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4 is the approval of the financial report item 24105 is the approval of construction payments we have one to Teton Corporation for Cub Industries and the amount of $238,600 $ 395010 item 24106 is the approval of the Personnel report item 24 106.1 is the addenda of the Personnel report and 24107 is approval of donations and grants first for the Madison jior High the iare group donated $150 to the girls soccer team Madison Educational Foundation donated $1,875 to the MJS Academic Teams Toyota of Madison Brent Ary donated $440 to the seventh grade girls soccer team to be used to purchase banners and Butler dentl donated 300 to meet the makers night to be used used for live music sponsorship for the Madison Consolidated High School Madison Precision products donated 300 to the boy soccer team Mitchell Burch donated a trombone Prelude and approximate whatever Prelude is approximate cost is 200 to the band um I donated $100 to the bowling team and there was also an anonymous donation of $1,000 to the bowling team and then during the car show um activities the following donations were made to the U the bowling team either from sponsors or Raffles Chandler Chevrolet donated $1,000 rco RKO Enterprises donated $500 Craig Toyota donated $500 new core steel Gallatin donated $300 Culver donated $300 Bentley Auto Service donated $300 Ben Hunley agency American Family Insurance donated $250 Miller Automotive donated $200 mix garage donated $200 Madison Auto Service donated $200 Dicky's dogghouse donated $200 the Community Foundation donated $100 Rivertown Towing and Recovery donated $100 NAPA Auto Parts donated $100 McDonald's donated $100 Madison Auto Collision donated $100 Cru and auto donated $100 alorn Sage Schwarz and McGrath LLP donated $100 88 King Buffet donated $100 El Napal donated two $25 gift certificates super shine Auto Detail donated a $50 gift certificate in Koozies Great Clips donated a basket of men's hair care products and free haircut Pizza Hut operations Enterprise donated four free large pizzas Big O Tires donated two oil changes Dairy Queen donated four $20 gifts gift cards froner kitchen donated pie and cobbler Madison maid donated a $25 gift card Subway donated two dozen cookies Culver donated four value baskets and four single scoops of custard Coco Safari Safari chocolates donated a $25 gift certificate Britney's Brick Oven Pizza donated a $20 gift card Boneyard donated a $25 gift card Tapatia Mexican donated a $20 gift card red pepper donated a $25 gift card Ditto on May donated a yard flag Hinkle sandwich shop donated a $25 gift card Pizza uncommon donated a $25 gift card Bubba's 33 donated four dinners for two Chili's donated 49 free kids meals fres donated a $25 gift card Harry Stone Grill donated a $25 gift card Diego's Mexican Grill donated 30 a $30 gift certificate Mexican vijo donated a $50 gift card marinar Finance donated sunglasses headbands cups pins uh 30 of each Heights Finance donated 50 ink pins NAPA Auto Parts donated a 100 piece tool set grubs Automotive Group donated two oil changes ciny am ciny amberin donated a basket of cleaning supplies wax melts room spray the grime scene donated uh a bag headband watermelon bubble bath uh a bunch of different stuff here um O'Reilly's Auto Parts donated a car wash bucket Barker Farm and Gifts donated a bird cage with wreath coasters um some scrubs and lotions KOI Auto Parts donated a deluxe detail kit Dairy Queen donated an ice cream cake Madison candles and Gifts donated a medium CA siiz candle Kaylor tire and Supply donated a free oil change Serendipity Boutique of Madison donated small candle and two car fresheners Lon Maine donated a $20 gift certificate and bracelet Thomas Family Winery donated a Vineyard um table book Advanced Auto Parts donated a wash bucket AutoZone donated armorall wash bucket jendy's P Pizzeria donated a $30 gift certificate Bellow's Pizza donated A2 $25 gift card scooters coffee donated 10free drinks attic coffee Mill Cafe donated a basket of lotion coffee cups coffees soaps candles blad styling salon donated shampoo and conditioner and a free haircut hair Essentials too donated a gift certificate shampoo cut and sty House of Jane donated a free haircut and stickers for bags Kirsten quick uh donated lavish Spa aurum bag uh conditioner foam body lotion lavish Spa donated four car fresheners seat belt extender and keychain Mary Shear Perfection uh donated hair products Toppers on Maine donated a 30 $ gift card an American Wildflower Salon Salon and more donated a basket of hair products um item 24108 approval of field trip request we have a request from the high school Jag instructor Sierra shuss to take 50 11th and 12th grade Jag students to the University of Louisville um in Louisville Kentucky on October 25th of this year this is a college tour for our students to be able to experience a college campus college life dorms classes and what college has to offer the students will also be provided a presentation by admissions for help with applying uh to college we also have a request from the high school girls golf coach Jake um shley to take six girls from from the golf team um to Franklin um to participate in the girls Regional at the Legends Golf Club on um September 27th to 28th uh of this year I will now um ask for a recommendation from our superintendent could you repeat that which [Music] part I recommend the the board approv with one motion and one vote the consent agenda items 24-1 01 through and including 24-1 08 as presented can I have a motion I make a motion that we approve the consent agenda can I have a second I'll second is there any discussion yeah I would like to say something um on this I just want to reach out to everyone hopefully everyone heard all of those donations that's huge and I want everyone to real realize you know that's local businesses that's local individuals that are pumping money giving donations so takes a while to read through it but we feel as though we want that out there so thank you from the bottom of our hearts for supporting the school system excellent anybody else if not um all in favor can uh signify by saying I I I any opposed motion carries uh so we would like to introduce dein brle who's here tonight and she's our new softball head coach so congratulations to Devon I would like to something Qui I'm just blessed andon toen for this it's Tru s always been a but I love these student athletes have got opportunity to over the last few years that I've been here my assist director I'm really excited to geted thank [Applause] you okay um okay uh the next uh agenda item is approval of adoption of the 2025 annual budget Dr Brown yeah we are seeking approval from the board to adopt the 2025 budget that's been presented at the past two meetings so asking for approval can I have a motion I'll make a motion to approve 24-19 uh can I get a second a second any discussion all in favor signify by saying I I I any opposed it carries item 24110 approval of the 2025 budget resolutions the resolution to adopt the 2025 capital projects fund plan the resolution to adopt the 2025 bus replacement plan and the resolution of Appropriations and tax rates Dr Brown yeah we are seeking approval from the board to approve the following budget resolution as part of the normal budget process there are three separate resolutions that we would ask you to approve the first is the resolution to adopt the 2025 capital projects fund plan the second is the resolution to adopt the 2025 bus replacement plan and the third is the resolution of Appropriations and tax rates this resolution lists all the budgets and total Appropriations by category for each budget so asking for approval for those Appropriations can I get a motion I'll make a motion uh that we approve agenda item 24-11 can I get a second second any discussion so we can do these all in one okay if not all in favor say signify by saying I I no opposed 24111 the first reading of the following revised mcf policies MCS policy 15208 employment of personnel for extracurricular activities MCS policy 3120.4 employment of personnel for extracurricular activities MCS policy 41208 employment of personnel for extracurricular activities MCS policy 5200 attendance MCS policy 53401 student concussions and sudden Cardiac Arrest MCS policy 5350 student suicide awareness and prevention MCS policy purchasing MCS policy 75402 web content apps and services MCS policy 8210 school calendar MCS policy 8452 automated automated external defibrillators or aeds MCS policy 8455 coach training references and ihsa Reporting and MCS policy 9130 public complaints and concerns there's no action required for any of these because these were um a first reading so um act or item agenda item 24112 first reading to resend MCS policy 63201 purchasing using online reverse auctions again there is uh no action required for this item agenda item 24113 first reading of replacement MCS policy 5136 personal communication devices again there's no action required by the board for this one agenda item 24114 approval of contract for HH HVAC upgrades at the Madison Consolidated High School Dr Brown now we are seeking approval of the contract with cook mechanical ink in the amount of 1, 566,000 it's a base bid of 96,000 and it includes an alternate number one of 660,000 for the HVAC upgrades at Madison Consolidated High School so we're asking for approval can I have a motion please I'll make a motion to approve 24-14 can I have a second a second any discussions I do have some concerns um and I've talked to Jay a little bit more after the um emails so in the past one of the things that um we have been told that is an issue is the distribution of the air especially the cooling because right now they're two separate entities um so we had been told that it was going to be important to possibly run these fabric sock like things through to distribute the air so that was one of after the followup to the email that I had sent today that that we're not having these socks put on there um and it's basically it's going to be four units on the top which will be heating and air but there's still nothing that's from what I'm from what I mean and Jay and I just been texting a little bit back and forth I don't see where there's going to be any Improvement on the distribution of air so I'm concerned about that um because like in the summer when we run the like for graduation or some of the things we sometimes have to run the air for two days to get it cool throughout the whole thing so I don't know how this is going to work I feel like it's the same setup that we have just newer units and then the heat will be with the hbag I I don't have to check into it I don't I can't well he said that they don't have the socks and he just feels like it's um more cost effective is what he told me so I'm just I I guess that's just my concerns that we are still going to have the same issues with the distribution of the Heat and the air now yeah we'd have to talk to the contractors to see if this is going to address that or not I'm not I know that there was discussions too about we thought there was more that was going going to be done um and there was some parts of this project that are going to be saved for a later date um but I I wasn't aware of what you just well that's yeah and that's something that like I mean we've had other like when we've done you know previous projects or bonds or whatever that was you know we've had other people look at the the gym to see you know suggestions and things and that's always been like one of the things that has been brought up is the distribution of the air um and that we needed something to like I guess from what they tell us is the air is all pushed down to the the floor and then a lot of the upstairs and and stuff is not addressed it doesn't cool up there as well because it's all pushed down from the center of the ceiling and now and the heat now comes from the four corn now from the boilers but now we're going to cap those off and there's going to be four units on the top that's going to be Heating in air so now it's still all heating and air is going to come down from that Center yeah portion so those are just some concerns I have I guess about this of how it's being addressed so I'm assuming from a timing perspective Jay needs to be able to move forward as far as buying or purchasing the units so that we have them ready for June's installation I would assume that's true but I'm not I can't speak for what he's been told as far as parts and timeline that's fine I mean I'm we're I'm okay to vote I just okay okay it's I think it's something though that we need to discuss and with Jay when Jay's back yeah yeah okay um if there's no other discussions uh all in favor uh signify by saying I I I'll do I right now okay so I three eyes and okay agenda item 24115 approval of Duke Energy Grant of easement for the high school Dr Brown yeah we're seeking approval of the Duke Energy Grant of easement for MCHS Duke Energy will bore and set a new Transformer creating a loop at the high school so we're asking for approval to do that it's at no cost to us can I have a motion please I make a motion to approve 2415 for the easement second I'll second any discussion I would say just for those who may be wondering just what the heck we're talking about um the current electric as I understand it uh is underground and goes through the practice football field and a portion of the baseball field and if that were to um ever give out for any reason we're going to be uh without power for uh a significant period of time not to mention the tear up of those athletic facilities so this is a proactive way of putting something else in place should that ever happen so um all in favor of this uh agenda item signify by saying I I I any opposed No Agenda item 2416 approval of a memorandum of understanding with Encompass Healthcare Dr Brown yeah we are seeking approval of the memorandum of understanding with Encompass Healthcare incompass Healthcare is a student referral to school-based and or Community Based then Mental Health Services and for the agreed upon provisions of any school-based Mental Health Services by Encompass Healthcare we're requesting approval for Encompass Healthcare to come into our schools per parent school or provider request to work with their clients or students when requested and agreed upon by all the parties uh the services are arranged between Encompass health and the families and are of no cost to Medicine Consolidated Schools thank you can I have a motion please I'll make a motion to approve 21 24-16 uh can I have a second I'll second any discussion all in favor signify by saying I I no opposed agenda item 24 117 approval of agreement for services with Z Dr Brown yeah we're seeking approval of the agreement for services with zel for all students in grades 6 through 12 zel is an online program made available to schools that helps students create a successful future through self- knowledge exploration and planning and helps parents of students Provide support to their children as they work through college and career goals the fees associated with this service are outlined in the service agreement and they come from grant funding so we're asking for approval can I get a motion make a motion to we approve 24117 can I get a second I'll second any discussion all in favor please signify by saying I I I no opposed agenda item 24118 approval of Robotics Grant Dr Brown I'm seeking approval of a robotics Grant in the amount of $2,353 79 this award will be used to cover the stiens of each of the robotics coaches travel and other related expenses for competitions and competitive robotics supplies for the high school this grant will help expand competitive robotics for the high school for the first time and it's going to expand opportunities for our students so um pleaseed to say that we're seeking approval of that grant that we received can I get a motion please I'll make a motion to approve 24-18 and a second second any discussion all in favor please signify by saying I I I no oh I agenda item 2419 approval of settlement agreement and mutual release Dr Brown yeah we're seeking approval of the settlement agreement and mutual release as presented in your packets can I have a motion please I'll make a motion to approve 24-19 can I get a second I'll second any discussions if not in favor please signify by saying I I I agenda item 24120 approval of new job description student Support Services it's a supplemental dis position Dr Brown yeah we're seeking approval of a new job description student support services this position will support the student services and special programs teams which includes our El report before during and after school and may require additional days outside of the contracted work days this position will be expected to provide translation services within the district as needed for our English Learners um in Madison School so asking for approval can I uh get a motion please I'll make a motion to accept item 24-120 can I get a second go ahead J I'll second any discussions if not all in favor please signify by saying I I I no opposed so that is all the agenda items per se uh we'll now turn it over to reports and first up is our lovely student representative Emma win good evening um I just have a few announcements about what is going on involving our student body this month our football team fought hard at Saturday's homecoming game um congratulations to our homecoming queen and king Ava arre and Jason Cosby and the rest of our fabulous court and representatives you all looked great our girls golf team recently won sectionals with Emy Dow coming in first place Ally Wilson in second and Eliza Brett in fourth they competed at regionals on Monday and Emy da was eighth out of the non- advancing individuals and the team was 11th overall it's sectional season so good luck to our boys and girls soccer teams who compete in sectionals next week the girls soccer sectionals is right here at Madison so go support our lady C soccer team our boys tennis team is playing tonight right now so I hope that's going well for them wishing them good luck and then our girls volleyball team and football section sectionals are also coming up after fall break um our marching band has had a great competition season we wish them lots of luck at prelims this Saturday our Madison theater students are performing Harry Potter and the cursed child October 25th through the 27th and we have two weekends so it's also October or November 1st through the 3rd there are 7 o00 performances on Friday Friday and Saturday evening and 2:30 performances on Saturday and Sunday afternoons we are the first school in the state to get to perform this show so I urge all of you to come and support our hardworking casting crew the junior high theater is also currently working on their production of Alice and Wonderland and they always do such a fantastic job with their shows so go see them that's November 14th through the 16th the book fair is also going on at the junior high and Anderson Elementary school this week so families take advantage of that um some of our students at MC J with the help of Mrs Whitaker recently started a Latino Club to promote community at school um they just recently started meeting and anyone is still welcome and encouraged to encouraged to join the student council is putting on a trunker treat on Halloween day so on October 31st um and if any faculty or student Club is interested in participating please contact Jennifer Cornelius and you can bring your children by to get lots of candy from us it went really well last year so we're hoping for another really good year and on October 20th um Mrs Cornelius will be taking a mini best to Louisville Kentucky for the breast cancer awareness walk and we would love for students and faculty part to participate so if you're interested please contact her via email um I wish all of the high school students good luck on their quarterly exams this week and have a safe and fabulous fall break thank you um now board member comments and we'll start with Dustin um first I would like to thank everyone the board Dr Brown uh Pam Smith for their support and helping me uh catch on super fast as fast as I can uh I don't take this position lightly I'm really honored to be in this position and over the next two to three months hopefully learn the process of the school board I'd also like to wish a happy belated birthday to Dr Brown I heard it was fantastic uh sorry I missed all the fun uh congrats to Ekko some of what you know we last Mee and I heard going after Emma's big shoes to fill because she hits all the points but to Echo some of her things what I have down here congrats to the girls soft team and or girls golf team and Coach Jake Shockley on their sectional Championship Emy Dal on her individual sectional championship and Ally Simpson on being only one of 15 young women across the state on being selected to the AC academic All State team congratulations congratulations to coach Chris slin the boys cross country team on winning the Duke Meer Invitational championship for the first time in 12 years yeah that's really cool on coach stanlin and the boys team congrats to homecoming King Jason Cosby and queen Ava arm congratulations coach Devin brle welcome to the coaching side of things yeah that's awesome and be sure to get your Harry Potter tickets one more time uh performances are the 25th through the 27th and November 1st through the 3 you can follow Madison theaterin on Facebook for ticket information thank you thank you D welcome aboard Jodie well big thanks to Emma because she hit everything here and um welcome to Dustin um it's great to have you um on uh to finish out the rest of the year so welcome um and then just good luck to all the teams that are getting ready to finish up the season or head off to sectionals um big things going um looking forward to going and seeing Harry Potter so that's exciting and um lastly just want to wish everybody a safe and fun um fall break because that's coming com up um we won't see you until afterwards so everybody be safe and have a good time um rest up and be ready to come back thanks Jody David GNA keep it short and sweet I'm gonna hit the donations again just want to end it with thank you again for all those donations um that goes a long ways and really helps everyone in the H school system Devin good job can't wait to see those softball games and stuff so congratulations on that night I'll pass it over thanks David So tonight's the last business meeting uh of this school board before the upcoming election and as part of the November 5th election there are two seats on the school board that voters get to um choose um there are three people who are on the ballot you select two two of those people are sitting behind this table tonight David basically is seeking reelection from when he won back in 2020 and Dustin uh for those who may not know um appeared here I think for three different board meetings before uh we had a resignation and he was the only person who picked up the packet and submitted it to fill that void there is a third candidate um Tanya Bernett who I do not know but she will be on the ballot but I can say that she has never been to one of our board meetings since putting her name on the ballot and she had no interest in applying for the vacancy that we had on this board so in my personal opinion I think it's a pretty clear Co Choice as to who we need on the school board come November 5th thank you Dr Brown okay first of all welcome uh to Dustin b glad to have you here where you belong in Madison wow doesn't look good in red we need to Del lead the last part of the meeting I'm liking that one um also congratulations to our ladies golf team um on a great season um I also have my tickets for Harry Potter for October 25th hoping I get to wear like a wizard robe or something kind of fun also want to thank all of our community donors that is just such an impressive list of three pages of people that gave to our students and to our staff um to help that bowling event um be a a successful fundraiser so greatly appreciate all the support month after month that we receive from you for our kids um also just a reminder parent conferences are tomorrow for our elementary students and so our students do not go to school tomorrow um and um instead they'll have e-learning at home so good luck um to our parents and and teachers as they um conduct those conferences also good luck next week for our sectionals we have many teams participating in um their end of the year or their end of the season um competitions next week so good luck for that and then last but not least um next week is fall break so have a safe uh vacation and time off and we'll see you back um for the middle of October actually so thank you Dr Brown so um the Board of Trustees will conduct a special board meeting on Monday October 28th at 4:30 p.m.

um I see that we have uh committee members Al Almeida uh Teresa bade Michelle quo myself um and our exec member uh gladus Cooper so we are ready to start this meeting and I just want to thank the board members who also made time in their schedules to join us this evening as well as is Wanita here our administrators um I do not see her uh on this call okay that looks like Dr Casmir maybe yep hi sorry I'm trying to get home it was a lot okay we just got started so your your timing was perfect okay all right so we're gonna ahead and uh kick the meeting off um the first item on our agenda is a current policy that's for review and it is a required policy it's for F service charging um and as you all know we do offer um free uh meals for students now so Kelly if you want to dive into why we're reviewing this policy and what we're doing all right so I did ask bar uh to come uh really what we needed to do is update this policy uh to bring it in align with our um C or direct certified so already this lunch for all students um now as a direct certified District um there were additional requirements that needed to be added in um it has been a little bit of time since this policy was last updated um so Barry if I could ask you to just make the walk the board through the highlights of the changes to this policy we would appreciate it very we can't hear you know if he's having trouble hearing me um what I will do then I will walk through it and then if there are questions hopefully Barry can um chime in uh as we go through this um you will see in the beginning section um it outlines um the community eligibility program or C which is part of the direct certified it spells out what that provision is um and the fact that all students are entitled to um one uh you know meal that is free of charge during that time uh period we are not allowed to um you know charge uh students that are attending in our district as a c District um it also outlines that there are federal funds used to um subsidize uh these meals for children um we took out the references so you'll see here anything in red was added as um additions to this policy anything with the strike through was in our former policy and is no longer applicable you'll see all the charging uh parameters that were in there previously were removed um it defines uh who our district students are um and then goes on further um to uh talk about it removes any of the delinquent bad debt credit those types of things from there because that is not a requirement any longer um it also has a a provision for dissemination of the policy which Remains the Same and then updated legal references at the bottom so it is bringing our policy in alignment with the practices that have going on in our district for the last few years um and that is why we brought it Forward tonight even though it wasn't in the projected that we thank you pH any questions Teresa um so lunch is are free for everybody that is correct thank you I mean I should say students not adults that is correct yes thank you for clarifying I assumed you meant students but yes students yeah I think I better be correct any other questions I don't see a problem all right um it I don't see any any questions from committee members um I'll open this up for questions from uh non-committee members if there are any hello everybody I'm sorry that I'm late hi Julie thank you for coming on we just got started and we're going over uh the first policy on the agenda it's a revision to the uh policy for uh charging for uh meals uh we provide them for free now for students in the district and so uh we're just revising the existing policy to make sure we stay in alignment with our practices K I have a question go ahead Rich does this policy cover just a specific meal or does it cover breakfast and lunch and are all schools all students eligible and every one of us SCH for this to uh be supported um great question uh so you will see here um the eligibility provision I just highlighted it um districtwide participations that's all of our students uh to provide a free breakfast um and free lunch uh within the district and then for any students in our after school programs it's one free after school snap those are the um those are the allotments or allow what is allowed under this policy so it is all students it applies to breakfast and lunch and then for those that are attending after school programs uh it allows for a snack as well Teresa did you have another question yeah um does the cost of this program you does that come under our budget or is this totally like a grant something different I mean separate or is it under our budget you mean the payment of the meals correct Kelly I'm back thank thank you bar I'll let you answer that so it all comes out comes filters out of the USDA and then filters down through the state of Connecticut so we claim meals complete meals for breakfast and lunch for students and we get reimbursed asct this totally different uh this is not part of the budget then no Absol not school budget no this comes out of the school lunch program as do all everything that the school lunch involv I guess we lost him no he's here um yep but he just confirmed that um everything comes out of the the school launch program believe it's the federal level or is it the state well it's all USDA originally and then it filters down through the Connecticut state okay thank you for clarifying thank you Julie have a question yes um and I'm sorry if you guys answer this would that cover also um this full um meals during the sum summer program the summer program is not part of the C program but we do apply for the school the summer food service program so during the summer breakfast to lunch is also free but it's a different different set of standards and program okay thank you Michelle go ahead um oh hold on sorry um how many meals then breast lunch and after School are sered daily like what is how many lunches breakfast and after school meals are serving I don't mind if if we answer this question right now but I just want to make sure that as we go forward the questions we're asking are pertaining to the policy work that we're doing I just don't want to keep anybody here longer than they have to be here for the meeting okay so you know what Kate i h back yeah thanks I did hold I can answer I can answer very quickly we do roughly 4,000 breakfast dist districtwide and about 8,000 lunches and approximately 250 after school snack program thank you thanks Barry thanks any other questions about the policy here okay seeing none I'm going to ask for a motion to make a recommendation for first read to the board I'll make the motion second okay second by Michelle all those in favor please signify by by saying I I I any opposed any extensions motion so carries thank you everybody all right we're gonna move down the agenda and I'm gonna um I'm gonna do the same thing I did last time which is to lead the conversation on this um you know this is about uh policy uh 4142 uh sl42 40.2 um and this is the policy for uh compensation related to central office exempt staff non-b bargaining unit employees um we had a little bit of a challenge last time um you know finding some consensus on this particular um policy I did ask that committee members send me any suggested language they wanted to use in writing I have not received any suggestions at this point um I did receive um an email from Wanita with some information about uh other districts and um you know she was not able to find a lot of um instances where uh this policy was being employed and one of the reasons for that is that this policy is not a required policy um so I wanted to give Dr casmiro just a few moments thank you Barry appreciate you being here um I wanted to give Dr casmiro just a few moments to speak about this um and and talk about specifically you know the importance of her being able to make an assessment and and about how the allotment of money is used Dr kmer sorry just getting reoriented to my desktop here um so thanks Kate I I appreciate it you know you're right there there this the the necessity of the policy varies in how districts have implemented it um you know whether or not they have a a separate carved out policy or not um is you know kind of locally determined you know there are many many School District districts if you will that do make reference to um to the idea that the superintendent um you know has their responsibility to carry um you know the determination for exempt staff when it comes to uh salaries and wages to ensure competitiveness and retention and that that's sort of the pervasive theme so if you look you know I pulled like uh Madison Waterbury Greenwich Meridan West Hartford Norwalk New Britain and Region 14 chesher Stafford putham Hartford New Haven Bridgeport Wilton I can go on Beth you know all of our surrounding towns that that within somewhere within either the administrative policies or within something specifically carved out or R exempt salaries over and overun it references um that the superintendent has responsibility for exempt staff uh staff salaries to ensure flexibility and managing District Operations and talent retention and this phraze is reiterated um very similarly across multiple different types of policies related to this that refers back to the statute um around around this idea and so while you don't necessarily have to have a specific thing carved out um people do do that to reference it seems the understanding about um the remaining competitive and and being able to be responsive to the needs of the school district and the operations and so that's really all that this is um It's been a longstanding policy um one designed again to ensure operational Effectiveness and efficiency and you know it's something that you know I think that perhaps maybe misunderstood as to you know maybe as to the purpose of it it's certainly not something that um should be abused in any way and if that you know if there's any concern about that that perhaps maybe worth the Genesis of some of the the language you know wanting to change some of the language um but it's again one of the only groups in the district where you know there is no set salary there is no set wage uh incremental increase there's no steps there are no steps um and it is they are typically unique jobs um generally and that with the understanding that um to stay market and economy ready and to be remain competitive um that the compensation um you know needs to be able to be flexed when appropriate um I know there was some concern around uh you know I think I in the last meeting there was a concern around that everybody in the group had the same type of a of a number of a percentage increase and I want to address that a little bit if I can um in the sense that we had um if you look at all of our other contracts generally generally across you know teachers actually always across teachers and the secretary group and the it and administration uh custodians that those wage increases are the same so when those when those go up it's 3% 4% whatever you know four and a half whatever the percentage is all teachers all secretaries all it all custodians all administrators get the same wage increase across the board the exempt staff allows us to to we generally have the same percentage across across groups and bodies and types um that's pretty typical because it's typical with our other groups as well um but the but the idea that and some instances we have an opportunity um to make an adjustment so if someone gets hired in May or June um then they're not maybe benefit by the uh increased uh percentage roll up on July 1 right if that makes sense um additionally there could be a performance issue that needs to be addressed or that is being addressed and that might be flexed accordingly and then similarly you can have a situation where there could be a a couple of positions a class of positions perhaps it's something uh that requires a um you know technical knowledge or is in a shortage area and to remain more competitive um I'm sorry my dog is making a lot of noise in the background she hasn't done that since the pandemic um that in order to do that um you know to remain competitive you have to make a one-time adjustment so maybe you know there might be two or three positions in a in a group that need to be moved to be to remain competitive because we're finding that we're losing folks in a particular area so you know there's a there's a wide variety of reasons why this this this is this exists and I think it I personally think the reason it exists and as a separate carve out is is because of that um ability the importance of the ability to attract and retain competent employees that is the that is the purpose of of it um you know again certainly it there's no benefit to overcompensating someone un unjustly uh those things come right back to bite you in the you know what when you know other groups get hold of numbers and they see things and they compare themselves within same groups um and certainly U there has to be just cause and and there has to be you know kind of a rationale and there's always an opportunity for um the superintendent to to have that conversation with the board so that they understand the reasons for for why uh certain groups May um you know receive something or the other but generally like I said it's it's not that common to you know take a percentage and rank it AC all different numbers across um it's based on you know an annual excuse me an annual increase whether that be in consideration with other Union groups cost of living and then to remain uh you know numbers to remain competitive and to retain our our Workforce um thanks Dr casmiro um a couple questions for you but I'll hold mine until other committee members have an opportunity to ask questions Teresa um this this how many have quit from that from this category this year just curious how many have quit yeah uh so I don't again I I don't want to be disrespectful here I just want to make sure that we're staying within the bounds of the conversation about the policy itself um you know well I want to see how relevant it is uh her explanation retaining people uh like have we lost anybody from this category yeah we've we've turn over all the time um but you know because we have the um I could go back and look at the list we lost our we lost our grants person yes Dr K if I could add I will speak just directly from my perspective you have four bcbas in the district we lost so 25% you know of the of the unit we have approximately seven or eight depending on one is one is part-time um occupation therapist we lost one out of that um so there there is some turnover those are just two quick examples I could give you I don't have the exact number um I appreciate that I just wanted to get a sense of that category and what you're experiencing thank you that's all I needed sure other questions from committee members I'm going to ask a couple questions then if I don't see any other committee members Louisa has her hand up she's not on the committee um on the committee so go ahead Kate the uh first question is who comprises the category of non-exempt employees or sorry exempt employees so you have Cal office exemp staff mostly central office exempt staff uh the so you've got um I I wish I had the list I should pull it up somewhere um Kelly Do you happen to have it hand I can tell you it's it's your occupational therapists your physical therapists your bcbas your interpreter translators um a handful of um some folks that work in kind of alternative programs it's your core cabinet and your extended cabinet um so it's th it's generally those people who are not in unions um for one variety of reasons or another and it's about 40 I think right now it's about 45 people 45 thank you very much um bcbas could you just um sure explain what those are please sure they um the specific title is board certified behavior analyst um they are traditionally working with students with special education needs providing um behavioral intervention support so when we have a student you've heard frequently about uh students that are having a difficulty regulating themselves in the school environment um they are the folks that go in conduct observations provide staff training and Implement individualized plans for students with those needs thank you very much um and I do have a second question I just want to make sure if there are any committee members that have a a follow-up question or any other questions they get a chance here so my second question is um Dr kmer you made mention of something that this is these are statutory um obligations or statutory uh that's not the right word statutory um Authority that you were given um which means that this is codified in state law already correct so that that generally that the superintendent is is the person who is determining wages and compensation you know that happens also obviously in conjunction with the board with with a budget process right so superintendent has to stay within the bounds uh of a budget and that's where so you know when generally across the year you know that we're negotiating different contracts and you can see where things are falling that we've have board members that are that sit on those committees as well um you get a a very thorough analysis of of prevailing wages local wages you get a sense of what um you know what other systems are are doing what the what the school system ourselves what we as a city can tolerate and we have those conversations um and so you know there's a general percentage that that comes out of that and when we go around budget time you know the I the idea that those percentages are taken into consideration um we don't go at budget time and go well we're going to give when the secretary contract comes up we're going to give them this and we're going to give the dsaa this number and we're going to give the exempt that number that's not how it how it plays out but we we generally have a number in mind of that covers that level of negotiation and for all groups and that that is a number that is is determined in an allocation so once once we um determine that our salaries per se are x amount and at 4% is our rollup and we're across the board whether it be in consideration of contracts that we already exist or contracts we anticipate to negotiate um you have a general number that we work with and when the once we kind of lock in our numbers um past budget Etc we um you know we have an allocation so my I it's my you know my responsibility to stay within the confines of the the budget right that's our allocation and I you know if I were to go into the red because I'm going to give you know Kelly chuchis a $60,000 raise um certainly I'll be held accountable for something like that right I cannot go into the red I cannot go beyond my so I have to stay within the boundaries of of an allocation that gets that that gets determined um and so I have some flexibility as the purview of my superintendency to flex what that is in a fair and just way um of course then the board can absolutely have you know those are conversations that we can have in response to that um and uh you know and and taking in information that uh you know through the board that that that you would like to convey to me as well thank you Dr kir um Louisa did you have a question I did thank you Kate um I absolutely agree that you know it's not our position to to to determine the um who should be getting what my particular concern with the process was having it given to us you know last minute in June at our last board meeting is there a way to get that or whether it's written in the policy or however budget cycle so when we're voting on it we know what we're voting on we know the increases what because we what the unions are getting what the non-unions are getting just so we have a much more clearer transparent picture before we cast our votes sure that was a good question Louisa and it's something that came up at the last policy meeting um we did discuss in looking at this policy that the date that's listed in the policy says explicitly that by July 1st the Board of Education shall approve an allocation for salary and benefits adjustments and that the superintendent shall report annually concerning the implementation of the policy so one of the suggestions that came forward was to adjust that date um to be in alignment with our budget process so that we would have awareness of what the um superintendent would be doing with the allotment uh prior to voting on the budget um that would also move it up in terms of uh you know integrating it as part of the superintendent evaluation process if I might make one suggestion for you um Kate that it says by July meaning no later than July one and the reason why that date is there because that's the first day of your new fiscal year year so I I agree about moving it up much earlier we've talked about that often um but I think that within the current language or if you want to change bu to know later than um it will still allow you to kind of set you know the date can kind of float but you can set it every year as part of your budget calendar um I think we've put the budget calendar out for this coming up year haven't we um Cara or Mike that you can just embed it right into the budget calendar and still be in compliance as long as it's not later than July 1 it yes see that's totally possible I I think the reason part of the reason for the timing of it is it also that you know at the end of the year after you have assessed your employees and you're you're thinking about you're heading into your next year you kind of know where you stand who's coming back who's not what what you have to work with and so the timing of It kind of lines up with valuation process uh of staff and you know everyone meeting their goals um you know it's a little bit different with the other groups because no matter the performance of of a teacher the performance of an administrator the performance of a custodian those they're going to get their contractual raises regardless um whereas the exempt staff it's really it's based on you know performance and it and they are they are at will employees so if if we don't like something we can you know make changes to that Michelle you have a question yes um just if I'm listening about changing the timing possibly or at least having it come up so when we are talking finances and the budget um I like the idea of that but if we're talking about some of these positions being specific you know would we have a breakdown of each job dis not each one but let's say there's five or six different categories would you break that out so we could say you know maybe it's a Cabinet member that's going to be different than a behavioral therapist right or whatever is would that be part or could we include that as part of the process to make sure that's included when we review the numbers that's yeah well well that happens all at the same generally the same so exempt staff wages get determined at the same time so whether there are cabinet members extended cabinet members or or they their bcba that that's a whole group together and and yes and and you know there with it's also helpful too I know one of the boards goals is to better understand the roles of cabinet you know so you know have taking some time too to understand you know what is it bcba and you know what do they do in our school system and and understanding some of their technical qualifications also is very helpful too because I think you would feel some of the same sense of urgency around some of the positions that that I do as well so thank you any other questions from committee members any questions from non-committee Members Kate I have a question I just like yeah i' just like to Echo the the comments made that I think we should include some wording in here which indicates that the the details be provided uh in the timetable with the budget uh calendar I think in the past some of the conversations have been looking at this was after we presented the budget so we can make this part of the budget process I think it sort of cleans things up and puts everything in perspective to Financial members thank you for the feedback Dr chiro yeah okay I think I I I like the idea and I think that you know what you would do is you would take all of your contractual obligations and your policies right not your policies your contracts right to see what what does what will the teacher what will the teacher contract bear out what will the administrative contract bear out and um you know to put them all together in a group is I think you know probably helpful to see the broader picture Teresa you're muted Teresa sorry sorry uh did you ever you said did you ever think of putting this uh like you did the book for the student advisors did you ever think of categorizing and organizing the non uh bargaining uh employees into categories and how they were reviewed and and Institute any caps after so many dozens of years I mean or is this something that is never been thought of can you just clarify what you mean by the student advisers what what that you you did that nice new handbook about the for the student advisers for the money did you ever think of doing a handb oh right I understand what you're say on on these type of employees it seems to be kind of uh a dis sole discretion of the super uh superintendent and uh and not anything in concrete framework type of thing so I just want to clarify Dr kmer and then feel free to jump in but um by law by Statute at at the state level it is the superintendent's discretion and responsibility to a lot those um those dollars in the in the that the superintendent feels is appropriate and that's why um I referenced before that the part of the helpfulness of seeing this in advance of the budget cycle is also being able to integrate it as part of the performance review the per you know the uh the evaluation for the superintendent right um but that is the responsibility um and the authority of superintendent's position for those for those decisions yeah thank you Kate for clarifying that and that is the PO that that is the entire intent of these of both the statue and and is this now there is a cap uh Teresa there is a cap on superintendence at some point with relative to trb and what districts can pay um but there is no there there there is not necessarily a cap um you know and and you don't it's not very common um now not to say that you know a district can't go beyond its means and so there you know internally you you know you're relegated to a particular salary range um but but not necessarily we have never done a cap you don't see too many caps in in in relative to this policy this this policy actually you know is uh about the flexibility as opposed to creating a fixed a fixed number so thank you are there any questions and any other questions about this policy committee or non-committee members so um in moving forward with this um I I would like to hear from committee members please about uh how they feel about either adjusting the language in here to uh reflect a different timeline so that we can ensure that we're seeing this information before the budget cycle happens um or uh whether or not they want to keep this particular policy since it is not required Teresa I like what Kim suggested you know so adjusting both the policy and then also ensuring that it shows up on the budget um calendar yeah okay other committee members if we're going to change the dated maybe we should back it up at like 90 days from J July 1st so Al I think the the process the thought process here is that um we want to make sure we're looking at the uh the superintendent's allotment uh prior to approving the full budget for the year um we typically see that information in January um and then we've in February because it has to go over to um the uh the mayor's office so uh 90 days I don't know that that would satisfy our budget cycle okay so maybe we put it in January 1 oh January 2nd whatever okay that's a consideration committee members other committee members I have a quick question um will the language reflect on I know on the policy jie I apologize I need to hear from committee Members First okay and that's just because when we're running the meetings if I allow other board members to participate and we have too many of them it does turn into an official board ofed meeting which we haven't noticed so for legal reasons I just need to stick with committee Members First I'll be happy to come back around to you at the end okay yeah my apologies not a problem thank you so much um Michelle I see your hand up yep hi Kate um so if we were to look at that January 1 date and we are so tight on trying to figure out the numbers we I think have to hand it in like February 7th or it was like in February right the 15 the 15th it has to go over to the mayor's office I believe yeah I think in our mind our last meeting was somewhere around the seventh right before that week before I don't know if that when we sit down and get together and start to really work on this usually we start now at the beginning of the year you know what I mean to try to make those numbers so I you know I I would like it to line up with our budget um I think that's really important because if we are not even considering it at that point you know it kind of comes back later so I like the idea of trying to line it up if we can figure out where that sweet spot is thank you sure thank you uh Dr casmiro uh just want to get your feedback on the two suggestions so far um one being January 1 and the other being um you know uh as we start the budget process um yeah that something that we look at sure you know I think you know as we try to start the budget process relatively early you know I I think about kind of how this the last process now last year was a unique year but also you know that your first um projection if you will is really a projection right and that that the information gets um more clarified as the year progresses right you're looking at your health insurance claims coming in you're looking at contracts that you're negotiating you know and where those are landing you're looking at um you know how the cost of fuel is going up or down and so you know where you start your ideas sometime in in October and you know early November um could look a little different by the time you get to when we have to send this off to the city and even from that point things change from February to June right in terms of climate economy you name it all kinds of stuff so so um you know recognizing that when when a board puts their budget together it's a it's their best projection at that moment in time and that so so when we when we do this in the you know whether we start these conversations earlyer sooner than later which I think is good uh and you know healthy discussion you know you're still coming up with you know your best your best projection um you know at the beginning of of the year and and I would like to leave the room you know leave some room for uh you know when we submit it in in February to be able to say okay this is what we this was this was our best snapshot by the time we reached when we had to submit this so you know there could be some some room between October and February where we're you know we're discussing and revisiting and I think I think that that's okay um because it's not it won't just be this that we're discussing it will be other things that we need to consider in the budget as well so um I kind of see it as a little bit of an iterative process until we until we lock it in okay and when you talk about it being an iterative process do you mean between the board and the superintendent speciic so the development yes so the development of the budget so you know Michael come out and present the you know you know this this is where we where we're at here are the priorities here are the district goals um and you know if we come out with one number I I think about some of the things that we had to add in that weren't considered you know and I just want to you know as as we develop our budget and and it's particularly in the challenging year that we're going to have um I think it's going to be you know we're going to be going through some some fluctuations as we're as we're crafting that budget and um you know I think we'll I I welcome a healthy discussion on the budget we have a lot to analy this year in light of of a variety of scenarios that could play out and so um this is just one one component this is actually a small component of the larger budget discussions that we'll have so um yeah I think I think we come up with a timeline and maybe we start in finance and get that get that ball rolling with contract reviews and then bring that to the board and however however the board sees fit with uh with discussing it thank you Michelle did you still have your do you have a hand up for another question or or is it just from before I think it's from before I mean obviously as the conversations continue when Cara is responding you know um I'm going to just say one thing that is one of my concerns because I'm not really sure how we're setting up we're going to have so many with the career and the pathways like and what we've experienced with C even cabinet members that we're like you know not included in the other package um that flexibility is so needed but at the same time that oversight is always so important so if we can strike that balance so that we include everyone during the process it's always a shot in the dark because you know come May when it comes down from generals that's really when we know what's happening it's already so you know obviously using our best guess of you know what what is the highest is it you know what when do we take out the insurance is at the beginning of the year when do you know all those all that information is clear it's just for me I know that we've got a lot of we're gonna have to be really creative on how we're going to be striking up those Partnerships and you know I'm excited about that but at the same time I've got some concern on how does that you know line up in the finance an es and make sure that we do have that that that oversight but I can see the need um especially in specific carved out areas um you know firsthand right here our cabinet so thank you any other comments from committee members please okay Julie um seeing none I'm going to ask it uh for whatever you'd like to share please I completely forgot my question now I'm my apologies that's okay I'm sorry that uh we didn't get there in time okay glattus did you have something to add just uh just a comment um and I'm listening to everybody and I think uh everyone had made um really act good comments but we also have to realize too that we can say that we're going to have a million dollars and then something pops up and then we take the authority away from someone and then we're struggling again so I you know I I think my suggestion is if this is not a required policy and we are new we're a new group going into this we all the challenges that we went through last year and it's a learning curve for everyone so I would see if we could see somehow and we can't determine if we should say to the superintendent we allow you $5 million from a recommendation from the finance committee and she will have that amount of money to work with for the exempt employees and the non-exempt employees then tying her hand to say no we're going to give you a specific date we know what time to how the budget is scheduled to come go to the mayor and all the other stuff that goes along with it I I I would be comfortable if we could come up if the group would come up if it's your desire to say we allot this a certain amount to the superintendent and she decides who gets that allotment and what our negotiations and many of you have sit on these various teams and we know what you know what the rationale is and a lot of time we don't have the time to come back and say and I think it's somewhere that we have to have these contracts and I think Kim said earlier July people are leaving the district you know we have to let them know what they're whether they're going to be returning so you know take all that in consideration the only thing that I would like to say is that to propose a a date amount if possible that the superintendent can work with I don't even know if we can do that now at this time so that's my only comment okay thank you gladus um Michelle oh my God sorry my hand still up Julie perhaps that's from before as well Dr Casmir now go ahead I can't remember what I was gon to ask uh so I just wanted to you know to state that you know the the policy reads July 1 right so by July 1 the board shall approve so you know it doesn't you can approve it on January you can approve it in February you could approve it in March April May the policy allows you the breath that you need to do the work that needs to be done you know and it's not to say that what gets fixed in dece in February you know if we have to make some changes or something situation you know the the plan changes situation changes that we have to revisit you know that there's that there's the ability to do that as well not to be locked into to a particular date that you know beyond but the the deadline is by July 1 so I think as long as we can add it into the planning of you know is in our discussion and and again you know I think that it it happens naturally or organically if you will when those initial numbers come out I just don't think we talk about it right so I I think that that's where like kind of surprise came in around you know when we landed in June was that the allocation had already been determined and I think there were some hard feelings with like wait I feel like I didn't know what that what that was or or what that means but um but to to when the when the budget gets crafted um those contracts are in fact taken into consideration in the in the in the percentage for the roll up in the ask um but we just don't ever really go back and review it we have people sit in on those contract negotiat ations but uh we don't go back and specifically review and this is what the administrators are getting next are getting next year and the you know by contract and so it it really you know should be part of a discussion when the budget is being developed and just sort of um put out in the open uh with the group so that we know where we're at so in terms of this policy then um what I'm trying to get a sense of is what the appetite is for the committee um to my mind um you know this this is sort of a formality to have this policy in place for our our better education and understanding of you know what uh the superintendent is authorized to do by the state um and what the the superintendent is required to do by the state um so you know I don't know that I have a strong opinion about maintaining this policy if folks feel like it it doesn't serve the purpose that they want it to serve um you know but I'm certainly open to you know a conversation about that and and that's what I'm trying to get a sense from folks whether or not they want to maintain this policy and if they do what if any changes they would like to see reflected so if if just for the purpose of this conversation I'm just going to ask each member each Committee Member who's on here right now to just sort of voice their opinion on that please I would say just keep it as it is okay me too okay Michelle I mean I'm I'm okay to go with the group if we find that it stimulates like you're saying Kate more of a conversation at the budget then I'm all for that because you know we're like we're more seasoned four years when you're going in your first year you really don't even know necessarily what is coming around and those conversations may not happen so whatever is going to you know provide the best Insight when we need to make these decisions at budget time I'm good with think thank you thank you very much um in that case I'm gonna ask um Kelly can you remind me procedurally uh when we're just renewing a policy or um you know re reupping a policy what our processes yeah if we if we want to do nothing we can but we have put it in front of the board if we want to revise the date on the bottom because this policy goes back to 1999 um in the previous series that we've done we have put it Forward recommended as is to reopt and and reopt the date on the bottom so it would go to the board for that okay so I'm not legally required sorry K I'm sorry it's not legally required to do it that way but we are trying to bring our policies you know this one is as you can see about 25 years since it's been last noted that we re revised it does this have to have a first review if will happen is it what we would do is make a recommendation out of this committee for a first read by the whole board um that would give board members an opportunity to reflect and provide further information because obviously we only have the the committee members really weighing in here um but it would allow them to either approve the first read and then it would be eligible for a second read and and Confirmation or to kick the policy back to the committee level for further conversation so given our conversation here at the committee this evening I'm looking for a motion to make a recommendation for first read and adoption under a new date of the same existing policy so moves thank you Terry you have a second please second thank you Al all those in favor please signify by saying I I I I any opposed any extensions motion so carries thank you um we have a third item on the agenda this evening and that is a carryover uh from our last policy meeting around uh board member affiliations um I know that you know this kind of came up as a conversation at one point about whether board members should be required to disclose their affiliations with any organizations that they are part of other than the Board of Ed um um and that kind of falls under the policy committee so um I'm opening this up for conversation uh amongst committee members to get some feedback about their thoughts Michelle um not I wasn't aware that it had been brought up why do we know why this is being brought up now is was there is there a reason if it hasn't in the past I I guess I'm not up to date with that part of it sure it was part of the September meeting originally and and I you know we just never uh got we we had a very long meeting in September uh we had a lot of conversation about the policies that were on there so we didn't get around to having this conversation but um I I do know that it was it was brought forward that there was some concern about whether or not board members were parts of different groups if that would create a conflict with their position being a board member um and I you know obviously there are a lot of different you know most of us I think are affiliated with other groups or organizations outside of The Bard ofed um you know and I from my perspective I don't think we should have a requirement to disclose um but I do think we need to have you know conversation about um why and when we should recuse ourselves from participating in either a board conversation a board Vote or um you know our participation in another space because of our affiliation as board members Teresa um I I think when we because this is an elected board applying uh on those Hand cards that we send out so if there's an issue I look at the Palm cards I mean I I I don't really understand the problem there I really don't okay I mean we're just we're having a conversation about it now because it came forward and I want to just make sure that we're you know as the policy committee it's our it's our purview so okay Al I don't think there's an issue here I think it's the same situation as if we become board members itself you know there is no that that being elected to the position uh in itself you can't work for the city of Danbury or or the City Board of Education the public schools I mean so I think in that sense uh we're adults uh and educated adults that we if we ever come to that situation that we need to recruit ourselves I mean I don't think uh I don't think this an issue I really don't think it's an issue thank uh any other comments from committee members Michelle I agree with Al and Teresa in the sense that um they are on the palm card and you know obviously if you you should if you feel that there is a conflict of interest like you know you're hired or you're somebody works in the Board of Education whatever that makes sense to me um and you should you know if you're working in the school and and perhaps there might be some you know if there's direct payment from the Board of Education or something like that that something like that should be disclosed as a board of ed member you know you're volunteering you're elected um and you're you know your public information is out there most likely so I'm going to agree with um with Teresa and Allen I think we're going to leave it to the board member if there's a reason to recuse themselves they they should bring that to the board and the Board of Ed you know and and being an adulted about it and say that um that's that's how I view it um I don't know if you have to disclose something like that thank you for the feedback um I guess while we're having this conversation I do want to give a couple specific examples um because I was thinking about this and thinking about the different circumstances and I know some of our board members are newer um you know from my perspective um you know if for example we're taking a vote on a contract and there's a member of the board who has a close relative um like a spouse or an adult child who's part of the contract group um you know we had that with uh Joda Silva who's a former board member whose wife was the secretary for one of the schools and so when it came to the vote by the board about the contract for the secretaries um you know Joe appropriately uh recused himself from the vote and explained why he was doing that so that you know like Michelle like you were saying um that's an example of a situation where you know you need to understand the conflict of interest it presents for you having personal gain in a particular situation um the other circumstance which is something I bumped into um if you're offering testimony at a city meeting um board members doing that need to remember that the board chair is the person who speaks for the board and the only person who speaks for the board um so if you are a board member you're still obviously entitled to speak at a city council meeting but you have to speak um as a private citizen and given that you know as board members were recognizable in the public as such um it's important to explicitly State as you're giving your testimony that you're doing so as a private citizen um and not as a member of the board of education so you know the idea again is just that none of us are using our position on the board to either create a circumstance for personal gain um Financial or otherwise and that you should not be using your position on the board to unduly influence the opinion of other people in public spaces and I think that those are pretty straightforward and and you know easy to understand Concepts um but I just wanted to make sure that we've had this conversation um and that folks you know are are comfortable uh you know with that question that came forward so I certainly appreciate all the youback we got this evening about that um I do want to also just acknowledge I received and Michelle did you have something sorry H you're muted no Kate I'm sorry if I interrupted you I yes you gave the perfect example with Joe de Silva when I first got on the board and so you know that is exactly what I was expecting is if you feel that you have a conflict and of course say that you're a c you know a resident if you want to speak I know that there are times when glattus has said hey I need you guys to come and support the board or even speak on behalf of the board you know as a board member when we're looking for the budget or to come and support and speak out so um again I would assume that in that case we are going as board members to support our chair but if we're going to get up and speak then we are going to be speaking as citizen as a resident in front of the the city council um you know that's that's how I would look at it so thank you very much that was the perfect examples for me thank you um I do want to just uh make folks aware I did receive an email from one of our committee members requesting that uh we distribute information about the required policies from cave and the recommended policies um just so that folks are aware in our June meeting um we had on the and I don't believe we've seen it yet this year but um we've certainly received that information at the June meeting there's an audit uh uh file that was sent around by uh Kelly which includes a breakdown of which policies are required and which ones are recommended so just so folks are aware we do have that information it's good for you to make sure that you're uh keeping you know keeping us on our toes here as well we are we aren't perfect and sometimes we make mistakes um so if you do see something that we're we've skipped or haven't handled um you know we're going through these policies in order to try to make sure that we're methodical about it um and making sure that we're going through uh policies um in a way that uh make sure we're going to hit every single one of them um especially after that audit process with cab we want to make sure that we're we're taking care of uh each of these policies in order the only exception to that of course is if we have something that comes through in a timely fashion like this evening when we reviewed um the the charges for school U meals um that's a policy that we had to make an adjustment because of uh an existing change to the way that we we handle uh meals in the in the district um similarly uh you know we may at some point visit the topic of uh policy around cell phones or AI as those are also timely and we're having conversations about those as uh board members and in the community um but for the most part what we're trying to do is work through each of these series on the policies um to make sure that we'll keeping our our policy book uh updated okay all right um we've gone through the entire agenda I thank you so much um that was uh a record for this committee today um and I'm looking for a motion to a journ please Teresa we the motion and Al you'll get the second all those in favor please signify by saying I

e e e good evening everyone I will call to order the special Board of Education meeting workshop for October 2nd 2024 um it is just past 5:00 pm uh we are in Open Session because tonight is a workshop um and just a reminder that closed session will immediately follow follow and um this will be um this is being live streamed on YouTube um with that could we please stand for the flag salute all right and um because we are short one board member this evening everything that we take action on uh we will have to do with a roll call Vote or we all vote one at a time um moving on to the consent calendar um are there items that need to be pulled from consent it's a short one seeing none any public comments all right do we have a motion I move the consent calendar second dude all right we have a motion by Mr tennis and a second by Mr Lando all uh not all those in favor um any further discussion approval starting down at the end with uh Mr tennis tennis ey Conan ey Dolby ey Lando ey all right moving along two um item three that's the workshop topic this evening um is informational uh for our special education programs update for 2024 so we'll have for Scala join us for the presentation okay good evening thank you for um putting me on the agenda um to talk about something that I love dearly and that is um our special education programs and so um I have to thank Mr Pedro Caldera director of secondary education and Miss Heather sentes director of Elementary education they helped um be part of my planning for tonight along with um working with all of you on what you would like to hear about so I want to just begin with saying um we have unequivocally the best special education staff um that I've had the opportunity to work with in a really really long time and and I say that with 20ish years of experience and a lot of different opportunity in different parts of our state and Colorado and the fact is that we have amazing Educators who are out in classrooms on campuses every day working on behalf of our students um really getting creative and finding things that work and collaborating and supporting parents and their educational Journey because um the road to a diploma or 22 and aging out is sometimes challenging when you have a child with special needs so um in our department we have 49 and a half Elementary Educators we have 52.6 secondary Educators and over 45 designated instructional staff so designated instructional staff I'll kind of explain what that group entails so my apologies for us being a little bit small um we have broken down special education in the past three years into two separate broad categories and it is a Continuum of services from mild to moderate so our we used to have resource program special day classes all those pieces those have now been combined into one general area of mild to moderate support needs or mmsn and then we have extensive support needs or ESN for our students who have more um challenges and needs across the spectrum of their entire day into the community Independent Living all of those pieces so at the high school level you can see we have 18 staff members that are serving students in our mild to moderate support needs classrooms so this could be anywhere from direct instruction in a specific area like math or social studies to academic Support classes where the teachers are just directly supporting whatever Core Curriculum instruction is happening for the student in their core classes at the middle school level we have 13 teachers and at the elementary we have 22 and a half Elementary teachers in our extensive support needs world we have six High School teachers so we have three classrooms at Chico high and three at PV High we have five Middle School teachers in the element and sorry in the extensive support needs classes and then we have 18 Elementary classes when we're talking about designated instructional Services these are all of our Specialists who come in and provide identified services is based on individual students needs that are attached to existing IEPs related to those broad categories of disability so we have speech therapists So currently you can see we have 23.8 speech therapists and then a contract um for private provider with of um a little over one and a half uh people a week we have two adaptive PE Specialists occupational therapists we have almost five we have an orthopedic impairment specialist so helping students with movement um getting around safety line campuses transferring from chair to Stander all of those kinds of pieces we have one specialist in that area we do contract out for our visual impairment services or VI services our Physical Therapy Services and our deaf and heart of hearing services with bcoe because those students are really low in frequency so it makes much more sense in terms of us working with a contract um through the county office where they hire the employee and they come work with us we have educationally related mental health services so this is therapeutic work that clinicians are doing with students and we have five in the district we have healthc care services with six a little over six and a half registered nurses on campus every day that are providing a wide variety of medical um services in needs on campuses psychologists and there's more like we said there's a range of programs and services in the district and so along our Continuum from mild to mod and extensive support needs we also have um programs that are working full inclusion where students with special needs are in their General edk classes with support or um accom ated in any way that they might need that's a little bit different than co- teing where we have two teachers that are co-planning and co- preparing and presenting lessons throughout the day we have co- teing that's occurring at Chico high so that's um a newer model and very exciting we have an extensive preschool program that currently serves all children from the time that they are just about three so 2 years 11 months until they become TK eligible so we have eight teachers doing that work right now we have this year brand new the chico adult transition Center this is for our students who are 18 to 22 years of age and four teachers are working within that program with all of their support staff we have an three sorry no that's right three access classes which is um Support classes special education contain classes for our students who have emot disabilities and so often times our clinicians are tied to these access classes at least half of their week so that our students in need have access to a therapist on campus so we have one at the elementary level at Hooker Oak one at the middle school level at Marsh Junior High and one at PV high school and as I mentioned before we have the bcoe programs for the DEA and heart of hearing so students who are deaf and heart of hearing um have to or are allowed to have access to their deaf community and that Community for the county of but is in Durham we have the bases program and I wish I could tell you what bases was an acronym for it's a program through bu county office ofed and it is um highly structured behavioral and therapeutic program for students who have difficulties with behavioral and emotional regulation they currently have one classroom for high school students it's staffed very similarly to our access classrooms for students with emotional disabilities except it's not on a comprehensive campus so that can um support students in that realm we have non-public schools or NPS programs these are programs that are um under contract with the district for students who need a significant amount of structure support Supervision in order to maintain their safety and to meet the needs of their IEP and we currently have six students in non-public schools we also have medically necessary instruction for kiddos who can't because of a medical disability um come to campus to access their education so we have two teachers who are working with these students providing approximately five hours a day of sorry five hours a week of instruction for these kiddos and then finally we have alternative education so we've got Fairview Cal AFC um Oakdale that all work together with 2.6 teachers in those programs so a huge staff I want to also mention we have two full-time behaviorists on C on um our team that work across the district in supporting Behavior Support plans and supporting teams whose students are struggling significantly with behavior and then we have a little over 3 50 instructional par professional staff um when we're fully staffed that are also supporting all of these programs and teachers so I want to call up my administrative team because in addition to all of these folks we have an admin I have an administrative team that's incredibly supportive so I'm going to have them come up right now and just introduce themselves to you who they are and where they're supporting hi there I'm Dana fold and I am supporting marold Emma Wilson and Parkview and um when we're supporting our schools we're supporting all special ed programs on those campuses oh and I also that's right I do I also do um ELD for our special ed um students making sure their IEPs are correct making sure they're um in the right assessment and so I just do all the special ed parts of Eld hi good evening I'm Joanna mang I am one of the coordinators and I support the special education programs at our three High School sites py Chico high and Fairview and I also am the site administrative lead at our adult transition Center good evening I'm Gina pton this year I am the coordinator of three elementary schools Shasta hookero and citrus as well as our access programs at the elementary junior high and high school level and I'm providing the professional development for our iby and IP in staff there are kind of behavior AIDS within the program and we do that just about weekly hi I'm Dustin Holly I work with h little Chico Creek Chapman and Neil da as a support service hi I'm Morgan Dar I'm a project specialist and I provide services for marsh Cho Jr and Bidwell junor High we should go as one because I'm the first sahie I'm the preschool project specialist and I'm helping support coaching at that level and I'm the other Sarah V I'm Sarah vanart and I support the special education programs at mcmanis Sierra VI rosale and Forest Ranch they're going to come back up in a few minutes so one of the things that we've been working on this year is um in response to um concerns about growing changes in behavior um difficulties happening on all of our campuses is ensuring that these folks are on campuses um every single week so we don't have anybody that's on a campus all day every day but trying to really um ensure that they are available um at a at a when a calls needed and on a scheduled basis to provide support so they're providing support not only to um our special education teachers and our prayer professional staff but they're also supporting administrators and making sometimes tough decisions because those happen occasionally in our classes and um supporting general education teachers and how to support students that are in their classroom environments so one of the ways that we're trying to really be clear about how to get the quickest most responsive support to our staff all along the way was to for us to identify different levels of support that's that teams have available to them every single day so we tried to divide into two separate areas where support might be needed so on one hand we have sight level questions that come up all of the time so this could be as simple as hey my heater is not working and it's cold in here to um I have something's going on and and the technolog is down and I need some help so trying to direct our staff to when there's those logistical things that are specific only to your school here are all the ways that you could get access to help on your campuses if things still don't get resolved then here's your next layer of support and then here's your next layer of support our our growing concern was really making sure that folks had people to call to get immediate help when needed when it comes to student level difficulties within their classroom those can be a little bit more challenging and we might need a little bit more specialization in terms of who can and who should respond so we identified if there are initial issues Who as a teacher can you reach out to for support who can you get consultation from in terms of your team members involving your site Administration and then increasing the level of calling in a project specialist calling in a coordinator if that's not enough then we're calling big meetings and and involving me if necessary the goal like I said was really to make sure everybody understood there are a wealth of people on campuses every day that are available to provide support and we wanted to be clear about who those people could be that you sometimes forget when you get wrapped up in what's happening day to day especially when you have little ones all around you ready ready for your instruction so this is I I apologize if it's I know it's gray it didn't come out well for me but I think that this is really important information and let me help you decipher it so on the next slide I included the disability categories and so if you look at this the disability categories the codes those correspond directly with the codes that are along the top and so you can see we have 13 disability categories in this in the state of California that um we follow and you can see from 2007 all the way down to 2023 24 the number of identified students within each of those columns going all the way across showing our total special education population from 20078 all the way down to last year as you know today is seabeds day which is our day of calculating here's our initial number of kiddos so I can report that today when I ran my report our number was 2,298 so again another big jump from 2033 last year year to this point in time this year so there are a couple of things I want to draw out to your attention number one MRI ID that is the same disability code but in 20134 the state and federal government renamed that code from mental retardation to intellectual disability so that's why you see that code change um at that point so that's the same number that we're talking about I think for a lot of reasons um Health Care all these other um Quality diagnosis getting things a little bit more clear we have seen a pretty good drop in students identified with intellectual disabilities from 20078 to 2023 24 our heart of hearing students have also dropped but we've seen kind of an EB and a flow of that disability area and our deaf students have stayed pretty steady our students with speech and language impairment have seen an EB and a flow and that kind of shows that it's just a disability category that's pretty consistent visual impairment just in general has seen a significant drop from 11 to 3 Ed is emotional disability it actually was considered emotional disturbance and will remain on code until the end of this year as emotional disturbance but that again has been changed starting in January to disability and so we have again EB and flow there of the numbers of students who have emotional disabilities oi is orthopedic impairment so kiddo's born with um physical disabilities that prevent walking running all of those standing um have seen a significant or a significant drop other health impairment on the other hand has seen a significant increase over the course of years so that's something for us to keep in mind Jen I'm sorry can you this that that category always kind of throws me off a little bit because I it's obvious it's a catch some what yes yeah so um could you maybe give some minor examples of that yeah so other health impairment is kind of what it sounds like it's a health impairment that affects the alertness and vitality of the student the ability to function in their day-to-day learning environment so so it could be things like um undergoing cancer treatment it could be ADHD um diabetes if it's significant so those medical conditions that are not temporary in nature but that do affect the ability to be at school and attend to task and complete what we need them to complete educationally I'm sorry if this is um somewhere else in your presentation but um what's so I know some of those qualify for usually like the 504 yes um and I know that the 504 and the IEP are different um so how does how is there overlap or I mean how is that kind of differentiated in in your in your realm that's a really great question so Section 504 of The Rehabilitation Act is an anti-discrimination act so it was established in 1975 in order to ensure that individuals who have or are are regarded as having a disabling condition have access to all of the opportunities of as those without disabilities so it's really about preventing discrimination so when we write 504 plans in the school district what we're talking about is what accommodations do we provide what modifications can we make so that the student can have access to everything that their peers have so it's a little bit m I was going to say it's like a VIN diagram but it's really not so Section 504 would be the outside Circle because anybody with an IEP is assumed to have section 504 rights because we're protecting against dis um discrimination idea which came along much later really has to do with identifying children with educational disabilities that prevent or interfere with learning and that's a service law so that's stating schools will provide these specific services to ensure children can make their educational growth so big outside circle is anti-discrimination from the 504 perspective inside circle is the C is the Ida special I think that was the most succinct clear way that I've ever heard it explained yes thank you well thank you I've had that explained to me many many many times and as such I figure other people probably could always use the reminder as well yeah absolutely absolutely so right that's and so the other health impairments that's would be just a 504 and then there's like some gray area there so so kind of that difference of which plan is going to be most effective is how much support do you need to be successful in the classroom to be successful at school if you need direct specialized instruction then we're going to go to an IEP if we can um accommodate in a general like classroom and you get it in your set then we don't want to pull you from your peer group we want you to be in there and we can do that with a 504 thanks you're welcome you had you had left off on uh theal yeah and how it has gone up quite and how it yes it has um specific learning disability which is you know for those of us who've been around the special ed game for a while have seen some significant changes in the way we identif ify and diagnose specific learning disability um this really has to do with our kidos who have dyslexia who have disc calcula which is a disability in the area of math or disg graphia which is in the area of written language and so it's um those kiddos who are intellectually very capable but when it comes to the pro the way that they process that information either that they see or that they hear is is not representative of what they're really learning and so that sets up a discrepancy between what we know they're capable of learning and how they're performing in those classes so that's specific learning disability again Jen I'm sorry oh yes did we jump over EMD why don't I that's I actually don't thank you recognize EMD is a established medical disability as you can see we just have two and these are our kiddos it's only for kiddos who are 3 to 5 years of age and then we have to switch over to a different disability category it's kind of that we just don't really know yet we want to give you a little time it's that one but you can see we don't we don't use it very frequently so sld has remained pretty pretty stable deaf blind which is DB we um are fortunate we have not had any students with both disabilities in that area MD is multiply disabled so this would be a student who is deaf and Autistic or orthopedically impaired and intellectually disabled so it's two broad C categories of Developmental disability that work together um typically our kiddos with multiple disabilities have significant impacts on their daily functioning and that number has also stayed pretty stable I want to skip over autism and just touch real briefly on TBI TBI is traumatic brain injury iny these are brain injuries that occur after birth and so we think of accidents Falls car accidents things like that it's really a clear distinction between before and the after of the accident that um that shows us that the child needs specific uh direct service however going back going back to autism I think that this number is very not surprising in my world but very telling for us as a school district so in 2007 2008 we had 111 students um considered on the autism spectrum at that time to last year 476 so this is a growing area of disability not only in our community but across the across the world um part of the change in frequency is um we definitely have gotten better more trained and honed in on identifying children who are on the Spectrum and providing that support there also have been um some changes in terms of trying to identify once it's in the genetics so to speak where have that where has it caused um I don't know how to say this in in the easiest way possible so once it's genetically part of our humankind then it becomes much more um readily available through um being passed down from parents to children Etc um there was some evidence when I was starting out my career that um getting like-minded individuals together with um some of our technology positions and things like that had um led to an increase in autism and I think that that had more to do with um people being of liked mind and um having uh relationships and children and it kind of changed I think the trajectory of the way we started looking at children who were different prior to that I think we would have um not looked at them as having a disability like autism it just wasn't that frequent so for a lot of reasons what we're seeing is this significant increase in our children with Spectrum disorders in our classrooms so as some of our other disability categories have stayed relatively stable in terms of numbers and other disability categories have significantly decreased with Quality Health Care um early intervening Services all of those things that help ensure healthy um developmental profile from the start we're seeing the change the opposite of that with our children with Spectrum disorders and the last statistic that I heard was one in 42 with autism which every time I hear the statistic it seems like it changes so I don't know that um as a medical field as an educational field we kind of have it dialed in yet but um this seems to be an area in flux right now what this means what this means is the profile of our kiddos who are in classes has changed so we know with children in the spectrum that early intervention services is where it's at we inter we intervene early we provide lots of language support we provide lots of supports with sensory motor needs we provide a lot of peer-to-peer interaction and we guide that and teach that just looking at that level of a student you're looking at three different service providers really stepping in and supporting kiddos to ensure that they can be successful and so that's very different than a child who might have a specific learning disability who only needs one specialist so some of that is um the changing demographics of what our children are being present are presenting to us with is creating the change in the level of services and supports that are needed on campuses now go ahead um just kind of summarizing the chart of numbers it's it appears that the other health impaired and um a autism um columns have gone up the most drastically um I probably say this too many times but I kind of struggle with just like flat numbers and sometimes it's nice to see percentages um because I would be I I see the percent year-over-year change but that makes it hard for me to to see kind of broad more broadly like how that has of our whole population how that has changed you know if there's a bigger um if there's a big if there's bigger growth you know overall or in a certain area that's not proportional to District growth for example um so that's not for now but that's just yeah numbers wise how I I operate is in percentages a little bit better um and that also helps to kind of take a look at um what's happening you know regionally how do we how do how does this look is this pretty standard are we seeing a disproportionate rate of growth in these areas for our district compared to other local districts or even Local Schools you know I would be I would be um interested to know you know what are the charter schools seeing and what services are they providing or are we getting a lot more students in our district and the charter schools aren't um because I know that there are I mean anecdotally I know that there are families who decide to to send their students who need special services to Chico Unified um but then their typical children they they send to a charter school which essentially siphons off that you know some of that money that can help support those services for our our broader um special needs people so you know kind of a a on my soapbox issue is is how that impacts our district disproportionately um when it comes to being able to provide services to our students with special needs I would um be happy to to dig in and get some more data for you um I have to say kudos to Jacqueline Krueger because she's the person who's been tracking all of this data for us for the past 20s something years um this data is really hard to come by believe it or not in my world because our special a data that we monitor is daily it's live data so one day I might say oh it's this and tomorrow it's it's different because kids come and go and um however I would say compar comparing us to our selpa us to our state the trajectory the trend of the numbers is very consistent um if we I I can happily send that data out to you to compare where we are with this um in comparison to both bu County and the selpa um the charters are a little bit different in bu County in the sense that they're not part of our selpa so um I'd have to do a little bit digging but I'd be happy to if you'd want me to and I can just pipe in here um as far as percentage of our tot enrollment I'd say 10 12 years ago um our students with IEPs were about maybe 12% um of our total enrollment for the district and at 2300 what you just said that puts us over 18 and a half percent so um the students with IEPs is growing at a much faster rate than our general overall enrollment is for the District thank you for the bottom that bottom line um we do have a lot of really great data people in the room have have snapshots of different aspects of this data so shout out to all of the folks that are following the numbers yep definitely okay so one of the things that you had asked me about was what are some of the things that um have changed since I've stepped into this position and so that's what I wanted to bring um to you tonight to talk about what are some of the things that are different so um special education as you know is is a a program in evolution so um best advice I got from Dave Scott when I accepted this position was Jen special ed is all about Evolution not Revolution and so I've taken that to heart and every day I keep focusing on okay a little bit better every day that's what we do and so um I've divided it as much as I can into two areas Elementary and secondary because they don't necessarily overlap 100% % um at the elementary level we have been adding staff so in response to the needs of our our changing student bodies we have nine of our 12 Elementary campuses that have a full Continuum of services so something that is very um near and dear to my heart I'm very passionate about is our kiddos get to go to their home Elementary School and be with their neighborhood peers as much as possible and so nine of our 12 campuses have mild mod Services through ESN Services TK through fifth grade um because of some facilities limitations we have a couple campuses that only have one ESN classroom or one extensive support needs classroom or don't have any extensive support needs classrooms but um I am I am really pleased that um we are this far into the um progress with students being able to stay in the school that they've started in and built relationships with those peers in addition we have had we've been fortunate enough to have two all specialed staff program days so in August of 2023 I was able to bring all special EDS teaching staff support staff everybody together for a full day it was was um an incredible time to be able to um not only engage in professional development but to allow for vertical collaboration to allow um experts in this field to be able to work together and hear from each other and support each other build those relationships across campuses so now it's not just who's on my campus for my support but I know I can reach out to my peers on another campus and get ideas and strategies from them so putting many heads together we were able to accomplish that again this year in August of 2024 and I would say we had both years about 75 staff which to me asking someone to come back before school starts is is a win if we were able to get 75 of them we have um also been able to pull our elementary mild mod support staff teachers off and do a full day of training with just them in January of this year and really dig in with them because their role has probably changed the most extensively so remember the beginning of this conversation we were talking about we had resource classes we had SDC classes and now we're one big umbrella so we used to we had teachers who were hired as resource teachers and now we're saying no you're a mild mod supports need teacher so their role has really expanded so being able to get those teachers together to talk about how do you do this and really we got to think outside of the box and and considering all those challenges that we're asking you to engage in those least restrictive educational opportunities all those pieces and so being able to bring them together I think was a really valuable day um again forging more of those relationships and and common Minds together I'd like to continue doing that again this year if we can we held transition IEPs at all educational levels last spring so um the easiest way to describe this is we do all of our work every single year every child in special education gets at least an annual IEP so that's a whole IEP team coming together at least once a year quite frequently we might have two meetings maybe three for our students transitioning from preschool to TK or kindergarten we have to complete what's called a transitional IEP a transitional assessment in the spring we also do that a transitional meeting for students transferring from elementary to middle school and then again from middle school to high school and finally from high school to the adult world so think if you're a middle school teacher that means that 2third of your population you're meeting on at least twice a year once for the annual once for the transition so it is a very heavy lift but it is very very important work what we know is that without those transition meetings where parents the current educational team and the future educational team coming together and talking and preparing the student for the next stage of of their education without that work um it's a it's a bumpy start to the next school year so um this past spring we were able to do Transition meetings for every person that was willing to show up and meet with us so a huge heavy lift by our special team um on that aspect and we are scheduling the beginnings of those conversations for January so that we can have our plans laid out to get those done from February through May of this year Jen I'm I'm sorry I'm not understanding something are you um the transition I meetings are happening regardless are you saying that your team is assisting with the school site staff to do those is that what's different so what's different is in previous years we maybe didn't have a full transition meeting or we didn't transition students from fifth grade to to sixth grade or we missed those pieces so this past spring we had them all and so you can it's it's probably 35 40% of our of our student population that is coming through transition that needs support and so the administrative team is absolutely part of every one of those meetings but then it's also a lot of um collaboration between sites because the both schools have to collaborate and work together if you're an elementary school you might have three middle schools that you're meeting with at any point time so it it can be really complicated so the team did a fantastic job this year and we had a better turnout this year than we had ever had in the past did that answer your question okay I'll keep going if you have another one let me know um last year we also did um with the help of Mr Shephard um a lot of work in changing our delivery model with our speech services so um through a lot of negotiations work a lot of collaborative work with our speech therapists working together to make sure that they had the most amount of flexibility in their schedules to do what they needed to do yet meet all the needs of the students we changed the the method in which they're delivering services and so it might sound like a little thing but speech therapists who are writing services of x amount of time per month um transition to a yearly schedule so that they're offering parents these are the amount of the amount of services that you're going to get for the whole year and that allows them to have flexibility and make up sessions when needed and get all of their case management work done and feel supported because our speech therapists do a lot of work with case loads upwards of four in the preschool and 55 at the elementary secondary level and then the last one for elementary is our Loma Vista Early Learning Center so we are currently in a state of flux as you know from hearing in a previous board presentation about Universal prek and the change from um preschool being three and four year olds to preschool being more like two and three year olds and so part of special education requirements now also include that our preschool age youth have inclusion opportunities with their typically developing peers just like everybody else so and the state is monitoring our inclusion levels just like they do every other level um in the district and so with the help of Sarah Lim over at LMA Vista um Margie starky and and shaunise Heath started it last year and then um Heather sentes and Kathleen Corbett working with Sarah this year have really um started implementing an inclusive campus where all of our um State preschool classes are at the LMA Vista campus LMA vist is no longer considered a special ed um program or facility it's now a preschool program preschool facility and then our preschool students are um part of those classes with support from special education staff so that they can be successful we're still kind of trying to adapt and evolve with some of these changes to ensure that our students if they're not able to get into state preschools they're able to come in and get Services met and um able to make progress in all of their goal areas and has kind of taken the bull by the horns and adjusted and and moved and grooved um with changes that have happened and cuz numbers are high right you build programs and they show up and so that's what we've consistently seen and so our state preschool classes are full but we're still creating ways for students to come in to LMA Vista to get their education to get their service so I did attach a little link here for you it's called Cal Essie this is brand new it's not um maybe a year old it's developed by the state of California and it's early childhood special education programming and it is basically guiding everything that we are evolving into in preschool special education world and it it's it's changing all the time questions let me keep going it's a lot of information okay so let's talk a little bit about secondary so true to form our secondary programs have continued to evolve as well we had to add staff at both comprehensive campuses so at the PV campus we had so many students we had to add an additional mild mod special um support needs teacher and at Chico high school we had to add an extensive support needs teacher again we provided that all special ed staff training on in August of 2023 in August of 2024 which I already mentioned in line with providing the mild mod day for everybody in mild mod Elementary to get together we have planned already for November the 5th a training day for secondary extensive support needs teachers to get together we have a a full schedule already talking about the alternative diploma Pathways that's um new legislations come out um for us to um expand our offerings of diplomas to our students with extensive needs we're talking about curriculum we're talking about um vertical planning of um instruction work experience transition to adult life all of those exciting things so that's planned for November the 5th um transition meetings again add that added that is terms of um the success rate with the number of transition meetings we were able to have and then we've started um having conversations this year about expanding our work experience opportunities for students in our ESN level classes so I don't know how many if you guys remember many years ago we would have Diversified occupations through the Roop program where we had classes for students students to take where we would get them work experience in the community during their High School uh day and it was a two period block and students would go out and and basically work get work experience it potentially led to jobs somewhere along the way that funding was cut by the state I can't remember when do funding I don't remember either um the funding went away and so those classes kind of went by the wayside but yet our teach teachers are still bound to an additional level of transition planning which is preparing our students for Life After High School with college or career and feeling like we we no longer have a mechanism for engaging our students in work type experience and so um we've already had one meeting with the high school Cho high and PV High School to talk about how can we bring these kinds of classes back onto campuses we have another schedule with the adult transition programs because that's everything that they do in the adult transition Center all day long to make sure that what's happening at the high school is setting up and aligned with what needs to happen for the students to be most successful and work experience in the adult transition Center and then the step after that is to bring in the Middle School teachers in the ESN classes to work on what can you teach what can you do to make High School ready to do what they need to do so this is a new area that we're exploring further we've started making connections with our CTE Partners Tiffany heringer to make sure that what we're doing is aligned with her work um and are very very excited about where we can go with this our hope is to have at least phase one of some ideas and and plan in place for 25 26 and then finally um last but definitely not least um the magical work of Julie Kell and Joe Morris and their teams we were able to open the adult transition Center out at the lasson building it has just been so amazing to see um the students love their building they love their school their place um when you're on campus or in their facility to see the interaction between all four classes the two classes from Chico High two classes from PV working together the social networking that has happened has just been so amazing to see in our students and so um we're going to continue to evolve and improve for them so that they have more experience out in the community more opportunities to do um hopefully job type placements that they can build upon and retain jobs for after when they turn 22 um it's really been a a fantastic um area of growth and I would love to invite you guys to come out and see it sometime questions on that I have a question about secondary um in general because my sense the sense that I get from talking to folks is that middle school is a little bit different than High School even because of especially the Transitions and I guess my curiosity starts with um like Max case load numbers is it different for mild mod and um and extensive needs um Etc and then is that the same or is it different for the elementary level staff so it is actually in Education Code for mild mod support needs teachers their Max case load is 28 um that hasn't changed at all even with all of the changes in the credentialing and and the the division in the two departments um extensive support needs classes Believe It or Not don't have a case load Max according to the Education Code um we know that 28 in a room is absolutely never going to happen for safety and all the reasons all the reasons and so we try to make sure that those classes don't go any higher than 12 or 13 um we have been able to successfully keep numbers at that I will tell you um in talking with a peer last week they were looking for placement um looking for placement for one of their students and I asked you know hey how's your numbers cuz we're we're tight we're right at our Max loads across many campuses and in all the different areas and she said yeah our extensive support needs classes have about 17 students right now and I was like oh okay okay that's rough so is that not something that it gets brought up in I mean this does not have to necessarily be an answered because I don't know what we're allowed to you know bring up about negotiations but is that a number that has been brought up for negotiating um to set like at least with policy I Charlie's chuckling at me um um and then I know like with our speech and language pathologist like that's a whole other you know Max case load and and there's kind of some interesting rules there too and we're right at the cusp of not being you know compliant because there's just so many so um anyway I I'm trying to grasp those moving Parts um with the understanding that the the workload it has evolved over the last several years with the requirements with laws changing with documentation requirements changing or increasing um at the federal and the state level and so just like the thought that um the max case load necessarily hasn't changed uh at least as far as I know for M mod and speech speech language pathologist but that um the the the work expected to be done the number of meetings that need to be scheduled and and paperwork to be done and the follow-ups and the reports and the reporting to whatever you know agency you're supposed to report those numbers to has increased and yet nothing else has has changed to be able to adjust appropriately or proportionally to those requirements yeah for sure I um I would say um just in a nutshell um being part of negotiations all year last year and it looks like I'm a I think Mr Shepard said a de facto member this year um which fills me with pride um so we can continue to work on everything that you are talking about and so we have a really great um part of our contract 7.1 one I think don't is that right thank you Charlie 7.5.1 that does guide us that is there to help with exactly what you're talking about so that we don't end up with 17 in a classroom um those kinds of examples and so um we're scheduled and and started our work already this year to um work through the negotiations process of the things that you already talked about now my take away just from the the last two slides so far from the elementary and secondary practices and just your glowing review of of your experience you know as a a relatively new staff person in chica UniFi is that we have pretty solid programs going and really solid people who are here and who have stayed um and and that um some of the struggles that I know that we're going to kind of get into a little bit that we might be feeling is really centered around Staffing and workload and and that leading to burnout that probably summarize it and kind of foreshadow a little bit AB absolutely that's excellent for shadowing um I I do want to mention just before we jump into um where did that slide go um before we jump into some of those challenges because I did want to um bring those forward um we have I think amazing parental involvement in our district so and we're going to continue on that Trend so um Diane Olsen's last year in the district she worked hard with a core group of parents to create the special education parents advisory collaborative we met all year last year we um met monthly from March I'm sorry August through March um as you can imagine being a parent of a child um with a disability um especially an extensive support needs disability can be really overwhelming so the fact that these folks were um willing to come and meet with me monthly was I know a very big ask um we did three co-led trainings so um their leadership meeting with my leadership doing Al um education on a variety of topics that parents had asked for um we have three meetings already scheduled with CPAC that's what we call it with CPAC this year we had one last week already just kind of to hey welcome back this is what we're about this year um and we have a parent our first parent education night scheduled for this month um I can't remember what day it is anyways um focused on understanding your child's IEP just kind of that starting with the the basics we have our two elcap knights that are also in there and so my goal was to maintain that engagement and conversation with parents um continue to get that education piece out because there are so many moving parts to special education and if this then this and the rules and all of those timelines and everything else so I think that um making our parents as informed as possible I think is the best route forward so in addition to those I did want to mention we have a few more um other accomplishments I already mentioned sped admin on campuses that's been a huge thing for our administrators this year and they're incredibly grateful for um we also started mentorship monthly and so I'm going to have them come up and talk to you about what that is hi my name is Dustin again in case you forgot uh so let me just summarize the thought process um about monthly mentorship um so basically starting off as an ed specialist is really difficult it's always evolving and it's just a huge overwhelming job for a lot of people and so we wanted to kind of help guide the thought process and learning about this difficult position uh so the monthly U mentorship uh starts off with um kind of like a a training and then it's like a meeting and then a collaboration so the training will be something that's kind of in line with what they're learning at the time our first one was about um building relationships with families and then going through the IP meeting and what that should look like uh what you should bring for it and how to conduct a meeting um and so after that we'll figure out what the next need is and so we put a survey out and then we find the needs that that they have and and then try to address those needs then we um have a question answer period after that training so it's open up to a group um it is open to all teachers so some veterans will be there too um as well as the new teachers and sometimes it's very empowering to hear a veteran speak and ask a question um that a new teacher has as well right um and then we can break off and and that's the collaboration piece where they can ask specific questions to um veterans or um project specialists iik that happens once a month is it um it's optional so the expectations that new teachers um come but it is optional for veteran teachers so it's it's expect so they're required to it is mandatory but then um you know sometimes the need for a campus meeting that need is uh more important at that time and so then we can collaborate with them about what happened at that training um but then they'll be on campus with their administrative so done it at another time that they would otherwise be in a meeting already training it's a meeting time that's already within the we worked with um our principles and went to EAC sorry we worked with our principles and EAC and looked at a bunch of dates and together collaborated with our principles on what date would be the best for them throughout um the year so is it in person it is in person and we meet at the laston building gotcha yeah is it challenging for folks to get to that from their school sites last month it was not we um have worked with um Charlie and the 15 minute for um called meeting time and so we have it start at one time and then we wait until our Chasta group gets there and then we start the meeting so we do work with any other questions no thank you um I did the secondary monthly mentorship and secondary is pretty unique in comparison to Elementary some of the things that they need specific training with and we held it at PVE because that's the that was where one of our brand new teachers it was easier to get to him than it would be to Chico high due to all the traffic in that area pb's got that great parking lot we require them to come if they're first year um it can be recommended by admin if they're second year and and then we open it up to everybody the secondary we had teachers that have been teaching for 20 years come and I we had the same topic as secondary um but we did kind of start how is it going what are some challenges that you are facing so far and made sure to get that feedback and address it before we went into the topic so that their specific concerns at that very moment could be supported and answered and heard um and then we went into the same topic as they did for the Elementary it's the same day because it is during that called meeting time and it's put out in advance and then um we did uh at the secondary level just kind of talk about what is difficult about IEPs for that first one and making those connections and then provided resources that we have in the district and made sure that they had access to all those resources and then they were asking questions about them it was really a small group and so we could get pretty interactive and have um pretty pretty good start um next month it might be different based on the feedback of the topic that we get that secondary once in comparison to Elementary but the topics are all going to be the same they just might be different months that are being requested by Elementary vers secondary do you have any questions yeah just it it's just Ed specialists in the in in those trainings it was open to psychologists um SLP so speech and language OTS it was um um offered to anyone who wanted to come but um there are separate monthly mentorships specifically for school psychologists that Joanna did as well good hi I this year I facilitating the school psychologist monthly mentorship for our new school psychologists this year is a little bit unusual um I I've my background is in school psychology I've been a school psychologist since 1998 um and in my experience in Chico Unified in in a typical year we might have one or maybe two new school psychologists join our team this year is a bit unusual we have six brand new school psychologists that have joined our Chico Unified team so um four of the six are brand new to the field just fresh out of graduate school so um so there's a a great deal of training and mentorship that is required for our new school psychologists um our school Psych ologists are um are really our special education leaders on our campuses um being a school psychologist is a very complex and specialized role and so our school sites depend on our school psychologists to be um leaders on their campuses for special education procedural and practical matters um so I meet with them once a month again it is required for our six brand new school psychologists uh all of our schools psychologists are invited and um and I've had several of our even our veteran School psychologists join us um for our monthly meetings and so we have an agenda where we discuss various legal and procedural items um and then they are also welcome to bring items to our agenda um things that they are wrestling with or questions that they have on their sites um and it's a time to do some training and collaboration and support um and to answer whatever questions they have um our new school psychologists also are welcome to book time with me at any time during the month if they have questions or issues that come up that need to be addressed in an immediate timely manner so I do I meet with them kind of throughout the month um separate from our monthly group meeting um since since you're up here um can you help explain a little bit better the the case load how that works for a school psychologists or no I'm thinking speech and language pathologist it's still an SP thing yeah exactly just kidding no can you explain everything to me actually joh I need it just kidding any other other questions sorry yeah if you don't mind um we have MS clinicians and we have psychologists what so do the psychologists provide Direct Services to students and if so what's the difference between those two roles that's a great question Tom um our MS clinicians uh provide services that are are driven by the IEP for counseling and Social Work including Individual Counseling group counseling and social work and so those services are provided as per each student's individual education plan um and they're it's driven by assessed needs in those areas our school psychologists do sometimes provide those counseling services but more often they're providing the broader assessment and identification rule so our school psychologists uh really um provide supports and services for school sites through the pre-referral stage um all the way through the assessment and evaluation and identification and then working with site teams to consult and provide support to teachers and other support providers on their campuses so the school psychologist has a bit of a broader role our MS clinicians are U more specialized and have a narrow focus of providing those Counseling Services okay thank you so the idea was um borne out of one of our challenges which we'll be talking about next but we've so far um meeting with our folks monthly we're trying to ensure that they have support throughout their entire first year rather than just at the beginning of the year so um we also last year um continuing along working with negotiations in CA had created um three different levels of Ip or instructional paraprofessional support and these are folks that are in classrooms um instructional support to our special education teachers our general education teachers and teams and so I'm sure you remember the Intensive behavior interventionist or iby that's part of our behavior um intervention team and those folks are now identified um or assigned rather to a specific campus we have one on every campus and so they can provide direct um intensive behavioral support to students in need on those campuses um those providers work with Gina Payton once a week doing extensive training so I believe we have on an every other week schedule right now where one week it's asynchronous learning where they're doing lessons through a Google Classroom that she has set up with them they're watching videos um those kinds of activities and then the following week it's it's direct time with Gina or somebody who's providing a behavioral training of some sort with Gina we needed though we felt like something in between our instructional PA professionals and our intensive Behavior intervent vists especially in the area of training and support and development for these folks when they're working in our more extensive needs classes and so last year with the help of CCA negotiations um Mr Shepard and Mr Allen we created um what we have identified as an instructional par professional extensive needs that's what the en is for to help us delineate um these folks from our instructional par professionals our ipen staff receive once a month training from Gina and um can participate in more at at they as they wish but we're providing that ongoing training for them um throughout the school year so the goal is really to provide much more extensive training to our instructional Paris staff across the district get more highly trained folks on campuses to support the challenges that our students are bringing to us so in in my opinion this is also an area that we're continuing to evolve and then lastly we have a grant that is working with um CSEA or the California School Employees Association um and this has helped me tremendously when we're in hiring of instructional paraprofessional staff when we're talking with those applicants about coming on board with Chico having a grant like this that we work very closely with ER Dr Erin Whitney at the school of education and and her Partners over there to be able to say there's also this opportunity with Chico State to become a teacher and move in that direction has been really exciting for um some of our existing staff and it's been um a carrot so to speak when we're interviewing for staff um that are coming through for instructional Paras which as you know we always need and so this has been a hugely um helpful program to have available for them can you explain that just a little bit better um for just people who maybe don't aren't as familiar with that you know um incentive or um program yeah absolutely so I'm looking at Charlie or John correct me if I'm wrong correct me if I'm wrong so the school of education with Chico State um has been working closely with um the area our area in incentive ing young people to go into the teaching profession and so they assist with grants and things like that and when you're a CSA employee they're working alongside of us to really kind of smooth that trail out for them and you're not wrong everything you've said is spot on un fortunately we have a grant writer that used to work for us that now works for Chico State and she realizes the need so she has been focusing on um um increasing the number of candidates and so it benefits Chico State as well by increasing the number of candidates entering their program and utilizing our classified staff as as a pipeline to draw interest into the profession first um while being paid right not just an unpaid internship and then um they once they start working with us there's some paperwork obviously they need to fill out to be um involved in the program there's some verification and I think and I think it's an 18-month criteria for them to U be involved as an IP and then they're eligible and supported financially um to enter the Chico State program there's there are some challenges with that just I don't want to paint the rosiest picture because obviously they need to have their ba and and their BS to or or their BS to get into the uh credential program but at least it's it's a variation of a paid internship okay so just so I'm getting things clear um is it just for instructional PA professionals or is IPS ipens and IES any of those classifications any of those classifications can once there any of those folks who are employed by chica unified in those positions can apply to if they have the prerequisites to get into um the um the specialist program to go through school to become a a like a mild mod or extensive needs teacher I don't I don't believe that Chico State limits it to just special ed it's just education become a teacher yeah yeah and then um is there I don't know I I've heard that there's um something tied to their years of service as a classified employee that might apply to if they were to get hired then as a as a as a teacher certificated person after they go or yeah after they go through a pro program to get is that um something that's in negotiations or has been talked about or is is in process um just to kind of incentivize that internal kind of cycling you know of bringing our bring our bringing our own Folks up and keeping retaining the um that staff who has a lot of institutional knowledge I can speak to that and Charlie jump in if I miss anything um typically it's 14 years as the max to bring people in however um it could be years of experience in an Lea local educational agency and we also have the option of um including vocational experience so that's really a caseby casee basis the only thing I had to add is um and our negotiations are completely open is cuta is negotiating or advocating for a more specific um pathway for someone who has experience as an IP or ipen or iby to get credit for that on the salary schedule not necessarily on a one to one year basis but to recognize that service either locally or in another District um but again that's in negotiations right now okay that oh sorry so you you go yeah that follows that falls underneath that vocational experience we've been talking about y so it's not quite set yet district has the um discretion now I would say um and we would just like a more um structured and and uh a more official yeah more or guaranteed maybe got it okay so in summary yes there is potential to have opportunity not only with Chico State to uh have a great program to bring folks who want to further their education and become certified in special education or in in education in general then could potentially there's a a discussion about um bringing those years of experience they've already had L Cho unified um in the classified side and applying those to the salary schedule and entering at maybe like a step three or a step four depending on the equivalency that am I getting that pretty clear is it clear for everybody else so that would be like pushing it kind of over the Finish Line in terms of trying to keep keep things rolling full circle and and providing even extra incentive internally got it okay thank you you're welcome okay now opportunities for growth so um we we are a phenomenal program and I cannot stress enough um the work ethic and dedication of all of our providers to our students and our families um but we recognize there are some areas for us that need continued growth um and so here are some that I think that are really particularly challenging us right now um the first one is curriculum development we have curriculum in every one of our classrooms that's not a question or an issue the challenge is finding um to you bear with me for a second I see it in my mind like this dance that we have to go through where it's a dance between having students in general education in Core Curriculum in core content that maybe is too difficult for them to necessarily access but how do we assure that you're in there and getting to hear it and getting to see it and and in those materials and then still at the same time respecting where your disability may be and how that could be interfering with you accessing those materials and it's just constantly a dance of how much of those materials how much of supplemental materials what are new materials that are coming out that are more um research based and targeted for areas like D Lexia for example um it's it's just a continued dance of identifying the right curriculum is this the best thing it with our extensive support needs classroom is this the best that we have to offer we're always identifying okay here's an area that's a little weaker for us how can we bring in more supplemental material is there something out there that we don't have that would be better so this seems to be like something that we can never just rest on we're always looking for better ways to deliver the instruction that meets that perfect zone of proximal development with our kiddos um keeping in mind the core content um next transition planning across the grades span believe it or not this is tricky we're a big district and in an Ideal World our our elementaries could be collaborating with our Junior highs and our Junior highs collaborating with our high schools so that we all kind of flowing together that can be challenging in a large District so um getting time for teams to get together outside of um face-to-face IEP meetings and working through what students don't quite have yet to be ready for the next level those are some challenges that we're running into and areas that we're continuing to try to problem solve I think our our time time getting together as teams so like Elementary mild mod teams the secondary ESN time that time to get together to be able to talk about um some of those issues that we're seeing with maybe gaps in what students are prepared to do when we're transitioning from one stage of their education to the next um is an area that we could really improve upon and um that comes with time to work together and so we're trying to build that in in there a huge huge issue for us and um I was really appreciative of um superintendent Staley this week reminding me that it's not just special education but um our our attrition rates in education are are really tough and it it hits hard in special education um we want to do everything that we can to support encourage and retain our staff we know that um that it is a very difficult job and we respect that um but everybody's going a million different directions to get the job accomplished and there is only so many hours in the day so how do we keep staff that are doing a really great job in a in a position that takes a lot out of you not only um not only your time but your investment and sometimes your heart cuz sometimes we we try doesn't always work for students and so that can be really difficult to watch and and experience and so um the attrition with our staff is um a significant issue it feels a little bit like um every year starting over with a new group of folks and um trying to support them the best that we can so that um they don't experience burnout but then at the same time respect the folks who have been in the classroom on the campus is year after year after year that they don't um lose their fire and their passion for the work that they do and so um it's something that we have to pay close attention to and try to find ways to support them um every which way we can um the sped attrition rate in our district um that's you're referencing both certificated and classified I was um referencing just certificated in my mind at this point however if we're to talk about classified attrition rate that's even greater um um for a whole lot of reasons like that's that's a whole other huge area that's that's an issue um one of the one of the aspects of our process that I really appreciate is when positions become available our internal candidates get first right to that which is fantastic and I wholeheartedly believe that you end up in the right position and and you it's not so much work every single day right the challenge is um sometimes the the special education instructional par jobs are really challenging and so it it feels like oh we got a good one this is going to be great on our from our perspective and then when the employees like no I I the TK job came open I'm going over there it's like I wholeheartedly respect it but I'm I'm I'm back in the hiring round now so that's a whole other aspect to attrition that I hadn't even considered but you're absolutely right are there emerging themes um that there's a hunch about why there might be this higher attrition rate um in both classified an certificated that that we're working on or that um just need a little extra help to be addressed or is it does it seem broad I and a follow on question really was um back to the monthly mentor ship meetings um the any themes that are coming out from you know struggles um across the board that that might be attributing to a the attrici um so I would love to answer your question more in the springtime we've only had one of those monthly mentorship meetings um what I can tell you just as general themes that I'm hearing is um our new folks are feeling like they're just kind of you know a step or two ahead of the day every time they come into the classroom and so if you've got kids that are or our students who are struggling with behavior or emotional regulation and then you have staff who are sick unavailable and so then they're short staffed with their support staff um combined with I'm I'm still learning this new curriculum I'm still doing this whole process like you it it feels like holy smokes this is a lot to keep up in the air at the same time and so I think that that's probably a pretty consistent theme our seasoned teachers have figured out how to do that juggle um and that's kind of sometimes what it is and um so I think as far as our teaching staff that would um be a pretty consistent theme across what I've heard with our instructional pair of professional staff it is a little bit different because I think that um the idea of working in a school having school hours um vacations and all of those pieces is really attractive but then when you get into the job and you realize wow this is really challenging every day is something different and sometimes it's every half an hour is something different um and you know you kind of have to stay on your toes it's maybe not what folks thought that they were getting into when they accepted the position in addition as an entry-level position we want people to continue to advance and grow themselves professionally if they want to and that's a lot of what I see I see a lot of folks coming in and they're they're young and they want to learn and be in education and so absolutely bring them in get them experience um I I wholeheartedly believe it'll make him a better educator um but that in its very nature is going to mean that we're in constant flux year after year if I can just add to and this isn't necessarily theme related um but in some ways it's a numbers game when we go back to the chart that jacqulyn and Dr Scola have been referencing the the exponential growth in the numbers of students needing Services as compared to the number of candidates in the program and and them coming out of the various programs in California ready to teach hasn't caught up and so it's not a Chico Unified specific conundrum it's a regional Statewide um issue that we're we're wholeheartedly embracing and addressing I met I was in a Capstone education um class last night trying to recruit um teachers and so we're hoping that those numbers that we start to catch up that's not an excuse that's it's a numbers game right now trying I can tell you just anecdotally when I was a principal puin Valley High School my largest Department was my English Department um for the first seven years of my tenure there it was we had 13 teachers and uh my last two years my largest Department was my special education department just just from a numbers perspective perspective um do we know uh probably anecdotally um if the education department either at Chico State or even just across the state in general um are meeting their their Max you know amount of students that they could let in or if they're like severely under and you know that recruitment you know even earlier on is lacking also I want to be careful with this because we are being recorded and it's live but I do know that um enrollments have gone down and the challenges that teachers are facing is is real um and so enrollment is always an issue with Chico State I can't speak to other to other programs but um I know they're they're recruiting as well so in other words we're still encouraging people to apply to those programs constantly they're not maxing out necessarily yeah you'd be surprised a number of times I say oh you want to be a parot can I talk you into special ed let's become a teacher let me hire you let me work with you in my department well maybe if they have a clear path on how they into it that would be even that's right so you know we yeah those those conversations are yeah um I just a couple data points um I I find it fascinating and I wonder if this is typical or if it is a chica unified um thing to to to keep in consideration is on the attrition rate um piece uh at the secondary level in our district over the last four years um the number of turnover of our sped staff versus our secondary General Ed staff has been significantly different um and so we're talking about our in within our community our special education staff turnover at the secondary level has been um uh make sure I get numbers right um sorry special education staff 28% um of the people who um have have kind of rolled rolled out of our district um in the special education department um are are gone because they either resigned or or were not reelected or moved away so they they left the district um for reasons versus 10.7% or almost 11% of General Ed so that's a really really big difference and so that's something that I I feel like is uh a pretty big point whether it's a chica unified thing or a broader thing that we should be talking about pretty consistently um is keeping staff who can see kids real right I mean it's a problem for everybody but um you know take it up the take it up the a chain of command I guess at the state or even Federal level obviously there's a lot more bigger issues going on so figuring out what we can control and what we can do to help that retention rate um is obviously on everybody else's for for for front of their mind um but as we're talking about budget stuff and adding programs and adding things I think that that's a really important piece to keep in mind is like we really just need to maybe not try to think about all the great things that we could be doing and focus on how can we make our currently great programs be more solid with with less turnover for example and this isn't even in touch what the what the um Aid turnover looks like um so another uh uh stat that I received was that um this was a a survey done which I love surveys you know that I love surveys um that of 92 responses um from uh special education Staff last year um 94% said that a sub picks up an aid position half or less than half of the time so we have a lot of unfilled substitute Aid positions which is is a really challenging thing to get we we're already having struggles filling Aid positions anyway um and so I I would encourage uh anybody who might be having conversations with with people in the community parent volunteers ptso any of those folks you know if they have a flexible schedule and they can you know volunteer here and there well maybe just sign up for this the sub list and pick up those pick up those calls and and dig deep and know that you're doing a good job just being there to support support our staff and our students um even if it's a hard day you know so that's another soapbox moment for for us all well you already tapped on an issue for that's on our list which is unfilled positions and so um that's those are the sub positions that you're speaking of where um if we if we're down staff in the classrooms because we haven't um been able to find um candidates to accept those positions and then we have folks out sick um we've we're basically tap in the subpool looking for subs for multiple positions rather than just one or another and so it it is a big challenge every single day um and it's something that um in addition to all the work that the teachers are doing in the classroom that is something that they then have to sort out so um that's another big challenge for us um I have internships here on as an opportunity for growth um not because our interns are not um doing the absolute best that they can and and doing a fantastic job at it it's just that um when we're when we are hiring interns and um doing what we need to to support them that sometimes creates like an extended ripple effect on to support staff around them to ensure that they have everything that they need so um coming into special education as an intern um is a doubly difficult position because at least with a credential in hand you've been through um with a mentor teacher with your cooperating teacher you've been through kind of the day-to-day RAR role before coming in as an intern you don't have any of that experience and so um they're relying heavily and rightfully so on their peers so other specialed teachers on campuses they're relying heavily on side Administration for support um they receive a lot of support from um the special administrative team just because the special education position has so many different requirements and and um all of those folks that they lean on have a different level or idea around supporting them that they need so um it it's working for us um but it has some costs and it has some challenges and so um we're trying to really be conscientious about that when we think about okay we're going to bring in an intern is this something that we can sustain and realistically support so that we don't burn out the intern before they have a chance to even be a teacher so um it it's a balance it's another thing that we're having to balance um next on my list is um just a new experience newer experience that I've been having in the last year where families are moving in from outside of our area uh which we know happens all the time and is not a problem but we've had a handful of parents move in or families not parents necessarily um that have kiddos with a a significant amount of extensive needs and so um when you've prepared for it and we know that they're coming through our chain in the system we can be planning and mindful of that but um having families move in with kiddos with extensive medical needs that that require support or students moving in who have non-public school on their I already those are things that we um that are difficult to adjust to and and quickly respond to ensure that the student gets into school as quickly as possible which is always our goal so that's been presenting A new challenge particularly in the last six months and then um secondary to those issues we have a huge area of need that is a very big challenge for us us we value the least restrictive environment very very much so having students on their home campus with their peers but in all reality for some children that does not work for them they need more intensive therapeutic settings they need to not be on a comprehensive campus that is completely overstimulating it's overwhelming it creates um disregulation and behavior and and um difficulties for them that are beyond our level of understanding and we can't accommodate that we can't change that you can't change the size of an elementary campus or a comprehensive campus for some of these students and it's too much the challenge is we've done such a great job of pulling back programs and serving our kiddos in our in our community but we're now finding when we have students who do reach the next level that is outside of any sort of um school facility or program that we have available in Chico we're struggling with where else where else to look where else to access support and services and so um just as we're struggling with hiring staff so is everybody else and so we have in the past had opportunity to um make a referral and place students in a bu County Office of Ed program because they're struggling with finding staff those programs have closed up um keeping programs and non-public schools that are um open just for our students with our most severe extensive disabilities viable and open in Northern California has been next to Impossible and so um it's l left just it's just left such a gaping um Chasm between what we know we need to provide for students and how do we realistically make that happen and keep them in their home and so um we currently have four students in non-public school in Sacramento Sacramento is the closest thing to us which which means a two-hour bus drive each way for our students um there is absolutely the cost benefit that has to be done for each one of those children and for these students the benefit is still outweighing the 4H hour commute um but for some students that there isn't they can't do the 4-Hour commute and so then we're schools our team is left trying to figure out how do we ensure this kiddo gets an ed ation because that's really what it's all about at the end of the day but this is a huge area that um is a is a big struggle and I need help plain and simply our our teams need help and I'm not talking about residential because we have non-public school that's a day program that's the Sacramento program and then we have non-public school students who are in residential non-public schools and those kiddos um are not safe to even be in their home so they're educated By Us in in a in a non-public school and then the County Office of Ed pays for the residential mental health component so th those are our challenges what questions do you have in terms of the IP positions I believe you said there were 350 about uh roughly what percentage are filled at this point you know I counted just the other day Mr Allen I and um we had hiring on Friday I was able to find eight candidates which was fantastic that's really good rate I only had one cancel on me and two accepted sub positions so we we were you know really good turnout last that I counted we had 49 is openings or so out of 350 yeah is that about right I think that's about right so about one out of seven are empty okay 49 openings but but interviewing your you had eight candidates I so hopefully soon 41 yeah yeah still a pretty high percentage we we've been continuously just it's open I mean she's oh I'm sorry um I'm sorry so we have continuously been recruiting and um interviewing I she's probably interviewed more people this year than she's ever had um and the number that we get we can get a high number I want to say last time we had about I think eight people come and four will accept a job and so it's about it's under 50% that apply that get to the interview that accept the job so to get 40 um we're looking at we're going to have to get like 90 people just to apply and get to the interview that's just it's a lot and so but it's open we recruit everywhere all the time is there a general pool of of folks in the community that those come from more than others students parents grandparents General community members it's broad it's it's pretty broad so when when you look at IPS it's kind of it's kind of difficult it's Unique right so you have a six-hour position for 100 81 days right no benefits and it's an entry-level position so a lot of people um are looking for the eight hours they're looking for the benefits or they're looking you know um so it really Narrows the pool at who especially in this time of inflation and all that who can live on eight hour six hours a day right at an entry level job with you know no um no healthcare no benefits like you have some but not you know not full benefits so um it it's a very slim population that that can actually um work that in especially in this economy in California I would say the the round that we just had on on Thursday or Friday I felt was very very successful the overwhelming majority of them were young folks interested in education going to school so maybe they're learning online and working during the day which is great um so that we I felt very successful because they're coming in with um some education under their belt and um that's I felt like Friday why Friday in particular was so successful maybe we need to do some more targeted recruitment like on Tik Tok or something it's not a bad idea so with the students what we see and and and they're great L having the the Chico State students come VI college students come and they will work maybe all year but then the next year they're like oh I can't because my schedule's and so now we're we're rehiring right and it's it's it's constant so yeah yeah very true um I was gonna say something else I remember what it was what other questions do you have I have a couple random ones okay um uh is there kind of a general amount of what we would kind of call more clerical work that our certificated staff are are doing that's kind of taking up a book of time or outside of even you know their traditional day having to make lots of more lots more phone calls lots more paperwork making copies I don't know I don't it's not my world so I I'm not really clear on that um and I guess where I'm going with that is back to that like Creative Solutions for staff um where we might be able to offload some of those clerical things um for a different person to help take care of if there's like a more centralized way to do some of that um or if there's a disproportionality on Middle School um uh certificated Ed Specialists um that and and maybe the workload is just different at the high school level maybe the high school teachers could assist with the the Middle School teachers on some of those tasks I don't know but is there kind of any discussion about that or um you know I think about how much we we might be paying somebody to be scheduling meetings whe when they're they could be working on their curriculum development for their individual students needs um you know that's a different different different skill set that's required for each of those tasks yeah for sure so we have been talking some in negotiations about what could we um kind of peel off in order to um support and and um encourage our our teaching staff in um with IEPs the the paperwork aspect of it the paperwork side of it in terms of the clerical has decreased a little bit believe it or not um one of our accomplishments that I didn't even mention was we have gone um paperless in our special ed offices for as much as we possibly can so um not to date myself but we used to have um those triplicate forms that we would um and hand out during IEPs and we don't do those at all but we used to stand at The copier and make you know three four copies of every document and then hand them out as drafts and then rewrite the IEP and then hand it out as the final um we're not doing that anymore we're projecting onto a screen parents are seeing five changes happening we're emailing IEPs instead um the only one piece of clerical that I would see is um signature pages those we still retain the original hard copy signature page that um but even that is becoming less frequent as we do ready sign and things like that so um the the evolution of it as we've gone digital is um changing some of those aspects um the the the scheduling pieces and um other clerical aspects um we're we're still chatting about all those ideas yeah um next random question uh how are the classroom a scheduled especially at the secondary level so um or even just the I students in general and I will say also personal experience and just feedback I've gotten uh inclusive classrooms that have especially you know um well I was a science teacher so we can say that there was a year that I had a certain class period that had I think 18 students with IEPs in it out of 35 um and that was a huge challenge are there even caps for something like that um and I know that that's happening still and and you know there's um because we have spe some specialized classes there's a lot of tracking that's going on even though we say we don't support tracking um we have uh students that or classes classrooms that are more heavily you know so just it's as a general teacher it becomes really challenging to be able to keep track of all of those individualized needs for those students um and it really is a challenge for for their um their special education staff to also provide those supports um I asked the question but also like that's kind of the context of where the questions are coming from like how are those how are those schedulings done what input is given to to to to build those schedules and then how are AIDS placed into those classrooms or not so um I I don't know if I'm going to be able to answer your full question I'm going to give it a best shot so um when we have positions on campuses we can identify and then work with um the person the aid that we the instructional perah that we've hired if we need to change their start and end times and so we try to be really mindful as we're hiring positions that you're not starting at 8:00 at the high school for example and leaving at 2:30 because kids don't actually show up till 8:30 and so we're trying to be really conscientious about that as we're in as we're hiring as we're posting positions that are available we're trying to also be really mindful that positions that are available um to be filled are available for the bulk of the day if not the whole day um believe it or not in 2006 um I worked in a district that thought it could save money by just hiring three and a half hour people and just hir twice as many and it was a nightmare um we did it for a year and a half but it was crazy so what we know is we're able to um were able to entice and retain people by having those more like a a full day kind of position and then folks can make decisions about you know what the rest of their day might look like from there so trying to be conscientious about 6 and a half hours um for working at the secondary level that's more necessary than um at the elementary Level Elementary level making sure that we've got a little coverage before school starts when students show up a little before when there in the afternoon so we're working schedules that way I also strongly believe believe that our side administrators who are really have all that responsibility of ensuring safety and coverage for their entire campus all day um should have a say in when some of that stuff is available and what that might look like so that they know where their challenging areas of Campus are and they can ensure that there is support staff that's available so um we support the scheduling of those instructional pairs with the site Administration with the counselors those folks um to keep all of those pieces in mind um when it comes to the scheduling of the students into particular sections or classes I know a little less about that aspect of it but like I was saying with um our our special ed administrative team Special Education team coming together with the site Administration looking at where are students falling within the schedule of the day day which teacher has students in there that would need a little bit more support than somebody else and so they're looking holistically and where do we have those needs where are those areas and then identifying um the support staff that goes with them based on those higher levels of numbers in classes like you were mentioning Jen if I can add to the master scheduling component just as a as a master scheduler at the high school level and I don't want to speak to Middle School um it's maybe not quite is complex try doing a middle high school what's that try doing the Middle School a middle school high school master schedule even more complex um the balance between ensuring that we have the least restrictive environment for every student that they have access to CTE Pathways that they have they're meeting the needs um identified in their IEP and then also keeping in mind that um our special ed staff and their own section allocation the balance between the instructional periods and then the periods that they have for all the other duties uh that they're responsible for that large mix can sometimes result in a bubble here and there of you know maybe more kids um dependent if they're if they're um if they're really interested in welding and there's only one section of welding throughout the school day it's going to affect the number of kids you know in that classroom so it's a really complex Matrix when you add all those different pieces to it I guarantee you that our counseling staff at all the secondary schools when they when they hear of an issue they try to mitigate it because they understand the impacts as well yeah I I know I mean because we are short staffed AIDS I know that there's an ongoing issue um at at least at the middle school level um with tracking classes so having more heavily loaded classes that's that's Pro that's making challenges and not enough AIDS support in those classes not enough um pairs in those classes to help support those teachers to provide those those Individual Services I I can tell you we've we've tried lots of different variations of how to how to do the scheduling you know when do you put prep periods for the specialed staff um how do you spread those throughout the day how believe it or not all of that impacts where special education students aren't and where they get impacted into general education sections and so we've um just in my short time here in chica we've tried lots of different iterations of it and been like oh that we can't do that again and here we go plan you know next plan and so um I know that is a constant um work in progress that we're always looking at okay we can do this but not that and and making adjustments along the way yeah I guess I guess my hope is that it's not just falling on um you know one person who's doing the scheduling that maybe isn't getting the enough of the big picture or enough input about how the scheduling really should look based on you know certain challenges that that may be being experienced in class room so um and that sounds like a site Administration topic that should be or if it's not being addressed maybe should be addressed can I can I add to that really quickly because I want to clarify too I didn't say this earlier that all of the Ed Specialists meet with the principal and the registar and they schedule first they go in and schedule first they're the they're the priority in the spring and did they say how many aids would be needed in those classes also it's all IEP driven yeah then we come back once kids actually land in all of the sections and we look again to say okay um once everybody else starts filtering through then okay now we need to make sure and Aid's in that classroom in that period and make sure it's lined up again and that happens for each School site um I was glad that you brought up admin leadership too um because I I would imagine that it's challenging having kind of like this this whole system with its own or chart and you know people who are who are supporting each other and all the way on down to our our School site folks um and I don't mean down really you know what I'm saying though um but also having to work within the the school structure and culture um and sometimes encountering circumstances where it might feel like uh prog programmatic changes or adjustments are are being implemented and the onus or the burden is put on the special ed staff to to be giving directives to to um General teachers for example where the onus really should be on the school side Administration and I feel like that maybe general staff have have had some frustrations or just struggles with that as well and I feel like probably or I feel like it also comes down to how it's um impacting the special the the Ed specialist um folks uh where maybe a little bit more um what would strong spine approach from schools side Administration might be appreciated but maybe is uncomfortable to say and so I he there I said it um I I can that's my job I'm the one to say the uncomfortable things um so I I'm not asking for a response I'm just kind of putting that in the in the atmosphere of the discussion um uh so that everybody can hear it at the same time I I do want to share that last year um under J marant's leadership we met with um Elementary principles uh we meaning me representing special education with General Administration and Ed sorry general education principles at the elementary level and Ed services to talk about how how do we um improve transparency in in support of special education programs and and all of the challenges that sometimes come with it um on their campus and Heather seent has already this year has set up we've already had two out of our three meetings set up to do the same thing again and so I think that it's really it's really been um supportive and I hope the general education Administration feels supported and heard because they are coming forward with this is what's working and how can we continue to do this and here are some challenges and how can we problem solve them together um and then negotiations last year um Charlie had special ed teachers from um both sides of the program mild mod and extensive needs and then we had them from elementary middle school and high school level to provide feedback um to everybody about how we can support them in improving so I really do feel like a lot of time and effort has been put forward to share with each other and be open about what's working well so we can continue to support but again where are the struggles and how can we work together to resolve those I can add something to that as well that uh yes Jen was right under Jay we did look at how we can support the staff on the site staffs better and the site administrators this year I have heard a lot of positive with the movement for uh the This Crew over here supporting School sites uh I I speak to that as somebody who's been in that position Gina pton many years ago in under this model as somebody who would come and support some difficult things that I didn't understand and needed to know Gina was one who came to me many years ago with this and um we all want to learn more about special education I am not an expert like these folks are and I think we have a lot to learn from them and I would venture to say our our site administrators feel the same I would say as a general teacher um specializing obviously in science uh that the two classes I had for for special education were not sufficient for sure as an experience um yeah uh I had a thought but I'm gonna just disregard it because it's getting late um my last like question that's random and this is a can maybe get back to me later question is you mentioned in the the the things that we're doing that are great full inclusion and um co- teing that's happening but there's no reference to um the occurrence of that so uh you know to what degree is it happening I don't have any reference for like you know percentage of classes that it's taking place in or School sites that it's happening at and so to what degree um those are happening it's nice to say that we're doing it but like if it's just in one classroom on one School site then that's really not the same absolutely and so let me just you know couple minutes or less co- teing is is Under the Umbrella of inclusive education or inclusive practices and it's just one of the solid practices of being an inclusive educational environment co- teing really requires a couple of things number one a strong relationship between the special ed teacher and the gened teacher and number time number two sorry co-planning time that's hard to accomplish and so right now where we are successful at accomplishing that is at Chico High because we've got special ed teachers that have been there that have built relationships with General Ed teachers and they are actually co- teing so co-planning co- preparing co-presenting um we would love to see that grow but if we have new staff on either side it's really challenging to say yeah go co- teach um so and then inclusion we do have inclusion on all campuses to varying degrees and so I can share specifics what we've got out there okay thank you you're welcome um and then my last point for the evening before my colleagues up here want to throw a chair at me um I'm just kidding I'm being presumptuous but it it's it's getting pretty late um I was wondering what is the representation for slps in this room speech and language mythologist yeah um that is I think a topic for another night I think we probably should talk about slp's um as its own item um my questions uh who who do they report to how are they supported um what are their case loads what do those look like their Max the disproportionality of their case loads um and um how we might be able to provide them some more support because I know that they that they've there's been some frustrations from our our speech and language pathologist of which I think that there was 20s something 26 I think I say something I think it was yeah 26.8 I think U I'm happy to get you that information they report to me I support them okay thank you cuz that wasn't in this presentation I don't think really except I mean they were mentioned but like we didn't get to talk about any of those questions I just had so yeah for sure yeah um because that's not a topic for tonight since it's almost 7:15 okay um for for the record I asked um Dr Scola to please take Liberties to be able to address all of the the things that we had asked for in our in our two meetings um to organize this and that um I would support a longer Workshop um that I didn't feel comfortable limiting it to the hour to hour and a half time frame so I should have pre-warned everybody that that's what was to be expected but I I feel like that there was a lot of good information shared here and I think a lot of things that we could continue to think about and talk about and check in about um from my perspective um maybe some some followup um after there's time for everybody to process so thank you so much for putting it all together absolutely thank you very much um we did have one person sign up for public comment on this uh and I will also open the floor for additional public commenters um if there are any anybody in here if there is there are any folks in here who would like to speak um but I will invite um Julia off up to speak for public comment I didn't know it was going to be this long sorry guys Oh no you're fine this is part of the process oh okay yeah you have three minutes oh thanks yeah thanks okay hi my name is Julia I am a parent of a child in an ESN class at py now she's in high school and I wanted to kind of talk about that that was amazing thank you very much for all that information but I wanted to talk about um something that I've noticed now that she's transitioned to high school and that's kind of quality um when it comes to accesses opportunities on the campus um and I feel like she's very limited in her opportunities unless she can present as typical right so um if she wants to take a music class as long as she can behave like a typical student sure she's welcome in that typical class or as long as she can write correctly or draw what they're doing which is very high level art sure she's welcoming into that class can she really participate or students like her really participate in those classes the answer is really no because they're not modifying the classes to meet she's currently in band and unless she can do what the band wants her to do it's very difficult for her to access and then like my friend here who has a child who's even more severe than Lily she has no opportunities to access those types of programs all general education students can take you know video production they can take culinary they can there's so many opportunities that our children in ESN classes do not have because they are not able to function as a typical student and I feel like as our ESN classes are growing we have three full classes on each of our campuses and yet we have not given them the opportunity to really dive into those type of um things that typical students have complete access to and I think we're missing the Mark um we need to have things available for the students um in ESN classes that teach at their level that give them an opportunity to explore what they like to do not just um the typical students and well I guess if you can sit here for an hour and a half which is basically impossible for an ESN student U then I guess you can stay but are they really learning anything and the answer is no um and I'm not just saying bringing a problem without Solutions a few years ago I talked to the district and we had many meetings about a sports program to integrate uh to allow students in those in those classes to participate in sports which they have no opportunity to do now we had lots of great meetings and then it went nowhere I followed up but again nothing um students ESN classes don't have an opportunity to participate in clubs so I started a club I work at PB now there's a club for our ESN students but it needs to be more than me so thanks thanks Julia um if it's not too much to ask uh the I am always interested in hearing creative ideas and solutions if you want to email those out if you have you know if you didn't feel like you didn't get enough out yeah that would be it'd be great to to just kind of be able to reflect on it a little bit more thank you would anybody else like to come speak please um and if you don't mind introduce yourself when you get up here just because I don't you don't have to but it's nice to know name to be anonymous I'm just kidding my name is Maria Seer I have worked for Chico Unified for 27 long years I have been in special education for 19 of those 27 years I have a 25-year-old daughter who is now considered to be an ESN she started and she unified when she was two and went all the way through 22 in the adult program so my experience with special education in Chico Unified is very deep and very rich and very personal what I wanted to touch on tonight is a question that was actually presented to Dr schola about the retention of your paraprofessional staffs most of my colleagues will say it's underpaid I would like to rather point out that it is overworked and undertrained we are asking our pair of professionals especially in our exceptional needs programs and our access programs to do incredibly difficult work they come home having hair pulled scratches bites kicked hit I have been called every name in the book in trauma informed training we call it pfl ESL is English as a second language in trauma and form training it's called pfl it's Prof ity is a first language that is what your pair of professionals live with every single day and they are not trained they are not trained I am fortunate I am currently an iby assigned to Chapman I get the amazing training from Gina Payton on a regular basis I am so fortunate for that but why aren't the rest of our par professionals getting that we talked about all the wonderful things that our teachers are getting we're not talking about what our actual on the ground ES s support staff is getting those are your pair of professionals not your teachers not your slps not your OTS those are your pair of professionals and they are underrepresented I know that many of my colleagues have gone to the union and spoke to the union about this and still nothing is coming of it we had this great opportunity now that we have had this plan and I had this discussion with Kelly Staley she was so generous to spend her time to come talk to me about this and have that beginning of the school year where we could train our staff on trauma informed language and de bringing down our disregulated students and instead we are sitting in training for six hours learning about things that we could do online that's not what we need we need that really deep training so that we can do our jobs effectively stay our jobs and love our jobs and most of us do but it is hard it is exhausting and that's what we need and I really want to end by saying I appreciate all of these people every single one of these people have supported us in so many ways but we need more we need that training and we spend thousands of dollars a year to train our teachers and our administrators but not our Paris thank you thank you yeah I think that this is in my opinion the most important thing for us to try to focus on um this topic I did remember what I was going to say earlier um to end it on a high end end on a high note um that was there was a call out of of a anecdotal some so and so is amazing I have to say that I've been told um by two different people for the very few people I still talk to because I'm busy all the time and have a four-year-old um thank God for Morgan Dar so shout out to you yeah just goes to show the love goes around and um I think none of you all are are really appreciated um and I wish we could have more of more of this um love to work on it uh I any more people that want to speak from the floor shouldn't have said end I forgot that we were still doing public comment okay please hi I'm Molly and my daughter's Gracie she's in an ESN class at PV and I just wanted to speak about the par professional thing because I was a par professional in Southern California and I don't have a desire to work for Chico Unified and that's because your pay is too low your support is too low um in Southern California we were CPI trained we had month L meetings monthly trainings we were really well supported and our pay 10 years ago is higher than what your pay is right now um I can make more money working at a fast food restaurant than working for Chico Unified and so um you were asking about why people aren't coming into the district and I feel like it's because of your pay being too low and your support being too low so that's just kind of what I wanted to say um we're very we've been very happy with our special education classroom for my daughter and um she's severely disabled almost completely non-verbal and so I wanted to kind of piggyback on what Julia said there is no opportunity for her to have any type of inclusion with her peers at PV she has a wonderful classroom wonderful peers in her classroom that are also severely disabled but her typical peers are completely inaccessible to her um she's not given any opportunity she loves art she would love to go to a drawing class or a painting class but her drawings and her paintings are not going to look like what's expected in those classes in Southern California she was able to access art classes the teacher modified the curriculum for her when they were drawing she was given a page that was already drawn and so she could color in the lines rather than actually do the drawing things like that um she was really well supportive in electives in Southern California there has not been that opportunity for her at PV um and like Julia was talking about with band my daughter also goes to band um she's included because she has a wonderful elvan who is with her every day who gets her a drum finds her a way to be included comes up with creative ideas for her the teacher is not doing that and um I think that there is a serious lack of inclusion for our severely disabled students my daughter cannot facilitate conversation with a typical peer so that's only going to happen through staff facilitating that and through teachers facilitating that um she can't do it herself so just wanted to talk on those two topics and thank you for your time thank you for being here do we have any other folks that would like to speak fair enough um okay thank you so much everybody for your input um the information I think this is really really insightful um and I would like to see us continue to to grow with that and um going to take some time to process for sure um does any any else on the board have anything to say or add it is informational this topic is or this item is tonight so there's nothing for there's no action for us to take um no discussion for us to have at this time but um the benefit of workshops is it does give us space to have these deeper conversations kind of Deep dive on topics that we have determined um more important to us as a board um and with this information uh we we may reach out to to parents and and staff and kind of do a little bit more information gathering and um may ask for items to be placed for further discussion or action um at a later time um as we kind of keep the conversation going so um it's not all for not uh this is really valuable information for everybody and the community um with that I think we can move to the next item um it has been two and a half hours since we started this meeting um do we want to take a brief break or just move through it okay sounds like the the rest of my colleagues would like to power through um I'm on board so we're going to do it um what I was wondering if we need our staff is here to stay if they yeah um if you don't want to stay for the rest of the discussion action items thank you very much for being here appreciate it yes and that's okay thank you for being here tonight have a good night hey you are now all over the Internet just so you know that I mean like the whole world could see that um on the discussion action calendar 4.1.1 under ed services is a public hearing discussion action for resolution number 16612 the Williams textbook sufficiency for the 2425 school year that is correct um this is a public hearing that I know Madame President will I I I I open when it's public comment time thank you is the order of operations yes thank you this is my first time through with this one so okay took me a long time to figure it out as I've learned as my first time through this comes annually to the board for are um making sure that our textbooks efficiency is uh where it should be for all of our students Kim Hernandez at the district office starts this process early usually during the summertime August 1ish working with site uh Administration working with the office staff if there are any books that are or other materials that need to be ordered she handles that she has really clearly explained all of her procedure to me me and um shown me the the pieces of documentation that she uses with all of our sites and the signing off on that so um that's kind of the background of what this is about does the board have any questions seeing none I will open the public hearing do we have a public comment for this public hearing seeing none I will close the hearing um are there any motions associated with this item I move passage of the aforementioned resolution seconded all right we have a motion by Mr tennis and a second by Mr Lando uh we'll start with a any further discussion roll call vote uh starting with Mr tennis tennis ey Conan I Doby ey Lando ey it passes we will move to 4.2.1 under Business Services discussion action item on Charter Schools measure K projects request yes I'll be stepping for Julie kle this evening um so in front of you this evening is a proposal from um blue o Charter School at the last subcommittee meeting for measure K they brought forth a request um in the amount of $6,000 to replace their kitchen freezer so over the summer their kitchen freezer started kind of intermittently going out and they've been able to limp along but they really at this point need to replace it in order to um not lose food um cold food for their students so they've attached three um potential quotes that are in the packet attached to the item um $6,000 should be more than enough to allow for delivery and installation um it would be a movable movable and mobile unit so in the event um that they are able to secure facilities and relocate um to the land that was purchased in Maran Park this unit would also move with them so looking for approval um for the freezer this evening I move approval I'll second that one too if you don't mind that we're jumping out of line nope I will just follow the rest of the board's lead tonight on the rest of the night I kind of um took a lot of time with my questions earlier um question um Jacqueline how does a freezer like work like how does it like get cold and stuff like that I'm just kidding so we'll start with a roll call vote we have a a motion uh by member conin and a second by member Lando um and we'll start with with with you Rebecca conen I Doby ey Lando I tennis I all right on to 4.3.1 under board this is a discussion action approval of revised updated new board policies and that would be me so as part of our ongoing task of making sure that we have current board policies and administrative regulations we are bringing these forward to you tonight this is the second reading for these policies uh I will point out that the board will need to take uh have a discussion and take action on board bylaw 9220 governing board elections because we need to decide uh whether or not we would like to utilize option one or option two and I'd also ask that the board pull uh 41911 sex discrimination and sex based harassment uh we need to take that one back and make sure that our internal policies and ARS are the same for certificated and classified so we'll bring that one back to you at our October 16th meeting so if we can pull 411 9.11 and then uh for sure the Board needs to discuss 9220 the rest the board can pass in a single motion if they so desire so I'll turn it back to Madam president okay um I'm going to just for I don't know if what's the best process here uh let's just pull 411 9.11 and um four uh 9220 um and uh move through approving the rest of the um updated board policies um as my motion I'll second that motion okay um um all those in favor of approving the rest of the updated board board policies except for those two that were just pulled um signify With Your Voice vote uh Dolby ey L tenisi okay it's unanimous um and then we're going to revisit uh 411 9.11 at the October 16th meeting and um we'll just have a brief discussion about how we want to treat governing board elections in the case that there is a High um so it is election season um and uh the my understanding is that csba um pulled this uh board policy out um the status quo or what currently exists is that um in the case that there's a a tie um for an election for a board um position that uh the board then decides whether it's going to go to a runoff so another round of special election and and money cost a financial cost um or if uh it will go to basically a tossup a flip of a coin so to speak um is that am I summarizing it appropriately corre okay and so what uh csba is is advising is that as a board we decide that ahead of time so we just say at this point we're going to change this policy to be one or the other decisions um and I think that we there's also an option to just leave it as is in stay status quo and cross that when we get their situation um so not written into this policy there's a third policy which is to not change it is my assumption is that assumption correct that is correct their recommendation is that we decide ahead of time so it's very clear what we're going to do um if we wait until there is a tie and again this is only if there is a tie in an election um we would then have to just have a board meeting decide and it would delay the process of making the decision so their recommendation is that we choose one of the two options the the options are the same as they are in the current policy it's just deciding it ahead of time thank you for the clarification um is there a motion that anybody would like to put on the table can we get some clarifying questions sure cool um do we have roughly an estimate of what a runoff election would cost yeah I would say in a given I don't know about a runoff year but in a given year our election costs are between 80 and $100,000 um a second question which I we might not be able to answer here now um because I know that of course any election has to be done in accordance with the law I would be very curious to know whether a runoff election could potentially be held with a like as a whole city or outside of Just The District in which the original election was held a runoff election or the entire the runoff okay yeah and neither I'm saying given that if a in district election produce an exact tie it might be interesting to open it up to the whole city if that were possible thing to do or the whole jurisdiction my guess would be that that would be a secretary of state question or even at least just ke so guess what I'm asking is can we is it possible to get some legal advice on that just as a just in case are so are we contemplating that we're that that there would be like so in one trustee area I think there's something like uh anybody know how many voters there are in let's just say 8,660 that's low yeah I mean there's there's like yeah it was like 20 something I was just throwing a number low 20,000 we're actually thinking that that it would be like uh 99,999 to 99,999 and we're talking about it right now I mean if you are putting much question in the history of election has this happened at Chico UniFi for school no it seems Fantastical why don't we leave it as is and cross that bridge just my thought the probability is extremely remote that this will happen I think the answer to the question I would I will opine that that people in trusty area a have no claim over trusty area B and so therefore they would not be in a position to help decide you know a runoff outcome that's my guess that would be my assumption if we were to ask legal advice but that's on just basis of my limited understanding I'm sure there's a quick answer um did you want to set that as a motion sure um I move that we leave it status quo and address it um if we find ourself in this predicament second all right we have a motion in a second um further discussion yeah again I agree that this is very very unlikely that said I do think it's also a good idea to have a policy ahead of time so that we are not potentially swayed by uman it's it's better to have a policy ahead of time so we don't look like we're politicking when we're you know making that decision about who might win an election um so I'm going to vote no on this because I would rather have option to I'd rather have the runoff so there's actually some kind of electoral say so there's very there's there's three three directions we can go we can put it up for a vote you can do a substitute motion um or we can uh friendly amend the original motion um to bring this back after maybe a little bit more of those questions are asked um I don't and and then Eileen will also be here I don't know how going to vote actually um I mean I can I can make a vote tonight but um so then we'll have five people and I would feel more comfortable with a board of five um voting on on this topic um I don't um I don't know if we need a a full motion on that or a full like act if that's action that we need to take vote on that we have a motion on the floor correct sounds like you just made a motion to table until thank you next meeting thanks for words I appreciate that I'm out of words for the night I'll second it okay I am motioning I I motion to table until our next meeting um we can do motioning yes I said that um to next meeting um to to to have a to vote on a next meeting up fair and we have a second by member Lando um Dolby I I have a comment oh okay just kidding let's discuss it um I I I'm GNA oppose this uh I don't think we should talk about it at our next meeting what is our next meeting so I guess I'm confused on process because we have a motion to leave it as it is and we have a motion to to table second sub so my so my motion goes first if it fails then we go to back to Rebecca's motion um Matt did you what was yeah I'm I'm going to vote no on the substitute motion to agendize it gotta I don't think it's worth talking about you know the the scenario where we're going to have 99,999 to 99,999 is in my opinion not worth uh considering at this time in this season yeah I'm gonna um so since we're open on discussion I'm going to agree with um with member land's statement in terms of the politicking piece of it um this sets board policy not just for this election it just as board policy for this in future elections it can be it can be Revisited again also um but that said I just would feel more comfortable making a vote even if half of us are decided once U member Robinson's here and we may end up with a tie anyway and need the tiebreaking vote anyway so that's my rationale for my substitute motion um are we ready to vote or for the discussion okay I'll go first um Doby I Lando I tennis nay Conan n okay so in the case of a of a split vote on a substitute motion I think we still go back to the original motion um yeah yeah the original motion is that we just stick with status quo and let the board whoever it may be cross that bridge when we get there any further discussion um just for the sake of discussion um if there was a desire to bring this back um and if any sitting board voted a certain way or voted voted for the way that it goes you could bring it back per those rules um really we could bring this back at any time making changes to a Bo policy so um any further discussion all right uh let's start with Mr tennis tennis I con and I all be I Lando uh all right uh with that we can move along to board member request to agendize item uh there was none for this meeting um I have a feeling we might start to to uh bring some to the table in the next few meetings um and with that we will go to closed SE section closed session um is there any public comment on closed session seeing none we will uh move to close session thank you if we can be ready to go and close session by no later than

PAC so the symol aaac at gmail.com right Gmail oh sorry that was the Instagram that was the Instagram okay let me get you I'll find it and and get back to y'all I'll get back to you okay thank you um Outreach how about fundraising work group anything new okay um special projects work group um nominations and Leadership I'm not sure I at one time was involved in that uh and uh I think someone else I welcome them to take it over uh that what I had done is uh uh send out a survey uh from everyone whether you're interested in leadership if you can Rec if you have any suggestions for leadership and uh that survey then was reviewed by myself and uh I think Allison was part of that that uh committee as well and we then recommended um uh uh leadership uh slate uh and then you voted on that that survey should we need to take a vote in Janu we you need to have the leadership in place in January we take a vote in December meaning that we need to take put the survey out soon um I don't want to do it really I don't so I welcome anyone else to do it I will send you the template to do it and um uh but can you send can you just will you send that to me when you have a chance yeah you could send it out and and and askk it to somebody to review and and um and uh yeah I'll do that so needs to get it needs to happen I guess in the next month or so so that we can have a an election in um in December then the term will begin in January and you can only serve for three years and uh then you have to take a break hi Alison um so I was just going to point out that the fiscal year I think for the city ended in July um and so we are we have two reports due every year there's the planning document which um should have stemmed from I believe our January meeting and our discussion um that we just got minutes for and then there is a summary report that talks about what we've been doing for the last fiscal year um and it's always due I think it's like a couple months after the end of the fiscal year so just FYI the fiscal year for the city ends in July so we're due for another report I think we're getting kind of behind so just want to put that on your guys radar so would you like me to look at the Committees every anybody interesting in changing the Committees that they're currently on and would it be helpful if I sent out all of the Committees and the responsibilities and what might be reported in those committees and put the dates in those so that we have a running tally of due dates for folks would that help we do have a so I created a document um that has the Committees and the current members now we we shuffled them a little bit and they are the correct after the shuffle people are there so I can just I can share that with you again vonita and you can just put it in there okay that'd be fine thank you yep I I might add that this is an opportunity for the public art commission to present to the city council um what we're what we're proud of what we're doing so it it it shouldn't be just a list of stuff there there you know I mean it should be some a reason that uh we continue I mean so you know Frank I think it should be thought of in that way is a narrative that makes sense somebody reads this and says oh my God this art commission is really exciting you know so um I didn't I attach the annual I attached the annual meeting to this in invitation that we had earlier this year um yeah the minutes were attach for that yeah um so that was the annual planning meeting y uh council member Harrison I was going to wait make sure to wait until you're um talking about the Committees I just had a question for you I are you let me know when you're when you're ready for me anybody else have anything else I I have a question I I know when Addison is reminding us there was this annual report is due way before maybe by the end of July at ladies but I because the year before I I probably didn't come to all the meetings I was missing quite a lot of updates on what has been the project which I realized and how many project we're looking forward to so it's like annual planning and annual report there was like two reports and Alison has graciously shared with me but I feel like I feel like I wasn't able to capture all that achievement like John is saying we should be proud of but in that sense I need a huge amount of support I know Jamal might be able but we probably still need Alison Alison are you still available for I mean you could update me what to be I'm here to support you guys I I traditionally when I put together report I don't have a brain that remembers any of that kind of stuff so I just pull the minutes which are all available on minutes you mean all the minutes you can go to you can go to each meeting and pull the minutes and so I look at the time frame that it's supposed to cover and go to each of those meetings and pull the minutes from those meetings and so then that kind of refreshes my memory of like oh oh yeah we were talking about this and this was what was happening blah blah blah and so then I'll make sure I cover all those things throughout the report that way yeah but the thing is yeah going back I can help you with that as well if you need some additional support I can go back and pull some things and maybe we can um take some time on a a meeting and and go through and just just give you the layout and the update on on certain ones if we get the time for right so I I'd be glad to help you with that I can send them to you initially and then we can um maybe walk through some of the highlights of those minutes yeah yeah that would be very helpful and then we can you know come back to the commission meeting see whether we have covered all of that okay yeah yeah photos you know make it they already have last year's reports and the years before which all are I believe and you I think you were I had part of they're laid out well with pictures and things and I um everything was there it just what to be covered yep that's where you're going to look at those minutes and kind of review what we went through and what we did and and insert the updated um content um also when you're done with it we bring it to a meeting that we all review it and give you feedback and approve it before it goes to council so that's why it also takes a little bit more time before it's going to go to council which is why you know it's like it's like a three month process before it's going to get there um so people here will say oh you know we forgot to talk about this or that and um we can add details there too as well so it's kind of a group project but you just get to spearhead it we need to hurry this is this is due I think in September end of September is happening so all of the other commissions are sending stuff to IL council is reviewing all of these different citizen advisory things so we need to you know not delay it too much but I I'm I I I feel like I was I was always stressed with many things upcoming and uh during the summer yeah I was overed it's okay don't worry about don't worry about it I can provide you some couple of hands here and we can walk through it I can even do something initially and put it together and go through them and that way send you all something out and you can take a look at it and see if that's where we want to go you can circulate a draft Vanita so we can all kind of yes I can do that yeah because upcoming I can't see any of my free time like don't worry worry we'll get it together so um so I I'll Circle back with you to Jamal on um the Committees in that most recent report um my other question is this if that's if some of this information I I'll I'll have to check but I'd like to know if some of our reporting mechanisms we actually can have added to our web page and I can ask um the city clerk about doing that and and double check with um my new administrator to see if that that way it will allow us to have items directly on our web page I know we send them back in minutes and things like that I don't know that everybody keeps the minutes and puts them together and makes their own folder or maybe we look at making a folder for everything for public services that's a shared folder um rather than having to go through all of the minutes at at uh various times throughout the year so I ask you to think about it and let me know how I can be most helpful to everybody okay and I think that's the last reporting um the Committees that we have right now um does anybody have anything additional that they want to talk about I'm just gonna email everybody right now okay the Gmail the Instagram and the document with all the working groups okay thank you Jamal how about council member Harrison Ready yeah just I just really it's nothing big I just wanted to um check with you Venita and um know if you have heard any more updates about our um our uh gift from U ofm the artwork and the placement of that I am my last conversation with our facilities team was they're ready to go so I don't think um don't need any additional approvals or anything like that it just needs to go up and then from there we talked about this um Jonathan asked me about this yesterday or day before if um you had a timeline that you wanted to do the open house yeah that could provide some support on that I just wanted to um I guess shortly after we have the artwork placed y um I mean probably if we you know coordinate maybe a meeting I don't really before the end of the year it would be great yeah yeah we're doing it in-house so it should be and I've talked to Matt khanik and his team they seem to have uh oh that me you froze um so I'm sorry you froze I don't know if that was my my internet's a little bit unstable let me turn my can you repeat that again I apologize you no worries no no worries um melanic so it's an internal project um our facilities team is going has most of the materials to install these um the only thing that I believe they were kind of going back and forth about was whether or not we would put plexiglass over them um to to like incase them so that the public doesn't have that much contact with them um Jonathan seemed to say that he was open about the dates and things like that so I just was thinking that we just move ahead and install them in the lobby um right off the main Corridor there um and I know we have funding to do that so I matanic is back in the office on Thursday and I will be happy to nudge him again then say let's get started okay that sounds great if if we I like Plex plexiglass if it doesn't create a glare yeah um I'm not sure you may be ask display case it' be a display case yeah yeah okay so yeah that was all I had I just wondered where we were with that yeah I'm sorry I know you've been I'm glad you're back and I know you've had a there's a lot going on so much I figured I'd ask you you know during this meeting so yes I appreciate that thank you very much thanks okay so we are now at 8:15 can I adjourn the public art commission for October the 2nd at 8:15 yes but I want to invite you all to come to October Fest H arober Fest this next weekend uh near the Cary town area we have a little art fair with music and um stuff going on so come on out guys but then we can enjoy thank you thanks so much thanks so much Vita you're very very welcome everybody have a good evening thanks so much thank you thank you bye thank you bye

million uh you see class site fund our budget was about 2 million we spent 1.8 and that's the one that goes strictly to certified staff and then 610 you don't see the budget there but it was 2, 330,000 we spent then we just keep marching along and this is a quick look at just about every analysis you can do on last year's expenditures jump page one actually you can see my little if you got my little numbers on the bottom of the page yeah you see one of 10 by that that just compar beginning cash that page two is our operating budget uh from that it says page two of 10 there's three columns there on the right budget actual and price prior year action and then that would be right over on page page two says two of 10 and then if you you go to the to the far right you're going to see budget then you're going to see actual then you're going to see prior year so our budget was 20 million even 20 million 4,000 our actual expenditures 18.8 and then the prior year expense is 17,23 so we jumped just about 1.8 million in expenditures last year in m u that's page two jump to page three and you kind of have to flip it up because kind of back back and forth that's a classroom s you see this $3 million budget it always works the same way you have a budget on the left an actual in the middle and then a car year on the right 1.8 million spent classroom site and that's very secure and that's based on I believe 610 of 1% of sales tax state so that's amazing that we're bringing in that 1.9 2.1 million per year page four is capital and that's just fund 610 if you want to look at all the categories you can see was it student uh was it student Vehicles was it bus transportation was it equipment was it uh construction you go to the far right again you see the budget actual prior year budget of 2.3 expensive 1.4 prior year expensive two million as well in the 23 year so then you go down to the middle of the page and this is what I like to kind of highlight onage for Capital assets between now and November 4th when our Auditors come back last year I spent about 60 hours with Auditors just updating our Capital assets about about 15 to 20 hours a week October last year because they always show up first week now we've got a lot of that with the tagging and the appreciating correctly done so it won't be quite as much time this year but you see the total number of uh total value of land and improvements 1.8 million uh buildings and improvements 28 million then uh Furniture equipment Vehicles Technologies 3.7 million that's all our buses included all of our vehicles uh and then construction HVAC well it is that but it was also other projects that like we had the Del Rio fire alarm put in and there's other little like it it is hbac to an extent but there's other projects that are just that are included smaller ones like the 225 ton killers 111,000 on the high school gym we're also getting well ,000 we been on this year this year gets done here on this this building right here you're in tonight that was a brand new project for this year so that's just a little almost 34 million of of assets and they treat us like we're a business and that we're going to get a depreciation expense on our taxes we don't get a depreciation they just want to know where our assets are you can't deduct expenses like that so then we go to page 5 six we're going to jump a little bit all the way through down to my page I believe it's 11 and and there's a lot of good reading there if you're interested but page 11 is for president obas to sign that's a little summary page so if you approve this tonight you'll all sign on page one the cover so to speak and then page 11 where I put the little 11 on the lower right that's where there's a little place up top there for another and then there's a few things that are are just to me really meaningful they just kind of give us some insight here uh there's a supplement there I'm not going to pay much attention to that but if you take a look at the classroom site fund 010 uh you see there's a if you just keep going there you see that on page it's actually past page 12 and we wrote These I have mirors of one of our staff right on here so this is page 12 classroom site 117 teachers one more getting real close it's written on there so there it is this is what we do with with those funds and you can see the 117 teachers you turn the page and again you have to go upside down there's lots of goals individual goals District goals and individual school goals and they're all mentioned and I think we had 117 goals and most of the goals were back so it just gives you off the state where you can imagine back in the day when they had three different funds 011 012 013 each one of those had its own annual fin so I don't mind one bit of it combin into one so it just told you the expenses the next page is our food service annual financial report just to take a look and it it shows you if you go to the lower right corner it's written there nice nice printing you see that 1,342 in the lower right corner of that food service annual financial report let see right here just a little too far there it is 1 Milli 342 we have a professional management company that works for us delivers and provides all our meals Cooks PR marage the hit that was our cost for them last year 1942 and that was their itemized cost food labor the whole B itemized but the the guideline for this report is that if you open your doors July 1 which this is the 24 year so the next very next day is the first year of the 24 25 year when you open your doors you should have enough cash in the account to run for three months as if all the federal reimbursements dried up and all the local revenues dried up you should have enough cash to operate for three months and we do so we're complying and it all stays in that SE couple more at the end here just real quick I'll be brief this is one I was going over with remember FAL just before the meeting started you might have to flip the page it says fund balance report that's just about the last one it's the one before the one with the blue writing says fund balance and Bo made a a motion I believe in July we adopted a 4% fund balance for M from one year to the next uh so if you have $100 budget in Year One and you're going to carry 4% forward the next year you start the next year with at least 4% of that carried in this case $4 out of 100 carried into the next year so if you look at our budget 20 million 4% of that it'd be real close to $800,000 and you get to the middle of the page and you see those gos the right in the middle my little finger on here so eight8 $186 76 and there you go and we actually brought forward about 300,000 more than see that little number to the right 1,172 so that's really good news we were able last year to to reduce and and we did some things again at the end of this year with Staffing so we're really cognizant that we have a little bit of a student crunch right now with student student num so that's the first fund M fund the next fund is capital and that's the one that last year had the $2.3 million budget and so there's it's actually 466,000 all correct that 20% of the 2.3 million 466,000 we B 4 95 almost 1 into capital and we add fund this year but we've also transferred some to so that's kind of the way they work and those meet our goals you see the target to the left and then the actual amount to the right that's that's a quick look I think that was four and a half minutes that's a quick look at our AFR last year there were no stor these are actual facts right out of our general from last year if you don't see the big one you saw the three little ones you saw the classroom site oh and we can't forget Mr Moody the very last one is the one with the blue letters on it as you can see it's a colored and I think I think uh I think Becky printed the blue letters you must have printed that in uh he's had a fund Del Rio's had a fund for four years now maybe five and been getting around 180,000 a year for results based funding and we've been able to bankroll a little bit of that and put it aside and we got no funds last year at all but because we had a little bit of set he was able to spend that 105,000 in the middle and now when we started this year that fund went down to 16,000 so the state is not funding that correct but that's my last of the 5 [Music] AFR so I've got a question relative to the classroom site fund um am I to understand that there's about 1.2 million in that classroom site fund that was not spent y because Revenue lags behind expenditures like we get our last checks in after we've made our last payments to staff so we're always a little bit ahead like Revenue comes in so we're always having enough in the fund because this year we include it it's in their bi-weekly pays this year there's we have enough cash in the bank to pay yeah we just don't want to really like we don't call it that really want to say it quite like that because but it has been very healthy that's why I highlighted it it's been very healthy because that that has just really helped us in fact teachers went from 13,000 last year like 12,000 for the fund and then a th000 signing 13,000 total to 165 16,500 this year from that fund and we can do that one but it's been very healthy so we've been rolling forward over a million a year but again if it dried up or went down it's the cash bace fund so the county would shut us down we have to have fun to make the expenses okay thank you Arizona for having a robust economy any additional questions this is an action item if we could get a motion to approve the annual Financial reports I will that Financial annual Financial reports second all in favor [Music] moving on to item 10A this is our first reading of policies 801 807 anything Miss Daniels that stands out that we should be aware of for our next Mee no this is very riveting reading as most policy manuals are and it there's things about you know the recommended board self- evaluation um nuances and changes of Professional Licensing credentialing from the state level um a clarification about who has to be on the curriculum committees that now are subcommittees of the board as of a year ago um things about service animals and administering medications pretty much everything in here um when I went through it it looked like they were just really like cleaning up language that was confusing or not like a lot of like mumbo jumbo and they try to simplify the language so you see a lot of strikeouts which primarily are just um clarifying language so that was that was it any questions or clarifications on this it is not an action item just a first reading all right then seeing none I going to say good night see you all next month so um we have lots of signatures for John and then if you are interested in going to the winter conference in December um let Becky know because she will be getting those registrations 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a and 4 pointb to reflect May of 2025 second all those in favor I I perfect and I believe there was one more thing we needed to approve to continue so so the next thing would be the guardrail 2 interim measures would be sort of the next piece that would be up because we tabled them last meeting um because there was a consideration of replacing one of those interim measures with an equity based interim measure and in reflection not only on the conversation um the information shared to us with some of the parents that came to share concerns with us um and some of the work that you know we've been working on in order to try to get measures in place to address those concerns we felt that it would be ideal um to reflect equity in that particular guard rail through um efforts to um put in place some anti-racist training for staff in the district and so that so we basically um retained the originally proposed interim measure 2.1 but replaced interim measure 2.2 with a guardrail that was focused on getting those anti-racist trainings in place so guardrails are basically conditions that the superintendent cannot operate um guardrail number two reads the superintendent will not cause or allow conditions practices or procedures that are inequitable or insufficient for students because of the issues we've been having in the district and the feedback that we've been hearing from community members our administrators went back and they did an interim goal and now it reads the district's access equity and inclusion work will focus on anti-racist practices increasing from zero standard di District trainings for staff as of June 2024 to one District provided training by June 2025 um focusing on anti-racist work work is it's it has to be intentional and we're moving a whole system in a ho so for for me personally moving from zero anti-racist um trainings that we've had to I I had an issue with just being one but I talked it out through the cabinet and and I understand and for now I believe that having one by June of 2025 I mean 2024 is almost gone I felt okay with that and within there there's so many other things that that can happen with the anti-racist work but it is one step forward to fixing a bigger issue that we have I had the same concern so maybe um and I know we already talked about it but maybe just for transparency and the community sake you could kind of explain that Jay yeah I would be very happy to um you know one of the conversations we had is we one of the places we want that to live is in our new teacher orientation so one of the conversations around having two was well we should have it new teacher orientation as well the problem is this goal is time bound or I'm sorry this inter measure is time bound through the end of the current school year so we will you know we won't have another new teacher orientation until next year and so it may very well be as we continue to do this work we maintain an interim measure with the same Focus but we increase the number of trainings that we're um focused on for a given year um the other thing that I think sometimes people don't realize is you know as much as we would like to move more quickly to do certain things within the district we're also Bound by certain procurement laws so to to do the systemwide training that we need to do even to do it for a single School puts us into cost areas where we're required to go through procurement process in order to select who is performing that for us and we also want to make sure that whoever we're choosing that the focus that they're putting on it and the type of work that they're bringing to us is actually aligned with the values of our community that it's targeting the specific types of issues that we're dealing with um and that it um comes to us at a high enough level of quality that it truly has an impact on the situation that's at hand and so I know um there have been three different for in particular for the training that we're looking for there have been three different individuals who have been recommended to us and we're actually doing interviews with two of those individuals this uh coming Friday was the soonest that they were available and are currently working to get um scheduled in with with that third individual but and it may be that we don't even look at one it may be multiple and it may be that we manag to do more than one trainings this year but just rolling up on fall break and knowing the procurement components and all of that um to to get this implemented throughout all of our schools with all of those other component pieces that have to be put in place as a single aspect of a multipronged approach to solving some of the issues that that we're seeing throughout our district um it we would be setting ourselves up but we' just be putting a goal in place for the purpose of not achieving it because we there's only so much we can do within the time frame that we have and just one clarifying thing when it comes to procurement because before I got on the board I got really confused with what that meant and procurement doesn't mean that we we don't have the dollars or we don't want to spend x amount on dollars on something it is very important but we are legally bound when certain amounts go up a certain amount there's a whole added on of things that have to do by statutary law so I just want to clarify that the procument has nothing to do with oh that's too expensive we don't want to do it it's not that it's not that at all is that there actual certain you know list of vendors and paperwork and all these things that the law makes us do which I I just want to clarify that because I never wanted to make it seem like oh they're saying that they don't want to spend x amount of dollars on this but they spend it on something else and that's not what's happening here when it comes to procurement yeah and it's it's fairly unique to government Al entities and ironically even though the charter school system in our state is supposedly a public school system they have to follow those same rules that we do so I just want to say thank you Mr Man from for that explanation because um I had the same issue and when we talked about it oneon-one it was you just repeated what I'm sure you said with everyone yeah and it helps to understand um because one doesn't sound like very impactful at the moment but it is a system lift which is not easy um and have had a lot of equity training I'd say the last four years and um it's obviously not doing what we want it to do so we want to make sure we get it right this time or at least improve greatly upon it so yeah um so I appreciate that yeah no we we want it targeted and um actually in our executive team meeting today we're working on restructuring committees for this year and that was another area where we said look instead of having a committee that's working just broadly on Equity work we need that committee to work on some of the anti-racism things that need to happen in our district um in addition to that we've had some conversations around that committee could help us with some of the curricular needs around anti-racism again the procurement has all these laws around it that we have to stick to curriculum is even like well beyond that so um we want to make sure that we want to do what we can with haste because we want to make certain that we're solving problems as quickly as we can but we want to do it in a way that we know it's going to stick and it's going to stay with us so the two things we don't want to do is do it ineffectually and we don't want to do it in a way that it triggers something where we haven't followed all the rules and regulations and laws and someone who for whatever reason doesn't believe that anti-racism is an important thing can come back against us and cause us to have to remove it from our system because this district has in the past had programs where they have been removed from the district because certain people felt that they shouldn't be here um as have a number of districts throughout the state over the year so we just want to make sure we are 100% you know absolutely in the clean and in the clear but at the same time moving as quickly as possible um to get Solutions into place another comment on that too one thing we talked about um was that you know do we have this in policy you know because really haven't and so I learned that the conduct um committee has created a policy um and it we just haven't adopted yet or gotten to that part but that's a that's a Improvement on in the system as well so yeah that that work was done last year and and that's the work that that team's looking to complete and I will be honest with you um again not to just keep giving him a shout out because he was an amazing person but a lot of the work on the the the piece around hate speech and some of the components that would be considered anti-racist in our in our conduct policies you probably recall this a lot of that work was spearheaded by Ellen H so do we have any other questions or comments regarding the specific guardrail andm measure I was just GNA quickly tail off um of the what you not ended on but right before that in terms of um I think it collectively as a board and I you know I could speak for myself but from my from my thoughts uh and how we've discussed things in meetings and move forward is that given what barriers we could potentially run into legally speaking in this state regarding anti-racist trainings um I think we are prepared as a board to have um our administrators backs and our District's backs in I think any good lawyer and I'm Not tooting my own horn can figure out a way to do things within the law and get around things cuz if you've been to the Sausage Factory where they're written you can figure out how to get around them okay so what I'm trying to say is is that we've got y'all's backs and we're we are very intentional in this and are ready to back you 100% in whatever way um we're able to get to where we need to be with this is what I'm trying to communicate I know I'm speaking for myself but I know I'm probably speaking for all of us so and then that is appreciated I mean that does embolden at the same time we want to make sure we're dotting our eyes and crossing our teeth so that and we have the we do have the expertise we have the right people in the district to make sure that we're both able to do what we need to do sufficiently aggressively to achieve the goals that we have and at the same time do it in a way that it's bulletproof so that way it's not a problem Downstream I'm also not for us going out and lighting our cash on fire and no parking lot so I'm good with that too duly noted yeah I'm just really appreciative of this work and um one thing that I've understood since I used to be a community organizer so you know done all that for many years and it's very different when you're on a side where you can actually make policy change and actually do things and fighting these systems within this side is very tough but the good thing that we do have is that we have good board members that are support our administrators and we're working really hand onand and holding that front as you guys can tell with our dual language program you know there's a lot of stuff going out there but we we hold down the far on the we hold down the line and anything for our students um we want our students to feel empowered and there's this term that gets thrown around a lot that says oh our students should feel safe and our schools to me it goes beyond that because safe being safe and I always share this it leads up to complicity it's like I'm safe I'm going to sit here I'm going to be quiet and I'm just going to not do anything I want our students to be feel Brave and empowered and that means that they get to speak out when they do feel that something incorrect is happening to them because of adult behaviors in an institution so that's the space that we're trying to create and I know that with creating this guardrail it's putting system it's putting pressure on the system whether who whoever's here or not and that's why eventually these will turn into policies and I'm so excited that our policies are getting rev revamped because this will be embedded so when we're not here Dr when superintendent man is out you know relaxing or Dr dupin Dr Lauren everybody this will be embedded in the district and this is what the the culture and what we're going to hold the district accountable for it isn't all for nothing I won't keep coming back to when are we getting these in policy I can't can't just get them erased cor all right do we have any other questions or comments regarding this specific interam guard rail okay we do have a public comment on this specific um so before I make a motion and because it is the agenda item I'm going to have Paige Butler come up and speak please um want three minutes yeah three minutes is perfect hello thank you I'm Paige Butler I'm a parent of a first grader at Belmore prep and I'm very excited to see this guardrail in place so thank you for listening thank you for hearing us thank you for adding this it's very helpful to see that there's actual timelines action measurable progress being made um we have a request for consideration that a parent is involved in the selection of the vendor or the trainer for this guard rail as you said superintendent man we want to make sure that this is responsive to the needs of our community and we would really like a parent voice in The Selection and thank you so much for that and I know you spoke to the agenda item and that's a really good idea um I'm going to deflect it over to our superintendent our cabinet you don't have to answer right now maybe we can have a one-on-one conversation but I would love to see how that would look like because yeah I I do I do want to share and one of the reasons that we're trying to move quickly to talk to the different people is um there is a meeting scheduled um at builtmore for October 21st that is a a community conversation around race and um Dr dupin and myself will be there and and part of the reason that we're having that is we we want to get input from the families um and we're hoping I can't promise this because you never know how time's going to flow but we're hoping we're going to have enough information about the potential trainer options that we have to be able to integrate that into that conversation on the 21st so we may be bringing that on that day or it may be that um we gather the information on that day but we haven't been able to sort of get through some of the other procurement Hoops um but we absolutely there's no reason why we can't involve um a parent in in part of the conversation so it there are portions of procurement and I don't want to commit to anything on procurement without checking with our procurement expert in the district office there are portions that are sometimes you know depending on how the procurement is done um that are very much tied to things like pricing and whatnot so that we don't always have the complete freedom to choose exactly the product or the person that we we want um but of course the focus will be on getting the right person and having parent input into that I think is absolutely critical so I appreciate the comments if that information isn't available by October 21st is there still the capacity after that date when that information is at the point that it's ready to make that involvement happen yeah absolutely we we don't want the dialogue to just like end at a point because the reality is this problem's been identified people have been kind enough to come forward and share their concerns with us we want to make it a conversation with them so we like I said earlier we're solving the right problem but then it's it's not a it's not a well we threw a wrench at it and now we did our part and we're just going to walk away like we need to continue to have conversations because this is this is not a problem that happened overnight um and it's not a problem that's sort of a single point of problem like this obviously the school and our district wants to be part of the solution but there's more to the issue than just what happens at the school site so I mean to me this is a long-term commitment and and it's something that we will need to continue to work on over time and if we don't continue to have a conversation with our families we really won't know whether we're making the right impact or not so th those conversations need to be continuous um and having the families have some voice into what that what those programmatic elements are are very important and in point of fact um one of the things I'd really like to do haven't had a chance to talk to Dr dupin yet so hopefully he won't um be too angry with me but you know on that committee that that we're putting together it'd be really nice to have some parent voice on that committee as well so I think that would be highly valuable um so if when I have I have a saying um when people are willing to step up and help you you say yes because like that is such a rare thing in in modern society and I have served in this District as um the chair of or as a member of so many committees where sometimes I thought I was talking to myself because we only had like three people in the room um because we just couldn't get people interested um this is an issue clearly that our community is dedicated to to Bringing resolutions around and if that means that that causes people to be interested and engaged to be part of the solution then of course we want to engage them to be part of that solution so it actually helps us we do better work when we all work together um I don't know who I stole the saying from it came to me from one of my mentors who used to work in the kraton school district Dr Tim ham who was the superintendent in Madison when I started there um and he had a saying and I just stole it and I've used it forever which is none of us is as smart as all of us so and I've always used that in our committee work because I truly believe the more people we bring to the table the better the solutions that that we deliver and that we arrive at thank you and thank you for that public comment do we have any other questions or comments regarding this since we didn't adopt the guard rails for the int measures last meeting I'm just going to make a blanket motion to accept all the int measures for all the guard rails because we are good with the new addition of the anti- rasist guard rail so I move the governing board approve student outcomes Focus governance superintendent God rails and interm measures second all those in favor I I I perfect so the next one would be the progress monitoring calendar because if I understood Dr Ramos correctly on Saturday he said once we adopt that that's when the clock starts ticking and then we kicks pardon my expression we kick some butt and go right to progress yeah we're not competitive or anything thing but we want to be the best so um do we have this um are we able I'm sorry yeah we can project it we if we can just project the monitoring calendar um one of the things that got added on here was the School site councils that we're supposed to have so part of this sofg framework is two-way communication from the governing board directly to the community so in this calendar um we have five different goals we have specific goals on third grade literacy then we have our El students which I call our multi mul linguals because we all all of us are learning English so anyways um our multilinguals and if there's a specific goal or guard rail like this anti-racist one that you that certain people have a better want to know more about with this calendar now you'll be able to see around what times in the months we'll be having these conversations since there's so much going on um it will also let you know in the months that we'll be having our community council meetings and also when the governing board will be going into the community whether that's through cafesito paring connections I'm not sure how that's going to look like yet but when we're going to be going out to the community and giving them the um the information of how our progress monitoring is going and what we're doing since not everybody can come to board meetings as governing board members it is our job to make sure that the community knows what's going on with their students that's that's one of the the main reasons that is the main reason why we're here so do we have any questions or comments concerns around this also note that in October hello first of the month there's a board self- evaluation um one of the things that we have not done as a governing board is that we hold superintendents we hold teachers administrators to a certain evaluation process so we have we're going to start evaluating ourselves as governing board members too and setting that example to hold ourselves accountable to the community and therefore um hopefully that accountability piece starts working in progress so this month our the next board meeting we will be doing our first board self- evaluation um so if anybody's interested in that to see how we're doing as governing board members join us um but other than that do we have any other questions or comments regarding these states or site cancel meetings I guess um this isn't really related to the calendar but um the site School like Council meetings how will we determine like who's going to those when those are happening we can talk a little bit um in depth more in those um basically just showing availability for the months no more than two board members at a time can go so we would have to take turns on who can I understand there's sometimes schedule conflicts so if Community Council me um meetings work better for other board members because they're available in the evening and you know other board members that have flexibility in the morning it just depends but it has to be two at a time all times and this is a five-year calendar so one of the things um in working with President CIO that we decided to do was just pick the two the two pairs of months where that work's being done because it happens twice a year and not specify the schools because leaving that flexibility in place allows for you know us to determine well when are what's when are the board members availability and then align it with the availability at the school sites and I also want to give kudos to um president Kio because one of the things she asked me for was um sort of our testing calendar so that way she wasn't loading it into our heavy testing months that all you know while all that's going on the board showing up at the schools to have these two-way conversations so any other questions or comments Miss K yes so Dr Ramos told me on Saturday that to have copies for you guys in case you guys don't have your little spiral bound book anymore because that has this yeah that has the self evaluation in here so there's thank you you can gra one and pass I have one already all right since we have no other questions or comments around this and this is pretty flexible too like we said this is a fiveyear because we're planning everything out in five years since our goals are five years it could be changed a little bit we can always bring it back if something doesn't work out if we start you know however it works it's not set in stone the beautiful thing about this framework is that we can always come back and re adjust and amend what we need to to to better meet the needs of our community and our students so since we do not have any more questions I'm going to go ahead and make the motion I move the cron School District governing board approve student outcomes Focus governance progress monitoring calendar second all those in favor yay that means that the real time begins our clock starts ticking today with the data and seeing how we're pivoting and moving the needle for our students and with that I will now turn it over to Dr dupin so we can start our conversation or our progress monitoring thank you president kuo members of the board please dulge me for just a moment while I get connected to the screen and while Dr dupin's doing that I know president CIO mentioned this earlier but just for those of you who may not be aware of this that are either watching us online or or with us here this evening um the board received training last Saturday we had a study session and as part of that training one of the things we did was a first pass through this progress monitoring report so what you see this evening may be a somewhat shortened version of this process but we will be bringing go two report one to the October 15th meeting and so that will probably be a longer conversation um when we bring that because that will be our first time looking at that particular progress report thank you superintendent man as a reminder the governing board has established four student outcomes focused governance goals the first is to decrease minimal Proficiency in math for all eighth graders the second is to increase math proficiency for black eighth graders the third goal is to increase English proficiency for emerging multilinguals and the fourth goal is increasing reading proficiency for all third grade students tonight our progress monitoring report focuses on goal one and we have established annual targets for all of these goals and the annual Target for 2025 is as follows the percent of e8th grade students that score minimally proficient on aasa math will decrease from 77% in August 2024 to 71% by August 2025 so tonight we'll discuss current measure 1.1 which utilizes data from our DNA math benchmark marking system and Inter and Inter measure 1.2 which also uses DNA math assessment data but focuses on our fifth graders so like to drive I'm sorry Dr dup and just real quick two clarifying questions can you please let us know what DNA is real fast and if you can let us know like in a short version why we're seeing a lower trajectory and why the numbers are going down versus going up just a quick explanation so we have some understanding please thank you for the questions president CIO DNA stands for data and assessments it is our benchmarking system based on Arizona State Standards so it's an assessment that our students take basically on a quarterly basis there's a pre-assessment at the beginning of the year they just finished taking interim Benchmark one today they'll take interim Benchmark 2 at the end of December right before winter break and then they'll take the post test at the end of the year and this assessment monitors progress within the year on a Year's worth of learning on the State academic standards thank you and then excellent question regarding the trajectory of the graph so this goal focuses on decreasing minimal proficiency and so typically when in e e for

um that meeting is um to discuss uh future um Child Learning Center uh project then our um normal monthly uh work session is scheduled for Thursday November 7th at 4 4:30 p.m.

and then the next regularly scheduled business meeting of the Board of Trustees is Wednesday November 13th at 6 PM I would uh entertain a motion for adjournment I'll make a motion to adjourn can I have a second I'll second meeting is adjourned

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the meeting order we'll start with the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all welcome everyone to the school board meeting this evening remind everyone we are live streaming um this meeting so we'll start on the agenda with um a motion to approve consent agenda items a motion by Earl do I have a second second by Cheryl any discussion all those in favor seven of so next we'll move down to community non agenda items we ask if anyone is present who would like to speak to any item that is on the agenda or any other topic and I believe um we do have Mr Gary spear y who is here um to speak um to the board Mr Spar real real quickly before minut I'll make it real quick okay okay I'm here to try and understand why my daughter and son-in-law was treated so bad by the ihsaa uh they made a decision back in December to remove their son from Jennings County and it was solely based on the verbal abuse he was receiving and I uh you know uh show me where this is wrong I mean you know he they made a decision to okay and then uh this is the only reason and then and they made this decision back in December in May of 23 Dustin and Cory met with boys team heard rumors that some of them was going to transfer well we will not sign waivers for you fine but why didn't somebody come to the parents or the boys say what's the problem guys I love this County I'm 70 years old I've raised all my kids here and my grandkids and uh it's just it's it's not right that he is going to be denied his senior year he's not D1 player he's got one year basketball left and I I just somebody should have asked the boys why why are you de wanting to leave Jennings County I I would I mean I care I coach out of Brush Creek my boys see me in a ball game they come up and give me a hug say hi coach how you doing that's what it's all about at the end of the day and the last thing I'm going to say in closing is that I'm asking the school board to please send a letter to ihsaa after further review ask you to reconsider and allow Ben to play ball his senior year thank you jchs School Board because my daughter and son-in-law are good Christian people and we can talk all night but I've got three minutes and I kind of had to sum up what I was going to say and I'm not a public speaker but if you guys want to know how to raise 300 bushel quum or good rated gain on cattle get a hold of me I can help you because I can raise good corn cattle that's B oh there's there's some stuff it's it's not right guys because if we care about the kids we don't let this go on noticed so that's all I got to say thank you very much I appreciate it thank you I can go you you can go in yes absolutely I I just want to say thank you um thank you for I know you're not a public speaker this probably was a little bit uncomfortable I I don't I don't even speak to church Preach you you did just fine so um but we as board members want to just say thank you and I know this isn't a question and answer session um but I want to let you know um that we appreciate you coming that we um want to listen to you and hear from you um so we will take all of your requests under advisement so thank you very much I really appreciate you're welcome I don't think there's anyone else who would like to speak to any items no I don't think so so um so next we'll move down um on the agenda to whole business asking for approval of a Neola policy 5200 for attendance this is the second reading salute I have a motion by Pat do we have a second second by Travis any discussion all those in favor seven of um next we go down under finances Philip asking for board to approve the resolution to adopt the 2025 school budget main a motion motion by Earl I have a second by Mary Lynn any discussion all those in favor 70 next I would like the board I'd like to ask the board to approve the resolution to adopt the 2025 Capital project plan I have a motion by Travis do I have a second second second by Cheryl any discussion all those in favor seven o next I would like to ask the board to pass the resolution to adopt the 2025 bus replacement plan I have a motion so move I have a motion by Pat do I have a second second by Chelsea any discussion all those in favor seven of will go down under property yes last meeting we did an inform on the 2025 roof roof proposal from Martin Riley um this is in line with what we've done the last at least five four years I've been here and asking approval to approve the 2025 roof proposal entertain a motion to approve motion by mayor ly do I have a second second second by Travis any discussion all those in favor CTE update yes CT update we're down it like it just it's getting smaller and smaller what we pretty much have to deal with but we're not we're not completely done yet the biggest thing we're waiting on we've got two we got three doors that are going to be probably another three weeks or so just because of supply issues and all other they did the punch list and they're almost done with the punch list so just very few things left the doors are the biggest thanks for that update does anyone have questions for Philip that's not holding anything I've visit the doors no they've actually the doors are just that Central area in between the cafe culinary and it's just to make it a little maybe easier to teach where it's a little quieter where all that stuff is but no they're we're able to I think do everything else hearing no other questions we'll go down under new business we have under programs an in inclement weather days plan yes just an inform we will be following the same plan for inclement weather or snow days if you will um this year as we have last year the state allows the district three asynchronous learning days that's where students don't have to be logged into live lessons so we utilize those first we have used one of those days Friday so we have two for this year available and then we'll move to Virtual learning where students do have to be logged in at a certain time if we were to have a bad uh winter and need those that many days but to asynchronous followed by virtual if needed and we do have some built-in days just in case also in that calendar so plenty of options to choose from and we'll share a letter out with our parents just reminding them of that process as well and that was an inform um so next under professional staff we have some recomend one recommendation yes please asking for approval for Joseph Kelly to be um approved as a Jennings County High School boys golf coach entertain a motion to approve sove motion by Cheryl do we have a second second second M Travis any discussion all those in favor 70 next we move done under support staff we have a couple recommendations yes please asking for approval for Emma Campbell uh to be approved as the Jennings County High School assistant girls basketball coach in Stacy Hall to be approved as the corporation transport ation Administrative Assistant I have a motion by Earl do I have a second second by Pat any discussion all those in favor seven thank you next we have some donations yes asking the board to approve the following donations first me First United Methodist Church $225 of the Hope food program Jamie Russell $100 to the Middle School food pantry chassis br $800 to the JCS PBIS attendance in Senate the Hayden United Methodist Church $100 for nve student needs nvic $250 Grant to nve teacher Judy alord for stem projects and Walmart $300 for donations to the nbe school supplies entertain a motion to accept those donations as read I have a motion by Chelsea do I have a second second by mayor Lynn any discussion all those in favor 70 next we're down under resolutions yes we've got resolutions the following resolutions we'll do them separately though first resolution is authorizing the issuance of General obligation bond for the purpose of providing funds for Corporation wide safety improvements and long-term maintenance I have a motion by Travis do I have a second second by Earl any discussion all those in favor 7 the next resolution is in conjunction with that it's a resolution authorizing the additional appropriation of the 2024 General obligation Bond proceeds and interest so move I have a motion by Pat do I have a second second second by Cheryl any discussion all those in favor 7 next we have the standard resolution because there's more than two weeks between board meetings so it's a resolution authorizing the treasur deputy treasurer of James County Schools to make payments of claims without board action prior to the October 24th meeting and allow treasur or Deputy Treasurer to make transfers of Appropriations within the Ed debt and operation funds in order to balance major account classifications have a motion to I have a motion by Mary L have a second second second by Cheryl any discussion all those in favor 70 and the last one lastly is the annual resolution for the budgeting time is the resolution authorizing the reduction in Appropriations in Ed and op thund I have a motion to approve motion by Chelsea do I have a second second second by Travis any discussion all those in favor 7 this was kind of the Phillip show tonight was it I am sorry for the crowd on that one well let's go down under relations and give Nikki a chance asking for approval with an Mo for anou with ivtech Community College and the high school this is for dual credit offerings and we are very um happy to be able to offer a wide variety for our students for dual credit entertain a motion to approve thatou motion by Pat do I have a second second second by Cheryl any discussion all those in favor 7 and I believe we're down to other no other hearing nothing entertain a motion to adjourn motion by Chelsea do have a second by Travis all those in favor 7 meeting adj

we'll call the meeting to order this is a public hearing on the 2024 General obligation Bond so we are um sharing information about our need for a bond this would be a tax neutral bond that we would be able to add to take care of some long-term maintenance um projects that we have throughout the district but the first priority is actually for some school safety improvements so the school safety projects would be prioritized first and would be at every um building in the corporation allow us to harden our entry ways um for additional security and also Harden some areas in the school based on best practices and recommendation from law enforcement officers and law enforcement safety um Consultants so this would do things like um providing secure entry barriers um adding some safety film to additional areas things of that nature are some examples of grading some camera systems so those safety projects would be the top projects in the $3.5 million proposed Bond followed by long-term maintenance projects throughout the corporation things like Roofing uh pool filter at the middle school generator Replacements um some uh pool lifts things of that nature throughout the corporation multiple different buildings so a list of potential projects and what we've identified as top priority um you have in your pack and the need for these projects are both one school safety of course is a top priority overall and then the long-term maintenance projects allows us to keep up our beautiful facilities which are in nice working order and maintain that long term so again this would be tax neutral and I'll let Philip um speak more to the financing portion okay on the on the finance side the reason why this is sort of become an opportunity is the fact that the county AB went up yet again and we're able to do this again tax neutral is nice we buil we can we can sort of topload it too this I designed this one like we did the 2023 one where we're going to pay a probably bigger chunk off in the first year save some interest money and and then spread the rest of it out in your packet you got the uh presentation slide two just sort of shows where we have the capacity and then you go to slide four that's where it talks about the availability of the general obligation Bond even with this one and our other one we're still going to have capacity if we had an emergency or something come up we could have an additional borrowing because you can see with our av going up that's also increased the total amount we could have within a bond next slide shows what we're borrowing which is 3.5 we're going to do it over 10 years versus 15 because we have a large as the previous slide shows we've got a large amount coming off in 27 28 time frame and we're going to we're not worried about having to spread this out further so again try to save interest money by keeping it short of 10 years is another another choice we made the slide six shows what the actual payments will be you can see the slight increase in 2425 that's pretty much because the AV and the Avail availability increase of of the debt load on there and that's about it unless there's any questions any questions from the board regarding um projects hearing none I'll entertain a motion to adjourn this public hearing public input if there's anyone from public is there anybody here um from the public that would like to comment on the bond or any of the projects now we'll entertain a motion I have a motion by ear do I have a second second by Chelsea um all those in favor seven meeting a

welcome back Spartan Nation tonight we have the East medal Spartans against the Westside Terriers I'm Mi calibri I'm Cameron leage and uh here we go it'll go right to Kenna what side will get a head on it have the rosters up here but it's okay rosters rosters I'll pull it up on my okay all right we're getting our roster set up like we're we're lacking some ball girls tonight I think they were last a little last minute like us we running she's like oh these are the ball girls were running in wests side's going to kick it right in front nobody there me a pet a roster with no numbers and no nothing that's great M check M live okay this is good har Goldman's goingon to get aead on it little tap over to Addie Jordan takes to the middle pass over to Sosa big shot oh bar down oh almost a goal nice and early in the game Mr a man don't look at me and the goalie here looks like I think it's Chloe laser it's a cool last name West side's going to get some nice passes on it think me shadow kept it in there and Kylie kicks it [Music] out West side's going to try to keep it in but it's out Marina with the throw in see where she heads with this one it's looking like westside's really old team a lot of seniors and juniors yeah actually only one sophomore oh only one sophomore wow the rest are seniors and juniors oh Gary's getting rowdy on the bench love to hear it in a squat position oh and no hat we're going fully bald today he must have just shaved it because it's looking really shiny Emerson with the [Music] save and he touches that back to Ari Goldman little too far of a touch but we got kenam Marino to keep it in over to Ari Goldman tries again to get it to Addy Jordan just not quite Anna Roman right at The Stance too bad none of our East Long Meadow students are here you know supporting the girls soccer I mean we talk a lot of crap about our student s because nobody shows up nobody shows up for our teams Mia will hustle back to get that she's in good possession right now gets it up the line but nobody's there Jill will step great step by Jill tries to pass it but the West Side knees were there to stop it oh yeah the kneecaps Addie will take this up to the corner but turns back to Anna Roman that was a beautiful pass that was curs out on West Side Gary's happy about that one Kenna will throw it in to okay West Side out on eong Meadow W I will throw it in looks like that's number 19 McKenna Mackenzie Reed Mackenzie Reed wonder if she's related to the infamous Freeds of this town it's re e d oh never mind maybe misre at our school W's doing a great job controlling the ball they are good touches kind of a funky kick oh off sides [Music] why never mind um we have quite a few easta metal players hurt which is really sad to see but can will head that out and a Roman gets a weird touch it's number 14 Elda herovic I'll take that looks like he was out on Ari Goldman Mackenzie Reed again with the throw in right to Ken Marino I think came I think we're seeing it again I think easta is lacking on communication you may just be right that's unfortunate because when we were doing that last time it didn't the game did not turn out how we would have wanted it to but I tried giving Gary my um my input but he didn't want to he didn't want to hear it he thinks he knows best he knows best kind of will tap that out looks like it's gonna be a throw in thank God that corner kick there are ball girls 33 minutes left in the half oh now I'm not a soccer player but Westside looks like they did something wrong we're gonna have some subs coming in we have Eve Butler probably an illegal throw is my guess probably so she either lifted her foot or didn't throw completely over her head Eve Butler came in now who else will receive um Eve's pass but it'll get intercepted by Addie oh speed mne love to see it love her Joel will tap it up to Mac Oh Mac just misses it good play by the goalie there now I know Mac was hurting after last game um she was injured it wasn't injured you know like out but she was hurting what she hurt I think our back from that collision with the goalie oh okay but I'm happy to see her back and healthy now unfortunately today we found out the sad news for Grace Moore I just want to say my heart goes out to you Grace me as well we had another ACL tear tragedy seems like a curse on this [Music] team but all I know is her senior season is comeback season yes just like the rest of them Revenge T all right Chloe laser will bunt this but it'll go right to our goalie now is there a box that she has to stay in in order to hold the ball and that's the yellow line okay got it [Music] K Marino up to Eve Butler love it Eve tries to keep it to herself but Westside gets to it Anna Roman by herself over here passes it back to her goalie good play Respect over to M nope Kylie Marino ends up at Sosa's feet and gets knocked out oh they called it on us e got a few Subs coming in and Kylie Marino will throw this in I loved Kylie's performance the other night it was great me too I was really proud Ken will tap this to the left side Addie keep it in touches that in that was a great play and a Roman I don't think that's Santa Roman not Roman Martin Martin Emerson's communication is unmatched she's great out there I can hear her from over here I know even with the headphones on you know being one that used to play with her you know there wasn't a moment where she wasn't telling you were to be I love that we love a good leader yes right Mr aad EDD he will shoot this from very far out and it'll end up in Khloe Laser's hands nice long punt to center field goes by Anna Martin but Kenna will touch that kind of a hard ball for Eve to try and sustain right to Diane had startled her for a minute I could see see the jump Kenna will tap that oh looks like she planted her foot a little awkwardly that's okay Kenna's truly trying her best for this team right now I love it I she always is she's a over worker she's a hard worker and Westside keeps it in right to the middle but Emerson you know what Emerson was there per usual Gabby D attempts to keep it in right to west side it's all right again Ken Marino why trying to get it to Eve but it's okay and he saw metal player wasn't there but Gary sure was I kind of miss his hat me too Eve will have it and she will attempt to get up to Addie but it gets intercepted Jill with it we don't look like we're spaced out very well um very bunched yeah we're very bunched Kylie will make some moves around that girl beautiful pass to Emma Sosa see right here I feel like we should extend the field to the left side right to Jill she'll had that could see that coming from a mile away Anna Martin will challenge this but Eve comes in anyways andam Martin will attempt to save that ball not quite trying to switch Fields again wests side with the great passes just right to each other I love it but but that's not good for these metal Stans right out we need to control our play a little bit few Subs in for you metal Spartans Ken Marina with a strong throw in Ed will race to get that looks like that was on a West Side beautiful Kenna looking at Addie just misses her feet but Eve will get a touch good work corner kick for us lots of traffic ladies lots of traffic in front of her look like he saw mows trying to set up some plays out there love that now who's this in the corner Emma maybe no I I think it's Kylie is it yeah that would be the younger Marino about to take the kick some the better Marino oh hard take might be too controversial oh just misses our forward see that might have been a lot of communication right there in comes me petow emusa and Anna Roman looks like we're subbing a lot we are which can be good you know keeping our players fresh I agree cuz it is still hot I might be wearing cold but I'm sweating I'm just doing it to for the aesthetic yeah I'm like looks like one of our players just went down I think it was Ari Goldman really and a Roman will try and send this in get a goal quick one the setup's confusing me a little bit but again I'm not a soccer player is this normal yeah I'd say this is the more normal wow another one too high we saw a lot of that in the Westfield game a few field goals I think they need to dedicate a practice to getting their shots down right to Kenna boots it up and Roman will send it further emosa great touch pass over to Mack but couldn't get it through Jill headbutts it into play end up in Kylie Marino's feet and back to West sides and Jill is there to save the day love that looks like the attempt to get it to Mia but couldn't happen great play by Kenna but again no one was there and Emerson will take control from here she cannot pick it up because Anna kicked it back to her is that a rule yeah that was not that really should not be happening yeah time management with the ball is also very important got to know when to release it but we just got lucky that just looked like an illusion I thought Emerson had the ball right there Sabina with it back to Kylie Marino Kylie Marino up to too far for our players [Music] who Gary's voice is cracking and Roman with the hit there kind of will trap that and my side will kick it right out see let's see what we can do with this huh floater to emosa but it'll float a little too high oo can Marino is fast that girl looked pretty fast what number is that I think 10 10 well what do you know Mass Live doesn't have a 10 might not be 10 then give me a moment 13 Kelsey Turner Kelsey Turner will ultimately foul one of our players so our free kick goes right out Kenzie Reed will throw this in for Westside headbutt from Kenna out again okay let's do this again and again looks like the ref try to get a hand on that Jill will get a touch in there and out on us wow soccer is very back and forth I never realized that out again yeah looks like all right so it's gonna be a throwin basically at the flag for us poor Kenna she's got to run all the way to our our B I'm going to go out there and be a ball girl at this point you can't be an announcer for elat and a ball girl you got to pick who says I could wear the headset while out there Joe will take her time with this that kick had a little spin on it I love that too bad didn't say in that was a cool little stop by Westside number oh it'll go right by 17 for Westside and Ma up with it oh I think we have a sister Duo Sydney Reed and Mackenzie Reed 18 and 19 love that but there's nothing more Infamous Infamous than Kenna and Kye Marino sister du I mean come on you can't get better than that can't compare Mia will take it up the left side passing too much to the feet to the wrong feet to you're right right I should have specified yes yes Mia good play Big goal kick up to n 18 one of the twins or sisters there's both oh okay cool Gabby DOI will come out for a sub wow big throw by Kenna Addie will race to get there good turn by her oh ankle's broken over to emusa tries to cross it but good defense on West Side there Jo will send that back over Sabina will end up with it weird touch though so Anna Roman will save her we're just not connecting yeah we got to connect it's either too hard or too light to the wrong person Gary if you're listening to this I think you need some team bonding to get these girls going I haven't been hearing about enough pasta parties about enough I mean come on you guys should go on the um haunted hay ride that'll fix your soccer problems that'll get a lot of teams bonding yes from what I've heard what's Jill's position called do you know defense she's the last Defender so like she's sweeper sweep called I feel like I'd be good at that no you'd be good at forward because all you do is cherry picking Jam I won't start an argument on live YouTube but that was offensive why I love I love this pep talk from Gary right here love that with his hands on his back love it he's boosting the girls confidence we need that in a coach Emma Sosa in accepted once again Ken Maro tries to trap it but not quite speina mne pass to M petow see that's connected right there yeah that was good me a padow over to Addie H the angle was a little off sends it over to Mac oh I saw the vision oh yes beautiful play and Ma Whit we assisted by Addy Jordan that is what we love to see right there looks like we made our fans happy with 16 minutes and 40 seconds left in the first half making the score one zero East Long met up Spartans Addy Jordan to MW we love to see it amazing placement by Mack as well yes the goalie would have bonked her head on that pole if if she tried saving that it was a beautiful little tap over the defender's leg by Addie you know that was just a great play that's what we need we need more of that let's go it's called soccer IQ just gotta know just gotta know East goal scored by number five McKenna Whitworth assisted by number four Adie Jordan yes love getting giving credit where credit is due yes that was good Cammy that was [Laughter] good K Marino's biceps I can see him from here wow I can tell she goes to the gym look at Gary being a team player we love that I wish he could go out there in the uniform me too I would love to see that his bald head kind of will clear it with her Shin but it'll get tapped down by the head of 22 on West Side emosa will float up to M witw but it'll kind of get behind her oh she fights for it anyways it's okay love that oh see no communication it was right idea but oh beautiful tap up to who's that over there is that Eve yep it is looks like we're going to get Leilani Porter um we don't have 17 on a roster nor 21 so oh that's great I love when they do that I I think I used to play hockey with Leilani Porter I really do I think I did hi Leilani if you're watching this did you play hockey with me I believe so we love a hockey and soccer player that's a great great matchup love it love see it Kaa is getting double teamed but she lets it go out anyways smart smart play smart girl too she's such a smart girl up to Addie Jordan she'll tap that pass it over Mack will hopefully get there yep she does great pass mck with another great pass up to Kylie I believe yep and then Kylie to Eve Jill sends it back where we just were but it goes out right [Music] idea really thirsty we need water maybe you could head to the concession stand where there's affordable prices and quality food so affordable in quality $3 for a little bag of SK Skittles but it goes to a good cause but it goes to a good cause yes so everyone go there little curve on the ball by Ken Marino looks like we have some more fans showing up we love that SP girls Sabina will have it right in the middle where our e symbol if we look to Mia petto that would be a great pass and and she does but it was a little behind her goes right to Kenna's feet love when that happens so satisfying she'll race up to win it back Kenna's working overtime right now I love when our Defenders step high oh Gary's gonna try and get this ball out from our little athletic director table there bed maybe I think it's a bed oh it's not a very comfortable one back to Kenna see here I think we should spread out the field that was a beautiful give and go Kenna to Jill Jill back to Kenna Kenna to Anna Roman and Roman back to Ken that was beautiful wow that was you were talking really fast there for a minute that was impressive thanks I'm not really sure what just end up in their free kick do you know um you're asking the wrong person BR well probably a foul there big hit for emosa and out on me up Shadow Gabby Dean 11 minutes left in the half Westside throwing in by number 19 one of our twins McKenzie re yeah oh kind of a scary through Pass number seven there and we don't have another seven on our roster either so this is good um best SL got to step it up quite a bit oh another good pass to her Taps over 14 too too much too far Emerson's gonna easily get that oh Kylie clears that though thankfully for the of Spartans there wasn't a West Side player there I mean we would have been doomed if there was wow that was a great pass Gabby will tap that up to Sabina mne but it goes a little too out of our reach highy will stop that from going any further past the 55 because she is that Immaculate she's great she's that amazing Addy Jordan with it in the middle shoots it from there oh beautiful shot and a goal goal by Addie Jordan she was like at the 20 yard line that was beautiful great shot and I'm not really sure who passed it up to her right before that that might be unassisted if I'm being honest she doing a lot of work there to keep it to herself possibly I guess we'll find out from the Reps right now and she had a few girls on her which is impressive two Zer Spartans let's see what the ref's got to say about that one 23 on the assist that would be Gabby DOI love that I love that do that's great two seniors I used to play with those two when I was little it's a great time sure yeah it's dasol not dusi yeah these Italian names they're they're pretty hard to understand they're pretty hard to grasp Islam goal scored by number four Addie Jordan assisted by number 23 Gabby's gonna flap on her stomach but it's all right she got she gets right up looks like Emma Soso will take this free kick even though I like her when she's in the plays I feel like she shouldn't be back taking the kicks but that's just my input I like her anywhere I think she's got a good boot on her foot she does but she's a great playmaker as well I feel like she should be running back and forth with those girls right [Music] now and a immediate shot by her but save it's a little wide we saw a lot of that too in the Westfield game wide shot for both teams from being honest Sabino will trap that gets right up to Addy Jordan looks like an accidental hand ball yep that happens I get that call a lot in gym class soccer um just hard when it bounces sometimes you know so the goalie will take it kind of an interesting decision but Jill will head that right out of and Roman will head it up straight up and then a little forward and they're going to call her for a foul be pushing I don't know if I agree with that number seven again don't have her name but looks like she fell a little bit there everybody mark up G said we have a twers wall I don't really know what the point of that is Jill shoulders it out of there and Ma is getting held yeah thank you yeah you know it's bad if Kim is getting a little Rowdy so that will be called and Joel will take the kick up to Addie Jordan back to Emma SOA that was straight to Addie that was great and Mia Shadow will get an iffy touch on it hopefully Jill can come through here right to the middle and she does and Mia redeems herself fighting for it Emma will win the ball make her way around a few players and up to Gabby to skie but a little past her feet [Music] six minutes that kind of flew by it did you know what I'm glad cuz I need a water you Sor laying on the court and it's like you gota it's okay let's see we have Eve Butler coming in Ari Goldman and that's as far as my eyes can see G just makes me laugh sometimes it's hard to see him when the lights are reflecting on his shiny bald head oh Ari Goldman will get us a nice free kick right at the top of the box basically in the corner over there now who's taking that is that Kylie em sorry see oh field goal again I mean if I didn't live in you meow I would think our JV team was sponsored by triple Ed I think every single one one of them has Chipotle right now and I'm jealous me too honestly Kenna will pass it up to Eve Butler she'll cross it to the middle to Ari Goldman Ari Goldman back to kenam Marino and Ken Marino back to E Butler Addy Jordan will have it Sabino will take that and Emma Su will attempt to trapped at but she gets around the player anyways but 28 or might be 23 Lily bangle will kick that out Jill's looking great tonight she's definitely a key player oh for sure she is looking like our backbone right now she's she's keeping this ball on uh westside's defensive end yes yes yes that's great because I was going to say our offensive end and those are the same thing that was a cool kick by Addie Jordan the bicycle is that what it's called she didn't like I didn't see it but probably kind of will get that out but it gets sent right back in but I believe Emerson will be able to scoop this yes she does Ken of running with her with a head over her shoulder making sure no Westside player gets in there there [Music] mhm neither team's passes are really connecting tonight and um I don't know if it's the heat I don't know if it's I mean besides our few goals those were pretty connected oh be oh beautiful that Eve Butler gets tapped out she has three girls on [Music] her and some subs for the final i' guess three and a half minutes they stopped counting it on the scoreboard so I don't really know what how much time is left well do they do that for five minutes I guess so light throw in by Spina I believe nope not Spina that was Kenna oh hold on West Side oh just on the other side of the flag so going to be a throw in almost went out to be a corner I didn't know that's what determines it mm divides it oh oh evil take the initiative herself K I think we should pump up the energy because Mr aad he's he has yeah I mean I ain't no ESPN but I'm trying my best mne I'm sorry Jill with a nice kick to center field and it'll go back to Jill but it'll go by Jill but I know Jill and I know will get in front of it get she's gonna get there and she does nice little slide tackle there she ends up on her knees beautiful and I believe it's going to be a corner but our ball girls are being a little slow right now yes it will be a corner K I say we get out there beatball girls I mean come on with the headsets on yes we we're gonna need to buy Bluetooth ones this cord ain't making it down these stairs it's going to be a west side corner oh good kick but it is out by Jill I believe I mean Jill come on this girl she's amazing she can do it all really and Addie will play some defense as she's usually a forward and she does a great job she forces the ball out number three don't have on our roster it's unfortunate I love seeing all our girls be quick out by Addy knowing that the time is running low multi-positional is that the word I'm looking for is that a word probably it sounds right you know they can move around on the fields play any position oh big kick by Westside number 15 Audrey Canada Audrey Canada is a multisport athlete she was a big aspect in Westsides lacrosse team I'm not sure how much time is left but Kylie will make a quick stop before we run out send to the middle for Westside number three bobbles it a little Addie gets in the way and right to Emerson guessing our whistle should be within the next few [Music] seconds big kick by Emerson pass Cent field y right over [Music] Addie Eve does a great job of controlling the play there try to kick it out of westside's position it's gonna be a Westside throw in by number 19 Kenzie Reed gets to the last Defender for west side but you know number 24 isn't on our roster either it's Lucy Parsons I believe Lucy Parsons freshman which is great to see you're right you're right and there's our halftime so we will be back shortly thank you e e e all right and we're back at the East medal field we have two- Z East medals up against Westside it's been a kind of uh I don't know how to explain the game so far slow but not slow yeah the last the last half of the last half has been pretty good um we had our goals from Addie Jordan and M whitw I believe yes yes both great goals great placement so we're hoping for a few more in this half yes let's see long kick right to Emerson we have beautiful weather for this game not too hot not too cold since it is officially October and me and Cy were talking prior that um we we just think you know like in the Westfield game the girls are lacking communication so we're hoping for that for we're hoping for some more communication this half from the girls it's going to be Westfield goalie ball all right our ball girl going to do a great job getting that ball to the goal looks like there might be an issue with this ball also we do have a better roster here sent by my mommy oh so Helen was right Cammy what about that thanks Mom K Marino's gonna be back there to save it for isan meow good tap around for Westside Jill will try not to let that go out as it would be Westside ball yes she gets up the line perfectly gets stolen [Applause] anyways good step by Emma Sosa and Ari Goldman will fight for this B should get knocked a few [Music] times I mean Gary's right we do got to work these girls want to win they gota they got to lock in yes it's a little too close of an opportunity for Westside just then for my liking Kylie will pass this up to sa sa will tap that over to the right side unfortunately no one was there was a good pass good idea but no one was there backw will do her thing to turn the ball around love that up to Addy Jordan who is gonna send it up to Mia pet beautiful ball to Mia petto perfect angle Taps it in there but the defender gets there [Music] quicker looks like both girls fell to the ground no limping so it looks like we're good we're in the clear here Excuse me while I sit my Gatorade get my energy up Gatorade from the easta metal Turf concession stand actually our amazing I think some of our mothers committing their time to our we love to see that very appreciate very appreciative of that it's gonna be Westside ball oh oh no it's gonna be Kylie Marino's ball for these suos SWS and big throw in just like your sister Anna Roman they're gonna call push on Anna Roman she seems to be a more aggressive player I think the refs are kind of taking advantage of that she is a little feisty one but you know what we love to see that we need more of that 21 will end up with that and that is Audrey Canada but Mack will send it up to emosa emosa will try and tap this pass and she does two players beautiful touch around one I love Emma's play but it looks like she's doing a little too much she needs to get that ball crosses it over no one was really in the position to get that though Addie will take this gets stopped by number 28 and a Roman again with little aggression but there's nothing wrong with that and Jillian kof looks like there's some conflict with the ref and the Westside coach Gary's excited about that one Gary's got a hoodie on now that's how you know it's getting chilly outside right not really sure why this is taking very long and looks like Derby Poe number 17 is off the field and number two will sub Isabella Pedro not quite sure what happened there but send that over to Ari Goldman on the left side of the field right sh no one there Osa doesn't need to press because their defense will kick it right out I sense fear in the Westside defense and you know what if I was up against emosa I would be I would be scared too great player very intimidating which is a great [Music] thing Anna Roman again going to fight for this ball all as she should great work by Anna Roman and Emma Susa to keep that ball in and in our possession perfect shot position for Addie but Mack will tap that and Mack will score off of that pass from Addy Jordon again similar to our first goal except not a header with her feet this time and mww again with the perfect placement for the goalie to be in be uncapable of reaching that ball I I love this corner I love this teamwork I love Max I love Max placement I love everything about it and that'll make it three nothing with 33 minutes and 19 seconds left of play Kylie will tap that back to Jill Jill's not going to send this back to Emerson as there's too much pressure SC by number five Mna wward assisted by number four Addie Jordan Makenna wwor she's another one of our young players she's a sophomore she very talented very talented on the soccer field on the low Cross Field I mean she she can do it all really she's an elite athlete she is for sure she would definitely be a staple in Esau Meadows Athletics for the next couple years of her career I agree and I'm rooting for her with her college career and um yeah I would love to look back and see what she does after we leave I really can't wait honestly corner for West Side see what they can do with this oh oh very close attempt for West Side just a little to the left of the post it was to the right that's okay um technically if you're if you're Emerson it's to the left of you so they were going that way really Cammy you mean seriously can't take you anywhere so judgmental much like these refs like much like these refs that are you know we're gonna have Kylie Marino take a break as well as me up Shadow two young Staples on our both defensive and attacking end ddy will work her way around that player emosa with it has a lot of open options right now but carries it for a while I love that leadership from Gabby D skull AO in for emmaa to get you know get a little bit more comprehension of the field what's going on I mean that was pure communication which is VE very much what we need on this field right now that is what lead us leads us to victory yeah let see what Gabby is gonna do here makes her to ision up to Addie Jordan add's going to make her way through the West Side defense and thankfully for us we have Anna Martin yes now Anna Roman with the ball looks like it's going to be a throw in I mean who does Anna Roman's hair because I love it I really love it it's always a slick back looks so great it's gonna be Westside ball throw in by number 28 I believe Jillian and I'm not even gonna try to pronounce that last name kof I think cough Kio Kio Jillian Kio sophomore one of westside's younger players and it lets it go out so we can make more of a play out of a throw he was going to set up and out on West [Music] Side another throw by Anna Roman she's going to scan the field as she uh decides where to kick throw throw this ball G will tap that towards the middle but we're a little too late in trying to get that ball Kenna's gonna Sprint to save that ball you know what I find fascinating is that no one was even on Kenna and she still hustled the fastest she could to get to that ball and you know what I find that very fascinating as well I mean she's just she's she's a different breed pressure she's a creature that one she did not she could have walked she could have walked tiptoed to get that ball yet she sprinted that's what I love about Ken Marino me as well I love so many things about that girl but that is definitely top two top two that is what creates our friendship it's just the way she Sprints really does I mean if she if she didn't SM that I probably wouldn't be friends with her if I'm I'm being honest Jordan will have a sub um possibly Lucy Parsons I was not paying too much attention but I think it was Lucy Parsons got it yes we have a lot of small girls on the E metal Spartans but you know what they're some of the best I really yeah I really love it I mean believe it was a hand ball on us not really sure looks like Westside go is gonna come in and try to take control of the situation that they've got going on on the field and Kenna Marino she's going to try to box out but I'm not sure if that was the right decision I think she should have won for the ball but I'm not Ken Marino I don't know what's going on up there she's probably thinking about Thursday Night Football I mean I would be too yeah I'm thinking we're gonna have to go get uh Chipotle after this everybody's getting chipot I'm really jealous of Caitlyn now I can smell the guacamole and the steak from here I I'd love a burrito right about now it's going to be a goal kick for each s that out ma what we're coming off and it seems to me like not quite sure who she went in for who who went in for her but speed mne also off the field getting a little resting time everyone's got a breed today I mean everyone everyone has a breed this will go right back to Emerson after Jill's goal kick teasing the player a little bit waiting to pick it up big boot by Emerson straight to number two Isabelle Isabella Pedro sorry Lucy Parsons tries to chase that ball but aside got a on it another thrown by Anna Roman see what she's going to do here right to the middle but we don't really have anyone there and I mean look at can Maro hustling once once again great great pressure and that's honestly why the ball just went out and why we have a Thro a throw in right now I mean come on without that pressure she could have kept it in so easily made a play for Westside Gabby D attempts to do something here in front of the net and it once again is wide to the right and I know Kim wants to correct me and say that's the left but it's clearly the right because if you if you are standing in the goalie position but and you're trying to make a decision it's going to be to your right but in terms of where the ball comes from I mean comment down below if you think I'm right comment down below talking on this my head's getting jerked toward the computer sorry all right let's see what we got going on we got a throw in by Kennedy Marino I mean yeah oh guess what my mom just said Cammy is correct come on Helen Donald no he's at a meeting probably right now he's got too much going on oh and my little nine-year-old sister just said I was right so boom what does your little n sister know about soccer she play soccer okay really does she know her lefts and rights she's going to be mad when you when she years you're talking her about you're a very smart girl I love you anyways um let's see what we got going on Westside throw in looks like we're in a little bit of a pickle right now uh I I would love to extend the field this way but I mean neither team seems to have any desire to do that you know sometimes I take this um calling job with an approach of what AP Lang taught me no El you do not need to apologize girl I you know I love you all right could you just hear me sipping okay good sorry don't want to gross anyone out it's like ASMR okay and we're going to have the ball all right I mean I would love for a change of scenery for the ball to come over here for the ball to go down there been on that side for five minutes and Westside ball still on that side we have with 22 minutes left in the game I you would think you know 15 minutes of it wouldn't want to be spent down there but the girls think otherwise b side makes a big play but you know Emerson she's there and she flops on that ball west side wests side seems to um have an issue with too long with passes it's been several times where Emerson's just been able to scoop that up from a pass from about the 50 I would say long and low like they stay low yes and you know seems like a bad habit but beneficial for us so I mean I'm not complaining yeah 13 will end up in a good spot with it passes it over to four sorry my roster's down let's call these people by their names Emma Nicholson Jill will take her sweet time let her players get wide and open big kick by Joe Stevens no one quite where she kicked it to though but it'll end up to Addie Jordan M nice header Pedro will pass that up but Mia petto ends up with it Mia petto surrounded by three girls it's kind of a tough situation there's really nothing much you can do there loses it from Jillian Kino Kio and Kelsey Turner will have it in the corner it looks to me like K Marino is complaining for a call right now I mean big shot by po Darby K Marino can be a complainer sometimes but you know if the girl's got a reason she'll argue she'll bring her Point evidence and explanation for [Music] that looks like play oh they're calling that on Kylie I'm not sure if um I mean that was correct but you know don't want to judge the refs because they're doing hard work for us out there yeah Gary squatting that's when you know it's getting serious out here now we have a five person oh three down to oh four person wall I meant Oh and po Darby will take this kick o little too high not quite a field goal but a little too high let's save the field goals for tomorrow night's football game senior n senior KN is red out oh fun fact um let see what's our first name Audrey Audrey Canada is actually my step cousin I just found out makes sense because my GG's maid name is Canada so if you're you're watching this hello long lost step cousin not only do we get to watch some of our Best Friends Play Soccer but we also get to have family reunions I mean seriously this is just great I don't even mind not getting paid to do this me neither but it will be worth the community service hours it will I mean I can't graduate without him so I probably going to be worth it let's see if our friends are being loyal and actually watching this broadcast big kick to center field Westside tries to get a foot on it but they just can't Jill fights for it but not quite kenam Marino does a great job getting it out of um westside's attacking Zone I mean is Ken Marino getting paid to do this because she is working over time she seems a little upset and distressed right now she does okay let's see the power the anger that's about to get forced through this kick is I mean come on when Kenna's angry that's how you know she's gonna kick it far I mean I'm saying I'm I'm predicting the other 40 and just about just about okay you should get into sports betting that was great Addie up to the middle Max going to try and get there but doesn't Addie back again to play some defense let's pull up our roster again please m p gonna do a great job look at her she's so fast she is those legs may be short but they can get her places tries to get by but can't fights for it still anyways love that she did not give up let me tell you it's going to be another Anna Roman throw Gabby D is in the game for Mac whitler I mean look at this our parents are coming together and clapping for their children like this is just great Easton medow is such an amazing Town such an amazing community so great so supportive except for our fans but the fames never failed to show up trip on Mia petto I believe looks like West Side number 13 Kelsey Turner kind of fell there but she got right back up into it and there goalie takes the kick as usual goes right to Juju actually who's now in for Emerson V M petow fights for it and Falls no call on that leaves our fans a little upset um it's gonna be Westside throw we have Gary on the bench hyping our girls up love that Mr Abad do you do that good good look at all of our Esau medal athletic coaches being so uh supportive uplifting uplifting yes you know you know Mr rbad I'm going to try I'm going to try my hardest to make it to basketball Gam but um I don't know if I'm going to make it to basketball games you know I got the hockey season coming up look at that I'm gonna be announcing the hockey games next so well uh well he's on the hockey team so yeah so I'll make it to senior night or something maybe Kenna gets in the way kicks it out of bounds to the ball girls with about four and 14 and a half minutes left in our second and final half Mia petto Makes Her Way arounded Forward on West Side M petto seriously can do it all like she really can she's smart she's funny oh so smart she's so good at math it makes me so mad but rumor has it that she did hit my car I didn't know if you wanted to bring this up I thought it would be too I mean a rumor has it um but I I won't bring it up she'll no get I'll have to hear it to hear it um I love the girl but I did hear some rumors that she did hit my car one time last year never told you never there wasn't that much damage really but but it's okay but we forgive and forget for her we really do I mean big kick by West Side no one's there oh right over Emerson it's not Emerson anymore it's actually Juju in there oh is it yeah oh my gosh I love that who was gonna tell me I said that earlier but oh maybe dozing off we have Juju godette in net she is a sophomore I believe yeah another youngling to our on Spartans oh are you sure I'm not sure on that yeah I'm not sure either oh she makes a smart play an a Roman just got to be quick with that perfect right through the legs of Kylie attempts a give and go and I I Gary is taking my word for it he just yelled at the girls to communicate and did I not say that to him in gym class today I did I mean how do I sign up to be a coach because seriously Ma's gonna fight for this ball do a little one two to Ari Goldman right back to ma witor love it those two are going to work together to get up the field straight to emusa but West Westside gets a foot in go up to Ari Goldman goes right over her but Emma Sosa will get that I'm expecting a shot from her yes slightly wide slightly wide and low making it pretty applicable for the um Westside goalie to get a hand on that K of heads It Forward right into the feet of number 18 Sydney [Music] Reed chill Stevens did a great job of getting her feet in there kind of messing up the West Side attacker um making it pretty easy for Juju to save that ball from going any further yes Sabina with it in the middle Ari Goldman reads the play pass to Kylie Kye playing high for a Defender love that up to M whitward was GNA race to get there and keep it in and it looks like it was out on west side or uh SW sorry I don't know it kind of looked like she got a tap in there and knocked off her leg so I don't know if I agree with that call but um whatever getting ear aches from this oh are you hurts really bad Harry Goldman all around the play ma what was going to fight for it we lose that Kylie does a great job of trying to keep it in moving it towards the middle slightly more I'm hoping Sabina gets in there play by her finally called for Anna Roman in her favor it's going to be SP in ball hi so I'm so glad you're being a loyal friend watching shout out to you I love you can't wait to see you on the softball field yes do they commentate softball because I will they don't I'm not sure Jill Steven is gonna race back for that ball she takes control kicks it up field to Sabina mne who tried to get it to Ari Goldin but not quite and JuJu is going to get a hand on that ball she's goingon to survey the fields where she wants to kick it and that's as far as mi's eyes can see you got it from here Cammy I'm actually not sure who that is on our team because again our um roster is not really updated I she's probably one of the younger players Ari Goldman does a great job of attempting to keep it in it looks like I mean that looks like the Westside girl put a hand on her that's just not acceptable at this point in the game speed mne is goingon to do a little onew take a shot but again it's wide I mean do we got to put a Target in the back of the net come on ladies when I shoot an indor soccer in Jump class I I never go wide oh I mean come on debatable Gary must have to start using me as an example for these girls you're so right he should film our game he should there's a possibility that's a little bit more interesting then beautiful cross from the left there Addy Jordan's gonna protect it Kyler Mar is going to try to get in there Jill is going to race the ball but it looks like number 13 from West Side is going to take over and Jill slide tackles gets that ball off of 13's feet questionable cross from number four on West Side ends up in R feet sa mne is goingon to kick it all the way to the other side of the field right to the middle but no one's there Addie attempts to get back k Ino with a big kick to a Westside player [Music] unfortunately and looks like we have five Subs coming in Anna Martin Gabby dascal Eve Butler Mia petto and Lucy Parsons we love a change of field though I mean we have very different players playing at all times so it's great to get get a feel for everybody and create those connections within the [Music] team seven minutes left in the game I'm hoping that Esau medal can come through with another goal possibly right now by Gabby D but unfortunately not Gabby with it again see if she can keep this in and it is unfortunately not very easy to keep that in so she won't thank you Cammy I think we all have eyes I think we can see what's going on Kylie Marino's gonna see what she can do here and it's out on wests side so she's gonna throw that ball in hopefully making a play here why are you pointing Eve Butler with a touch the Westside girls gonna do something to keep it in huh Kyo making smart smart plays Kenna gonna pass this very wide can't keep it in and uh one of cammy's running backs just made a touchdown for her fantasy team oh we didn't even see that let's let's go to that are you beating me right now you know oh and I am beating Cammy wait where did you see that was that from my other league possibly yes it was probably yeah why did it only get me point6 points it's kind of annoying anyways back to the game um so I must SOA and Anna Roman will come back into onto the pitch again with the support from the fans I love to hear it love to see it such a great such a great environment and again with our last and final minutes five minutes left um can't really see the time left anymore so presented to The Crowd by coach Abad I mean it's great having it's you know I thought Mr Freeman was great but Mr Abad might be better he might be better I'm gonna play this for Mr Freeman in math tomorrow oh hit in the face for Gabby but great defense with that Anna Roman again smart plays a little too far for our attackers get up there another big kick by Westside goalie a Miss for them to trap that but it ends up in her feet anyways Jill stops that ball from going any further than the 30 [Music] Mark out on us cannot keep the pressure out on Spartans multiple outs on us in a row another scenario where we just need to switch the field we need to move it we need to to widen the field I think we're trying to do that but just can't they're being very cornered over there and Gary looks to be thinking like Sabino mne might have to go back in and you know what I agree with him I think we need speed mcky on this field I don't think she should go out at all I I think she should play the whole 80 minute game she should play during halftime she should play during timeouts I think she's she's so amazing she's so talented I mean I really can't wait to to see where her career takes her in the next couple years agreed I know that one of her top schools didn't you say she mentioned um okay never mind I guess I'm not going to disclose of this information such a oh big headball by wests side we get a touch on it Gary seems slightly disappointed in the effort put in by our girls I hear him making these little comments a too bad that Westside player was there was perfect opportunity for Gabby Dei oh and lucson keeps it in and gets a call great work by the little freshman love that love her love to see it Oso will send this in hopefully leading us to one last final goal I mean her boot is unmatched so I'd I hope to see something come out of this hope she doesn't get a field goal I'm expecting a nice curve inward for our girls to hopefully head it in wow and not really it did have a curve but just you know our goalie uh not our goalie wests side goalie read that pretty well K Marino's gonna do everything she can to get this ball back on the attacking end and it's going to be out on red app apparently Ken's hands are flying up and down through the air I mean I can see the steam coming out of her ears this game has flown it really has just like the season honestly like I can't believe senior night already happened yeah it was a little early this year usually don't have it till mid end October but I forget kind of said there was a reason but oh looks like that play confused a lot of players both Westside and Ean Meadow Anna Roman's gonna hustle back this may be the last play of the game or not timeout I believe is it coming out we have Mia petow and I I'm not sure why we stopped the clock just then um Gabby D attempts to make a play as well as Anna Roman Eve Butler is goingon to try to get herself in [Music] there kick from about the 35 for west side but ju guu has it in her hands let's hope there's enough time for One Last Spartan play and there is not but we did come out with the win so and a shut out by both Juju and Emerson love to see that so big accomplishments tonight and we'll see you guys next time tune in for tomorrow's football game thank you and good night

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we'll be back about 7 o' e e e calling the meeting calling the meeting to order Maria okara present Rick Ry here Gary Ary here Amanda Buchanan here Dennis Bender here Emily Jenkins will you please lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice thank you so much Emily good evening everyone and thank you for being here before we get started I would like to say that the board appreciates and supports our educational Partners input at our meetings engagement my members of the P public and Civic and Civic matters is the Cornerstone of our democracy everyone should have a chance to express their opinions within the guidelines the board has established for its meetings so that we are able to conduct the meeting effectively and efficiently during the meeting there will be time for the public to comment on matter not on the agenda in addition members 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and I'm Braden Bean the secretary than you and with us today we have our seventh grade Representatives we have Emily Jenkins we have Grayson Gibson although he unfortunately cannot be here tonight and Sophia Nutter our secretary we are here to tell you a little bit about our school today and how it is thriving we'd like to start off by telling you our theme for this year our theme for this year is Together We Grow we feel that this theme will help bring our students together outside and inside our school with this theme it shows people how we all grow together when learning at sitting Bol Academy exists to provide a safe and enjoyable Community where all students feel welcome one of the new things to sing bow Academy is our new phone policy our saying for this policy is off and away for the day off and away for the day means that cell phones are powered off or on silent during the day this has been a huge help to our school and we have noticed that more kids are interacting with each other and are more engaged in school activities another thing is that we have a new lunch line we have created this line to prevent kids from cutting which has made the process more efficient also students have now been provided the opportunity to eat inside or outside during lunch students have really enjoy these new improvements the school has also added art and music to our lower campus K through six classes they have been loving this new experience these gifts that you have been given were made by our lower C campus art class one final thing is that we are bringing soccer back to our sports program this has helped encourage kids to keep up their grades and work hard for their citizenship there's money many fundraisers going on at Sitting Bull the Step It Up fundraiser ended yesterday and we raised a lot of money from that one uh towards field trip transportation cost the clothing Drive is in November and we get 25 cents per pound of clothes that we donate and the clothes go to third world countries to help them out we're selling Myers ice cream fruit bars to 7th and e8th during their lunch for $3 each the last day of Koo ice pre-order was yesterday yeah yeah the food drive is in November to give back to our community and those in need and we partner with food restaurants one time a month for uh more fundraising opportunities last month it was Yogurt Land and this month it's paner bread and we're raising these this money for field trips field transportation and other fun events in City bow yeah [Laughter] yeah yeah at sitting B Academy students are given the choice of what they want to do for an elective these are the electives we offer at sting bow first of all our ASB class Avid band computer science active Achievers cooking art cosmetology integrated Tech broadcast Drama teacher assistant office Aid and lower campus tutor all of our elective classes play a huge part in helping sitting Ball grow our newest elective class is active Achievers they will go and learn a sport and then take that sport to teach younger classes this is stopping a lot of arguments at recess because C because kids now know how to play play properly one of our bigger programs here at sitting B Academy is our elop program our elop program stands for Extended Learning opportunities program this offers students a choice of homework help learn a sport yearbook play a sport Esports enrichment tutoring Breakfast Club and crur trade Club this is our amazing elot program which has been happening Monday through Friday every week web stands for where everybody belongs web is made up of a group of eighth grade students that were recommended by their teachers at the end of last school year these members serve as positive role models to the lower grades web helps students work or web students work primarily with any newcomers to the school to help them adapt to their new surroundings Webb mainly worked with incoming seventh grade students who transferred from Rio Vista in desert NES providing tours of the campus during orientation the main goal of web is to help the seventh grade students connect and interact with each other more by doing team building activities these are some of the recent web pictures of them doing activities with the with seventh graders during their advisory classes the goal was to get them to interact more with each other and possibly make new friends our attendant saying here at sting B is n or less for Success meaning nine or less stays absent for success and then you as you can see that these are the attendance charts for August and September and these are it was lower than that last year with an average of 93.4 6 during September but we strive for at least 95% we recently had our back to school night at this event parents and Guardians were were able were able to come to ENT tour the campus families were also able to explore their child's classroom this was where they this was where they got the idea of what the student will be expected of in class this also is where they they would know how their child would be graded as you can see in the slides of our pictures uh lower campus Cubs and upper campus Bears enjoying back to school night here at sitting wheel Academy we take our spirit days very seriously what I mean by this is our students love enjoying and participating in our spirit days what we try to have at least one Spirit day per month so far this year we've had neon day and twin day and tomorrow we will have our Crocs for birken stock Spirit day but don't worry though we still have a lot of spirit days throughout the year such as anything but a backpack Day disy Day and even a full week of spirit days dedicated to fun Christmas spirit days in December and these are just some of our fun spirit days here at sitting bow Academy last Friday we just had our first male school school dance which the theme was neon disco the dance was to celebrate students with good grades based off their progress reports we had a DJ games and an and a inflatable obstacle course all of which the students really enjoyed there will be more dances in the future to celebrate kids with good citizenship some upcoming events here at sting B include Fall Festival on October 25th the Crocs versus birken stocks day which is happening tomorrow the BMX show for red W red Raven week the holiday Boutique happening December to buy Christmas gifts for your families the cross AG activity on February 28th and the dance in February um the cross AG activity on February 28th is where Upper campus students go onto the lower campus and help lower campus classes complete a fun activity and I'd like to take this time to invite you guys to the Cross age activity on February 8 and the Fall Festival on November October 25th sports are very highly T talked about as sitting bow seventh and eighth graders are able to try out for volleyball cross country basketball or soccer when trying out for a sports team at setting Bowl Academy many things are taken into account such as grades in order to play a sport you can't have any D's or FS or ends or use this rule is keeping students accountable and making sure that they can really strive to get on a team lastly before we end this presentation I'd like to take a second second to shout out our awesome staff here at sitting B on the left we have our sitting B Academy security and then at the top we have our lunch ladies who always keep us fed we have our administration at the bottom and our sitting B staff they are always trying to provide their hardest to make us feel loved and appreciated here at sitting bow now before we go I'd like to take a minute to ask you guys if you have any questions question I do yes uh my question is uh when I if I come on your campus H will I have one of the web students take me around and help me make new friends yes of course we would love to do that thank you all right thank you all so so much for your time and I hope to see you all at our cross AG Advent at February 28th and our fall festival October 25th have a great night everyone thank you thank [Applause] you that's impressive that's like colleage level Hi Desert Premier Academy Marissa DTE [Applause] [Music] good good evening president okara esteemed board members superintendent Nelson executive cabinet and Apple Valley UniFi staff students families and community members I'm glad to be back and I'm excited to introduce you to Giana Perez I have officially finished my graduation requirements and I will not see you until May at graduation last week [Applause] um last week last week we had a board member visit our cafeteria thank you Mr AR for coming to visit our kitchens we are glad you were able to see behind the scenes before we got our lunches shout out to the Lunch Ladies also we also wanted to give a shout out to the maintenance team for our amazing new paint job on the quad yesterday was C custodian appreciation day thank you to all the Apple Valley District custodians for your hard work October is anti-bully awareness month this month our counselors will be visiting um classes and giving presentations to students about bullying they will teach students what the definition of bullying is bullying is and its effects on people who are involved with bullying behaviors last week at High Desert Premiere middle school students in Apple Valley Virtual Academy went on a Long Beach Aquarium um to the Long Beach Aquarium and learned about the deep sea predat Predators they had a blast this month our PE classes will go will visit Top Golf and learn the basics of golfing as my high school career comes to an end I wanted to say I wanted to tell you all thank you thank you for giving me the opportunity to to join you these last few months and share amazing events and opportunities at hide as a Premiere has provided for me and other students like me thank you hdba for giving me a safe space to learn and grow and for all the staff that I can call family with that being said GA hello my name is Gian Perez I'm very excited to be here with all of you tonight I look forward to meeting up with all of you every month to discuss some things about htpa when I came to this school I was really looking for some help to get back on track as you can see this school was just the opportunity I needed thank you for giving me this opportunity here we hope you have an amazing fall break and I look forward to seeing all of you next [Applause] month thank you so much graned Hills High School Hannah f [Applause] that's good thank you good evening executive cabinet board members and attendees my name is Hannah for and I'm the ASB governing council president at gr Hills High School I so excited to speak to you all tonight to begin last month ASB held our homecoming dance and we had record-breaking ticket sales by selling 513 tickets in total there were food trucks and awesome DJ and a photo booth on September 18th we had our senior class meeting where we discussed prom grad night winter formal year Sunrise graduation and all of those fun things tonight we have a winga fundraiser that goes until 8:00 P.M and I know that sometimes we get kind of hungry during board meetings so if you have a chance you can pull out your phone and you can order now and then show the flyer when you pick up later just an idea we also have a Chipotle fundraiser on October 8th the fer for both fundraisers are on our Instagram at gret Hills class of 2025 currently ASP is working hard and getting ready for our first pet ballyy of the year on October 30th we have our powder pu game junior girls versus Senior girls in a game of flag football on October 25th at the ABD stadium and I might be biased but I think the seniors are going to win and I'm also kind of mad about last year still and us not winning as Juniors so theater is working hard and getting ready for the second annual Harvest Festival it will take place on Wednesday the 23rd at 6pm in the staff parking lot in the pack there will be a haunted house Trunk or Treat games entertainment and food trucks be sure to come on out and join in on all the Halloween fun theater is also getting ready for their production at Adams Family the musical the shows will be on November 15th at 700 p.m.

and November 16th at 2 p.m. and at 7 p.m. come watch and find out what happens when you're in Adams in September medore had the first blood drive of the year on campus in partnership with livestream there was an incredible turnout on all of the medore students and an incredible job assisting our choir class has their first recital tonight and our mock trial team is prepping for their first competition on November 6th at 6m at the Victor Valley courthouse this Saturday on the 5th seven Gran Hills CTE students along with seven advisers will attend the fall leadership conference in Downey California it'll be a leadership opportunity our CTE program sponsored a skills USA membership drive and we have 897 students signed up as skills USA members competition prep is already beginning and our teams are very excited special recognition to senior Hayden rice on receiving a letter of commendation for her performance on the national marit Scholarship qualifying test Hayden is one of 34,000 high school students across the nation receiving this recognition way to go Hayden we couldn't be prder as for athletics we are doing great cost crunchy is doing very good and we are first in the desert sky League they have two more races for a league title and are in a good spot to become DSL Champions this year volleyball had their last game last night as well as their senior night this year we have 16 years graduating the team is second Des Sky league and doing great girls golf a second in League Play and they have a good chance to take over as first place in League with only five more matches left they hope to become the first girls golf DSL champions in Granite Hills history girls tennis should started a league and they are in a good position to win the league title as well football starts desert SK Sky league tonight with a game against Silverado we are currently four to one and hoping toat as DSL Champions once again many students and staff are ready for fall break we hope that everyone enjoys their time off and we look forward to beginning a successful second quarter we thank you all for your time and as always Mar and gray lead the [Applause] way app Val High School Eden poolo [Applause] thank you good evening board members and attendees I'm in P the APPA Valley High School associate student body line president and today I'll be sharing with you what our students and staff have been doing this past month and I'll also be sharing our goals for October last time I was here I talked about one of our most exciting and biggest events at Apple Valley High School our annual Bell game unfortunately it got canceled due to some conditions but that didn't stop us from losing our school spe Spirit the students in ASB decorated all the windows of our school with phrases like go Devils be those buddies and so much more seeing those around campus still got everyone in touch with their school spirit that students participated in spirit days we had that week including red white and blue to honor 911 anything but a backpack day nobody's t-shirts or sevil spirit for 911 our school did a moment of silence during announcements to respectfully mourn and remember the lives that were lost that day September is also Hispanic Heritage Month during that month our ASB students have been doing fun activities during lunch for students to participate in like papel picato which is a traditional Mexican craft and they also made floral crowns after school we had a mitana ice cream truck a churo truck and in that month we had staff spotlights we had our teacher Mr Mana Miss Diaz and Mrs Ramirez sh about their backgrounds and why Hispanic heritage heritage month is important to them and why others should learn more about it last weekend some of our ASV students and I had the opportunity to give a tour of our school to the class of 73 and 74 in my experience it was so wholesome and eye openening to hear the stories that these alumni had of our school and I met some amazing people like Mr Bender was there too mrend and I met one one of the students who was a transfer student from France and who went to school for a year which I think was really cool and he told us told me so much Amazing Stories and I heard from other people that so much of our school has changed since they didn't recognize some buildings that we added and also some of the rules that have changed over the years like chewing gum and cloths the dress codes were different cuz mostly girls were dresses um but one thing that I didn't notti or that I did notice that hasn't changed about them was their school [Music] spirit recently we had a powderpuff game for the senior and junior girls it was pretty intense game but we had fun playing along with the girls in our grade I'm proud to say that the senior girls W by 22 to 14 and last week we had a blood drive we collected 171 units of blood we thank our students who donated which will make an impact and save the lives of many people I also want to mention our Mass students who helped out at the blood drive we couldn't have done it without them and as for our Sports we're ending the season pretty soon but we're still going strong our football team did a great job against upand Scots winning by 37 to 34 and in my opinion it was a very exciting game that got everyone out of their seats cheering for our athletes and bringing the school spirit to the stadium our volleyball girls recently had their senior night which was a wholesome night celebrating the senior volleyball girlss the tennis girls had a game against Serrano winning 15 to3 and our cross country team has been sending new PRS on their races and earning more medals and new patches they also participated in our annual Color Run in which many Runners from cross country finished first our Color Run was such a success that we had many parents families students and supporters from our community signed up and the money that we raised from the coloron went to our Sports clubs and school programs to Prov provide for our students with their needs it was also really lovely to see how our school Community cares for each other and will continue to support one another and in October we we have very exciting events that we cannot wait to happen the Avid senior students are looking forward to their Northern California trip and in this trip we get to visit and tour colleges which I think is important as seniors in high school because not only it give us an opportunity to learn about that college but also a feel of what it's like if we were to attend that college our FFA and Camp students are also looking forward to their trips which gives them more hands-on experience and our ASB students have been working so hard these past two months with working at our school events that we are very happy to go on our Disney trip earlier this year lastly ASB is planning on doing a tretry event to bring our school Comm Community together this will be the very first time we host a trunk attry so we hope that it'll be a great success there are so many exciting things happening at APPA Valley and I want to thank you all for your support we couldn't give our students any of these Incredibles opportunity without you and please enjoy a restful and restora restorative fall break and thank you for your time [Applause] thank you very much board comments Dennis Bender Amanda buan yes okay first of all I love the mouse pad I don't know if you guys got a chance to see it it's got like little apples on it but the apples remind me I don't know if anybody in he quilts but it reminds me of like the crazy quilt patterns where you take different fabrics and like cut them out so adorable anyway super cute all right so I'd like to start by sharing what a great time I had um I attended the 2024 Happy Trails parade and it was wonderful to see so many members of our school community that were involved um both apple and granite had members of their Key Club there and they were with the Kanas Club um and their float in the parade um and then also the Granite Hills marching band uh represented us beautifully marching um and then also this was kind of a surprise um and I I forgot the name of the organization but some of our nutrition service workers were there um as part of a bigger organization and so that was really neat to see they were all dressed up as like different foods um but yeah they saw um the Apple logo and came over and high-fived me so that was kind of neat I was like oh hey um but it was neat just to see so many um Apple Valley people out celebrating the town um and so with all of the great things that we always hear every month um across our district I was thinking and I know I can get myself in trouble um but maybe we should consider like our board participating next year um either like we could all I don't know it's kind of I was just thinking we have a year to think about it guys either we sign up um I mean if you want we can go individually but I was thinking dress like a hot dog we set up no not a hot dog I mean if you want to be a hot dog you can be a hot dog but I was thinking it' be really great if we like put together a float we all ride together and I was thinking it would be amazing if we could like showcase some of our programs like at the end of the year we usually have like the CTE competing and like I know like we seen some of their amazing builds that they have I don't know if we can like we have a year to figure this out but I feel like we could be showing off some amazing things that are going on in our districts to the town and there's got to be a way so I'm sure we can figure out we've got creative brains here that can make it happen but I'm willing to like put my money where my mouth is but um I just think it'd be really neat if we can like show off some of things like maybe we wouldn't traditionally think of in a parade um but I bet they could make a pretty amazing float um so that was just a thought and any I mean it doesn't have to be CT could be anything just get your brains going um I also wanted to take a moment to publicly thank because I already thanked you privately but to thank Mr Scher and his team for attending the you can go to college hpcu fair um I had seen sh better share it out on social media and I was so excited um because I had mentioned it to him a little over a year ago and I hoped that we could create more Pathways for our students and I'm grateful to see that this is maybe coming to fruition um after I attended footsteps like seven years ago I had the privilege of being part of um the district that I work team that organized the event for our students and seeing a student receive an on the spot acceptance and or even a full ride scholarship especially when they once thought College was going to be Out Of Reach it's an unforgettable experience when you see that on their face like they don't think they could possibly go to college and then they're accepted right then or they get a scholarship for a full ride or you know half it's just the look on their face is amazing um it's truly Priceless so thanks to their efforts um our Apple Valley Scholars now have even more opportunities for scholarship sh and college adiss so I just wanted to say thank you um really appreciate that finally I want to wish everyone a safe and wonderful fall break uh and I look forward to continuing to celebrate our students staff and our community in the months ahead so thank you thank you Mr Ary just want to highlight a couple the the great things happening around our district I want to first of all congratulate the nutritional Services team Mr schulenberg and Rose and just just for an extremely successful uh program that I had a chance to to to visit and and really learn about I learned that uh Our Food Services team serves in breakfast you know approximately 4,000 students around the district every single day the the the team gets there A lot of times no later than 5:30 in the morning they're already preparing things you know but while while we're doing other things the nutritional Services team is already hard at work so 4,000 breakfasts they provide I think somewhere between 7even and 8,000 lunches they provide every single day now there's an after school supper program and so on and and I was just very impressed with with the the uh entire program with the careful preparation I mean they have to take temperatures of the food like hot food has to be a certain temperature the cold food has to be a certain temperature our nutritional Services team are just right on top of that and you know even even providing for uh County um instructional um places as well so in fact I remember even dur during covid when when our campuses were shut down the nutritional Services team was was out there still still providing food for you know bag lunches and stuff for for our kids and families and so on out there in the in the hot and the cold and the wind and everything they were still out there so just an amazing group of people and just want to congratulate Mr schulenberg for and the entire team because they're every single day they're they're touching so many kids and families around this campus so um I really learned a lot I really appreciated that also want to congratulate Mrs Bonitas and the staff and students at more rocks had a chance to visit some uh TK classes some kindergarten classes first grade second grade sixth grade classes and then every classroom I went in all the students were engaged and focused and working hard glad to be at school the teachers were were right on task and enthusiastic uh want to commend them for their for their attendance policy they really have a focus on attendance and of course we all know that's important students not in class they're not going to be learning so they they they have the Focus right where it should be uh I also learned they have a very successful cell phone um program this year so uh like I say it was it was just really a pleasure to be on campus so thank you Mrs benas and and all the team there at Sycamore Rocks and the same thing at Desert nolles I had a chance to to get get a tour around with Mrs Garrett and again the same thing uh focus on attendance a very successful cell phone policy all the students were engaged and and eager to learn and there's just tremendous things going on really in in every single campus around our district so I just just wanted to to say a a hearty congratulations to all the the administrators the counselors the teachers and of course the students who are working so hard every day uh we're we're seeing tremendous progress and and I know we're going to be getting some very good news in the very near future um in terms of the the academic achievement of our students so great job everyone thank thanks for everything that you do every single day and please have a very safe and refreshing and enjoyable break we look forward to seeing you again next month thank you thank you Mr Raleigh I turned it on I I saw that he stepped out the chief Molina I wanted to give a shout out uh to the police department it's been an extremely busy uh September a lot of stuff going on and whether it's just speeders in the school zone or belligerent issues that we deal with in the parking lots at school pickups or threats online for social media which occurs all over the country not just in Alpa Valley it's just like an epidemic but they take everything so serious and uh you can be assured that a lot of things have been averted because of their hard work and their due diligence on enforcing uh laws on the schools which are unique just to schools that the average police officer working in a city or a metropolitan area uh doesn't have to deal with um because the schools have different laws on how students can be treated and how things are enforced so and I know that staff the principles the VPS are all involved with this and so I just wanted to give a shout out to uh police department and it's really good to have um to know that they're there I'm sure a lot of us in the community see them more than they see the local sheriff's department driving around making traffic stops on cars and riding tickets in the school zones and stuff so it's um want to say good job so thank you thank you so much and it's me um I'm going to start by thanking the student speakers um you guys were amazing today um and when I called on Emily I did not know she was part of the student body that would be speaking so you must have heard me giggle when I when her name was called it was like oh okay um but uh sitting B Academy um your presentation you took it up and not um if I'm looking at the presentation I'm going are these people in Middle School uh it looks like a college level presentation thank you so much uh you took us through a journey you know I saw we saw what your school's doing and we plan ahead for what we will see when we come to your school and that is not to say that your the other schools are presented were not great um um hi as a Premier Academy I I have to say congratulations you shocked me because usually uh students are done with their program by December but you are done in September so you just literally shocked me and and I'm truly truly uh proud of your effort and um and hope you will continue to keep in touch and let us know what has what's going to happen in the future because we always ask those questions where are they now do they even remember us I know we live in a village but please uh look back and check on us every so often um Hannah I can't begin to say enough about uh the growth we've seen in you and um how you you um seamlessly travel through this journey to tell us what's happening at your schools impressive and of course um uh what's her name again and Eden because I like that name so I'm trying to store it uh you did such a fabulous job taking us through through the Journey of your school um but before I go any further I have to thank the staff of um desert NOS I went to Desert noes as for grandparents day um I don't have kids in in this District anymore so when they have anything that involves grandparents I volunteer myself um because I miss being a grandparent uh to my own grandkids but one little girl um stole my heart her name is Queen I never asked her her last name but her name was Queen and queen painted the most beautiful uh flowers for me that she made into a cone I sent it immediately to the superintendent because it was it just tells me what this district is about um the love that those children share with you and they don't even know you you know so that was impressive I finished with queenn and I went into another classroom where I joined with their yoga class and uh if anybody knows me I like to dance but not yoga um so yoga was was impressive because I had to be like the kids I did everything the kids did and then I went to um yakala for the same grandparents event for a grandparents uh bingo uh I love Bingo um I tried my best to win uh and all I was able to get I bribe myself through the to get a nerd box uh and actually took a picture of it because that was my winning and I really loved it I don't do sugar but I wanted that nerd box um but on a more uh serious uh note um I see that you have uh read Across America coming up please have us on your list so that we can come to your schools uh and have opportunity to read to your kids um and know and so that they can know we some sometimes we struggle with words too um it will be a great experience for us to come out and then um this bumper sticker I know it's a bumper sticker but it is not a bumper sticker to me um it's always on my uh phone I find a way to stick it on my phone but it came really handy for me uh when I traveled to Europe this summer and my suitcase was lost and they couldn't identify my suitcase and I said it has Appo valy high school and it has um High Desert Premier Academy on the suitcase so I had to describe it to them for what my suitcase said H so sometimes when you give us these things you never know where they go um but this is is one of my most prized possession and to close I need to thank the parents uh you guys are the people that um put the wind be beneath these kids and they can fly and and we don't thank you enough uh thank you so much to the parents thank you to the teachers who continue to teach them and thank you to all of the people who touch these kids on a daily basis superintendent's comment hard to follow what's already been said um Ava Avery Braden Andrew Emily Sophia and deina um I loved that you presented off and away for the day I um was able to visit very early in the school year and multiple times since and boy is it working and I love seeing you guys in um interact cell phones aren't in front of faces but kids are talking to each other so um way to go on a campus that has so many students and and kind of setting the the trend out there for others to follow um active achiever I'm interested in coming out and now I'm going to specifically watch for that I've been in classrooms but haven't seen active achiever and I think it's a great way to get kids engaged in sports and understanding how to do it um I love your Crocs versus birken stocks and um I'm just GNA say this something has changed because when I met my husband in 1997 996 he had a pair of Birkenstocks and folks I made him throw them away so um I think I'm going to have have to go home and tell him he was way ahead of the trend and he can have another pair hdpa Marissa congratulations um kind of hard for us to to already let you go in just two short months but we'll see you at graduation and we're proud of you and um we're super excited to hear about you Gian and what's coming for you I love that you highlighted how the school is a perfect fit for you good job um Hannah looking forward to The Adams Family and seeing you're not in it I go to every place since you've been at the school and you're like in everything I will definitely go I will definitely go um so just excited to see that and Hannah actually participated in our um smaller student Advisory Group with the Planning Group so about um three students from each grade level came together and talked about student ad advisory and what things they wanted us to adjust and be ready for for the large group for student advisory um so she does she doesn't just represent ASB but um shows up for student advisory and has for years Eden um thanks for sharing about the class of 73 and 74 I was at the football game when they were also there seeing them in their sweaters from um the 70s uh was pretty cool some of the patches on them was wonderful and I love that generationally you could connect and talk about the things that they um shared about the school at the time and what you learned from them so thanks for being there and um I knew Mr Bender went because he called me to see if he could and I said of course you can so we got him connected because he taught so many of those students as well yeah um I mentioned that that we met with um Granite Hills for their planning but we also did Apple Valley High School's planning for student advisory and this past week we also met with the entire group of student advisers Mr schlasser and I went in um we had the students we thought from 9:30 to 12 we didn't plan lunch and it was they left and they had to go have lunch and they came back so we were really excited that they came back boy did they keep us on point they have some plans for that school and um they asked for some specific data and so we're ready for our next meeting we're not ready yet because we've got a lot of stuff still to pull but um they are focused they asked that students wear name tags because they felt like because the four years and the things that they didn't hadn't you know didn't know everybody's name they wanted to be able to use each other's names as they spoke and discuss things to me that was a brilliant idea and boy did they use it they they kept repeating people's names and getting to know each other so phenomenal um I also would like to talk about um some awards that people in our district have received and we've been notified of Marana Torres is receiving the Avid Avid impact award um she has been selected to receive that um site which is the California it and education um group has three awardees annually at their um annual convention um all three of those awardees are from Apple Valley Unified School District we swept so we're excited to um congratulate Jason Buchanan as the leader inch technology award um technology staff award goes to Dana who is in that office as well and um Bethany received the educational leader award who's a teacher within our system and Bethany Thompson so we're we're thrilled that that sweep took place Susan Bennis also received a an award impact um truth Inc as an unsung hero award and because she um supports the students that are um homeless Foster youth she um was selected and they had a a opportunity for us to go and um watch her receive the award and then it was postponed so if it if it comes back and changes and we have an opportunity to go again we'll let everybody know um and then finally um there is an employee in the in the um audience that I'd like to just acknowledge being here um a few weeks ago there was a tragedy in our community and a couple of our employees were still on duty they were in their bus witnessed it happening got back to the yard um Matt schulenberg it was part of his department and Laura Bean who is one of our school psychologists um in the back there um Laura stand up just so people can see who you are I'm sorry but I'm gonna do it anyway um Laura Laura took a phone call at about 5 o'l and did whatever needed to be done to support those employees as a school psychologist um not often called on to do that with the adults in the system but um she made herself available she gave them her cell phone number over the weekend and um checked in with us on Monday to make sure that they were okay and so I just really appreciate that I know Mr schulenberg does and the employees that she dealt with also did thank you so much Laura um there is a groundbreaking taking place in our Park um not our park but the park that we're the the property we releasing to the um town that groundbreaking will take place on October 9th at um 8:00 a.m I will actually be out of town I did um approach them and ask them to change it so we could all be there to cheer them on as they did the groundbreaking Mr schulenberg will go out there I know some of you will be in town if you'd like to be there they think it'll be a fairly brief ceremony but they plan to do the groundbreaking um for the park that will be right behind our building here and then um again wishing everybody a wonderful fall break this year it seems like it came faster than it ever has thank you so much California School Employees Association you have nothing tonight um Apple Valley Unified Teachers Association avut Karen Sabers we're good okay I hope I don't bore some of you students with this speech it's a little different than normal good evening superintendent Nelson board members C and audience as we approach break next week I hope everyone takes the time to relax and refresh I know many are looking forward to this break Auda was able to take 15 sped and jened teachers who co- te down to the CTA sped conference this past weekend we are we were all given a lot of great information and ideas from sessions that we attended and from teachers from all over California it also gave the teachers from our district that went a chance to meet each other and connect my speech is a little different tonight I'm not only the newly elected State Council Delegate for CTA but have been placed on the joint CTA president district superintendent County Superintendent advisory committee I attended the first meeting yesterday and received a lot of good information that I was told to bring back and give to everybody including the school board so I'll make it quick the meeting first of all was read by was ran by Ted alejandre our county superintendent and Ashley alala our chair for our president's County Coalition um we did go over a training PD called character s strong that came about from the association presidents requesting a the county meeting with Mr alejandre a training to help deal with extreme behaviors his assistant Lisa Garcia and Ashley aala um our chair worked to put this training together I did forget the papers in my car so I'll bring them in later and distribute them this is an mtssb whole child Symposium the whole child Symposium is designed for district and school leaders coaches and Educators to build capacity around the multi-tiered system of supports inclusive transformative social emotional instruction mental health support and inclusive Behavior instruction there will be three different trainings that begin in January and end in March it was presented again at our advisory committee meeting yesterday and we were asked to help get people signed up they will take up to under participants it's free for those who would like to attend however it will recover it will require subs for those days I feel that this is a much needed PD after hearing teachers concerns with behaviors and the mtss process at our schools this will give everyone a chance to collaborate and hear ideas from others in districts all over San bur Dino County not just our own District I also feel that this should be a joint effort between Auda and the district to discuss and decide who should attend this since it came out of our joint advisory committee the superintendents that were on our committee were going to reach out to their presidents as well to discuss this and have people attend one superintendent asked CTA if they could arrange a lunch in slash trining that they had last year in one of the areas down the hill um it was where the union president and the superintendent attended together they said it was all that it was very enjoyable and helping to bring them more in alignment with issues so I'm hoping that superintendent Nelson and I can attend when they bring that date forth um we did have a guest speaker Kevin Gordon he brought up he Zoomed In from Sacramento and brought up two key issues regarding education the first being that you uses of AI um in specific to do with the boundary settings for children and setting up a panel at the state level to address appropriate uses and safety um CTA will be working with Tony Thurman to have real life teachers from the classrooms Beyond this um panel the second is the statutes around independent study specifically s SP 153 they really want the management and unions to come together to support this and to um Advocate we need to push back on CDE and how it relates to independent study specifically to protect teachers rights to make the determination on instructional time requirements and other accountability pieces how does this affect us as the school district because the audits if not done correctly or they choose how they would like them it affects millions of dollars coming to the leas um Schoolboard Association SB 1315 this is um a bill that helps with the number and types of reports that school districts County offices of education and charter schools are required to annually submit um they feel that the state is requiring too many reports and they want to mainstream everything so that's much simpler um another big one is prop 98 which we know were no cuts um CTI CTA filed the lawsuit and was successful at protecting this money and I didn't realize that they were the Godfather of this propt until this meeting um how does it affect the school board they would like csba um they a lawsuit against the state as well and they're upset about this one because they did it without the power of CTA and two the danger of this litigation is that it can redefine what prop 98 is and can can give money more money to the cities and counties basically it redefines the limits so instead of us taking from 40% the governor will redefine that percentage and give more portions way to the cities and counties so they want the school boards to think about the consequences and danger if they lose this case and they feel that they should not be litigating um without CTA and that the school board should help to um help to not have them file this lawsuit because if they lose it's there's a lot of consequences um as far as Revenue at the state level there's more Revenue before beyond what they expected July 15th report came back and they found an additional 3.2 billion over the revenue which means we gained money um end of July it was another 983 million end of August another 710 million and tomorrow there's another report expected to come out and um Kevin Gordon was expecting it to be between five and 10 billion more in Revenue that they find um by January it's expected to be the between five and 10 billion and that money that additional money will go to education and there's two ways that that can be distributed um five billion at a one-time money or five billion base money on July 1 they want this money earmarked as no strings attached and the distributions of the fund will probably um be tied to duplicated student counts um in the legislation financial department um I enjoyed this one they felt that races races should move more with inflation meaning the cola should move more with inflation and not be Nationwide but State specific um management and unions need to come together to help bring this to more accurate um percentages or amounts um they also talked about the med Medicare eligibility so districts will be able to build directly for Behavioral Health Services The cybh Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative will generate a lot of revenue for districts on Multi multiple levels um they need more advocacy for this to move forward in a more rapid Pace where is all this leading we are going to have a local visit from legislator which Kevin Gordon is going to set up where this it will be at the CTA office or county office where the um Union presidents that are on the committee and the superintendents on the committee will come together to Advocate and speak with the legislators then somewhere late February early March we will all be visiting the capitol building together to um legislate up there as well and he will be making all of those arrangements for us so some good news coming out um on a different topic on Tuesday Wednesday and today the upside upstairs building at one of our schools had air conditioners not working this was brought to my attention yesterday morning due to teachers not receiving updates on the situation and temperatures rising in the classrooms I TR tried to reach out to the aps of the school to find out what the updates were and what they were doing with the situation besides providing a box fan for the rooms however that was unsuccessful I was sad to hear that the temperatures were running between 84 and 9 91 degrees in classrooms with no one checking on the teachers or students offering them an alternative setting or even water to cool off instead they were told to be patient we realized that air conditioners break and that takes time to repair them but I feel that the teachers and students should have been showed some more dignity and that the California indoors heat illness prevention regulations were not being followed I'm thankful for those in the district who stepped up provided me with updates and helped with the situation so then I was able to provide teachers with updates even this morning as they stopped working once more they were able to get them fixed fast before temperatures reached the 80 Dees point so we're thankful for that thank you for the time and in solidarity Karen thank [Applause] you thank you very much uh close session reports you want to dismiss oh I'm going to releas the students no Dr bis no we can't hold hold on we can't release you yet something go ahead and do what you need you want let's just go okay just follow the order all right so in close session um first item that was um discussed was Public Employee discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer leave on a motion by opara and second by Bender they approved the separation agreement between the APPA Val Unified School District and employee 859 and that was on a 5 V second item and final item was um Conference of litigation on a motion by oara second by RC the Board of Trustees authorized the director of risk management to approve a settlement regarding case number cvsb 24444 in the amount of $6,400 and that was a unanimous vote by vote thank you that's all I have the board May approve the agenda as is or ADD and or pull items from the consent agenda for discussion and our action I need a motion so moved I'll second all in favor I any opposed now we get to the recognition to of Dr bis um may I have the board and C join me at the podium and or in front of the Das and Dr rzw would you come up as well you had to wait a while to get this I was watching your sons and they were thinking come on dad really so while as they're as they're transitioning um to stand here this evening we are recognizing another wonderful Community member Dr AR naab with biswa did I say that correct okay he is an the epitome of our district values of dignity authenticity community and service our value of community as a 1993 graduate of Apple Valley High School he is an alumni who came became a medical doctor and returned to the high desert he has been practicing Mr Mr Bender's having fun he's got a yellow sheet I'm worried um gastroenterology here since 2009 it will not surprise anyone that Mr Bender was his AP US History teacher and he even shared that he was a great teacher at that our value of service since 2016 Dr biswas has done anywhere from 150 to 250 sports physicals a year for local schools and children who do not have access to Medical Services that is huge for us that means kids get connected to Athletics that might not have otherwise been able to do it and as a parent who had a child that participated to that participated in athletics and I know that even I didn't take them to their um Care Facility because we couldn't get an appointment we'd run into Dr Mike's for $20 and do it that way so I know many families have done this um when they have access to health care but when they don't we appreciate that you have bridged that our value of dignity the free physicals are intended to support those students as I said earlier to get connected to Athletics and usually this is the positive impact that keeps them connected and attending school and the fact that there's no charge um is just the biggest impact for dignity that I can even think of because they don't have to ask it's just provided our value of authenticity Dr bis's best memories of Apple Valley High School were the relation ships he's made both back then and now he never imagined he would return to the town where he graduated and most significantly that all three of his boys will graduate from Apple Valley high school as well when speaking to Dr biswas he stated it has been a pleasure serving the community on behalf of the Board of Trustees the leaders of the appal Valley Unified School District and the students and their families we appreciate your dedication and representation of our core values of community service dignity and [Applause] authenticity it can't be all good after 42 years of teaching this is one of the top 20 students I ever taught intelligence wise score-wise he went on to youed UCLA in fact he was a trainer for the 1995 UCLA Bruins basketball national champs um we already talked about what he did pro bono for all the students but I'd like to say that the funniest thing he ever did that I've ever seen a student do was the year he graduated I guess driving to school he looked at the sign and said Navajo Road Iowa he said I'm an Indian I'm going to apply for an Indian scholarship and he did an American Indian scholarship he got a dump truck load of response it was amazing that shows you how high his grades were and I know his mother was very mad and he had to tell him that he's an Indian but's an Indian from India and that to me that we I know you took a lot of driven from everybody that was that's the greatest prank I've ever seen pulled in 42 years of teaching and this is one of the sharpest doctors you'll ever go to thank you [Applause] right than [Applause] the meeting ISC no one to talk to no to climb oh you guys going now pull forward you can all come forward move on move up the candidates next month now you make it you come at MH all right discussion information now that the room has been [Laughter] cleared it's always good to have have such happy information a discussion and Amendment to the 20 2024 2025 board meeting schedule what are we discussing so I mentioned at the last board meeting that there was a bit of a conflict if we were going to attend the safe and civil um conference in January we would have to come back early from that um in order to be at the board meeting that Thursday night um in January so I don't have a date other than we have two other Thursdays that we could pick from but I understand that at least one board member will be out of town um so I wanted to at least get some direction on what to maybe bring as a proposal or whether we were going to not in January so the regular meeting is the 2 correct the regular meeting is actually January SCH January 16th 16th oh thought it was always the first Thursday except we're off except that oh of the holiday forgot Christmas New Year so the options that are left for the month of January is either do it early on the um on the 9th do it the week before which would mean we'd post um during the break which we can do um or the 23rd going to the 30th would put us up too close to the next board meeting 23rd works for me now January 9th what is the problem there um what would be the problem Mr RC I believe you have I yeah okay will you be out of town still on the 23rd so on the 22nd we have planned um the ethics training through csba um so if the 23d would be um appropriate for everybody we could pencil that as the possibility and bring that back as the um draft for the board to approve it next board meeting R by again so um we would move the 16th to the 23rd okay we should be fine Mr schlasser with um any discipline cases for time of number of days we should especially since we have two in December we should be uh that will not be too many school days between meetings we'll meet our timelines okay um so the 23rd but you would be with us potentially two days in a row because the um California school boards Association um training the ethics training that is required we have that um um confirmed by csba for the 22nd there are two times during that day that um somebody can attend and we do not yet have the link to have people register other districts will be joining us as well um so you'd either be attending the morning session that day or the the afternoon session and then we'd come together on the 23rd Thursday for the board meeting does that well if we have the morning session on the 22nd it will allow us those of us who are part of the budget committee to attend the budget committee on that day because the 22nd is a budget committee day for the afternoon yeah Mr schulenberg knew that when we um got the when csba uh gave us a date that that would likely be in conflict and um it would depend on when people registered as to whether they would move forward with holding it in the afternoon or change that date for the budget committee both are optional Matt yeah that we've also learned that school Services is having the governor's budget proposal Workshop the morning of the 22nd which will take myself and Mrs conle um all the way down to Anaheim so I was actually going to suggest we do adjust the budget committee meeting to the following Wednesday uh January 29th so none of that has been penciled yet we would like to bring the calendar back um at the November board meeting um what I'm hearing is put the 23rd as our board meeting in January and then um think I need pencil Mr schillberg will get us the um potential budget committee meeting we don't bring that to the board for approval so we good okay thank you I'm one way or the other we're going to have one new board at a minimum one new board member so this may all turn out to be different if you know don't know what happens and we may end up coming back to the 16th that's planned if that's the case well you have to make the decision as to whether or not we're doing the 16th because of um safe and civil you would we plan to register board members for safe and civil as placeholders even with um Mr Bender seat being up for election we will have a space for whoever is um elected to that seat okay what were the dates again for safe and civil yes please that would be January 22nd or sorry I thought you meant for ethics safe and civil is going to be the week prior the 14th and it's um the 14th 15th 16th and I be I believe most will travel probably on that Monday to 13 that again Eugene Eugene Oregon in Oregon Eugene yes 13 14th 15th 16th with travel on the 13th and then we on the 17th or on the 16th um most likely it'll depend what time the session ends on the 16th we might be able to travels back on the 16th but definitely the 17th okay so we need to block out the 13th to the 17th okay yeah I don't have a a firm uh session um schedule yet but it looks like the latest it could possibly run would be 330 on um Thursday the 16th of January yeah we're probably gonna be stuck there because the Eugene Airport does not have a lot of flights we may fly into Portland and drive okay we'll we'll talk yeah I've flown in there before Oh Eugene has airport like the old onia airport yeah you don't want me driving you've already I didn't mean that I just I saw Mar is looking like she's driving so okay okay we should take Matt's bicycle while we're on it okay are we done with that item yeah okay another discussion item was the footsteps to Freedom 2025 four dates I requested that because I think it was cut off during the presentation and I wanted us to have that information going in um so that we will make a decision or determination about if we are going to send anybody this coming trip and if so um what dates I can tell you the the the problem we I ran into was that it good number of our people traveled together in another group and we went there were two of us with another group and so we didn't get to um participate in the in their portion of whatever it is we went through all the tours but we didn't do exactly what they did which was a little different and if we're going as a unified school district that we should try and and have as many as possible go in each of the pockets so that we don't have just two people going because when they took their group pictures we couldn't take a group picture because it was just two people so did you have we all have the dates so the next question that we're going to have on this discussion is are we sending anybody this this coming year and if so what will be the boundaries that we will have for for this coming year um this well the people that we saw on the last trip they even had an office manager um in their group so so I don't know budget wise what we're going to be looking at that's that's the issue so um if you tell us what your desire is for the number of people then we will determine what we aren't going to do this Summer that was part of our um we can reduce one of the trainings that we would be doing um based on that I don't know what the um rate is this year I haven't looked into the cost I'm assuming it's close to the same as it was before um so approximately $6,000 per person um two or one is already fully booked which that is June 3rd through June 10th we're still closing our school then right um we are yes we have board meeting um dates that would be one of the but teachers the reason that we ended up with two different groups was because of people that were participating in summer school and um their own personal things that they had had commitments to so we opened the dates and let them pick which would work for their families and for them to attend okay what do the other board members think I'm not the only voice here so I need to hear people's voices how many other teachers participated last nine there were nine but I think eight eight went you were there there were none of you right my trip was two us and then there was a group that Martis Killian went on and then the group that you went on the total Mr slauer do you did we fill all 10 or didn't we had we still I think have we think we have one that they allowed us to roll over Okay um and then we did have uh so I think nine went eight of which were teachers teachers well I think we could come up with a a budget first be the first thing to see is like well last year we sent eight at a total of XYZ this year if we're going to do it we we we could commit to we could commit to a certain amount of money so I think that'd be the first the first step is the budget okay in light of the fact that we are going to be talking about ethnic studies which is a requirement coming up um I think we need to really seriously keep that as part of our budget because ethnic studies is going to be playing a role and those teachers who went this year they said their their whole um uh Viewpoint has sign significantly changed and um and if we can get our teachers a lot of our teachers to begin to have those conversations then ethnic studies will not be one of those things that people fear it's something that has to happen and maybe if we come at it a different way and not saying we're going to teach your child X Y and Z we're just going to expose your child to know that there's a world outside of here um that will be um something that we we as a district need to um really um make a priority because every every ethnic group matters and we need to be able to have that conversation openly obviously I'm 100% in support of sending more um I think that the presentation last month while lengthy they spoke from their heart um I think it was more than just learning about history um I think it was very apparent that it had changed almost who they were um as Educators as it came across at least I think it's important to take into account the financial aspect for sure um if we've got one already that's being rolled over that's helpful um I know we focused primarily on history teachers this time I think it might be and English we had English and history I think it might be important to consider other areas um as well as potentially other grade levels if we are because our instructors are working with children of all ages um and do we have a budget for that's sorry do we have a budget for ethnic study is there is there a designated budget or what about our multiplier the district received some um onetime dollars having to do with ethnic studies for the intent of um developing the curriculum hosting the meetings doing all of that and we utilized um a portion of that to pay for um footsteps to Freedom yes and we are currently utilizing it to pay for Teacher time um the meetings that are happening if they're after hours and when they gather together as um grade levels when they're working on the the curriculum yeah that they will have to present to you as a board um for adoption so that one is an ongoing pot of money if this is going to be an ongoing um expectation in the district to to serve it would be great for us to set um what that expectation is and then we'll work with Mr schillberg to look at um the budget and determine where we can reduce most likely it'll come out of um one of the professional development um areas and um it would the total cost um for 2024 per person was 6450 um so so I would I would say if you're going to do it do it based on a not to exceed amount so that we have the ability if if the price goes up to not over extend beyond what um the board is comfortable with right that's what I was trying to get at we need a set budget once we have a set budget then we can see how many people can we can send each each year so so eight times time six was what where were we at last year how much was the total you have it I don't have the total I have the $6,400 um 6450 so just round it to $6,500 um because you're going to pay there's some other expenses that come of this yeah you did a board item last year that came out of um we utilized the funds from our onetime dollars for ethnic studies and it haded not to exceed $75,000 and while we're on it you know no matter what happens I think we need to start to include our can you guys hear me your microphone because you're kind of far away from that and while we on it I would like to also make sure that U that opportunity is extended to at least one administrator side administrator so that they can come back and share back to their administrative cohort and they can get to you know keep them more open open mind about what's going on if it is possible well I would think that we don't need to send eight again I mean that's that was the first year where and there's quite a few that continued to teach what was at the uh that they learned and we could scale it back to you know three or four every year um from there that which would cut the price down a bit we have a school we we have a district of 13 13 schools 14 14 okay one is one is H virtual school so we I tend to forget I am sorry I apologize please don't get me she's gonna come for you um so um but I think um you know we need to ex you know go almost to the where we were what we did last year uh but to cut it uh smaller is what school gets that exposure on what school doesn't um so I need to keep it if it's possible to keep it the way we have it until we get more funds based on where the money is sitting so it's possible so we do the planning almost a year in advance for um trainings so that we can book them so what you're what your asking for is Lessa um Kagan or less what people where we we're getting 45 teachers in a room for the same price I understand the impact I just want everybody to understand the full impact of what this does to other trainings as well so we will look for other grants and ways to fund it as well but if you can give us a dollar amount and um then based on what the cost is because I don't have the cost I I don't know Amanda if you're aware of what the cost is is 6450 was last year but like I said there are other costs to this because we pay for the travel down to the airport we have had we had to pay for a hotel room this past um year because of a change of a flight there was several things that um occur and what I don't want to do is put us in a tell us to do eight or 10 but we don't have the funds to do that because the budget doesn't match that right well and I obviously I know it was expensive because I paid for mine um but yeah I mean I definitely felt like it was worth it but I don't we definitely need to plan for it if it's something that we feel is important and I definitely feel like it is important um since this is a discussion item would it be appropriate to ask since um I know we have a participant in audience like what his thoughts are on like um training wise like how it Stacks up versus other professional developments or if that's your interest we can bring it back as a board item as a discussion for future training um to to do that kind of a discussion during a board meeting that it's not a a okay I just since it was a discussion item I wasn't sure if we could because we keep ask okay yeah discussion for the board okay public meeting of the board right it's just we have this question and we could get the answers I wasn't sure if we could ask the question so okay thank you just give me a a Target we did not to exceed 75,000 last time do you want us to um problem solve through not to exceed 75,000 do you want me to problem solve through not to exceed 60,000 I just need a Target Gary I've already spoke up what's there's couple other board MERS here guys got to come up with the decision I think this is a a program that's that's really desirable that I I think really has value in light as Maria said of the F ethnic studies um new high school graduation requirements so I would like to see this program continue to be offered in the future um eight or 10 teachers uh would would be fantastic um but again I TR you you make a great point in terms of of how is that going to affect our other professional development that we offer to teachers I just want you to understand that it's it's not unlimited fund so when we do this we're we're balancing one for the other and it's the impact of the full system and nobody will argue that this was not impactful for somebody for the attendance life altering was very effective and very impactful something that could be directly taken into the classroom yeah and and affect students in a positive way so I I would like to see it continue to go forward just this is just my opinion I was I was thinking of a number of what what about five teachers or or you know as as the the number you presented in terms of dollars not to exceed 75,000 I'd like to see at least at least five of our teachers be able to go I just need direction guys is 510 I don't have consensus I'll go with five Gary's with five Dennis is with five Maria well the majority already has a five could we go with five plus the free roll over absolutely that one's already accounted for does that work and then just plan for that maybe for six people to attend and you want one of those people to be an administrator if there's an administrator interested well I would have liked an administrator interested but we can't we just have to get this into in front of the students quickly and and so if we're staying with five or six we keep it with teachers only and ideally try to aim for the same week if we can she said okay so I think what we'll do is we'll work on um five funded the sixth one is the um rollover and then what we'll do is um send out an we'll work with Marana Tores again she coordinated for us because of um her position and we'll ask for interest based on dates and then if more people turn in for the interest then we'll make a determination and they can be potentially future um members to attend um with some expectation coming back of what they do at their School site um or within the district to share their [Music] experience thank you thank you presentation possible supplemental early retirement program offering by Mr schenberg thank you a moment while I hook up to the technology if I can read okay um thank you I have a little presentation this is informational on um possibility of a supplemental retirement program offering for the staff of Apple Valley Unified School District uh my little disclaimer down there on the bottom of my title page you'll notice you do not have these slides printed I I did not print but I will make sure Kylie gets a PDF of this particular presentation and she can share with the board and of course put it in the minutes um the majority of these slides were actually produced by pars public agency Retirement Services which is a company based in Orange County that has done a supplemental retirement program for us in the past as most recent as 2021 um if you recall um again that's these are their slides so about pars it was established uh they do have about eight and a half billion in assets under Administration and over 2,000 plans across the state they do these for school districts and also public agencies uh cities towns fire districts water districts um any public agency um here's just a sampling of school districts uh that they offer these plans you see where on the list because we are a current customer we have one more payment uh July of 25 on our 2021 supplemental retirement program um these particular plans really do encourage long-term they call them senior I call them veteran experienced um uh employees staff members typically at the top of the salary schedule and you achieve Savings in these plans by um encouraging the retirement of a highly paid staff member and if that position is backfilled typically you are hiring a a lower paid or somebody on the lower end of the salary schedule so that that Delta many times is the savings you can achieve even though there is a cost created by by implementing these plans as you are paying a benefit to the retiree um the particular process uh again this is not an action item this is an information item only but if the board is interested we can offer a contingent plan offering to eligible employees based on the eligibility criteria we establish and you'll see the process there they submit a letter of resignation and we open up an enrollment period Then the employees have the opportunity enroll and then we close that enrollment period and we get the actual signups and we can do with pars their assistance we do a fiscal analysis and at that point the board has the opportunity to determine whether to move forward with the program or not um we have four units in this District uh certificated non-management classified non-management certificated management and classified management and they're all dealt with separately under this under these programs um if the board cancels the plan the letters of resignation that those staff members turned in as a condition of enrollment are rescinded um they're able to revoke those letters now if they choose to retire anyways well then they retire anyways um I asked pars uh to simulate two plan structures for the staff and Apple Valley Unified scenario one is a 70% of final pay and again that is salary that does not include longevity any extra time it is a basic salary I at 70% which mirrors the offering that we made in 2021 um across all of our employee groups I also asked them to demonstrate or or model a 60% of final pay because since 2021 we've implemented some retiree Health and Welfare benefits which added cost to our our retirees so they did that for me um the employees have several options there's just a list of how the um retirees actually can choose to take the benefits and and they work with pars to determine what might work best with them and of course their financial adviser if they have one um this is a sample benefit illustration this is not based on any specific employee um in any of those groups you'll see certificated non-management certificated management classified non-management classified management and those are the list of payout options the retirees have in these programs this is based on an average retiree in each one of those categories you could see if the particular certificated non-management retiree chooses option 10 they get a 10year monthly guaranteed payout of almost $775 a month the average retiree some will be lower some will be higher um and you can see the amounts for the different units that is at the 70% level this is the same chart at the 60% level so if we go to that same certificated non-management option 10 10year guaranteed pay is 663 a little less because the benefit the annuity that's created through this program is only 60% of their final pay so of course the monthly benefit about100 $110 less again these are the average employees this is not based on any specific employee um pars handles the entire process they mail out customized enrollments they have group orientation meetings um um individual meetings in person uh no more online or I think they still might offer that but the last time we did it everything was online um and they they are they they are available to answer questions from any of the employees um during the enrollment period the eligib eligibility requirements that ran for us this is just a quick thing you can see we cut it off at age 55 10 years of service in Apple Valley Unified um and on the classified non-management require a minimum half FTE so that's a a 4H hour um position and you can see the different assumptions that they use to come up with that data so a little analysis again the total compensation but we have to consider the retirement health care cost the cost of the actual incentive what's our current natural attrition um and of course any savings due to non-replacement to get the net savings so that's kind of what they work so these are projections that pars made using their historical data of participation in similar supplemental early retirement programs at the 70% level you can see the number of eligible employees we have in each category projected retirements with the pars SRP again that is based on their historical data and participation levels um if you recall three years ago in 2021 we had over a hundred employees across the district take it that was at a time where a lot of people wanted to get out of Education unfortunately there was this thing going on that was causing a little disarray in the system so a lot of people took advantage of it um pars told me that was an anomaly for us as well as many other districts that participated this is more in line with their typical participation rates so they're projecting 59 across all of our units would take it at the lower benefit level they're projecting fewer retire fewer retirees would take it just it's not as enticing to some um and again this is based on their data um of uh plans that they've offered uh just for Giggles here's the 121 this is kind of a chart you see we have a 72y old in our certificated non-management group one of them who would be eligible under this plan um and 1455 year olds now typically age 55 in stirs is not a substantial retirement but if they've done planning with the Ser they could still they'd still be eligible so 12 21 in our certificated non-management group and you'll see that's just another scattergram you see that dot all the way up there near 40 that's our most senior in that particular group I I'm not going to point at anybody might look but I won't point but that's kind of the scatter got that anyways um so this is the projected savings now this is some assumptions that pars makes based on uh their average uh assuming 28 retirements at the 70% of final pay if we have to replace all 28 of those individuals that retired they're still projecting a savings in the first year of about $350,000 and of course you get that over several years and and those are projections which they're subject to change and they certainly will not be exactly right because this is kind of based on their projections and their assumptions they make if we only replace half of those 28 retirees you'll see the initial year savings is projected to be upwards of 1.5 million um year-over-year at the 60% final pay you'll see fewer retirements and you might think well it's less of a benefit so shouldn't there be more of a savings unfortunately with fewer retirements projected at that lower benefit level they actually project the savings won't be as much um so you'll their projections are more savings at the higher benefit level certificated management there's a who in nine certificated managers out of our group that would be eligible um you can see this the scattergram there there's the data and there's the scattergram for that particular group um um well this unfortunately has some red they're projecting three retirements out of that group if we have to backfill all three of those positions and maintain then it's really no savings and the the thing that causes that um is a small differential between step five and step one on the management salary schedule um our Auda teaching salary schedule has step one well column one step one all the way to column four step 34 is so a much larger range and differential between the highest paid and the lowest paid on the salary schedule but if we choose not to replace management position positions you see if we replace only one of them um they're projecting a savings in that year just a little under $200,000 and again these are projections which would change 60% final pay for the certificated management really a very minor change still um a cost if we backfill all positions our classified non-management so this is our CA uh bargaining unit approximately uh distributed across age 55 all the way up to 71 one you'll see in this particular chart that top dot up there 44 years of service at about 62 years of age that person started working for us when they were what 18 been working for us for quite a while I don't know who that is right now but I do have a list um but you see on the classified side again if we backfill all positions there is a chance there wouldn't be savings because of the small differential in the salary schedule between step five and step one on the classified salary schedule if we're able to not backfill all those positions you see there is savings if we fill 50% of those projected retirements about a half a million dollars a year um in the first year and again at the 60% very similar results our classified Management Group a smaller group but how we do have however 12 eligible employees in that group um ranging from age 55 all the way up to 67 um one of those 57 58 year olds with 35 years of experience quite a bit there um and you see again with the small Delta between step one and step five you have to not backfield positions to facilitate a sa uh again at the 60% final pay this is a sample timeline that pars put together to consider this they would suggest that the board consider this as an action item at the November 7th meeting if so then pars would mail enrollment packets out to all eligible employees in November we'd open up that enrollment period pars would be able to hold orientations in counseling sessions they suggested we have that period open through winter break and close that enrollment period in January um and then they they have January 16 2025 because that was our current January scheduled board meeting we can adjust that um but what that allows us to do is we close the enrollment period pars does a financial analysis based on the actual enrollment numbers and the actual people that enroll and then we're also able to see that list and determine um backfill no backfill those different types of things in order to make a decision uh if the board does approve of course then all the resignations that were submitted as enroll in the program would become official and irrevocable if the board chooses not to move forward then all those res uh resignations would be revoked and the program does not occur any questions I can answer I'm sorry go ahead else speak well thank you did you say January it would be come to the board in January for action item um either January or February Mr Raley would would would work in the timing um it all depends on when we determine to close that enrollment window and how quickly pars and ourselves can do the financial impact analysis okay than yes how much does this cost us to go ahead and look into um pars does this at no cost to the district um okay the only cost of course are are annuity contributions on behalf of each of our retirees okay if the board chooses to move forward with the program well thank you stay where you are yes ma'am presentation and information prop propos financing for transitional kindergarten buildings projects Here We Go Again Apple Valley Unified um earlier this year the board authorized uh us to pursue borrowing up to $10 million in cop to pay in part for our transitional kindergarten uh construction project so just a reminder a cop is a type of loan taken out through a school district it is not voter approved debt you do have a copy of this presentation um at at your table there um it's not voter approved debt but we do have to seek an opinion from County Office of Ed san berardino county superintendent of schools um typically we carry a cop for 30 years but we're actually going to suggest a 20-year term in this particular cop there's two different offerings um we've historically done the public offering of cops we did one of those in 2020 um this particular cop and talking with our financial adviser um we're going to go the direct purchase route and the direct purchase route means fewer costs so you'll see there's no bond underwriter there's no credit rating there's no in is Insurance fee there's no annual trustee fee we go directly to uh for instance one of the banks we're negotiating with right now is Capital One their public financing team um we go straight to them they loan us the money we make the payments but we lease a School site and this is kind of how it works I apologize all the arrows this is not my graph this is Piper Sandler's graphic um this is where the Apple Valley Unified public facilities Corporation comes into play We lease we've identified sitting bll as an appropriate School site we lease sitting bow to the public facilities Corporation the public facilities Corporation leases it back to us we make the payments we pass through the payments to the investor the investor gives us the money up front um kind of an interesting graphic Debt Service you'll see this uh compares the direct purchase with the public offering Debt Service the direct purchase Debt Service is actually Less in the long term for a $10 million direct lease purchase borrowing we would pay back about $15.2 million um based on when this projection was prepared as a we all know interest rates do fluctuate and interest rates would not be determined until we close the transaction um this is the repayment plan you'll see on here we are planning on using our Redevelopment revenues um that's the blue column are the I don't know is that peach repayment schedule for the 2020 cops that's our existing debt that we issued a few years ago so that's a payment schedule that we are already meeting the gold golden we'll call that orange for Apple Valley sundevils right that particular column is the projected Debt Service on a public offering which you'll see there's still excess RDA Revenue this is the same chart for a direct purchase with the lower Debt Service so this is the chart I'm actually recommending that we take a look at and we have this all the way out you'll see that projected Redevelopment revenues all the way out to 20253 um I'm planning on being retired prior to that because the RDA revenues expire in 5253 they do not continue past that point based on all the existing current RDA law uh those our team Piper Sandler our financial adviser stradling is the uh legal firm that we've used uh san berino county superintendent of schools is on there as a team member because they do have the opportunity to review and write a letter of opinion um to us regarding the debt service so what's next um I I am planning on bringing the documents to the board on December 12th for your consideration and I hope approval uh before that we will submit this information to sanino County superintendent's office so they have the opportunity to comment I am working with our financial adviser and our legal firm to get this rolling um and if you do approve it on the 12th we are hoping to close the transaction actually prior to Christmas and get the funds as our project is currently out to bid with a planned bid opening um probably late later this month we're probably going to have to move it a week or two any questions I do yes um does this presentation go along with item 46 approve the consult agreement with public economics uh public economics Incorporated is a firm that does the RDA analysis for us so yes um they will update their RDA Revenue stream analysis for us as part of the packet of information that is provided to the county superintendent of school's office and we are planning on paying their fee out of the borrowing it's it's part of the 150,000 estimated in fees so it will not have any impact on the general operating fund okay and that would just be for the cop that would be going for the transitional kindergarten yes if we were to yes okay yes thank you okay any other questions thank you no CI do we have any public comments we do not we do not we do not oh board comments Dennis Bender Amanda Buchanan none Gary Ry Rick Ry no Mar none um TR Nelson none wow okay discussion action section session it is recommended that the Board of Trustees discuss and take action on the following items approve the recommendation of the administrative hearing chairperson effective immediately on expulsion case number 1224 2025 I need a motion I move it second any discussion all in favor I I expulsion case stipulated number one 2024 to 2025 I need a motion second any discussion all in favor all I any opposed admission case A1 2024 2025 I need a motion so moved I'll second any discussion all in favor I and all review number 2 2024 2025 I need a motion so I'll second any discussion all in favor I I approve the certificated and classified Personnel actions as listed I need a motion move I'll second any discussion all in favor I I approve the recommendation for requested leaves as noted I need a motion I'll move second any discussion all in favor I I approve the agreement with MGT impact Solutions LLC to provide student enrollment forecasting Services I need a motion I'll move I'll second any discussion all in favor I I approve resolution number 2425 d03 making certain findings related to cqa and authorizing staff to file a notice of exemption for Apple Valley modernization projects at Desert North Elementary School elementary Sandia Academy and yakala Elementary I need a motion so move second any discussion all in favor I approve the proposal from place works to provise cqa consulting services for the Granite Hills High School Athletic Facility project I need a motion second any discussion all in favor I consent agenda I'll move items 1 through 50 somebody has the P could I pull five let me just write down where you move take I I I moved that we approve one through 50 okay and um Amanda I'd like to request that we pull five for discussion okay okay consent items I'll amend the motion to approve one through 50 minus five what item five I need a motion I already okay okay all in favor I okay have five left okay five um there was just a small typo and I apologize I it's a repetition um I think it said from the state in the state from the state back number seven uh [Music] in item number seven if we could just delete one of the repetition I see it yes that's it yes so we'll amend that um and then approve it as is but with one of the repetitions yes delet so number seven says in the actual board policy um board bylaw number seven says a board member's absence from the state from the state for more than 60 days so it will be amended to read a board member's absence from the state for more than 60 days except in the following situations is that correct acceptable okay as amended okay thank you I move that we approve number item number five with the proposed amendment I'll second that all in favor I I okay right future items does any member of the board have any future items they would like to bring forward for next board meeting next board meeting is Thursday November 7 2024 at 5:00 p.m.

educational support service center conference room a there being no further business to come before the Board of Trustees it is recommended that the meeting be adjourned I need a motion all in favor thank you e

a [Music] n e [Music] he [Music] welcome in ladies and gentlemen to another edition of Columbia Eagles football presented by the Columbia quarterback club right here on kchs Alex schlimmer and J Germaine coming to you from East Alton Wood River where the three and2 eagles will be taking on the 1 and four East altonwood River Oilers in another kokia conference matchup Jared been a good week so far this week yeah weather's cooled down a little bit it was a little warmer yesterday and today but uh it's going to be a lot warmer tomorrow at that rib warar I'll tell you that so um but yeah good night for football the rib warar that Jared is talking about if anybody is Bored is located at Aces wild uh right in the middle of town 208 North Main Street it is going to be a rib competition starts at 11:00 a.m.

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uh that's when the Tigers go Tigers play the uh Texas A&M and uh rib war starts at 11:00 after that band starts playing at 1:00 competition is going on up until 4:00 with the awards starting at 5 so if you're bored come on up to Aces Wild for the rib war and uh Jared anything else going on this week from the uh since we last talk against that big freeberg win uh not really I know there's a couple big blue jay games uh Saturday and Sunday so get down there to the blue J games if you uh got any free time but uh not really that I can think of other than that off the top of my head we had our blue jay KN a couple weeks or was that last week that we had blue J KN two weeks ago two weeks ago we had blue jay KN so two weeks ago we had our blue jay night tonight they have their junior Oiler night here in East Alton so Jared Let's uh talk we had our pregame meal this week I believe is sponsored I'm Hudson I'm Mason and thank you to Phoenix House beauty and spa for sponsoring tonight's meal come down and check it out go Eagles thank you to Phoenix House salons and sweets located at 1550 North Main Street it's the old deals property at the far north end of town so uh thank you to them for donating tonight's meal and thank you to Mason and Hudson for getting that done uh something cool that we have the players go out and do every week Jared what was your favorite pregame meal that's a good question right there um I might have to go chicken parm chicken parm yeah who made that uh I can't tell you but I I I don't really know or or the cheesy potatoes done by horn bosel mom those are pretty dang good too A lot of people talked about those we uh had washies tonight I believe is where they picked the food up from so thank you to Phoenix hair sweets and Salon and Washi for getting that done so Jared let's talk a little bit about last week dominant game out of the Eagles and uh dominant shutouts they're always fun especially against freeberg yeah and especially coming in I thought they were going to run the ball a lot more than they did they threw the ball a ton uh about triple than what they did all season so um and I thought we were going to run the ball ton but we ended up throwing the ball a lot with Mason so um and it was a little it was a rainy night but um we came out on top we kind of up front we kind of beat him up front the whole game so that's really what it came down to I think so we talk about we say dominant you look at uh what we have written we have dominant do your job and finish we our last week's words this week dominant did your job and finished what a week we had 152 yards rushing 178 through the air 330 total so we talk a little bit last week or two weeks ago against Roxana we dominated we didn't do our job all the time and we didn't finish so a tale of two different stories in two weeks time great game by the Eagles last week against freeberg yeah and I think coach Herer kind of understood and got the emphasis to all the guys that once you get inside that 20 yard line you need to get points somehow no matter what so um last week we got into the Red Zone and inside the five yard line a couple times and we scored um I think we got stopped one time but um other than that it was overall pretty good for us and now you look at the defensive side of things you dominated what more could you ask for in a great game said the exact same words against roxan last week and you look at the defensive side of things though gave up 36 yards rushing 131 yards passing 167 yards total did everything we wanted them to do on the defensive side of the ball yeah and Cooper white led the way with nine tackles two assists um he's been a guy this year that's not the biggest guy on the defensive side of things but he forces everything back inside does his job um every week so I'm always excited to see Cooper player every Friday and uh somebody else said I I don't want to say that I was harping on a lot but cam janick you know he did a couple weeks that thought he' missed some tackles missed some blocks but cam Janik had himself a heck of a night last week he was in the back field all the time did a great job and had a great game so there's times that I think I harp on cam but cam you uh insed foot and mouth on me there you had yourself a great game uh we always talk about Hudson getting in the back field on punts him and Cooper I don't know who officially got the uh block or the tip but they were back there and that's how the game started on the right foot right away that's kind of what it's been all year on all special teams I mean you look at Keegan Thompson with the PS I don't think he's missed one yet kn on wood um we've blocked I think two or three pun punts all year so um special teams is a big part in any game and I think we've shown up in every game and on the special team side of things so now you go back and you talk a little bit on the uh the game as a whole you look at where you know uh Hudson in the backfield all the time you look at cam in the backfield defensively coup making big open field tackles everything on the defensive side of the ball worked good then you talk a little bit on the offensive side of the ball Logan Hicks somebody Who as a Southmore started as a wide receiver then he was asked become a center then they moved him to a running back and now this year running back wide receiver G he's Aug Gadget guy pretty much you can put him anywhere on the field and he's GNA give his 100% every time and he's getting it done no matter what you're asking him to do some of the catches that he's made this year have been phenomenal changing his body around to make the plays so uh doing a great job there and then let's talk a little bit about Mason the last couple weeks I think he's played pretty good football yeah and I think on the defensive side for Mason uh he's normally plays safety but coach Germaine's kind of scattered around on defense a little bit moving him up to like a linebacker position playing with one high safety a lot of the time um so I've i' like to see that Mason getting in the mix more um he's got a no great nose for the football so it's good to see him getting the back field as well last week we did it short game 10 yard touchdown pass Mason to uh Jace in the first quarter and then we did the long game too 50- yard pass to Logan Hicks like you mentioned in the field goal Keegan Thompson from 23 yards and then to end the game in the fourth quarter Logan Hicks had a 36 yd run so getting it done short game long did everything we needed him to do and the offensive line I thought played pretty well had a couple spots where I think some things kind of fell apart but in totality pretty good game out of them too yeah and it all starts up front like I said earlier but I think the thing with this team that we haven't really had compared to the last two or three teams is we have multiple guys that can make a lot of big plays the last couple years we've had maybe one or two guys um lucky enough to make big plays on our offense sometimes we have five or six guys um that we can get the ball to and they can make uh plays in open field so um I like what I've seen uh so far this year I know I think we have no Hudson Bryant tonight so he's a guy that um played really well all season um but he will be out tonight so but I'm looking somebody else is going to have to step up and that's what next thing up next man up we've always said that with pretty much any team that you talk about you hope that you have that ability so we'll see if the Eagles have that ability tonight as you see the junior cheerleaders the junior orer cheerleaders are making their way across a beautiful field here still a natural surface this might be the only natural surface we play on all year might be still has the uh they painted everything out looks good and I kind of missed when we had the Eagle at Midfield at Columbia and I walked down there in pregame and they're it feels nice too so yeah well it looks good they got Oiler Nation painted across big Oilers logo at Midfield takes up about 20 yards there it looks good so and uh after the monsoon that we had had last week field still in good shape yep Eagles fans are starting to make their way across they had some tailgating going on today so they're making their way to the field now and uh let us know where you're listening from when we come back from a quick commercial break we will talk about the Oilers tonight we'll talk about the conference how things are shaping up and tonight's matchup between the Oilers right here on kchs he [Music] the [Music] welcome back to kchs presented by the Columbia quarterback Club look at the Kia conference the way it sets up coming into this week Bree Central leading the way 5-0 2-0 in the conference Roxana 4-1 2-0 Columbia comes in 3-2 1-1 Salem 1 and4 1- one East Alton 2 and3 0 and2 in conference and then freeberg down there at the bottom of the conference in last place 1 and four 0 and2 and Jared this is kind of where we started and predicted this to be setting up this year yeah we did um and this is a game for the Eagles that I mean usually you think you're going to win but you can't have that mindset whenever you're on the road in a conference game um especially if you were a part of the team that was two years ago that had to come here so um you never know what can happen we lost that game 2213 I believe um Heartbreaker fumbled twice inside the 10 yard line I think so um definitely got a bad taste in our mouth coming back here I'll tell you that you know I understand where you get it cuz your dad we can ask him hey what was the score back in 2003 and he can name the score how do you remember that we fumbled two times in the 10 cuz I just I don't know you just do huh they just stick out you look at our uh schedule this year obviously just a couple more games we're over halfway through the year now so we're here at East Alton week three next week's homecoming vers Salem so that'll be a fun one then we go to Central and hopefully uh that could be a conference Championship game if everything works the right way and then we finish off senior night against Jerseyville let's look at what's going on this week against all of our opponents Moder day travels to Marquette waterl is going to be hosting Jerseyville in an MVC matchup Taylorville goes to or is hosting Effingham then roxan and freeberg I would expect Roxanna to win that game um see what happens though in that game Salem is verse Central I would assume that Central wins that game which sets up a pretty big one next week with Central and Roxanna hopefully Roxanna can pull off an upset and that would take us to uh or no we would want who do we want we would want Central to upset roxan then we got upet Central then we got to upset Central so that could set up for a lot of fun and uh what could be an exciting ending to the season let's talk a little bit here about the matchup that we have tonight with East Al Columbia comes into this game and uh has dominated the series and whenever we come into this one Eagles lead the series 9-2 East Alton 565 students compared to our 618 but nine and2 overall that's a pretty good record and we've three and one I believe in the conference I think so yeah last four years I can't remember they just joined the conference then four years ago so that means and I we used to open up with them in week one back whenever I was in high school I don't know if you played them ever in high school only only yeah so I I I didn't I didn't know that we played them multiple times before um they were added to the conference so you look at Columbia streaks 1 and0 uh on the road we've got a three- game win streak so that's kind of nice look at some notes here from how we takeaways we're still doing pretty good on that we're plus one plus one plus one even plus two so we'll take put us plus five overall in the season one two three four five yeah so plus five on their takeaways time of possession pretty much been 50/50 all year yeah and part of that game was I think it was the Waterloo game whenever they had the ball probably more than half the game so um other than that game I think we've been pretty in control of the line of scrimmage and holding the ball for good amounts of time Wood River comes into this game last week got beat by Breeze Central 48 nothing so uh be interested in to see they come into this game uh we'll just talk about them coming into this season their 92nd season so in their 91 years as a program made the playoffs 10 times coming in at 294 and 500 and 26 ties head coach Gary Heron I'm GNA say butcher names here on kchs most of the time it's his after his nine years this is year 10 for him nine years he's 33 and 49 but he's made the playoffs four times so I think if he's got a team he can get to the playoffs and that was a couple years ago like you were saying when we lost here was a playoff team for him this year East Alton coming in 1 and4 they beat Alton Marquette 24 to7 I believe that was week three two or three I think two or three yeah uh so they came in they got that one win there and after that though you look at their offensive side of the football have a little bit of trouble getting the ball moving yeah I think one game you said this year on the way up they had negative 36 rushing yards they did week one vers Clinton yeah so anytime that's on the stat sheet I mean you know the coaches ain't gonna be happy about that so um but I mean I guess Progressive wise you you want to get better every week so um you never want to go in light especially on a road game like I said earlier um and whenever you can uh go up in the rankings uh in the conference play that's always what you want as both teams are getting ready to take the field you have the junior Oilers coming across the field right now the Eagles are gathering to our left we're 9 minutes minutes and 45 seconds away from game time and as I mentioned the clock I would like to throw out we have a new scoreboard this week so as long as producer Josh oh gosh we're going to throw his name out there now so if anyone complains about the scoreboard tonight and the clock Josh no pressure Bud none whatsoever you're right so let's talk uh let's go back here like you said the negative 36 yards rushing in week one but then after that 156 187 50 and then 146 last week against Bree Central passing the ball don't do it very often um they had let's see where does it talk about it the yards on here oh there you go one yard 87 65 and nine so uh could see the clock moving a whole bunch tonight yeah I would say so too um 850 left here for the game but I think Eagles coming in I mean like I said earlier this is a game that it's almost like a trap game sometimes uh getting later in the season um trying to stay healthy a lot of guys are banged up um so that's one of the main parts coming out of here with a win and then staying healthy tonight's captains are going to be for the Eagles number two Logan Hicks number zero cam janic number 11 Aaron p and number 12 Mason vagley as I look real quick for Wood River number two Travis Skinner he is a senior he's going to be a captain number 44 a senior Jake Drake chaplain Champlain is a captain along with number 58 a senior Aiden Wright and number 77 Junior Malachi Carter are the four captains for Wood River Wood River won the toss deferred to the second half so they will be kicking Columbia will be receiving Wood River is going to come out I'm going to call it a maroon and gold on their jerseys Columbia is coming out all white October breast cancer awareness coming out with the pink everyone's ready for the Oilers and here they come they come out like I said in the maroon looks like they have a black helmet on yeah those are kind of sweet they going to come out a lot better than their Road jerseys we can see the uh what's going on with their numbers so Jared you're seven minutes away I like the smoke effects down here I mean we I like our smoke but they got color to theirs down here yeah we need a little blue and white action ours lights up blue yeah looks good quarterback Club bought those we'll see hopefully next week we can see them in use we uh could have used them last week but with too much rain couldn't use them I've never seen a team walk out like the eagles are walking right now to the sideline yeah don't look too uh pumped over there no not at all and like you said could be a trap game a let down game and it kind of scares you though when they come out looking like that we'll uh we'll see how things go we tried talking to a couple coaches looked like there was a little tension when we were trying to talk to them too so we'll see how things go here six minutes away from kickoff we're going to run to a break real quick and when we come back we'll have the national anthem followed by kickoff right here on kchs [Music] he [Music] n [Music] ch [Music] yeah okay [Music] you there [Music] you [Music] welcome back to kchs as we are now two minutes away from kickoff here in East Alton and we are out here in we're in the elements with them tonight we get to set up alongside the uh Press Box not a very big Press Box unique bleachers though I like all concrete bleachers kind of old school feel I don't think we've ever been this far away from each other you you're okay with that no hey but you know what now at least we have these headsets that we can hear each other back in the day we used to uh have to yell at each other and lean into one another to hear hear one another East Alton band just got done doing their fight song they had their tunnel now pulling apart and getting ready for kickoff Jared your three keys for tonight's game uh I kind of said it earlier but number one being uh like it's Trap game I think you got to come in ready uh only a 40-minute bus ride but um you got to be ready you never know what that other team's going to get you especially in conference play um and Columbia is known to have a kind of a Target on their back so that'd be my number one two is try to get out of here healthy that's probably one of my main ones too um especially late in the season you don't want to have a guy spraying his ankle or something that could keep you out a couple weeks before a playoffs start um and then number three I would say dominate I think this is a game we need to come in here uh clock needs to be running by the fourth quarter um I want to see a kickoff return right here to start the game off get it going in a hurry and like you said this is a game here if you uh if you had rankings and we you mentioned them a little earlier ago or a little minute ago um this is a game that you know you learn a lot on these games you can fine-tune some stuff you're not going to show a bunch but you got to get everything back to where you want to be cuz you know Salem's a game that you never know what's going on not that I want to look ahead but that's a game that can always be close and Breeze Central obviously is another one that can uh always be a big one and I think offense first I think we need to establish something on this first drive um whether whether whether it be the run or pass I just think we need to get guys out in open space and uh see if we can get anything going Oilers will be doing the kicking like we said they deferred to the second half number 88 Gavin a is going to be doing the kick in from the left hash he's going to be kicking from our right to left and whenever we make the reception that's when the time will start Josh all pressure on you tonight Eagles football underway as it is caught at the 32 it's going to be downed by Keegan Thompson and the Eagles offense is going to start coming in the Eagles doing pretty well here moving the football Mason coming in 468 yards passing and we've got three guys in Nelson vagley and Hicks with all over 250 yards on the ground so getting it done both ways this year Eagles are going to come out doubles to the right side under Center is vaguely Jace motion man turn around fake it to him pitch to the left side great block out of the End by cam janic it's going to be a foot race now 40 30 One play for the Eagles Eagles are going to go 607 yards for a touchdown 16 seconds into the game six nton Eagles and that's the play call we've seen all year coach Horner open up with sending Jason mha and he decided to add a little something else to it with Logan little razzled Dazzle 16 seconds in so Cunningham is going to be doing the kicking now feel like I can't get as excited over here I'm going to get looked at different you know and I've often thought that when we sit out in the elements you you try to be a little bit more tame a lot different than in our own little room in Columbia snap Place kick through the uprights good 16 seconds into the game Columbia leads it 7 nothing quick start Alex I was hoping for a a kickoff to be returned but first play 67 yards I'll take it not bad great block there out of Cam janic to the far left and sealed that edge and like you said after that Off to the Races yeah he got to that sideline he was pretty much gone nobody could get a real angle on him see our defense now see if we can come out and get a stop early and try to put some points up early I'm not sure if this is the first time that we've had this but first time that I've seen a female official tonight for the game right in the middle of the field so uh like I said I don't think I've ever seen it at a high school game have you not at Columbia at least I don't think so no officials always hurting to get more and more they're always asking for more to come out dtin Harville coming on late for the Eagles number 20 is our 11th guy Cunningham from the 40 sends it deep it's going to be caught nope it's going to drop at the 22 and it's going to be picked up by number two Travis Skinner I thought it looked like he was coming on a little bit harder and was going to make the catch but all right see what this defense can do this week it's like Hayden hubard going to be this corner on this side with Jace as the corner on the other side like I said earlier no Hudson Bryant tonight who is known to get in that back field three down lineman K's going to come up is he going to put his hand in the grass he is four down lineman for the Eagles everyone uptight for the Oilers they're going to fake the hand off up the middle and they're going to extend give it to the second back who's going to go up maybe a yard second and nine something that we've seen the first couple weeks too with our Corners I know I said it last week uh you can't get bored with the run because you never know little play action pass it right right past you so can't fall asleep if you're in the secondary quarterback is in shotgun he's about two yards deep running back is a pistol back a little bit farther behind him motion man again number two this time they're going to pitch it to him good job sealing the edge for the Eagles in a gang tackle uh led by Keegan Thompson looks like three or four different angles in there Hicks was in there looked like Janik the last line guys to get up bring down third and about five here only uh minute and a half into the game looks like Cam's kind of looking to see where the strong side of the field is before he decides which way he's going to go Eagles are going to have three linemen to this side of the center going to be a roll out to the right side with number seven he's going to throw cross the middle of the field it's going to be caught good for a first down number seven's a junior Isaiah Smith completes it to number eight Tyler Adams good for probably 10 yards first and 10 now for the Oilers and I wonder if having three down linemen on the right side of that Center no one it's going to be a roll out that r that way and they're going to have to block down so you're going to be chasing that quarterback but finds his receiver in the middle of the field pick up first down see if they can put a drive together first and 10 from their own 44 two motion men illegal shift on the offense 5 yard penalty first and 15 we got a pretty good crowd here first and 15 now from the 39 quarterback and shotgun is going to send number eight in motion fake it to him going to boot leg this way throw it into the dirt incomplete second and 15 you look on the other side of the field there Jace kind of got burnt again I didn't think quarterback was going to throw it but number two came all the way across the field was open but like I said I don't know if quarterback can make that throw that's a tough one coming across your body like that yeah especially he was 20 25 yards down field too see what happens on this play Cam's going to come over here MUSC Up's going to switch sides with them four down linemen now we're going to have a looks like a blitz out of the edge on the top side this time handed off going to be a Miss tackle in the back field another arm tackle brought down by Hicks and P but after a gain of seven on the play Third and eight look like case was the first one in the back field like you said almost an arm tackle there ran right past him brings up third down though nine minutes to go in first quarter one of those offenses like you said it'll low you to sleep during the play and before the play doubles to the far left here running back left sniffer back to the right we'll call him a wing back quarterback straight pass he's looking to the left side he's got intended for number four where it falls incomplete number four the junior Woody Peterson incomplete pass one thing I don't like really on that on the on the clap of the hands it looked like number 14 there for the Eagles hubard he just started dropping back right away and it's already a seven yard your deep now you're 14 yards and the gu's running a slant pattern there's a lot of room in between you yeah that if that's a good ball there he's definitely got the first down and he might have extra but yeah Hub was dropping back like you said as the ball is snapped so we'll see fourth down if they want to punt here looks like they're going to keep the offense on the field no trips to the left side running back left quarterback rolling out to the left side Eagles are setting up in a zone that goes incomplete through the hands of the intended receiver who jumped it was going to be intended for number eight Tyler Adams took a hard fall there it's going to be a turnover on Downs Eagles are going to take over at the oiler 47 yd line like Cooper upended in there guy jumped for the ball and C kind of hit him in the legs kind of made him do a flip almost we'll run to a commercial break while they tend to the injured Oiler when we come back we'll have the Eagles [Music] offense of course as we said that we'd go to a break number eight Tyler Adams stood up and come off on his own power so that's good we'll see what the Eagles One play 67 yards to start what do we say had the ball for 16 seconds on their first drive we'll see what happens on this one 824 to go in the first quarter good job Josh went through one possession on each team and we're right on time making them work hard doubles to the left side sniffer back left pistol back behind vagle handed off nothing going loss of one on the play that was a slow developing play and I think if Mason keeps that I don't know there was only one guy to beat out here number six I think who was playing in because there was no receivers but loss of one going to bring the two receivers to The Far Side of the field now motion man Nelson handing it off to him he's going to have to get around one guy he does now he's trying to read blocks gets up maybe about four yards brings up a third and seven third and seven ball at the right hash big fan of Oiler Nation painted there on the field that looks good you using the wide side of the field here you want to go boundary well having Jace over here makes me think he's going to go Motion to the wide side you sneak him out of the backfield though they're going to motion to him it's going to be kept by vagle keeps one man missed stretches for the first down it's going to be short fourth and one I would imagine the Eagles go for it here fourth and one Eagles are going to go for it doubles to the left side sniffer back left four down lineman dead call nothing going coach Warner calls out a new play 20 seconds still on the play clock Bagley takes it fakes the hand off pulls it throws it to Hicks to the outside enough for a first down rolls over the top of number 14 gain of seven first and 10 for the Eagles simple bubble outout on that backside from Hicks there was only one guy over there with the the other receiver going to block the corner no safety in sight so that's pretty pretty simple play call there just get it out to your playmaker and let him get you a first down now we're going quads here haven't seen much of a quads look out of the Eagles this year might see a double pass here by Keegan Thompson M from Mason the Keegan right here see what Jared's going to be right nope just going to be a quick now route good read of the block there good blocking for the Eagles first and 10 gain of 12 into the red zone now for the Eagles 555 and Counting we just had more guys over there again had four compared to their two or three Cooper white comes off Ethan hobill comes on he's taking the spot of Bryant Bryant thank you has that tight end doubles to the left side sniffer left two guys in motion not much feel here uhuh loss of five first and 15 now from the 24 someone's probably going to go in motion here just can't be both of them again same formation Nelson motion man going to be a quarterback keep to the left side gets up to the original line of scrimmage gain of maybe six going to give him 5 Second and 10 have a listener back home he's listening at home making tater salad well there you go thanks Dad for making that Tater solid for rib War at least we have one fan going to be ball on the left hash just flipped the formation now 450 in the first quarter remaining Hicks motion man to the left fake it bootleg to the right right here he's got the corner oh but he's going to go down to janic at the 10 and he's going to get taken down at the five a little Split Second of patience and we got in the end I wanted it good play call there though you've seen couple runs in that formation and Mason just spins out of it has two options to throw it to able to find janic pick up about 15 yards get a first down boy my eyes lit up big there I thought for sure we were going for it looks like we got little eye formation here vaguely under Center takes a snap spins around hands it off to Nelson Gets behind his leads blocks lowers his head and he's going to fall a foot short of the goal line bring up a second goal from the one foot second and goal from the one foot line big number 72 coming on senior Jared Daniels it's a pretty good name great first name a little different spelling yeah it is I saw it earlier handoff up the middle quarterback sneak got it touchdown Eagles Eagles go about 45 yards there in about five minutes to go up 13 to zero came down to that what we have fourth and one yeah through that bubble route Cunningham on for the P Mason loves the hard count on these good snap Place kick two for two for Mr Cunningham takes the score Columbia 14 East Alton Wood River zero 336 remaining here in the first quarter Eagles come into the matchup 3-2 East Dalton comes in 1 and4 Columbia one in one in conference I believe East Alton was 0 and2 it's amazing how quick I can forget all that stuff we just talked about it 20 minutes ago I can't believe we're in week six already it is fast TJ we haven't talked to you tonight we'll let you off mute for a couple seconds thanks for joining us here once again you're quite welcome Alex thanks for having me how's the camera working tonight good no issues uh a little couple blips here and there but I think we have it worked out well we had one listener text in I guess you zoomed in on Jared's forehead a little bit bit well I was trying to show the crowd and and where we're sitting but that five head kind of took up half the screen wow got in the way all right all right back on mute M back on mute all right hey Jared said it Cunningham going to send it deep for the Eagles last week had a Touchback this time he gets a hold of it much better than the last one caught at the eight yd line trying to get to the left side it's number 24 and he's brought down no kept on his feet good play there Coupe got him knocked down but didn't get him tackled Keegan just ran through somebody like absolute ran through him oh is that the guy at the 30 yeah oh with the injury we're going to run to a commercial break as they tend to the injured Oiler and we come back we'll have the Eagles defense on KCs he [Music] welcome back to kchs presented by the Columbia quarterback Club where your Eagles are leading 14 nothing coach Kendall's mom and dad they're listening they listen every week just got a text from them so and ogles be's listening as well bees Mrs Herer and and Nick watching so thanks everybody for watching Eagles defense on the field motion number eight fake it to him going up the middle though with the big guy number 44 might have gained a yard no gain actually second and 10 look like steel checked in for hubard at that other Corner position got musk up Mankey Corbin and janic playing that D line like you said janik's kind of just going to the strong side and looks like M or K's going to the opposite side Oilers are going to flip the formation this time they're going to hand it off to number eight who's going wide but has nowhere to go brought down by number 13 Keegan Thompson loss of six on the play future Mrs schmer listening tonight too a got to give her a shout out how adorable third and 14 now for the Oilers at their own 19 yd line boy Keegan just stepped up real big there on that play and got in the back field quarterback's going to keep it looking to the left side throws it incomplete pass intended for the official on the sideline here through his hands brings up a fourth and 14 Keegan Tim that Blitz up perfectly I thought he was going to take the hand off walked up during that quarterback's Cadence bring the punt team out 158 left here in the first quarter wind kind of going in the face of the punter a little bit can't imagine they'd want to kick it to jce who's standing at the Oilers 49 High snap punter gets it off good punt that's going to land at the 42 and go out of bounds Josh ik you did a great job you started the clock they forgot to start the clock here look at you you got it Jill and Terry the grandparents of Coupe watching the game said the camera work is awesome got my two nieces watching Kobe and kit back home in columia we got everybody Jason Stapleton did an interview with him a couple weeks ago Blue Jay's vice president and the VP of the quarterback Club watching he doesn't miss a game whenever we're on the road that's a good so thanks everybody for letting us know where you're listening from pretty cool doubles are the right side single receiver out left sniffer back left vaguely is in the back field by himself going to be a pass play intended for number 22 Hicks under thrown makes an adjustment makes a catch at the eight yd line what a grab Logan Hicks is that hicks or Nelson is it Nelson I think it was Nelson great catch Jace Nelson look we got no one out here on Keegan right now oh my gosh look at this look at this look at this throw him the ball caught by number two Hicks this time at the 10 gets up field gets into the end zone touchdown Eagles quick picking pitch and catch from the Eagles takes the score 20 to zero all set up though by the big long reception good snap good hold kick is up inside the upright that is is good takes the score Columbia 21 East Alton 0 1 minute 36 seconds to go in the first quarter we're going to run to a commercial break real quick we come back we'll have the Eagles defense right after this [Music] he [Music] welcome back Cunningham taking his steps getting ready to kick off from the 40 seven backwards three to the the left they do it every time just need to go back it's easy another good kick this time it's going to be caught at the 20 trying to get to the outside good job Once Again by The Eagles hegan Thompson there first followed by Cooper W and mus Halton G to take over now from the 30 Corbin's grandparents are listening once again I believe they were Cinna a couple weeks ago sounds right I think that's where they were got Sam Herer listening from Charleston every week 21-0 here in the first quarter Alton East Alton on offense quarterback going to hand it off this time right up the middle nothing going good job there by the Eagles defense getting through the line of scrimmage was number 73 Lincoln Corbin on Q making a tackle and earlier in the season they were kind of CH exchanging in between drives they would go in for one another but now it's nice to have them both on the field at the same time two big boys clogging up the middle gain of three second and seven doubles to the right side running back right wing back number eight to the left quarterback's going to take it hand it off to number two trying to get something going nothing really doing though and there's a slew of eagles making the tackle Coupe was in the back field first but then brought down by I believe it was Keegan and muskot look like it 13 gain of two maybe third and five East Alton can run it to the quarter if they'd like and it's looking like that's what they are going to do pretty good quarter if you're the Eagles it's what you want to do you want to get out to a fast start first play from scrimmage yeah can't get much faster well kickoff maybe you could so after one Eagles lead it 21 nothing we're going to run to a break come back with second quarter right here on kchs after this n [Music] see [Music] welcome back to second quarter coverage it's going to be a fake run to the left side with number seven the quarterback who's going to get to the sticks plus an extra yard first and 10 had everybody flow into the running back on that one quarterback side the pull it first and 10 from their own 42 yard line like you said you hand it off you you fall asleep you get used to watching that ball goes away you got to stay single receivers out wide running back to the left of the quarterback Wing back to their the right they're going to hand it off up the Middle with the running back number two good push out of the offensive line Eagles made contact at the line of scrimmage but with that push they made an extra four yards second and five you got some big boys up up front for East Dalton look like 77 who was one of their captains and then somebody on that left side of the line number 44 is a load too almost like a full back second and six number 44 is going to be a running back now going to be dece backfield tight end right single receivers out wide hand the ball off to number two he's following number 44 gets close to the first down going to be short one yard third and one quivero comes on believe that's Mankey going off third short thirdd short going to watch the football here can't fall asleep if you're one of them linemen up front got Corbin quivero and musop are the front three right now janik's going to be the fourth one on this side so right now he's with the tight end I wonder if that's what he's been following all night doubles to the left quarterback hands it off to number two who runs left has enough first first down and a couple more yards after that gain of nine first and 10 from the Eagles 40 yd line Looks like musk up a little slow to get up but he's able to make it to his feet first and 10 from the 40 defense on their heels a little bit right now see if we can get a big stop on first down so they can get second and third long Keegan showing Blitz out of the top of the formation hand the ball off up the middle cam janick gaining nothing maybe one now good job there cam kind of just untouched there off the side on the edge rusher there great job to get in the back field only a gain of two under 9 minutes now rolling through a little bit east Dalton's putting together a good drive here had it over three minutes now just in this quarter moving the ball right down the field still Deuce backfield single receivers out wide be a tight end as well hand the ball off to number two who's going to the left nothing going good job there by the Eagles flowing weren't fooled by anything no gain third and long look like hobill and Nelson in on that tackle on that side I'll take your word for it and he comes right out of the game looks like musk up checked back in this is what you want as a defense though those third and Longs against teams that don't really throw the ball too much third eight doubles to the right side running back right quarterback's going to look to the right side he's got two Slants throws it to number 17 and it goes off his pads he makes the catch only a gain of about four brings up a fourth and two quarterback takes like a fstep drop back he's throwing it launch that thing 10 yards just to get four yards so fourth down here looks like offense will stay on the field seven getting his play call and in the Huddle see if the Eagles can get a stop fourth and three officially now doubles to the left side running back left sniffer back Wing back number eight to the right play action quarterback's going to roll to the left he's got number six and it goes low is it a completion looks like he did catch it it is first and 10 we a whip route there get himself open on the outside Mason looked like it was just playing manto man got beat on that inside went to the outside quarterback rolled that way able to get it to him pick up a first down and they're taking up half the quarter already single receivers out wide going to be play action quarterback's going to keep it himself o looks like he was wanting to get out of bounds but lowered his shoulder though too took an absolute hit I'm surprised it's not a late hit but I think with him lowering his shoulder and kind of bringing the contact on I think if he runs out of bounds right away the Eagles are giving up 15 extra yards 22 goes on 44 comes off one big boy coming out for another second eight B at the Eagles 27 single receivers out wide running back to the left wing back to the right hand the ball off up the middle gain of about five brings up a third down and we'll call it four still too much I think think if you're coach Germaine over there you want those third and six third and seven anything inside third and five giving them a good chance to pick up five yards and two downs Corbin comes on quivero went off got a little bit more beef now on the inside boy I like that the two tackles we have in the two ends quarterback hands it off number two a little bit of a counter good for about 10 yards he really ran hard left and almost went to a cut back Lane to the right and like you said before the play we had two Edge rushers kind of nobody in the middle of the field only looked like uh maybe Hicks was standing in the middle of the field he the only linebacker one little cut back Lane and he's able to pick up a first down first and 10 now from the Eagles 17 yd line ball on the left hash really keep everything between the tackles they're on the ground hand the ball off up the middle good job there by Logan staying home he's the first one to make contact but not after five yd gain second and five from the 12 they're just keeping it simple running it up the middle wasting a lot of clock right now but getting positive yardage 430 already left in this first half Eagles lead 21 nothing River on a very good drive right now doubles the left side dece backfield quarterback hands it off running to the right missed tackle out of coupe right there this time slung back cam using his weight right there and his strength that's hit the weight room right there yeah that was impressive yeah he thought he had himself a first down in gam said nope I think that's senior versus freshman right there too it 24 I think is a freshman 24 is a freshen Mickey shorter third and one doubles on the left side 15 seconds on the play clock get it off hand it off to number two comes up the middle again going to be good for another first down first and goal for the Oilers great drive here out of East Alton first and goal from the seven and I want to say they got it around the 40 maybe Midfield they've taken almost nine minutes up in the second quarter Eagles have not touched it in the second quarter lot of confusion out of the Oilers now timeout called on the field we're going to run to a break we come back first and goal from the six for the Oilers right after this n [Music] welcome back to kchs first and goal from the seven a very one-sided conversation with Coach dermaine there in that timeout quarterback hands it off to number two gains a about four yards another positive play though 9 minute drive though that's defense is on the field for a long time right now and they do get the ball coming out in the second half so if you can punch one in here make this a pretty good ball game second goal from the four single receivers out wide douche backfield quarterback hands it off to number two right up the middle nothing going though good job there by number 21 for the Eagles getting in the back field not letting go Ethan Hill loss on the play maybe maybe the original one I think loss of one third and goal here I think you put eight nine guys in the Box here and go manto man if they have any receivers on the outside doubles to the left side into the boundary hand the ball off up the middle nothing going once again good job out of the Eagles again number 21 making the play for the Eagles is hobill back to the original line of scrimmage fourth and goal now and he's just squeezing from that backside running straight down the line of scrimmage two times in a row there untouched now as much as they've run up the middle up the middle up the middle don't fall asleep here watch a pulling from the quarterback see what happens they might run this clock down and burn another timeout so we can't even get our hands on it in this second quarter and that's what they do they are going to take a timeout one minute on the clock Eagles lead this one 21 nothing big play here for East Alton to try to uh get some points on the board before halftime I don't think I've seen an 11-minute Drive in my ever to be honest with you that is wild that's impressive to just I think it's only been 50 60 yard Drive yeah because it feels like every time they're getting the fourth down and they're running that play clock down but like I said you score here in the game still Ben don't break mentality is what you're hoping Coach G has here 11 minutes man that last time out I kind of watched them at the end of it nobody else seemed like they were talking he got a point across so you're saying you're going to you're going to pinch in Hill's done great the last two plays see if he can do it for a third I think if you're Wood River I think you just keep running the ball but maybe to the outside a little bit they've ran it up the middle almost every play on this drive see if they can get to the outside with one of their athletes this time they're only going to have a single running back quarterback is going to hand it off to him number two behind his blocks into the end zone untouched great job out of East Alton there on that entire Drive gets on the scoreboard 21-6 Thompson has to come out look like they might set up to go for two they're in a huddle they are definitely going for two here doubles to the left side Wing back right running back right quarterback sends a motion man number six they're going to give it to him to the right side good block out of the edge going to get to the pylon no out of bounds stopped what a play there out of the Eagles to keep them out of the end zone flag on the play I'm going to assume looked like as a hold yep was in the back field and it is a hold holding offense penalty's declined two-point conversion no good keeps the score Columbia 21 East Alton six 58 seconds to go in the first half like Jared said e East Alton will get the ball coming out of half have you ever seen an 11-minute Drive no that was probably 11 plus cuz didn't they have it at the start of the I think so quarter one or two plays that was an impressive Drive I never seen it I don't think I have either took up the whole second quarter and then we could just go down and score in one play yeah sports are goofy like that not saying we have something going on on this play but uh I just heard coach Kendall yelling check check so see what happens if they decide to kick it that deep on that first one it only got to around the 25 30 yard line where Keegan jumped on top of it so and they elected to go for two so you don't know if they have a true kicker that could send it deep I don't know what the officials are all talking to each other about eagles return men is Nelson and Hicks standing at the 15 creeping up now to the 20 number 88 is going to do the kick in he sends it deep it's going to be caught by Hicks going to run to the right side trying to get behind his wall of blockers great return out of hicks he's on the oiler side of the field and he gets knocked out of bounds after a fantastic return of about 40 yards he might get faster and faster every game I watched this year using that wide side of the field trying to get your wall built on that side able to get across Midfield with 48 seconds see if you can sneak out of touchdown here or get in field goal range I don't know if you want to kick right now wind wind is little bit of right to left doubles to the left side running back to the right Nelson motion man fake it vagle pulls it up the middle gets spun around to the right side going to get tackled at the 35 timeout [Music] Eagles 37 seconds to go in the first half like Mason was trying to get out of bounds there just got tackled right before he could clock ran about three maybe 4 seconds longer than what it should of that's making up for not running it earlier in the first quarter kind of watch it a couple times it's been on when it shouldn't be off when it should be so it's going to be a gain of seven ball at the oiler 35 second and three 37 seconds beautiful night for football nice breeze coming in cooled down a little bit see what we got going on here looks like we're in quads once again and this is the play I was talking about earlier I think Yep they're going to have Jace In The End Zone here in about 15 seconds throws it to Keegan to the left side Gets behind a blocker he gets up gets knocked are they going to call it inbounds or going to call him out of bounds big gain for the Eagles first and 10 from the 22 I'm waiting for him to catch that and Jace just crossed the field Let It Go wonder what his uh max distance is trips to the right side cam out to the right roll out right looking to the middle of the field we got Jace and it's intercepted at the five I do not like that play I don't like that either throwing across the body across the field just take the easy one on the sideline hitch or your corner route good play not falling asleep for East Alton but huh so first and 10 for the Oilers now at their own 16 19 seconds to go in the first half penalty on the field Too Many Men clock just ran about nine seconds so there was 18 seconds they ran it to nine then they put 228 back on now they got it to 18 so first and 10 from the 11 now and the ball off up the middle nothing going met right away I believe that was Mankey and I'm assuming that's going to be the end of the first half and it looks like it is so Columbia does what they want to do on offense getting 21 points up in a hurry East Alton dominates the second quarter having an 11-minute drive before the pick by vagle at the five and that's how you saw up the first half 21 for the Eagles six for the Oilers we're going to run to halftime going to be an extended halftime here we come back we'll talk a little bit about first half and everything else going on in Columbia Athletics right after this on kchs hey Matt congrats on 25 years on the sidelines man appreciate everything you do for Columbia football always good to talk to you when I was there wish you the best Matt thank you for being part of the Columbia Eagles football program for now 25 years 25 years you've been helping the staff um get ready for Friday nights helping the team um being the best in the business as far as ball guys go um so we appreciate everything that you do for us as a staff as a program and even for me back whenever I was a player a lot of people don't know Matt he's a Olympic medalist and he's as selfless as it gets so again Matt thank you for everything that you do for our football program and thank you for providing me with a Diet Coke every halftime thanks again Matt congratulations you are listening to Columbia Eagle football live right here on kchs this broadcast is proudly brought to you by the Columbia quarterback club for 14 years the Columbia QB Club has donated over $100,000 to CHS and other youth Leagues with one event in the summer and one in the winter there are plenty of ways to donate to the club check out their Facebook page or visit their website at www.c colq club.com to find out more information on how to get involved donate or make a request that's Columbia QB club.com to find out how you can get involved with a Columbia quarterback Club you're watching blue Pride football on kchs thanks for the Columbia quarterback Club [Music] nah [Music] he [Music] you w [Music] w [Music] you [Music] a [Music] there [Music] w [Music] oh [Music] he [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] w oh [Music] I'm I'm Mar P Mason vagley once again we' like to thank L Brothers on behalf of the com football program on providing us with our pregame meal to help us play our best go Eagles thanks to the Sons and Daughters of the American Legion for the awesome barbecue tonight Hur I'm looking H I'm Aaron p and we' like to give a quick shout out to Alicia be and Edward Jones for providing us the team meal allowing us to play our best stomach full too no Eagles my name is Cameron I'm Logan and we'd like to take a second to say thank you to electrod door and Matt Brooker for providing a team meal before the game and for sponsoring the colia football team go eag go eag Eagle welcome back to kchs where the Eagles are leading the Oilers 21 nothing nine minutes to go here at halftime wanted to give a shout out to the Columbia quarterback Club has a new raffle going on uh tickets are on sale now there's going to be 300 total tickets is the maximum amount of tickets sold $10 a piece and it is the I believe it's the first ticket winner gets $50 the 150th ticket pull gets $150 and the final ticket hopefully that's ticket number 300 will be I think that's for $300 off the top of my head look on the Columbia quarterback Club Facebook page to find out more information Jared we're here now 8:30 to go in halftime Eagles lead at 216 big band out here with the uh high school kids and the middle school kids both playing some uh some good hits yeah all that first half uh I mean first quarter looked good and then you go to that second quarter and we just our defense couldn't get off the field had a 11-minute drive they took over around the 40 yd line so it's probably close to 12 minutes when they got the ball in the first quarter um but took up pretty much the whole second quarter went down and scored decided to go for two didn't get it that's why they only got six but um and then on the other side of things we got the ball back with what 40 seconds left get inside the 20 um and then just a bad not a bad play call but I think just a bad decision by vaguely throwing it across his body throwing it across the field um but overall I mean you always want to be winning at the end of the day so as long as you score more points than the other team so TJ we got you off mute right now you got excited I told you to put the headset on I was going to unmute you and thankfully I didn't unmute him cuz he dropped this the headset everywhere would have made a huge Ruckus but TJ welcome to kchs halftime show hey thanks for having me so you've been the uh filmer I guess now for how many years um with the team and all that uh five guess five years so you started when Brennan was a freshman JV yep nice so do you enjoy it what is what is your your what do you like most about the filming uh the fact that nobody else wanted to do it to be honest with you made you feel important huh yeah no I enjoy it keeps me busy I I pace and get nervous during games and this kind of keeps my mind out of it so you don't get nervous now as nervous no I more worried about screwing up the camera than I am about my kids well that's good well luckily knock on wood there's none up here everything's concrete but he hasn't screwed up yet tonight so let's hope that that's kind of want to show everybody the conditions that we're dealing with yeah we're sitting out here in the elements producer Josh out here and then Jared's oh good he's got he's got the Hat on so he can't see the forehead anymore but uh sitting out here in the crowd very good crowd here at ealon there tonight for for the home team and you got to show them our tabletop here too we got yeah are fine uh yeah our fine uh Furniture we're doing good you know yeah this is what makes it fun though I mean we could can always be in an indoor Press Box but how boring would that be just sitting in the air conditioner heater you know well this gentleman right here uh turned to Josh earlier and said he's sitting next to us so he can actually hear you call the game so he knows what's going on nice CU his wife's nagging at him the whole time he said well good deal all right 5:30 here what do you think's going on over in the uh Columbia side of halftime over there they did not run back to the locker room they just stayed here and hether talk here on the field who me yeah you're not muted no more remember um I don't know hopefully uh coach is telling him to to not relax just because they were expected to win this game that uh it's not a given Jared what's your thoughts here uh I know coach Germaine ain't happy I'll tell you that anytime there's an 11 minute drive in any level of football I mean that just that's not pretty right there so definitely going to have to make some adjustments whatever adjustments um they are um I think number two had about 14 carries on that drive alone so um they were getting the fourth and one third and one every every time they'd get a first down and then they pick up another one so I mean overall you got to give them their flowers uh for making this a good ball game Eagles here getting ready like I said we still got that three minute buffer that they have to put on so we really have seven minutes to go Columbia traveled pretty well here tonight over on the sideline it's uh a luxury that you know you kind of forget about whenever you're making these road trips now just to see how many people actually still come to the game I mean it's great that we have this going on for the broadcast that for the people that can't make the trip but it's cool though that still have some people that come down and make it so uh TJ let's talk you've done this for five years now you started though with the team and you were the filmer on the endzone camera so tell me a little bit about that so everyone always sees what goes on from the side Eagles have another view that they get to see from the endzone as a team as well yes uh there is a gentleman sitting down there that uh films from The End Zone and uh it's not the best view in the world you just kind of uh bring your lawn chair though follow the play yeah you get a lawn chair nobody's bugging you but uh and you have to film a little differently instead of film filming as a fan you have to film as a coach and that took me a little while and a couple of uh discussions from coach her to film correctly because you just uh you want to follow the kids's run and watch a kid make a good play but the coach wants you to zoom out a little more and kind of see what the the guys that aren't involved in the play are doing and and if they're uh following with their blocks and all that kind of stuff so it takes a little bit to get used to so now do you have all that stuff set up when you get here or is that something that you have to set up as well uh when coach Kendall remembers the uh the equipment it's all set up and ready to go he sets sometimes he's had a what was it modern day this year w we forgot a camera just giving him hard time and I think they said they forgot a record tonight too so oh really and you know what we can we can joke because we didn't bring one thing in week one didn't have one thing in week two wire break screwed up in week zero like you know what happens Tech and even though it yes and they have very good technology and very good equipment it's still if the Wi-Fi isn't great it doesn't work and and that what those cameras do is they uh the coaches that have the iPads on the sideline they get to rewind every play and tell who which kid they need to chew their ear ends because they didn't make the block and stuff like that so it's very help helpful to the coaches and so you're a very important man no no oh well I thought you were I was trying to give you a little credit there I appreciate it but no not at all it's funny that you mentioned you know they get the iPads and all that watched a guy on Tik Tock big Tik Tock fan here and uh they have there's a team in Te TI Tik tocker yeah no I don't make the videos I just watch them um but there is a team down in Texas the coach talks they have 12 iPads on the sideline it's a high school football team I think we have two well who did we lose to in the playoffs two years ago Sacred Heart yep uh that was three years ago two years ago uh yes Murphy at Murphy they had an entire entertainment center set up I'm not kidding you set up on the sideline and after the play the kids would run over and they would all like sit on a couch in front of a TV and watch the play it was unbelievable they could wheel it around and yeah it was pretty neat I didn't even pay attention to that I don't remember that happening that that would be awesome and we you know but that's a program that doesn't have a ton of guys going both ways you know it would be cool if we had it but yeah um nine or 10 of the guys play on both sides of the football right yeah it was a luxury to have the defense sitting there watching several plays while the other group was out on the field all right we're going to run into a commercial break real quick final four minutes here when we come back we will have the Eagles defense will be on the field first as they will be kicking off on CS [Music] n [Music] a [Music] I [Music] you [Music] you [Music] n [Music] welcome back to kchs we the Eagles are getting ready to kick off Cunningham going to be doing the kick in once again Eagles lead this one 216 to start the third quarter Jared give me one key now of the three I'm going to say defense get off the field can I can I use the same one cuz that was the main thing I guess so first half shock kicking it right to left this time good kick going to be caught about the 16 F still kicked around still bouncing around Eagles are motioning that they have it white hat says we do let's go looked like the guy catching it went right through his arms then he kicked it right to us about 10 yards in front of him did we see who recovered the I did not TJ had a listener say you have one job make sure the correct quarter is up on the board couldn't even do that a couple weeks ago all right Eagles offense going to start now doubles to the right side ball in the middle of the field starting at the 22 yd line empty backfield motion fake it coming around Hicks to the left side gets through two tackles he's got out number he gets to the pylon he gets to the end zone touchdown Eagles One play 13 seconds 22 yards six points he just outran about three kids on that sideline too had like you said he just gets faster I know that's what I'm saying he had the corner linebacker and safety that had good angles on him he just was a lot faster one for the pat snap Place kick oh off the upright dink might be our first dink of the Year good it is and that takes the score Columbia 27 East Alton six 12 seconds in to the second half looked like they could have had Hicks in the back field looked like there was a guy close back there but he's able to get underneath like you said outrun a couple guys and get to the promis land that was the first play we opened up with in the first half get the ball back there after the fumble and run it again two for two on the night is it just me or these uprights extremely long yeah I could agree I wonder if there is a stock height that they need to be there's look it's like skinnier than ours do Cunningham sending it deep right to left from the 40 let's do it again and they got a new paint job this this past summer goes through the arms it's a fumble again bouncing around I think the Eagles are going to recover it again this looks like my Madden team this time it's recovered by the Eagles at the 20 yd line wow two kickoffs two fumbles two fumble recoveries run the same play again here Alex the opposite way oh look at you have we run it I don't know have we run it the opposite I don't know our guys probably don't know how to be honest yeah no I'm just joking oh we got the same look how close janx now behind the guard yep pistol back Nelson takes a hand off tries to go to the outside bounces back in good footwork good gain nine maybe 10 Shifty footwork bouncing back and forth going to be a second and inches it's crazy how identical those two kickoffs were man yeah doubles to the right side hand the ball off to Nelson to the right nothing really going back to the line of scrimmage third and short now third and one from the 21 clock keeps ticking see if coach Horner wants to go into the boundary again like he's known to do a lot this time going to hand the ball off to Nelson shifts up the middle good for a first down I wonder if that adjustment I don't think we've ever seen janic that close into the tackle guard a more so the guard yeah I don't know if we've ever seen him that close I wonder if that's a halftime adjustment must be what they're seeing they must have somebody either getting beat on the uh front line or there's just not enough guys to block could be using him as a wheel kind of guy get him out of there kind of like a kick out guy I kind of like it though if you do want to have a pass play in the future you got a guy there he's going to get lost this time he's going to be out wide like he normally is doubles to the right side fake it bootleg bagley's going to keep it he's going to have to outrun some guys puts his foot in the ground gets thrown down at the seven oh almost caught it ref gain of nothing second down and goal they're going to give him a yard p goes off believe that was Hill is coming on second eight now doubles to the right side empty backfield Nelson up front motion man though is Hicks it's going to be another bootle over there he's got two guys open he's going to throw it to the No Man's Land he had the he had two guys wide open a third guy was wide open in the back and he threw it in between all of them like Jace ran the drag route and was the later guy to be open in the middle of the field had janic right out of the back field I don't know who picked up the Blitzer off the edge he almost got sacked right away though it's now your third and goal from say the eight and a half yard line probably two downs to score here doubles the right side motion man Nelson handed to him to the outside he's going to try to jump over man gets maybe four brings up a fourth down now from the five and I like that play call getting the ball your one of your best athletes hands just giving open space wide side of the field fourth down though 840 remaining looks like we might bring the kicking team on try to make this a 30 to six ball game and like we've said Alex once you get inside that 20 yard line you want to get points I know six is better than three but as long as you get something on the board out of anytime you're in the Red Zone from the right hash up line drive good through the uprights for about a 22 yd kick roughly so that takes a score Columbia 30 East Alton six8 minutes to go only four four minutes taking off the clock do we think we have a third fumble man I think they're putting somebody else back there yeah that's one of those like in baseball it happens when you make one err the next Ball's hit to you you make a second air the next one's hit to you it's one of those that when you don't want it it's going to find you we call those ugly finders sometimes guy who's playing ugly is going to get it Cunningham's going to send it deep again I almost like a little pooch kick over here to like the 30 yard line have one of your fastest guys just go and get it bounce around yeah they're 20 yards separating from each other going to be a high kick oh my gosh he's going to fall at about the 17 number six is going to get up the middle and he's going to get slung down at the 27 brought down that time by number 72 I believe that is Dylan Robinson on the tackle so East Alton's offense is going to take over first and 10 from the 28 yd line 755 we'll see right here if the defense figured it out we'll be able to tell on these first two or three plays Alton ended the first half with a fantastic drive and the ball off up the middle nothing going Mankey and janic in the back field cleaned up by Hicks and musk up maybe a gain of one looks like almost like our outside linebackers are playing more to the middle since they've running the ball up the middle a little bit more cuz normally they're playing that outside edge forcing everything back in like if you look at Cooper right now and Logan on this side they're playing like inside linebackers almost looks like it's going to be manto man with your defensive backs trying to spread them out a little bit wider going to be a pass pitches great ball out of the quarterback caught by number six goes backwards [Music] though gonna be a third and four now quarterback has a very strong arm it looks like our guys are still dropping back as the ball snapped and they're just running simple hitch and slant routes all night it's hard to do that when you start eight yards deep and then to just drop right away now you're 11 yards deep before you even think about it anything head coach taking his time getting the play call in still three possession game third down here I don't know if this is four down territory for them or not looks like they're going to have to burn a Timeout on third down so you hear the back judge right now he's telling East Alton's coaches there's been some issues with the clock all night tonight sounds like the official was saying no play clock anymore yep so no play play clock officials will do that whenever they're having too many issues they'll keep it themselves and that's what happened on that play there was about 18 seconds still on the play clock whenever it actually was uh out of time so now's a quarterback you got to know you got to switch your eyes instead of watching the play clock you got to watch that back judge and he'll give you a five second five yeah so it's going to be a third and four maybe five we'll call it third and third and four and a half four and a half short five long four empty backfield doubles the left side motion man number six they're going to fake it to him quarterback's going to keep it slant across the middle Falls incomplete intended for number 17 defended though by number 18 for the Eagles I believe that steel was right there to make a play six minutes left up 24 looks like they're going to punt it let's go get a block I want to have Hudson out there to make a block Coupe got back there though last week I think he was credited with the tip last week high snap brings it down good punt caught at the 38 yd line with a fair catch that was a weird fair catch signal it was almost like a get away from it but Eagles offense comes back out Eagles take over at their own 38 554 remaining in the third quarter leading this one 30-6 single receivers out wide Hicks motion man fake it to him up the middle this time though gain of about five second and 10 you think the defense made an adjustment at half after that last drive there think they made a pretty good one he has done a very good job defensively tonight yeah they gave up the two big plays three big plays but really nothing nothing going on the ground really sides of the big plays got him Nelson was a motion man hard count five yard penalty for being off sides result of the penalty first and 10 got about three guys at jump on that one too on the hard count so first down empty backfield doubles to the right side motion man Nelson up the middle fake it to him it's going to be vaguely to the right side now he's got enough for a good 10 yards and a first down for the Eagles Logan Hicks great job there being basically a lead blocker opening up some room for vagley five minutes left now in this third quarter Eagles up 30 to six as they are also driving same formation ball on the right hash vaguely going to be a pass play to the left side he's got Nelson on The Middle the field he's got Nelson at the 20 he gets down to the8 yd line great pitch and catch and a great play to get the Eagles down to a first and goal from the eight yd line that's just a play call there where jaay probably goes up to Mason and sees something down the middle of the field on the snap of the ball Jace took off and Mason caught it easy pitch and catch like you said down the middle of the field and we're going a little bit of tempo here on the football already looks like Jace right up the middle only about to gain maybe one yard bring up second down from we'll say the [Music] seven under 430 now Eagles trying to punch another one in here Jace Nelson oh it's going to be a fake to Jace Mason's going to scramble out of the pocket he's going to have somebody in the end zone it looks like Hicks catches it in the end zone for an Eagles touchdown great job on the Scramble Play there we talked about it earlier this year when the quarterback scrambles nobody really did anything different they just kept running deep that time Hicks found an open spot he's got himself six points that might be my eighth play bypl ever and we probably scored seven touchdowns off of it ever Mason on for the pat that one right down the middle and it's good that takes the Columbia Eagles 37 East Alton 6 403 remaining in the third quarter we're going to run to a break real quick let you see sponsors and when we come back we'll have the Eagles defense right here on kchs [Music] yeah Cunningham to send it deep high kick this time falls at about the 24 picked up by number two good reaction there he takes it to the 30 that ball checked up and it's was a good thing number two was standing there to make the play kind of surpris number two's not back there returning them Matt out there doing a great job as always doesn't have to worry about anything getting wet this would have been a perfect field for him with a wet Knight whipping that Toler around did you see Carl's field last week with that monso uh yeah that thing was trashed Sidelines were they were underwater yeah don't run Jacksonville that way get tackled over there trips to the right side running back right they're going to run it to the left nothing going good job there by the Eagles having three or four guys you could hear coach Germaine yelling Sally we won't go over what the play is but that's been a play call I think for 15 years I bet 15 at least minimum yeah he was talking he got back into the he can still do verbal play calls but now he's got the signals yeah we talked about that last week and talked to him this week he enjoyed it having his voice again doubles to the right side like tight in right wing back left looking to the right quarterback throws it number six caught great job making a tackle there P nothing wrong with that play kept him in front made the tackle good play good play out of the offense good play of the defense still seems like a lot of Separation though between the secondary guy and these receivers which I know we've been getting beat I'm not calling Jace out but first couple weeks he was letting guys get past him and so maybe that's part of why we're playing about six seven yards off the ball so big third down here third and five fake it quarterback's going to roll musk up on Pursuit forces the throw to be quicker than wanted to be and it falls incomplete intended for number 17 musc's got a lot of speed when he's coming off the edge like that and he's got a lot of speed whenever his hands in the grass too got to be careful sometimes when that quarterback's getting ready to throw the ball though when you're coming that quick you don't want to get a roughing the passer only a sophomore so it'll be fun to watch him hopefully get faster and faster Jace standing at about the 37 Eagles get a bunch of guys on the back field nothing can go bounces at the 47 and goes out of bounds all the way down at the 30 221 remaining here in the third quarter first and 10 for the Eagles from their own 30 ydd line leading this one 376 and there six came from an 11-minute Drive I am still man that's still crazy to me looks like the eagles are going to go under center it's going to be Cooper as your sniffer cam as your fullback Jace running back up the middle had a good wall of blockers but I don't know two guys got through and are going to be the ones that made the tackle still a good gain now if you're coach owner and if you're Mason vley in the offense try to milk as much clock or if you want to make that clock go a little quicker you score a little quicker so it's running clock but I would take that play clock down to as low as it can get doubles left side single receiver out to the right empty backfield motion man Hicks hand the ball off to the right side he's got a full head of steam he's got 10 yards and another Columbia Eagles first down look all the way down at the goal line to our right across the field Miss G is hanging out down there by herself loner yeah she pacing back and forth getting a little TV time tonight though her phone will be blowing up now now she's probably watching it over there pistol back this time believe that's Hicks he's going to keep it himself put a foot in the ground good run gain of about eight second and two from the 49 yard line under a minute now in the third quarter Eagles taking their time getting up to the line of scrimmage we're going to have to one run one play doubles to the right side sniffer right and Janik motion man Nelson hand the ball off nope kept by vagle good read and a good run very good run there's a flag down around Midfield from this Referee on this side Chain Gang had already moved is that a hole P their hands to the face I couldn't tell look like it must be a hold 10 yard bring it back second and 10 Eagles going to try to run one more play based on how they're moving real quick trips to the left side empty Back Field Begley takes it rolls throws it real quick to Thompson who's going to make the catch he's got good he's got some speed 40 30 he's got to make number 24 Miss and he's going to get taken down from the back about a 40 yard gain needed to run away from one guy wasn't able to do it and that's going to take us to the end of the third quarter any second now the official already wanted the clock going Keegan getting in involved in the offense tonight a little bit which I love to see and it's just been on now routes uhuh let bubbles yeah just let him go which that's all it's all it takes getting your guys in open space and letting them do their work so the Eagles will have first and 10 from the 15 when the fourth quarter starts when we come back he [Music] welcome back to kchs Eagles offense big play by Keegan Thompson takes it down to about the 15 yd line Brennan White a recent graduate of Columbia High School now joins us Brenan thanks for joining us here on kch course Alex thanks for having me right here first and 10 what are you going to go with here you think we're going to keep it on the ground what do you got uh up by 31 I mean we're within the 10 15 yards here I mean you got to keep it keep it on the ground just run out that clock eventually knock it in for an extra six I'm going to say we're going to have Thompson in motion here he comes right at us they're going to go to the outside Cuts back in he's got good blocking got himself a touchdown Eagles I didn't know Keegan could move like that look at this only burned four seconds but they can get six more points burn four seconds and four players on the way to the end zone gets to go take a breather he doesn't have to do Pats no more good run good play call good block in all around welcome to the broadcast Brennan One play one touchdown yeah snap Place hold kick oh good come on Matt got to catch that one kp's a little late getting over there play out for that one on the track he caught one last week he caught one earlier tonight too I saw I didn't even seeing him do that I got to remember to look for him he's got to try to catch it in his little pouch at one time we just need him to catch it we don't need the pouch so Brandon get to come back you graduated two years ago now or is it three uh yes 2023 yeah so two years ago could have just answered and said yeah two years ago yeah 2023 making me do the math so two years ago get to come back and now you get to watch Coupe what's one thing that you miss about Friday nights and being on the field oh everything team meal walking out of the tunnel I mean it all felt it all felt so good it's it's terrible to watch him not live up to the name like he should but shot no he's kicking butt out there I mean it's great to see him it's it's great to see all his friends growing up I mean seeing all of them when they're young and I I love watching it I think I get more stressed now than I did playing out there but it's fun Cunningham's going to send it left to right great kick this time going to be caught at about the eight yd line trying to get to the outside it's going to be Keegan though he ain't going to run past him brought down at the 20 yd line 12 yd return Keegan's one of the guys that uh Coupe runs around with a l correct yes he does and that is the goofiest thing because Keegan is one of the most softspoken quiet guys and then there's CP yeah I you need to hang out with Keegan more I think he's not at soft spoking man at baseball he is and you see him at football he's pretty quiet oh yeah yeah he's he's quiet around uh Elders not to say that you're an elder but you're you're of age I'm 30 I'm 30 oh my I'm a man I'm 40 oh 40 oh 10 years you can say it in 10 years yeah quarterback takes the snap hands the ball off good job there making a play in the back field believe that's Keegan loss on the the play like quo is in there too muscot Hill loss of two on the play so Brennan when we come back home next week for homecoming against Salem you're a official replay review official sounds like we're going to have a screen upstairs for us now so we can review it right away I think that's a great idea and you came up with it all on your own too uh that's all I've come up with so far but I mean I plan to hopefully help out a little bit more but good job there a now route nothing going though on the defense for the Eagles number three The Freshman Xavier vagley so yeah next week I think it'll be cool you having the review up there we've had you a couple times you've had it on your phone and just get a heads up on what you thought so be cool and we get to uh do it again next year cuz coupe's only a junior this year so he'll come back for senior year and you're going to keep coming back and uh being all right absolutely taking sure TJ same thing all right look at that we might have a a full staff here before too long trips to the left side running back left three down linemen quarterbacks rolling left he's going to look for the wheel route out of the back field and it goes incomplete this quarterback has a very strong arm I've said that all night and right there I think he just kind of floated it and it just kept going yeah didn't give his receiver a chance either gave the water boy a chance clock stops at 10:06 looks like they're going to punt Jas Nelson standing at about the [Music] 45 oh it's over his head going to go out of the back of the end zone for a safety takes the score to 46-6 the 40 points now makes it a running running clock talk about getting your 40 and you get it right on the dot so with it being 40 points now when the clock starts the next time it will continue to run unless there is a timeout or an injured player great job by Columbia defense in this second half I will say in that second quarter I was not worried but just a little upset 11 minute drive is can't have that especially in these next couple weeks when games are only going to get tougher try to do the math on the push-ups tonight been a lot of them Al so they got to kick it from the 20 after a safety huh did not know that going to be caught at the 44 Nelson's getting to the left side a wall of blockers he's going to have to make one man missing he does to the 10 to the five to the end zone touchdown Eagles good wall the blockers there out of the Columbia kick return good running good Vision another touchdown for the Eagles wow vernam were you that fast uh have you seen Cooper absolutely not shouldn't the clock still be running right now I don't know up and good so with that this is a this is a rough stat to have to read for those cheerleaders they just got done doing 46 push-ups then you get to uh oh look at them over there they're doing sit-ups now had they done more p push-ups would have been 279 push-ups on the night well that ain't too bad that's terrible it's not that bad yes it is I would go I don't even know if I could do 53 situps right now I mean honestly Jared could you do 53 situps right now right now rep them out after you just got done doing 46 push-ups uh yeah oh yeah it's not that bad I don't know I just just had half a box of popcorn so that might not help Brenan you repping them out oh not a chance maybe if someone's holding my feet like like you did in gym class but so you're going to sit on your hands too yeah that extra leverage so now 950 in the game Eagles lead this one 53 to6 [Music] Cunningham to send it deep good kick once again going to bounce at the 15 picked up trying to get to the left side and he does gets to the 20 trying to reverse field now and he's knocked down at the 27 officials stop the clock at I think it should keep going though I thought too maybe on this one it'll keep going oh there it goes now they got it running so first and 10 from their own 27 yd line some new faces on that defensive line now and in the secondary it's like V Mason vagle is the only starter left in the game right now it's a bold strategy picked up by number 55 for the Eagles he gets into the end zone Falls right into his lap Carson Campbell in for the touchdown the sideline going nuts I mean anytime you get a big man touchdown you got to go a little bit crazy let's go that's awesome fumbled handoff goes up in the air Campbell's right there to make it a scoop and score for a big man touchdown come on let's get put 60 on the board coming on late is Hicks and that puts it to 60 Columbia 60 East Alton six now we're doing jumping jacks over there I think I think they did do all 53 situps now that I can get behind I can do 60 jumping jacks I think you sure I think I can the new guy on the broadcast and he's already talking smack no that was me oh that was you I thought that was Brennan all right my apologies Brennen I'll start saying something no know your place there buddy see you cramping on the sideline with those jumping jacks Eagles next week will be back home for homecoming against Salem we'll go live again at 6:30 we're going to try to do some interviews this week with the other fall Sports coaches and uh get them a little time here on kchs talk about their Seasons volleyball is uh I think 18-4 19 and4 something like that golf is getting into regionals in sectional play got a couple golfers that are qualifying individually and as a team Eagle send it deep caught at the 21 got the left side to the 50 another quick move going to be brought down at the Eagles 41 I believe that was the Freshman that Jared was talking about earlier good return I think he was the one that fumbled the two also that put us in scoring range but good little run there thanks once again to all of our sponsors for making this happen thanks for the Columbia quarterback club for making the main broadcast happen again they have their uh raffle going on 300 tickets is the max sold $10 a piece for your chance of winning a share of $500 quarterback hand the ball off number two right up the middle lowers a shoulder good smack there on the play gain of nine second one Phoenix House salon and sweets sponsored our meal tonight from washies thank you to them as well a new business opening up at the old deals area on North Main I believe it was 1550 North Main Street they have two blue is joining them as well they have a little satellite shop in their place doubles to the right side running back right Wing back to the left they're going to run it to the left Gets behind his blockers gets enough for a first down before being brought down at the Eagles 28 yd line I believe it's going to be Robinson on the tackle first and 10 for the Oilers Eagles volleyball watched them the other night played Moder day got beat 2523 25 3 but they're Regional and subsectional loaded is it a good atmosphere though uh Alexis said it was great yeah that's awesome doubles to the right side running back right again same formation this time it's going to be a pass to the right caught by number six brought down open field tackle good job there out of X gain of about three second and seven that subsectional is columia Breeze Central Breeze Moder day and Nashville oo that's tough some powerhouses there yeah you get out of there you got to like your chances soccer's got to be nearing their regionals as well probably within the next couple weeks and the ball off up the Middle with number two this time keeps his feet moving gain of five brings up a third and three 340 in the game remaining looks like our freshman's gonna check in the game believe that's Jackson lewall I think he just got pulled up JV this week it's good to see him out there third and short here and have doubles to the left side quarterback's going to just stand up and Chuck it out the number six looks like he's going to have the first down just simple little four yard hitch route under three minutes now Eagles lead 60 to6 looking to go to four and two on the season homecoming themes for dress up days here we'll get them right after this play doubles to the left side Wing back right running back up the middle gets near the goal line going to be brought down short about the two yard line Monday game day vers game night you can either wear your jersey or your PJs Tuesday rhyme without reason Wednesday crazy blue and white Thursday class color day and it's the assembly day and a blackout so all fans the students will be wearing black all the fans I guess will be asked to wear black as well dances on Saturday two minutes here to go in the game Oilers trying to get in the end zone once again and they're going to get in there for another East Alton touchdown [Music] takes the score Columbia 60 they need the E EI i e IO oh there it is there it is it's coming Columbia 60 East Alton 12 going to go for two again quarterback going to throw it out to number two just let the man make a play and it's going to be brought down good job by the Eagles good job there by the Eagles making a play in open field once again doing a great job all year with that I believe that was 51 Jake vulmer on The Tackle Columbus still lead 60 to 12 stop clock at 108 most likely just kick it off here and take a knee homecoming parade Wednesday night 600 PM going to go down Main Street this year starts at Eagle viiew down Main Street ends at the high school I believe it is last year they tried doing it in the park and uh this year they're going to go back to main street like normal like I said dances on Saturday and the Eagles football team has five football players six football players on court Aaron P Hudson Bryant Cooper W Keegan Thompson Dane quivero I think there's only five those are the five that I could think of right away so congrats to those five P Bryant W Thompson and quivero Jared were you on court heck no ugly nobody voted for me squib kick recovered by the Eagles on the 39 yd line big man just falling on it Dane quivero clock most likely just going to run out here after most likely one knel down it's only a 25 second here so we are going to have to run one play Eagles in Victory formation bigley takes the snap and takes the knee real quick here uh Jared we'll just do a quick postgame talk yeah what your thoughts uh first half I was a little like I said earlier not scared but just kind of mad the way our defense played in that second quarter um given up the whole second quarter to their offense so it was nice to see our defense come out in the second half and get off the field um I know we had two lucky bounces uh on our kickoffs that led the touchdowns inside the 152 yard line but I mean overall second half looked a lot prettier than the first half did definitely on this uh defensive side of things offensively did everything you wanted to do you uh got into the endone Zone multiple times you move the football a couple times though you kind of got a little stagnant but in the end it's okay you win this game 60 to 12 and uh get out of here andove to 4- two and that puts us to two- one in the conference which is always good you want to be right up there at the top of things so it's uh good to be where you are right now all in all great game no complaints out of here and uh come back home against Salem for homecoming next week yeah can't say it any better can you no all right well for all of us here at K CHS thanks for listening thank you to the Columbia quarterback Club once again for making this happen Josh on the computer TJ on the camera Brandon you have any words back here oh none none all right Eagles win this one 60 to 12 improved to 4-2 two- one in the conference we'll see you next week at home against Salem for homecoming Jared Jermaine and Alex schmer see you next week go Eagles baby [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

e e e the whole pot all right at 6:30 I'm going to call the meeting to order Julie would you mind calling the role please Cara Caston here Chris Espinosa here Jenny hagstrom here Terry pavich here Don Runner here rahan Hashim here and Jason tro here thank you okay having a quorum let's stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the FL flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right Hank I'll turn this over to you for student perspectives and I will turn it right over to Arn I'll give you the clicker can have to clicker she's wearing short sleev she's got to be freezing good luck May the force be with you all right good evening everybody is it is this is it on is it good yeah you're good um good evening so um I'm so excited to host our first um student perspectives of the Year this year um you all know we have many phenomenal programs that doners Grove South and one of our our strongest leadership programs is our PE peer leader program it's run by Mr Nate Terry um he's going to talk at the end and I just wanted to share in my um short time here I have learned a lot from Mr Terry about leadership and Leadership philosophy he and I have had time to sit down and talk about leadership philosophy and not just how we develop our own personal leadership philosophy but Mr Terry gets to teach that and instill it and help our children learn how to instill their own version of leadership which a lot of is just knowing who you are and your sense of self and showing up that way in 100% of your actions and Mr Terry and these students are leading the way of truly cultivating that and I'm so proud of them and so glad that they're here and I'm GNA turn it over to gavson Bayer who is going to kick it off and he has the clicker come [Music] on you want to be at the mic so they can hear you designed for short we'll pick it up all right um my name is gavson bear I am a senior at D go south um and I am on p l um my name is Becca Soffer I'm a senior um and I currently lead for co-ed freshman my name is Estella Rizzo I'm also a senior at dgs and I currently lead for freshman girls my name is Johnny Claren I'm a senior and I currently lead for team sports hi I'm ariela uas and I'm a senior at South and I currently lead for freshman girls right start with back to the microphone okay let's start with why um why why do we do this um we want to influence the world we want to influence this world we want to make it a better place all why all how we a we actively lead with our people and our pews to um provide example of what we expect in the classroom and what we want to challenge these kids on we want to make them better at everything they do and so everything we do we do it very very um what's the word intent intentionally thank you oh what we take an initiative to think about the actions and perspective of these students we want to um we want to provide uh constantly provide a positive and supportive growth and feedback to these kids we want these kids to feel as welcome and as um welcome and what so would um welcome anded uh thankful to be part of you know being P um these kids some of these kids um come from homes where they don't have this leadership they don't have somebody telling them to you know be active or go do this or do that and our jobs is to be that person role model you know as leading for seniors to freshmen you have to adapt to what what needs they need and you have to meet the needs all right so um who we are like gon was kind of saying we we're P leaders obviously we try to make other p teachers jobs much easier for them um so we're student Le you kind of see uh some of these pictures of us right here uh one of my favorite parts of the program is us getting out of our comfort zones and being able to do things like this right now is just speaking to you guys think that's a very big plus for the program and we're standing on the shoulders of each other like we said and it makes me feel better right now talking to you guys cuz I have these guys with me right now and that's just kind of something that's in the program and like it it really helps and we're obviously a big program and the other thing I wanted to add is um we are constantly improving the program so each Pro each time each year sorry we are constantly making adjustments with Mr Terry he always wants to listen to our ideas on new games different things we can handle different like um ways maybe someone's misbehaving in a different way I guess and you kind of want to like adjust to that scenario you know different things like that so all right um so how this program really works um we start with leadership training which really starts freshman year so in just a few weeks we'll be sending out information to our freshman with an application and part of that application it's kind of you fill out some questions some things about yourself and a big part of it is that your PE teacher recommends you so um I think a big part of getting into the program is that you step in a DJs and you're already making an impact in your PE class you're actively participating you listen um you help your peers already and if your teacher sees that you'll get that good recommendation and that lets you um participate in the training course so sophomore year instead of health and a semester PE you do health and a semester uh leadership training with Mr Terry um and that's a class full of people who think just like you so it's really great um to kind of see what other people do as leaders and how you can kind of put that into your leadership and we kind of feed off of each other's ideas um so we learn the basics of leading we kind of take what skills might already have and get better at them and we our peers are kind of our PE class so for a day um like once every month you're the PE leader for the day uh it's your assignment to make the activities and to lead them and that's your grade um and that's just it sets you up really well for when you're a real leader as a junior and a senior yeah so kind of building off of what Becca was saying I think that the training class could not have been built a better foundation for what we do as Juniors and seniors and so once we get through that class and we still kind of want to continue our leadership Journey which everyone does because it's awesome um and Mr Terry thinks that you're a right fit which usually we are we are able to pick our classes like a few weeks before school starts we choose um our first second and third preference for our class period and we almost always get our first preference he does pretty good good job of that um and then we get assigned to our classes and we just start leading but going back to the sophomore class the training class one of the most important parts that I think got me to where I am as a leader is when it was our day to lead the class Mr Terry would kind of pull one of us aside and be like hey I want you to be the difficult kid today like be super talkative complain a lot like he had all these different characters that he had us be and then us as the leaders for the day we kind of had to learn how to deal with them and kind of how to bring them into the activity and I mean leading freshman girls right now they don't always want to play Ultimate Football or kickball they just want to talk to each other so I think that having the training with the quote unquote difficult students was really helpful for me because it kind of taught me how to talk to them without coming on like aggressive or rude or judgy cuz I know some people like PE less than others which is fine but I thought that was really helpful and then so yeah going back to our Junior and Senior year once we're in our class it's really all about building relationships with the people you lead no matter what grade they are or what class it is like we have a variety of classes that we lead for but yeah I I love the class um my freshman girls that I'm with right now I think I am the closest with them that I've LED with any class so far and I just love to see them every day I love to help the teacher I lead for and yeah it's my personal favorite class of the day so she Queen okay so I'm going to talk about what we do um leading for all the PE classes at DJs so we lead for all age levels um freshman sophomore junior and seniors and um it doesn't matter if you're a junior senior leader you can lead for well acally I said sophomore but you technically you wouldn't lead for sophomores right no you could oh you could never mind Fitness too yes you could um but yeah it doesn't matter if you're a junior senior leader you could lead for people um your age or above your age or younger than you so I think that's a cool opportunity because um since like people that are older than you that gives you like a whole new perspective on how to talk to different people because like you're looking like up to people but they might be also looking up to you even though that they're younger than you um the other thing another cool thing for the PE leading program is a special education program which I'm going to hand that over to Estella because I've never LED for special ed but it's a really cool thing because it gives a whole new perspective because it's a lot of Hands-On work with um kids that have multi- needs and you really that's like kind of something that is a struggle in school today because we always see like some kids not always being the nicest to kids with special needs and I feel like it's just so heartwarming to see our leaders that lead the special education program kids because it always just makes them so happy like to see them playing games but I'm going to have Estella talk more about that cuz she's actually LED kids in that program yeah so really quick I led for a multi- needs class second semester last year and I love my freshman but it was my favorite um I just thought I actually wrote my college ESS they on it too so it really meant a lot to me I I just loved being able to collaborate with such warm-hearted people like they were so nice and I think that that really bumped up my knowledge about leadership because you have to kind of learn how those students think without them directly being be sorry being able to communicate to you because some of them you know they just have multi- needs so it's a little harder for them to communicate so I think it really bumped up my leadership ability as well as my empathy because I kind of have to connect with them and it's not always as easy to do that with leading freshman girls because sometimes they're a little shy or they're super energetic but I loved leading for the special ed class and a misconception is that it's just a bunch of like easy games and we don't really do anything but that's definitely not true there were even even if the days were harder than others I still learned a lot every day and I think being able to lead that class having it as an option is an awesome thing that we have access to Soh yeah and then the next one is collaboration with co-leaders throughout the year and that one's kind of just talking about how um each class has at least two to three or sometimes even four leaders depending on how big the size of the class is and I think that's another cool part about PE leading because um it's mixed between Junior and senior leaders so specific specifically last year when I was a junior I had two senior leaders that um they obviously experienced PE leading already one year prior to that and I had like a lot of questions cuz that was my first year PE leading and I looked up to them a lot and also one of them were like my friends so it was just really cool leading with them and also like it just brings a lot of ideas to like the table especially when you have like some of those difficult situations that we were talking about earlier um and then the last one is Mentor and reflect for growth so right now as senior leaders um we are mentors for our Junior leaders last year we had mentors ourselves but roles are reversed now um basically we just help the Juniors right now through any like issues or problems and we kind of just check in with them like every couple weeks on different like times when Mr Terry is giving us like evaluation periods or like different things like that and I feel like that's another cool thing because you have like not just like the leaders that you lead with but like one specific leader that you can go to about any questions that that you have or anything like that so I think that's another cool thing and then actively seek out ways to inspire and influence their peers within our PE and schoolwide Community I feel like PE leading is not just only thing that like PE leading is yes obviously like PE is your main like Target subject but like so many things that I've like learned in PE leading it's brought me like to my outside life and just like all around school so yeah that's just that's a picture of our Junior leaders right now and I had one other thing um yeah um I think one of the ways to capture PE leading is for me and what Mr Terry has taught us is to lead leaders to lead right so we don't just go out there and Lead You Know call day we want to lead people to lead right um example last year I had 40 freshman boards I had four co-leaders um and that's a lot of boys and let me tell you you don't want to listen but making the peers become leaders and talking to making singling out a couple kids that would like to step up into that leadership role and then pouring a little bit more into them and being like listen they listen to you more than they listen to me they don't care about me right and listen to them and seeing them take it up a little bit and then realizing okay Nick let's lead let's lead warm-ups right and getting everybody to lead warm-ups so it's all about it's not all about just going out there leading making those those connections it's also about making leaders ourselves right so I just wanted to say that very good obviously thank you so much I'll step up to the microphone I think you I believe you might have some questions for our leaders um but we do thank you all for taking the time time tonight and having them share some of their perspectives and their stories and for Miss uh Miss Martinez reaching out to me and Miss slip as well um it's something I'm very proud of every one of them I've been doing this I kind of added up in the car I think I've been doing for maybe 13 years now um and each group is unique uh and I think it goes back to something they've all kind of showed you tonight is that they really do impress upon the next group what the the demands of of the environment are um Jason over there is our early bird leader as well we got six one on board with us tonight um but it's an incredibly rewarding experience to to be amongst this group and what I always tell their parents at uh at open houses like anybody could do what I do I'm just a figure head I I was just telling um just outside we were taking a photo I said look I'm I'm just hanging on to the coat tailes here and they're flying away so doing my best not to fall off along the way so thank you all very much for presenting tonight and of course if there's any questions we're all here to answer for you thank you do you do more than one class a day or do you have a signed you know Monday Wednesday Friday or so it basically just replaces RP for the day so I I lead one class a semester each leader is leading one class but I mean you're leading with each TR obviously like Ariel was saying like up to four laders that's how my class is right now so I've LED Fitness for semester I've LED team sports for two semesters now and I'm going to lead special ed next semester but it's just like you're doing that one period okay so you you couldn't volunteer for your uh like if you have a study hall or something you could I'm not sure about that maybe if you like had a makeup and there happens to be a PE in that class maybe Mr Terry would let you come in help out with that but usually I wouldn't say so just one okay can you share an example of how you may have positively impacted a student that you were leading um so the past three semesters last year my junior year and then this first semester of my senior year I've LED freshman girls and Mr Terry can vouch for me on this one um I've not had the easiest experience my freshman girls were quite difficult for me and the past three semesters um there were just specific groups of freshman girls that didn't want to listen all the time and they would just like constantly constantly like get yelled at by our teacher for like the right reasons they weren't changing they weren't listening like they had their phones out but I was always like I tried to always be the leader that like tried to get them away like from like those bad behaviors and like have their upbringing and the specific student I'm thinking about right now she was was in my junior like I led her my junior year for both semesters and I saw the biggest change in her and like it still makes me happy to this day because I remember first semester she hated me she did not like me we were doing like bus evacuations and she it was bad she just yelled at me one day and then we just like one day I don't know something changed and like we just started building this Bond and she like opened up to me a lot about like her home life and like her friend situations and like she just started participating a lot and I remember this was like another specific thing like the swim unit is something that's very difficult for a lot of um freshmen and just kids in general but um she was very scared but by me like being by her side and knowing like I'm there to support her and like some days I would get in the pool with her she felt so comfortable and like she still says hi to me now and like at the end of the year like by pe she told me like if it weren't for you like I don't think I would want to do PE and she just like respected me a lot and like she was I was the main leader that like she would listen to in our class so that's fantastic yeah yeah yeah so can I ask you do training you said your sophomore year how do you all since you're in the classes teaching like other than your co- PE leaders how do you all interact with each other the like Junior and senior leaders um so we most of the time it's like we're in our our pods that we teach the classes with we don't really run into each other within a class period um and the sophomores they're they're with Mr Terry that's a whole separate thing but um we do um connect with our mentors but I'd say it's like once you're out of the training class it's nice you see the people who you went through the training class with but you're kind of with whoever you were assigned so there's not too much crossover after I think the the the like the biggest crossover would be like during like lunch period I'd be like ah I'd be like Johnny you know my freshman give me a hard time like can you help me and Johnny be like a Johnny's like yeah you just got to yell at them you know like you know and then like so we see each other throughout the day and we you know we give each other little hints and little guidance um we also get to go into the sophomores and give them a student perspective or we just like we all go in there Mr Terry's out of the room and then we get to gossip about all the teachers you know this teacher is terrible oh this teacher is amazing you know but you know obviously we don't do that since all the teachers are amazing at South and Course North too but but we get to we get to be real with them so it's not we don't it cost over that much but when we do it it is lovely it's so great it's great time yeah I think this is fantastic I think it really gives you an opportunity to develop skills to be leaders not just in this context but outside in the real world too and I think it is a testament to uh your work and and the district and the opportunities that we're able to give students to develop lifelong habits and skills that really prepare you for any challenge that you're going to face so I think this is really fantastic and I'm glad that you're all getting something out of it I mean I just I I like what you said there CU I wanted to add like I I work at Westmont Yard currently so I work with kids all the time and PE leading has actually helped so much for that like it's crazy like Mr Terry in the sophomore class has even said like sometimes you just got to treat like your high school kids like the six-year-old and it works like it really does sometimes you use those skills and it really does work and for West my yard that's really helped and I'm a leader in lots of different other programs and I'd say like PE leading is always great practice for me and it's just a great access for me it's very accessible to me and it's very very I'm very glad I do it yes that's great I think even coming here tonight and speaking it takes an amount of leadership and courage so I thank all of you for taking the time tonight to come and share your perspective with us thank you for having us thank you thank you thank you thanks very [Applause] much uh oh he wants the clicker B oh I'm an early bir Early Bird that's rough yeah that's at 7 a.m.

Mario pres Mr pres Miss present Miss present and our two student board members and call Pell present present please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge ALG to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all good evening board uh we have some special guests this evening I'm going to invite our assistant Su superintendent of student services Mr Jeremy Bell to welcome and introduce them that's my entrance yeah I know you're right on time this is on um greetings board uh student board members um Community I'd like to take a minute to uh introduce our esteemed guests um from the asria police department um they have some exciting news um but I'm going to let them tell you I'm not going to uh share that for you so with that I'm going to say Chief Jason Baston Sergeant Brian aing if you'd come up front thank you for inviting us board members um we're here tonight to recognize one of your staff members nurse kala if you could please come up while she's coming up I would like to say um I really really appreciate the support and the cooperation we get from the school board and the school district um we've been through many different boards many different superintendents many different Chiefs but the one thing that has stayed the same is we've had a really good working relationship with the school board with the school district um and and that is true even today I know both sergeant nering and I have worked a lot with Dr Kel Gotti with Jeremy Bell with Mike frers and it's always a pleasure to work with all of your staff and even though we're recognizing nurse kala tonight we there's a lot of your staff members that some of the same um same things I'm going to say tonight could apply to but we wanted to recognize nurse Calla based on an incident that happened recently that I'm going to um read you her letter of commodation here shortly but after the incident we do um a debrief sometimes amongst ourselves uh sometimes in with the school district when it comes to a school safety issue and it became clear pretty quickly talking to Sergeant nering that um nurse kala's actions that day were something that needed to be recognized and applauded um so what we have here today for her is a accommodation award and a letter of accommodation which I would like to read uh for the school board real quick that's exciting on Thursday September 19th 2024 at approximately 9:00 a.m.