranging my schedule to work with the new hires to help them be successful in the classroom so is that does that imply that you are acting as a coach that was Caitlyn writing that not me that was me so let's give credit credit is jie jie who's who's the ey it's Julie I will be so let's academics I have the okay very good got it all right you are still the leader of let's go look at the trailer that's more fun go e e e we bringing the trailer over here no [Laughter] problem work on the Facebook page we all camera sitting table so do you have any questions about stuff from the report other than me giving credit for stuff I didn't do so happy you know good news all good stuff so cool good stuff excited about that free trailer all right then moving on to item 61 Financial reports Mr Livingston great president members of the board Administration and staff just a quick look at the the month ended September 30th 2024 uh we could say that it's 25% of the fiscal year gone that would be about right you have a little bit of a lighter month in July so it's not a true measor of a fully loaded month for expenses but we come in right at 22% of our budget spent in the first quarter 4.2 million spent on a budget of 193 million in our operating fund Capital fund a little bit of history on our Capital fund last year Capital fund was 2.3 million actually 2, 330,000 we spent 1.4 million on that this year everything pretty well fell in half for Capital now the budget's not 2.3 R 1.1 our goal is to come in just under 700,000 can just just a little tight for different reasons joh is that because transfer am to M last year did transfer some back last year and that's why in the 24 year our M budget did hit 20 million for three years we did Faithfully transferred budget capacity and cash from M budget over to our Capital fund to kind of just leave it there and then when we knew that all the federal programs were leaving all the co money was gone then may would transfer that back and then the folks that get paid in Co would have kind of a soft Landing yes we did that and now those days are are kind of over now so now it's capital budget went down from 2.3 million to 1.1 this would be more normal going forward yeah in fact the capital budget going forward may live off of very little carryover from one year to the next and then just take the new money that comes in and stay with it for years the district didn't have more than 300,000 in capital because it wasn't fully funded there was a formula that said we could fund it to this level and it never got so Capital really really so uh so great question two two funds that are in uh in good shape you could say U our 010 fund that's our classroom site fund that was used three different funds now it's just one One Fund we have a budget of 1.8 million and there uh first quarter we we pay these every quarter 337,000 spent first quarter um that's a little bit less than a quarter of our our budget and our 691 fund is getting off to a strong start that's our fund that's putting H back on all the buildings and Progressive Roofing is also doing what they call roof rehabilitation in addition to following the installation of these two and three and five and 10 and does anyone know how big the air conditioning units are in the the East gym over here in the high school aren't they 25 ton units yeah two 25 tons two 25 ton units on the East gym um after they put those penetrations in another company Progressive Roofing comes along and they seal all those or they're supposed to seal all those penetrations so there's been no water in the East G since those were put on right well those are actually on the side it was the it was the wall and the so there's been there's been no water so that's that's good so in addition to the 21 million in funding for the roof units we've got another five million in funding from the state to seal all those penetrations and make sure those are so here to date we spent 780,000 so far on those projects that are ongoing and that's a overall cash we started the fiscal year with 6.6 million now we're down to 4.4 million overall ta all funds but we know have to wait until usually the the middle to the end of of November before those fall property taxes post and so that's a quick look at theature budgets main budget funds up till the end of September any questions if's not um about our Student Activity fund report great Student Activity we we do have great expectations for the new funds were added at Heritage Middle School they're they're working on different fundraisers and different Student Activity events at some point I'm G to have Mill our principal come and make a report on what all those big plans are in the meantime in the meantime current cash is 135,000 in all the Student Activities funds combined and we just make sure they're safe and predictable and deposited and secure and that's that's really all I have to share with those they're very active our student council advisor thank you all right next we have our agend our consent agenda so without seeing anything withdrawn um if we could have a motion to approve tonight's consent agenda I'll approve tonight's consent agenda good talk thank you Mara in a second second thanks Peter all in favor I item 8 a is our one I okay item 8 a Personnel report so um we have nine classified changes for this month um One new classified position or one new classified um person um we 14 coaches one certified change and two new classified subs and 76 time sheets no supplement no what no supplement tonight oh I'm sorry I just got into Town's been in Flagstaff at training till like 4:45 today um so um anyways also that includes the Personnel report um any questions for some reason the position numbers and not down on the left hand side on this one so I don't have any questions but if anybody had a question particular person yes I will we need to make the copies real quick oh they didn't get supp no the supplement the suppl today we'll just pause them minut I thought you were talking about no I was talking about the suppl I'm apologize and I'll make sure that the numbers are not there there I don't have any questions I just said I appreciate numbers stor missing my numbers sorry well it gives us time to look over go around tell us what supplements shared upot thanks Julie wel you this one has numbers oh so we well now we can talk about people we talk about numbers you ask for it and all of a sudden they're here just like that like magic so on number four with the supplement we did seek damages for the resignation y any other comments questions or concerns on tonight's Personnel report and supplement all right seeing none I will entertain a motion to approve tonight's Personnel Report with supplement I move to approve tonight's um Personnel Report with supplement fantastic in a second please I'll second thank you Peter all in favor I I item 8 B ESI substitute pay rate change for retired teachers t team or which would for Miss so what we're doing is that we're um we're really wanting to make sure that we have enough um substitute teachers through our ESI program that U have experience and if they have that experience that a lot of them do not want to take the summer class because they taught for 25 years 30 years and you know um they want a sub and we get good reports on Subs that usually have who have retired so um we're what we're asking for is that we get to pay those subs $10 more a day just as if they had taken the class during the summer so if they take the if they take if they're a sub and they take the class during the summer they get $10 more but that doesn't necessarily mean they've ever been in a classroom um so we want to take care of those retirees who want to set for us and um and give them that additional $10 because of their experience so ask a question it's for retirees only what if you have someone from say oh any any retired former teacher it can be former teacher period but not necessarily substitute somewh else yeah right they they talk there there anybody who um we can see the that the ASI can see in their resume and their checking because they do all the background checks can um see that they have actually taught and that they are retiring from a teaching career so they want to be consistent because I asked for one particular sub and they said well what you have to do for one you really should do for the other which I think is fair absolutely so yeah so they if even if it's somebody who's taught out of state okay when they do their background check and find out that they taught for 25 years and but they want to sub here um they moved out here we're happy to have them so so I understand I fact that it says CD retirees that should be stru stricken yes make sure the record is Cle well the CB USD retiree pay rate that's what we're calling it our pay rate for retirees but not necessarily I know it's confusing because we have they're going to put it out for that if you come to CB USD and you're a former teacher you're retired you will get $10 I just want to make sure the record is correct make the motion as any retired professional educator I yeah yeah and the class of they could take during the summer is like classroom management you know things like that so which hopefully they long Master Okay I'm going through another one do they have to be a retired teacher or can they just be a teacher that resigned in another district and chose to move to Chino Valley with their husband as they teaching experience I don't know thr it if they have teaching experience yeah we want I don't want to discourage anyone just by discourage either yeah no if they're if they taught before it just typically they're we get retired but if they want to we want them to come here because we they know the nuances of being in a classroom and some and make some of the mistakes that some people who have don't have that experience fantastic yeah that makes sense thank you questions no I think this is a great idea because I know what it's like to be a retired teacher gentlemen any questions all right again see none will entertain a motion to approve item 8 B I guess is I ask a question on motion very I move that we approve approval of the increasing ESI substitute PID for retired teachers by $10 a day second all in favor by all right item 9 a approval of annual Financial reports for fiscal year 2324 Mr very well so there's actually there's actually five reports the biggest one you're never going to see it's the school by school comparison if you go in Microsoft Excel from upper left corner cell A1 cell address A1 down to AJ 200 you're going to get like 40 time 200 you're going to get 880,000 these cells so I think it's even further than that so I don't but I have to upload it to the department it just Compares six in fact it even compares SCH generated revenues to the expenditures for school it's really in depth and it takes 25 hours to do it right because there's Excel formulas auditor general Mak but the four that I'd like to highlight not not that school by school one I upload it tonight and they know that we've done it but the four that you have in your packet I like to just highlight a little bit so if you go to the the first page if you want to just kind of go one by one here for a minute uh first page I'd like to just call out some overall numbers so the M budget 20 million last year and our expenses you can see the lower right corner 18.

okay can you hear me yes I put headphones in so that the whole office didn't have to hear okay good do you do you hear us okay I do hear you fine okay all right let's Mrs Le here Mrs alen here Mr MCG Mr no calls to the public as of yet anybody on the call [Music] no all right so the next one is to go right to theual final report you haveed maimum for rep do we have to approve the agenda yeah we still need to approve the agenda make [Music] okay I don't know the I know could you hear all that okay no okay good morning today is Wednesday October please stand for okay I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one na under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all today for lunch is ham and cheese sandwich chicken wings carrot Sal sticks oranges and a variety of milk today is also a full day I'm trying to disconnect rotini and meat sauce we have a few announcements girls volleyball players if you have not done so already you need to make sure that you turn in your as soon as possible that done by tomorrow if you haven't so already before we head out to also if you want to order a shirt already don't forget to turn in your order form if you don't know where your order form is your parents will sent copies of the order forms on the weekly C family news and we'll send it out again tomorrow all right now on for announcements Builders Club will have a general meeting today and it is Club will be selling $1 ice cream and cookies tomorrow during all Lunes all Builders CL members on THS which is tomorrow please be to arrive campus a message from Mrs a our middle school science teacher cooking club for middle school students will be starting on Thursday after fall break who will be learning how to make lots of things from FAL to please see Mrs a interested Mrs don't forget that our literacy and art is quickly approaching it will be on Thursday October 17th there's exciting activities in reading and writing plan for you and your families and the class with the most attended to win a ro bear Float On we're looking forward to seeing you all there just a reminder that there are new bus routes parents were send information onone so just you know will not until the Monday is Monday out reminders to the that just a reminder that our student handbook pleas that you are not allowed to bring from [Music] home there will be a foot meeting for all please he was his house he's been payal taxes but his again remember uniform we have [Music] message 50 families into our boundaries and so oh my god well we don't that's the mystery we don't know yet so we're trying to figure out um so the county they had sent out all of the voter pamphlets reflecting saita and now they're having to resend all these voter pamphlets to that reflect Continental because these are 750 families that wouldn't have had our override on their it because they have never been part of continental and they should have been but they've been are it's Canoa it's like south of Canoa and it's the Montana Vista area so um so the county is going to draft a letter because people are going to get a new voter ballot plus they're going to get a new voter card and they're we have to explain why they're going to be part of Continental highway so well some of these there was when they did the remapping some of them are Catalina so you can see where they went from um District 30 which is sa to 39 which is us so in that whole pile I think there were 900 and some families affected but 750 of them are ours the others were some in veale some in Catal so they are going to be yeah so it opened up a huge T of worms they're trying to deal with the election fix first and then we have to so these are 750 extra families when we talk about campusing for the override that we need to reach and these are parents who possibly would want to come to Continental now that they know that they're in Continental District so the visual there's the where is the the map oh here so there's the map what it used to be what it is now so I yes so I will forward you the email but I didn't want to send you the email without having a conversation because you'll wonder what what's going on okay so you'll be able to see the map that shows what the boundary used to be what it is now so now they're trying to clean up the attendance area because I don't know how the roads how they're going to end up splitting because even though they're Continental District when they look at the attendance area it might still will it look like they're part of of still so once once the attendance part is cleaned up when they go they like log into the system it'll just say Continental because as of right now it still says suppor it says so free some the middle and some the high this big chunk right here is that's yes this is all my I can out here yes but not a whole L here this is all right right most part correct so that's where we are another thing is um and I'll bring it up at our next board meeting but I would like special permission to move our December 10th board meeting which is that Tuesday um and I don't know if we can move it to Monday the 9th so yeah that are you okay with that Drew are you okay with that I'm good with it okay I'm good okay perfect so we'll um propose that the next meeting to officially do we have to vote to move it no no we'll just okay so we'll just plan for it to be Monday December 9th okay thank you and we will see you all soon I'll keep you updated we do have groups of people the Palm cards for the override are being printed and we're going to walk the neighborhoods Di's sending out a calendar in the evenings during the week we figure weekends people are busy and gone so hopefully you could join us at a couple of the of the little rallies but we'll let you know we'll give you the information okay okay thank you thank you okay perfect all right thank youe meeting adour thank you

e e e continued issue we are having at our schools I appreciate the solutions based approach and for them um to be willing to spend their personal time to be part of this solution I appreciate Mr Man dedicating time to prioritizing this problem and putting time and resources to find a solution to the problem so um you know we don't know anything about it we can't um do anything about it and and I'm not happy that we're having this issue but I'm happy that we are working now together as parents and staff to try and find a solution um and then I'm also going to read what I read last week about uh read better be better because um my audio was not turned on we didn't have audio for the first part of the meeting and I just wanted to make sure which is unintentional I'm quite sure um just a technical issue but I think it's important that our community understands some of the challenges we face with budget and resources when it comes to partnering with Community Partners you know we can't do everything um and and it's you know big decisions on who we do partner with because of the the resources um and budget constraints that we have so recently I learned that we did not renew our contract with read better be better which I believe has been a great partner they have um been at almost all of our schools since the pandemic most recently offering a 90-minute after school program two times per week for Kinder and first grade and for second and third grade they have older student leaders from the same campus reading to the younger grades they've also partnered with us on some summer school offerings I know we're losing Esser funds so we can no no longer pay for it that way however read better be better is able to fundraise for this program a lot of other districts are in the same boat I also know we're concerned that maybe we're not seeing results with this program now this is challenging read better B brother better says districts all over the are all over the place on what benchmarks they are using but read better be better does have hard data showing that this program is making a difference although they have only been with us since the pandemic um read better be better has been using the same tool Dibbles and days testing for a decade so they have a decade of data showing that the reader kids the read better be better kids are outperforming the third grade control group of kids also one of the challenges is that there may not always be the right kids in the program because families opt in um we may not be capturing all the students who could benefit I know another challenge is having lost some of the coaching staff as sometimes they were the leaz on for this program when discussing with Mr Man he had a great idea that if there's a way to get it back maybe the reading interventionist could be involved I know that read better be better does not want to be a burden on schools and they are really eager to work hard so that their program is not creating more work for Craton staff so I really want us to be careful here as we look at this through an sofg lens we we may not be seeing results yet in our standardized test results but our kids are benefiting from this this is reading comprehension it's certainly one of our goals we know that a lot of our students are not being read to at home for variety of reasons and that's very a very important part of learning to read I hate to take this opportunity from them I know that Mr man's going to reach out to the CEO and see if some solutions can be found I also know that we're trying to lessen the amount of programs and systems that are not efficient or necessary anymore and that is important work and it's good work um there's a lot of redundancy in the system um and I appreciate Mr Man working hard to get this cleaned up um and we are facing budgetary challenges but I think this would be a heartbreaking opportunity to lose and it is worth making sure we take a second look finally read better be better provides their literacy kits to their readers in Spanish and English with tools to help parents with reading at home even if they're only monolingual Spanish speakers at home they also offer Community Family literacy fairs that we could do at the Family Resource Center these are bilingual as well so this is something we could be doing now while while we don't have the program thank you thank you Miss MC cheffrey Miss SS thank you everyone for being here tonight um I just want to say I really enjoyed U Community Council um last when was it Thursday last Thursday it seems like we've been together a lot lately um and we were together on Saturday which um also went together it went very well and then we were together again last night um LK is a beautiful school I was so excited to uh be there last night and finally get to tour it um and I'm really excited for the kids and uh thanks to the staff and everybody that made that possible last night um I wish it hadn't have been like 2 million degrees but um we made through I think everybody's done with a heat so thank you thank you Miss SS Miss Gibson mle um first I just want to say that I appreciate anytime community members come and and share opinions concerns facts um anything that's going on I um was obviously troubled to hear some of the things and many of the things that we heard at the last meeting and I'm hearing updates on what's being followed through would like to continue to hear those and I'm hoping to get my conversations going on behind the scenes um I'm certainly accessible in many ways even when I'm not physically accessible a lot of the time so um I I'm just looking forward to frequent and adequate updates regarding the situations that we've um heard about additionally um we currently still have an advisory committee meeting uh scheduled for October 17th um of course we'll provide any information um if if that has to change uh one of our uh most valued and important Comm uh committee members we lost uh him this past week Mr Alan hirs and I just want to you know give my condolences to his family I I doubt they're watching the Schoolboard meeting but also his friends in this District um I got to know Allan just working on the committee with him and I thought he was a really talented guy funny um really fun to be around a pleasure and super knowledgeable and competent and an expert in his area of expertise which is in special ed and we really couldn't have done a lot of the work we did on on policy work without him um and so he'll definitely be missed I I can't imagine you know what friends and family are going through and so I'm really sorry and I hope that you're able to find some comfort in each other and your memories of Allan at this time so um just really appreciative of all the work that he helped us with and all of the service that he gave to our district to our kids to our families and our community so thank you thank you Miss Gibson mlan um just a cute uh quick updates yes with what she's saying I share the same sentiment and I'm still sorry for everything that everyone's going through I know it's a hard process and it's especially the way that we found out so I'm sending all my love and we are big Believers in mental health in this district and if anybody needs resources time time whatever it is that you guys need um I'm sure that our administrators and everybody understands um how coping looks for different people um I'm also really excited yesterday for the Red Ribbon cutting it was an amazing time and it was beautiful to see larc C Kennedy's um kids grandkids family members there um we decided you know when the school was getting rebuilt there was a conversation about renaming the school people get excited and they want to rename everything and do all these things and I will say um you know we as a governing board decided to do a little bit of research on who Larry C Kennedy was and he was a beautiful amazing individual in a gem in our district um you know he had a purple heart he fought in World War II and he dedicated his time to being an educator instead of continuing that and not only that but we got to hear Yesterday how much he loved outdoor spaces and back in the 1940s when he taught and was the principal before it was larcy Kennedy when it was LaFayette that was one the strongholds that he believed in this community to have Gardens to have these things so to actually sit on this board and get to know the his history and then talk about what an outdoor space learning school it just brought everything a little bit together and it was just a heart warming um moment how everything's just the Synergy and everything worked out together yesterday that was so amazing um obviously Community Council I'm so appreciative that the community shows up to these meetings and we work hand inand to hear their concerns back and forth and then Saturday we had a um about a six- hour study session in this room and we were talking about our progress monitoring that you guys will get to see today and it's really exciting because we finally have data we have understanding of the tools that are being used to track the data and I can't wait for you guys to see the meeting today um and lastly I know that um I always love seeing parents and students here and I'm just hope it's for the right reasons and if you guys do come and speak to us even though we can't directly respond just know that we are listening and there's other ways that we can show how we listen and support so thank you with that we turn it over to 3B which is the superintendent report thank you very much Madam president um kind of would would like to start by building off of uh your comments and uh Miss giip some McLean's comment um it it was very very unexpected when we found out that Mr hirs um had passed away um not not yesterday but a week ago Monday and so um it was like the type of situation you'd never want to have have happened fairly young person and so it really was pretty shocking and he was very much not only a big part of our Special Education team he was a big part of our team in general um really one of those people that would always step into the breach when there was a need um particularly if that need had to do with a children's or child's needs not being met um and I you know had the opportunity to chat with him on everything from 504 needs that students had to you know things that the special education department needed in order to their roles more effectively um and he just was always very student focused on the committee um that Mr mlan referenced You Know Not only was he really one of the workhorses of that team um but he he freequently brought us back to the student lens so we we even had a student on the committee and you know very often it was Allen who would prompt the student for their opinion because he was already seeing it know through the impact that it would have on kids and um and he really had a desire for the things that we did in this District to to be structured around restorative practices and not be punitive so um I that spirit will live on in the work that we do um I can't imagine um we we had an opportunity today unfortunately there were some technical challenges but his his funeral service was today um in Nevada and so um we were trying to stream it to watch it and it's a little choppy but um there was one thing that was shared at that service that I kind of like to share this evening which was that um even even though he's no longer with us um he really lives on in the impact that he's had on each of us and I I truly believe that to be true because um one of the things that they said is you know every once in a while you'll think oh this Situation's occurring what would Allen have given as his advice and I think the advice he's given over the years really um will continue to act as a true north guidance for us as we um continue to work not only on the policy work but as we work to try to improve things for the student in our district so um the other um thing from the Kennedy ribbon cutting um I you're right it was like an insane temperature out there and um you know one of the things I've learned to spending three hours at a you know 111 plus degrees in a wool suit is not like the ideal circumstance to have so I missed a bunch of people that I really wanted to give some credit to on that meeting but there's one in particular that I'd like to call out at tonight's board meeting because um shant Shantel cornette was actually the person who donated the slab for the basketball court the sport court that we were all on for the ribbon cutting and um there's a number of reasons why that's a really important thing um we were at that at the school doing a tour with kids Congress um last Friday and one of the things I shared with the kids was that they literally were standing on top of science happening at their school because in inside that slab there are a number of sensors the the reason that Miss cornette was able to donate the slab is she's working on her doctoral distributation on the curing of concrete in Arizona because there is absolutely no research related to concrete curing in Arizona and for years we've been using um the Texas standards even though we don't live in Texas and um one of the things she shared with me at the ribbon cutting is that one of her hopes is there is a possibility based on this data coming back that moving forward construction firms will be able to use less Steel in their concrete slab design which actually would help with the sustainability of construction and and building you know within our state so there's you know the school has a sustainability Focus the science that's happening their lens itself towards sustainability and we are very fortunate she's not only a Community member and operates a business within our community but she is a PhD student um there are not a lot of women Engineers there are not particularly not a lot lot of women uh phds in engineering which she will soon be and she um has been kind enough to also offer to us to be willing to come to our schools to speak to our students and of course one of the things we've talked about a lot is in all areas breaking glass ceilings whether those glass ceilings are based on you know gender or race or um any other you know particular area where somebody might be held back from being able to achieve their full potential so um I want to make sure I gave her shout out because I just think that's so aligned both with the values of the board and the community and aligned with the philosophy of Kennedy School and that's all I have to share this evening thank you so much for that all right that brings us to for a um our student outcomes Focus governance update time frame for goal one and two measures superintendent guard ra two intr measur measures and progress monitoring calendar and goal one progress monitoring report um I'm going to go ahead and give a little overview so in Fall of 2023 cron School District adopted a student outcomes focused governance sofg framework to ensure to focus on improving student outcomes the um and then we have an infographic that is shared online it's attached or we can get copies uh the sofg framework is based on the idea that student outcomes don't change until adult behaviors change using sofg the kraton school district school board aims to create conditions that support improving student outcomes the sofg framework is structured around six research and for competencies which is vision and goals monitoring and accountability unity and Trust guard rails communication and collaboration and continuous Improvement we have adopted goals with which is five goals we have them posted up here and that's a little infographic of information and we also have board guard rails um for ourselves and we have superintendent guard um today we're going to be talking about some of those guard rails and a progress monitoring and I just share with you guys a little bit of what that actually means um what is goal monitoring so we have our goals 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 programs Cil B 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 how is goal monitoring beneficial we lead by example what happens in the boardroom is more likely to be echoed in the classroom board Behavior sets the culture for an institution if board members want a culture where teachers are open and reflect in their craft they set the stage for that by demonstrating what it looks like for the board and superintendent to be open and refect and effective grounded in student outcomes data and there the craft as well we clarify strategies we communicate Expectations by investing at least 50% of the board's time which is one of our board guard rails that ever since we adopted this we wouldn't spend less than 50% of our time speaking on student outcomes um each month into monitoring progress toward the vision the board makes clear with the priorities of the entire organization are expected to be this is a powerful tool for creating organizational alignment and with that being said I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to Dr dupin so we can go ahead and get started on our progress monitoring um one of the main things for Progress monitoring when we get it is that we're supposed to as governing board members be asking questions in advance and I failed to do that so I apologize I know that was expected of me to do and I did not do it in this busy week so I I'm apologizing that for that now sorry and and Madam pres can I can I just ask a quick favor yeah um so we we actually have several things in in this agenda item that require action um and I don't want to be accused of gaming the system but um I think it's kind of important that before we move to the progress monitoring um that the board make determinations about whether you want to approve the time frame adjustments for goals one and two remember we talked about it on last Saturday about how those were originally set to January but then now in our deeper understanding we recognize that they really should be set to I think June Dr dupin May set to May are you referring to the monitoring calendar um the monitoring calendar is actually correct it's actually in our um student outcomes Focus um oh goal interim measures so there's an interim measure for each of the four goals and this one yeah that we had originally set to a January 25 date thinking well we need to look at that January 25 data because like it's going to be an indicator of how the fourth quarter data looks but what we realized was the way that that measure should actually be structured in talking with Dr Ramos is it should be set to that fourth quarter so it really should have that may date on it um and part of my reason for wanting the board to decide whether they want to accept that change or not first as I know like for our measuring of the board's progress um the clock starts ticking once we've approved the final interim measure for superintendent guardrail 2 in the progress monitoring calendar so I'm being a little bit I don't know if it works or not but I'm trying to be protective of the board that they don't lose credit for having already corrected all that stuff before the clock starts ticking so yeah so I see those changes it's just in the two it's like the interim measures 1.1 2.1 yeah 3.1 and for yeah and for a and 4 B it's just changing it until May instead of January because May is when school's over and that's kind of like the explanation of it is when we'll get all the end of the data in May yeah yeah we'll still be reporting quarterly correct right we're going to be looking so we looked at pre for for goal one as an example we're in the progress monitoring report we're going to look at today that we talked about on Sat Saturday we're going to be looking at goal one and we'll look at it again you know after we have the Benchmark one and again after Benchmark two it's just it'll be after that final Benchmark that we'll look to see whether we've hit that goal number um and so I think what the board would would typically do here if that's acceptable would be to um make a mo make a motion to accept the time frame adjustments for measures to goals and I I listed it as goals one and two it we discovered later it's actually an all four goal so um the motion would be best to be for goals one through four inter measures for goals one through four y okay do we have any questions or which document is it it's the one that's titled sofg goals and interim measures I think it's the last attachment okay it's the last attachment yeah any questions wait but that's not the one that's up there right yeah it is see the little yellow um in May I know it's really small but like if you look at 1.1 that's the thing that's being changed the ones that we had adopted on the last board meeting said January of 2025 sorry I'm just clarifying for people watching oh yeah it's the same document entitled sorry there's two titled documents there's one called proposed interim measures and one's called in we're looking at the goals or the guard rails and interim we're looking at the goals not we're looking at sofg goals SG goals and interim measures yes document that pulls up off of board docks for the agenda is not what's up there you have to scroll down it's the last yeah you have to scroll like okay the very last I just want to make sure we're I was like that is not what that looks like when you pull it up okay so what ex so now sorry now that because the whole time I was like I am completely lost right now all right now I know I'm on the right document thank you so much all right I move the governing board approve change is to oops I lost my place to goal number one measure the inter measure 1.1 goal number two in measure 2.1 goal number three interim measure 3.1 goal number four interm measure 4.

e e e um tonight is um what we have titled our uming um where new school board members also current you might learn a couple things um a work session uh Schoolboard meeting so as we're going through the evening if any of you have any questions or comments or like more information uh anybody around the table don't hesitate to stop um we have scheduled two and a half hours it's my hope that it doesn't go two and a half hours so if it's much shorter than that then we have met the objective along the way but that's what my intention is is to go shorter than that uh this evening I know a couple of of you have uh some previous engagements and will need to leave and I respect that um so please make sure that you take care of some of those personal needs too we will not stop if you need to take a break for a couple of minutes please feel free to do so but we're going to try to keep on rolling with this my intention is again not to take the entire time that we have allotted okay that's why we put so much in writing for you all of you is so you can read some of this and then if you have some questions feel free to follow up um with me so what's that yeah the facilities are just right down the hall here um let's start here by just introducing ourselves if you would please um just make I think we all know but those who are watching at home uh and online may not know all of us around uh the table here don't worry no matter what side of the table you're on cameras can pick you up and see you so that's why we're intentionally sitting the way that we are um within that too so um let's just start right here to my left Mrs Gray you made eye contact with me so you're the lucky one you get to go first um why don't you uh just we'll just go around the table why don't you introduce yourselves to us um and then we'll just go right around the table then so Cindy will start with you Cindy gray executive secretary to the superintendent Tim Allen District for death trustee uh kyheim District 8 J Peters director of element education no if you want to introduce yourself a little bit about yourself Archie that's okay yeah you got to hit the GRE you got to hit the button when it goes green you're good thank you oh there you go I'm sorry I should have said that Archie I'm sorry go ahead I grew up in Union Township and have lived in Huntington County all my life good um I started Public School in 1954 as a first grader uhhuh I was in first grade two years that's okay they didn't have kindergarten there yep um I uh went through I graduated about the time the schools Consolidated here my son went through high school here grade school and high school and uh my two grandchildren Quenton and Jillian went through they had a wonderful uh musical theater program I thought I'd plug that good good thank you and uh I taught uh fifth and sixth grade to start with and taught uh as a classroom teacher 29 years I've had a lot of other experiences in life but uh my wife said not to go on too much so okay Aaron okay good uh eron car uh candidate for District Six yes lifetime Huntington County resident and born and raised here so thank you thank you yep Dave Van Gord candidate for district one um I've not been a lifetime Huntington resident but I do enjoy it here y uh we moved here in 2020 built during covid um my three kids El well vered in all the activities of Huntington and keeps us busy well good thank you my name is Kathy shock swingle I was born and raised and educated in Huntington County lived here all about 20 years when my husband's job took us till off yet came back after that was over and I'm here now in ex foster parent raised three sons good so that's it thank you thank you Mr Hines uh Curtis Ray Hines I lived here well all 47 years in district one which is the seat that I'm running for uh went to Huntington County Community Schools and uh competed here in athletics and then I went to Huntington University started coaching here in athletics coached here 18 years um won seven Regional championships in cross country was fourth in the state meet in Cross Country um taught in this building for 20 years had uh all effective and highly effective recommendations and uh I I'm a land owner in uh Huntington County I've been in the building here and uh like I said been in education a long long time so I feel uh I feel like I've got a pretty good perspective on things in this community so okay thank you uh Mike Richard I am running candidate for district 6 I'm a lifelong Huntington County resident uh took some time away when I was in the service as uh in the Air Force for a few years and moved back about 12 years ago with my daughters and wife where my kids are able to attend the same corporation that I grew up in and graduated from this school also um and Mr lint said he went to Union I was one of the last classes of Union in first grade I believe before I moved over to Lincoln Elementary School back in the day um so yes um thank you thank you Chuck brimberry director of secondary educ I'm Kevin Jer uh School Board vice president and representative of District Six good Matt Melcher I'm School Board District One okay Becky Smith virtual Chief Financial Officer uh Ryan Wall uh district 7 uh like several others I've lived in Huntington all my wife except for the uh time I spent down at Pur University in West Lafia uh Matt Roth uh in my 10th year on the board I think Gary and I are the longest uh serving members right now uh District Two um and not a lifelong resident of Huntington but lived here since 99 call at home uh graduated from homestead when it was the size Huntington North is now and Huntington North was the size Homestead is now Taylor University IU Bloomington here since 99 with my wife Laura who's an educator and our three kiddos thank you uh John trout superintendent um 1980 graduate of Huntington North High School um lived in this community my entire life daughters both graduated from here and uh just proud to be here thrilled to be here as a matter of fact um this evening um what we have for you here if you're watching online there is a binder that at each place that um each one of our current school board and prospective school board members have um what I'll do is in the table of contents here is that there are quite a few pages covering a variety of topics um here this evening the reason that I do it this way is that I want you to have something that you can take home that you can read that you can study um I fully expect you to have more questions uh Way Beyond this evening and at the end of the evening I'll be sure to tell you how to get ah hold of me and so that if we need to have either an individual or small group meeting to to go through this information in more detail I'll be more than happy uh to do that if you're watching online or if you're in the audience here this is a sample of the table of contents that are that is before um each person here around the table this evening um we will obviously not go through all of this there is just no way uh to do that in one setting let alone probably two so I'm just going to pick up on my section A couple of the highlights that I want to discuss this evening and see if you have any questions along the way um at the very top there you can see um that we start with the Strategic plan um this has been recently done as the spring if you turn to page uh one the handwritten Pages at the bottom is what we will follow um that will show you um this plan this plan is a five-year plan which begin which began begins this year lasts for five years um through 2029 and if you look at page two you can see right there all of the different aspects of the Strategic plan that we cover um we do we deal with everything and it it shows you the process that we followed everything from a don't go too fast on me Cindy right there on a broad base excuse me planning committee which consisted of community members teachers staff that participated in this process um if you look at that you can see everyone who participated the process in which we followed um if you look at um the third table you can see the Strategic plan team members how we help develop the the core values um the vision the mission um living and embedding our values and right on so forth if you go to um uh if you go to the handwritten page at the bottom which is um if you go to the Strategic plan on the 12th page that's what I want to highlight for you here this evening okay the school board on page 12 of the Strategic plan um has a set of goals that they have as a board and um I'll read these so the people that so people who are watching online or in the audience can follow along with this but the hccs hccsc board of school trustees has recently established reaffirmed their goals as part of our strategic planning process there are five in which they have developed uh number one is to ensure the continuous Improvement of student academic achievement for all the second one is to ensure uh the school implify a safe secure and effective teaching and learning environment the third one is to ensure parents businesses and community members are actively engaged in the educational process the fourth is to ensure districtwide fiscal responsibility along with wide stewardship of resource our es and then the fifth one is to ensure adequate support of teachers support staff and um administrators then if you go we flesh all of that out in this entire um plan the one piece that I want to highlight for you as aboard this evening if you flip on over to in the Strategic plan okay it's near the um it's near the end of this strategic planning document um you are going to start watching us um and you'll be intimately involved if you are elected um to this process so I'm going to have you turn to page 44 of the Strategic plan don't watch the screen if you have vertigo okay so um and obviously we could go through each one of these pages with this but what I want you to see is that one of our targets is 5.1 which it says by 2027 100% of the hccsc physical assets are managed efficiently and effectively and we list out how we're going to do that and the process that we're going to follow and in later this evening you're going to learn more about um what we do fiscally in our district from Mrs Smith but I just wanted to draw your attention to some of the fiscal uh pieces of this plan and and just to have you dive into them um a little bit more along Ong the way um you'll notice for example if you go to page 46 near the bottom or excuse me near the top at 5.3 you'll see that you know one we have very specific goals fiscally that we're trying to achieve by 2027 achieve and maintain a cash balance of 15% of the education- operation fund expenditures while ensuring at least 75% 75% of the fund funds are devoted to instruction and our ultimate goal is to maintain a $2 million cash balance and so when when Mrs Smith is going through some of her things this evening you'll be seeing how we're trying to um meet some of those expectations that we have along the way Jay and Chuck will share with you um this evening about what we're trying to do academically which is sprinkled throughout this strategic plan also but I just wanted you um to see um the details that some of the details that directly impact you as a board and your engagement and involvement in that process so does anybody have any questions or comments that you want to make I'm going to pause here just a second to see if anybody does if you do please make sure you hit the button in front of you that it turns to Green so Mr Lin yes you mentioned they're talking about finances correct budget and so forth I'd uh asked a couple board meetings afterwards uh I wanted to start with a big picture of the finances in the school corporation where the money comes from and where it goes out and I ask about pie charts and uh at the last uh meeting that I attended in person here I was uh given some very nice notes uh about that so I could find the pie charts now I've set through board meetings and every penny and every dime in in a very complex set of spreadsheets is listed every half cent but yet in uh recent years a half a million dollars went missing so they can account for pennies but not millions of dollars I think that's a problem I don't know where that all is right now but the uh problem I think can be illustrated by the fact that my notes say this is what I was told to do to find the pie chart on the web go to departments first you go to Huntington Community Schools then departments and then from departments scroll down to school board scroll down then to current board meeting agenda continue scrolling down until you get to meetings regular board meetings then scroll down to view the agenda scroll down to finances scroll down to select financial report and a couple other scroll Downs I didn't get quite that far I wasn't able to accomplish getting all the way and I think this is not a problem just for me I think it's for the general public they need a big picture of where the money is coming from and where it's going and obviously there's a problem that's bigger than eye of a needle when it comes to a half million dollars going missing so uh I guess I don't have a question at this point because I don't know what is going on I'm not able to get these big picture type of items but one of my goals would be to get that big picture and communicate it to the citizens of my District Six okay thank you Archie Becky you want to you just want to make a couple comment I know we're going to get into this a little bit during your section but before we get there you just want to make a couple of points here sure we did a um a whole uh I would say reorg Financial uh submissions and transparency in the last year and a half so um monthly we do share uh those pie charts and the major budgeted funds to the board and to the public we do that on a monthly basis and then we also do um different presentations throughout the year we have a u midyear fiscal uh presentation that we do we even do presentations on um Esser and special grants and then um once a year we do the first of February I can't remember which board meeting that's at and then we recap the previous year also and show all that information by pie charts and diagrams and things like that so that is um what we have done and changed over um from the previous was just a a simple page that gave cash balances and that's all that the board and public was used to seeing so since then we have um created all these reporting mechanisms and transparency for the community and the board in the last year and a half no that's all right yep that's for questions cus am absolutely yep that's what we do corre absolutely all right sure thanks Becky um Mr Lance what I will do for you is that the last couple of board meetings where we've done some of this I'll print some of this off and I'll give it to you okay so and you and I will have a conversation about that all right so we'll do that that' be very specific said youa I got well I'm GNA bring them to you so there you go all right okay um Mr trout can I go Ahad for a second yeah um has the board or the administration uh identified like key performance indicators that where these are very transparent like okay what is my attendance rate what is my um I have it written down uh enrollment attendance graduation rates Etc that is easily accessible not only to the the board and and the administration but the public in general to say hey this is how we're doing one place to say hey the health is good it's trending up trending down I think that would be very beneficial as a person who just goes over the board reports every meeting and I am still confused on where some of this money is coming where where we are as a as a corporation yes I mean um ADM we're just going to get we're actually actually in Becky's presentation today all those points that you just hit we going to be presented to you even today um within that there's different ways in which um that can all be reported how we're reporting it's what we're required to do by the state of Indiana along the way um we're making sure that we're aligned with all of that information with what we're supposed to do and how we're supposed to do it um in the future if the school board wants um different reports other than what we're required to do and how we're reporting it that can be done in a that can be done in a variety of ways that can just be that can be done in a variety of ways if you look at the Strategic plan many of the things that you're talking about is what we're trying to pull out so what I'm saying is is that we will be creating dashboards um same thing is your key performance indicators um we're I'm actually working on those right now so to take all that complex data and all that complex information out the Strategic plan and putting it in charts putting it in in graph form putting it in whatever so those will be um I call them dashboards um different people with different businesses and different organization can call them a lot of different things but what we will be doing is reporting that to the board on a consistent basis not only by District but by building by Department by um whatever breakout that the board determines and so um I'm developing those right now I just haven't given them to the current board yet because I'm going to ask them okay is this is this what's you're looking for is that need to be done in a different way but those are currently being developed now I won't call them key performance indicators I won't necessarily call them a a uh a chart or a graph but they I call them there'll be dashboards that we'll refer to and look at and and go with at all times so I hope that helps a couple those conversations along the way in the meantime if there's specific information that you want that you don't receive this evening or you don't see at a board meeting don't hesitate to reach out to me I'll be happy to give you what it is that you're specifically looking for in that so okay all right anything else okay if you turn to page 49 it's handwritten at the bottom on page 49 um this the next piece is of information are taken straight from the Indiana Schoolboard Association we are actively engaged uh in this um Association uh as individuals and as a board um if you come on the board you will be seeing and hearing a lot about different aspects of what um the roles of the board member are versus roles of administration versus roles of um a superintendent this page is one in which we will starting in January work through together as a new board is seated and this is done in four different quadrants so at the top left or at the top very top it's this what is Indiana School Board Association Calls the School Board member code of athletes um this is what we as a board adhere to um and I'm not going to read all of this to you these are some some really interesting statements um ones in which I trust that you agree with most you may not agree with all and we can work through those but the top left hand talks about a school board members should honor the high demands the should honor the high responsibility that membership demands um the basic function of the school board of a school board member is policym um not necess necessarily Administration but policym um and by accepting responsibility of learning to distinguish between these two functions sometimes these blur and we have to work through all these together um but in general that's what we're talking about here um the second bullet point is what I respect about what we're currently doing here by accepting responsibility along with fellow board members to ensure that the adequate facilities and resources are provided for the proper functioning of our schools um and I and you can see the rest of those down there on the bottom left it talks about here a school board member should demonstrate respectful relationship with other members of the board um we have been blessed since my arrival here um to work through this together we don't always agree the new board won't always agree but what's important is is that we come together and we work together to find uh viable Solutions um along the way um you know it's it's hard sometimes when the board vote doesn't go your way is to go out and continue to publicly support the direction of the board and that's difficult at times that's that's hard we've had to work through that ourselves from time to time when the vote doesn't go our way and but yet as a board collectively it's our goal to continue to move forward in support the direction and the major of the board and that's hard sometimes that's really difficult to do and it takes a lot of conversations right um I have talked with all of you individually on this piece when a board vote didn't go your way we have had some pretty intense conversations about okay what are we going to do moving forward and we try to work through that um as best we can um there's a statement in here that that um that's uh that I uh personally um have to remind myself with a lot of times and um um and and just can constantly remind not only this District but the previous districts I have been in is by refusing to participate in irregular meetings which are not official we can't do that we there there's just no place for that um with what any of us do um we we try to work really hard like setting this meeting I tried to find a night where most all of you could get here and that's hard people are busy people are it's it's hard to do that and we try to honor all those pieces along the way but um on the top right on this on this graph on this chart here on this page um this is what's vitally important obviously to me you have your Rel relationship with your colleagues with your fellow board members and then you have a relationship with me and other employees and um we will work through that sometimes um you and I will agree on a lot sometimes you and I may disagree on a few things and we try to come to an agreement try to find the compromise try to find um where we can agree on um I work from this premise uh this is my definition of compromise compromise is getting 85% of what you want and 15% of what you can live with many times I will ask you I've asked each one of you around this table tell me on this topic what could you live with I know what you want but for us to come together as a group and do what's best for kids and staff what can you live with if you are fortunate enough to be elected on the board I will guarantee you at some point in time we will have this conversation John I just can't go there okay I got you okay but what tell me what you could support where could you land in support this and we'll see what we can do collectively as a board um within that I am constantly and I get criticized for this once in a while the one two three fourth bullet point is I work at this every week every day of every week is by striving to lead as a United team that's that's my goal is to try to um have us work together work collectively together it doesn't mean that we always agree there are times when we just don't but my goal is for the betterment of our students and staff is do everything we can and everything I can to keep us United in our purpose purp United in moving forward because if we can do that collectively together then the beneficiaries are going to be um everybody in our school district and lastly on the bottom right you have big responsibilities as Schoolboard members to your community um this is heavy this is a heavy lift for you you will you will get people who will contact you who will applaud you and agree with you you will get people who contact you with just the opposite attitude and I realize as a board member how difficult that can be at times um for all of you um we um I believe in each one of those bullet points uh and I know the difficult task you have and I admire you for wanting to run for school board because it's not an easy job and you're not making a lot of money to do this on top of that but let me tell you I I think the current board understands the Deep respect I have because I understand the many way different ways you get pulled in the community um it's it's it's tough at times to sit on this side of the table it's hard but I will come alongside you and help you in any way shape or form that I have so when you see that page comments thoughts questions um I'm getting tired tired of talking I'd like to hear from some of you comments thoughts questions okay perfect okay we're gonna move on um sorry to be a little slow on the draw here but I do have a comment sure well first of all do you press the button on this thing just press it once or what you press it once if the green lights on Mr Lin you're good to go I'm the green lights on you're you're you're live okay so well I think what I'm going to say uh touches on material you just passed over um I wonder sometimes having sat in the gallery back there and listened to the school board members and yourself and others if you uh have lost touch possibly to some extent I think it's probably human nature with what you all look like from the audience point of view um and I I think uh that U there's a a feeling that uh there's a rubber stamp going on it says vote everybody votes yes on everything I know that doesn't happen exactly that way but what I'm saying is that's the way it appears and um there's a lot of emphasis on unity in here and going along to get along is the way I would phrase it um I don't like to be contentious my wife my wife might disagree on that but U on the other hand I don't think that uh there should be such an emphasis on Unity when we need to bring uh difficult subjects to the table and we maybe disagree vigorously at times on policy in order to get these things forward so uh that would be my comment on that yeah I and go back to what I said before is that my job as a superintendent I take seriously is that you will not find me if you are elected on the school board um you will rarely find me bringing something forward that doesn't have the support of the board that's that's the flip side of this coin in the conversations I'm having with you with the discussions that we have if that's not going to be supported it won't it won't even make it to the table and that's the difference um if I would bring all all the things to the table that would be voted down or whatever was going to happen with it I wouldn't bring it it doesn't have the support Why move forward with it um when something does get brought to the board um in the work sessions many times we've had we've had lots of conversations about it it doesn't an agenda item rarely gets to the board without it working through several processes to get to the point where it's at I'm going I'm going back to that compromise statement that I made I can understand from The public's perception that it might look like it's rubber stamped but that's not even that's not remotely true because what it has happened is if we've taken that certain specific situation through various discussions various different formats to reach the point where people are comfortable with what what it is moving forward and many times it dies before it ever comes to the board and so that's the side of it that many times the and I know the public doesn't see that nor understands it at times but I I wouldn't put you Mr Lin in that position um as a superintendent that I know that the board's not supported not going to support it I'm not going to be that person that's going to bring it forward to make a point I wouldn't do that I wouldn't do that to this group I wouldn't do that to any of you who got elected for the school board just wouldn't do it so I'm if I understand you correctly then a lot of these issues are hashed out and uh figured out at least partially before the board meetings take place among you all um what I'm saying is is that there's a lot of discussions that go on I'm not going to hold I'm not going to hold illegal board meetings I'm not going to hold illegal meetings I'm not going to do any of those type of things I'm saying to you that's why for example that's why we went to a work session format this year I'm going to if you follow follow the flow of the work session we usually talked about these agenda items at an open meeting before I would bring him to the next board meeting or a board meeting in the future I want to see where people are at I want to see where you as a board are going to land what is it you're going to support what is it you're not going to support let's talk about this the main reason that I went to a the work session format and then a board meeting format is so that I could see where the board is collectively as a group on this topic um that's why we try to do work session and then board meeting and then work session and then board meeting now the last couple months because of the budget adoption we haven't been able to do that but I tried to see I tried to anticipate things that we're going to be voting on in the fall and have those open discussions in the public to see what are you as a board I think that you as a board would probably agree with me we've had many of those open discussions along the way it is not uncommon for individual board members and ID then to have conversations on top of that I mean um I think that's my role if somebody's struggling with a certain aspect and each one I I can look at all of you and know what that has been around a table I will go back to that person and say talk to me some more about where you're at with with X um I'm constantly in communication in one level or another trying to make sure I understand where people are at okay all right um one of your big um many times I'm asked by Boards what's my most important role as a board member what's the most important job I have um it's a little weird for me to say this being in this position but I will tell you the most important position you have is hiring and firing a superintendent if you want to know what I think your most important decision is as a board it's who you hire and who you fire as your superintendent I I I firmly uh absolutely believe that um and so from time to time I'm asked about how do you draft a superintendent's contract the next several pages in your uh binder talks about legally how that happens um I cite some Indiana code in there um this was put together back in July of 2018 not much has changed since that point in time legislation changed this process greatly um several years ago but that goes clear over to page 55 if you have questions about that um let me know um I would be more than happy to uh talk you talk about that to you and through you the other one that we get into a lot here um is sometimes we get into some difficult employee situations starting on page 57 um again this is the rules and the laws that we do our best um to follow along the way okay and so um again just a lot of information there um along the way starting on page um 61 on is just a variety of different pieces of information for you and I I'm going to flip you to page 65 this is the this is the Parliamentary procedure reference guide all right um I always always have a copy of this with me here um at my place just in case we ever get into a situation where one of these situations arise this is um what we follow these are all um the Parliamentary procedure um guide this is rules whatever you want to say um that you that you follow uh as a board member uh when we come here okay so as we run board meetings um this is the process of the board meeting itself um that we follow okay um then um I knew this would be of great interest of you currently starting on page 67 it's the school board candidate election procedures um just so you know those are the rules that we're currently adhering to and following um in this process okay so I just um I wanted you to be able to see um all of that it's pretty complex when you look at it all together on a few pages of all the rules and regulations that we follow um at this point in time Pages 69 to 7 before we have to follow the Indiana open door law as board members and as a board collectively and so I um that is spelled out for you about what that all means in those five pages um our school board attorney is sitting right behind you uh Mr Wy uh many times um when we get into some very specific pieces of Legally what we can and can't do um Mr Wy and I will have a conversation Mr Roth and Mr Wy will have a conversation as board president Mr yogger and Mr Wy might have a conversation as vice president um but just so you know that we we will always in this school district adhere um by those rules starting on page 75 and I'm about done then we're going to let you ask any questions um this is a really important section for me because it defines your role and my role in these eight areas and um I I really want you to take some time over the next few days and read this and then if you have questions call me we'll sit down we'll talk about it um I have had many conversations with current board members about whose role is that right so when you look at Future planning and growth and this is taken straight from the an School Board Association again um what's the board's role in that and what's my role in that now you may agree with some of that you may agree with all of that you may agree with none of that but when I'm thinking about my relationship with all of you as a group collectively and with you individually this is kind of my road map this is what I have in front of me a lot what should I be doing what are my expectations of you what's your expectations of me and sometimes when we have a disagreement in that I will pull this back out and say to you um in policy on page 77 the first four items are your responsibility and the SE and the next seven are mine and you may say to me well I don't agree I think we as a board should have and again this is where we'll have our discussion of who's responsible for doing what this is what you can hold me to this is what I can hold you to um if we're working well together um we're working through these processes I try to stay out of your lane I do I you will hear me say from time to time that's not my Lane that's you that's your lane as a board that's not my Lane um sometimes you may say to me um I think that we should be doing that and I will say to you I think that's my Lane I think I should be taking care of that and on these next few pages you can you can debate you can look at those and say that I mean we've already had a conversation about page 78 today it's healthy it's positive it's good that's how we get that's how we get to where we need to be what's the role of the school board what's the role of the superintendent I think those are really really healthy conversations to have so that we understand who's doing what and who should be doing what but I'm not going to read those to you you can see student on page 79 where it talks about student achievement this is the board's role this is my role as a superintendent I try to you know we try to spell that out on page SE on 80 what's the B role of the board on Personnel related items and what's the role of the superintendent um it's not uncommon in my 15 years of doing this as a superintendent on these pages that we don't sit down and have a discussion that's okay that's how we get better that's what we do but I want to clearly Define what your expectations as a board of me are I don't want there to be any surprises I will always promise you T of takes us back to our previous conversation I will never surprise you ever that's my that's my promise to you my goal and my promise to you is never surprise you I hope the current sitting board I'm looking at you making sure I've held true to that I'm kind of looking at you making sure I've done that but I also guess what my I'm hoping what you promis me I hope you never come to a board meeting and and and surprise me or I hope you never come to a public meeting and surprise me because I would never do that to you ever I promise you um I will treat you with the utmost respect whether we agree or disagree I will always I will always do that so over on page 81 we are fortunate this year we have two of our hcta presidents and sitting there in the back is that we're not going through negotiations this year yes so um we are happy campers uh here this year I can't say that for my colleagues uh necessarily across the state are having fun right now but uh we are happy but again what is your role in those contract negotiations and then what's my role as a superintendent when we negotiate next year and we have a new board that's seated I'll be talking to you about this page on page 81 okay this is what I'm doing are you guys feel comfortable with that you know this is what I need from you this is what you need from me for that to happen okay I've said a lot comments questions comments questions yes Curtis yeah um I greatly appreciate the questions on the fiscal aspects um but I got a couple questions here going all the way back to page seven page what Curtis I'm sorry um page seven okay seven okay uh the safe orderly and caring environment uh strategic plan I got uh two questions one um is there consideration to be bringing an in-house K9 unit into the high school um it was just done this week good it was uh right Chuck I I remember is on my it was just they they had a lockdown this week and they did it just this week so I can tell you that I'll check and get back to you but I'm almost certain it was this past week that's excellent and second um is there a is there a uh consideration for teachers that would like to have uh video cameras in their classroom to have those installed yeah Chuck you want to talk about video here yeah great great question to be honest with you uh Miss Brown's back there and and those conversations happen in a wide variety um based on in your p I think discussions on virtual education here those discussions came up as well on kids that want the in-person instruction I understand there's a safety I understand they're multipronged on your question but I will tell you we visited a couple schools that do have them recently and those discussions do take place um the purpose of them needs to become clear if that were happen the we have not openly discussed we evaluate what other districts do Curtis and see if that's in the best interest of our kids and our teachers and so uh literally Len last year at some point we visited a school that did have them and were active and I think they served a variety of purposes most schools do not and so those those are things I'm intrigued by as well and whether they're in the best interest here or not I'm not openly uh I've had private professional development discussions has been the focus on that on virtual education so good question um one more question also when it comes to let me double check here I marked it shared leadership on page 10 in the uh rubric here is there any consideration to um Administration evaluations yeah yes we have to do them but be more specific Mr Hines what what would you like would you like to see mean by by an outside entity um we've never done that um here's what I'm saying to you again as a board you have a lot of latitude and um uh to make some of those suggestions and and U set that direction but no we have not had a third party come in from the outside to do administrative evaluations I'm assuming you're talking about this level but I'm I don't know talking about building level and upper level okay no um I'm not aware of a place that's doing that um but doesn't mean we can't have a conversation about that but I'm not aware of any place that's doing a third party type style evaluation on administrators maybe you are I'm not so well I'm I'm not aware of any place doing it either but we can be Pioneer on that front I think be a good thing for our community okay anyone else okay on page I wanted you to see um our relationship with our teachers is vitally important to me starting on page 85 is our current um contract between us and their Teachers Association um you can see the next several pages of that agreement I am proud of the work that we have done together it has been long hard work uh to get to this point um I will also tell you the collaboration that that I I can speak for me the collaboration that we've had with our association the last two years I think has paid huge dividends on both sides of the aisle um I'm specifically proud of teacher compensation and how we have helped close that Gap over the last couple of years it has been a heavy lift there have been some really hard hard conversations but um what I deeply respect is how we've come together and figured it out um we really have not to say we always agree again we have our disagreements um within that but I'm proud of the relationship we have we' worked really hard at it we really have and I think it's paid significant dividends on both sides of the table for us to keep those conversations going you need to know by law we're not required to have discussion meetings you need to know that this board and I have been have been that's not we haven't wavered I think that that would be in that would be wrong for us not to continue the conversations with our teachers on a consistent basis I just would not be in favor of that happening and I think it's paying us again dividends on several fronts now sometimes these meetings are really interesting and sometimes we have some pretty uh interesting disagreements um but what I appreciated about it we stay with it until we come to some compromise and we do um it's not always fun it's not always easy but it seems like we can get to a compromise all the time and it's sometimes it takes us a while to get there but we we will eventually get there I just don't see having a adversarial relationship with our teachers gains us anything I just don't see the Plus in that um who negatively impact is our kids in the long run and that's we just can't have that and so I appreciate the support of this current board in walking down that road with me but listen when you get to page and um seven in the comp model okay I don't expect you to understand that um that is really really complicated but I I would be more than happy to sit down with you but here's a classic example of the law we have to follow and it has to read like this for us to get it through herb the Relations Board that has to be this way otherwise um the the state will not recognize our agreement and then we have some horrendous penalties to to deal with by having it not follow this format so please understand I'm not trying to be um matter of fact I would think Mandy Mandy and I would all agree if it wouldn't look like this we'd be all much happier um but this is what we have to do and um Becky will tell you too it's it's crazy at times and and if you'll see how the steps are there and how the academic needs are there and then on page 109 and 110 the levels and you're going to ask me why is there so many charts and why is there so many levels and I'll just I have to sit down with you and literally painfully go through that but that has to be that way otherwise the state will not approve it period that's just the easiest way for me to say it to you in a group meeting um Bor I know you've been at this a while with me and with Becky um and I appreciate your support but it's it is hard to understand it is but we're we're compliant and we have gotten through with minimal um um problems matter of fact ours is probably one of the cleaner ones around um from time to time you'll have a conversation with me about extra pay schedules that's on page 113 moving forward um that's also negotiated just so you know uh that's all done and that goes over to page 119 lastly my section and then I am done okay um I am finished I I was going to try to get done in an hour I'm right there okay um Sometimes some of you ask me about my background I don't talk much about it okay I just don't I don't think it's I don't know if it's that important most people don't care quite frankly but you as a board and especially new board members coming on May on page 121 to page um 129 um that's me that's the history of John trout the education profession okay that's just it is if you want to talk about any of that I'm happy to do that but if you don't I completely understand and I'm not offended in any way shape or form but I thought it was important for those of you who may be elected to understand a little bit about where I come from and what I'm doing okay before I turn it over to someone else comments thoughts questions for me anything I'll reiterate Mr Trout the section from isba on the roles and responsibilities of us and you yeah page what page on um 75 75 okay through 82 yep I think this is probably the most misunderstood thing about what we do from the community's perspective and when I started on this board eight years ago the two groups did not understand these roles and responsibilities what do you mean by two groups us and you okay well not you but us and the superintendent y I think our my predecessors on the board did not understand these I think that superintendents in the past have not understood these correct and it didn't work and and I pride myself I think we all pride ourselves now that we have a working relationship because we can follow this model MH but I think the community doesn't understand this mhm and I I think that the community has this perception that our responsibilities are a lot more than they are and likewise that your responsibilities are more than they are when really it's this complex system of of different Lanes of responsibility but but I'm glad that you put this in here because this is a really important section no question for board governance no question I consider us a we not a you and I but a we and um sometimes that's misunderstood out in the public um I take my job really serious of promoting you and what you do and what you stand for and who you are and collectively as a group sometimes that can be really hard and really difficult but I come at this as a very collaborative model you've heard discussion you've heard talk you've heard meet you've heard whatever my my case and point is why do we do this it's my opportunity to start building relationships it's your opportunity to start building a relationship with me um and those are important and that's why I try to Define and why I believe what isba pulls out because sometimes a real big time misunderstanding is who's doing what in what Lane you know and if I'm not if I'm not doing what you're expecting me to do I want to know that I really do I mean it's important to me to understand that but I hope you give me the same courtesy the other way the other way because kids are we're the bottom line is we're trying to do everything we can to help kids that's just the bottom line Mr Richards is there any this is all publicly available information is there any reason that this isn't on the corporation website no it's not um that's a whole another topic we could I you know Kenny Butler who was just here just a little bit he's right over there and I who's uh who helps me with all the uh public relations and everything else what's too much what's not enough what do we put what don't we put those are conversations the new board and I are going to have um when we're promoting what we're doing you know this type of stuff is important but is it more important than what we're you know what I'm trying to say right and even if it's just a link to a State website versus keeping the metadata on your own servers but getting it out there so they have a place to to read and understand good thank you no answer your question directly sure absolutely we could put it out there I mean there's no no reason why we can't we matter of fact Cindy and I just to make sure we had the latest data we pulled it right off their right off the isba website we put this together last week and we were on there just making sure so yes to answer your question directly absolutely we could okay anything else yes Mr lince yes uh I appreciate uh Mr jer's comments and what's uh playing in my mind right now is is sort of a zoom way out large big picture issue and that is that from roughly 1850 until 1970 we had a Township system of schools and um I grew up in that system and I taught in the last of Indiana's 90s some counties that had that system as you know right now starting with the department of public education that was established in the 1980s or 90 s mhm we have education control from the top down you can no longer get on the phone and call your Township Trustee and and uh talk about a problem you're having with a teacher or an issue and meet with them it's usually somebody you knew from rotary club or church you could sit down and have coffee with them and talk now you would have to go to Indianapolis to get permission to go to Washington DC and you would probably never get a chance to talk talk to anybody that could affect locally so one of the things that I is kind of daunting about becoming um if I'm elected a school board member is that there's a there's some serious limits on what school boards can do for their constituents the citizens because of this situation that we're in now it's very unamerican and it's not anybody's fault here but uh that's just a thought that I have that uh there's a limit to what a school board member can do and I think that's part of what the general public doesn't understand because we're used to having influence but we don't necessarily yeah right um trying to not make this too political so that's why I'm fusing it's when I go down to Indianapolis and we lobby as a superintendent organization I'm always fighting for more local control um I believe that we in this community can make the best decisions for our kids um and what frustrates me greatly from my seat is how it appears and it seems that so many times more and more is taking away from us you know if you think about what school boards can make a decision for back in the 80s and 90s and what school boards can make decisions on today it's greatly restricted because so much of it is either mandated Statewide or federally and so I it's in the 15 years that I've been a superintendent new school board members after a year always tell me what's so frustrating to me is I thought I could make decisions on this and I'm not allowed to um because so much of that control has been taken away from us and you couldn't be RG you couldn't be um more right in just the 15 years I've been a superintendent what school boards were allowed to make decisions on 20 years ago and what they're allowed to make decisions on today has just been so restricted I mean when I'm in the community people say to me all the time well why didn't you do this well that we couldn't even make a DEC I mean that was dictated to us you know so much of what we can do and when when Becky talks about the finance we we really have been restricted on decisions of what we can do um with our money which she and I vent to each other all the time doesn't do us any good but we vent to each other so when I go to Indianapolis or I say would you come with me and we go talk to legislators every single message I send is that's a Lo we need to make this a local control issue and so much of that is just being taken um from us along the way so thank you anybody else anybody else and I'll move us I'll move us on I'm trying to be mindful of time okay um Mr Peters you have the next uh section uh Jay how long youve been in Huntington County Community Schools uh this is uh 32 years 32 years yes and so um we're glad to have you so anyway so go ahead Jade walk us through Elementary data um tonight let's just do can you hear me you got slide that mic a little closer to you go uh here we go let me just give you a little brief Snapshot from the Elementary uh picture that I have the opportunity to work with uh each and every day um as a director of Elementary education I've given you some slides there as we talk about I read three and I learn data uh again as we've we've talked about our vision and Mission as a district our moreal purpose continues to be as a district to educate all students with high standards with Precision two high standards with Precision personalization and we wrap that with professional learning uh as we move forward but let me share with you uh we need some excitement so let's celebrate okay um maybe I'll get an amen out of this maybe possibly uh our students are required to take what's called an i three test all third graders and what we did last year was opted in our second graders to take the IAD 3 test which proved very valuable uh as it's a foundational reading skills test um what they have done now is they have said now all second graders uh for the spring of 2025 is going to be mandatory and they've changed it from I 3 to just an I test and so all second graders and all third graders uh will be taking um the IED test in the spring of of 2025 but you can see there in the graph uh you can see our district average was 84.4% State average is 82.5% so we're above the state average I didn't hear an amen amen we got to celebrate something can't we oh wow let's fire up here come on our goal as a district um and we locked on with the idoe that 95% of our third graders students would be proficient when they take the IR test by 2027 this aligns with our strategic plan that Mr trout has laid out for us that by for our K12 students um they'll be reading at or above grade level by 2029 and and that is a huge task that is not easy our teachers our elementary teachers work very very hard our administrators work very very hard because you'll hear me say this a lot kids have got to be reading at or above grade level by the time they leave third grade let me repeat that if I stuttered our third graders have got to be reading at or above grade level by the time they leave third grade if we don't if they are not we may have lost them for their career so you can tell I'm pretty passionate about this I get pretty fired up let's rock and roll uh because it's we have got to help our kiddos learn how to read we do and so we applied uh through the idoe for a science of reading Grant uh the district was awarded $43,000 to be used for resources materials uh professional learning uh for our K3 teachers interventionist resource teachers uh to help them and to help us uh with that goal now we'll take that test in March students who do not pass and this is a something that has just come out from the doe uh Mr Lynch you talk about uh how things do change from the Doe's perspective uh we sent a letter out to all kindergarten through third grade parents prior to October the 1st stating that now the state law requires that if their children if their child did not uh pass the I test that they would be retained in third grade now once you catch your breath and think about that now they do have five exceptions to that rule um that I won't go through but there's five exceptions that a student wouldn't be retained so thinking in terms of what that ramification is going to be the importance of kids reading at above grade level uh the work that we put in each and every day to help them be successful uh moving forward is is key to the work that we do so I'm going back to State Control versus local control that was dictated to us just this past summer so I had a couple parents that contacted me not real happy about that rule and that's one that we don't have any control over that has been dictated to us now now there's couple few exceptions I think what' you say J5 yeah five yes but that's just I'm just want to give you the one of the recent examples of something that's been that's been dictated to us from the state level that we will do now we'll follow the law we'll adhere to it we'll do everything in our power to make sure that our kids are not caught in this um but the research is crystal clear about school retention about student retention um if you retain a student in kindergarten in first grade the chances of them having a successful retention are very high if you retain a student in grades two and three research will tell you that when they see the same information again for the second year their scores will jump but when they go to the next grade level they'll dip back down again to where they were previously there's a there's a lot of case study about that what I don't want to have happen to our second and third graders is to get caught in this law because I think it could it could not be a positive um um piece for them along the way because research will tell us that their scores will jump in year one but they'll fall back down to the previous level when they move on to the next grade level for the first time so that's just I want to bring that up as Mo one of the most recent examples of something that we are dealing with as a school board along the way so Jay I'm sorry go ahead no that's fine let me share with you a fact uh right now uh our fourth grade class of 377 students were kindergarteners when covid hit and we shut down right now of those 377 students and I share this with you because the daunting task of our work that's cut out for us of those 377 students 143 of them right now are not reading at or above grade level and they're fourth grade so the work is hard it is not easy um but we with precision and personalization with small group instruction uh with the things that we've implemented in our elementary cul them uh we we are going to get there let me share with you uh some I learn uh data uh this is gr 345 uh you can see there uh the red is hccsc what page on Jay what page I'm sorry uh 134 I'm sorry 134 that's okay thank you I was looking at my own own notes and wer looking at your 134 uh you can see the red is hccsc the blue is the Indiana State average uh two years ago we adopted um a math curriculum a new math curriculum uh that ramped up the rigor of instruction uh it was hard it was hard for students it was hard for teachers um but we stayed the course and and we we are starting to see and reap the benefits uh of that work that our teachers and students put forth U to make that happen and uh and I applaud them for that uh I learn has also changed uh I learn was also taken uh in the spring it now is there are three checkpoints uh the first window is opening right now uh September has been open September to November is our first checkpoint uh November to February February to April so there'll be three checkpoints there students will have an opportunity to show us what they know and then we'll be able to take that data and then develop uh remediation uh and support for students and then be able to reassess them uh to see if they've mastered U those standards um at that grade level so we're excited about what that's going to bring for us and the data that will bring uh to show us what our kids know and what they don't know and then how do we go about programming for them the next page what I've done is I've um thought it would be interesting for you to see uh um some cohort data what you're going to see in the slides uh the next few slides this is comparison groups it's based on demographic location uh enrollment size and social economic status are free and red reduced lunch percentages so you can see that Salomon and Andrews are in the same cohort but you can see the schools that are listed there that have the same demographic location enrollment size and free and reduced um percentages and so I just share that with you just as for your own knowledge the next slide is Flint Springs you can see their cohort group not as large as Andrews and Salomon the next one is Horus man and so on but I thought that would be interesting for you to see where we are uh as schools in our district how we compare to other schools uh across the state Mr Peters yes um could you explain a little bit more about um those comparisons so make sure everybody understands that enrollments the first number and then what are fa F Ela you know at the top of the just so we understand a little bit better I'm on page 136 um Ela is a English language arts okay mat is math and then they have the percentage for the both and then the uh enrollment the enrollment size and then uh the free and reduced lunch percentage thank you so what the state does now they compare us with like schools so if you look at that if you look at if you look at all the indicators there we're pretty similar and then that's that's how they determine who your cohort is then in that cohort then how did you score compared to other schools like you so they they they put those together so before in the past if you remember they just clumped us all together didn't matter those variables didn't matter I do appreciate what the state has done with this this is this is really good because it helps us compare ourselves to others Mr Lin I'm not okay with uh this comparing us with other schools I mean it can be part of the picture but I think if I were to communicate with um school district 6 citizens um I think the best way to communicate to them how the kids are doing would be what do they know what are they what should they know what kind of things do they know in math and science and reading and writing and arithmetic um comparing to another school doesn't tell me that and I think that's what people need to know my father had a fourth grade education that's as high as he went and I could put in 1883 fifth grade or fourth textbook here from Indiana series for example and I gu I almost guarantee you that most of our high school students would struggle with that so I think the pegging everything to other schools is um I'm I have a lot of questions about it I mean there may be some virtue in it but I think that's the wrong way to approach it well I think future School boards here's our here's a unique challenge for us okay you bring up a great Point Jay and I have have tossed around heavily the issue of Standards base report cards what does the child know and not know what can the child do and not do now some people are for that some people are against that um the community members I have gone out and talked to have then asked me this direct question then what's my child's grade now and I'm being really honest with I mean I'm being right up front and honest with you and so as a future board um this whole piece is critical and you'll notice in the Strategic plan we begin to address it and so when you when you start back through the Strategic plan you can see how we're going to start marching forward with just this topic now I do agree that the cohort gives us is one data point is one is one data point and you need at least least three you know so then you have to get drilled down to what's my child's reading level right I mean that's just cut and dry and that you heard Jay talk about that previously what is the ability level of my child in math I mean and so then how do we report that I mean this is becoming this is becoming going to become a question that we're going to have to work with our teachers on is we are so we were all brought up in the grade right of the grade but now how do we specify that even greater for so I can move Johnny from point A to point B but what is John's Johnny's reading score where is what's Johnny's achievement level in math and so on and so forth and then how do we report that Jay I don't want to steal your thunder but that's that's really what it boils down to right and as as we've talked about John I'm not sure going to a standard based report card uh like I say that's a a community mindset our mindset we are so used to a to F and we change that uh changing that mindset um I think can be very difficult um but I think would be one that you look at that you would actually know specifically what standards they' have mastered and what they haven't but um I'm not sure we're ready for that yet yeah and that's that's a community discussion that we're going to have to have at some point I just don't think we're there I just I just don't B based on conversations I'm having with a lot of people we're just not we're just not there go ahead with all due respect uh Mr Peters you mentioned that third graders they have to pass these tests to go on yes then you mentioned five exemptions now having taught in the school system for 29 years I kind of have an intuitive feeling that this is more vision AR and Flowery language than it is substantial as far as what will actually happen because I have a feeling those third graders going to have their own opinions on how well they'll do teachers in this uh I had a a excellent educator leader principal uh tell me one time that and I want to quote if teachers had their way every student would have a good education but teachers only have control over one of the three variables that are important for Student Success or the child the student themselves their parents or legal Guardians and the educational staff the classroom teachers the classroom teachers are held pretty much 100% responsible in their careers for the the success for failure but they don't have the authority to solve the problem as quotation said they would solve it and all of these projections of uh in 2029 we're going to have this or that and we must have um this these are I think it's good to have goals and work towards them you you almost have to have that but sometimes they take on the characteristics of a pie in the sky because I guarante where are we where we five years ago what we were guaranteeing for today it would be a good question so um I think there needs to be a measure of reality I at age 76 I'm almost done with visions and Flowery language so um if I get on the school board if I get that privilege uh I would like to find out how I can help get them to where they need to be regardless of uh what might look good on paper or in language thank you go ahead go ahead Jay the next uh couple slides 142 and 140 uh yeah 142 it shows there the different tiers tier one is our core instruction where we should be meeting the needs and our hope is that we're meeting the needs of 80 to 80 to 90% of our students uh on that slide on page 142 you can see there materials and things that we have ordered through the science of reading Grant the 43,000 that we received those are the materials that we have received uh that we were able to get in teachers hands uh the assessments um what we're doing in tier two and three uh We've added something that's called wi time uh what I need now um and 30 minutes a day each and every day uh students are receiving the support uh that they need uh to help them grow and develop and uh and master the skills that we have asked them to to to master and so we're excited about that teachers have worked very very hard to implement that um and so that's not only for kids uh you know what I need now is kids that are um that need extra support as well as enrichment uh and so uh we're excited about bringing that um to the Forefront uh the next slide I think um what I've done is I've given you a pink handout and uh that's basically what our elementary literacy instruction is based upon it's the Five Pillars that you see right there uh through the national reading panel and I just want to make sure that you had that handout those are the slides uh right there um in your your handout that you received uh just so for your reading you can read down through that but uh that's what our literacy program is based upon here um for elementary so I think at that point Mr trout I think that's all I have unless there's um there's other questions all right perfect J thank you Jay Chuck you want to jump us into secondary then we'll Clump this all together then oh yes sir uh well thank you Mr trout um uh Chuck bribery director of secondary education I'm uh back in Huntington year three uh previously taught here and coached here uh in the 90s and uh went to uh another district and have held uh teaching jobs soci States job department chair job athletic director assistant principal principal and superintendent in my past extremely proud of um some of the accomplishments of student achievement in my past and uh really really proud to come back uh to Huntington with Mr trout and his team Mr Peters want to introduce one of the people who worked closely with me uh Lynn Brown uh is the assistant principal at the high school but also does our 6 through 12 uh professional uh development Works closely with our teachers and our kids um some of the things we're going to talk about today is intentionality of instruction so intentionality of instruction um is what purpose are we trying to do with our children what purpose um are we trying to accomplish with our teachers and Educators and at what rate pace and uh teaching and reteaching an enhancement and those are best practices and so um I am I could talk as Mr trout says this is your Bailey Wick I think he says and uh I am super excited about the direction we are headed in Huntington um I've came here for one reason uh to give back to the district that took care of me early in my career with some experience that I think will help these children be successful that is the sole reason I came back and I'm I'm a child advocate and I am passionate about student achievement I am passionate about um the culture of buildings that enhance the likelihood for the student to feel safe secure and successful in the classroom and my job is to help teachers do that for our children so when I start to show you some of the data I tell you my background because like Mr Peters um I am extremely driven to make sure our children have the best education humanly possible in Huntington and I'm uh going to show you a little snapshot of of that and Lenn will chime in from time to time as well first slide that you see and I think it's 148 in your uh book um is intentionality of instruction on the SAT you're going to see a little bit about um it's interesting in in our history they value sat and then they devalue sat and they're back to really value an SAT again in terms of our universities and and our um how they assess um our high schools to be honest with you and when you look at assessment of high schools you say well are you vertically aligned that allow you to be successful it's not a 11th grade test it's a corporation test and so are you vertically aligned to allow children to be successful in what the state of Indiana has deemed now very very important for them and so I look at the data of where we're at today and if you look at on page 148 or on the screen up there uh it is clear clear that some of the programming and some of the work of our teachers some of the collaborative work within the Departments have allowed the students in Huntington to be more successful than many many places in the state when I look at different areas um this is a data point I use multi- dat points when I look at and I'll talk about many of them um and I won't get into the weeds to the level we have a time limit here but everything that goes into that is number of minutes of instruction number of minutes that uh of intentionality of instruction based on the standards you deem appropriate for your District uh we are standards based in uh the secondary through and through now we have been aligned I walk in classrooms I can tell you many of them what standard they're on I can tell you how they're assessing it I can tell you how they're teaching and reteaching or enhancing that that is a practice that I now see in many of the areas of Huntington when I look at this data point although it's only one this prong tells me I can look at intentionality of instruction vertically in uh math and English and I can tell if we're starting to go across the curriculum or not in terms of preparation for this assessment um Huntington's doing it at a higher rate than others I've seen the intentionality of our kids when they do this uh Miss Brown I know started this process prior to my three years uh with the teachers and others and and Mr Hamill as well and um so when I see this uh this shows me that they're getting some of the areas that they focused on and I think that if you looked at us and one bucket from Northeast Indiana I think we're second among many many schools in terms of our kids success rate I'm also going to tell you I'm a data person I monitor every every single week in this District in the secondary uh success rate failure rate attendance rate discipline rate and every rate that there is and we put that out to our staff uh weekly in many many different buckets success rates is the number of children um that are passing all classes and what level they're passing at failure rate is number of children who are have at least one failing or failed to master depending on how they're being assessed in the current subjects they're in an atrisk group for Chuck brimberry is if right now I know to be true 14.2% of the children at Crestview are now failing one class out of their seven my atrisk group that I need focus on immediately would be that 30 some percent of that group are failing two or more High highly effective schools are 8 to 14% Across the Nation where you feel like at the nature of all of your children that on the mean average schools that are very highly academically successful somewhere fall between 18 and 14% on failure rate of at least one course in a secondary so then you start saying well that's Nationwide best practice where are we when I got here I saw 41% failure rates I saw the the at risk group of 51 to 53% of that group if you say that in a high school um at the time I ran it that would have been 416 children that uh had failed at least one course that would have been 216 kids that were failing two or more courses your children having that kind of lack of success becomes another bucket of focus you meet the children where they're at and so I spend 247 and I have in my career and Mr tr's aware of this um looking at multiple buckets sat is one prong of children being successful in a couple of areas another prong is children who are not doing well in an area is there a system within what they're not doing well at is it random typically not it's usually in an area if kids are not reading at level as Mr Peter said I can predict with really close of the coursework that they're going to struggle with those of you who have taught can predict that as well we know that to be true so we're tied together vertically on success at the next level because if they do not read at the level necessary to read one of the textbooks online or otherwise I can predict their struggles and so could you uh I say that because the database questions that I get are 247 that I think about how to make sure our kids are standards based are mastered at 80% or above um are success and children who are having different stimulus that they cannot be successful in the normal what are we doing for them Success Academy went in what is Success Academy kids that are struggling that are not discipline issues but are struggling in the stimulus and the areas in the secondary schools that don't allow them to be successful in a 47 minute period and need a different setting that meets their needs and so we have a couple of uh Success Academy School uh classes in the high school now that's best practice Nationwide Huntington has that now I said in those classes today and I'm passionate about this and I see Smiles I see success I see questions I saw small group instruction in social studies today Mr lent and they were having discussions about war and current events in the Middle East and trying to draw ties way back from thousands of years ago so I say that because I get up in the morning thinking about this data in Huntington constantly of how to help these kids be in the best environment known to man our discipline in this six we quarter is down 41% and 51% in our middle schools from last year in the exact same time period what does that mean how's that attendance they're in they're in class more now if you're not suspended you're in class how's the attendance attendance is 96.4 97.3 and we monitor every week in our middle schools in high school our kids are coming to school more our kids are in class more our kids are standards based we're enhancing and we're reteaching well what are you teaching we're teaching the state standards Miss Len Brown and her teachers work their tales off we're are standards based education now we take formative assessments math department used to be ahead of that in Huntington their scores reflect that what is a formative it's a snapshot of how you do how you do every four to six weeks what are we not mastered we have to retach if you don't they move on without them they never Master it they don't know and so we've started that system here in the secondary schools we opted in uh to the I learn checkpoint that was optional for us what is that about every nine weeks we take a assessment in English language arts and math that are a practice test based on backwards mapping of what you've taught and have they mastered it and if you've taught it you'll get a snapshot it's not a grade it's uh hey are you do you know this and if we know it it's going to show we know it at what rate if we don't know it we have blocked in best practice Mr trout Mr Peters and I talk about this for hours upon end you have to block in opportunities to retach specifically on a topic a theme a system a problem performance-based tasks and so on those systems are started in Huntington across the board you will continue to see grow growth I told you when we got here this is not new this is best practice for our children and we have great teachers everybody tells me what our kids can't do everybody tells me what our teachers are that's an easy target these kids are fantastic in Huntington these teachers work their tails off in Huntington and what they need is systems which that guy has provided across the board with this thing and people that are out working to say what's best for kids kids academically what's best for them culturally what's best for them on how their behavior and then you got to sit down talk to them and you got to talk to them and you got to talk to them and their parents consistently um we're an easy target for kids that aren't doing well I differ on all that our data is going to show you if you flip to any of these pages I look at slide three as you look on page 149 percent of 11th graders meeting performance benchmarks we're above graduation percentage the first cohort I looked at here before we did the internal audit was 72.2% we were averaging 502 53 kids that had checked out to homeschool before we arrived that were no longer in us that is not acceptable not acceptable I don't want any of our kids choosing a different path than Huntington I think we're the best game in town so we cohort analyze what do we do well look at the grad rates now we're approaching 96 is something percent depending on the day we have multiple buckets for kids we have a oneplus3 college program aligned with Huntington University we have 1444 dual credits at the high school these are classes that almost don't cost anything some do most of them are free we have multiple kids that have one year of college education we have the best Learning Center that I've personally been in by Tiffany Drummond it is amazing what they're getting over there our kids are getting opportunities of others aren't I know it's easy to say what this kid did wrong or this kid didn't right cumulatively Huntington is doing better than other schools we're catching them the instruction is great instruction and in getting better but the environment in Huntington although we have challenges when you have 1,500 in a high school and 605 in a middle school 511 the other the challenges here are less than my pre previous experiences here I'm telling you you have a good school system and you have great kids and you have the collective leadership of about 111 years right now with you and I like going to our teachers classroom our kids are into it our teachers are into it the data as you flip through will show you growth we'll show you areas that we're doing uh intentionality on on 153 that is best practice Nationwide that is best practice Nationwide it's not easy it's hard work but I know what it looks like and I'm telling you right now I have a bucket full of things that say do these things and you'll see our kids achievement go through the roof and uh those systems are in in Huntington I'm extremely proud of it I know what we're not good at I assure you and we're addressing it um daily and yearly here and so I've given you a cumulative of what we do I've given you the data snapshot but I've also told you some of the buckets that we do uh any questions you have on secondary or or any of those things I'll gladly talk about that's longer than Mr trout probably wanted me to talk but I love this stuff okay so questions for uh Jay and Chuck Mr lince uh yes something that you said reminded me of one of the things I wanted to bring to the table today to learn about and I don't know if there's anything in here about it but half of life is physical and I haven't heard anything yet about the physical fitness program in our school corporation and how that is measured when I first started teaching school sure kids uh didn't want to come off the playground they come off beat red and sweating you couldn't hardly get them in the classroom Again by the time I had finished that was in 1976 by the time I finished in 2005 um Pac-Man had come in and all of this stuff and kids were just walking across the playground and getting hurt by walking near playground equipment yeah no question so so and there's a correlation between physical fitness and intellectual development that I there's a connection there well let me um the state disagrees with us but we don't they're trying uh on the State graduation exams they're uh excuse me graduation requirements in the future they're taking less PE in the high school I will tell you that that's not best practice and we know that to be true I didn't get a vote neither did you but uh I will tell you we are full in PE um the elementary excuse me the middle schools clearly have it they also have recess they also have advanced weightlifting that we are at 35 Plus in every single period of the day here we also are full in our PE classes at 30 to 40 per class per day with multiple teachers they have to take two right now in their time period but many of these kids go from what we call APC Advanced Physical conditioning go from basic to that and those systems were put in under this board not too long ago for the APC and they are packed here where is it a physical fitness program fit in is anything in here well what I would tell you that falls under state requirements is what I would tell you so the doe currently has that in terms of do we put it in a snapshot I did not that falls under state requirements right now but I will tell you APC is not required uh Mr lens and we have seven periods a day that are packed and a pair of that helps out because we're overcrowded I'll just um since you mentioned social studies I think that's what it was you mentioned war and social studies I was talking about our Success Academy we were doing small group instruction to some kids that uh the regular classroom doesn't fit very well but I saw some great things examples today of small group instruction uh in Our Success Academy and those multiple buckets are invaluable in a progressive education got to have opportunities for kids that certain things they don't fit into as well to build relationships to allow to educate them sometimes the relationship is the first part then we get to educate and that particular class we work on that as well as mental health do they have the president's Council on physical fitness or the equivalent they it they have some version they don't call it that anymore but they do have um I'll just tell you when I go down to um this particular buildings they have certain things they do for distance certain things they do for physical it's not what you and I would remember as regimented it's all in the state curriculum that they cover it's not monitored as they used to what you're asking they have it it's not check off check off check off it's part of their daily part of their semester and they have to do certain things I remember reading that um when World War II broke out English soldiers were pitted against Germans and the physical fitness culture in Germany was so vigorous and so poor in England and you know we're preparing the purpose of public education to prepare our young people for citizenship full citizenship good citizenship and um War always comes down to I mean it's a constant war and poverty are Constance in our world unfortunately War always comes down even in age of Technology to two men usually about the distance of myself and this gentleman right here and if our children if if our students are not uh physically fit what good is it you know my thinking is what good is it to get them to this all these levels of of higher education intellectual development and they have a heart attack when they're 42 years old when they're sitting at the computer so I haven't heard anything tonight that tells me that uh we have that emphasis in our School Corporation here and I don't even know if it can be done if if we have the authority as a school board to have I'd like to know what we can do but I just I just I guess to sum it up physical fitness needs to be a bigger part of the picture than what I'm thinking it is you know and I we're going to always um support uh Fitness for our kids on a variety of levels I mean one thing that we haven't mentioned is our jotc program for example that's huge um here in what we do um you know we haven't we haven't cut recess times down like a lot of places a lot of places have because of the same things Mr Lin I mean we have to educate the whole child I mean there's a lot of different aspects of what and there's a lot of different components of what the whole child is and so um and then you're kind of dovetailing into my next section here is because challenges we have at a board is what are we going to support financially and what can we support doing that you know with compensation and all those type of things too but I would always say to you is that Fitness of our kids is vital it's important I wish we could have more time with it and this is the balance balancing off what we're required to do and doing academic Excellence versus the whole child and the development of that I think one of the challenges we have as a school board is the demand for our kids time and that's hard to balance out um we have a lot of community organizations that want to want time with our kids we have Fitness that we want to do we have academic things that we want to do and time is a viable Essence and so um we'll continue on down this path it'll be um it'll be interesting conversations if we try to figure out how to do everything we're doing better um within that too Becky for you know I'm I gonna turn it over to you on we're going to start on page 155 with Mrs Smith we're going to spend the next few minutes talking about District finances um and so Becky I'll we'll turn it over to you sure thank you Mr trout uh this evening I just put a a culation together for you um of a lot of different things so I'll touch base on um each one of these and then answer any questions you may have um in between uh just going on talking about State Statute and what it has to um how it is with all the finances uh the compliance regulations requirements of Law and um contracts there's grants everything in all of the district uh has um compliance over that and then internal controls of course um we know that is a huge one for school corporations governmental entities and um that is one thing that we have been working on over this last year to year and a half is um putting those processes in compliance uh internal controls into place uh here and that is a lot of the things that we've already talked about um that we have developed the different reporting mechanisms the presentations the transparency of um all the finances over the last um year to year and a half all of this is under the the State Board of accounts SBO a uh and they do an examination of records every two years and that is um due to Indiana code legal responsibility that is the business office the corporation Treasure of the district um is is required to uh be bonded and uh is required under laws and regulations to uh Safeguard the accounting of the district they are um bonded positions so the corporation Treasurer deputy treasure at the district level is a bonded position and then also the extracurricular treasures at the building level are also bonded now um who is responsible for all this and what is the difference between the different finances that you may or may not um come in contact with with a school district there are um three different types of financial information throughout the district one is the corporation Finance the the other is extracurricular finance and then um last but not least is pto's boosters and those type of finances they all have different rules and regulations and um different interactions with the the school corporation of course we have to be in compliance um with the Department of Education we um we are also governed by the department of local government finance and that is all of our budget process and all the legal requirements we have with our um adopting our budget and then of course the State Board of accounts is um our audit regulations and then of course we go back to our Schoolboard policies um that the school board has uh adopted so going on this is what we were talking about with the three different types of Finance the first one with the corporation um finance that is controlled by the central Administration that's at Treasure Deputy treasur the business office of superintendent and um the second one is extracurricular and that is controlled by the building admin in um in conjunction with the extracurricular treasure and then overseen by the central office and then the third is the pto's and um boosters that are controlled by an outside entity and then I'm going to do a little dive into each one of those and give you the basics on those the school corporations uh funds are considered cash bases and I explain everyone the difference of that you may hear from a big corpor coration that has um General accounting acceptable accounting principles the Gap and that is acrel base accounting any school district in Indiana that is under 15,000 students goes by this cash basis accounting and a cash basis accounting I refer to it just like our accounting at home you have your Revenue your job that you get money from that's your revenue and then you have expenses that you pay out that is as easy as um the cash basis accounting for school district it's an in and an out an a cruel basis is two part of accounting it's more um you have liabilities you have statement of goods you have all those different types of things through cruel accounting we do not have to um do that through uh regular school accounting um Cash basis accounting of districts that are under 15,000 students we go by a fund accounting and how I explain fund accounting is we we separate it into buckets and you'll see here we have some of those listed that are across the state of IND Indiana these aren't necessarily all of ours here at Huntington we have the education fund operations fund debt fund referendum funds at some districts art and historical food service and grants and fund accounting I kind of explain it to other people like your own your own account you have a checking account you have a savings account I might have a Christmas Club account I might have some other vacation account those different types of account that is um divided up with funds in school districts and then um we go uh we budget through uh a extensive process and we have major budget funds that go through that um dlgf that department of local government finance and that um has a criteria that I'll go through uh that has a a long uh checklist and timetable that's required by Indiana code and then uh goes through different processes and adopted by the board and certified by the state and then we have other Grant funds that are approved by the federal and state state level and some local donations and other things that we have budgeted our food service you know they um they go by um their own budgets and um regulations through the food Association and other uh different types of funds throughout the district now here's when I was talking about the major budgeted funds if you hear anyone talk about the past general fund you know is general fund for 40 years so people refer to our main fund as general fund back in 2019 uh they did they upset the apple cart they changed all of our funds in school accounting so our old general fund used to be made up of four buckets two of the buckets stayed and created the education fund the education fund is um instructional aimed directly toward students so um over 96% of the education fund is salaries and benefits that's your teachers that's all the people at the building level um that are directly aimed towards um students then we had um old funds that were called capital projects transportation and bus replacement prior to 2019 those other two buckets that I talked about got moved in and created that operations fund along with the capital projects the transportation and bus replacement all that moved into one fund which is the general overview operations of the district so that has your transportation department your technology department it has um a lot of the central Administration it has your superintendent Department um business office Department all that is in the general overview um in operations your custodial those type of um positions are also through um through this operations fund and then you'll see some of those ancillary um ones the referendums that we talked about some districts have those there's a referendum debt that other districts have of course we have our debt service our debt service um is where we sell bonds and leases to help fund um o larger capital projects in need so uh major repair and Replacements throughout the district so uh when we have Roofing Roofing is very expensive so we we sell bonds to be able to do that that is above and beyond what we can pay with our operations fund so that um every District in the state of Indiana school district has a Debt Service fund for these same likewise um expend expenditures that we need to do throughout the district and then of course a rainy day fund that's just like a savings account any excess money is um saved in our rainy day fund and then you'll see you can read through that I won't read through everything the different uses and Source um for each one of those funds our main source of Revenue that we have for the district for our education fund is our tuition support that is um it has all kinds of names state tuition tuition support basic grant that is one and the same it's a funding formula that goes through the legislative session that provides dollars for schools on a per pupil basis that um enrollment that we talk about uh is funded on a per pupil basis that funding uh for our district runs about $38 million from 2020 to 2024 it has raised approximately $4 million for our district so those funds help us when we're doing teacher negotiations to be able to get the teachers um more competitive W rages um wages and such so over 65% of that money goes directly toward the teachers and that bargaining agreement that um Mr trout talked about earlier then some of the other funds outside of Education are operations fund our debt service fund are all um their revenue most of that comes from local property taxes so those are our two main buckets of our Revenue that we get for the district and then expenditures that are allowed of course we talked about education fund directly aimed toward the students uh operations already talked about those Debt Service and then different referendums if you've heard that around um other communities and then the other funds that have um sources of revenue and expenditures the main funds are Food Service fund which is a federal program and then other ancillary grants that are federal and state and local programs so wanted to provide some historical data for you a lot of this you might um see through the budget Workshop where we do more in depth but I just took snapshots of this so this is our enrollment history his so when I'm talking about that basic grant that tuition support that we receive in our education fund this is where that funding is calculated from our enrollment which is called ADM average daily membership we are on page 166 I apologize and our uh funding comes in two count dates throughout the year so the first count date was just this week October 1 and that funds the district from July 1st to December 31st so you're thinking well if it goes back to July how why don't we take the the count until October Well they um are in line with some other federal regulations in um different counts throughout um the United States on a federal basis so the state changed it um to this October 1 date so this October 1 date when um when they solidify ify and certify that there's a couple weeks that it takes to um uh to solidify and certify all those numbers once that's certified they back pay districts if um it was higher than what they originally projected they start out the year we do receive money on a monthly basis and then they Shore it up once that c count is received and certified the next count is February 1st and that one um you'll see the history here it's called the spring count and that is historical data from 2018 um to estimated present and that one is account that funds from January to June of each year and the same thing once that's certified then they back um either pay us or if some districts their uh enrollment goes down then they actually withdraw and um take back that money the difference of what that calculates next I wanted to show our tax rate so this is our actual um tax rate for our district from 2019 to present and um I I always like to show data on the left and then a visual on the right so you'll see um I call um this type of of screen here uh a roller coaster so we've been kind of a roller coaster with our tax rate here Home Huntington now our goal in the future is to keep that tax rate stable so since um I've been working with uh Mr trout and the board we have um decided on keeping that stable and you will see that from 2024 on we come up with an amount uh that we feel comfortable with and keeping that tax rate stable what does that mean to the public that means now you'll be able to tell what your property taxes will be from year to year based on your assess valuation so instead of you'll see 2019 it was a little over um $1 then in 2020 it dipped so of course you had some relief with your property taxes and then all of a sudden we needed a debt fell off and then we needed to um do some more Roofing Paving lighting some major things throughout the district so then we sold a bond or release and it went way back up so that is what we are um stabilizing in the district so the taxpayers will not have that um big shift in the tax rate then you'll see here the assess valuation of course a lot of us know um since covid that the assess valuations across the um the nation have continued to rise along with a lot of other expenses throughout the dish um throughout the nation so this shows you um the difference from 2019 to 202's uh assess valuation in the increases our district has seen with the assess valuation um this year uh that uh in 2025 we we receive these rates in August for the next year so we already um know 2025 we don't have to estimate that when we're preparing our budget and that uh for our district went up 133% now that is on the high front um across the state others within the state um range between four and 9% so um after this we expect uh our assess valuation to be more stable I think this is still um residual from after covid and you'll see how that kept on going up in 2024 it kind of stabled off and then 25 it went back up and then um predictions are that it will be stabling across the state um in year 26 and on in the budgeting process it is a long um process we uh have a budget Prep schedule that goes to the school board to let them know um when we plan on having the main budgeted um uh required statute steps so there are three main steps to the budget process that uh that the district does and that the board is involved in the first step is when we hold a budget Workshop we give a lot of this information we um have and you can look on our website under uh the Departments under business services and you'll see the last um three years of budget workshops so those presentations are on our website and then you'll see a lot of that historical data that same evening we ask for permission to advertise the budgets and we must advertise our budgets on our website so you'll see that notice to taxpayers on our website along with the budget presentation and then we also uh advertise on the Gateway um transparency site uh that is a public uh website it's called Gateway and that also has a a link on our website to go directly to after that the second main step uh has to be a minimum of 10 days in between and that is to hold a public hearing so we post that notice to taxpayers we let them know that we will be holding a a public hearing on the budgets on uh a bus replacement plan and also a capital projects plan so um we just uh finished with that at our last uh board meeting meting and then last but not least it must be a minimum of 10 days between each one again and that is where we hold um we ask the board to adopt the budget there's some ancillary resolutions that go with the budget and um that is the last um major piece of the budget we take that information and we submit that to the Department of local government finance and they mold it over they go through all the tax rates they do that they solidify everything for every District in the state of Indiana and they're supposed to suppos to certify our budgets by the end of December each year for then the next year our budgets Run January through December these main budgeted funds which is interesting when we're um operate mostly on a school district for um a school year which is a fiscal year so a lot of times we have to think of that we have to think okay in 2025 which we're just in the process of doing for 2025 that is the end of one school year the 24 25 school year and then the other half of that budget is the beginning of the next school year so a lot of um projections um go into that because of course we don't know what our new funding will be from the state that legislative session will be happening this spring but I already had to do the budget for 2025 now so it's one of those things where we look at those Trends that's why we show you the trends the historical data and we go by that to um prepare our budget then next this is just a a snapshot of our education fund and information uh that we share during our budget workshop and um those dollars the difference between our actual budget order our certified budget order and what we're advertising and then here's our expenditures and I um always list this by type and these are object codes and you'll see here we're 90 um over 95% of our education fund is s salaries and benefits that is that direct instruction from all of our teachers all of our support staff at the building level and then here's um the the revenue for our debt service fund and then what we prepare for our debt service fund is this long range debt schedule and this is to show you um what I presented to the superintendent and to the board to show you how we want to stabilize that tax rate to alleviate that roller coaster effect for our tax ta payers so this is a a schedule that I have prepared to um know when um some debt might fall off what the future holds for the district what's the board's um aspirations on where they want that tax rate to be and then I work backwards from that and um create this long range schedule and this goes all the way out to 2040 I think it is so we project way out for the district operations fund same thing the snapshot of the revenue that comes mostly from um property taxes and our operations fund has what's called a maximum Levy so this is another reason why we have to utilize our debt service fund so if you're thinking well I thought our operations fund was all those um the custodial and repairs and maintenance General repairs and maintenance it is for the daily work that we do because we have a maximum amount a levy is the property tax that we can raise from taxpayers so there's a cap on our um property taxes for our operations fund that's why every other District in the um state of Indiana utilizes that Debt Service fund for major repair and Replacements because it's millions of dollars to replace different parts of the roof for Paving for lighting all those other things and then also what we have here at uh Huntington is uh the property tax caps so this is a circuit breaker tax um caps that you as a property owner only um can pay up to a certain cap on your property tax well when that was established we used to as a district get say whatever that calculated um at a full rate then they put these caps in the taxpayer only pays up to this amount but we used to get this for Revenue that is a loss for the District so that's what this is is the historical um amounts from 2020 all the way to present of what the district loses out on that maximum property tax that we get for operations they take this right off the top before they give us our distribution of our um property taxes so we actually lose anywhere from you'll see 1.6 million to a little over 2 million per year due to those caps it's good good for the taxpayer but then for the district that's where we have to um look at other means like our debt service to do major Renovations and then you'll see here are operations fund expenditures by type and you'll see how that um varies throughout the different types from supplies the salaries and benefits utilities that comes out of our operations fund and such technology Capital outlay all those T then what we do is we take all this information behind the sces these are some forms that I have to do through um that Gateway website that we talked about and um the inputs are there on the top this is all the information that um that I have to gather budget estimates that is line by line budgeting so that is okay what are the salaries for the teachers at salamony I have a line item for that what are the benefits for those teachers oh what is their um FICA I have a line item for that what is their teachers retirement I have a line item for that so that form one budget estimate is line by line budgeting that we go through and that's why it takes from May all the way through September to um gather that data and then it goes into a calculation that's where the rates and all that come and then the notice to taxpayers and then the resolutions that we'll be adopting at the um next board meeting so the um financial information you'll see um different uh goals and such that that we are um adhering to and that is of course maintaining balance budgets uh Mr trout talked about in strategic plan earlier about that 15% minimum of a cash um operating balance to maintain that we're well above that so we're right on target with that one um you'll see we talked about the maintaining the stable tax rate a strong credit rating because of those um operating Reserve balances and creating a stable tax rate that helps us when we go to sell those bonds and leases um it makes us very attractive for the banks that that purchase those we get a better rate for that um talking about um the monthly budget reports from um Business Services annual budget work sessions and other um information throughout the year based on um Esser the different grants that we have um year-end analysis cash flows and federal grants so um just a that is our main corporation financing so does anyone have any direct questions for that before I get into those other two that we talked about ECA and pto's that's I know that's a lot of information it's a lot to absorb but I'd be happy to answer any questions or I can go ahead and move on to the other two I'll go ahead and move on then extracurricular um what I do here is I kind of just put um a couple things on uh for dos and don'ts this extracurricular is um raised specifically for an activity or a fundraiser for students um for the benefit of students and they use utilize a fund accounting and some don'ts that you um cannot do through your extracurricular that's the building level um financing uh and um recordkeeping is you cannot do adult activities PTO ptas or boosters do not go through that and you cannot have a negative balance in those funds at any time what that means is that's money that is collected from students for a for a purpose and then expended for that purpose so say they're going on a field trip it might cost them $3 a person because $1 goes for transportation that's paying a transportation bill and the other could be you know the entry to that zoo or anything like that so that's why you collect the money and then you um expend it according to um what your purpose was for that um extracurricular activity and it's just talking about how the um ECA treasure the extracurricular treasure at the building level is the bonded person for that and even um that between that person and the principal is responsible for those um funds and then it's overseen by the corporation treasure and Deputy treasure also at the district level and they have different requirements of transparency requirements that are uploaded to that Gateway site on a monthly basis so does the district so this trans trans ercy site has um their financials it has their Bank reconciliations it has all that that they're required along with the district to um upload to that State website and then here we're just talking about um different things for uh the activities fund what you cannot do out of that is special equipment anything that is instruction related because that's at the district level those different um dos and don'ts that uh you can do through the uh ECA records PTO and boosters a lot of times people don't understand um how this can blur the lines when there is clear Indiana code that um that it is a separate entity it is an outside entity they have their own tax ID number they cannot funnel any of their part of their um finances through Corporation books they can't at the building level or the district level they cannot use the school tax um exempt certificate they have to have their own so they cannot utilize they might um of course they support the schools they do all those things but they're an outside entity outside bank account outside tax everything is outside the school books um the the um district is not allowed to handle any of their money we're not bonded for that kind of organization we're bonded for the district monies and the extracurricular monies but not PTO or boosters so of course boosters PTO can make donations to the schools can make donations to the district you know um it has parents grandparents local businesses general public it's all part of those organizations we love them they support us they're they're wonderful advocates for the schools and then just little tips that I've run across in my 20-y year career I forgot to mention that um I'm going in my 21st um year of um being a a Chief Financial Officer for a school district and these are just some things that I've run across in my tenure um of giving tips to PTO and boosters from um horror stories that I've heard one is um no ATM cards so they should not have ATM cards where they are circumventing their own um body that helps with the finances and um they should go through the regular process of approvals and that um through their organizations or PTR boosters um no cash withdrawals they should do everything by um check and um all that through their books so it's has a record of it um dual signature checks we always suggest that they have um two signatures to help with any kind of fraud in case um someone would um have a a need and uh make a poor choice and then you'll see all these different things um that if if you have unaccountable money what to do all those um dos and don'ts for tips for PTO and boosters now I know that's a a lot of information for finance um we have um different things like I said that we that we provide to the school board everything from cash flows to now to um board financial statements that have the graphs and the data with them um Regular presentations throughout the year and an annual um presentation also and we uh present all this information um through a board meeting and also um of course the public can witness and and um listen to all that I would be happy to answer any questions I know um I'm um an advocate for educating on finance I know that we're a school district and uh our biggest part is the teachers and teaching the students but I feel through my over 20e career that my job is to educate people um through the district and community on school finances and the differences and the complexities that we have through school Finance okay questions for Mrs Smith I had one question on the the PTO and booster financials are those supposed to be open like the school finances or do they have to disclose that to the public or nope they don't have to do anything through the school they don't have to present anything to the school that's what makes it so um complex is that we have no oversight over PTO or boosters they are not regulated to have to show us anything or the schools or the district any thing of their finances so it's very important for their internal controls if you're involved in that or know someone that is that make sure that they're doing those tips those checkpoints and um um on their own because unfortunately you've seen things on you know the front page of the newspapers where um something has happened at a school district and people don't understand these three different ways of financing that we have the district Corporation level the ECA and the pto's boosters they think that's part of this District's books and it's not so that's why I like to educate um people on the three the difference of those three um Financial entities what what is their checks and balance system that they use to to be all of them are different and there's no requirement so that's the difference so it could be a little mom and popop thing because they might not have a lot of volunteers that do it all on their own and they might have just a checking account at the local bank and they I've seen place that had ATM cards in that where there was two people involved and one started taking all the money out of the account and the other one didn't know it because they didn't have checks and balances so that's why I have those tips because I have seen that over my um 20-year career so I think it's very important um when we um have those entities to maybe educate them hold special education things we can educate them they don't have to follow it but we can give them these tips and um ideas to help them through their journey of that type of uh entity good question good question yeah very any other questions for Mrs Smith as we're running just right up to the time here but we'll take any other questions you may have okay uh Mr brimberry I'm G to ask you to do the last part in three minutes okay got you we're on the home stretch you guys are having a good time tonight uh if you look on page 191 192 Mr trout part of uh getting experienc superintendent Mr trout they give you reports for the board of facility studies so one of the things he got done um you're looking at on those pages in the next but basically it's every building and what condition um the buildings are in that need prioritized and um for long range planning what are your immediate needs what are your long range plans you can see those for every building in the Corp this was done by vidiian architecture um and I would also tell you that that allows the board that Mr trout works with and I do to look at what is next steps when do you want to do it funding match with projects and so what you have there for your reading is to go through uh those different priorities and evaluations what you see on the screen from uh Mrs uh gray uh are some different mechanical and controls Replacements as you can see uh there's been two phases at Huntington North phase one was completed this summer which is part of the building uh for HVAC the uh there's some ongoing now and then another Penthouse will be completed next summer so HVAC completion is scheduled for the end of next summer at Huntington North uh rather large project from one of the things Cindy if you want to go ahead and click ahead uh different Mechanicals controls replacement pictures that uh Terry thornsbury has shown the board over time go ahead Cindy um that is our uh and consumer science that is their lab and that was a part of the construction project that was just finished up at Huntington North uh very proud of that that was uh one of the priorities uh that you'll see that has been just recently completed we're doing punch list as we speak go ahead Cindy uh phase one of science lab renovation kids and teachers absolutely love it uh for the board's purposes and uh for Community phase two will be uh complete and it's being punchless now for Oct October 15th and then the planetarium will be October 22nd so phase two completely done and punch list will be this month the exterior walls and you can see some of those things but uh a lot of great work if you um I just love going in there the kids and teachers are are just thrilled about the academic setting uh those were in um poor shape when they started so uh just outstanding Administration renovation is going on right now framing has been completed uh they're doing rough uh plumbing and electrical work as we speak the next two to three weeks go ahead Cindy uh H&S ceiling lighting mechanical PA and piping those are uh getting ready to happen I would anticipate uh those uh coming your way in terms of start dates um right around the Christmas holiday sometime that will take place to be finished in the next year we had uh construction meetings today looking at strategically they will do four classrooms at a time which will take up to two weeks for those blocks uh they will also coordinate that with PA install installation they will coordinate that with some piping stuff and the HVAC project that's going on simultaneously so a tad busy around here all of that will be completed in a timely manner by I think December of 20 um five and so we'll we'll have this wrapped up so we got a lot of things simultaneously happening there go ahead Cindy uh you can see uh some of the issues they're dealing if you go in the new science or this particular one you'll see what uh less lighting and more efficient and more cost efficient looks like if you walk outside the hall you'll see what the tunnels look like that are more lighting and less efficient and uh cost more so that's an example of that uh different all hallways and all classrooms will be completed on the science and uh uh for the excuse me on the lighting um and piping and uh ceilings those will all be completed except these are areas due to budget uh what we call the West science now you all would call new science but it's now old science it's the West area that lighting is still up to par and will not be touched during this those classrooms as well are still fine will not do due to budget the library art and the Fieldhouse and Arena areas those will not be a part of the ceiling lighting and those on this phase okay that'll be for future board consideration salamony HVAC will start this summer they'll do the part that the kids are in uh during the summer they will go to where the current administration offices and business office so on they will start that during the year so it won't affect any classroom so that will start this summer and be completed by December of 25 is the goal so we'll see hopefully that stays on budget and on on task salamony HVAC currently um steam I believe and not many of those left when we fix that rather challenging to find people who are experts in those particular areas from the 60s uh still for uh things that we deal with down there so that'll be great for salamony restroom renovation we should start that uh on your latest one this will happen simultaneously as well as many other project in the high school those will start um and keep the dates straight I believe that will start in January uh and go through next December and for that be a yearl project so some of that will take place during the school year the primary ones near the kids common spaces will take place in the summer and do you mind if I tag on to that this is an example of what we're using our debt service fund for these are these major projects that we sold those bonds and leases for that's helping us do these renovations if not we would not have enough funds in our operations fund um to be able to do these type of things so that's what we're um utilizing is our B selling bonds to our debt service and um we're doing these projects when he's talking about um according to budget and uh of course we have so much money that we sold those bonds for and that we have to keep um within those dollars because then we have to wait for something else maybe to come off where then we sell another Bond or lease in its in its place as old old bonds or leases come off then um we're utilizing those dollars to do all these Renovations so that's why they use this facility study to be able to um earmark what um is needed next um throughout the district as we do that long range plan that I showed you till um um 2040 thank you Mr trout I believe that completes us so um with this when a new board is seated in January what I want you to know is that we are going to go back through this process of facility study because it's three it's going to be going on almost three years now and so numbers change directions of new board changes but what we're going to do as a board in 25 is we're going to go back through that process and then what you as a board will do is determine with all of those um Pages for example 189 to 220 what's the order that you want as a board to do the remaining projects okay now it's not just that easy or not just not that simple because what we're going to do then is is to line up cost with bonds coming off and money's becoming available and so the board in 25 and 26 is going to use those 24 months for planning for future upgrades to our facilities based on the available uh funding that we have because we do do have bonds coming off in the next two to three years and so we need to be making preparations of what do you as a board want to see happen next we still have lots of items here at the high school we still have items across our district and what do you as a board want to see is taking president over the other and so that will be multiple uh meetings multiple data Gathering multiple on a lot of fronts for us to determine okay what's our plan moving forward to address our facility our facility needs Becky will play a huge role in this in helping us to understand mone's available monies that we don't have available bonds that are coming off do you lease do you do a Geo Bond do you do do you do do you do and we'll work through all of that stuff um it will be a lot um um we as a community made a decision a few years ago that a referendum wasn't the route but we have to use the funds that are available to us and I think that we've done a decent job at that I think we've done a great job at that actually and now what's the future hold how are we going to do that um how are we going to do that and I think that's why we have to look at the funds available the needs that are met and the things that happen and so if you are a new board member and you're coming on that will include tours it'll include tours to places you've probably never been to inside our facilities quite frankly um so um I'm excited about that work it's a lot of work but I don't want to go on three four year data old data to make decisions either we got to get new estimates we got to get new study done and we have to look what we got so that's been very helpful questions about facility studies I have a quick one yeah go ahead thank you um how much does it cost to uh originate a bond how much does it cost to originate a bond how much does it cost to to do the bonds yeah to isue bond so it depends on our credit rating so there's a lot of different variables in that so if you're asking me okay what does it cost on a um approximately a $5 million Bond of Interest it's a couple $100,000 no just to issue the bond like all the legal fees all the um it's under $100,000 so the legal fees between the legal fees we have a financial advisor and then we have a bond counsel and then our our just our regular staff so that just that part alone issuance fees run um I would say between 50 and $660,000 just for that issuance part and them to develop all the paperwork the paperwork um if any of you get on the board they can attest to the paperwork that you have to to sign for those um General obligation bonds to meet the legal requirements in Indiana um there's a lots of paperwork if you think of a mortgage when you're doing your mortgage a lease um is just like your mortgage at home so when you when you go to buy your home and you see that stack of paperwork it's basically that same type of thing it has an amortization schedule it has the um regulations of the interest rate and all those different parameters but good question thank you others yes Mr car so we heard a lot about the education on the the elementary the middle school and the high school um one of my questions is on the Learning Center and the vocational project you talked about Miss Drummond doing an excellent job and I've heard nothing but great things about her but we didn't really get a breakdown of anything that's going on over there I was running I was running out of time sorry er no that's fine but that's something that I I know um if if we've got you got a really good program for kids going to college and and it sounds like we have a really good program for kids that aren't on the college course and and I would like a little more information on that sheening um criminology nursing uh 911 um police and fire or uh fire and rescue um there is so many different Pathways over there and and anytime Aaron I'd love to take you a tour on that one um it is amazing it's my favorite space in the school uh you'd love it so uh reach out to me I'll take you over there and take you walk around with Tiffany and you'll see all the different things they do it's pretty extraordinary glad to any of you I mean that yeah I'd love to it's it's a kind of a source of pride in my opinion Huntington has it and I'm not sure they know how wonderful it really is but coming from the outside back here it's pretty amazing um Aon what I'm planning on doing we're in the process of leaving our current area 18 Co-op cooperative for a variety of reasons mainly to the main two main reasons is one it's more fiscal Luc fiscally lucrative for us to be on our own um because we're sharing program and administrative cost with school districts and Adams Wells Blackford and J County and quite frankly we just have outgrown it um we do not benefit from being in that Co-op any longer and so there's going to be a board report on that sooner than later I'm currently negotiating that process away from that um the second reason is um we no longer need to share program our prog we no longer need to have students go to other districts for programming um we have opened so many new programs we're filling them that that's also ties to the financial piece of this process too and so what I will do in an upcoming work session is I'll make sure that Mrs Miss Drummond comes and does a complete presentation at a work session so you all can see that um I'm just waiting until we're a little farther down the process because I know that's going to be the question that all of you are going to ask me where are we with that because we've been working on that well over a year uh now and so um it's a fair question it's a great question um it's our fastest growing programming that we have in the district right now is over there um at the Learning Center so thank you Aon auto body is another area over there too they do a great job so I'd love to show you guys okay anything else facilities okay thank you it's a lot it's a lot okay yes Kathy shock swingle from District Four and I just want to reiterate how wonderful this meeting was and how informative it was and I really appreciate everybody's time thank you so you you uh great segue and so what I want to say is is that seriously if you're a current board member um I hope we were able to share information with you that um maybe you learned something today too if you're a prospective new board member please reach out to me I would welcome the opportunity to sit down with you further and have any conversation about any of the information in the um in that secondly seriously if any of you want to go through the learning center um please reach out to us we'd be more than happy to take you over there um I was embarrassed when I started working here two and a half years ago I can't tell you how many times I've driven up and down Jefferson Street and didn't realize what was going on really truly did not understand what the the the programming going on in that building it's it's absolutely amazing amazing what our kids are doing and the opportunities they're having graduating from here to do that so please reach out but I would welcome the opportunity to meet with any of you uh moving forward don't hesitate to reach out to me and and go through any of this information or anything else that might be on your mind um thank you everyone uh Becky Chuck Jay Cindy thank you uh appreciate you guys for your evening and uh we'll see you all soon take care may I have a motion to adjourn the meeting pleas so moved second all in favor I I those opposed for

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going out uh by the timer you should see like a little thing I don't know what it's called it's it's like a box uh yeah once they leave that area is that it like in the top left corner when someone gets launched pretty far yeah second I did see it in the top right just at the top of your screen basically yeah somewhere yes you got to use your eyes to find it all right and now about the crew battle format so each team has four participants each participant has three stocks so basically each team has 12 stocks first team to deplete the enemy's stocks completely is the winner of that round so uh let's say uh so Eli is currently leading this match two lives to one let's say he defeats this game in a watch with two lives left he goes into the next match he has to jump off once to lower his stock correct I know I know some stuff I pay attention kind of while playing Tetris yeah you have to start every match with how many stocks you had at the end of the previous one mhm let's see big up smash there that almost sends the enemy gaming watch off good Forward Air lands from John Glenn's gameing watch he's looking to have that down smash but Eli is going to hit the side B that's not going to kill but the Forward Air off stage will yeah see I I didn't know that but that seemed good yeah he won that is going to be Eli with two stocks remaining taking the first game Eli did pretty good there yes yes now we have a small intermission while the opposing team decides who to send in against AI he's it's very exciting that he wants to learn Isabelle because I am an Isabelle player mhm I've seen that a little bit while playing Tetris mhm we have to finish reading the rest of this I don't believe so quick shout out oh yeah okay uh since we are on the topic of Smash Bros we are excited to announce that our third annual Super Smash Bros tournament is being held here at bluon High School on November 2nd for just yeah for just $10 you can compete against other community members to go for the honor of the best in bluon the best yes register today at ssbu bhmsd.org that is ssbu bhmsd.org you should probably sign up if you think you're good that would be cool they need the money yes all right here we have Eli going in with the two stocks I ended the last game with up against an enemy wolf we did not know that the enemy had a wolf on their team this is a new uh addition to John Glenn I assume probably see you're shooting that Blaster that Blaster is a very good tool for Wolf very good zoning zoning is basically just you know it's in the name you keep your opponent in a specific Zone stay away from me that is the motto of zoning mhm you're going to see it a lot in my matchups probably probably I mean it's it's just cuz you're so good yes skillful player Zone we all know yeah yeah yeah see Eli looking for the kill move here he's going to get some Fireballs off stage looking for an up smash perhaps a roll read that is not going to work up tilt going to catch him by surprise too many big words yeah it would take a bit if I were to actually explain every single move that everyone has yeah see I play Tetris I don't know anything about this yes yes Fireball nice Fireball coming out yeah just just call it how you see it with the moves you know he hit him he hit him with his wing yeah yeah tilt okay two to two yes ah Eli's got this oh misses an up smash there the wolf perhaps looking for something big here looking for a Kill okay oh that long holding down smash did not work on Eli mm-m nice Force nice landing there the wolf going to roll gets caught by the F tilt holding up smash again that did not work okay the wolf's get up attack from ledge missed and a down smash from Eli is going to connect nice up be from Wolf simultaneously recovers him back to the stage and sends Eli to the other side come on weak Dash attack wolf looking for a kill move here but he just can't seem to find it oh there's an up smash from Eli two to one I think yeah I think okay so we're stuttering again unfortunate oh there's a big F smash going to catch the uh spot Dodge read so it is now one stock to one can Eli success take out this wolf yeah if he can he will have taken out half of the John Glenn roster that's a grab they only have four people yeah four people per team three stocks each member okay so 12 stocks in total oh imagine if that hit would have been insane quick Jabs and a blaster the wolf might be rolling now just noticing real quick John Glenn has not played any games yeah they haven't reported any games at least no they haven't played side B almost kills Fireballs off stage going to get him in a rough position that is going to be Eli good job Eli taking another game one stock remaining for the big boy of bluon he did not need to stare into the camera at in but he did he did he needed to yes yes no no no no no he did not need to I kind of like that the big boy of bluon he he's the best the BBB no he's the best the best big boy of bluon the bbbb yeah that sounds like a notification sound effect bbbb yeah I think it is a sound effects or whatever you want to call it so he's going into next round with only one stock so that's going to be a little risky yeah it is going to be tough for him to get some more uh stocks yeah they are sending in a bth the enemy team so bth he's kind of a weird character he's a DLC stands for downloadable content he wields a bow and arrow a sword a massive battle axe and a spear okay so too many weapons yes a lot of weapons mhm there's lots of sword fighters in this game he is one of the I guess I'd call him unorthodox I don't know definitely unique I'll say unique there's that spear yeah whoever is playing him at least knows how to play him get attack misses from the enemy bth and that F smash is going to land nice oh here we go the juggles the juggles keeping them in the air side B connects goes through the shield Fireballs off stage bth jumps through them gets back to the ledge oh only gets hit by one of the Jabs good down smash there good job that is going to be Eli taking another he is currently at seven stocks taken that is very impressive m I mean like you said they only have four players so they only have 12 stocks in total yeah and he's taking seven of them mhm and like you guys still haveth 10 side B coming through there from the enemy bth blocks the dash attack going to throw him back what do you do if Eli takes out everyone uh then we congratulate him and his ego is boosted as everyone should be no no no no no Eli is already boosted he doing he doing good yeah yes yes very good very good yes yes yes yes very good yeah okay drag down n there MH nice land a dash attack Fireballs oh miss the spe two attacks Miss ooh down till oh just barely misses that up smash yes sir yes sir good job one to one big down smash there at ledge another good read from Eli going to take yet another stock we heard his satisfaction from that uh maneuver of his from the room over he did good he's definitely feeling good he's saucing that means he's on a roll I should just say he's on a roll he he's locked in right now cuz he he's at 106 so he's he's locked in right now oh side be that would have ended the match there the arrow gets hit by a bit of that side B that's fine trying to stay alive and getting getting into a good advantageous position that's the name of the game here oh he went for that big down B that's a big charge up move that will kill at very early percents dang and a Dash attack there is going to end Eli's incredible run took eight stocks out of his one game very impressive his one run he took eight stocks yes that is 2/3 of John Glenn that's an very very that's very impressive yes very impressive even me as someone who doesn't know knows that's good yes um I don't know if I'm going to remain in here we'll see who they're uh sending in I'd say probably like a Tristan I me personally I would put in Tristan here they should definitely send in Sam because I want to see Sam play you want to see that Sam game I want to see Sam play oh hold on I see kamora scooting up oh all right we are sending in kamora here we go what oh look the outside world oh no I want to stay here it's pretty nice here yeah I want to stay here in Smash Bros yeah all right you can see at the bottom of your screen there we probably transition to full screen here um yep we're going to have kamora that's the blue character that you see on the right side of your screen okay one to three y here we go we don't know how this is going to go but I think she has it all right the two taunts VI going to immediately shoot an arrow they seem to do that almost in in both games they've instantly fired an arrow yes that is true oh I guess the kick disregarded the arrow sure there's a long range blast attack Dash attack coming through from the enemy B the good nare off stage can kamora recover no she cannot one to two oh is he teabagging in a high school game oh no he's teabagging that's CL my godam has got to do this yeah take him out mhm oh they're going out soon that disrespect will not be taken we do not take disrespect here at bhmsd I don't know why they're doing that they only have four STS left send me in if kamora doesn't win this we not tolerate this I won't have my translator then not that will have to go in cuz kamora is going to do this yeah 1088 with one stock they're not doing too good kind of trouble oh that could have been a kill there from bth but uh kamora flies into the wrong direction see it could have been a kill but it wasn't so mhm another Dash attack blocked mey down smash there they are destroying Kamar throws out a blast they're close though comos big kick from kamora that is going to be the game kamora is going to take STS left kamur is going to take her first stock of the varsity season surely an exciting moment for the young player now is she on Varsity or is she a yeah she's a varsity sub okay I was going to say I don't know who who's varsity and varsity shop like I do OverWatch oh well you see our Varsity squad would be Captain Jaden AKA blue J Eli AKA exploded Tristan AKA trzy D and Sam AKA minion 139 and Eli's already out yeah and our subs are Izzy AKA rainbow Moonlight and kamora AKA Corlin pretty funny name Corlin yes Corlin Corin I think she came up with it on the spot much like me what made you choose blue jay well I've been uh kind of related with birds for a lot of my life you know I've been nicknamed jbird a lot so I've always you know kind of been related with birds and you know blue jay that's a real bird that I share names with okay and I didn't actually have a gamertag before I was asked hey we need a gamertag for the back of your jersey what's your Gamertag so I came up with blue jay on the spot straight on the spot yes this here you go the enemy for their anchor the fourth member of their team the last member of their team sending in a king K rule it's that crocodile on the right side of your screen the crocodilo oh all right it seems that I'm getting subbed out of commentary no no oh okay well I'm being removed I'm not being subbed out ha okay uh bye-bye I don't know how to come up with an exit line on the spot okay bye so rude so rude I've now lost my translator so how oh kamora's out lost [Music] who are they going to bring out I think they're putting in Jaden if I'm correct they're putting in Jaden because they took him away from my commentary let's see hey Robbie you commentating yeah I guess so there's a mic I don't know okay we're just talking okay so next up we have Sam I forget who he's playing is this okay so it's a king K King K rule versus a king K rule so see how well this goes I believe in Sam I believe so yes sir come on Sam take out Sam come on come on Cannonball a cannonball misses blocks The Cannonball sends a did not win three to two come on Sam come on yes sir good good yes two to two saying block The Cannonball yes come on oh come on come on come on come on come on come on come on Cannonball oh Cannonball slightly misses blocks The Cannonball DOD upper oh oh misses come on canonball canonball slightly misses knocks him off and doesn't die I agree Sam's got the this I believe in him cuz I believe we still have one more person after this I believe so and this is their last guy with only two stocks left so yeah no Sam's got this oh yeah I agree yeah Sam's got this o almost gets H hit by his own Cannonball yep yes sir throws him off is he recovering he is recovering blocks the cannonball with his crown get his Cannonball gets blocked block force field gets thrown off gets thrown off the edge come on he's coming back yes nice one to two Sam's got this won't be very long till he's out though so he has to play it wise o blocks the crown um throws him off throws down throw it pies him back throws him back [Music] off come on yes sir off Sam's close to dying so he he's playing he's playing smart let time off Sam still has two stocks left so even if he dies here he's most likely going to get it off come on come come on Yanks him a one to one Sam's so close 0 to 122% I think Sam's got this there it is there it is there it is yes sir Sam I believe that was it I believe so I believe so was that it is this the final round or I believe that was it or is this it was it is it on oh nope this same next same next they won round one I'm trying to lose my voice so bluon takes home round one who's going to win the next I believe if bluon wins the next one it's a it's game over yeah it's game over but if they win round three John Glenn wins next round it goes into a round third as a tiebreaker wait did wait did you see all this H did you see all this except for the outro yeah be here for that but who are they sending in is it going to be I believe you know her name Izzy Izzy let's go Izzy sending in Izzy come on is win this for the team hopefully she'll do something like Eli did and exactly take out eight stocks in his first game is she going to win or oh oh Bowser do it now her versus Bowser but I he got this m oh ground slam Shields oh misses okay hits lands a couple of hits right there gets hit yep okay she's getting heavy nice oh she SN Snipes and she nice ground slam ah nice she at least she at least knows how to get around Bowser yes to stay away from his attacks yep yep o ground slam I agree Bowser's getting aggressive I agree o ah Bowser did die come on misses sadly Bowser lands a hit the misses again hits Bowser o misses a ground slam yep she's not out though a misses the ground slam lands that one kind of ah it's deflected ground slam yes juggle ah gets taken out two to two it's just me again oh no come on Bowser ground slams izy ground slams misses Bowser lands a hit doesn't go off the edge though o hits him slightly with the attack hits him again Bowser's Landing these shell slams I'm going call them ground Slam by izy ground slam is Bowser ah she gets ground slammed even if she gets taken out here she still has one stock there we go oh no one to two hits him with the sword Bowser's almost [Applause] out don't forget that the higher the percentage has the closer they are or easier it is to get the person out so when Bowser was at 194 they were extremely close to like they were like one hit away from dying which as you saw they were o ground slam your body slam misses the sword attack ground slams him and get shell slammed he blocks the attack slams she Dodges gets him with the sword holding him back with the sword hits him come on juggle not juggle hit him with a sword keeps him hits him back with the sword oh my gosh I cannot talk ah gets body slammed one to one right now she's getting close to getting out come on Warfield yes yes come on yes there it is took out their [Applause] Bowser believe they're sending in Jaden next hopefully okay Izzy goes back in with one stock and then if she gets taken out it goes back to whoever they want to send in next so see how many stocks she can get rid of on the other team before she gets taken out oh they're sending in a wolf anything like their last wolf they're at least they're at least pretty good [Music] so t two stocks going in 1 three against the [Music] W lands ahead tries to keep him out with the sword doesn't work gets clawed dodging the attacks blocks the blocks the laser blast hits him keeps him back with the sword keeps throwing the sword just holding him back oh there goes the wolf okay that's one stock how many more she can can she get down before hits him with the sword pushing him back he blocks she gets hit with her own sword he blocks the attack a there it is sending in I believe they're sending back an Eli if I see that right they're sending they're sending back in Eli Yep they're sending back in Eli see if Eli can take them out again it's anything like last time he's going to take another eight of their stocks no yeah eight I'm forgetting wolf versus King DDD okay it's going to start pretty soon here we go blocks slams him tries to hit him through a shield doesn't work eats the laser blast sends it back but gets hit by it himself sends wolf off the edge again nice job hits the hits the spiky ball throws him off the edge misses the hammer tries to pick him up again miss blocks the laser picks him up throws him off nope misses not miss but he barely stayed on the platform he goes off throws wolf off but wolf is able to jump back on he jumps off gets back up blocks attacks Wolf's attack blocks his attack throws him off there it is what basically killed himself to get the win so he's going back in with two stocks so I believe they have two people left that's Eli's signature move right there to swallow them and jump off the map can't remember if that's two players or three players cuz me not very smart okay we're on our second player while they're on the their third player it's King DDD versus I have no idea I was the I think that's a sword sword girl pyra pyro and Mithra don't know if I pronounce that right but what I'm going with blocks the attack hits him tries to swallow him doesn't get it blocks their Hammer a doesn't get the swallow tries to swallow blocks the sword or down smash with the sword blocks the sword body slams them hits him with a hammer eats them uh they jump back blocks him with the hammer oo come on come on ah ah hits him with the H yeah Hammer attack misses the spiky ball they can't get back up there they go two to two blocks the sword almost gets pushed off gets back up gets hit back off again gets back up gets hit with the sword gets back up tries to eat him doesn't o gets it doesn't throw him very far they Eli gets hit with the sword again come on blocks the attack hits the eats him tries to throw him off there they're really good at once he eats them and he tries to throw them off getting back to that platform hits him up with the hammer [Applause] that's called [Music] recovery some up blocks oh gets it off will he be able to get back up yes he will is he able to recover yes so are they though they're playing aggressive o 21 nice job Eli who gets hit he's getting close to dying at 162 he's getting pretty close we're currently in a standoff there we go eat some there we go they get hit up 177 he's almost out he's still fighting though so I mean he still has one stock after this but you know eat some DDD is a heavy class character so he has so it takes a higher percentage to take him out than the lightweight lightweight character that I believe the other person is playing I believe that's lightweight lost his stock there still he's at zero while they're at 85 so he might I believe he has this I mean taking out eight stalks in his last game so blocks nice ah there it is nice job Eli so he's going into his next round with one stock while we're still on our second they're they are currently going onto their fourth player Eli has taken out most of the other team stocks I believe so if Eli dies here I believe they're sending in Jaden their team captain believe we're getting ready to load in here we go King dddd versus King K cool or rule read that wrong that's fine go here we go oh wait that's die twice real quick there we go okay now here we go body slam or slams him hits him back with the hammer blocks The Cannonball hits him so currently they are both heavy weights so both of them are going to take a quite higher percentages to get taken out by normal hits as long as they don't fall out of the map okay King K King K roll gets eaten thrown up ooh blocks the crown tries to throw the crown back at him King King K Ru picks back up his crown oh almost close not quite though oh he gets hit with a cannonball gets hit up there we go that's one instantly hits them back off the edge but they recover ooh gets hit to the ground no don't die here blocks The Cannonball eats them takes him off the edge nope almost dead slams gets hit oo gets hit with the crown eats The Cannonball throws it back hits him up with the hammer hits him with the spike there we go one to one don't die tries to eat him and take him off the edge again his signature move doesn't get it he gets hit back up he's at 152 so he's still going to take a higher percentage to die but a there it is still this is their last player with one stock left who are they throwing in next I believe Jaden their team captain or one of their new players I don't know his name who are they sending in they're sending in TRD Tristan had to look back at the sheet for that he's got this they have one stock left and I believe he plays a heavyweight but I don't know like I said I don't watch Smash Bros practice I play Tetris he plays a lightweight so he still has it though three stocks to one he plays Little Mac he plays the boxer so King K Roll versus Little Mac still it's one to three so as long as he can get rid of that first as long as he can get rid of that stock he's got it he's got [Music] it okay getting ready to start throws out their taunts here we go blocks the attack blocks The Cannonball hits him oh gets gets body slammed blocks ooh blocks the can Ball but gets hit with the crown blocks the other cannon ball but gets hit with the stomach ooh king king Kroll gets hit up nice high Punch or strong punch I'm going guess o get slammed to the ground hits him hits him off will he recover yes nice uppercut oh he got sucked in he's going off he recovers no he gets slammed down into the void he did get King K roll to a high percentage though 140 well on his last stock Dodges The Cannonball Dodges that Canon or blocks that Cannonball blocks the attack a gets slammed to the ground he's not he's not able to hasn't landed an attack yet he blocked that one that would have been a nice one blocks the crown doesn't block the Dodges The Cannonball there we go nice win win for bluon right there I believe I believe that was their last so that was two Z I believe we just won our second round yes bluon won second round okay [Music] e [Music]