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Madam Secretary and have a roll call please sure Mr alre Mr gag go here uh Dr Hall rup is here Mr swales here miss site stumbris here president Brown here okay let us please stand to site the Pledge of Allegiance and also hear our mission statement Pledge of Allegiance led by board member Alex gigos and mission statement followed soon after led by Dr Hall I Al 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 and our mission is to engage and Empower our students to positively impact their community and future and our mission statement is to Eng oh oh engage and Empower our students to positively impact their community and future thank you for thank you for the clarification thank you uh any public comments okay hearing none we have any board updates other then what's listed here on Alpha a or five Alpha um I don't know should does this go on board updates what I told you I wanted to talk about or mention bu I'll do it now get it over with okay okay um I just wanted to discuss I mean I I don't know how much can be done but as I brought to your attention I wanted to bring to the board's attention the the conditions of the football field first game was really bad grass everywhere it was just overgrown um you have when we she did the fly when we did the flyover just how bad the conditions of the field were with the Brown all the brown spots and circles um trash um the garbage cans need to be if you ever walk the track you see just trash cans just filled with trash um in the middle of the game the sprinklers came on last year in the middle of the game the scoreboard goes out and I don't know how much maintenance has to do with that but it's just like always something going on and the conditions of the field when people are walking that are it's a Community Place it needs to be cleaned up the grass needs to stay cut as long as we have grass which shouldn't be a problem hopefully soon but I just think that um that needs to be looked at not because if not just for the fields that means that it's probably somewhere else as well all right I can definitely take a look at that and follow up with our um operations team thank you thank you well just quick question on that who addressed the mo of the turf the field football field is that contracted out or is that in-house do we do that in-house Jason could you address that please it's uh Keith initially contracted out on Monday and then the buildings and grounds Department uh ideally updates it throughout the week to Ure that's ready for play and I agree with Dr Hall that I was not happy uh with the condition of the field week one um I believe the field was in a good condition week zero when we had our game against Hill Crest um I totally agree with him regarding the grass clippings that were left on on the field during week one and also um we spent a lot of time Friday before I believe it was week four um getting the lines corrected and putting forth the best effort to put the field in great condition for our students and for our community members so I am aware of that I've addressed this with buildings and grounds and I'm not you know when I wasn't happy but for when I hear the last couple weeks there has been an improvement when we made some internal changes and um it's gotten my attention thank you all right appreciate it Jason okay any other public comments other than what's stated on the agenda uh yeah we on um the 29th I believe the Saturday sorry I said public comments board upates board updates yeah yes that was a year misstep uh we had the uh Fun Run uh which I particip IP ated in I don't know how well I did uh I didn't come in last so that's good was your dog there yes she came uh bill was there were you yeah that's right uh and Cheryl was there yay yeah that's right um other than that it was it was a success excellent thank you Bor members for participating uh I was there in the Spirit mhm so all right if there's no other board updates is this you Dr coges for a okay yes I just wanted to bring up for discussion uh discussion of board policy 2 colon 125 and that's regarding um board member expenses according to our policy that we just updated uh board members um are encourag to participate in additional professional development activities um in and out of the district um they are uh kind of allocated $4,500 per board member uh to seek those um professional development opportunities if by chance a board member does exceed that a board policy does um allow us to um let you vote to allow another person to person to um exceed that amount we do have one board member that has exceeded that amount and there is a request to attend to different session one of them is the um it's called the cube conference it's a councils of urban Boards of Education that would be taking place in October um so there is an total cost for that of uh $ 33700 and some change and then um additionally that would be the joint conference that everyone generally goes to which would be an additional $ 3470 so just need to find the board's uh interest in uh allowing this uh individual to go to one if not or one or the other of these conferences are we allowed to ask questions oh yes absolutely I'll do my best to answer um so there was a first conference on that list and how much was spent on that conference uh $5,500 and some change so for their very first conference knowing kind of what our budget had been set at they already went over that well I think we we are um had we had it before it was always kind of understood that if there was some overages and there was some discussion I think at the last board that was here that was allowing people to go over that and I'm not disagreeing with that but they went over the total that they were theoretically supposed to spend by $1,000 for their first conference no KN that there was the triple ey later but again as Dr Cogan alluded to Jamie that it was kind of a precedent set that if the reg The Other Board colleagues members did not utilize their full amount that it kind of It kind of I'm disagreeing with that when was that conference that July July okay so how um did they know no one else would be us money and that there would be an overage yeah I mean yeah cuz that's the fiscal we do fiscal year right I guess the question we got to look at too is we got to look at like the reason the how reasonable some of it is I mean if you look it's a 4 day three night right and if you look at the housing that's crazy like that the number doesn't it doesn't compute I mean it's a lot and we're supposed to be Ally responsible to the taxpayers and that's not and then I and I understand you're looking at the other thing but even the housing at the one in in October I'm like there's T of places you can go so I guess the question is um CU I asked a friend it you know how they did it he travels a lot for work and so the office will set up you know this is when you got to go to do a live week and then they book everything for them so they get the best rate right so who's booking everything and where I mean I'm assuming is Miss heinl doing that that is correct so all these is or were these the conference whatever and that's where they want cuz like I know one of them takes place I thought in Las Vegas right and there are some great $80 a night rates at the Stratosphere like I'm seriously asking like if you want to spend over and above what has been allotted for everyone then why aren't you trying to do it in the most financially responsible way which is not that's what I'm agree hotel that is and you can commute back and forth to that hotel for any kind of conference activities that may be going cuz Vegas has some cheap Transportation right so I don't understand what that extra expenses for can I say something I just want to say this that's why it is some checks and balances and that's why we had the dialogue and conversations over the last couple months so everyone was assure and understood the policy that we have so there's a certain level of like there was some uncertainties there on how people looked at it I and I give everybody that that leverage and that you know that position I'm not disagreeing with you but the policy is currently stated it is it is and so now we need to look back at what has been done that is going to take place after that policy technically the fiscal year started July 1 exactly that's why so I I don't know what to say at this like if you've already spent all of the money technically and you have been to other conferences multiple times you made your choice and that's why we again the board members have an opportunity to chime in on that as the policy indicate where we actually take action and open yes that would be next week right no I'm just saying like that's my perspective especially when it appears given the request that frugality was not necessarily considered I guess I guess to to to agree in that is just that when you're going somewhere and we're supposed to be fiscally responsible to the taxpayers we have to do it with you know if I'm doing something personally on my own and if I feel like I'm going to go somewhere and spend you know stay somewhere that's fine but when someone else is paying it I just think being a little bit more you know simple-minded is is is more or less I think what Jamie is saying which which I agree with because I mean I look at some of the housing there the one in July and I'm I'm blown away that that's that's what it is that's a lot I mean I'm tell you right now I booked five days of Vegas for January first and it was for one person was we uh U air flying airplane TI gets in hotel is 700 bucks yeah for for I'm like I look at these numbers I just I'm thinking you have to be responsible we're talking to the tax you know we're responsible to the taxpayers so I just look at this and the other part you got to look at the totals 127 right I got to make sure we get something out of that 127 to make sure that they're getting something out of that 127 that's a lot yeah and again that's for the board to try in on and and that's why we want to make our policies black and white for the most part and let our polies drive drive the yearly average okay um so everybody go ahead we have repeated that and when did we come up with this agreement I think in August sep August was that after July correct oh wow so I don't understand so now we understand it was after we came up with the policy no no no no because question was well how would someone knowing what the policy says do thise no because it was after it was after the policy was created before the it was not a number thec second 4500 and we went back to it we didn't know what the policy said because we assumed it was a 7,000 something like it was supposed to be written in the email yes in the email that I found I was in those meetings weum we assume that it was 7 $700,000 like it was stated in the email it was some unclarity was some unclarity but it's always been so the first trip was after was before that's what I said the yeah yeah I'm sorry the first trip was before the policy was made clear but if so after that it doesn't matter so understanding was it 7 or 7500 let's just go with 7500 safe uh you're already you're still you can't even go to the The Joint triple down exed no I understand that and that's not even a big deal to me the the big deal to me is to act like I already like it was already known can I finish I didn't I I apologize I apologize it was like as if I knew that the policy wasn't the way it was supposed to be written in the first place I have the emails from 20 was it 8617 that says it was supposed to be $7,000 nobody else has anything that states that it was changed to 4 500 other than the fact that it was changed to 4500 so I we were going by that so to say that it would be over that's fair it it would be over so then the second thing is to insinuate that who me or whoever goes out and finds these hotel prices and just is not being fiscally responsible that's not the case if you've ever if you've ever spent the time to try to get knowledgeable on board happenings you know that most of the time when you stand up place it's usually state of uh pay state of play or whatever you want to say or they try to put you at least where the conference is located and you go by those prices it's not that when you go out you you as the board member go shopping for prices and it's not like when she goes to look at the prices she's trying to be fiscally irresponsible by doing by trying to make it convenient that's not the case and it's not even when I what do I say to you on your email flight please make it as as cheap as possible one flight I took to go there I took three different flights just to make cuz I said I don't want it to be overly so to make it like oh anybody's trying to be irresponsible with funds no that's not the case and to say to look at the hotels if you look at the hotels and you go if you want to say hey the person cannot stay with the conference is because those are too much then say that put it in a policy no but there's a huge disparity but that's not that's The Who that's not the board member who does that we go by we try to stay if we you can say the same thing when when it comes to Triple I if we go to Triple I regardless of if it's within budget or not in budget the hotel price is ridiculous so to look at that and say oh this is ridiculous why are you standing you can just drive back and you got to understand from a person now in my second year not going because I don't see the fiscal the the I don't see the the benefit to the taxpayer for me to go and look at this listen to the same stuff but that's AO I decided not to go because I don't think it's fiscally responsible of me to spend that money on Triple ey to the taxpayers when I just don't see the benefit of it think that's real isue the cost benefit right is it is the district does a district really benefit worth that much money I think that's really need to be looking at not so much so the question on the table tonight isn't necessarily to debate what was the debate the question is on the table um is the board going in the direction to approve um the cube conference yet kind of a yes or no and then the next question will be will the board approve the person to go to the triple ey yes I I think again I think we got I think we got Clarity of the policy I think you know it's each it's up to each and every one of us as board members again to do a deep dying do a self valuation on how we are allocating taxpayers money so I'm definitely leaving it up to you and the board will as we I see here challenge that and so we know what's on the table we know what to vote on next next week and again I don't think nothing was was intentionally done in in a in a bad way here I I don't I think we got Clarity we went over the board policy regarding this expense over the last month so and so it's black and white now so now we all know and as they say in the legal will ignorance is not a defense right and I just want to say it's fine to say yes or no but don't try to make it like somebody did stuff on purpose and why they not be responsible and blah blah blah and no it's either no I think that's too yes or no but to try to Grand stand and be like well I'm doing this for this and I would I would never do just because you don't want to gain the and it's clear that you can only go to one confence it's clear you can only go to one conference a year at the price that we have it's about what knowledge somebody wants to gain cuz this isn't about gaining knowledge you don't know that how can you speak for me because you're saying other people don't want to gain the knowledge you said if you don't want to gain the knowledge I sure all of us would but you know what there's a time in place we each get one what's the time in place get one a year we know even but you shouldn't only get one a year because if you if you are trying to get better giving you the opportunity to speak on this and I know cuz it's just kind of going uh fair enough I know you're absolutely right thank you I really appreciate it though but I think everybody know the premis and what's going on here let us digest it we got a week to determine how we're going to vote on any I don't know exactly I would assume it may have something to do with Jud you I'm not sure what this is all about here as far as as individual per se but we know what what the large scope of things we'll have it on there for an action item next next week yeah and again everybody look within themselves when it comes to board training and say does it benefit the school district as a whole taxpayers and leave leave it up to you guys and if it's something that the board feel that that's not happening you we can chime on it okay thank you thank you guys thank you Jamie and Dr Hall and all Bill chiming in on this all right is that all for that particular I believe so yes sir board updates okay so number superintendent update so yeah administrative update superintendent a good news I do have a good news to share with you I chose not to put it in the FYI because I wanted to really present it h today so um we are really excited about some good news that we have here regarding a grant that we applied for and um I'm going to turn it over to Mr okasinski to kind of uh do the drum roll thank you Miss R yeah good evening uh good evening president Brown distinguished members of the Board of Education Dr kagin uh stand before you and I'm uh very proud to share this great news with with you um the district applied for the school violence prevention program Grant it's issued by cops office which is a subsidiary of the United States Department of Justice uh the purp purpose of the school violence prevention program Grant is to improve school safety by funding evidence-based programs and Technologies our svpp grant was one of A8 uh submitted only 203 were awarded um I'm proud to announce that the district was awarded a half a million dollars um each award thank [Music] you each award is covers a three-year span uh 36 months and duration for a maximum federal share of the $500,000 so um initially when we began this process we were just identifying a couple items that we previously discussed and I'll speak on a little bit later but uh you know the team decided hey if we can go up to 500,000 let's not let's try and go for 500,000 so um we did um that's the envelope we pushed and as I said we're proud to announce that we rewarded that amount of money there is a local cash Max uh cash match excuse me a cost share requirement of at least 25% so the district does need to put up $125,000 over that three-year period to ensure that they we meet the parameters of this grant um what I'd like to do now is take a few moment moments to just thank some individuals that were involved with that and also some of our local uh stakeholders that also helped make this a possibility for us um in the audience tonight I have Mr Robin Tobias uh Jamie Heisman Vicente Castillo and not in attendance was Carmen Thompson um all of those were integral in gathering information in the process to help us apply for the grant and last but not least I would like to thank Miss Andrea pow who spearheaded the initi um she served as the point person between us and the grant specialist that we worked with um she was present in every meeting and um it's just a pleasure and uh just a great job by her so um and everybody to be honest with you but I can't stress enough how much you know these individuals worked outside of their normal job responsibilities to help secure funds for this district and also make your vision of providing this as a safe environment for our students and staff members so um I would like to take a moment and thank them for their hard [Applause] work I would also like to thank uh individuals from our local municipalities Village President Michael ironhorn on behalf of the village of cre Dr uh I'm sorry mayor Dr theres Bogues on behalf of the village of Moni in addition I would like to also thank some First Responders uh our local First Responders the village of Creek Police Department univiversity Park Police Department Moni Village Police Department and the Park Forest Police Department all submitted letters of support for this grant I would also like to thank the village of cre fire department um and the Moni fire department for Furnishing letters of support also sorry was a long process and uh they did a great job getting all this support um we also received uh a letter of support from US senator dick Durban and other Community Partners such as First Baptist Church of University Park Dr Reverend Reginal Williams Jr Schoolhouse Counseling Center of Chicago Illinois Nicole coffee cre Area Chamber of Commerce Jamie Healey and creep Mony 201u Education Foundation Reverend James E hunt and last but not least our kids count uh Mr donzel Franklin items that will be covered with the grant over the three-year period um we are looking to upgrade our current camera system uh with digital cameras and install new cameras as needed and identified throughout the district we also looking to install shatter resistant or complete our uh project of shatter resistant window film and the new Bridges edition of the high school and also the rear of the high school where we have the cafeteria and all those open windows in the back we are looking to upgrade classroom door security for our lower level classrooms we have a series of handheld weapon detectors that we are also purchasing at brand new and last but not least we'll be looking to implement a camera weapons detection system um and those are the items that we included in the Grant application and that were approved uh with that being said uh I'll open this up for any questions or any comments regarding uh the SVP Grant excellent job thank you I mean actually all the work goes to them to be honest with you is to continue the safety and and if you turn on the news and see it every single day it's crazy so the fact that we continue and the staff continues to take strides forward is amazing now that but you know presenting a you know a budget deficit this money will really help us out and we can definitely work forward um freeing up that area uh those amounts of cash um to see this thing through but it's definitely something to help with the district I agree with you Mr swes any of them no questions but thank you to everybody and congratulations phen thank you very much but one thing I would like to add I just when you was just spilling out those names in one group after another I was waiting to hear just the entire District participation and you hit them all you hit University Park Park Forest Mooney Creek uh that was just a great and and internal team player stakeholders as well that was just a collaborative teamwork effort and this is the result of that so good job you spear hen this and and our security director Robin over there for doing such a great job this is this is a wind wind wind win so keep up the good work all you know people make the places and it's definitely a great place to work and have a great team working with me so thank you excellent thank you thank you for all you do let's give them one more this actually ties in very well to our next topic um okay go ahead um fa you know over the course of the last seven years as we've been really focusing on the future forward with all the work that we've been doing here ultimately the goal was trying to really integrate all four communities into working together for a common cause and as you know it wasn't as smooth at the beginning but it is now and I think this is just Testament to see how everybody did come together for a really good project to benefit all of our students here in the district and keeping in vain with that same philosophy is you know a conversation about perhaps thinking about how we're going to Brand our schools to finish that Unity piece um I had mentioned it in my FYI to maybe think about talking to see if there was some interest in an updating or adjusting some of our elementary buildings um to have a similar name to unify them to dignify the various communities that they come from you know there's been conversation all along about you know the all the schools were in the creek Moni uh School District but not all the schools are represented since they're in Park Forest they're in University Park and so forth um so so and thinking about that one way that we could kind of unite them without changing everything would be to just unify them through their their towns such as if we were to rename our elementaries it would be cre Elementary of of cre uh Moni Elementary of Moni uh tala of Park Forest Bal moral of creit leaving the middle school and high school alone because of I think some of the work so anyway we're just wning to bring that c sorry I didn't have on my list yes of course CR Scott King Magnet School of University Park so I'm just bringing this up as a discussion point to see if there's any interest in kind of continuing that conversation I have so many questions oh boy but at least we know what's driving and I thought that was what was driving what was driving but cre Elementary of of cre and mon Elementary of mon is a little redundant I'm open for other suggest and I mean not to be funny but like is like so to our I know who ketta Scott King is but and I'm assuming to ala and Bel moral are named after particularly important community members after a street name meod probably the RAC is no longer here okay all right so hear me out we've got a cre Elementary we could we do a Park Forest Elementary we've got a mon Elementary and then the the Bal moral which is also in cre how about this University Parks kescott King school it's still long I mean yeah this mon Elementry of mon I mean that's in the cre don't need to be changed but the other ones because they don't are not so I'm going to write these down these are good ideas okay so what do we have again Elementary Park Forest Park Forest and you can't change kis Scott King so that's going to have to be long if you really want to put so it could be of or could be University Parks to make it consistent yeah yeah okay so I've got Park Force Elementary CS can I say I'm sorry the only thing I could see changing is maybe the Middle School to University Park middle but I don't know and and that's actually not a bad idea that's not a bad idea except that it's it's hard to reflect the Rebrand all of it but yeah cuz I mean cuz you already have the high school that's the creep on need because of the township and that's why I think to suain uniform if we're trying to Brand it with the Warriors you'd almost want to do Creon junior high school because you're you're trying to keep it all consistent from one building so that they're growing into a seven-year thing instead of a three and a four right you don't want to keep them separated I can see that well like in K ke all of their schools are K whether it's V stuen they're the K whether it's um Kennedy they're the K everybody's the ks and the and the colors are the same so so the mascot stays the same the mascot stays the same so they're still the Warriors but they would be uh University Park Middle School right Warriors yeah right everything is the C like out there everything is the casay that's just an idea I'm not opposed that that would be kind of cool yeah just okay so I've got Park Forest um Elementary I've got University Park CSK univers City Park Middle School what about B moral yeah see I was going to say I think I think you stick with the elementary schools first and see how that goes over any meaning and see how that because obviously cre Mooney they already have the name in so you don't need to do it but balm moral CSK and tala definitely want to make them feel like where they belong right I mean tala is tala men but it's part of Park Forest so it should have some sort of meaning for them there for sure ball moral should have some sort of meaning to that too whether whether it be Creed or however it's presented but B moral tala um CSK you're going to want I think you just Rebrand for sure to make sure that and I think the main reason for rebranding B Maro is because while there was a Creek Elementary B marrow was after the racetrack but the race track is no longer there so I don't know we can B think about that one because we want something important I think at one time Bal was called intermediate Center I believe wasn't it it was something in that predates me yeah yeah but I agree uh there was some redundancy there saying cre Elementary of creed mon Elementary of Moni but I I want to go back and about Park Force I think because tala has been a name stuck with Park Force you know the school in park Force for a long time I would probably want to keep that name in there toala so Park Force I I don't know how to put it but I would probably want to keep tala with Park Force have Park force in there and Tava well can I ask why because why because it's just so known now you're taking a whole name out wouldn't that by that logic wouldn't you want to keep B moral then too because that's all because well then we're back to the putting the towns in the names right and Barrow is unincorporated it's not in the village Incorporated unincorporated Elementary School I mean it's it's unincorporated it's in right then say unincorporated call it it's an unincorporated you say I'm not disagreeing with you I just putting their name with the town then brings us back to the same park tala yeah I don't know I just guess the point is we agree that we want some kind of unity in the communities but don't completely agree with the selected name and it's up disc this just a starting point but I think but I'm sure there's a lot of really creative people if you put it out to staff maybe the community or the students should get a vote okay so it sounds like people are open to kind of revisiting this rebranding this to kind of create that finishing off that Unity piece yeah I think the schools that don't have their name like create Elementary and morning Elementary I don't think you change right but the other ones I think you give the buildings too that have been there people that have been there for a while maybe they have some insight on that the staff yeah all right I will um bring this back and start moving it through the staff and circulate it we just needed to find out if the board was interested in going in that direction sounds like you support that we'll let the uh the Titan loose we'll let the buildings kind of have voice in this process and I we'll keep you informed I'm going to take it a little further though um I think that was some talk about the bridges program building that so I think we got some push back on that and I think do we want to name they they just want to call it the South the students specifically said that they didn't want it to be named something different they just wanted have it be called the South Wing so they don't feel like but there's a purpose for that though well it's a program within the building so the bridges program is uh is a just like any other program that we would have is in the building but it doesn't need own building name I don't care what you do with it I just I'm just saying there was a purpose behind correct call it because you are you have been put in this for a reason so and it is a a separation between the two but I mean we can bring it back to the kids just like we do the rest of these um to get their voice on that so so okay I'm taking another step okay Leaps and Bounds today and what do you guys think about naming the new ad building with a name I personally thought about Dr kogan that langage we could call it the Cog billing or something kagin just does not roll out the new Administration build yeah I'm just throwing it out no administ the ad building yeah not agriculture think coming up with a name would be very difficult but um I it's a good idea I just think agreeing on a name that's very meaningful will be very difficult why do you think than sir because you're going to get all kinds of opinions I don't is there any name or any person or anything that really stands out or you know that's what I think is going to be difficult so that was it those the buildings that we have so I just threw it out there on the table couple with her bringing it up as a topic of discussion okay so so that's great so you're going to what's our next stuff just bring us some next I'm going to go back to the buildings and talk with the building principles about this and then figure out some sort of process that we could do to start engaging our stakeholders at the building level okay just the elementary school elementary schools correct well I had heard from the middle school as well I thought that was discussed here okay so yeah the middle school at least they can have a voice in that to see if they want to do that okay okay cuz I looked at the middle school you know when it kind of came across my plate is the middle school is it's not technically a neighborhood school that's where all of our kids go I know CSK you know we you know but yeah we still I still think CSK is a neighborhood school you know even though we don't have majority of our neighborhood kids from University Park attending that school but you know that name was Chang but CSK I know always said keeping things consistent from the high school to the middle school you know with the Warriors brand so I don't know so right now it sounds like we for sure at least the board is for sure were keeping Creed Elementary and mon Elementary the same I think that was kind of a consensus so the other the other names I guess you could deal with that too okay I'll start working on that and mo uh um the middle school with the opportunity to chim in is the high school changing the name too I don't think so I think that's going to be the hardest one to do yeah okay because I think what would be the reason high school but yeah you figure University part came into the plue probably 1969 1970 when that Village was was first uh brought about and I think the high school in it of itself was named after you had Moy Township in Creek that's all you had here one time so they collectively brought those two township names together and that's still the the only two townships though right that is right so that is the reasoning but yeah I think I don't know a little bit bits and pieces with beer I don't know if that's Washington Township or whatever I don't know if that's still Creek Township with the Beacher students that come here but for the most part The Heavy Hitters are you know Park 4S University Park Creed and Moy so okay that's all okay moving on to business then yeah so next up is with you the business yes uh Brian Johnson I'm going to have him uh and Russell uh talk about our 24 audit which is ready to go nice and early thank you good evening everyone my name is Brian Johnson Director of Finance for the school district I'm here to introduce Lindsay fish who is the audit partner who oversaw our fiscal year 24 audit and she'll touch on the highlights of the audit and be able to answer any questions you might have thank you good evening I'm not as tall as everyone else can you hear me okay yeah okay perfect um so as Brian said my name is Lindsay fish I am a partner at sikit I was in charge of overseeing the audit for the school district this year um this was the second year that we've performed the audit for the school district um as a result of our audit we've issued several different reports I can see the stacks in front of everyone so you've got copies in front of you um what I'll cover tonight is the annual Financial report which is the largest of the reports that are in front of you I'll do a quick highlight of the single audit report and then I'll touch on the ISB AFR which is the one thick report that's not found um let's start with the annual financial report flipping that open a couple pages to page number one on sikic letterhead this is the independent auditor report our opinion is on the second paragraph down um we've issued a clean unmodified opinion on the district's financial statements this is the highest level of Assurance we can provide and the type of opinion that you want to receive so congratulations to the district on the receipt of that unmodified opinion next page I'll cover is page number five just flip a few pages forward this is also on sikic letterhead another opinion so this is our independent Auditor's report on internal control over financial reporting and on compliance um this second opinion is required due to the amount of state and federal funding that the district spends on an annual basis um the results of our procedure noted no non-compliance with laws or Grant regulations um we did have one finding related to segregation of Duties um which has been repeated for the last several years and I'll go over that finding in a moment here as we flip the pages forward so page number seven um we'll show you the details of that one finding that we noted this year um again just relates to segregation of Duties due to you know limited Personnel in the finance team um the district has provided what we call a corrective action plan um so their response to the finding um is included within the single audit report um however you know the corrective action plan for the district is essentially um just continuing to provide what we call like compensating controls which means just additional oversight review and approval of those transactions that are under that segregation of Duties issue flipping two pages forward from there is page mdna number one so this um titled Management's discussion and Analysis and and truly is is um provided by management um what we do as Auditors is just make sure uh the numbers are consistent with with what is reported within your financial statements and just ensure that everything is presented as it should be within this Management's discussion and Analysis um so you've got a you know a big report in front of you and I would like to think that everyone's going to read this from cover to cover but I'm not so sure so if there is one part of this report you're going to read read the management discussion analysis that's your starting point that's your required reading right there so it's just a good high level overview of your financial statements gives some comparative information and also gives you some of the reason the why behind why some of these numbers change that you won't necessarily see elsewhere within your financial statements and just kind of give some good explanations of you know what's presented and what these numbers mean so start with the management discussion analysis when you're reviewing the report from there I'm going to flip to page nine and 10 this is your statement of net position for the school district um I call this like the 10,000 foot view of your financials um the reason I say that is this pulls in any long-term capital assets of the district as well as any long-term liabilities so any outstanding debt as well as any pension liabilities are all pulled into this presentation this present presentation isn't really used by the district you don't want a day-to-day operational basis it's something that you usually just see annually during the audit it's required to be presented to receive that unmodified opinion um page number 10 would be my focus here on the statement of net position you'll see your total net position is 2.5 million of that you had 19 million that was your investment and capital assets so that's your value of capital assets less any debt that was issued to acquire those Capital assets and then you have net position that's restricted for various purposes usually due to tax levies in those funds and then you had an unrestricted deficit of million flip the page to page number 11 this is your statement of activities um still that kind of high level Focus there um of the district's activities so the second line up from the bottom there is your change in net position um so this not only includes the changes within your funds themsel but also includes those longterm changes so it pulls in things such as depreciation expense payments on bonds things of that nature all get pulled into this change here so third line up from the bottom there you had a slight decline in net position of 6.7 million um so net position went from 9 million to about 2.5 million page 12 and 13 is your balance sheet for your governmental fund so this is going to be a little similar to probably more what you're used to seeing um takes out any long-term debt takes out any assets um general fund is your education plus working cash fund and then you have a column for each individual fund of the district as well um one highlight I would like to point out for your general fund um a metric that we look at is comparing your fund balance to your annual operating expenditures um so total fund balance there was 29 million you had total expenditures of 92 million so about four months or so worth of reserves there in your education fund right kind of in the range that you want to be there or your general fund rather so General is education plus working cash from there I'll flip to page 16 and 17 um this is your income statement for your various funds uh kind of two lines that I think the focus should be here the first would be um about five lines up from the bottom it says access deficiency of revenues over expenditures so this kind of shows you how your fund balance changed in each individual fund for the year and then the third line up from the bottom is your net change in fund balance the only difference there is that net change takes into account any transfers that you had during the year um so overall you did have a decrease in fund balance of 21 million um fund balance went from 70.8 million to 49.6 million um biggest driver of that decrease is really could just be looking at that capital projects fund column um that change in the capital project Pro fund of 21.8 million pretty much accounts for that change in your fund balance so you know almost all attributable to any planned Capital spending you had during the year um as you continue flipping through you'll come to page 20 so this is the notes to the financial statements not going to go over these in detail I just wanted to highlight you know what's included here so um this gives you further details on any accounting policies of the district you'll also find further details on the district's Capital assets further Det details on any long-term debt outstanding as well as repayment schedules there in the notes the financial statements and then also um quite a bit of pension information is included within those financial statements as well so um essentially just backup for what those numbers are that you're seeing is just a little more context is what you'll find in the notes the financial statements um from there I'm going to flip uh quite a few pages to page 56 and 57 and and not going to cover these pages in detail but just wanted to highlight starting on page 56 is where you can find the budget versus actual um so there's a budget versus actual that is presented for each fund of the district for you to review the last item I would like to cover within the annual financial report um relates to the district's pension plans so this starts on page 74 and 75 um page 74 is your pension liability for Illinois Municipal retirement fund imrf bottom corner of page 74 you'll see your net pension liability so you at December 31st 2023 because this is based on imf's fiscal year end you had a net pension liability of 2.7 million and then the top corner of page 75 you'll see your percentage funded status so 94% funded so really a very strong position um to be at 94% funded in your pension plan IM has historically been well funded page number so if we go back to 2021 is there is there a point where we you consider we just have too much money we overly fund it so so you you had you did have a net pension asset in 2021 and so really what kind of drives those changes you know a lot of calculations go into these Actuarial valuations but the money that you have sent to imrf they invest that money for returns and so stock market going up and down can affect how your net pension liability goes up and down so that's why the focus is more so like on the percentage funded so it could fluctuate but overall 94% funded very well positioned and what that means for you like right now what ises having a net pension liability versus asset mean it really kind of drives what your employer contribution rate will be for imrf um that you're required to send to them so you could see as you have your liability go down or even turn into an asset um your employer rate will go down okay all right thank you page 7 6 is TRS um so this is measured one year behind so June 30th 2023 the district had a net pension liability of 2.8 million um however the dis the state um has a share like picks up a share of your liability for you which is the largest share um so overall your liability was 249 million your share was 2.8 million the state's share was 246 million um on the bottom there you'll see your funded status so 43.9% funded um so not you know as well as IMA but still decently positioned and and one thing that's kind of worth mentioning um for TRS is that all schools are involved and you just have a share of that liability so you couldn't just send more money to TRS to make that liability go down you just give them your required contributions and then they calculate your liability there's not really much more you can do if you want to change that liability so just worth mentioning you're doing everything that you're supposed to regarding that liability great page number 77 is your other post-employment benefits this relates to retiree Healthcare um this page is specifically for imrf employees so not teachers um had an opab liability of about 1 million um for that plan and then last but not least is page 78 this is the teachers health insurance Security fund um the district share of the liability was 8 .9 million the state's share was 12 million overall um had a net pension liability there of 21 million um that went historically not as well funded at 6% funded but similar to TRS you're just paying your acquired contributions and nothing more but doing exactly what you should for that pension essentially so that concludes my comments on the annual financial report next I'm going to cover the single audit and I just want to cover one page in the single audit and it is page number number 11 and I'll use my like one auditor accounting joke that this is what we call your report card here so it's our turn to give you a report card so it's kind of your summary of auditor results here so we've issued unmodified opinion on your single audit um there's a section called internal control over financial reporting so we covered yes there was one significant deficiency in internal control um no material weaknesses no non-compliance noted and then for our internal control over your major program we had no material weaknesses significant deficiencies and no audit findings um the district had Federal expenditures of 11.3 million dollar this year of that we tested 7.6 million during our single audit so about 67% of your federal expenditures um were covered under our single audit this year so overall a clean single audit report you have there and then lastly is the ISB AFR which is the Unbound report and here I would just like to C cover your financial profile score so this ISB AFR essentially what's in this ISB AFR is regurgitating all the numbers that are in that annual financial report we put into this format that's required by ISB and is submitted to ISB um so the financial profile summary which is on page number four on the top corner there um is isb's calculation u based upon operating funds of the district um so they look at you know five different metrics here and then they calculate a weighted score for each of those metrics your total profile score was 3.7 which was the same as previous years um it puts the district in that recognition category um so congratulations the district again on the the receive that recognition profile score as well um that concludes my comments but I would be happy to answer any questions you know I have run a small organization and always get that segregation of Duties um comment and I'm wondering is there any way not to with the the staff with the size that it is is there any way to satisfy that ever like there there could be you might get a little creative so it's kind of you have to look at the cost benefit I think like is it is it worth the benefit of not having that segregation of Duties to you know do these other and does that affect anything when people look at this does I mean I I everything I see always has that like almost every audit I ever see so does that affect anybody that looks at these you know not necessar um but I think it's important to still include it in there because you know the compensating control I talked about or kind of what what you do to combat that segregation of Duties is the review and approval process so always I'll bring it up every year because the review and approval is kind of the control there um that helps you with that segregation of Duties so not only like the district Finance team's review but the board's review process as well all right thank you any other questions um I I have a couple here page 80 when you're going back to your combined balance sheet and you mentioned over assets here uh the receivables and it says receivable property tax is net intergovernmental what is exactly is that because that 17 million is a small number when I see the money we are receiving from taxes so I believe um how it's calculated it's like half of next year's Levy is kind of how the recognizes the property taxes that's probably hit it um but I will say that that receivable is basically it's offset um under the Deferred inflows line by that same amount so those net to zero and the reason that that's presented that way is that that receivable that you have is really intended to finance next year um so it's both an and a liability that doesn't really it's no impact on your income statement on the current year because it's intended to finance next year okay so assets and minus liabilities is equity right am I saying that right again I'm not trying to pretend to be account here okay so I see the liabilities so what would you consider Equity here I see your I'm seeing your liabilities here I'm seeing your assets what would be considered sure so I see your fund balance here yeah so it' be like the total assets of the 39 million okay and then minus not only liabilities but those deferred inflows so again like that large property tax item so that total would be that 23 the 23 million so 9us 23 that's what gives you that 16.2 million second line from the bottom get it yep so then we have the unassigned of 13 million and then the assigned for future years's budget so since you had unbalanced budget um we just show that essentially you're planning to spend that fund balance next year so it's assigned for next year's budget okay great and two more questions here be simple going back to the segregation of Duty is that a a account phrase itself or is that segregation of Duties yeah yeah okay one more here and then I'm going to release you first of all good job this is very well prepared very professional so I really appreciate the effort your team put into this it was going back to I don't know what number of pages the MD na6 yep yeah yeah I don't know if you would consider that I guess a paid five you got two fives but that's what it is it shows the pie chart just opposite of this pie chart here yep and under revenues you list General revenues property taxes and then the personal property replacement tax is that that corporate yep got it okay that's what that is it's usually abbreviated CC cppr RT there you go okay I was trying to find that so that's sources that we get our money that's all I have thank you so much anybody else have any questions no I don't have any questions I just think it's interesting like our P I don't know the terminology you were talking about our percentage of how we fund our pensions and then I'd be curious to see what the states percentages you don't have any idea what it is do you I I honestly haven't looked at what theirs is recently so I can't comment on that but of all that crossed my mind but I tell you what of all you said for us to come back and get that 3.7 for the state recognition for the state profile that I think that ties with the highest score we ever had so you can come back anytime you want long as you bring that number back with I'll see what I can do right and I would just like to say say thank you to Brian and and his team as well for all their they really they really keep us l and a lot goes above and beyond his normal job duties goes into the audit and I email him and he gets right back to me it's amazing so he's great to work with as well yes and there even one thing doing the audit that I I found that I think we need to do better at with a manual I don't want to get into further discussion but they hopped right on it and said we're going to include that for next year so I think you guys responded back to me on that and and I said basically no further actions on my part the team basically got it so great job thank you is that 3.7 your recommendation to ISB that's how ISB calculates it so that's just we put all the data into that ISB AFR and they have all these formulas that pull in the data and they calculate it that way so is that printed in here on what page I yeah it's page number four but it's not four pages in it is I don't know 15 pages in but okay it's if you can see it from here I'll you theage like so it's page number four on the top gotcha but page number a little odd there just like is be that we just dump the data into essentially thank you yes so board members you have homework to do to go home tonight and go through all of this tonight you have trouble sleeping you can read it cover to cover well great job excellent job for presenting giving us so there was nothing again you kind of alluded to it already but nothing just stood out that we have to address as a high priority at this point point right just that segregation of Duties issue I mean we could get creative and maybe you know sit down with Jason and Brian next year during the start of the audit and see if there's maybe ways we can segregate items but otherwise things are operating pretty Sly okay great all right thank you thank you good [Applause] job all righty next up for discussion is the six Bravo number two discussion on the camon education center yes um we're bringing this back up again I as you recall um we were going through the process of uh trying to put the Mec building up for sale um we did have a someone in the community that was interested and I'm going to ask Jason to just give uh just an overview of that and then we can have a discussion about next steps good evening again um regarding the sale of Mo education center um as presented last spring um district has two options regarding uh the sale of Moni uh education center uh first option was the sale of the property to another public government uh public SLG government entity um we did receive some interest from the Village of Moni we were in communication with them uh going back and forth in fact they uh ordered an appraisal on a property we ordered an updated appraisal on the property and uh my last communications with representatives from the University of I mean not University I'm sorry the village of monim my apologies um when I responded to them with the new appraise value um of $615,000 I was informed that at this time the village of mon is not interested in pursuing uh purchasing the property so that leaves us with the option uh number two which is to sell sell the property to anyone other than a public SLG government entity and that could be done in two methods one uh is an auction method and the other is the sealed bid method so um I believe and Eric correct me if I'm wrong you can set a floor price on both of those uh I know you can with the seal bid I'm not too sure about the auction so we have ask for a legal representative to uh join us tonight and share their insight and their opinion on the matter yeah so you're correct that you can set a minimum a reasonable minimum floor price um it can be used with either method um and and really the procedure how we work it out is you would have the resolution you would pass as be by two-thirds majority saying that you want to sell the property that kind of kick starts the process um and then uh within 60 days of that is when you're supposed to have either that sealed bid process or the aution um and then in the weeks leading up to either the sealed bid opening or the um you know the auction you have to provide three successive weeks of notice in a locally circulated newspaper um and there's a couple other uh you know kind of little things you have to do throughout the process but that's the general process you adopt the resolution um you provide notice ahead of the auction or uh bid opening and then you get your your offers and then uh if you've a minimum price then if none of the um offers are basically meeting that price the district would then have the opportunity to engage the services of a real estate broker um there's some restrictions on the type of compensation they can releve it's a maximum of a 7% commission and that has to be contingent on the property being sold within 120 days after them being engaged um so that's kind of the general process any any other specific questions on that I don't I don't have any sir but I'll be sure to be in touch with your firm deciding the action that the board wants to take we're happy to help so great I I do have a question on that process where if someone won the bid per se just from the dollar amount how do we determine if that group or that person is qualified to obtain the money necessary to acquire the property how do we do that how how do we verbalize that in other words they won the bid and when it came to like okay you want the bed we want x amount of dollars by c a certain date to close on it and they cannot come up with that money do you go to the next person or what how do that work um at that point in time um you would probably you could probably decide to reopen the bidding at that point if you wanted to or go back I haven't had that happen in the past um so that's something they I want to double check but I think that the the process would be that you could either go back to the the next highest purchaser or you could reopen up the bidding um I I would say can you put some can you verbalize it I I guess we don't have to get into details just so you don't waste time going back and rebidding and putting out for auction to have these serious people that's serious to bid on this put up some x amount of dollars I don't want to say earnest money I don't know I mean that's that's kind of what I was thinking president a significant amount of non-refundable earnest money so if they can't qualify they're not because because it just when you when you submit a request for proposals or bids you have I don't know um bid bonds for example a bid Bond you end up put in that money and you win the bid and you say you know you want to bail out or whatever you lose your bid Bond money so that something to that effect you don't want to waste our time can't you get a letter of intent or say like you do do that exist at this level there has to be some consequences there has to be some consequences if a person said okay on paper you wanted to B but you know what you really didn't have any intentions on buying this or you you know you don't have the money or you waiting for someone at that point I think it would be easy just to push them aside and go to the next person that that's what you can do that you can do that right you can do that but that's why we verbalize that to say that okay and people know up front that they have an opportunity to get it even though they were the second when it's announced on a s s bid opening and the lost bidder won it and the next lost bidder then but there still may be an opportunity I don't think you at that point say you won a bid just she was the lowest bidder there there actually should be some other verbage you could highest better oh highest bidder you could also is it highest bidder yeah highest bid say yeah yeah I'm just doing just the opposite this particular yeah the highest bid yes in in this situation president Brown you're correct we want to get the most money for what we're selling yeah when we go out to bid we like to have the lowest yeah when I say lowest bidder I mean you know it's the win put it like this the winning bid high or low winning the winning winning bident terminology yeah the winning bidder you can also when you if you did the bidding process you could have you know specs that you would essentially have on the bid so you could have for example um pre-approved financing requirements and stuff like that there's all types of options that put there just I I just don't want to go out there spend this time and only for the person that won the bid is not qualified for it and now we have to start the process over that's all that's my intent of saying what I said I understand the the last thing I'll just add to is if you set a minimum price and then for example you did not get any of no one met that price for example and then you ultimately decided to lower the price you'd have to Rego through the entire bidding process once again just something to keep in mind so we want we want to be one and done with this I would say right we want to be one and done and and still trying to obtain what we want one and done and but still trying to me meeting our goal best we could we put on Next Step yes I am I don't know well the next step is the two pro proc it's the it's bidding and out right or the property transfer which we were entertaining with the village of mon right where you just it's the no it's the the auction or the seal and are there like prosen kinds of each of those or you can't do you can't do the property kind you can't do the property transfer again if someone wanted to is that only with a government entity or is that with a nonprofit organization as well when you can just entertain Ain contractual talk with just that one sole per uh entity from my understanding and based on the research I have it's a public SLG government entity not a nonprofit okay public okay so a nonprofit would probably be subject to option two which is the auction or the seal bid okay that's correct so seal bid or auction which is open that's I'm wondering is which direction do we want to go so I guess my question is based off of your for you all's expertise is one better than the other um or do you need time to try to look at it and see which one might benefit us more than than the other you know I would like a little time to um consult with legal counsel on that um to be honest with you this isn't a common practice of selling School dist you know school buildings um which limits our uh you know the potential buyers out there so that is one thing that I would ask they do tend to seem the same um I'm familiar with sealed bid processes based on everything we do um and I just don't know how the auction would actually work out but I'll be sure to I would think it would be additional money if a seal bid there's no middle person when you auction office there got to be Auctioneer out there that we have to pay I would a certain percentage so I would think financially the seal B bid process would be probably better and we got to put a floor on it so it does yes we put a minimum amount or whatever we we're looking and we don't have to deal with people they submit their bid you have a a bid opening at a certain time you open it up for the public to come in sit in or however you want to do it so I would think probably the seal bid should be the best way so you need to talk to him and then you all will come back to us and let us know we don't have to make a decision tonight right no okay no but I think we do need to go close session for that because in negotiating so that'll be next time not we don't have it could be next I I guess my point is we can move on if they need to talk yes am I right okay there you go thank you so was it a consensus that the board have our counsel and our business assistant I'm oh I just assuming that they had to talk regardless yes so no for for the best approach yep yes next week okay you guys going to talk about that with the best approach and even a recommendation our offic will'll communicate with him so that next week we can at the board meeting we can have a better idea of if we have a recommended approach between either auction or a sealed bid process yeah probably see what's the monetary value of an auction you know it pays a lot for that guy to go you know how they speaks like that all right all right thank you uh assistant superintendent for bringing us to number oh we got three oh and four four all right it's on you number three apologies I forgot my agenda over here you're supposed to know this by hard [Laughter] Jason kind of want to zip through this like Dr cogin when she reads off all the bills and stuff but I don't think we can so um you did you did Pat dudes um addressing uh item number six Bravo 3 as president Brown would say I'd like to open up a discussion to accept and approve awarding the project of the creep Moni High School renovations to Burns and Jones Construction to include a multiport a new multiports stadium new baseball and softball fields a practice field renovate tennis courts create pickle ball courts and new asphalt to all existing asph on the creep mon high school campus so so the only question I have is in the FYI so it says that um the Tiff has been the Will County Clerk has confirmed that they received it and it's going to add about 92.3 million to our eav so we've discussed this we've talked about it and we've proved it in both phases of this correct yes um but can you maybe by the next meeting or being say even in November is fine figuring out now that Moy and up have closed those tiffs there's I want second Mr swallers um the only Tiff that was dissolved a year ear early was Tiff five in University Park uh mon is not going to disolve their Tiff year early um those funds will be captured in fy2 Levy so then it'll be pushed a year um yeah it's just not being dissolved a year early I think that are we actually dissolving till 5 in up early yes it's dissolving not early I'm sorry it's dissolving it on time yeah so then we'll have if I understand right the 92.3 brought us roughly $4.8 or5 million yeah it'd be roughly our effective tax rate is slightly over 5% so when M dissolves there is that'll be approximately 1.1 million or somewhere around depending upon what the eav is and then what our our ra at that time could be more or less could be um depending upon the way our econom is going and the property value so with that being said we have both of these projects but is there a way we can just say that hey the total amount is going to be approximately $6 million what are we using that for and how is it going to be distributed so that I can definitely have that for you uh one thing that I do want to keep in mind I know we've had previous discussions about what those funds would be for and you know we were just estimating around $6 million we were looking at about $2 million for uh you know alternative revenue bonds to fund those annual payments we're also looking at about $2 million a year for preventative maintenance to ensure that all the work that we've done is uh going to sustain you know a substantial amount of time and then there was also the the leftover amount um kind of still in that scenario uh one thing I do want to continue to emphasize is that we did you know approve a budget of roughly $580 some, deficit so um hopefully we don't need to use the money for that cuz I know that with the idea of the Tiff rolling off that that would be new money that we can't use for other things but that's something that's closely on Brian and my radar to be honest with you and that's exactly what I want to make sure is that 2 million was supposed to go for the the bond payment 2 million for preventive which we need to make sure that every the money that we spent is maintained correct and um actually I've also spoken with Brian Brian's in the process of creating account codes specifically desicated to dedicated to preventive maintenance for the buildings and grounds department so that will give us a Tracker a way to track those funds they're just now looped in with the overall buildings and grounds funds and don't get co-mingled to what we currently spend and with the you up Tiff and even Moy being delayed a year it's not going to affect it because the mo is approximately 1 million and you're only looking for four out of that six right now the other two would go into general fund or what wherever so at least we're at least moving forward with everything else correct it it won't come all at once but it will be coming subsequent years yeah okay um and I'm probably missing it is the finalized Renovations of the Middle School in here no they're not in there at this time but the funds from the the issuance of alternative revenue bonds would address the um renovations to the middle school that was presented I believe was last May it'll be allocated for when we did the other projects that's kind of how we no I just want to make sure like that was my like I think when we voted on that it's I think we earmarked it that specifically cool perfect I just wanted to make sure is that right we specifically earmarked the Middle School the sports uh number three number four and then the middle school is all earmarked out of that money correct B the yeah correct the reason I didn't put it on the agenda uh at this time is because um you know just to keep our time frame of starting the Sports plex and completing it by next fall where we uh we do need to get moving on this if we want to stick with that time frame if we don't take action now then there is a possibility that it you know it will be delayed a year and you had to wait until this happened anyways right to confirmation correct right and that was the big thing you know uh Mr surma attended the meeting on May 28th when it was passed we felt that as if we could not move forward in good faith without having word from the Will County Clerk that the paperwork has actually been filed and uh I received that word I believe leave on sept the afternoon of September 20th sorry if you don't mind no burn bernon Jones and and bear are they holding their price is it staying yes they are um yeah they're holding their price from the letter intent that was issued um I believe it was approved in March of 2024 so now the for the Middle School same thing is there anything on that that's with it being out so far we did a projected estimation right projected estim now who are you are you're going to start working on at least the preliminary um renderings and all the architectural stuff so we can get some good hard budget numbers yes we are we've actually started working with Burns and Jones in regarding the preliminary site development for the sports plx um I will be reaching out to Bear not only for the concession stand but fact that the middle school project is much bigger um I'm going to work on that as well all right now that we have financing secur thank you you you can walk and chew gum at the same time I would hope so okay all right anything else any questions for Jason for number three okay so uh quick question sorry I uh wanted to see uh the tennis courts they're uh are they going to be painted with pickle ball courts on them or like are you you taking a you're not taking away the tennis courts right we currently have eight tennis courts four of them will remain tennis courts and then the other four will be converted to 14 pickle ball courts okay both courts will be crack fi refinished and resurfaced and everything to make both of them playable and keep them in excellent condition okay I just all right thank you when you remind me something we do have a tennis team right do we have a tennis okay and the courts are being used right yes they are that's why we're not eliminating all courts boys and girls boys and girls okay great and our hope is to to also you know introduce pickle ball not only as a a sport but through the curriculum of the physical education department and giving our students exposure to a Leisure an additional Leisure sport you wonder if HSA is going to adopt that at some point I I I given the popularity I've seen in certain areas it's it's it's definitely growing yep okay I do challenge you Jason and Alex thank you for bringing that up and I think I brought this up once before that's the pickle ball court the sound the decibels that they you know playing with the noise level and all of that just make sure before we finalize the drawings and we know if there's some type of noise level that's acceptable and I don't know what guidelines is out there but I know just the profession that I'm in there's certain noise level that we have to maintain in the neighborhood whatever if if not we could get fined by yes and I've I've actually looked in no not fin by pickle ball but I'm talking to the noise that's it's a a loud it's like tennis Ser Willam not pickle ball it makes noise that's been all on TV and neighborhoods tennis I was at The Acorn Fest and there was a pickle B pickle ball tournament going on I didn't hear anything scho just saying you go back and look at it and I know it's been it's been on the news and you know Condominiums and people Senor think I think much of that yeah pickle ball it's the noise it says it's been driving neighborhoods crazy so I'm just saying to go out and just you know yeah I know but it's been all on the news Google people playing it though yeah Google yeah Google no actually um I I do remember you bringing that up and I'll uh put the information back in the FI FYI um regarding decibel levels I believe a lot of it is originating from people put them in close like senior orientated communities the fact that we're putting it south of where our football field is that can work very well I'm just saying do our do dillig to say we assess this da da da we're not going to have a problem the court is going to be over here it's not going to exceed any noise level it's not going to violate anybody uh you know living conditions so to speak that's all yeah no I I got the literature it is I mean you want to go Google it it's been all on the news over the last on the last uh year 85 Deb so whatever you're not wrong like I said I I looked into it I pull the information included in the FYI after Friday okay but like I said I hate to put it there and then all of a sudden you got a neighbor complaining and then we have to address their complain and say hey we are in violation whatever and now you know we got to start it's some start over from scratch so let's do our bu wall H build a wall and use a noise barrier must be from the chering from people chering no it's it it makes a sound it makes a sound a loud 85 deible noise but most of the complaints come from quarreling that's what you say 85 DB and just there some normal conversations in 35 40 DB 90 DB require earplug so yeah so that's all that's good thank you thank you so much you're welcome and you pretty much addressed number four or you still talking about number four here um no uh six Bravo four goes along with three number three so if there's no questions regarding the concession stand that's kind of within the same scope of the project okay thank you thank you thanks Jason all right Charlie okay for item uh one it's uh board policy 7 colon 270 270 for revisions as you saw on your board packet it was highlighted in green basically this is just some additional language to include that allows the district to maintain a supply of medication a prescription for medication uh for asthma and those with the EP epinephrine injection so that was just there for you to take a look at later that's the epip pin yes correct okay how do that work do we have do we know students that may require we have a list of those students we do and I know this is a year or so ago the cost of these epip pins was extraordinar high so we keep someone stock right we keep them that's what thisy is asking us to do do you know what we're paying for uh I don't know roughly just nurse Kate that's to be outside ofit have nurse nurse Kate oh I knew I had she just we plan this she gave me the question to ask you know I don't come here for fun I'm here there's a reason uh so right now the we have um for the albuterol which is the asthma so this is to address the asthma and the um allergy medication okay so for just to preempt the question the alol which is the inhalers we have free P we have free was given to us through the um asthma allergy Foundation the Rescue Foundation has provided us with at least two inhalers so over 300 doses for every school so we already have that with disposable Chambers like all set ready to go M um gotcha and then um um for the epipens I am waiting for a shipment of epipens of the adult and the Junior from the epipens for school um through the EpiPen company so that's already done they've approved it I should be getting two doses of each for every building hopefully I just don't know when it is a very slow moving um I think I submitted it back in July and just got that it's processed it we'll let you know when it's shipped I got that notification in September and it's still apparently not shipped but it didn't matter because I can't do anything with it until you guys so I add this to the policy so it can sit there legally we can't do anything with it until it's in board policy so it should be free the barrier that we had in the past about having it has been lack of prescribers we didn't have anybody that would prescribe the standing order for epipens so I finally found one hopefully I can convince them to do one more so that'll give us another two years um and so that was the only barrier we ever had it is not abnormal most schools have undesignated medication so what is the cost for one of those pins uh in the world for like not prescription it's a few hundred for us and for most people it's free ah yeah okay it's just access to it and then insurance insurance okay yep all right thank you random aside yes love it does the high school have Naran yes all of our buildings have Naran and we actually have Naran available um for staff if they wanted it to keep on their person as well um our provider has been willing to give us whatever we needed so we've even opened it up to our staff at our yearly meetings or trainings that we meet with them at the beginning of the year that if they ever wanted to supply a Naran that we're happy to get that for them thank thank you okay anything else thank you n thank you that was actually great okay that's the that's for um what's the drug for overdose overdose yeah yeah opioid okay okay all right is that it with the policy yep and it's going to be for us to approve we'll have on next one next one next one okay all righty thank you got any old business the the only thing I just want to say is I saw that video I thought that was kind of kind of cool that we did a a drone and a video of homecoming I just like the whole Atmos the everything about it so I like the direction the district's going for homecoming trying to bring in um the past the present and hopefully the future so yeah and we are looking at uh we've been just using some contractors out there for various um videos I will be talking with you soon about trying to have a full-time videographer I've not wanted to do that but I think the direction we're going it would be helpful to have a full-time videographer on staff so they could be out there daily pushing out the videos that are going on you can see on the website it made such a difference you know it's in an interactive video uh you've got the aerial views and things like that so there's a lot of things that we can do with that and I'll be talking with you about that sooner than later but yeah I'm excited about that and especially for homecoming for next year yeah excellent any other old business new business hearing none we do have a reason to go into close session tonight and that's for the the purpose of the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees can I have a motion to go into close Chester some moved move by Alex I second broll call please any questions com Miss s stumbris i Mr swales I miss r and i Mr gyos I Dr Hall I president Brown I okay so we should be in close session anywhere from 35 to 45 minutes and we will not take any action after that thank you public for joining us we are adjourned L yeah

to 10:00 a.m. seniors will have a chance to meet with representatives from many colleges and universities as well as members of the armed services as they began to plan for their trans transitions to life after glts quarter 1 progress reports progress reports will be available in the F in the family and student portals today Tuesday o October 8th students and Par students and parents/guardians will receive an email letting them know progress reports have been published Reggie represent at methu Admissions and counseling staff Betsy Gomez and Ramon Cruz as well as student Yoli Torres were thrilled to represent the Reggie community at Mat day this past Saturday October 5th they were able to speak with many middle school students and families about all that GS has to offer and help them to learn about our admissions and enrollment process interact interact Club spet River cleanup on Saturday September 21st the interact Club cleaned up an impressive 8,000 lbs of trash from the spigot River in addition 300 needles were collected from the river congratulations to Mr SE and the inter interact club members the girl soccer team host Ed a successful car wash on Saturday September 28th thank you to teacher Mr Chris sier for coordinating this event in the spet river cleanup driver's education is returning to glts driver's education classes are available to all students who will be at least 15 and 9 months by October 22nd classes will run through November 21st and will take place after school from 2:45 to 515 p.m.

and that will be held at the community center and I I normally don't do this but I will because it's part of my thought process we will be able to as part of this budget process really share with the board of finance and the board of edit why the budget looks different than it looked in 2006 or even in 1996 and give all the external factors that that make up that that that budget process so that is something that we definitely put as part of the process it's good for a board of Finance to also understand that as well as the the the board of education so I'll be asking Mr is Robins that we'll put that as part of our presentation I'm not sure and we probably should have that um by the time we do our forecast budget also um so I do want to let the board know that and the next uh regular scheduled board meeting will be held on Tuesday November 12th I'll take any questions out of the superintendent's office at this time any board member have a question for the superintendent okay hearing none we'll move to the assistant superintendent report Mr Bishop please might I'll be brief tonight uh Mrs cogins uh was able to share a little bit for us I want to thank you to to Lisa for bringing that up and share with everyone on uh September 13th The District in cooperation with the community received the distinction of being named a vision zero District by the Connecticut Department of Transportation this is due to the concerted and coordinated work of the district and our community in an effort to be able to promote safety uh this award was made possible by the collaboration of the school and District administration um uh Brandon Richard and James Mona who are two teachers at Canton High School for some of their work in developing a a bike pathway um bike technology pathway in partnership with Jan Tanner of benador bikes um and then also through work with our community members including those from bwalk hon uh the temporary traffic and Safety Committee and all of our neighbors so we're thrilled to be able to be recognized for doing that work uh I'm grateful for that uh recognition and then on uh uh September 24th we had an early release in support of teachers really focusing on using language to support and when necessary theas students making sure that we have an outstanding School culture and climate um it was work it was done in coordination and collaboration with our district culture and climate committee our Equity committee and our pts Department I want to say thank you to Amy GIC from CIS and Kelly d Martino from Cherry primary school and Mrs mle for her leadership and being able to help coordinate and make that day happen and then uh our upcoming professional day will'll be focusing on the data that we're receiving from our first universal screen that we provide for students this this uh fall any questions out of my office uh Mr Bishop can you give the board just a 30 second update on Cherry primary school and where we are in the building project please absolutely uh we have U we've met together as a team we're coming back together to be able to um prioritize the options that are aail a to us what we understand is that the board of Selectmen had commissioned the pmdc to move in a particular direction the working committee that had worked together to provide uh a potential solution um gave some additional information that's requiring us to take a step back and reevaluate further with our Board of Selectmen to be able to cast a new uh Vision going forward but the work continues um and is uh going to keep moving forward with uh the conversations with that group and eventually into our pmbc again anticipate as well thank you sir any questions from Mr Bishop we don't have any online okay thank you thank you Mr Bishop okay excellent the fun part the student report I'm sorry did I no she's she's after students like that no the fun part is students and then we get to [Music] business and you're a f part too some Maggie do you want to go first or how do you want to who wants to go first tonight I can start okay I'll be reporting on CIS so in the month of September CIS started recognizing students for Positive Choices by Hing up respectful responsible and Role Model Star cards Maggie can you just speak up a little bit cuz I'm getting old thank you uh CIS participated in start with below week does create a sense of inclusion and kindness C had its largest students Council this year with many ties in the race house representative the school held its first advisory meeting of the year and students created a hello brick that would be added to a start with Hello wall with the school Ela and special education teachers have their first PD session with Ela consultant F gold uh fifth graders went on the project oceanology field trip while a little chilly both groups had a great day uh sixth graders have their first uh their first of a two-part series with Empower leadership last Friday CIS got's first ever character car off each home room and preschool class will car or decorate their styrofoam pumpkin to be in likeness to their favorite book character and the students will vote on a favorite pumpkin in Halloween and the pto's annual prid night will be held on on Friday October 25th Board of Ed members are welcome feel free to be AC thank you thank you so uh CIS their their SCH government is uh they meeting they've had their meeting how often do they meet I didn't get that okay I was just wondering maybe you catch that for me Julia okay um I will be reporting on cherra um so in partnership with forti Transportation uh Mr amera and Mr Barnes engaged in a student lesson on bus safety um and this also involved visiting a parked bus that was in the parking lot so they were able to actually put into practice um on Friday October 4th CH held its second all school meeting of the year at this meeting they focused on the bare necessity um and they watched a video that the faers were involved in making and it was supposed to teach the younger grades what it means to be like respectful and to really uh kind of show the values and how to get like positive cards and at this point they have received over 400 positive cards as a school uh the second graders have been on a field trip to rber Nature Center uh where they're able to connect the science topics that they're learning in class the real life um and coming up uh the this month the kindergarteners will do their Halloween par to CHS and uh in the Middle School uh this year chook will be holding its Field Day in October and this will be a great opportunity to enjoy the fall and also to build connections and teamwork between uh students and teachers um and cheber has launched a new birthday book club um uh this birthday Book Club is where when it's your child's birthday you donate a book to the to gr uh library in their off excellent report thank you Lucas I suspect you're going to get high school yeah high school middle school and high school so for the high school we have our PSAT set up and practice day um this Thursday 10:10 and uh next I believe Thursday I not Thursday Tuesday 1016 106 we take the actual PSAT for PSAT 11 uh 10 and 89 uh which is also the middle school for 8th grade um soon uh Kent high school will be honored for winning the Michaels cup which is a sports honor the fall play will soon be taking place with hsal and tech prep well underway um the annual prisons concert is in development with the seniors selecting producers and working to pick a theme right now um currently us sport of EV Representatives districtwide are interviewing students about their goals for the year and soon in the high school we will have spirit week and the game day coming on upcoming Friday excellent excellent great great report so what's what's the mood out there right now we're through September and we're going talked over everybody kind of in the swing of things and yeah it's back to normal good well you guys are smiling so I you're representative of the school so I suspect everybody's smiling right okay well thank you for those reports any questions for the student Representatives okay thank you very much now we go to the other fun part this is Robin on uh the business managers report great thank you thank you good evening um tonight we um just going to talk about the September results Financial results for the district um we went um finance committee reviewed um all of these this the overall forecast for September is unfavorable $ 56,86282 188 special education is forecasted to be unfavorable 593 684 um which is NS after the 560 we had a little movement in Salan benefits that was positive we did have some uh to replace um hot water heater in C Middle High School um that was not budgeted um for so we'll be over a budget in that area and then again the special education over budget condition is due to having District uh transportation and tuition um um and let's see and those expenses will be offset by some forecasted revenues um for excess cost cost um were to come later on that um we did review some budget adjustments to for the month of um um September um to um reflect the allocation of the provision for salaries okay I'm GNA ask you a whole your questions because when we get to the finance report Mr Bush and M Robins will kind of give you an update on the uh Finance meeting today and then you can ask your questions there um okay we're of and running to uh C celebrates and our continuous Improvement plan updates by Mr depo and Dr Kidwell thank you for being here tonight we appreciate it any students here from the high school over here here [Music] so nice uh to be here tonight um and we thank the board for the opportunity to speak uh and celebrate some of the things going at the high school um Mr you you ask Lucas about how the school year is going I'd have to say it's quite busy uh busy on all levels stely with the teachers and certainly with the students we are up and running there's so many activities going on um and the weather's been been wonderful so so between Outdoor Sports and indoor activities we've uh we've just really uh been portal and hectic I think but also really in a positive way I think all students are highly involved tonight I'm going to be speaking specifically about four groups but in my mind uh it's really representative of um the school student body as a whole um in terms of the activities that happen in our school early in the year it's hard to celebrate a whole lot of things so this is sort of a hybrid of celebrating certain things but also informing the board of some fun things that are going on and some things to look forward to I'll also be speaking about my continuous Improvement plan and in that we talk about learning environment we talk about opportunities for students and when we talk about plan planning um and budgeting um we've often added cying positions to offer opportunities for students to be involved and I've always appreciated the board support on that and I think what we'll be hearing a little bit about tonight is students who take advantage of those opportunities but not just take advantage but invest in those opportunties to the point where they become full-fledged leaders and really more than ever tonight I think we're celebrating the leadership and the maturity of this group because not only are they involved in certain capacities but they lend themselves and Lead themselves or lead the Endeavors to the point where um you know they just top not the first group I would for those members of The Writing Center um please come forward by Dr Kidwell we have five members tonight four are present um I'd like you to introduce you to Kendo forsland Elizabeth pelen Ariana Schuman is not available tonight and nor the BGE uh most of you on the board were able to to uh hear a brief presentation on October 2nd where they spoke at length about their um commitment to supporting students one undering of our of our student population is um the ability to outreach in the community um Outreach uh through volunteerism and and through areas where they're committed to um certain elements of of um the schools and the broader Community this group in particular has taken their talents um to just simply support students every day in our school um but I really feel like they're their opportuni is a little bit unique as mentioned in in the presentation they take a course called The Writing Center um wrer Workshop wrer Workshop Writing Center Writing Center all right and within that um they essentially um are selected or or asked to be involved in nth grade and take the course during their 10th grade year and they learn all the ins and outs as um we discussed last week about how to support students in their writing we have many layers of support in writing but uh these folks act as peer coaches um to help um students in all elements of writing um they're um connected to ninth grade um teachers when when they're doing writing assignments and it progresses all the way up through um College um essay um writing as well and I also want to mention about this group you know this group is is is um willing to give up their time but they're highly invested I mean they athletes here members of the drama music productions as well so they're very busy during this uh school year but yet they find time to work with students during the week I would also you miss I didn't mention Miss mly who who's here to join us tonight miss mly is really the the think tank behind uh the course um we had a different element of how we supported student writing when she came to me about 8 years ago and said I think we have a better idea and she did uh the hard work and learned through Ukon about the program and and then brought brought the course back us than Anna and I know the stud directly from Anna um and have continued to to give so I I'd like to honor you tonight and thank you all of you for your support of of student growth here in our school and being role models for volunteers and in our community so I'd like to thank first kend Forman and off you can get your certificate from Dr [Applause] IDW Ariana Schuman [Applause] B all right you guys can start we're going to a picture in a moment those here represent Mr Depo if I could just say the board that was there at the CIP we were very impressed with the with the generosity of time and the kindness that you show to your fellow students in helping them in their writing development so it it was a very impressive presentation that you made to the board so thank you thank you so the second group I'd like to uh honor tonight are members of our Leadership Council the warrior Leadership Council who are also um preminent athletes in our school and you you Jo I'm sorry and um again not only are the athletes in our school but they certainly act as Role Models uh and their leadership um is above reproach as their leaders in in each of their Endeavors um I'd like to introduce them first individually and then talk about sort of the collective reason why they're here uh Nick Le better is here he's on a soccer team he wrestles he plays golf he's captain of the soccer team this year he was all all conference in golf last year L Conor plays field hockey presently she's also been involved in indor track and softball where she's all state in both field hockey and softball as an all and all conference in indor track she broke the school record last year for shotbook and um she'll probably shoot at it again this year uh she's the captain right now for the field hockey team Juliana you know her here as as a member of the Board of Education she also runs AC cross country in and outo track and she was the Captain for uh this cross country team this year she's all conference inor trap so you see um the breath of Athletics uh prominence that we have here but also the leadership that they bring forward this year as L just mentioned we were honored and we had been honored a little bit for the Michael scup award and I want to thank M church here or M Mrs her here who um helped also develop that it's a combination of things that we do behind the scenes such was organization um it's also um over ly as part of our community for our sportsmanship both um in the stands and what we do in our community and then also on the field above that uh we want a Fred ball summer Sports of sports specifically this year for some of the things that these students help run I'd like to just just um it's about a 90 second video but I think it's worth watching sure here if you would mind just running that that kind of talks about why we want us to work for that's for for [Applause] So Yesterday members of the our Leadership Council um joined several other um High School um high schools throughout the state at um the cic leadership conference where we were um given our Michael cop and these three amongst others received the award the picture is there and so again I do believe you know as much as they are here for themselves they do represent um you know the greater good here on the athletic fields here at K high school they truly are sort of ambassadors for all the athletic teams where they represent themselves so thank you for all that you do uh individually um you know in all your accomplishments but also collectively for you do for the athletic teams thank you so much Nick um Juliana and so that Michael's cup Awards really distinguishes and separates Canton from the rest of the pack and what we do and when we look at a vision of canton's public schools and what a graduate looks like you know as I was looking at that video you've checked off three of the five boxes and we're just very impressed and thank you for all your hard work and your generosity and kindness uh to others so thank you Juliana Owen TR group Owen so you see a few familiar faces and a few new faces here um the triam is basically our our music um groups that support um music in terms of you know leadership uh Within the Music Department and U this group represents U basically leadership of that we have Owen who's the president who's also a member of our chamber singers and a future soloist and a drama leader we have Julie Adams a vice president who's also a tenor saxophone in the band and a choir and a chamber singers uh this is Shay Shaker and Shay is a secretary and she's a clarinet play the clet in the band she's a member of the concert prior and she's been in several of our uh future plays and musicals as well we you all know but he also plays a French horn in the band he's trumpet in a Jazz Ensemble and a Basse singer in the choir last year he was selected uh for the northern region band for the French war and he's going to audition again next month so we wish him luck there and this is Anna cop she's the historian she's also a member of the chamber singers uh she's a featured soloist in our choirs she's a drama club leader as well she's been several of our plays and musicals and she was also selected last year for the northern region course and again heading to another audition next month so we certainly wish you well Anna um verying to what I said uh about the athletic department um this group is is supremely talented uh in their own right um they give back to their um fellow um members uh in the band andic choire with their two religion leadership um they um supported um the greater good of um the Outreach that's going on right now in the music program and I actually want them to talk a little bit about some of the Endeavors that they've just recently accomplished and that they will be um you'll be hearing more about soon so I'm not sure we going to speak but we do have a couple sides to work for I do it but I don't know the script um basically we there was a night that was at the community center um that invited anyone who was in band singers um actors really anyone who may have to audition for entering into college or a specific field that they're looking at um and I believe Yukon was there it was represent from Yukon I believe art and maybe another College um pictures and they just kind of gave like tips about you know whenn auditioning and stuff like that and very important just giving information about different things that you might need to appes auditions and stuff all right I will talk about the hearts trip to New York City which occurred on September 28th it was a very fun day out in the big city where we started by going to the Museum of Modern Art for a couple of hours before going to see the Broadway show Hades town the ma performance where we then ended the day at the restaurant bubble gum right in Time Square and it was a great day for everyone that went great memories to celebrate the Arts uh this is so upcoming soon we have the first Coffee House of the Year this is the fall Coffee House basic basically if you guys don't know coffee house is an open performance night where anybody can sign up um we encourage it to be uh performances that involve the Arts so it could be a solo singer it could be a small band that you do on the side or it could be some kind of other performance like maybe a d like you uh do dance outside of school and you'd like to take that in like a lyrical performance um coffee house is open and it's a great way for students to go and express themselves uh basically just go out have fun everyone can show up I believe uh to next Friday not this October 18th uh that Friday at uh 7:00 p.m.

e e e for the your patience and uh good evening it's 6:09 p.m my name is Gabriel harp and chair of the nror energy commission and I'm calling this meeting to order I'm participating from my home in an arbor um let's see welcome to the October 8th electronic meeting of the uh energy commission we will conduct this meeting like inperson meetings and Commissioners during the roll call please indicate your current location also during the meeting please remain on camera just as you would be visible during inperson meetings unless your camera does not connect at the moment um finally please mute your microphone when not speaking public comment will be via telephone only to speak during any of the public comment opportunities please call one of the following to three numbers 877 85352 47 or 888 78899 and enter the meeting ID number 5 excuse me 95687 718 7876 on your phone this information is also available on the published agenda in the Public Public Notices section of the city's website or on the broadcast of this meeting on CTN Channel 16 AT&T channel 99 and online at 8 www.a2gov.org watch CN Joe would you please read the all land acknowledgement statement um if you have available yeah unfortunately I do not have access to a my computer at the moment which has the land acknowledgement on there and I do not know it off the top of my head my apologies it's all right that said I think we'll move on to the approval of the agenda um is there a motion to approve the agenda as posted in a second commissioner overp and Comm council member breggs a second okay um Commissioners please raise your hand if you want to propose or any changes or discuss an issue seeing No Hands raised those in favor of approving the agenda as posted please raise your hand and say I hi hi I all those opposed please raise your hand and say n okay seeing none opposed uh the agenda is approved and we'll move on to the approval of the minutes is there a motion to approve the minutes posted in a second commissioner colen Garcia and a second council member Briggs thank you uh Commissioners please raise your hand if you'd like to discuss any changes to the minutes seeing none raised um all those in favor of approving the minutes as posted please raise your hand and say I hi I all those opposed please raise your hand and say n seeing No Hands seeing no none opposed uh the uh minutes are approved we'll now move on to public input uh this is an opportunity for people to speak for up to three minutes you're if you're watching on CTN please call 888 78899 or 877 8535 52 47 and enter meeting ID 956 8718 7876 this information is also displayed on the meeting agenda and video feed City staff will select callers who have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of their phone phone number um to electronically raise your hand and to indicate your desire to speak please press star N9 on your phone you will hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area and mute mute any television or background sound so that we may hear you clearly and please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments think I I can do this let me one hand raised all yep um yeah caller ending in 134 uh thank you Mr Lang and chair harp K Garber 28 H Hill Court um there are 32,000 rental units in Ann Arbor so getting green rental housing right is critical before you vote tonight ask yourself this question will the program meaningly Advance this a20 goal for the year 2030 25% of rental properties have fully electrified and the electricity powering those homes is coming from renewable energy sources I think the answer is clearly no last month I put together one checklist scenario which commissioner mky was nice enough to include in in his written comments by cobbling together a series of simple and relatively cheap steps I easily exceeded the required 80 points the way the checklist is scored there's no real incentive for landlords to Electrify appliances or to add renewable energy um the checkli the checklist should somewhat improve Energy Efficiency but I want to advance those goals last month I suggested scoring the giveaway items lower or just raising the threshold for compliance to something like 110 points uh neither was done how did we end up with such a weak ordinance I don't know I do know the task force included the Wasa area Apartment Association the association frankly is a reactionary organization dedicated almost entirely to defending the narrow economic interests of its membership on its website there's nothing about climate but lots about the progressive legislation that it opposes sure solicit its stakeholder input but leave it at that I hope we're not letting the association dictate the limits of this ordinance as Wayne Apple Yard commented last month in a climate emergency we need fast and decisive action for that all of us must sacrifice including landlords there's a risk that will pass on cost to tenants but landlords often raise this issue just to oppose effective regulation um Mr Lang uh in an email today which was copied to me thanks uh states that the ordinance is the limit of what's legally possible he writes quote this is what we are able to do and it is not something we are able to change end quote I think he needs to explain this because I don't know of any state law except for the rent control preemption that restricts the city's ability to strengthen its own rental housing code we live in a home rule state that means courts give wide discretion to local governments and the State Building Code preemption only applies to new construction so let's hear about these legal limits tonight if they're real they need to come out otherwise I think we should go back and rework the ordinance um So based on what I know now and I'll be paying close ATT attention during the meeting I would vote no on tonight's resolution um but whatever you decide please keep the climate first in mind uh as hurricane Milton is about to slam into the Florida coast thank you all for your volunteer work thank you um no further callers thank you okay um tonight on the agenda we have the resolution in support of an ordinance to amend chapter 105 of title 8 of the code of the city of an arbor to support Greening of the rental market um and in the documents uh attached to tonight's meeting in gentle also there's a the green rental housing ordinance along with the number of attachments uh related to that ordinance as well as the supplemental materials associated with that um what we'd like to do is I'd like to um ask if there's a motion to open up discussion on the ordinance so moved this is John MC thank you I'll second thank you commissioner overpack and Joe is it right that we have to have a vote to open discussion as well or no NOP okay thank you um okay um I'd like to open it up for discussion then uh of of the resolution in support of the ordinance um I know a number of uh questions and clarifications have have been raised around uh around this both through email and as follow-ups to the last Commission meeting and um Joe maybe I'll kick it off with you if you don't mind and um if there's anything that you'd like to touch on before we uh before we uh proceed to other questions or clarifications from the commission members yeah and apologies again I thought I was good on Zoom I'm not but I at least have my computer and so I'm on mobile I very much oliz um yeah so I think in general there were a couple changes that you can see that were noted in there these were largely along the lines of things that are related to um just some technical things as well as just some you know Corrections of things that were just incorrect or could be phrased in a in a better manner um and largely what was presented last week or last month is what where we're at what we're moving forward with at this time and what we're able to support um I'm happy to go into some of those um some of those questions that were posed as well as some I know I forwarded on some that were uh presented but wanted to just make sure um to see if there was any you know other questions anything like that um otherwise I'm happy to just kind of start going into those questions but yeah I just wanted to see if there was anything else that would be helpful either clarification wise or questions from folks or um any anything else for just diving into those different questions and things like that okay why don't um Joe if it makes sense for you if you don't if you don't mind if there were um top level issues that you feel like you wanted to um address immediately from those from those questions um that might help us kick off the discussion as well and then I think we can follow up with any clarifications from other commissioners sure um I do see John I think John has a hand up do you want me to go to that or do you want me to I'm happy to start wherever makes little sense for you commissioner mki yes uh thanks for recognizing me uh as was mentioned earlier uh I took another attempt at summarizing uh the kinds of concerns and issues that I and others um have with the ordinance as proposed um that was sent an email um early this afternoon to Joe and several others and it was shared with all of you um they tend to be ordered I think in order of importance and uh what I would propose if um Joe doesn't have any opening comments or no one else has any um specific other questions is that we potentially open that uh email and just simply go down that list um that way we make sure that we sort of cover all the points in order and um I'm not um requiring or demanding that every single point be addressed but I think all of these points um are relatively significant um either in general terms such as those raised by Ken Garber uh in his public comments or in terms of some specific issues um that I think are going to be important to landlords or other people that are going to be using um and having to adhere to this ordinance so that's what I would propose I am fine doing that to be clear um and I'm happy to do that I do recognize too that that could be just a lot of me sitting here reading things off so at any point people are more than welcome to jump in um but so acknowledging all that I'm happy to just I'm happy to do that if John wrote them why why not and would you be willing to do it John um I couldn't read them I mean I didn't know I haven't been checking my email this afternoon I've been traveling so sure I mean I can I can um if we if we um share the document the email then everybody can see it and I can summarize the points um I don't have to read every word is that okay Joe yes that is fine um again no no no you're good um yeah and again just noting I I don't know what's happening I cannot access zoom on my computer uh so I can't screen share at the moment yeah and and maybe maybe what we do is we can start there's there's sort of three top level top level issues I think bro broadly construed um that may are probably the the big the biggest ones maybe to start out with and and if I might just briefly characterize each of them the first question has to do with um OSI the office of sustainability innovation's confidence that this ordinance and the and the the goals outlined in the a20 plan uh will be achieved um with this so do I have that that with do I have that basically correct John yes the a20 plan um as approved by city council um has certain high level goals and uh some of those then are broken down obviously to specific goals related to rental properties and so the question is um does OSI believe that these goals are achievable um within the next um five five years and three months um using um or based on the ordinance as is it's it's personally my belief that um it will not um be uh an enabler to meet these targets but I'd like to hear that from OSI and um then a lot of other points are frankly you know dependent on that as to whether or not those goals can be met or not in the assessment of OSI so the first first question was about those sort of the a20 plan and the and the broad goals of the a20 plan and and this ordin with respect to this ordinance and then there was a second question with respect to the the thresholds and and the sort of point system and how they were arrived at um and then the third had to do with a variety of specific checklist items and the sort of you know framing um of particular approaches or uh options within the tech check within that checklist um uh for different types of of um uh changes that that uh building owners might make uh or activities that they might undertake with respect to the checklist itself so those are sort of three big buckets of questions um at the outset um and maybe we can just start sort of with the gestal of of um gestal but also uh more specifically how you know the confidence that the OSI has around um this ordinance and the program overall with respect to the a20 goals you bet um and one other thing too just noting I think we might have amidst all the technical stuff we might have missed um doing the actual attendance roll call and all that but um if we need to do that formally we can but otherwise I can see all who's here and I believe we have Quorum so I think we're okay there um okay so yeah the the first one just talking about do we feel comfortable with these goals and the answer is yes to that I think still with you know the way this ordinance is laid out there you know there might still be work that needs to be done on top of it but that's something that's completely doable and I think this is something that sets us up to do all of that kind of work I think it's also important to note that you know we we look at this plan and I think a thing that we've you know said about it every you know every time the day it was signed the plan was out of date and the plan was wrong there's always things that are changing there's always things that are new and there's things that are in our new and you our new landscape that weren't things that we would have even thought could have existed at the time of this plan I mean just to name a few um if we're looking at some of the recent you know state level legislation requiring our um you know our electricity to be uh 50% from carbon free sources by 2030 that's something that's going to have a big impact and that's going to do a lot to kind of meet um some of these goals um you know specifically that you know rental properties uh having their electricity coming from renewable energy sources um um similarly the IRA tax credits that was something that you know at the time of the plan was not even something that felt like something that could exist and that's already having huge impacts on our economy on our building stock obviously it's not you know at the level of where those goals are at but it is something that very much gets us to those um you know really helps in a way that again we could not have fathomed at the time that the plan was created so all of that was a lot of talking but again yes I I personally feel confident and still being able to meet these goals there's going to be you know a lot of work and as with everything there is not one solution to it you know there's not one program not one ordinance that's going to make all of the change and that's why we need to be working at all these different levels getting people into this getting people moving forward and working at it from there so yes I think it is still completely feasible um any follow-ups to that otherwise I can go on to the next about the points and where the points are at commissioner Mercy I personally feel that is overly optimistic uh one of the goals is that uh let me double check here um I think 25% of all R rental units will be electrified by 2030 uh if you remember the original version of this list it was an attachment sent to you before the last meeting uh Ken Garber put together a scenario where um 86 points can be achieved simply by coming up with a plan and by doing rental uh uh yeah renter education and a few other things but really basically no significant decarbonization uh activities I I just simply don't believe that um you can take uh osi's word for it um I I think we should um remember this when we go forward but I don't believe that the threshold of 80 points for the checklist pathway is going to get us anywhere close to uh achieving the goals that are outlined at the the beginning of my email yeah I guess it must unless there's more that kind of Segways into the discussion around the point total so I'm to jump into that again just making sure there's nothing else before I jump into that council members clarifications on that or comments I'll I'll add one um I think um I'm I'm not sure who was I believe it was another commission member uh commissioner mki it might it might have been you um there was a a recent article in the journal science that looked at climate policy and the impact of of climate policies and a number and did a sort of comparative approach and I think I think if I um had the and I can I'll share this with all the commission members after after the meeting but I think one of the big takeaways from that was that those um those entities that had implemented policies were large the ones that were largely successful were accomplishing that through a combined uh sort of um approach to both incentives disincentives a variety of different policies all sort of mutual mutually complimenting each other um in in a variety of different ways and so I think um without getting into the details of of their analysis I think one of the takeaways for that is that um for me was that this approach fits into a broader strategy um of which this is perhaps one um one part of that strategy in which there are a large number or a moderate number of programs that are also complement that both from the perspective of incentives and and potentially disincentives as well um and so uh I'm I'm I'm somewhat encouraged by that by hearing that from from uh uh um from Joe around the description of the impact of of this relative to A2 Z's goals um but I'll share that article with you all just sort of as a broader policy document uh and Analysis uh commissioner mki thank you I'm going to comment most on this point I'm not going to provide the same level of comments as we get further down the list um so you can rest assur of that uh this is really the key point this in the next next Point as far as where the thresholds are set um the other stuff is is important and I really encourage OSI to look carefully at these points um I agree completely with what Gabe said um I've read a synopsis of the article that he's talking about um there's no doubt that uh this Ordinance Works in concert with other actions that OSI is has taken the city has taken we as uh uh as voters have taken with the millage and the funds that are available through the millage the problem is is that the threshold of 86 on the checklist passway does not require anybody to do most of these really significant electrification measures or Energy Efficiency measures so you can get 80 80 over 80 points by doing things like just go back and look again um is that uh a dishwasher is available in the unit ducks are sealed and insulated um electric rain uh the often the element in range are electric windows can be opened you know things like that that's not going to make a significant difference in whether or not uh we meet our a20 uh targets at least in my view so I I I I don't dispute at all in fact I entirely agree that we need to do this as a package of activities I just really highly doubt that this is going to make the kind of uh significant uh impact that we need to see from this ordinance commissioner overp yeah I was just listening to a podcast um last night uh you know looking at the can the difference between the Canadian approach to decarbonization in the US approach and not doing it holistically but the thing they focused on was in Canada they had a carbon tax uh that was very Progressive and you know essentially what a lot of our friends and colleagues have been uh pushing for in the United States where you'd You' tax carbon emissions of consumers you would then um use that money and redistribute it back to in L back to the consumer and in the in the place other taxes and Barry Rabe one of our colleagues in at un u ofm who's total expert on this stuff I haven't had a chance to talk to him but you know he was extoling the virtues of the Canadian approach uh back when he wrote his book on different ways to to uh do carbon taxes and you know we all know that or have heard anyhow that economists see that as the you know the ideal way um but this podcast was pointing out that that tax is uh probably you know charitable to say it's dead in the water it's going to go away and the whole you know Federal uh scene in in Canada is going to go the other direction and part because of this tax um and then they compare that to what um Biden administration's done which is rather than requiring things uh just put uh a lot of carrots on the um you know on the table and incentivize people to do the right thing and um it just you know I'm not an expert in public policy but it's interesting uh just to note that it is this you know I haven't read the paper that you mentioned Gabriel but I think it it it's sounds very familiar in the sense that you got to have this constellation and in a way you got to take a leap of faith um um this is not to say you know because we are decarbonizing in the United States a lot faster than we were a couple years ago um and it's picking up speed you know and there's no doubt it's going to continue kicking up speed even if I think even if Trump is real is elected that's another point that we won't talk about but the the the thing here is is it enough and if we start requiring if we start really pushing um renters landlords to do things and others will we get a blowback that will set us back further than have we not done that and I hate to say this but I just this one podcast made me start really thinking darn you know these guys might be right you know and I want to ask um I wanted to ask Barry what he thinks because he's so smart and so Mo you know calm about all these things but um it it this does worry me and I totally Embrace what John um and Ken were pushing for here but on the other hand I'm just a little worried that you know maybe what we need is some kind of compromise we need something that's a little tougher um in the ordinance but you know we got to be careful not to push too hard or else we'll get this blowback it's sort of like monopolization you know if we try and do that we'll just end up like Boulder and we'll will be setting you will set everything back maybe I just don't know and I you know so sorry about that it's not very definitive I know but is that kind of what you're saying Gabriel uh I believe I think that's a part of it and I think part you know part of the takeaway is also that there's AI you know a lot of these things happen at different times and at different intensities um and for different folks and so you know I think when we think about impact you there's there's ways of thinking about all or nothing there's ways of thinking about getting folks on the path let's say um I I used to work for an organization it's called Uh uh called Eco America um that was based in San Francisco and Washington DC and and and a number of the programs that they ran were based on getting large organizations sort of on the path to positive as they called it uh you know that was one of the slogans for one of the the campaigns and I think that a big part of this activity and as we we SE even seen with the with the um home energy um home energy uh inspect um uh home energy uh audit audit thank you that's the word I'm looking for inspector was not the right word rare I can guess the word um you know I think I think part of you know part of the ethos around that program feel feels a lot like it's about getting people on the path for that so for example you know the the um uh the auditor will come by and and evaluate sort of where you're at where your home's at provide you with a a sticker let's say if you've got a a gas furnace and say that says next time this will be a heat pump and it goes on the gas furnace and it's about signaling and about um reminding folks that when the time comes there's there's there's different options that can be made you don't have to go into the default the default sort of setting all the time um and I think that that for a lot of folks building owners uh renters homeowners um included a lot of the value of these programs is Simply Having the program in part to help support some of the things that they may already be trying to do in different amounts and sometime a lot of times they're not perfect and a lot of times it's not all at once um but sometimes the incremental pieces can can sort of add up in in significant ways and I think we've seen that um I think both for large organizations that are trying to do changes and also for you know programs that that Encompass um sort of city-wide scale things so I think that's where it comes from in my my my experience Joe did you want to address the oh commissioner over just listening to you it sounds to me as though maybe we should at least agree on this if it's possible that the 80% goal in other words 80% of tenant occupied homes 80% of businesses achieve 20% reduction in electricity use and 15% reduction in natural gas usage I don't know why we didn't just focus on emissions but that one is probably more doable than the 25% of rental prop properties have fully electrified and the electricity powering those homes is coming from renewable energy sources so it's really 25 the the real thing here I think that's got John and Ken I'm guessing uh really concerned because it concerns me is that 25% of rental properties are fully electrified is that fair to say John I'm concerned frankly that both are going to be achieved just because I think the threshold is too low yeah the 80 points yeah you know I'm not going to argue with you what what let me let me say one other thing while I have the floor um I would feel better if the ordinance had something that says up until 2030 uh city council and City administrator will monitor the uh progress made through the green oral housing program um there's a point later on that I'm act uh have in my email about tracking results and um potentially using a database to do that um that shouldn't be a problem because there's all these audits that are being done and points have to be awarded and every two years um do something like that up till 2030 I mean it doesn't have to be exactly as I'm prescribing now but something like this and then if it's not having the desired effect then at that time re-evaluate the threshold that um allows the certificant of occupancy to be um reissued and potentially increased it from 80 to 90 or 80 to 100 or whatever is considered to be necessary but right now we're we're we're as Ken Garber put the example together there's it's landlords if they want to really have to do very little put up Clos lines things like that it's it's really have bike racks these are not going to make significant changes in emissions in my view they will help but they're they're not going to make a big difference yeah I'm I'm All I like that idea in other words give them a chance to do something and if they don't within you know remember 2030 is not that far away two twoyear cycle and we're there um almost so they then there will be a a ratchet but another thing we could do with that same data would be make it public and I think it' be very interesting to start seeing what consumer pressure might do as well you know because at the UVM for example you know there's there's definitely going to be a lot more focus on this um and students a lot more students I think will be motivated uh to not want to live in a place where the landlord's doing squat Joe uh if I might pass it back to you with respect to the thresholds and it and it sounds like maybe there's also two additional sort of questions or clarifications that have been posed with respect to city council and City administrator monitoring the ordinance um and with respect to sort of publishing of of of metrics associated with that um is that would that are those something you might be able to address yeah yeah absolutely and again I I appreciate everyone's thoughts opinions feelings all those I mean you know there is a lot that goes into this and with that too again there is a lot that again one we are able to control and two that we aren't able to control and I think that's something that again we do need to Monitor and we do need to discuss because it is you know I I don't want to sound like a broken record and keep saying the same thing over and over again to an unsatisfying response but again at the end of the day as a municipality we cannot go above and beyond the state's building code we've talked about that in many meetings here um on all sorts of different topics that's kind of a thing that we have run into in many different Avenues and you know inherently within a policy like this that is something that is looking at building that is something we have to be very careful about we simply cannot put out something that is going to be beyond our legal authority to do and that's kind of the line that we have been walking with this and this is a thing that we've really been focusing on and so we need to find that balance of what is the pro amount that we can do that's going to make change but at the same time is again within our ability to do and that's kind of where this is where we have landed with that um this is these are the two numbers um that we have and this is where we are with that um you know I think we can sit here and it's not just this program to be clear there's other ones out there too and you know we can sit here and spend as much time as we can trying to get to something that you know gets us to that perfect you know perfect number that's going to make the biggest change G to have the biggest impact all these things um but we again have to live within the reality that is before us and we have to work within in that legal landscape and all of the other things that go with that to at least have this framework out there uh something that is out there something that is having an impact something that is getting people involved in the process again kind of like we talked about last month you know getting people involved and thinking about this is important if there is nothing then they can continue operating business as usual even if we're in a spot where say we feel that you know the policy might not be the strongest it could possibly be um but it's at least something it's getting them thinking it's getting them motivated it's getting some work done regardless um that's a pretty powerful thing especially when we're combining it with some of the different again incentives out there stacking with different programs different policies out there um and so again that's that's where we got to these numbers and that's that's kind of why we settled where we settled um you know of course we're going to be monitoring this you know it's not just going to be a thing we put out never look at again um going to be constantly looking at it again there are real constraints what we are able to do and how far we can go um but you know to the extent we're able we're going to be looking at it going to be evaluating figuring out what you know what makes the most sense can we tweak something to make it work better um we've seen that in some of our you know different different programs where things haven't been going a certain way so we've been working to improve them or change things where we can um but again all of this we do have to recognize again the legal landscape we are in what we are able to do as a city um what I love a big sweeping policy to come forward from the federal government that you know gives more ability for this of course I would love you know but there's only so much we can do with what we have right now I don't know if I missed any of the follow-up questions or points there but that um so if I did please please jump in Joe I have a quick quick followup which is is there anything uh that would be an obstacle for for city council to revisit the ordinance and update the thresholds that are listed um it would technically no realistically it's those same situations um we've gone as far as we think we can go um so that would you know that that same barrier would be in the same spot down the line um but were any of that to change there's you know it would have to go through the whole you know city council review process all that you know all you know all feedback things like that so it could happen but again facing the the same restrictions that we might be facing otherwise uh council member Rina and then uh commissioner mki I think I think Erica had her hand up before me I'm sorry it was covered by the the that's okay no worries it's any fine um so sorry I had to drop off the call as I mentioned earlier I had to pop into my son's uh parent teacher conference uh for a second so I missed part of the conversation I'll to catch up on it later um I did want to mention in terms of practical realities or or challenges and I I'm um I'm getting the sense that you know the desire is to to make sure that we are um we are putting things into place that allow us to achieve our our um you know advances our our climate action um allows us to reach our climate action goals um our greenhouse gas emissions I do want to to note that it is this is one of this ordinance and there are a few others but creates huge amounts of tension in our community um and for real really good reasons um and I I think it's important that this commission wrestles with it as well even though our Focus here is to you know make sure that we are advancing our climate action goals that's obviously the largest issue we see our planet or you know um facing our community the largest issue that I hear over and over again is community affordability U and people are really struggling with figuring out how to um how to find a place to live and so this is one of those policies that directly um is at tension with one of our local um biggest local challenges um we're obviously working to address that through incentives and you know rebates and lots of different place ways to reach that um but it is it's a challenge and I I think it's one that you know uh we will just need to continue to wrestle with in relationship to you know anything that impacts our our housing stock our rental stock uh how those um costs impact our community and and how do we advance our goals council member Rina thanks yeah I was uh just thinking about addressing John's suggestion about revie language to to have Council and the administrator review it and I guess I'm trying to think logistically through that John and I don't know if maybe you can provide some some clarity I don't know if your I thought your suggestion was to include that in the ordinance um and I don't I'm trying to think through kind of like technically what that would look like in an ordinance um and so I'm I guess I'm I'm trying to think through what it is your suggest I guess I wonder if you could reiterate what you're suggest suggesting it seems like that type of thing is something we would generally kind of instruct staff to you know every three years evaluate or something like that would be through a resolution rather than through living in the ordinance itself where the the enforcement Falls more on like I I enforcement would be challenging I would think and so that's where I guess I'm trying to think through what your what your suggestion is and how you wanted to achieve that commissioner mki uh let me first address council member rina's comment or question I I agree it probably can't appear in the ordinance or in uh city code or anything like that um this would have to be in an accompanying resolution or a resolution on its own that just uh asks or requires that the city administrator revisit the thresholds uh for example you know every X years on such and such a date or something like that I don't know how the city tracks those kinds of resolutions I'm not so confident that if you look at all these different things that are passed by Council over the years that they actually then are Revisited as they should be but um you know that's why we're also here as a Council or as a commission to remember these kinds of things and to raise the flag back to our Council Lea on that this this time period is up and that there was an agreement that the threshold would be reviews reviewed um I I would be mollified or or I would be satisfied with with something like that um as far as uh the comments that Joe offered as far as what we can and can't do let let's be clear codes affect new building construction energy and building and we're not talking about new buildings we're not putting a requirement on new buildings we're we're asking that landlords make improvements sustainability improvements to the housing that they own we know from Michigan saves that every roughly every $1 in Energy Efficiency um improvements that are made result in $3 Plus in savings so I think the this the affordability question is really not really um a valid argument it's something that we can refute it's not just Michigan saes there's a bunch of other entities that study this um the electrification uh issue is a little bit more difficult because we do know that natural gas is very inexpensive and electrification um in some cases is going to um result in higher in higher uh costs um not to the landlord but to obviously to the the renters but all in all I think what we're asking here for is something that makes our housing more sustainable it's not in conflict with what the city can do based on state codes as As I understood Joe to have said Joe yeah just to comment directly on that and to like while State codes do apply to new buildings there is also um and again I am not a lawyer but from the advice I have been given we have received it it largely the relates to two for a existing building unless that existing building under goes a significant renovation um which is something like you know over 50% of the assessed value they're the codes they are bound by are the codes that were in place when the building was constructed that's one of the tensions that we're dealing with so the you know the existing building in energy code does not just relate to new builds it still has impacts for existing buildings as well so that's what in some cases makes some of the tension a lot harder as well particularly as it relates to existing buildings Joe would you mind just with respect to the third sort of big bucket of questions around the checklist Pathways um there were a number of specific items brought up sort of around you know ranging from things like um everything from EVS to air ceiling to to um electric baseboard uh Heating and and other things and would you be able to sort of comment um on some of the checklist options relative to the overall um the overall Ord sure um and with that before before I go into specifics like I said I'm more than fine to just go through and list out all the different ones go from there um if that would be helpful for folks but um two two things I do want to note of um where to look is one um these these should all be in the packet and if not they certainly were last month and I apologize if I did not get them in this month I'm just trying to confirm that they are in there um but there is the green rental housing um uh points breakdown um checklist Point breakdown and the green rental checklist methodology both of these are in that green rental housing supplemental materials um doc or um docket that's attached in the packet and I would really encourage folks to look through those as I think um one while that doesn't necessarily answer all the questions in the sense of like me talking through them that goes through the general outline for how most of these things took place um the especially the you know the methodology for it for how things were implemented um again as we talked about last month we have you know those um modeled points which come directly from the modeling through red stock we went through and looked at if you do this what level of impact will this have and that's how we got the points for that so for some of them and again I can go into more detail specifically with these um if it would be helpful but just to take you know the electric baseboard heating one for instance it gets those points because it is based around the modeling where if that were to be powered by renewable energy you would see that level of reduction in the greenhouse gas emissions from that that's something that fundamentally cannot happen if you have a furnace or any other sort of fossil fuel based um you know or any sort of gas- based Appliance um so even though yes it might be less efficient itself than say a heat pump it is still something that can be renewably powered and that reduces emissions um that's why it gets those points in that area similarly it does not um you know gas emissions inside the home so that's where we get to that point value from it and you can see that in that checklist Point breakdown where you see you get 13 points of that from that renewable or from the renewable energy which is based on the modeling and then you get those two standard health and safety points um and that's why and that's to be clear that's just anything that is any type of electric heating um while you know when you look into the you know the HVAC category you see that you can get additional points for having a heat pump because it is more efficient we know that and that's why it gets those points stack with each other you get the points for it being an electric heating Appliance and also does cooling um but that's why you get um that's why you get that stacking points there because it is more efficient so it's important to acknowledge that you know even though yes that's not the most efficient form it still can have a benefit and it still gets points and that's why um those are in there similarly with some of the ones uh where we talked about like looking at um you know I'm going to just I'm going to jump and again I can go into specific ones for this but you know um talking about how you know there's not necessarily A stacking level when it comes to the insulation levels um again based on the modeling we we did and we looked at that that's the amount we saw in terms of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions from doing that level of work as well as a little bit for health and safety um when it comes to insulation there is largely you get to a point of diminishing returns uh where it's set at is our 50 if you have an attic R50 if you don't or sorry R50 with an attic R30 if there's not an attic so just roof insulation once you get kind of higher than that you don't like you still obviously you see benefits it gets better but it doesn't get significantly better and so you know if we were to do points on that you'd see like half a point quarter of a point more um so it's not really um that impactful of the difference there based on again the modeling and things we've seen with that and so that's why kind of those don't have that same level of differentiation because it would one be more complicated you got to go through and check also if when it's in the wall it's hard to tell is that R50 is that r60 you know they're they're pretty similar uh so it's not the impact it has isn't worth the complexity that it adds um so like I said I can go into more of these specific ones but in general looking through that um the checklist methodology explains how we went about it and then the checklist Point breakdown shows how like which of those points create that total number number of points there commissioner mki did you have a clarification yes uh real quickly to electric baseb heating I agree with everything Joe said but taking into account what council member Brig said if we're really worried about affordability then we should discount the number of points that are earned by installing electric baseboard heating because that is going to be extreme expensive that's going to be the most expensive way of heat of space heating that anybody can use and so um I I would encourage uh OSI to look at that point total and discount that and not just evaluated based on greenhouse gas savings but if we're thinking of sustainability um is in in its broadest terms that also is in affordability and economic sustainability that's not something that we should be uh advancing thank you commissioner overp yeah so thank you this is interesting um I'm wondering uh first on the baseboard one just because you mentioned it John um I agree with what you're saying but on the other hand as someone who has renovated a really old cabin in the Colorado Rockies um there's no way I could have done it she cheaper than baseboard electrifying um just cuz you know I can't put in Duck work and I can't have a heat pump in every single room kind of thing um and maybe I just had a bad contractor but I think I knew what he was doing um so said there are cases where that is better than leaving in some kind of gas powered uh I'm not saying don't do it I'm saying discount the amount of points that can be earned and nudge people in the right direction yeah but I mean I think I think you're right but I mean maybe the trick would be if you can do a do it if you can't then you can do B um but the other thing is uh my main point though isn't the doesn't the IRA have money for a lot of these things in other words tax credits for heat pumps tax credits for insulation for induction and other energy saving not just Appliance basically but you know home uh decarbonization mechanisms and uh whatever we do you know there should be a little coordination I don't know if there is and knowing what Joe and Missy and team are doing they've already got this in there but you know we should really be highlighting that this money is there and then incentivizing the landlords to use that money because that money won't always be there and we want to make sure that we in Michigan get our chance to really take advantage of it if these guys think they can do nothing um and save a little money that's probably what they'll do Jo yeah that was um a lot of what I was gonna say of part of it where it's again and I I don't want to get too hung up on this because it is you know one point yes that has a decent point value um but to be clear you know the it is not specifically just saying here use baseboard to heat that gets you 15 points that's one of a suweet of options saying electricity is the primary type of energy used for space heating so it's not specifically just saying baseboard heat that is one of the options um but exactly what commissioner overp was just saying there is one there are there you know there's funding out there for all the different types of heat pumps for that there is not for baseboard heating um and so that one pushes and incentivize towards that and two you know with again with the structure of the checklist these points are additive so again there is the electricity is the primary type of energy used for space heating that will get 15 points and that is for those reasons uh that we just talked about um and if you have baseboard heat you stop there you get 15 points for that that's where it goes now again if you have a heat pump which you know even the lowest you know the lowest number in there um is 10 points which is for a low efficiency heat pump with electric backup heat that's another 10 points so that's 25 points total you know an additional 10 points towards that that goal of eventually 80 which is you know 10 points isn't nothing that's an eighth of the points right there and so there is incentivization in those numbers to go towards heat pumps um you know obviously I'm not a landlord I'm not a you know I'm not the one making these financial decisions of what I'm putting in a building or a home but if I'm looking at that and I see how much more points I would get from doing a heat pump compared to just doing baseboard that weighs on you when you're making that that if that's the the sole reason for you making that kind of decision um so there is incentivization both baked into the checklist in terms of the number of points but there is also again the amount of federal funding that is available and we will be heavily heavily pushing all of that um in terms of you know getting that education out there and again in some places um or in some cases with certain types of rental properties they're also eligible for um or some of the City rebates uh we've had like I mentioned last time we have had some rental properties that have taken advantage of the rebates and are getting um heat pumps in those rental units so you know there's with these different types of incentivization both financially and in the checklist structure um you know that that it doesn't fully result in a heavy heavy heavily biased ing towards um you know baseboard heat as a way of of sort of um perhaps moving towards um bringing a a sort of close to to this beginning to bring it close to this discussion I just wanted to ask if any other commission members had any um clarifications or comments um I'll just add from my perspective um briefly as presented I'm inclined to support the resolution at the as it as it currently exists um but I'm certainly open to to um uh language in the resolution around um around uh um follow followup by city council and and and City administrators but um but I also don't think that it's necess necessary I think that I was somewhat encouraged by the call caller Ken Garber at the beginning of this meeting um calling for CER fast and decisive and I sort of think that while this while the thresholds and and all of it may not be fully perfect I think there is a a degree of fast of of speed and decisiveness about about moving forward and getting a program in place that others can start to make sense of and and perhaps start to adopt and and and use to the advantage and so um I will let's see I don't know who had their hand up first but I will uh how about commissioner 11 uh yeah thanks um I guess overall um hearing from people that I respect like commissioner Mery and others um I I do wish it could be stronger I don't know if there's a way we can make the same number of points but make it so you can only do like a certain number of these um activities in combination like the ones that don't really make any infrastructure changes like limit the number those uh limit how many of those you can do to get to the point total um I understand the legal uh issues I I've researched some of it myself and I I do agree that it does apply to existing as well as new construction um I think that's true but what I don't understand is if we're saying we can do what we can do now now why we can't just make it somewhat stronger um I will say as an attorney who's observed um the legal advice that comes out of uh our office um I I think they tend to be conservative I don't mean politically conservative I mean careful about what they allow the city to do and given that this is an emergency situation I would like to push harder and I I don't think that I don't see why we can't be a little tweak this a little bit more make it a little bit stronger right now um and again I I think we're just being we're I've seen this too many times where we allow the legal department to tell us what we can and can't do and I I respect their opinion but not all lawyers not all judges are going to have the same opinion um I'd like to see us be a little more aggressive and push the issue a little forward a little more commissioner colen Garcia thank you commissioner harp and uh this has been a really um valuable discussion for me listening to the different perspectives and it has me looking at um like the um the enforcement aspect of this uh so reading um chapter 105 uh uh where it talks about the um period between inspections and says it shall be no longer than two and a half years so um just getting getting every unit every building inspected there could be buildings that are right now being inspected and then if this ordinance passes then it's going to be another you know like up to two and a half years before they have an inspection before they have to do any compliance so if we would have you know like stronger like or a higher threshold of points and obligation maybe maybe it could help it could help pull us you know closer to so it's going to be we have less than six years left before we reach 2030 and you know as far as like having two cycles of inspections happen you know by then that's not going to be able to happen and so we won't be able to track Improvement so if we have a a baseline of all the rental units in the next two and a half years between let's say today and two and a half years then then how how do we know we're making any improvements so I'm just looking at it from that perspective right now and and hoping that maybe that could be something that Council can consider maybe shortening that time period understanding that it would take more inspectors it'll cost the city more but just looking at different ways of approaching this that's what I have commissioner overc thanks uh yeah we have some ideas here and I just wondered if we can uh in the words of commissioner 11 be a little more aggressive and I think uh commissioner Goen Garcia just came up with one idea um and I think that combined with what commissioner mky was saying earlier of trying to figure out a way to make it clear to landlords that the longer they wait and the further they get away from this period when there all this money sitting on the table uh the more urgent it will be to decarbonize their units I don't know if there a way to do these a couple of these things the last one I like I still like which I don't know if anyone else liked was my suggestion that we that the we are being you know the we shorten the period I like that and then we we also between inspections but we also put it in a public domain so people can get a sense of what the truly green rentals are and the Not So green rentals are and let the P the market help us out thank you other other other comments or clarifications I'm I'm um trying to think myself about how we uh sort of bundle bundle this together um and how we should proceed next and I'm open to suggestions um as moving to sort of wrap up discussion here shortly um commissioner mury perhaps this is something that could Beed reflected in the resolution of support where we request that OSI together with uh the city administrator's input and Council review the threshold of 80 points whether that could be higher or not and that the threshold be re-evaluated um and that could be as we discussed ear and another resolution every X years based on the report that is supposed to be issued at the that the ordinance itself calls for um and progress in making the kinds of upgrades that are are necessary I I think that can address a lot of the points that have been discussed up till now um I don't want to go into a lot of other details that are in the email that I sent and in the comments that I sent before the last meeting but I think there's some really important points that still have not been addressed for example um how are fines going to be levied are they going to be on a per unit basis or a building basis or some kind of uh combination of the two um what about EV charging there's no mention at all about EV charging is all EV charging for all of these rental units going to be provided in uh with chargers that are um in the public right away uh what about apartment complexes with 200 units where they're not on public streets are people going to have to get in their car and drive to a public charging unit all the time that's a huge disincentive for P for EV charging there's just a whole lot of other issues in this document that I speaking now to our Council leaon that in my view cannot be ignored um there's questions about how co-ops in sororities and fraternities are going to be handled they have different sleeping Arrangements I have not seen how those that's addressed in the ordinance and these questions have not been answered so I I'm going to be quiet um from here on out until we talk to about the resolution I just think there is a lot there are a lot of things that still need to be resolved before I would support a resolution of support um I guess asking cheerart I am willing to go through and answer all of those questions I have answers for them all these things have been considered and are addressed in some way whether that feels satisfactory or not I I can't say but they have all been addressed but just wondering if that is what would be helpful to everyone I'm happy to go through all of these if that would be helpful can that be done in writing I mean you had you had all of these points a month ago so between we ago and now that there could have been something written in response to all of these questions where we would have had all that prior to the meeting and we could have voted tonight I'm happy to go through them part of that is difficult in the sense of again what is open meetings and accessible from that manner um so that is in part why I'm happy to discuss it now in an open meeting setting if that would be helpful I think part of what I think um there's a number there's a number of probably technical points in in the in the email as well um one of the questions that we might deal with was whether or not we wanted to um potentially add uh anything into the into the resolution itself um and maybe that is or is not addressed by by some of the responses Joe I don't know if you're able to to comment on that in ter just in terms of I think what commissioner mki was respecting was was commenting on with respect to the um OSI and City administrator input on reviewing the threshold and re-evaluating and and sharing progress on making upgrades yeah those could those could certainly all all be part of it um as well as you know if anything were to change or if something needed to change in the regulations document or anything like that or you know Point values things like that certainly all could take place um the other thing I will note broad sweeping thing especially as part of some of it with how you know units are defined how things happen in places like a sority things like that all of it is based on the existing rental inspection process that we've talked about it's in you know chapter 105 specifically you at 511 um all the information is in there for how those things are already done with the inspection how the units are determined how they inspected everything will fall in line with that existing thing nothing is changing nothing is um being gotten rid of it's all falling in line with that so um for next steps um in terms of the resolution that we've been discussing on the agenda today um Joe could you remind me of the process that we might undertake if we wanted to add add something to that resolution um yes and council members please correct me if I'm wrong because I forget this as well um believe we need to open discussion on the resolution we can vote on changes within it um and then once we're satisfied can might have to go back for a second reading but please someone jump in just in case I'm mistaken on any of that thanks Joe um so I'd like to suggest that we move on um from this discussion and um and potentially um open discussion on the resolution itself I I see a a nod from um uh motion from council member BRS is there a second second yep okay all those all and do we need to vote on that as well no okay sorry sorry did what was the original I I believe we moved and seconded something already um prior to the discussion we just had was there an action we needed to take I think it was just discussion on the information itself gotcha so we okay so it was probably we probably didn't okay yeah and so now we're now we're moving in second in on the on on discussion on the resolution itself um and any potential amendments to that resolution Council membera actually John ra his hand but I was just going to say this is so now we've moved on to the resolution so now it be the time to propose amendments if folks have them or open that discussion um it sounds like that's where some of this convers wanted to go and so um I guess I would just ask we have this rule at the council table I don't believe that it's a rule in your bylaws but if there are any amendments made it could be helpful to provide them in writing to Joe so that he has them so um if folks are thinking of things my suggestion would be to maybe start drafting something that you could provide to him in writing commissioner mki um yes if I could just add to that what my recollection is of action that we've done in cases like this in the past is when we've made minor resolutions um it may be a little bit difficult with Joe's technical difficulties um but I believe the resolution um received the first reading in our last meeting so we we could approve it in this meeting and if uh we so desired there could be changes to the resolution that could be made in real time um where someone simply for example added a resolve Clause that called for um for example a that the checklist pathway uh threshold be reviewed for possible um higher value and at least initially and that uh Council together with City Administration look at what those thresholds are and the results of the prr program um every two years or something like that something to that effect we could either do that now and vote that may as I said be a little bit difficult maybe the better proposal is to do what Joe suggested or what the council member Rina suggested and that is to submit a possible language uh that could then be voted on at the next meeting admittedly that's another month's delay just just for clarity I I was suggesting in either situation I think it could be helpful to provide them in writing to Joe so that you can make the the resolution or make the motion but rather than him trying to capture it in real time if you can draft it up and email it to him for him to include I think that would be helpful even if we do that now rather than at the next meeting I'm I'm trying to type up what John was saying real quick and I'm going to fire this off to Joe that's great and I'm I'm I'm um I've got the resolution up in a word doc ready to screen share in case we need to screen share that in just a second as well and I'm sort of doing similar that's okay with you all yes thank you and again sorry I don't everything else is now working except zoom on my computer so don't know it might be better to send those Resolute that language straight to chair harp then so he can include it in I under normal circumstances I'd be willing to do this but I've got uh a phone sitting on top of my laptop so that my video is going through and I really don't have the capability to type this up so uh if somebody else is willing to do it great um if someone would like me to do it I'd be happy to do it but it have to be considered before the next or in our next meeting I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen here um and what I have highlighted is um a quick draft which I don't think I have exactly right um but as things come in I may be able to um add to that sorry let me let me zoom in just a little bit for you all [Music] um we might just want to uh for a point of clarification we everything the city council does we do through the administrator and administrator assigns that so um you could for Simplicity sake instead of say request OSI with City input you could just say encourages the city council to you know direct the administrator or to review the threshold of 80 points or something like that that that should probably read the the checklist pathway threshold because there are we didn't discuss there's a her uh pathway um there another thing that we didn't discuss was a recommendation from Jan Culbertson also look at an energy star uh threshold as a as another path pathway um I mean I don't know if that we want reflect that in the in the resolution but um at least in this particular case it's the checklist passway that's proba DEC capitalized checklist pathway all right so I have a comment if I may yeah the the increasing the frequency to every more than every two and a half years um I understand exactly where carleen's coming from it was also concern in one of the documents that I submitted but we have to recognize that that's an administrative burden on everybody so I don't know that it's realistic to to do that I mean we can include that in the resolution or not I'm I'm skeptical about doing that um what I would prefer to see reflected in here is that we review the threshold initially when the ordinance is enacted and to review um the threshold and it could just be thresholds could could potentially be not just this particular pathway but other Pathways that the the thresholds be reviewed um for example it could just be every two years and um up till 2030 uh or something like that um for possible uh modifications or yeah something to that effect carlen I don't know if you want to push back on the two and a half years or not Joe yeah the one thing I'll not is similar what commissioner Mercy just said that that two and a half years is just as much you know for the general cycle as it is for again where the um yeah City inspectors are at it takes roughly that amount of time to go through and do all those inspections um and so you know again you're welcome to put whatever else you would like to in there but just noting yeah the the only way to be able to do inspections on a higher frequency and again because this would count for inspections for all inspections it's not just green Roa housing um so there would need to be more you know inspectors doing that kind of that kind of work so we could obviously review it at any frequency that doesn't change anything but yeah purely having that cycle um it's it's broader than just green rental housing uh clarification on this the um in is is the for the language would it be to direct the city to revie the city administrator to review the check Miss paway pathway um is there a when in that statement and I believe there was something mentioned at the outset of the ordinance or um or at some frequency um there's not directly anything saying we're reviewing it at you know at at this interval um rather it's just as as every inspection takes place that information is put into the system and that can be reviewed at at any time there's nothing specific spefic um on that if I may um after pathway the word b I don't think is necessary um and uh as to your question and and Joe's comment um I would like to see possible I don't know what you mean by modifications I think what we talked about is modifications on a certain interval that's the word that that that Joe mentioned which I think is a good one and we could Define either what that interval is or we could leave that to um city council working together with the city administrator to Define what that uh interval might be given that we have a 2030 Target and um it we obviously don't want it to be too short but we also want it don't want it to be too long that seems like the right approach to leave it um to leave it to be defined um commissioner 11 yeah I mean I I say we put like some sort of date on the initial time that they're going to do it and then after that it could be like at some sort of regular interval that they determine I don't know maybe like no later than two or three years after the program has been in place or something like that and then at regular intervals after that but commissioner colen Garcia I think you're on mute sorry I would be interested in having the checklist review occur prior to this being released um and then the inter interval review remember what Joe was was sharing with us in terms of all the changes that have happened in the last few years with regards to policy with regards to um you know the transition of the grid with regards to technology things are going to be uh may be being made available and so having the interval be greater than 2 years uh we will be not taking advantage of opportunities so I think it should be shorter maybe 18 months I know it sounds aggressive but it's it's it 2030 is around the corner commissioner msky and and I I also look to um Joe if there's a suggestion or or council member Briggs um but uh commission commissioner mki and then council member Briggs I support caren's comments and concerns I would recommend that we not Define the interval that that we leave that up to city council and uh the city administrator with o input to come to an agreement I mean also this as we discussed involves just the entire process of um assessments and everything else and we don't know all the details of those so I would just say you know at the onset and on a defined interval okay thank you uh council member BRS yeah thank you um so yeah I just sorry I'm having some video issues too um so I guess I would just I understand the urgency and the the desire and I think that it's being sort of communicated in in this resolved Clause I just um want to remind folks that the the whole purpose of the office of sustainability and Innovation um it it is built around achieving our our our and um our climate action and they've developed our our our climate action plan um H zero plan and um in in collaboration with the community it's been you know it is the purpose that guides them in their work on an everyday basis and so um this is you know I think that regardless if we they are evaluating the progress towards this as well so I know we want to make sure that this is happening um but I also think that you know just a reminder that this is this is happening as part of their their daily work plan as well is to you know or their their annual work plan as well is to be evaluating what is working what is not working um and looking to make modifications to improve upon that and and looking at what changes are happening in state law and you know different incentives and making modifications there so um you know I think this is this is going to move forward I wonder if if a is is is directing the city administrator versus working with the city city administrator a more appropriate uh or better fit for the for for this Clause it's okay we just we use the the language of directing the city administrator it's fine I mean I I wouldn't over you know sure it's fine as is I know it sounds like very direct it's I mean it's it's harsh language but it's it is just kind of uh council member Rina yeah I was just going to add to that I think your your action is directed at city council and you're encouraging city council um I would definitely say that uh we have had this issue in the past two commissions cannot direct City staff but you're encouraging Council to do so and that's fully within your scope thank you so um I'm G to stop sharing screen if that's okay if everyone has a I'll I'll email I'm going to try to email this back um here shortly um as well um and were there any other discussions around the um the resolution as as it currently exists or amendments to to the resolution commissioner mki so I'm going to support the resolution because I'd like to see a program go into effect I'm not happy with the program as it's designed I hope Council and OSI and City administrators seriously look at revisions um but we have to keep this all in context um this this program is two and a half years behind schedule that was laid out in the a20 plan this program is a huge lever and as long as we do nothing that lever is just sitting there blowing in the wind this involves 8,500 buildings and 31,500 units as was added to the resolution we have to do something and this shouldn't be just something that makes makes it look good that we've done something this has actually drive action and hopefully this as was discussed earlier with all the other programs that the city and the federal government and the state and others have in programed they will work in concert to really Drive changes in Behavior the other thing that I want to mention to everyone is uh uh chair harp has indicated that we're likely to review the greenhouse gas inventory the greenhouse gas inventory shows that emissions dropped 1% last year in the city um that does not reflect new housing that is coming on board and will create new emissions um we've been averaging roughly one to one Orum me one and a half to 2% per year um that goes back to the year 2000 if you look at the simple inventory if you look at the full inventory it's in that that range the upper end of that range since 2015 we need to do something we need to do it fast and I think this moves this forward but it should only really move forward if this is something that's done that is really going to drive results thanks for the opportunity to comment thank you um council member breaks yeah I'm just gonna um these are there's no doubt about it um reaching these goals is is challenging espe as we're having a growing growing Community um we lack the state tools to do this we lack some of the resources that we need to do it is absolutely challenging um I can you know I it would be we we could we could decide we we're not going to build any more housing in our community um and it would be a lot easier for us to advance those goals right in terms of we're just dealing with our existing housing stock and we're not dealing with that and so I think again I just point to there this this is a major tension in our community we're going to wrestle with it in this in our own commission and I just I'm going to always kind of bring us back to that other piece of we are trying to address um Community affordability adding more housing Supply and this is absolute tension with this and we're trying we're wrestling the best we can with it you know I certainly look to this commission to help us figure out how we do that better um we're looking to a lot of commissions planning commissions working on this you know a lot of commissions are trying to put their heads into this space but um you know I those numbers I want you to imagine what happens when that housing gets built in another Community with with less focus on on that and and when those people are are driving into the community from someplace else um and so although we are we have our our our goals are you know I think we're going to have to continue considering how you know are we are we using the right measures to examine our progress um is also something I think we need to um be always keeping an eye on in terms of our a20 plan um you know are we are we tracking the right numbers I realize we've been at this a while and I I think we skipped the Break um part of the agenda um as well um and so um I think what i' what I'd like to do though is is ask if um there's uh any um I'd like to move towards closing the discussion on the resolution itself um and uh ask if there's any um uh perhaps a motion to bring it to a vote and and please please uh correct me on process if I'm if I'm uh missing anything um in in that I I think we just need to still vote to accept the amendment before thank you y [Music] um I move we accept the amendment as proposed I second it thank you and um so moved by commissioner colen gar and seconded by commissioner mki um all of those in favor of accepting the amendment um and I'll just read that very briefly resolve the energy commission encourages city council to direct the city administrator to review the checklist pass pathway for possible higher thresholds or modifications at the outset of the program and defined interval all those in favor please raise your hand and say I I all those opposed please raise your hand and say nay seeing none opposed the motion passes is there a motion to move towards a vote um on the proposed resolution sorry you've actually already moved it so that's why we're having the discussion yep okay thank you um and so I think now we can take a vote is that is that accurate okay um with respect to the ordinance to amend chapter 105 of title 8 of the code of the city of an arbor to support Greening The Greening of the rental market um all those in favor of the resolution uh please raise your hands and say I I I all of those opposed please raise your hand say no seeing none opposed the motion passes thank you everyone um it's now 7:48 um what I might propose is that we take a a three minute break um if possible and then come back at uh 8 uh 751 and um we'll move on to the rest of the agenda we're just about done y e e e Joe just a quick point of clarification um You' mentioned the roll call is that something that we need to go back to or before the staff report or I think we're okay okay I can I can see it every one so I think we're okay I I think the only issue would be I think John has noted that on with the agenda and um for those of you who might be coming back uh there was just a quick note that if you are not um calling in from an arbor if you could note that you're elsewhere um that would be appreciated we will move on to the staff report of the agenda Joe do you mind yep um some of these are similar to previous ones but um still relevant of just noting again and specifically as it you know relates to this as we talked about EV Chargers as well um with the goal of increasing these um EV Chargers the commercial EV charger program does provide an opportunity for commercial and multifam property owners in an arbor to receive up to four Free level two EV Chargers um to learn more about the program and view the application and apply uh you can visit OSI a2gov.org charger program um another that can kind of overlap is um for homeowners lawn care service providers and property managers or anyone else who is interested in learning more about electric lawn care or sustainable lawn care in general they can join um the Alla sustainab Innovations on October 21st at Cobblestone farm from 4: to 6:00 p.m.

and as chair I will call this meeting adjourned thank you everyone and um appreciate the discussion and have a great evening thanks for thanks for bearing with my technical stuff appreciate yall

[Music] welcome to the Atlantic County Institute of Technology the school for career and college readiness in Atlantic County he acit is a nationally recognized Blue Ribbon school and has been repeatedly voted as a best high school by US News and World reports with an active student body of over 1,800 students acit offers a rewarding hands-on experience and career learning opportunities preparing Atlanta County students for higher education as well as immediate job opportunities acit offers the complete High School experience with a large curriculum Athletics extracurricular activities and an active staff of Industry professionals who are dedicated to our students success and their ability to pursue what they love each career program is developed based on current industry and career Readiness practice standards as set forth by the New Jersey Department of Education career programs provide students with Hands-On exposure and experimentation supported by industry guest speakers and career field immersion opportunities in addition to structured learning outside of the classroom the career programs also offer their own set of eligibility for certifications and or postsecondary advancement beyond graduation additionally all students are eligible for various apprenticeship programs structured learning opportunities work-based learning opportunities college and other postsecondary education credits acit offers career programs in Air Force jrc [Music] Aviation studies automotive technology Building Trades Plumbing HVAC electrical and carpentry cosmetology [Music] computer Aid at drafting and design computer science and [Music] programming culinary [Music] arts dental assistant fashion [Music] design Health [Music] Sciences law and Public [Music] Safety Medical Assistant math engineering and science [Music] performing arts dance drama and vocal media and [Music] Graphics [Music] welding in addition to Career program accreditations and licenses students also earn their high school diploma Court classes of English History Math Science and World Language are offered in college prep honors and advanced placement acit offers 17 AP courses 34 dual enrollment courses and over 30 electives outside the classroom acit offers a wide variety of sports and extracurricular activities providing students with a full High School experience with over 30 clubs and growing students have the opportunity to pursue a wide variety of special interests acit offers freshman JV and varsity Level Sports in the following areas baseball basketball bowling cheerleading cross [Music] country crew football golf indoor track [Music] softball soccer track and field [Music] volleyball if acit does not offer a sport students May participate in their home school program last year acit graduated 404 students with a 98% graduation rate 76% of our students were College Bound 20% career bound 2% military and 2% to the trade school acit Has Broken Ground on the $53 million $1 133,000 ft Expansion Project with the expected completion date of March 2025 the new facility will allow acit to introduce new career programs in aviation maintenance welding and advanced fabrication and exercise science it will also provide space to expand the existing dental assistant medical assistant health sciences and culinary arts programs to the campus the new three-story multi-purpose building will house 16 new CTE Labs a 50% increase in addition to ancillary spaces to meet curricular and student needs this includes a cafeteria integrated into the expanded culinary arts program administrative spaces as well as a gym and simulation and performance labs to support the Health Sciences and exercise science programs AC T's information sessions will be in person on October 24th from 3:30 p.m.

testing testing one two 3 testing e e e all right I would like to call this I would like to call this board meeting to order this is the cre mon School Board 201u Committee of whole today is Tuesday October 8 2024 18:30 military time 6:30 p.m.

e e osar acknowled osuka all set to seea i' like to call the meeting the order please can we stand for the pledge of Allegiance and remain signed in for a moment of silence please i' like to recognize our men and women who are overseas and in the service in this country I'm afraid things are going to start happening fast fear for their safety remember them i' appreciate thank you sh can we do the roll call please Mr tbox y Miss Ferris here miss dler here M Mr Jones here Mr Mia Mr Mia oh I'm sorry okay Mr Mercedes here Mr hden we get a motion to accept the minutes of September 24th please I'll make a motion to accept the M all those in favor I take a minute to uh change the agenda you'll notice we have't you notice the agenda has a a red uh line on it the students report was not ready as of until yesterday and they would like to uh present it at today's meeting uh can I have a motion to add that into the agenda make a motion to add it to the agenda second any discussion all those in favor say I opposed I'd like to introduce um the committee uh the uh students still introduce themselves also Mia kopelan who's a senior in the business office ysen MOA who's a junior uh from carpentry and Lea uh Guerrero she's a freshman she was here last week 10th grade you're in freshman right you're in 10th Grade 10th grade great sophomore you're a sophomore okay hon who's going to start Hispanic heritage month is taking place from the 9th of the 2024 to the 10th of the 15th of October this year's theme is pioneers of change shaping the future together and it's all about celebrating the incredible contribution of Hispanic and Latin communities throughout history and today over the next few weeks at GTS will'll be sharing stories hosting events and learning about the incredible ways these tail Blazers have shaped our past present and future the school count the school counselling department will be offering the PSAT Tuesday October 29th period 1- 4 the test is open to 11th and 10th grade students on a first come first serve bases all students who register are required to participate this will be a full digital test and students will use their Chromebooks Family Game Night family game night and times 2 training is taking place this Thursday October 10 from 5:30 to 8:00 pm in the cafeteria students families and glts staff will celebrate together with food games and prizes Reggie leaders will join our staff that attend to welcome parents to serve dinner poo Centro from Lawrence has graciously donated the food for our event Domino's parches and the ever popular Bingo will be accessible for families to enjoy prizes will be a available for students and parents including a free raffle to win a brand new Chromebook from Target this prizes to be promises to be another funfilled night for our school commit Community the glts College and Career Fair the school counseling department is hosting its annual College and Career Fair on October 31st from 8 a.m.

the 5:30 Athletics bus will be available if needed the total cost of the program is $825 all of eligible students are encouraged to participate September athletes of the month G Gustavo far farella varsity football Anderson Ortiz JB football Ethan D rusher freshman football M mathas young freshman football Diana Rosa JB go Ashley qua JB go Jayla fanz JB Che and camil varsity soccer GTS spirit week and homecoming plans are underway for our annual homecoming celebrations including Spirit Week running from Monday October 21st through Friday October 25th more information on Spirit Week themes to come soon Friday October 25th will be a fun and actionpack day with a pep rally being planned for all students during the school day followed by our homecoming football game at 5:00 p.m. and a homecoming dance at 7 p.m.

c c here and we uh we have some uh some students we're going to be making some awards to other than that we'll be following our regular agenda if you don't have our agenda it's on the table and some of the things that we're going to be going over tonight you can find those uh on the table if you'd like um I'm going to start tonight uh before the Pledge of Allegiance with just with a moment of silence uh this past week and a half uh we lost a legendary coach in Nancy Grace um and you'll hear a little bit more about that as the meeting goes on but uh sadly Nancy passed away and uh we also lost the board of members son-in-law who is also a a substitute teacher uh in our district Andrew uh Jason and uh Andrew passed away uh last week also so if youd rise with me for a moment of silence and then we'll turn to our question Le thank you if you join me in the Pledge of Allegiance please I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic stands one nation under God indivisible with libery and justice for all thank you okay tonight uh we'll start with our public comment so we'll start with anybody in the audience that would like to make a public comment uh the public comment segment of the meeting agenda is set aside so the Boe may receive public comments procedurally public remarks will be limited to 3 minutes and citizens will be asked to identify themselves because the board of education is limited by the Freedom of Information Act to discussing only matters on the agenda the board of education is not permitted to engage in a discussion with the comments presented so having said that we'll time the the comments to make sure we keep the meeting moving is anybody in the audience would like to address the board of education for public comments Andrew thank you Andrew L for fining Drive last month I sent every board member an email and I just would like to get that email what i' said in the email on the public record so I'm just going to read the email as I wrote it to all the board members last month during the summer I found out from Anna Robins that board of ed budget just the Year 2005 was about $16.8 million I took that 16.8 million and put it into a website called US inflation to.com and found out that keep PA inflation since this year 2005 today we'll need a budget of just over $27 million the current bordered budget it's about $32.9 million so when compar to fisal year 2005 our current budget is about $5.8 million 12 inflation my request for the board that is to find out why are we running 5.8 million of above inflation and to do so before you go to the board of Finance with your next budget there could be legitimate reasons why we're 5.8 million above inflation for example I'm sure they're more on fronted educational mandates now than there were 20 years ago maybe the student population size has increased I'm not sure with the board ofed budget several million of public inflation I feel the public has owed an explanation as to why this is happening and to do so in a public meeting I was offered graciously andna offer time to to down and you know run through everything with May I'm not sure quite detail byly decline because the explanation needs to be had at a public meeting not one one behind thank you thank you an anybody else like to address the Board of Education in the audience okay hearing none we'll go online sure I have one raised hand and I'm going to allow Lisa C to talk Lisa you should be able to talk now thank you so much um I was just at the policy meeting I just wanted to thank you oh 13 din Drive sorry go ahead hogin 13-day nard drive thank you okay thank you um I was just at the policy committee meeting and I I want to thank you for allowing this meeting to be held hybridly I could as well um at the policy committee meeting I attended um I asked for further revisit policy for further edit um and I hope that other members of the public will also come forward and give input on policy topics in the future now that public comment is on that agenda the second comment and final comment I wanted to make was to just Express GR ude to John bishop and the Safety Committee for pursuing the safe roots to schools and for being recognized as a district of Distinction for their Vision zero program October is pedestrian safety awareness month and so although we didn't pull up the bike walk roll event um together for this month I'm looking forward to the event in May um I'm a member of bike won CC also we have a Bike Rodeo um plan with parks and Rex and the C and more information will be coming um in next few months but the sa FR school meeting on September 17th brought forward a lot of valuable um Engineers forwarded me a copy of their presentation and I shared that presentation with the temporary traffic and pedestrian safety advisory committee meeting last week um um and we assigned ourselves some homework work um we decided to look over the recommendations and send feedback to Mr Bishop and hopefully that will further the development of the safe roots to schol I just want to thank the administration for all of their efforts on the M program thank you Lisa appreciate you I have one more rais hand from chrisy Mitchell I'm going to allow christe to St christe you should be able to unmute yourself hi christe hi thank you good evening my name is Christy Mitchell I live at 14 noja Trail for the record my husband and I have lived in Canton for 24 years and we've raised our three daughters in the Canton School District I speaking tonight to urge the board to delay implementing the title 9 rewrite policies and to resend the gender identity policy 5145 53 to prevent further harm until the law is settled on this issue and I've already submitted comments and talked at the policy committee meeting at length about the injunctions across the country and all of the legal reasons why I think you should do that so I'd like to just share our firstand experience with these policies um and you know why it's so important that you take a step back and really understand the harm that's caused by it so back in 2017 my middle daughter Chelsea as just a freshman found herself in the finals of the 100 meter dash at the k to get State open um this is really hard to do out of the thousands of girls that compete in that event only eight make it to a final the only other freshman in that race was a male and had he been running with the other males he would have been ranked 422nd place and would certainly not have qualified for the state eight but because he ran with the girls he finished fourth that Year Chelsea lost her chance to medal she lost points for her for her Canton team and she miss qualifying for new englands a male took honors instead and policies like the one you are discussing tonight allowed it the next year second male started running girls track he switched from the boys team to the girls team between the indoor and outdoor season Chelsea again made the finals of the 100 meter at the State open but this time settled into her blocks with a mail on each side of her they of course took first and second the boy who took first would have placed 181st in the boys rankings but because he ran with the girls he said new meet record and beat the girls by at least five meters that same boy went on to win the 200 meter that day and to sweep the 100 and 200 at the New England Championship all along the way girls were losing their chance to advance to make finals to make Podium there are only eight or nine Lanes on a track and when boys are in two of them girls are being displaced this is sex based discrimination the policy you are discussing tonight allowed it by junior year Chelsea was losing state titles four of them to be exact this went on and on again the race wasn't close he the boys took first and second and he took third um that loss was hard a state Open Championship means a lot and you can go down to the gym and take a look at the banners and see how many athletes have been able to do that in our school's history you'll find a handful of boys but no other girls she is the only one and this mattered to her and it should have mattered to you this is sex based discrimination policy you are discussing tonight allowed this to happen I could go on with 20 more examples um I'm not going to do that because they don't have time but 15 state titles seven New England titles and 17 meet records all taken by males and girls races nobody would step in and say enough this is wrong this doesn't make sense this is hurting girls girls were silenced coaches were silent nobody dared discuss it and after years of asking for help as a last resort Chelsea and two other girls filed a federal lawsuit to for common sense and fairness now four years later that lawsuit is still ongoing and this school board and my family remain on opposite sides of an isue that we should be United on protecting the rights of your female students against sex based discrimination the Title Nine rewrite destroys the can can you summarize please let you go over but thank you certainly these policies fail to consider the impact on female students ex separated sports categories locker rooms and restroom facilities are just common sense categorizing these things by gender identity should never have been implemented in our school district you have the opportunity to do the right thing rather than double down on a flawed approach I hope that you will stand with the young women who have taken a stand on this issue thank you thank you Christie anyone else online here don't have any other raised hands that's it okay we will close out the public comment of tonight's meeting thank you for your comments uh both online and in the audience tonight appreciate you okay uh we'll move on to the administrative reports the Chairman's Corner tonight uh I report to the board um that with the passing of legendary coach n Nancy Grace we've gotten many comments and thoughts about how to honor her and I will let the board know that we are along with the board of Selectmen we are reviewing options uh and it's going to take some time so uh I know that people would like to see certain things done uh in town and we will continue to valuate those options something will be done I'm sure um but we're not really sure what yet um because board of education does not have naming rights of certain things we have naming rights inside the building but not outside the building so we have to coordinate with Board of Select so that's in process uh the second thing I want to remind everybody about is uh we do have another legendary coach and Bill Phelps who retired as our soccer coach last year this year last year you retired after last season after last season thank you and on 1022 at a soccer game here in uh on our own home field we'll be honoring Mr Phelps at halftime with a little reception so uh I hope as many people can make that meeting as possible and I hope the board can also make that meeting uh that that event uh been on Mr phelps's uh behalf uh I also want to remind the board there's a cave conference that's coming up the annual cave conference which is 11:15 to 116 and um we also received um oh it's right here uh we received from the uh Park and wreck for board members and some of you I remember I think Ken myself and Joe I think last year were at Mills pond where they did their Halloween at the park uh where they've asked all different parts of town um Everybody the Board of Education Board of Selectmen all the different boards if they would sponsor a table and hand out uh candy the uh there's an event run that day this is Saturday October 19th the event is um there's a fun run from 11:30 to 12:30 but there's also um Candy giveaway that also happens from 11:30 to 12 12:30 it's 1 hour um so if there's a board member fortunately I'll be away that weekend but if there's a board member that may want to coordinate that one hour uh we put our Banner out there we'll buy the candy and the kids just come by it's pretty cool they come by and all their costumes and if you want to come byy in a costume and I'll open this up to our our reps if if you want to help us out with this that would be a great too it's one hour on Saturday the 19th um the other the other thing is there's a teacher is it a teacher appreciation next we how it's Board of Education and EAC collaboration of a social okay so meet and a meet and greet with the Board of Education and our teachers union and that is next Thursday is it Thursday 17th thank you so it's next Thursday the uh the 17th so um I I plan to be there um and I hope as many board members can be there also to uh to um have some fun with our our Union 35 teachers 3:15 goes 3:15 I think to like 6:15 or something like that so 5:30 okay um other than that that's all I have uh as a Chairman's up there we move on to Dr G Dr grman please super good evening to everyone it's great to see everyone here and person and online a lot of happenings within the the can Public Schools I do want to welcome Mr to pipo and Dr Kidwell here this evening and the rest of the Ken High School staff and students and families that are joining us for such a great night I did receive an email from Mr dep pipo that I did want to put out out here in let the board in the community now that Kon high school was recently recognized as an advanced placement program by being placed on the honor rule for 2324 by the College Board as far as Mr pipo and I can remember this is one of the first times that this has happened and what it does it's honoring and recognizing the schools that have done outstanding work to welcome more students into the AP courses and if you remember that is all part of Mr the pipo in the high school's continuous Improvement plan so [Music] congratulations as I wrote in my update to the board of ed last week and I do want to let the community know and my hope is eventually to bring this individual in the spring to a board meeting is our own Kent High School Kent Middle School music teacher Coral director Mr Brian Jones has been selected as a national finalist for the American prize in composition for his short Coral Works professional Divi division for his peace may it be so that that's a tremendous honor we wish Mr Jones tremendous luck and and we'll bring Mr Jones here in the Spring tomorrow is a big day here at Kent high school and there'll be a lot of traffic in in this uh building tomorrow so we need to be prepared for that our SC counseling department has work worked really hard for our college fair for our Juniors and seniors tomorrow I want to let everyone know that this Friday will be a half day in the Ken public schools that we have districtwide professional learning Monday October 14th there's no school due to the holiday and Tuesday November 5th our staff will get together students will be off for our professional election day um development and that will be at Cher Brook primary school we really haven't had our professional learning day at Cherrybrook so that will be exciting I do want to let the board know that we are in in deep into our budget process that we will be meeting with the administrative team to discuss their individual budgets they're putting their budgets together with the hope of presenting our proposed forecasted budget if you remember we do it I I did it a little bit different than what you're used to I'll give you a forecasted budget of where we are at that moment in time in December and then I'll come back and give you the final superintendent budget in the the January and February timeline but what the goal is to share with you where we are are within the the process of what the administrative team is looking at in December and looking at it in relative to the tri board meeting which is October 21st at 6: PM it's very important that all board members attend the tri board meeting on October 21st 6: p.m.

I believe and the uh High School cath okay so um this group again um does a wonderful job representing the music department and all that they do again in house but also the public as well and you'll be hearing more about everything that the department does throughout the years this was again to celebrate the work that they've done and that they will be doing so congratul again Owen Juliana sh thank you so much so so again your words I have to tell you I do recognize some of you without your makeup from the plays but but but the plays the plays are outstanding the musicians are unbelievable the singing that goes on we we have such a talented music and arts program and you are the of it so just a wonderful job we're looking forward to the spring play that's usually a musical right I think so I don't know if that's been selected you don't have to reveal anything yet but uh we we all try to get to to all the different uh events so thank you for your time great good job right so uh that was a wonderful segue I think for the final group come on up the final group going here and um so you know there is a bit of a crossover and a blending of this group but these are the our drama club officers that I wanted you to meet um this is collaborative group that works to support the director Mrs Taylor to plan dat all the dama club meetings and in general these theater Productions that you were just referring to so it's important that that um you see these some are in front of the stage some are behind the stage but uh James Barker who's our senior recently was a in the Adam family last year um he'll be the lead in in Big Rock City at Candy Mountain this year Corgan pendel is a senior as well and she's with our Tech representative last year she was the assistant stage manager and this year she's looking to be the lead stage manager um we met already but and also is is in a drama club and she recently as we said uh was hug The Adams Family it should be uh Unice in big rock at Cy Mountain a junior U and again he was in ad family as well um and he will be performing this in this play um and we also have Claire CL Dr Who a sophomore um and again in the family it will be in big rock uh at Cy M I mentioned that a few times as you can see that we have uh our play opening November 7th so it'll be that weekend the 7th 8th and 9th and maybe James or any else can tell for a little bit about the play yeah of course I would be happy to uh so briefly mentioned uh the play that we are putting on uh this fall is Big Rocket candy mountain now I wouldn't be surprised if none of you have heard of this before it is incredibly nich but I feel that you will find it to be very very fun it is extremely funny it is cheesy and all the right ways and it is a Rance a little uh but I don't want to give too much away but I will give a basic synopsis of a little bit of I want to keep it short of sweet essentially a big businessman is trying to make it on his own he is not doing well uh so he sees the public as a good investment to see business opportunities to see what they can offer and a hiy comes to him and says I got an idea for you and then a grand adventure of music and love and chaos and a lot of death uh happens and it is all beautifully portrayed and I highly recommend you all see it now that is the synopsis of what the show itself is now if I may I want to give it over to uh Claire and Anna to tell you a little bit about what the drama club officers play uh the sort of roles that we do and what we hold the power that we hold in the drama so a lot of what we do is um gather the group together like we all meet up in the auditorium for reversals 3 days a week and so we kind of just say hey let's all get up on the stage we're going to do a warmup and we do a Qui game before M gets in we organize we just organize drun things and we do a lot of just getting the people to know each other and getting the for people familiar with not just the people in the club but the things we do in the club as a whole whenever people split up into smaller groups dur certain scenes drama Hub leaders will uh take the lead and make sure people stay on track uh we will generally recommend good warm-ups and team building activities to help the cast get closer and uh generally our leaders and people to look for for advice and Direction during all of the shows how many people in the drama clook I would say around 2530 that's fantastic you know what you do is not just for the district or the school but our community just Embraces this what you do people look forward to seeing the talents and the things that you do so thank you for the behind the scenes and for the in front of the scenes that you all do and James I I I I didn't recognize you in the beginning until you spoke your voice your voice is very distinct it's a beautiful voice by the way and you're going to have a career somewhere using that voice I'm sure here yeah so again uh congratulations to James Coran Anna and Decker and Claire all you do to support Dr program thank you so much [Applause] so the whole board pictur why memb [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you all thanks guys [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] okay if we can uh bring it [Music] back and Dr K going to take us to a brief presentation or of the continuous Improvement so um thank you for a few more minutes um to really just give you an overview of the CIP or our continu Improvement plan I did speak with several members of the Board of Education October 2nd you go compl in detail I'm happy to answer any questions I know all the it's part of the board packet I just a couple mentions in terms of the continuous Improvement plan at the high school I hope you know first and foremost that it is exactly the same as last year uh in terms of of the big picture goals um as I mentioned the other day um we had need some strong inroads in several of the goals and the plans within the goals have been effective um and many of them were were starting to emerge so we maintained uh several elements of the goals so you should see about 75 to 80% uh duplicity from from the previous year um there are a few further elements and as I handed out just a quick one pager in Blue uh I mentioned uh I kind of pulled out what might be different from the year before um so again uh you're well aware of the goals student growth and achievement Partnerships and Community engagement Financial sustainability learning environment belonging embracing equity and Workforce Development um and before I dive into the goals you know I do believe that within each of the goals you know we do have um some results that we're we're trying to uh work towards we also have um really strong elements the goals in terms of what administration uh does what and what the teachers do to support uh the process within the goals and I think that's the most important key that the process in the action steps are really sort of um help bring uh these goals forward um some you can you know pinpoint a number or a measure and others um you know we look forward to just general growth in a particular area um I'm happy to answer any questions um either from the one major or from the um the CIP itself um um board members any any questions you know I I will say that so impressed that day that we spent with with you and uh the students from the uh wri Workshop uh but the improvements have been significant across the board and uh you've made great Headway and tremendous progress and I think it's you know based on the leadership that we have and and the way that the staff has come come together and collaborated to make that all happen so um I know that day we were very impressed with some of the uh some of the information that you provided uh I know you're getting the condensed version but if you have any questions I think uh you know feel free to bring them to me or to Dr Gman and we can get those answered for you uh down the road okay anything else for a quick comment it was was really a wonderful morning uh I was said it that day that keeping the goals same and refining them makes so much sense uh because there sort of almost internal goals some of the areas you picked out uh and we only walked around for about 40 minutes uh but you picked up a sense of Engagement uh a sense of quiet work uh kids seem to sort of be enjoying school and you can't fake that you know that that just was imp permeated to walk around and stepping in the classroom so thank you it's great great day thank you okay we'll let you get home to dinner thank you so much for all your support our processes and forward to meeting you again thank you thanks for coming tonight thank you okay thr U thrill to have uh here tonight um to go over oh I'm sorry hang on one second we we I you know um is is the agenda is I want to get something out out um so that we can move it to to deal to to kind of handle things while we have our board attorney here so I'd like to have a motion that we move uh recommended actions consent agenda forward to this particular point we'll move through that pretty quickly and then we'll get to this meeting so move okay second thank you any any discussion on that you want to vote on them now yeah we're going to we're going to move it up we're going to take one by one vot on now okay so I have a first and second any other conversation questions all those in favor iOS sorry we're not voting on them now we're discussing no we're we're going to take the recommended actions from the consent agenda and we're going to vote right now we're V just mov the agenda yeah moving the [Music] agenda so again all those in favor do I have seven right thank you okay have have eight here have eight eight okay so eight of all right thank you H okay um so we start with consent agenda approval of the minutes of September 5 2024 uh and September 10th 2024 can I have a motion my motion thank so motion to C Board of Education approve the consent agenda thank you Cindy second thank you Jordan any any discussion all those in favor okay that's 80 thank you so you did the first one right so you had to do the approval of the audit it's It's all under the consent agenda all all three of those are under the consent agenda so so we'll take it we'll take it one at time approval of the audited U audited 2324 financials if we're given have a motion to approve that was given that last me right thank you Erica second thank you Jordan any questions on that all those in favor I 80 on that thank you and then the approval of the UN audited 2425 financials as of September 30th 2024 uh including July August and September thank you Felicia second thank you Erica any other questions all those in favor okay so that that Tak yeah going to do the trans talk about that appr that's what we just did July and a oh there's two sorry we did July and August we need to do sep I put them all together July yeah when I when I asked you a motion you did them all yep okay so now all right then we go to Anna Anna we're going to we're looking for information on the approval of the budget transfers for the fiscal year 2023 2024 terrific um this is something that we do um each year uh the board approves the budget during um the budget season in the previous year we finish out the year with some variances in each of the line items but because it wasn't approved budget um we do have to the board does have to authorize these adjustments in order for us to have a revised Budget on record so um again this is for the fiscal year that we've already reported on um the budget transfers are just a a separate document and topic okay I'll take a motion that we uh move cam Board of Education approve the budget transfers for fisc year 2023 2024 after I give the motion I open discussion requests motion thank you uh thank you Kim for a second appreciate that um open up for discussion anybody have any questions for Anna on this I mean this typically what we do on the transfers wean out okay all right all those in favor I oppos okay you know thank you very much okay uh now we're going to uh I just read okay so now I'll take a motion on uh the camp board of education approve revisions to policy 4021 prohibition of sex discrimination including sex based harassment Personnel such policy shall be considered for adoption at his second read at the next Board of Education meeting I'll take a motion oh thank you Jo second have a second please thank you s okay we have a first and second any discussion yeah this is a federally mandated U policy came up at the first policy meeting in September uh it's a little bit complicated and we felt that some additional information was necessary would be important for us to understand it completely uh so we had our board attorney come to the last policy meeting had a very very lengthy discussion about it where say Jordan and I asked a lot of questions over for about an hour period of time we had a fair amount of of input from the public as well uh and we recommended United members of committee there for first read tonight and I will leave our board attorney is here so we did we did uh ask the public that the public came forward I'm very appreciative of the questions that we get on this because I understand this policy is a little bit complicated uh but however um the questions that we received really had nothing to do with the policy they had more to do with the implementation so there's really nothing to further to discuss on the policy the questions were more based on implementation so I I have nothing to report on those on those particular questions any other questions from the board I do I have questions in regards to actual policy and how it's written okay so it just how it's written here in regards to the timelines so there there's a bunch Where the dates are brought up of 7 Days 5 days is that the only option that we have so let me give you an example Sarah just so you know exactly one talking about so this is series 5,000 so if we're looking at oh my God let me it's page nine that helps so this you know Onan we're talking about 4,000 right now 5,000 they're the same ex it's probably also still page eight um sorry yeah so page nine B and take meetings from the date of the written notice Prov into subsection 3.3a the parties will have 30 school days to reach a resolution so that's just an example I guess my question is is that our only option um for most of them I don't want to say it's for all of them about going through but for most of them um the title 9 Federal Regulations say that you have you have to choose something that's reasonable um but there beyond that you do have flexibility for changing some of those exact time frames okay so like for instance we're filing a complaint on page 13 fining a complaint be filled within 30 school days of the alleged occurrence when you're saying school days I just want confirmation here let's say a a grievance needs to be filed of something that happened in May or June there a school day over the summer um so school days is defined on page six okay and defined means the day that school is in session and designated on the calendar posted on the district's website and its discretion and then equitably appli and with proper notes to the parties the district may consider business days during the summer recess as school days is if such designation facilitates the pro resolution the okay so then it's the current has happened in let's say the 24 to 25 school year over the course of the summer it would need to be filed then it could be it would fall within we wouldn't need to wait until the fall the school days correct okay well I mean based on this definition that if the district May useit our business St during the summer recess I just wanted a clarification on that and then is our title n coordinator work year round outside of the school year so do she working through the the course of the summer 12 months 12 months yes no so how would we handle that so partly that in that case the if you look at school days if you don't have somebody being able to do a prom resolution and it doesn't sorry I lost the definition I go back and look the exact definition um if you don't if such designation does not facilitate the pr resolution because you don't have the the people to do it then you because part of it is too that you can't necessarily do an investigation if students aren't in the building depending on what the the issues are right you don't have students to talk to okay so that's it all together okay so is there room for us to say that this could be within 90 days just to cover the summer I guess I guess that's what I'm looking for is to make sure like where's the administrators are still in compliance but we're not asking the coordinator to come in over the summer we're asking students who might be traveling to do the actual full investigation is there en way in that actual time period so I think what we have decided in terms of put putting 30 days in there 30 school days is and the definition of school days is kind of giving you the discretion to use business days in the summer but you don't have to is because I would hesitate to expend expand it more because Title 9 says that you have to promptly resolve from L and so if you put [Music] 90 what I don't know school days business days whatever I think you run into the potential of being outside of that reasonably C time frame and so by having it as 30 days 30 school days in in most instances that's going to account for it and in those certain instances where we don't have the staff or we don't have the resources to do a promt resolution you have the flexibility there to um to not be not in comp Sarah you talking regulations or the policy that's in the yeah so this conversation is the regulations not policy correct the policy yeah the policy is the first four pages corre cor and that's implementation correct okay all right that was really my biggest one is I just wanted to make sure that we would still be I guess the regulations even if it something happens let's say the last day of school and there needs to be an investing grievance investigation process and we don't have our Title 9 coordinator for those whatever 12 weeks okay so you're saying that that would be covered okay that was really the biggest piece that I wanted clarification on and then why is there no difference between the students and the Personnel the right like I read through this in are basically like copy and paste there is no difference and that's intentional corre okay okay so I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything okay um I think oh one other question that I had uh and this is my last one I believe is um I believe that there oh so if I read in the stud or in the Personnel it says and this might be the regulations again so it might be out of line with the policy here but it says if um an expulsion needed to happen so there could be like a prompt expulsion that would have to have to happen with a student but would we still use the word expulsion in regards to an employee board um I'm not sure exactly okay let me see if I can find that exact page and it it's past page four so again might be out of questioning I guess but okay so it's page 18 and letter e it says if and this is in the Personnel so if expulsion is recommended reers student respond to the board for expulsion proceedings pursuant to Connecticut law but I didn't see anything of with Personnel if they're found to be guilty of whatever this is and they need to be terminated I'm just looking to make sure I so it's remedies and disciplinary sanctions yeah so if you look at the okay um possible sanctions being included but are not limited to discipline up to an including expulsion for students and termination ofemployment okay I I'm trying to read all of the a lot and I'm not an attorney so okay all right thank you that's all I have for questions that thank you okay we have a first and a second close discussion all those in favor all those in favor for what motion okay moving it from first reading to Second did you go please yes8 thank you okay now um I need a motion that the C Board of Education approves revisions to policy 5030 prohibition of sex discrimination including sex bias harassment students and such policy shall be considered for ad option at a second read at the next Board of Education meeting we have a first thank you Felicia second thank you Erica discussion hearing none all those in favor iOS he up okay thank you very much and the final uh motion tonight move that the camp board of education approve the homework policy 6154 I have Mr uh shy uh speak to that in a second can I have a first Mr Shyer second Cindy thank you very much discussion Mr sh just on it was uh somewhere in this gigantic folder it's one line added recognize when the policy was written it was a seven period day the new policy is an 8 period day with two days of of uh long extended periods so it allows uh teachers to give homework on Thursday or Friday so that not help me out here one line it's it's page two homework may only be assigned on it it changes from Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday um and it's simply to homework may be assigned on the days in which the classes are session this classes don't meet us today that was my okay any other questions on there I do have one question are we allowed to approve it because this is just because it's an amendment because don't we have to do a SE any policy change we are you could you could choose to to approve it on one read yeah it's it's the C Board of Education approve the H policy system and that this if you remember that the policy committee though will be discussing homework in general General at a future poliy meeting this was just a a quick change that was actually brought to um the the Board of Education several years ago to make this change but to let the public know because it came up at policy committee meeting tonight the policy committee is going to look at uh H more which just looking at the technology committee and the bylaws uh right now and this will be a future agenda item so this is just to move basically practice at High School just really because of the BL class correct so we have a first and second are of the conversation questions hearing none all those in favor I oppos 80 okay thank you very much thank you sir thank you so much all right now it's my pleasure to introduce mrle who's here tonight to give us an update on uh special education and the Thrive program so can I just uh jump in before Mrs M goes there's been um some questions from the the Board of Education just to provide an update on tuition and programming which aligns very well with this's continu Improvement plan so there was some specific questions related to that and we'll also be asking Mrs mle to make this same presentation when we go to the board of Finance in November it it it goes a little bit into uh the the public common question that we've received today regarding budget one of the major shifts that has changed in 10 years is special education that far out seeds the inflation rate and Mrs I'm mle will talk about it so we're very fortunate to have mle us me uh so good evening everyone uh I appreciate the opportunity uh to provide you all with the tuition and programs um and as Dr grman um so eloquently stated and you actually stole a little bit of my intro of this presentation is directly aligned to board World 3 which is financial sustainability and efficient operations which is directly connected to my continuous Improvement plan and the continuous Improvement plans of all the administrators in the district uh I want to begin with two things one programming for students with disabilities is incredibly complex um and there are multiple variables that are constantly in play and when we um anticipate our budgets at the very beginning of the year uh it's virtually impossible to anticipate all the possible changes um in programming or movein with students and that's why you often see um big swings in the in the special education tuition and transportation lines I also want to take this opportunity um to celebrate uh what we do as a department in collaboration um with our families our students our outside providers um we do not work in isolation we are a team uh I'm incredibly proud of everyone from our secretaries to our par Educators our jenet and specialed teachers and administrators and all of your support here at the board um we could not do the work that do for students about quers um so with that I will jump in and begin so screen's a little small my vision at this hour is not ideal so I'm going to peek up my notes a little bit um but you'll see on this slide over the three years I wanted to share um a couple of points here one is that you're going to notice that the uh K12 all student count in the state um is decreasing but you'll also notice that the prevalence rate in special education continues to rise at the state level and in Canton um and one example of this is um in the area of emotional disability uh that has G up in the Last 5 Years 10% in Canon so 5 years ago we were at 24% and now in that category or 34% and it's our fastest rising identification category in this District um so coming in and um thinking about how to advance our programming through Services through briide is a key step in addressing those student needs so this slide uh my intent here is to give you an example of the wide range of variability within costs in special education when I mentioned it's incredible complex on the high end if you have a student who requires wrap around behavioral supports therapeutic uh possibly locked facility you're going to be on the higher end of the tuition well over 200,000 uh our average based tuition rate is around 100,000 that's not accounting for specialized transportation and the low end would be services that happen above and beyond the academic school year think extended school year um to during additional summer therapy that go above and beyond do during our regular course of year you say the transportation a little okay so the also the average cost for transfer is $44,000 annually per student per student exp what that is so that's uh that's the rate caught so many times students who are in an out of District placement uh may require solo transportation for uh different reasons does that include if a nurse is onic reason it could be a medical reason but it could be for a monitor could be the need to just add an individual run if the student is placed at a school that we don't have other schools um that we can ride share with so every time we have to add a run to a different school it's an additional $44,000 here I answer your question but you also need to understand that the the tuition cost that is not regulated by the state of concut it's not regulated so that is talk right now within State legislative bodies that superintendents have gone to our representatives to ask for regulations to regulate the the increase that schools can to can charge so for example Barber does a great job with and says 3 to 4% going back to inflation of what is typical 3 to 4% schools can say well you know what it's going to be more like 9% so if we budget at 3% which is responsible growth and sometimes far they budget 4% I'm like no go three and half because I'll split the middle with you because it should be three but you'll get a bill it's a 9% increase it's not regulated right so why don't we just pick another place then Barbara why don't we pick another place I know the answer but I because uh schools are there's a it's complicated there are many reasons one is that uh we are limited in our options for highly therapeutic programming in the state of Connecticut um and the other is we are faced with a situation now where the weight list to get into some programs as well over a year and a half um so if we have students that require a therapeutic placement sometimes we're looking at transferring them close to an hour to get them the supports and services they need um so we don't have a lot of options they really have a monopoly and they're privately run and funded they have their own boards um and I've experienced uh tuition increases of close to 11% this year in some of our facilities which is just sticker sha right so this next slide gives an overview of actual expenses for out of District students this particular year um so it's took it's a great care to make sure that this uh data is anonymous um so it's not tied to a specific student um that I would reference but you can see here the base tuition for student a is 205,000 uh when you factor in the alart services for OTP speech behavior um that's an additional almost 8500 Transportation if the requireed monitor is above that 44,000 so in this case we're at 54,000 so we're at a grand total of 268 uh for one student um so you can see here that the swing is fast you look at students they have a base tuition of almost 73,000 they don't have related Services um they they have a parent transport or situation um and and that's the cost so so the board understands $268,000 in the year 2024 was now $268,000 in 2004 it could have been 50,000 2004 it's just that is the the how quickly things have changed when something is unregulated next slide um so there was a question about what were there any documented savings from our IND District programs um and these are savings uh from the last fiscal year uh so I'll draw your attention to what was thought in the tuition budgeted section um so just going by student and we budgeted 11 19,700 um with our Thrive program we were able to bring uh couple students back to District um in this case um we had a a tuition savings coming back mid year of almost 61,000 and we also had some Transportation Savings of 24,79330 594 um and what I want to point out that's most important is those savings could then be reinvested into our district programming to make those programs that much stronger so um we build to S practices we have extra resources available to us for able to then reinvest those saes back into our program l a good question um I know like on this other one it's student adnc is this school ADC meaning different schools within the district so different schools I the next two slides down the operational clost to run Pride program and our learning lab program in District as you know both of those programs we offer districtwide um and the Thrive program in total cost see where the numbers are coming from uh and again I'll say this reflects our commitment to offering high quality in District programming programming and services in order for Thrive to thrive as a program it needs to have behavioral support and therapeutic support so it requires Social Work support embedded and behavior consultants and behavior text to support individual student needs then turn to the learning lab program that program operationally costs 870,000 um in the swing here the difference is most of the students in our learning lab programs require either a one toone par educator support or a two to1 support um so there's a higher we have I believe 18 par Educators supporting that program are they fully staffed are they fully staffed we are much Clos CL ER to being fully staed than we were last year at this time we still have about four par educator positions that need to be filled so this slide is I think it's my favorite slide of the presentation I'm going to point out the key to you um and try to break this down and explain where it's coming from so so canton's um PP is our per people expenditure so it costs on average $1,575 per student to educate a student in C Public Schools when you require an out of District placement it's four and a half times that amount so that's where we get per people amount of 88,000 for a special education student that needs outp and that's just their tuition when you factor in the average cost of Transportation I came up with an out of District base cost of 132,000 per student now in the program potentially this is all hypothetical but potentially we have 18 students in five if those 18 students required an out of District placement that would cost over $2 million when you factor in the operational cost of $551,000 you have a potential Savings of 1.8 it's very tiny print so I'm not going to the exact number uh and then in learning lab if you do the same exercise you have a potential Savings of 1.7 does everybody understand that because that that that's a big chart so what Barber's saying is that drive costs $551,000 to to run if we didn't have Thrive the potential of those students being outplaced would be a total of $2.3 million right by us having dropped 551 th000 1.8 is savings that we are generating from this another example of why our budget looks different than it did that's 51,000 that's operational and the same thing with learning lab so right there if you total it all together by my simple math it's approximately two 2.6 Barbara of six if we had to outplay children so investing in our industri programming and making that as strong as possible is a key step to maintaining that fiscal responsibility that we talked about in our board goal next slide so this slide is about XO plus and it's very very general anybody has specific questions about exit plus i''d be happy to follow up with you um outside of this meeting if need be um but I wanted to point out that in 2324 we received % so that's a significant hit and what this cost refers to is anything above and beyond that threshold of $888,000 so the district has to eat the cost of the $888,000 no matter what if your cost is if it's a $100,000 outplacement you get 70.5% of what's left of that let's just say it's 20 grand you get 70.5% left of that um so it it helps but you know we're advocating strongly directors in the state superintendence to fully fund excess cost it has yet to be fully funded Barber what's the reason for the discrepancy if the state said 88 yeah I appreciate that question so I asked the same question to uh the state department and it was explained to me that what they do is they annually they look at all of the school districts in the state of Connecticut and based on the level of need in um some of our larger districts uh they have to re reallocate the amount of funding that's available um So based on that redist redistribution provided with us yeah answer so so I intend to invite our state representative state senator to the board of Finance meeting a so they can hear our financial report and B I think Barb's report was so so enlightening that they need to hear this also so I hope they can make it but I'm going to get on the phone tomorrow and invite them both welcome that conversation I know so [Music] I if it cost $100,000 to send student out place you subtract the 20 that should have cost you subtract it 88,000 on that 100 okay that's your thresh four and a half times per people whatever is left you get 70 and half% of that that's question just to follow off with that so the 19,0 575 does that include uh specialized services or No like is is that so that's what it cost to educate with nothing extra so the the state does a Formula based upon and help me out because this is complicated the state does a Formula that generates looks at your tax Bas how much your budget is how much um your town could afford and then they come up with your per pup expenditure that's what it comes so it takes out the special education takes out the out of District um special education cost okay so this would include prog 19,000 I would I would say that that's the average amount for a general education student and then a student that requires special education related Services they're above and beyond what they get during the school day there would be additional cost to educating even there there's such a thing as a high cost IND District student that would go above and beyond the 19,000 so it just depends on the student and their their IEP needs totally understand that but I I guess what I'm a little bit confused about is the actual calculation of that number and it sounds like so any student within the fry program would be attributing to this okay okay so these are key steps to mitigate high costs um the first being investing in programs like learning lab and pride um keeping our students in their home District where we set the standard for our rigorous high quality expectations for all Learners um is key and we're training our staff and we're building our capacity um so when I think about budget forecasting um I think about what needs do we have in our student population and where do we need to invest in training supports and resources to make sure that our programs are um align to best practices and that we're ensuring faith for each and every one so fa is a free and appropriate public education and all special education students are G students first they're entitled to that um investing in District Services goes right in line so that's looking at recognizing the need um when I joined the district a couple years ago that we needed behavioral consultants and behavior Texs to support some of the emotional regulation needs that we were seeing in our Learners um we've successfully built Partnerships with Quantum behavior um to ensure that we have Consultants um meeting with our programs regularly and also with our PBS teams regularly our school-based teams meet and we consult on individual student needs and put together plans um also I mentioned budget forecasting leveraging our grants so every year I write uh the idea Grant which is the grant that um helps us supplement the cost of Services um and we try to we work very very hard to be incredibly thoughtful around um programming and planning for what our needs are through that and we're always monitoring these programs ride is new it's still in its ady stages it's only been around for a little bit so we are still learning as a team and coming together in our meetings to to think about what we need to do to continue to make that program strong and sustainable for many years to come we do the same with learning lab in our preschool programs um our structured literacy we have structured literacy staff in each of our schools to support students with thisa so it goes much further than Pride um we look at it for all of our programming in the district um and then lastly I just want to say that Community collaboration is so critical so we have um Partnerships um and shared services for example uh 18 to 22 program with Randy bear um is our program for students who require Services Beyond Canton High School from 18 to 22 and sharing the cost of that um helps mitigate what it would cost a small town like can to in to create their own transition program so we share those resources um we also have a partnership with c and behavior and they're running a hybrid Clinic um it's the first year of that program uh we have as you students who are participating it's incredibly successful they spend a portion of their time at the clinic and then they're with a on toone Behavior Tech who goes with them to school for the second portion of their day um and it's keeping them students here it's creative programming with Community Partners to make sure that we're continuing to meet those individual needs I just start talking about some of this yeah um so I will summarize but our 18 to 22 program um is key our Behavior text um embedding uh things like talk therapy with our social workers through Pride helps to enhance that program to make sure that we're giving opportunities um as a group of for students to work through areas of need such as etive functioning or emotional regulation um we are also exploring this year starting a home visit um protocol uh and the intent behind that is we have uh because of those needs with emotional regulation um and emotional disabilities that we're seeing in the district we are noting that we have students who are experiencing School avoidance um and we're looking for opportunities to re-engage and reconnect them with the learning process so that starts with those core relationships at home and making an effort um to do that Outreach and even if it doesn't work right way planting those seeds and eventually that that will um get our Learners re-engaged with school um and then uh lastly the um last piece that I want to mention I've had the opportunity I was invited to join the working group with um CPAC which is the contic parent Advocacy Center um around language equity and access so a law was passed this year um requiring um translators and interpreters and um an understanding of the parent multil language Bill of Rights um so we're working really hard to get the word out around that um and that parents are entitled to that we want them to be engaged in the PBT process um so encouraging that homeschool connection is is another wonderful partnership that we're incredibly proud of so as you can see we're working really super hard in PBS um but it's not in isolation it's in Partnership Mr Bishop grman Rob so it it takes some Village um I'm incredibly grateful and to the team in this district for all your support thank you bar great presentation I know one you kind of touched on this a little bit and I know the board of Finance was interested in this when we uh when we were talking about th and I know we in the infancy there was hope that maybe we you were talking a little bit about this we can expand and maybe grab other towns with with a more reasonable tuition than they they would get outside how far away you think we are from maybe getting something like that in place I think that every year that we build in stronger practices we get one step closer to that so I think if there are opportunities to explore that um even this year I would be H into it if an opportunity came I'll share with you uh another school district reached out to me today asking questions about what our learning lab program looks like and ask to come and visit the program um to get a sense of how we're supporting activities in daily living at the elementary level um so you never know we're talking as directors we're exploring and they may come to me and say hey I have a student that we're struggling the program for would you be open and those are kind of it happens organically um to start and then we can formalize the process but it be open to exploring that opportunity one one of the original Advocates of of Thrive one of our supporters Andrew La is here tonight he was one that you know they they saw the U they saw the possibilities and the opportunities and I think I think the board of Finance would say if there was a um additional seeing these numbers if there was an additional investment so that we can do something like that to allow you to to in and get there I think there would be um you're going to get question I'm sure appreciate that how about other board answer this and I miss that I apolog are was able to bring any aners back who were out place the numbers that you haven't had to out place is great but anybody who y so the earlier slide where I spoke of the 179,000 those were um three students that we brought back to District last year yep and I anticipate um at this time on forecasting that we're in the process of bringing two students back fantastic Kim just we wondered just like there surveys and formal feedback that they get at the end of the school year you know for all the schools do you have any process or getting feedback from the families speciic specifically involved in Thrive and then also the population of students that you service thank you for that question I appreciate it so I don't have a formal process um but we do have like PBT uh during PBT we have a opportunity for parent input around programming um so we take that as anecdotal data and information um to help gauge you know with how how our students are feeling about the program and our our parents and honestly I think as as our Learners get older we really want them to be able to communicate clearly around what's working for them and what's not so encouraging them to be part of the PBT conversation around their programming and what their needs are um is is critical it's essential feedback to help us go back and Provine our program thank you the only other question I have was the piloting home visits so that's new is there a certain percentage of students that are part of that we we are just in the meeting stages in exploring what a protocol would look like we have some students who are not coming to school and that's your that's a strategy you're using to thanks Kim other questions so who does the home business so we're developing that protocol I've been working very closely um with Francisco beers at crack um and the recommendation is that we have Behavioral Health person attend um with another adult that is that has a relationship with with the individual so that could be an administrator it could be a teacher um it could be um corre liaison it could be a lot of different people it really just depends who the right person is but we always care that person for safety reasons who go cars um care that that person with another individual that we can connection with any other questions that was just a great presentation a good warm up for you for the board of Finance meeting that's right thank you very much excellent good numbers thank thanks s for helping on that too yeah thank you okay fantastic all right so let's uh move to you know one one of the things that uh we talked about at the retreat was uh the board has been a little bit Tardy on this is is getting our strategic plan in place and the way we decided to uh to approach this is uh the superintendent has helped us develop um against our goals and priorities um what the Strategic plan should look like what our priorities should be over the long term tonight you have the first uh board goal and don't forget you saw it in Packer from Mr dep pipo the vision of a Canton graduate kind of you know is one of the lenses that we're looking this through but what I'd like to do tonight is take that first uh first Board of Education B of priorities for number one student growth and achievement and just go through to see if you have any thoughts or changes on a through I so I I think I'll take I that says align standards based curriculum instruction and assessment across all grade levels and service of the vision of The Graduate any questions yes so I have a question about the word align so there's there are different types of alignment we're talking about vertical alignment or horizontal alignment I think it would be both so when we say alignment it's broad enough to allow the administrators within their own continuous Improvement plans to say we're now going to be vertical in line with our ninth grade or we're trying to be for so it allows the flexibility so a line for a strategic plan would be broad so that's what well ask on that all right and just a reminder to the board the whole purpose of the Strategic plan is that when you're seeing the continuous Improvement plans they're going to be able to put by their goals they're exactly what Cindy just asked where if they put something in there say align standards within English vertically across they're going to be able to put board goal one a so we know exactly which one they're doing so you're actually sitting there when you're meeting at the schools or here to check off which part of our strategic plan did we had so thank for asking that actually Drew pipo did that in our last uh when we met with his continuous Improvement he actually aligned or he checked off which board goal that work so perfect good question B expand career in college Pathways to provide more opportunities for Future Ready cour work I have a question about that too so is that Future Ready like is that how that ised fure OPP for Future Ready y okay okay thank you see identify Trends and gaps in student achievement and to guideance structural adjustments um I had a question about that one too only because it reads a little bit like a like a typo that and in there so give us an example yeah give example give an example of what it should be identify Trends and gaps and studed achievement uh to guide take out you got that order so take out the hand okay Hannah's Hannah is our person that's charting this all out and then plotting remember this isn't final folks this is just kind of going through then y great D Implement draft uh Implement datadriven personalized learning for students to address individual academic needs and learning preferences put the word instruction in there somewhere I don't knows I feel like after personalized learning and instruction it's like personalized learning and instruction for students to address instruction so it would read Implement datadriven personalized learning and instruction for students instruction and learning yeah Implement data personalized instruction and learning instruction you say no a yeah Implement data personalized instruction and learn I like that we so much I like that that's good good suggestion establish regular feedback protocols with students and parents Guardians to ensure that they are informed about academic progress in areas for improvement that makes sense can I just ask a clarifying question there obviously I know like you said it's meant to be broad um but when you say feedback protocols with students like rubrics and with parents and Guardians it's like power school or or whatever like parent teacher conferences I mean it's that I think the whole thing needs to be looked out one of the things that we received from the the survey that we gave out last year to families it kept coming up of feedback providing more feedback so we have to analyze administrative team has to analyze what type of feedback families are looking for that's going to take some time and that's why there isn't direct answers to that question that we got we know we have to do better job providing feedback Pre K through2 saw that right you good F develop and expand Partnerships with local colleges universities and businesses to provide students with real world learning experiences I have I would add the word like Community I know there's the word businesses but like Community I don't want to say businesses again something with the community like you know preschool we have nursing homes we what about what about businesses and Community what if we said develop and expand Partnerships with local colleges universities businesses and community the organization and the community just overall and the community that's good you got that Hannah you don't have to AG no no it's a good good suggestion excellent that's what we're doing this for okay G train teachers in high leverage instructional strategies to promote deep understanding and Mastery of content I'll turn to our two teachers High Leverage What does that mean I don't know yeah so so there there is meta research on the impact or E efficacy of individual strategies there's some things that work really well and then there's some things that are nice that we may have held on to in the past that we like but they're not really doing enough to be able to drive student AG gen in terms of instructional strategies correct okay I I sometimes think that pairs is an essential teacher so I would say [Music] staff train staff yeah that's good good catch got that Hannah that is it is it teachers and staff or is it just sta yeah instructional strategy deep understanding you good Cindy what are you thinking through um well so the the teacher training and high leverage instructional strategies uh that promote deep understanding and M of content for students is that what that means yes okay we can for students I mean I don't know I don't want to be like the more we put students in there the better um that how about as John just said uh train staff and high leverage instructional strategies that promote deep understanding and Mastery of content John and supportive student learning and supportive student Lear very good that's awesome I I'll take Jordan's R in this you got that Hannah isy all right eight continue to explore international certificate based programs to expand students Global competency remind me what international and certificate programs are so there are a couple things that are out there there is the um like a World Language duel uh dual language uh certificate that's out there and part of it too is just looking for more those opportunities to Brad the perspective of of students beyond the C public schools there are some things Jo that are out there that haven't been even utilized within the the local area that we would be able to Divine Define and be able to lean into the idea of being Global Citizens would that include um John like the international travel that they do or it very well could and it's about being able to to state this is these are expectations that we have as a district or as a as a high school and experiences that we want students to be able to have and then we are able to say through our process we can certify you that's one way to be able to go about that um so I had a nups to move 1 H to five and to take 5G to one so sorry you say change the order uh no oh so taking from board B five y g which is ensure all students have access to Advanced coursework extracurricular activities and enrichment program move that to one there's a St that staff to GB that's work yeah so I know that we're only focusing on one but I'd like to move 5G so that from embracing Equity to student growth and achievement and then what would you move out of one I mean we don't have to move anything out of one but I also thought that 1H would fit better in four go five I I don't know if you agree but we talk about International exchanges Global a lot more in the embracing Equity so I thought that flip would make sense but I mean I was looking I have no problem if the board would want to move H in bringing that conversation when we get to board goal number five just to slide it over there we can put it in both spots right now folks uh um that that's not an issue there's a recommendation to move H to five we could keep it in um board goal number one right now slide it over to board goal number five because the administrators haven't even looked at board goal number five yet okay and then when we get to board goal number five come back to that one Jordan for G right so that's the one that I wanted to move to one though so should we talk about that one now sorry wait so I wanted to take 5G and move that to what well and that was the one you said Jordan it could exist both and both but it would have a different meaning because in five it's about this is about diversity correct equity and inclusion and in one we're talking um we're talking uh curriculum and instruction but okay I just think uring all students have access to foror extracurricular activities and enrichment programs is so G the theme of G and like I said the administrators haven't got here yet the theme in G is just access and access to make sure that students and staff have access no matter their their color their their gender that they have access to Advanced coursework extracurricular activities enrichment programs that one is not written based upon student achievement that's just based upon access student achievement may be a result of that but it was just written on access um the the inter the the letter age I I I can go I think the ministrators I think one administrator did say that that could go to board goal number five also and we wound up with in number one but I think it's worth since we're in writing form and we're going to come back I think there's been a question that I think we put H in board goal number one but Hannah let's throw it in board go number five also and then we can come back to when we nail it down does that make sense and then we can always come back um because we're going to remember this well I know I'll remember this we'll come back to letter G and when we get to board goal number five and then we'll have this conversation again does that make sense yeah it does I I I do think that agent addresses student growth and achievement but we can take a look at it okay uh I utilize contemporary Technologies to maximize instruction and support of Future Ready learning I don't know if I like the word contemporary Cutting Edge or I don't know contemp hard to be it's hard to be cutting edge in any school district contemporary is the stuff but you would expect it to be contemporary would you well and and what I would say too is as much as we want to be U Cutting Edge there there's there is a there is a leading bleeding edge that's a part of some kind of a given 21st century we're already in two and a half decades into well I I agree with you that I didn't have a that's just a that's a that's a buzz so you know if you just want to make it simple you could make the recommendation we leverage Technologies to maximize instruction I said how about relevant instead of contemporary utilize relevant technology how about [Music] leverage Technologies write theology specifically when they do continuous okay so how do you want to write it use I like relevant uze relevant Technologies relevant as in like well contemporary it's another way to say contary got a student um I just had to I just see fut [Music] missell go Maggie your dad's going to walk say question where does citizenship says Ure students are College and Career race where does citizenship and digital citizenship is it coming somewhere here or is it later on Joe that's a good question [Music] and the the carrot that I had there after Technologies would be something like in Associated practices to um in support of Future Ready learning so I was trying to think of that same that same perspective Joe uh when we were talking about technology like how are you ready to be able to not have it use you but you use it for good so I don't know if that Associated practices is the right way to be able to say it the idea of being Future Ready is kind of that concept of being able to use those things well and for good well I think digital citizenship and citizenship are pretty important and I think they ought to be specifically referenced up like maybe somewhere else would you think Future Ready learning and citizenship I don't know maybe learning environment aot no that needs to go somewhere I'm thinking about supporters like you know 21st century Global Citizens that shape of changing world not to Ste maybe just think about it why don't we uh how about current current can you ask your principl why don't you come back with us to un eye see if there's better way to write that next meeting when we take a look at the second one would that be all right because we're not voting on anything your principles might have a better but what it means to be a good of the United States is not important so and and that's what I'm wrestling in my head I'm wrestling in my head is that a continuous Improvement plan or is that within like broad enough grad like is it is it broad enough like to write digital citizenship and citizenship is it broad enough my head says it is broaden up right and that the the principles can drill down without within their continu play that is one that we got stuck in the mud when we met as administrators so so so Joe are you saying that citizenship piece is missing there is that just ask where is it where is it I could find so for sure yeah Compass yeah compassionate CZ where is it in the goals yeah so we'll we'll come back at the next meeting when we go over board goal number two a through that one's that one is partnership with Community engagement and that's actually a shorter one so we'll come back if that's all right to with I with it Rewritten and then we'll look at board goal number two administrators have not looked at go number two yet so what you have in the the book the draft book that I gave my gut says it will look different than what you have but you will get a copy like you did tonight one with all right thank you that that works fine all right thank you for that that was excellent input by the board and I I appreciate that very good so let's let's move to our standing committee reports I'll move to uh Mr Bush and Mrs Robbins for finding [Music] the um only other thing that we really discussed other than the finances uh was that we're going to be talking about uh ease for athletic events uh moving forward if we're charging students and or parents or adult residents for sporting EV by the basketball games charge for right now we will have anything else you want to add any questions for the committee okay let's go to policy Mr Shyer we did not discuss Title Nine tonight we did it the September 23th special meeting I've already filled you in on that we adopted the first read tonight uh we did have lengthy and I think really productive discussion than you Jordan John and who High School principal was there too about cell phone use technology use in school um preliminarily we seem to think the current policy just adopted last year is is good as it stands it's the regulations behind it uh that are yet to be determined especially through 12 and uh Ruth and Andor Drew are going to back to us hopefully in November with proposed regulations so we had to made some of good progress I thought it was a very good anything any questions for our policy we're looking at our bylaws too yeah they need to be refresh and then on to curriculum Mrs Hayes yeah so curriculum we met um in September and we just give you a couple of highlights we um heard the assistant superintendent monthly report um successfully on boarded 12 new certified staff members um we looked at our curricular legislative updates uh one of which will be implemented um second semester this year at the high school the personal finance management and financial literacy um class that is a requirement now and will count toward students stem credit requirements um and then we also looked at our Canton educator evaluation and growth plan and reviewed the state required amendments um to that which were fairly minor and then lastly we uh looked over the fall District standardized assessments and that was it our next meeting is going to be October 30th 9 to 11: a.m.

to see electric lawn care equipment in action uh you'll be able to hear from lawn care service providers and experts about their experiences with electric equipment and pollinator aware practices get questions answered and view live electric lawn care equipment demonstrations um you can view our website or get in contact with me or Chrissa Ebling at cing a2gov.org um in the last to you know to celebrate an a20 achievement um through our various free tree giveaways and events we are happy to announce that we have officially surpassed our goal of planting 10,000 trees on private property in an arbor um while you know we have reached this goal uh well ahead of schedule uh naturally we you know uh we plan to keep this momentum going they'll be continue to host free tree giveaways over the next few years um and we're also beginning to do uh survival studies to monitor the trees that have been planted make sure they're doing okay in assess um if they are not that is all that I have for today thank you we'll move on to report uh from the environmental commission yes uh thank you uh the last environmental commission uh was focused on two agenda topics the first was a review it was just for information only on the water regulatory framework that the city operates under starting with Federal level State County City looking at all the different agencies that are involved and what they regulate and what they're responsible for that's a really interesting uh presentation um that was put together with including input from City staff so anyone that really wants to better understand that uh I encourage them to take a look uh at that presentation on legistar or review the uh the meeting uh video the second was a first reading of a resolution of support for or Michigan Senate Bill 228 which would repeal the 2016 PA 389 which prevents local uh jurisdictions from regulating plastic bags and other containers uh so the city of Detroit has already passed um such a resolution um I picked that up and we looked at that and um it will be considered in a second reading and hopefully approved and go on the city council um by the way uh we uh have several of our elected officials in Michigan that are behind that um including Senator shink and and Irwin so that's all one other thing about 10,000 trees we've discussed this in the environmental commission and I think the only thing that we can claim for sure is that we've handed out 10,000 trees we don't know whether they were planted and we don't know their survival rates at least as of yet Joe is that correct is that your understanding um I believe so I don't work directly on the program but yeah that's my understanding and they we've just started doing those um survival and follow-up studies so those are taking place currently fantastic thank you thank you for that um updates from Council I don't know why this part always catches me off guard do you have anything Erica I don't at the moment I'm sorry um oh there there were some revisions made to herd last night um which I know that um that folks have been involved in and so maybe we can provide out an update on that um we could send kind of the revisions for everyone to have so that they can review them that' be great thank you so much okay we'll move on to the um the last uh opportunity for public input uh this is an opportunity for people to speak for up to three minutes and if you're watching on CTN please call 888 78899 or 877 853 5247 and enter meeting ID 956 8718 7876 this information is also displayed on the meeting agenda and video feed City staff will select callers that have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of your phone number to electronically raise your hand inate your desire to speak please press star9 on your phone you'll hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak um and please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments Aller ending in 134 thank you Mr Lang and Cher harp it's Ken Garber again um yeah thank you for the discussion I have two things to say a question and a comment the question is um Mr Lang reiterated that um the uh checklist elements um and the scoring and the ordinance in general was um pretty much pushed the limits of what the city can legally do based on State Building Codes um and I know you don't have the information right at hand um Mr Lang but I'm going I want to warn you I'll be emailing you this question and hopefully you can give me some kind of reply you know I'm familiar with um the uh statute that governs new construction The Still d rosted Hil single state construction code Act 1972 as amended also known as act 231 and um you know it's a reasonable interpretation of that act that you know new the cities cannot pass construction codes that exceed um State uh construction code and energy code um elements uh but for existing buildings I wasn't aware of uh similar state preemption I know there's something called the Michigan Rehabilitation code um but taking a quick look at it you know during your meeting it looks to me like it sets a floor not a ceiling um so uh you know I would appreciate any clarification of this legal question um or from commissioner Levan who seems to have knowledge of this I'm willing to be enlightened on it um so just a warning I'll be sending you Mr Lang an email um any information is appreciated the comment is I want to remind energy commission that um over a year ago in September 2023 you had first reading of you know the carbon pollution impact fee ordinance um which it was modeled after the one that Burlington Vermont adopted last year that um puts an annual fee on um and new construction that uses natural based on the social cost of carbon um it's also similar to what uh Cambridge Massachusetts seconds doing and uh other cities are stepping up berky California is set to vote next month on um a an ordinance taxing um the owners of buildings you know new and existing uh large ones are 15 15,000 square feet or larger based on the amount of natural gas consumed um the funds generated would be estimated at around $27 million a year 90% of which would go towards retrofitting homes and buildings in the city electric hbac um anyway just want a reminder this is still on your table formally we love to see it come back thank you thank you um just make sure sorry for the juggling yeah no further callers thank thank you Joe and thank you for the for the the comments um we'll move on to items for the next agenda uh as I shared an email um that outlines some agenda items with all of the commission members um through through Joe and just to give a look ahead um in November we're hoping to have a a potential presentation from OSI staff on the greenhouse gas inventory and OSI dashboard if possible and then then in December um looking to potentially try to tease out some of the challenges associated with the implementation of a20 I think this came as the suggestion of a number of of Commissioners um and have a um that from MOSI staff and to have a discussion among staff and commission members around that and possible priorities for Council in the year ahead um and as as needed so that's the look ahead I think for the the next two commission me that those may be subject to change but I also want to open it up if there are additional um suggestions commissioner Mery um I support the request uh that we take up the resolution that uh Ken Garber just mentioned uh I had mentioned that um maybe six months ago um that we had left that dangling that resolution generally received favorable uh input I sense that the city council isn't interested in taking this up they're interested in more in uh uh carrots than sticks but I think it should be discussed um and I think when we discuss it we need to consider um the the the point that council member Briggs mentioned about uh building in an arbor versus building outside Ann Arbor but I think uh we all know that affordability is not just um rent it's also utility cost it's the travel uh or Transportation cost and it's the opportunity cost of time lost in transit so um whatever we do that minimizes that while also minimizes emissions we're doing the right thing for anabor residents and prospective residents thank you okay um seeing no further hands raised um it is now 8:04 p.m.

to 10:00 a.m. seniors will have a chance to meet with representatives from many colleges and universities as well as members of the armed services as they began to plan for their trans transitions to life after glts quarter 1 progress reports progress reports will be available in the F in the family and student portals today Tuesday o October 8th students and Par students and parents/guardians will receive an email letting them know progress reports have been published Reggie represent at methu Admissions and counseling staff Betsy Gomez and Ramon Cruz as well as student Yoli Torres were thrilled to represent the Reggie community at Mat day this past Saturday October 5th they were able to speak with many middle school students and families about all that GS has to offer and help them to learn about our admissions and enrollment process interact interact Club spet River cleanup on Saturday September 21st the interact Club cleaned up an impressive 8,000 lbs of trash from the spigot River in addition 300 needles were collected from the river congratulations to Mr SE and the inter interact club members the girl soccer team host Ed a successful car wash on Saturday September 28th thank you to teacher Mr Chris sier for coordinating this event in the spet river cleanup driver's education is returning to glts driver's education classes are available to all students who will be at least 15 and 9 months by October 22nd classes will run through November 21st and will take place after school from 2:45 to 515 p.m.

we invite you all and all of our community members to support reggies during this exciting time of year thank you that this concludes our representative presentation thank you all for your time and attention thank you very much guys it's great to have the student report back uh hon it's especially good to see you you've come so far from when you started it's a pleasure to have you back thank you for coming thank you all Mr would you like to say something the kids I would I repeat that it's exciting to have you back at the school committee members you did a a meeting you did a great job and uh do you have any questions for the school committee members no do you do the school committee members have any questions for our students regarding their report well yep so I know it was last minute you put this together so you did you stay after school and work with somebody and helping you put this together yeah I I stayed after school to work on it all right thank you for that that was uh well done and and the uh slides were awesome appreciate your efforts and we look forward to seeing you at each School Committee Member this year thank [Applause] you all right the chair would like to recognize the principal came to visit us CH Jackson Mr Jackson is there anything you want to say to us or this is just checking up on us just coming to support my thank you Mr DeStefano cash balance report please sure cash balance report as of August 31st 2024 the account balance on July 31st was $677,500 we had deposits for the month of 8,852 56207 um we had actually two chapter 70s during the month of August uh because the July one uh was a couple days um late and so it arrived in August plus um the town assessments uh some of the Town assessments came in that's why we have such a large number uh of deposits in August which is actually good um uh we transferred 2 and5 million of that over to our mmdt for investment purposes uh we have a payroll three payroll amounts as you see listed um plus uh two warrant amounts um and the GL balance at uh August 31st is 3,800 12363 uh the bank balance is 5 million um corresponding bank balance on the same day is 5,714 1575 in our mmdt account we started with 4 million 5872 uh we had net uh deposit in the account from the op operations of Two and a of uh 2.5 million uh the interest for the month was $35,200 uh leaving a balance of 600 uh 6 mli 888,246 um with a total operating cash balance of 10 milon 680 47263 for the month thank you Mr dhano can I have a motion to accept the uh cash balance report motion to F all those in favor say I opposed moving on Consolidated cash is uh a packet and a revolving fund is a packet and there's also a packet in there with the budget report Miss Martell isn't here today is there any questions we can give the superintendent uh to bring to her about any of those thank you communication donations I don't see any articles I don't see any articles public participation we don't have any public participation we do however have Miss Chris Christa Gillis and uh William Boogle both administrative Deans uh assistant principal and administrative Dean uh from the safe office um thank you for coming you have some slides good evening everybody he guys you guys are well thank for coming um so we wanted to we asked to come back and talk a little bit about um some of our discipline procedures parent communication um so we put together a few slides and then we'll be open for questions um at the endk so our first slide is about our classroom procedures in regards to discipline so we uh work with the teachers the expectation for teachers is they establish clear and high standards for classroom Behavior they work with their students to create Norms in their classroom um and high expectations which is one of our core values at the start of the Year and that they hold those throughout the year um we ask them to guide and correct student Behavior as needed redirection we ask them that they communicate with the students caregiver um whether it's good or bad or to reach out let them know how their student is doing what help they might need or what struggles they might be having in the classroom we asked them to assign a teacher supervised detention if they feel that is necessary um we encourage that because it it it's all about creating relationships with that student so if you might be having a uh problem with the student in the classroom we ask them to have them after school and have a sit down and typically that relationship builds and behavior will uh improve if that does not work we then ask them to submit a formal discipline referral through too which will then be sent to the safe office um and then we ask them to collaborate with the safe office to try to strengthen the relationships with both the students and their families all right so after issues in the classroom evolve throughout the year uh we are primarily there to support the classroom teacher support the student students and their learning and maintaining them in the classroom during that time uh we have a series like our Protocols of what we do and once the teachers have exhausted all of their resources in the classroom to control discipline in most cases um we're there for their support um typically discipline referrals come to us in the form of a Aspen referral uh it's our our student database um Miss Gillis and I um and Miss Keys who actually works with a freshman primarily uh we we we'll uh shuffle through those those referrals every day so in the morning um our day usually starts you know answering emails then we get to our referrals uh referrals that have come in the day before um sometimes throughout the day we'll get the referral and we'll be able to handle it right then and there uh but when we do this the the most important thing is we have to figure out what the needs are so we have to start by calling a student down if we get a referral sometimes a student is sent out of class to us and we'll we'll handle it that way as well but as you can imagine you know it starts off with us having to collect this information uh typically the students the first one to respond to us when we get a written referral um so when we bring them into our office individually we're talking to them and um Miss Gillis and I and Miss keys are usually at in a position where we sometimes are meeting the student for the first time so it's very important for us to start to develop that relationship from the from the getup um our time is spent interacting with that student um you're not just coming at them for a discipline referral because we can't have a negative uh beginning to our relationship so a lot of times we're just introducing ourselves talking to them a bit and then that's when we'll get to that referral um they vary you know from every anything from you know being late to class to uh something major where they're really disrupting the entire learning process uh hearing the student is very important for us um understanding that we're we're not just getting them in our office to assign them a discipline and sending them back we have have to actually figure out what the problem is and then go through some steps a series of steps to try to fix it to solve the problem for everybody so uh after we do talk to the student there's some cut and dry cases of kid kid a student is showing up consistently late to class and the teacher has tried everything that's where we come in for support um sometimes it's just a conversation with the student and they really could get to it um sometimes we're calling home after that a lot lot of times we have to assign a detention um and when we do that's us holding the student accountable the discussion becomes part of like we don't want to just hold the student accountable every time because they're not learning the process they're not learning to hold themselves accountable that's the main goal uh at that point if there is any confusion if the written referral is not 100% clear Miss Gillis and I often find ourselves going going back to the teacher just to clarify um but a lot of times the steps already happening um for example I'll call a student in I don't get the full picture um I'm getting one side of the story and then I'm not really getting all the information from the teacher so I I'll I'll put it on hold for the time being and usually follow up later in the day after I had an opportunity to go and talk to that teacher and find out maybe what is the gist of the matter what what is it that is causing this issue is there an underlying issue that goes beyond just a having a bad day um students have bad days just like all of us so we're considering all of that um at that point having those discussion collecting that information and again sometimes it's very simple like a tardy to class but often times it goes a little beyond that um we have resources at our disposable at our disposal including uh school resource officer a school resource officer we have a school adjustment counselor in our office um we have our parent liaison uh sometimes the the student is on an IEP or a 504 so they'll have a liaison that's assigned to them as well so depending on the situation we may call a meeting together with a group of those individuals to discuss it um and a lot of times we're we're pulling the parent in at that point as well um I it it really is dependent upon the situation but that process could be kind of cumbersome because we're not in our office waiting for students to show up all day we're about we're out in the hall we're covering lunch duty we're checking in on classes we're going through the shops um often times I find myself at the beginning of the day looking at my emails and my referrals and then making a list for myself so I could actually circumvent the building and check in to see what's going on not only am I checking in with the current issues that we have but I'm also finding myself following up with issues that may have existed the week before once the students going from shop to academics and then they have an opportunity to go back into where they had an issue I could follow up and find out sometimes seeing it for myself and seeing the interactions that are going on in the classroom um really are the gist what we're doing is we're trying to bring everybody together we're helping the teachers to do their jobs we're helping the teachers to create those relationships a lot of times with discipline problems the the there's two sides right there's there's a teacher side and the student side and you know it just gets separated and there's no time or place for them to actually solve it while a teacher is teaching class they really want to be able to get to the rest of the class so without letting things just simmer uh we we have to get creative in our design and how we we help to solve these problems but over the over the course of a day a couple days um sometimes weeks you know we're helping to build those relationships we're helping to uh helping the the teachers have that voice that they need to really deliver those lessons to students not just in their academic or shop career areas but also building the whole child building them from you know their their social skills building their their employability skills and we're doing a lot of that throughout the day and the days they're not scripted they're not scheduled um you could look at our schedule yes sure we have meetings throughout the day and we have to juggle those meetings and our duties such as lunch duty to actually give us the most time possible to to use these opportunities to build the relationships and sometimes to uh deliver some type of consequence so I think I cover we both covered a lot of this but um as you can see we we've put up a series of uh steps that I think are important in in developing discipline and successfully uh navigating what we have to do in our office and throughout the school uh most of it stuff we've already covered a lot of it centers around our core values um they're they're intricate to what we need to do here we believe in them and we're forever like reminding students that you know what you are making mistakes but those mistakes are actually great opportunities to learn um that's usually the last thing I tell a student you know make sure you learn from this so that it doesn't repeat and uh it's really uh again it's never never no day gets boring they're all pretty exciting I think we're just going to open up for any questions or comments um anybody have any questions Mr Mercedes how um how successful what's the the um successful rating you have for the the planning that you have for um for the students on on the um on the behavior I mean on the um on the procedure how what is your successful rate on that on the it sounds great yeah if it's you know on paper I mean on the day today obviously you guys go through it but how successful you guys are being on this because if if if it is like this I like it I mean I I I came to school and I had my my issues with with teachers and sometime because you're the student you're not really being listened to and and it seems to be you guys are doing both and getting to the parents and all that stuff having these meetings it kind of sounds great but what is your successful rate on on on the dayto day so uh without having the raw data in front of us um I I could speak to like my experiences here and and and I mean this is my 10th year in this building um I previously in another District had a lot of experience doing this having discipline not only in the classroom as a teacher but also as an administrator uh we try to collect our data and provide um you know what the infractions are what the actions are it could be read in a number of different ways when you talk about building relationships and being successful um at at the the point when we're dealing with students um we we don't stop if there's still issues we don't stop when a student goes back to class and the there there hasn't been a resolution um that's as I spoke previously sometimes it doesn't get resolved just by the student walking on our door and providing a consequence the followup the checking back in with the teacher the calling parents um checking in with theud students throughout the day as we see them we are able to see growth through that time and to take a student in any year freshman sophomore senior Junior whatever year to have them come through the door and be solved and have that success which we want okay they're not going to be tardy anymore for example um that we don't know that right away so we have to follow up to find out and if a student something as simple as a class tardiness student shows up late again then we have to progressively increase what we're doing for consequences we have to try different things sometimes when we have a meeting with a student and a teacher it doesn't get resolved so then we may have to pull in a parent sometimes we have to pull in a a a school a social worker to help get to what is the underlying issue that's causing these problems um it's more complicated than that but my my answer to your question to be direct I'd say 100% success because we're not just sending a kid back and saying oh well we can't fix them we're forever digging back in to try to get that student to get all the way through high school and to earn a diploma and a certificate in their shop area um what I often say this high school high school every high school it's almost like a big parachute for students they they understand I think at some point they can mess up and sometimes they take the risk that they wouldn't take otherwise while they're here we help to build them because we're not encouraging them to make mistakes but we're allowing them to make a mistake because we're there to help support it and to help fix it so the general answer I would give you is I I believe we're 100% successful when we deal with student discipline that being said students get to a point where they're graduating they sometimes they still need supports um we we don't know until you they actually live their life but we we build those relationships so that when kids leave here I think so many could come back to us reach out ask for support ask for help and I'm very proud of that part of being at this school because I I know my colleagues are kind of the same philosophy that I have with that one I'd like to add too sorry as well is that um for some students it takes one detention right or or one call home others it might take many more so it really depends on the student it depends on the situation the severity of the situation as well as whatever might be going on outside of school or some issues in school so um not every incident is cut and dry not every incident is the same cookie cutter um so it really depends on the situation and it depends on the student as well thank you other questions soill Chris are you saying in essence I think what I hear you say I think what I hear you saying is that bottom line is you don't quit on kids so no matter if it's the fifth time the 10th time your job is to help them uh improve help them to be successful so whatever it takes you're going to keep trying the next step and the next step uh um so I think that's probably the key to a lot of the success that you find in terms of relationship building with kids and they come to you when there are issues or problems uh the other question I would ask you is so we're uh into our second month here at glts with students what is your sense of the culture of the school with regards to kids right now versus other years when like are you seeing any changes improvements in terms of the data that you see with regard to the issues you're dealing with with uh teachers sending you students um is there a difference this year or is it you feel like it's common to every other year do you want to go first I have to say um what I'm seeing is our kids are awesome anyway our kids our kids are great do they make mistakes yes do they screw up yes that's their job I say it all the time your job as a teenager is to screw up and our job is to help you get better and change that behavior um and like you said John we don't give up on our kids we want them them to be the best best version of themselves by the time they walk across that stage um so is it it is it too early to say it's going to be a great year I think so far it's been a wonderful year um I was just saying today walking down the hall like my kids are doing really well but I'm afraid to say it I'm afraid to jinx myself um but so far you know our teachers have been wonderful supporting them in the classroom our students have been wonderful holding them self accountable I had a student in my office today I got a referral um for doing something I asked him if he did he said you know what M skillus I did and I know it was stupid so they are reflecting on their behavior their understanding they're taking accountability they're serving their consequences um and I think that we're going to have a great year um and it really just goes to show about the culture of our school the culture of our students the support that they have the resources that we have for our students so I think it's going to be a great year um and that is my hope um we never know what tomorrow is going to bring um but I really do believe in our students I believe in our staff and um our you know our supports that we have that our students can be the best version of themselves by the time they get there are there going to be bumps in the road yes are there going to be shop turns yes are there going to be pit stops yes but eventually they will get there um and the big moment is when they cross that stage and you maybe you never never thought they would get there but they did um and they're just as part of themselves as you are so questions so in your conversations with teachers and the faculty how have they responded towards this procedure that's in place I don't know if you've gotten input since the school year started I don't know if I don't know you could care to explain if this these procedures have changed compared to previous school years pretty again so so so um great question uh I think as we are building relationships with students we're also building and improving on relationships that we've had with teachers um often times the feedback we get is um individually um sometimes it's an email from a teacher that will share with both of us um I've gotten several emails this year from a couple I don't want to name them just because it's but but I hope they're they're reaching out and saying good things too um you know when they send us an email saying you guys are doing a a rock solid job it's great it's good to feel that it's good to hear that um but it also speaks to like and and I've learned from her she's amazing at building relationships I think my first few years here I learned to do that more and more and and as I've done that with teachers I've had teachers that maybe didn't agree with a way that I handled this situation in the past I've shown them that I'm willing to you know work with them and discuss what what their concerns are um having that type of open door policy being willing to like visit their classrooms rather than just say hey come see me if you have any problems that that's important so I I mean we we get feedback in both way we get positive and negative feedback I'm not going to lie um but typically uh all is worked out through a discussion and by having those relationships with the teachers it really helps um it's also not uh it's also I not to to carry on they do say I speak too much sometimes but one thing I do want to point out is that we are we are not infallible we're you know we're we're we're always in a a spot where even today I learn something new you know I always reflect the self-reflection is so important um when we talk about our core values of like growth mindset for example you know you don't graduate high school and stop making mistakes in your life you know I've made mistakes I've made mistakes here I've made mistakes in my my my past school that I worked in um I found those humbling experiences are very important because they allow us to take the time time to to accept change it's not always easy so so um when we talk about that it's not only us that are making mistakes sometimes teachers make mistakes and being able to have a discussion and with a strong relationship to help them grow as we grow as the students grow it's really a a solid community that we build when we do it and we approach it that way and I just want to add to sorry M um Mr miia that these procedures are not new they're they've been you know this is kind of what we've done over the years it's built uh as Bill said it's really about building those relationships with the teachers families and students because we all want the same goal in the end so these are not cut and dry they're not cookie cutter these are just you know what how we do our job every day and it's been kind of that way you know I learned from Miss Farris um from the beginning of what to do so um we've really built it from you know 30 plus years ago so so just to just to add-on so there are teachers that agree with this procedure and they I mean I like this procedure personally but there are teachers that do not like the procedure and how do you as a safe office approach a scenario where the teacher let's just say can't handle the discipline in the classroom or just doesn't handle just sends the kid to the safe office you do one mistake you're going to the safe office how do you approach you know I mean as here they're skipping from like 1 to 4 by just sending them to the safe office without handling it in the classroom so how is the safe office or how is the school approaching those teachers that you know don't don't like this approach you know maybe you could answer that I know every scenario is different yeah right so every scenario and it doesn't go step one step two right there might it might jump from one to five depending on the situation right um we to answer your question though if some if a teacher is like just go to the safe box just right there could be a reason why they might be having a bad day it could be a bad day for them something might have happened at home on their way to school so what we do is we try to reach out to the teacher we ask the teacher hey what's going on with Julio right um why was he ENT today how can we help you help Julio how can we help with that relationship a lot of the times we'll have a meeting in in our office uh guidance counselor um myself or or bill um or Miss Keys the student and the teacher and have a parent come in and have those conversations and figure out what is it that's going on what is making you want to send Julio out of class all the time um and maybe who Julio is saying well you know what mr's doing this mr's doing that he's making me feel this way and we really get to the core of the problem I just had a meeting like that last week um and it was wonderful and you know so far the relationship is much better they both understand each other um if teachers are struggling with classroom management we'll go into the classroom we'll observe we'll give them some feedback um give them some ideas have them work with a mentor maybe if they're a new teacher um so really we we we're there to both support the student and support the teacher to make sure that we're all kind of on the same you know page yeah thank you and the reason the reason why I say that scenario is because a parent had called me and told me that the teacher wasn't able to resolve the discipline but miss Keys was able to resolve it just by having a conversation with the student so that you know I commend that and I appreciate that that you know happened it wasn't just you know a goodbye to the student the student is still being followed up up to this day it's been two weeks so yeah that's great and sometimes again it's the Heat of the Moment there could be an issue like Bill had mentioned it's hard to stop teaching in the moment to address it right um and it might be in a situation where that the teacher needs to send the student down in order to finish the class um you know we don't love that to happen but sometimes it has to happen um and sometimes when the students all upset we give them a minute to calm down and then we talk to them um and they're able to reflect and figure out what's going on from there so I'm glad to hear that it was resolved yeah I really I'm you know I mean I'm I'm 100% behind you on these procedures and and I know that you know that the office itself I mean the whole the whole description the job can is a very fluid situation from moment to moment my only concern and it's always been a concern whether it be for me or you um is when do you know it's like you know all right when when do you know that you're building relationships you're working up a sweat you're doing everything right and you're doing it too many times and when when does it click that hey maybe this is over my head maybe we should do this that the other thing I mean it's like sending you know that that person that person that is driven drunk five times out there knowing that they're savable but they're salvageable but you know it's not up to you to do that you know I mean they could go kill somebody that's that's an awesome question million dollar question because because we yeah I mean you know your teetering is it's all balance and it's it's a fine line and I I think that you know in all schools you have to be really Vigilant and and know when that person comes around so many times that you know what it's not a coincidence so what what we have been able to do is our relationship has gotten so strong and we brought in a rock star Miss keys to to help us with the Freshman because it was just too many students at one point you know my first year here we had 1300 students so it's an equal split that's fine we we work through it we have another 500 on top of that now and it's not that we couldn't do it up until last year we did but um we we hold each other in check um I turned to her so many times throughout the day when I struggle to uh find that solution because it's not getting solved in a day or a week even that it's ongoing you know um but we we turn to each other we hold each other in check we also learn from each other and we we try to model that whole procedure for the teachers because I mean going back to to your question Miss Maria like that that when we do have a teacher that's struggling with that so our modeling that consistently is important and it is it's something that um it really spans out to everybody at that point where it's infectious you know that we we do that but but um we we will often turn to each other for that support um if I see something that I feel like it's it's it's I I'm not afraid to go to miss Gillis and say hey this student that you work with have you tried this have you tried that where are you what could I do to help um but working off of each other is is helpful a lot um because you don't know at what point you know like Progressive discipline is great if you guys just to explain what that means it means like if you come into my office and you're tardy and you get a detention then the next time you're tardy you should get two detentions or or so on it's progressively it increases what we do and we have almost a box of tricks that what's next you know the more resources we have to work work with the uh the better we are with it but when I'm dealing with a student and I'm not seeing the progress that I need that's evident because we're getting the same type of complaints um it's very important for us to see that with each other and use the resources to get to that underlying piece um and that's that's what we do we we'll call in a a school social worker for an example I I use it often when I have a student that shuts down they're not communicating with me at that point I'll ask our social worker to check in with them and then I'll follow up after they do we'll I'll meet with just a social worker you know I'll meet with Miss Gillis we we hold each other to to straight answer is just checking each other and staying on top of it and we do the best we can with that and I want to add to uh Amry is that we you know we try to use mtss or tier three interventions right getting as many people involved as we can to help the student because obviously what we're still seeing the student all the time right and the behaviors might be getting worse so they could be the same behavior over and over and over again um we've tried suspension we tried you know whatever it may be and it's still happening right so um now we need to dig even deeper we need to yeah I mean I I guess my concern has always been certainly even more now um that these behaviors are contrary to everything that goes on here and you know I mean it's and and it doesn't maybe maybe it doesn't happen at all but in this day and age it's it's something that I think extra vigilance needs to you know always be there yeah and sometimes students need more than we can give them right and we need to identify those students right those students that I think you're you're talking about right but what what point does does that student Elevate to some more serious consequence yeah I I guess it depends right it depends on and it certainly does depend it does so I guess what I'm saying my concern it's not a question I'm 100% behind you here but my concern is the vigilance for that kind of behavior yeah and I agree and now it nowadays in today's 2024 right it's not uncommon that that that stuff is out there that happens it happens and it affects everything you've done you could have do it 100% but you you you overlook something that you know what was there all along and I just didn't see it yeah and that's important it is and it's important to bill was saying reflect be like what am I doing I need help and really we we're very fortunate enough to even have more resources having a social worker in our in our office having three Deans essentially having um other social workers having social workers in the special ed office right so our resources have grown um and we're able to use those and we have a lot of expertise within the building that um we can tap into as well um and when that perfect moment is I wish I I knew when that perfect moment usually it will click and say or I'll say to Bill or Bill will say to myself I think you need to go here um sometimes you're right you don't see it because you're in it but someone else will see it and and we really do work collaboratively and we do have like the tier three meetings where we bring kids up and ask for those supports right that's that's important too um collaborating with other people um the other thing is um you have cover to passes do they check in check out and they can go wherever yeah they it's on online now right right yeah all right don't rub it in um you know uh for those who oversees and you know is the oversight on that yeah to see that gez you know the student is running right under the radar but they're never in class they're here they're there they're everywhere they never you know do anything they always do their work but they're running the Halls all day yeah the awesome thing now is that with the new the new system that we have we can run reports how long they're out of class how often they're out of class yeah I guess I'm asking how often is that done that's that's done once every month um and then also if we're getting write ups about a student that's missing was over their pass by 10 minutes we'll follow up with that even sooner but we run that data and that data comes out how many minutes they've been out of class how many you know right cuz that could be an embarrassing situation if parent comes and says you know jez well I don't know my my kid's been out of class hasn't had any discipline problem so it's it's um it's a great way to show the data yeah no that's great that was my that was my original question actually yeah it's it's a great system and it's uh we started uh last year with our data analysis uh Personnel it's Courtney she helps she would run reports for us and then we divvy It Up by our students and we put students on restrictions actually allows us to do it ourselves now so every month I'm actually going to run the report and share and uh what we do is they it it actually causes smart passes the system and the report calls it frequent flyers so it's it's aptly named um and if they're flying too much all our students get four passes a day and the first offense when we have that 5% which it prints out and we could see how many hours they've been out of class so we bring them down to two passes day we have that discussion and we help to explain to them you you we're doing this we're holding you accountable for it we want you to be accountable for it so you could earn it back if you bring your numbers down then at the next month we'll actually take you off that list right so so that's kind of what I wanted see that it's monitored there's some oversight it's not like oh I get away with this I've been all quar you know I mean what we find is those on the list are those frequent flyers that they don't only have problems with passes they have problems in other areas too so again we have those relationships we're able to work with them we bring the parents in when we have to and again we're not always just going to two sometimes we go to zero and we escort students around so they're held accountable for that directly and uh the system is I love it it's great it's three years and the hardest thing was getting everybody on board you know early on when we first brought it on teachers would be oh just go across real quick and they wouldn't make a pass so emphasizing making that pass communicating that out to teachers because when we put students on restrictions the teachers then see it and we are able to tell them you know if if this student needs to leave a class again call us we'll escort them and a lot of times that you know is what we need to do to discourage that type of behavior one of the things I want to point out is we have a student whose Behavior may impact the safety of other students or or adults or anybody in the building then we may go to outside resources for support and advice on how to handle a situation when it gets beyond what we can do within the facilities of the building or we've worked for them work with them for an uh a series of different uh strategies and it's not working but we feel there's a danger to other students or adults then we go to outside resources as well including our own legal support yeah um number safety is number one for all of us we want to make sure every single student feels safe to learn um to be here every day and that's our goal questions actually now it's my turn uh for Mr uh superintendent you said you go to outside resources like what kind of outside resources you you referring to it can it can be resources it can be anything from uh uh legal services that we work with our attorneys that we work with it could be outside agencies that we work with who have uh different uh uh skills and ability to work with students with different issues that they may have whether it be mental illness whether it be something that's uh causing that behavior that we can't manage or handle we may go to an outside agency to work with that student when it's beyond anything that we can control so we can't always control certain behaviors but we have to make sure our students are safe so whatever we it takes in order to and not and not and it's not to say that we're looking to not have that turn student return our goal is always to work with them and try to see if we can help the student students so that they can return someday and continue their education here uh so the goal is not to say oh we want them out of the school the goal is what can we do to help that students who's dealing with some behaviors that are causing these problems and and uh that we need to resolve in order to have him back in the school and work safely with other students within the school now it's my turn if I again they don't let me speak around here much first of all Christa congratulations for getting the mic away from Bill and uh secondly you mentioned Kate Keys um Katie's been doing an awesome job um but she is not an administrator does that hold her back from doing anything is that any friction from the faculty and don't get me wrong I'm not advocating putting on more administrators believe me I just want to know how hand no I don't think I you know she's very professional um she'll she'll come to me if she feels like she's having a conflict with a teacher um I walk her through it I help her I'll support her um it but I the teachers respect her um she has earned a lot of respect within this um position she had respect before but a lot more in this position because she has done a phenomenal job with a freshman a freshman making getting fresh from the minute they step into this building is the most important part they need to learn the culture they need to learn the rules they need to understand the core values of our school and the expectations and having someone um directly working with the Freshman just like they do in guidance they have three different guidance uh guidance counselors we're pulling from 27 middle schools 26 27 middle schools um all with different discipline expectations what they you know um some middle schools say this behavior is okay and we have very very high expectations which we do because we know they can meet them and especially because it's vocational school we have to expect our students to act a lot more mature than you would at our sending Community you comprehensive high schools because they're working with heavy machinery and we need them to be safe all the time um so does she butt heads with with uh teachers I I don't believe so if she was to have an issue or feel as though she needed to do something more that she feels she's not since she's in the same Union teachers union she would come to us and we would support her and address that um but you know if you want to make our administrator we'd love it lastly um and this is the vocational person in me your Avenue whenever you're having difficulties is go to the principal then go to superintendent and come to to us let's do the vocational way go direct directly to us I'm going to ask you directly is there anything you need to keep our faculty and Kids Safe that you don't have just your I would say your continued support um being able to support us um you know Chad has been a great addition John Brenda everyone um in you here have been a great support for us supporting us in what we do every single day um it's it as Amry said very fluid you never have the same day twice um so it's being able to support us when we need help we always go there you know at whether it's a colleague or a supervisor superintendent assistant superintendent other people in other departments um it really is a team effort it is not a oneperson job it is a team effort we're here for the students none of us would be here if it wasn't for the students um and really it's just that continued support cuz we want to stay what people think about us right they people come here because we're a great school and we're safe and we want to continue to to to serve that for our students and our families and our communities I thank you both for being here tonight I know you've had enough hours in this building today uh we've taken you away from your families from your homes thank you I want you to know that this committee is very very concerned about discipline in this building and thank you very very much for being here tonight thank you for inviting us and you know we can come back whenever you want thank you thank you have a good night thank you guys next up is the uh dress code Mr Lavoy so um with regards to the address code we did put a committee together and it's was uh a recommendation when we got together that we should uh move the issue uh to our attorney we in doing some research we found that there is a lot of struggle with dress codes across the Commonwealth that different schools are dealing with uh particularly that it's become an issue where it seems as though uh students have more rights to um to uh wear what they feel they're comfortable in without as long as they not this um disrupting the learning environment uh and uh and is safe for whatever uh procedure uh activities they're doing within the building so we've uh asked our attorney to do some research and he's going to come back at the next school committee meeting to do a report on uh what's going on across the state and what we can and cannot do legally with regards to dress codes any questions am Mar well given that this is a Vocational Technical High School primarily it's not part of a comprehensive school it it should have separate rules and expectations right I mean I'm I'm not a lawyer I'm next to being a lawyer but I'm not a lawyer but I mean this is a school where you have to work and be in the right attire so um with regards to our rules can impact students with regards to Safety in terms of how they dress in chop and safety but the general uh consensus at this time is that students have more rights with regards to the dress code than they've had in the past and there have been other schools that have uh uh tried to enforce dress codes and have been brought into uh question and brought into legal battles over it and in most cases they find that um that they are weighing on the side of students with regards to their rights to dress uh in uh as long as they're not dressing in a way that's uh causing disruption in the school poor language those kind of issues so um we're the reason and the reason we haven't tried to make any changes on the dress code rather than make make changes and then come back with a uh a challenge from parents and from students and from faculty um I believe it would be in our best interest to have our attorney uh review the the matter uh and make sure that we're going to align with state law and changes that have been uh happening in the last couple of years with regards to dress codes okay I mean I'm I'm not going to I'm not going to supersede what an attorney is going to say but I mean I mean this is our society I mean I mean we're not against the law are we no I don't think we are in our dress code the existing one there's question it's questionable our existing dress code for students is questionable whether we're violating their right is inappropriate it's not it's that we may be violating their rights based on what our existing dress code is now I'm not saying we are that's why I've turned it over to our attorney to um to make a uh recommendation to the committee which he he will come to the next meeting I just know Mr superintendent that we could have a long discussion on whether we're violating student rights and whether our rights are being violated when they're not absorbing the material that people are standing up here all day trying to get them to be again using Christ's word the best version of themselves I don't know of anyone in society in our communities that wouldn't want their child to be the best that they could be and to help us all stop entitling individuals and start allowing and putting some parameters and boundaries on our youth and I mean I I will continue this forever because that's how I feel I think we're way too I hate to use the word liberal but I mean we are way overboard even as a society but I have faith in the four at least the four communities here to know and and and know that they want the best for their students and and dressing appropriately is part of that I mean I just cannot I I I think I think as a school we fail students by not putting some boundaries on them yeah I wouldn't argue or disagree with you but I know that's the thing and um no one's going to listen to me yeah it's not you know it's not what my standards may be but what not even low my what the law says is their rights well I mean then I have a right to go to dunin donence and and ask for a coffee and get it the way I want and not have it done incorrectly because they can't read the little sticker there I mean I I I I really can argue this all day and especially being out there and not in here all day and being out in the communities I mean I have a lot of material well I think once once Wayne comes and gives us his report then we can talk about what we may disagree with in with regards to what he has I already had uh two meetings with him and tried to argue some of the points with him and uh I mean I fear I fear what you're going to tell me next that's why I'm not going down that road so I'm not even going to allow you to say that to me so I'm done well um in regards to the uh to the dress code I I personally believe that my community for example Lawrence has when when it comes to dress you know kids are too focused on what they're going to wear and whether the brand they're going to wear and whether they're going to use shoes from palis or they're going to use Nikes and and that's a a problem of its own so when it comes to this I I I don't even understand why student will have a a saying when in each institution should have the right to decide what kind of clothing what kind of coat you know whether the going to wear uniform or not cuz you know you wear uniform on on shop and it's not questionable because it's the dress code for each shop why couldn't we have a uniform for academic week so that each student identify theel that they belong to gr laar Technical High School in this period um I think that again I I don't know I'm not an attorney neither but I would definitely vote 100% for for um for uniform because it would identify the student it will also take the pressure from parents in communities like mine that they not able to keep up with buying kids clothing because they want to dressed up like they're going to a to a club right or they're competing with an ex girl in the in the same classroom on the clothing the parents can actually afford to buy so uh I would love to hear legally what we are able to do I think that if we represent the community that we represent I think it should be able to be up to up to us to be able to vote on on whether the kids should have a uniform or not I think it should be the end of that because that's why they hire that's so they voted for us they V for us to represent their needs and I think if you ask me I think that my community will will be parents will probably appreciate more the fact of not having that pressure of buying their kids all these extra clothing to be able to go to school for for a year because they don't want to repeat the clothing next week or whatever so I think that if it if it up to me I definitely vote for for uniform so that that's not even a question or even a battle of what I'm putting on myself that that's my my point on it I mean I I mean I know it's crazy but I I would too and it's about Pride we're doing so much in the school to show them Pride to have them be proud of who they are and what they become and I mean to ask him to just dress appropriately I I think I find that ridiculous I I I would go so far as to put it on a ballot that is this is this is I'm sorry they are still students they are still under someone else's care I I I they they are not at the point where they're making decisions we are helping them be productive members of society and part of that is is personal Pride personal grooming that is all part of who you are and become I don't know so I mean we have Lawrence public schools that have uniforms correct as far as I know as far as I know as well I mean we could be Trail blazes and the problem to what to what you're saying is you know what I consider to be okay for the skirt right small skirt or whatever 3 Ines away from a certain from your knee or it's a halfway through your through your through your through your tis or even shorter right like it depends some people consider okay and I think this we just got that that consideration I think it should be just uniform with shouldn't be even discussing regular clothing unless they have a a Friday for just dress dress like whatever how you want on on one particular day no I'm serious I'm with them I never thought I'd say that because that's even more extreme than I was anticipating that I would say but I'm I'm with him because I think that that's the only clearcut way I mean I'm saying appropriate dress appropriate grooming well then there's that nebulous what's appropriate so I'm I'm with them and when I when I came to high school I had kids in pajamas in my ridiculous and that that is it's it's it's unreal so it I don't yes any other questions Mr Jones yeah I wouldn't want to beat the same issue to death but I do believe in the dress code and I do think that if they were uniformed whether it's whether it's a shirt and slacks or maybe something a little bit different for the females again they don't have to worry about what they're going to wear that day everybody's equal and I feel if this is the place that everybody wants to be and you set the rules those are the rules and I could be wrong but in years past I I know the school provides certain amount of shop uniforms at this point I think uh they should also be buying their own uniforms you know for academic side you know not everything in the society can be provided anymore we just haven't got the resources you know no matter how much this budget for this school comes up with you know to throw more money in to dress everybody the same way for an academic side they have to take some responsibility on their side and I think uniforms be cheaper than a lot of the some of the jeans that are out there my wife hates when I bring that up but the new Jean style where they're all torn up and shredded it just boggles my mind it's like so the I know society's changed but we've we SLO we sort of slobbered up quite a bit I mean if you look back at pictures from years ago you might have a guy that dug ditches for the day but on on the weekend or Saturday he was dressed very respectably CU he wasn't at work you know and they have to understand there's two sides of it and I've had kids come to me you know for employment and if I could see their underwear they were told to get a belt and put them on or they will leave them cuz they're they're representing my company you know so if the standards not set here when it gets out to the employer it will be or the student won't stay and you know that goes for torn jeans again the underwear uh it's it's appearance so that's my take on it Mr Mia I mean we've come to the conclusion now that we all agree on dress code I assume yeah we all agree on a dress code policy um the only thing I will say is is superintendent maybe you could clarify is we have a dress code policy right now correct is one in place right now yes okay so you know obviously when when the attorney comes you know we want to make sure that the dress code policy that we're the recommendation that we're getting is of course we all agree a dress code policy but also a part where we're being you know aware of culture cultural and religious accommodations um I think that's where I would say okay you know there's exemptions in certain under certain criteria and I know other districts and um schools across the Commonwealth would share in their in their policies is that you know their policies are integrated in a way that is collected by input through their District committees their the families The Faculty the administration something that is fair all across and it's not you know here you go this is the dress code policy but we're also involving the teachers and the students and the parents that are also going to be impacted by it so I know you said that in the policy right now there might be a question whether they we're violating students rights do you know to the top of your mind what rights were are we talking about I mean what what part of the dress code policy right now is in violation of the students rights because one is individual adult rights and also student students rights on school grounds so I just want to make sure that that that's clear I'm not I didn't understand fully what you meant by that so if you could just clarify yeah so you we may have certain criterias in our dress code now that uh a student may not want to live by and uh they and it might be violating their creativity or their right to to creativity or expression of who they are and how and who they want to be which we have uh no right to deny them of that uh that's been some of the language that I've encountered in and doing some research around this and so um the very spec I wouldn't want to highlight the specifics in the Co in our address code at this point I want to let our attorney determine where we're in violation or if we're even in violation uh that's his you know exper teeth or his um area of research that he's doing for us to ensure that we follow uh the regulations of the laws as it come pertains to dress code since we are looking at we've decided we want to look at do we need to have a more stringent dress code do we need to have higher expectations so in doing the work of looking at what that should look like um I think we need to have some guidance to make sure we're not incorporating new a new dress code that is even um in more violation of what we can or can't do so rather than start making all these changes and then come back and find well made all these changes but uh we don't want to be challenged and find out that we can't uh uh hold students accountable to what we've asked them of better off to know what we are capable of uh of are allowed to do with regards to to the law uh so we're working on Solid Ground we make our decisions so it's so it's basically what I said there are you know we're allowing students to have you know there are cultural there are religious accommodations but now what I'm understanding from what you're saying and again we're not lawyers and and you're going to wait for the attorney is a matter of being inclusive as to how the student identifies or how how the student wishes to dress up I mean you know that's the society we live in and we have to respect that if a student wants to dress a different way then we have to respect that but also we need to make sure that we are being you know stringent and we're being you know we have expectations because we are a vocational school I just want to make sure that that's clear for when the attorney comes and you know the recommendation becomes well we don't need that kind of dress code well I just want to make sure that we have one that's of high expectations but we're also being fair Equitable to those students that wish to identify differently or to to dress differently but also appropriate yeah I think one of the advantages that there are concerns of safety that are going to be looked at when we determine you know what's safe attire in a particular shop versus you know another shop or or the classroom itself so there will be some consideration with regards to safety uh in each particular program or shop to ensure that they are uh their tire is uh safe and manner whether it be work boots whether it be pants shirt you know if they're working in a welding shop what what's a safe attire in a in a program like that to ensure that they are meeting those standards that will be also considered for sure yeah I mean if I had my way yeah I'd love to have everybody living in a uh you know in uniforms way you know I did back when I was a student here or maybe that's a little strong but at least something that's respectable and represents the career in which they're pursuing uh to me would be a you know a good standard in which to hold them to questions so I'll Echo the uh the superintendent uh having uh attorney Simmons here for the next meeting if we can get him yes thank you work Force announcements Mr Lavoy we have some good news oh there's um I just added to your packet uh that on September 27th I was uh asked if I would uh because we have been working for over 10 years with the Clean Energy Center on grants and pursuing Alternative Energy um methods and training that they asked if I would present at their uh award ceremony where they gave out $13 million in in grant money to uh different schools and different organizations to talk a little bit about some of the uh new technologies we've instituted based on grants that they've given us over the last 10 years one of the things that I when I got when we went into the auditorium the pamphlet The Brochure that they had was actually a picture of our students from a program we did almost 10 years ago we did a a uh a program where we taught students how to put solar panels in in which the students actually got paid for that program yeah that was about almost 10 years ago but uh they highlighted that program as one of the uh outstanding programs that they uh awarded to us almost 10 years ago so I did want to uh just give you a few pictures and highlights of uh some of the success we've had with the Clean Energy Center uh we've been very fortunate to get several grants from them over the last last 10 years including the one that we just got for $750,000 which is funding um a uh a build a house uh that we're building to teach students new weatherization technology uh techniques and uh a geothermal system in our uh one of the buildings we're building now which is worth about $300,000 which they're funding and some other training and equipment that they've also funded through this last grant that we just received so uh we've been very fortunate to be successful uh with that organization thank you uh update on the purchase of the Elks Mr well with regards to the Elks we're still trying to find a suitable location for the Elks met with the City of Lawrence um we're looking the uh the city has uh re Redevelopment Authority owns a piece of land over in sou Lawrence not far from the Elks that may be a possibility there are some uh issues with um some of the uh conservation issues on the lot but we met out there to take a look at is it are there solutions to that which we believe there may be uh so we're doing uh we're working with the city to try to get uh a answer to that and they're helping us to try to uh see if we can get an engineer out there to let us know know if it's going to be possible for the Elks to put a building on that lot that is our best opportunity right now we are also uh doing uh a reach out to Brooks uh properties who own some land out on the out not far from the Elks as well um typically they don't like to sell their land they usually lease it but uh I've got a call out to them hopefully uh I'll get a recall return call but we are continuing to pursue to try to find something suitable for them to purchase so then we could purchase their their building so that's still uh one of the things we're doing uh in the intrum is the uh Barn that we have out back that we're building we're looking at uh putting in six uh medical uh classrooms out there uh that we can have students until we're able to expand out at the Elks uh utilize that space and then we can convert that to another program once we move them out to the elk so that's how we're trying to deal with it right now so um it doesn't prevent us from continuing the opportunity to expand those medical programs in the interim questions desie recognizes glts for achievement on access scores Mr Lavoy so uh I did share a document with you where uh our um multil language language uh learning program uh was recognized for significant progress on the 2024 access test um it shows that we've increaseed scores from 34 to 46% which is uh was noted as an uh a outstanding uh progress uh and our uh cultural our director language culture and Equity uh Dr Joe faucet I was invited to present with two other panelists at the dsc's OA Network meeting on October 9th to talk about some of the insights and progress we made with our students which is a uh pretty significant um uh recognition of the work that she's done for our students and I think I sent you an email today of a staff member who also recognized her uh for the work that she did helping their particular program as well so we're fortunate to have uh a staff member administrator that uh does exceptional work like that so I thought it was important for you to highlight that one of the things uh I spoke to the administrative team at our last meeting so starting next meeting we're going to try try to highlight one administrator and the programs that they oversee so that you can learn a little bit more about each program and the work that that administrator does so that you're more familiar with what's going on throughout the building uh relative to each specific program that the different administrators over see everything from um academic programming to vocational program I think uh I thought it might be more helpful and that'll open the door for you to ask questions and concerns you may have about anything that may be going on in those programs in your packet you'll have uh two calendars October and November things that are happening any questions to the superintendent on any of those moving on to reports of the committee we have uh we have the uh the BGE policy uh for the district committee priorities we have to vote on um if you look at the last couple sentences you only there was a change in there the bottom sentence remove the above statement policies are online uh the school committee policy manual will be considered a public record and will be available for inspection at the superintendent's office that has been removed removed that statement and included in policies are online and I understand they're on the glts website I need a vote on that place a motion on that pleas to accept you get a second second thank you all those all those in favor say I opposed any further discussion on that no new business we don't have any tabled matters uh Personnel considerations report resignations head the Sila ml instructor effective 10 1124 no leaves of absences no retirements appointments we have two of them Jason Hull Plumbing instructor effective date 10724 Richard suu autoc Collision and Repair instructor effective 11424 and no job postings excuse me please I noticed on that there's a discrepancy between what the principal sent out um in his newsletter about new staff and what we have absorbed uh during the last meeting and here as a reading specialist and I'd like to know how many we have so we have two reading Specialists that were I think they were in the last meeting's uh no um they weren't in the last meeting's appointments not this person and I'm you know I don't think I can say that name which person are you referring to it's a Judith that was not in our report last time of one of the reading Specialists there were two I think but she was not one of okay there were already two yeah so we had two there were already two listed here yep and in the principal's report um in the principal's report that was decided yeah so one of them resigned and we recently had the in the short amount of time she was here and we recently just fulfilled her position that that's probably the from one week I don't think she actually start didn't actually start so was that the very beginning of the school year I don't know that she even yeah there's a question whether she even started she resigned went to another school uh and so then we had to repost and hired another person in their in her place that's probably the name that he put in the report you know what I'm always sure of there's always an explanation so we'll um I'm not sure that but I will keep on Sue Has zeroing in so the the uh names that are in here Sue gets from the uh uh HR office but sometimes within the time frame of someone getting appointing appointed and her putting together this uh this work a week in advance she might have gotten hired I'm not sure what the situation is I can find out we set in there's not anything I can do about it I can't hear you in me I said there's there's nothing I can do about that if that person I have the superintendent tend to check on he he just explained himself future agenda yeah I'll bring her I'll bring her name next time we come I'll I'll present her in the in the uh report Personnel report okay okay future agender items none at this time there is a need for an executive session Personnel mtis I have a motion to move to Executive session please motion to enter executive session second we shall we take a vote on it all all uh in favor I I I anybody opposed thank you osar e e e e e yeah I'll make a motion to accept the uh resolution to the labor board claim second second all those in favor I no let's follow vote Miss TSLA Mr Jones yes Mr Mahia abstain Mr Mercedes no no Mr tbox yes M Ferris yes Mr haum yes other item can I get a motion on the Cory checks please I'll motion we accept to have the Cory check done second can I ask about that so obviously let's let's get this the second before we open for discussion you have a second discussion obviously I do want the um you know the most security for our kids I don't know how the Corey to what level Cory Works how far it goes back I thank God Happ have any criminal records in my life um the only illegal thing I done is speed I think it all time at one point but that's my most illegal thing but I I do have a question and and again I'm sorry I'm bringing this up but there is um a story a true story I'm watching on Netflix and this one guy made made a mistake in the past and obviously it kept on Hunting him where people don't give him jobs opportunities because he did something wrong but he turned his life around and he's still being hunted by he his mistake and again that's not my my situation and I do want but how far the core he goes to where a person made have made a mistake in the past of his life and he turned around and he's giving back to his community now he wants to come in and give to to our kids in this position is not a PID position why would would would how is that going to affect that person who turn his life around and want to be able to be part of the committee like so if anybody can you answer that so I look at Corey and sories all the time for employees and the only time I look at them is if there's some kind of issue that is uh picked up by the Cory Sor and genuinely speaking uh it can be 25 30 years back so all a lot of things are considered is there is there a danger to the students like if you did something wrong in the past like H up the hell the bank up or something very serious you know then you know that's considered whether is there a danger to students in any for any and if it happened 25 years ago and you had nothing else since then then that's considered as well there's a lot of factors you consider the first and foremost is there a danger to students and uh if you are engaging in coaching doing something uh will it have an impact on will you have some kind of negative impact on on the student that's really kind of what they look at you can make a lot of people make mistakes you know uh because you made a mistake in the past doesn't mean you don't pass the cor or Sor otherwise there be a lot of people not working in the building a lot of people you know not uh coaching or because people do make mistakes because if you look on the Corey if you when you were 16 got caught driving a car without a license that would be on your Corey that doesn't mean you shouldn't be a school Committee Member this has no impact on the work that you're doing is just a mistake as a kid or whatever but it's important you know so I'm not going to look at the Cory and stories I would suggest that if the school committee is going to you know thre into Cory and so of the school committee and and something comes up on the Corey then that would be I would I would suggest we have the attorney look at it because I work for you guys I really shouldn't be checking the Cory's the stories or anything that comes up I think in out like our attorney would be to me in my mind that's who I want to look at and say oh this is a serious event that we got to be concerned about cuz or you can have HR look at it or you can have somebody else look at it but you know uh Sor in particular is more sexual in nature and something you might have done that had would have a major impact on concerns being around students or kids no matter how far back it goes then we would probably say no you can't and then uh then you know that's up to the committee in terms of you know what you do with it just say um from my experience uh one of my players from North End of we got in trouble in high school and he's a soccer coach and all sort he could he was hired in other towns but he couldn't be hired in and over North and it's like it's just it's it's followed him through his whole life yeah it's at the discretion of the person making a decision as to whether they you're D you're danger to the the students yeah but it was like the HR in those towns they through his records and they wouldn't hire him but other towns would hire I'm saying that's that's what happens sometimes I would suggest if there was uh a problem or anything that we move it back to the city or town you come from and let them make it determination they're the ones that sent me sent me sent you well It's Tricky it's a tricky thing because nobody can look no one can know what's on that cor sorry except for the person that is at the highest level of ensuring the safety of students so in in the school situation that would be myself so typically HR like might look at the cor and stories and then decide oh there's a problem here got to bring it up to the superintendent and I look at it and determine if there's a danger to the students or not cuz we we Cy uh anyone any of the night school people don't take courses at night we Cy all those people and sorry all those people night school teachers anybody that's in the building when students are in the building we cry those so I look at you know people are taking a course in the electrical or Automotive we Cy all those people and I have to determine if they're a danger to being in this in this which is a very rare case that that happens it does happen but it's a rare case because I understand if you did made a mistake 20 years ago and you're trying to make your life better and you're taking a Course and there in no danger that just because you got caught you know driving without a license that has no impact on hurting kids or anything you know I think you're trying to change your life I'm not going to say no yeah I'm going to say absolutely is trying to she or he's trying to do make make a difference in her improve their lives unless it's something real serious I mean the the reason I had it done is because I'm helping with the girl soccer team so I'm in touch with those kids you know yeah our substitutes are I think that as a school committee don't really engage with kids or anything so um by law I don't think the law says you have to be Cory and Sor you're making a policy because you think it's important but as far as the law is concerned you don't need to be Mr um honestly I mean the attorney has his opinion um but I don't know of any school committee in the Commonwealth and I'm a part of the regional division for the mass Association for school committees and I don't know of any school committee that has such a requirement we don't have the authority to you know if let's just say someone else I mean I don't have a record but if someone had a record we don't have the authority to take a vote and remove the person because we're in elected positions that would be in a different scenario if we were appointed by the each each individual Community but for example you know the methan school committee they don't have a COR check requirement they're in elected positions so I I don't I'm not going to vote in favor of any such requir just because this is we're in elected positions um but I suggest the attorney go back to mass Association of school committees and double check that but out of experience that's what I've what I've seen else for the vote let's call the vote on it this is my uh this was my suggestion a few weeks ago everybody agreed to it and I know everybody's agreed to it and that's fine what I want to do is take a vote for the future school committies so let's see how that goes you're saying you you want to vote you're voting on a policy that says you have to have a Cory Sor so that's what you're voting on to put a policy in place my interest is just protecting our kids nothing more can I get a motion to uh any other questions I'm sorry we did receive a motion receive do I have a second all right that was the discussion can we call the vote please miss Faris yes Miss dla yes Mr Jones yes Mr Mahia obstain Mr Mercedes uh I don't even know what to V to that to tell you the truth I I don't understand it much but um I do want the benefit uh to the kids and and if it's going to be overlooked the way it's going to be looked at I think uh it's a good idea yes Mr TX Mr hayam yes [Music] motion make motion to Second thank you everybody all we have the vote Mr tbox yes Miss Ferris miss dla Mr Jones yes Mr Maha yes M Mercedes Mr Mercedes Mr hayam yes this

and that will be held at the community center and I I normally don't do this but I will because it's part of my thought process we will be able to as part of this budget process really share with the board of finance and the board of edit why the budget looks different than it looked in 2006 or even in 1996 and give all the external factors that that make up that that that budget process so that is something that we definitely put as part of the process it's good for a board of Finance to also understand that as well as the the the board of education so I'll be asking Mr is Robins that we'll put that as part of our presentation I'm not sure and we probably should have that um by the time we do our forecast budget also um so I do want to let the board know that and the next uh regular scheduled board meeting will be held on Tuesday November 12th I'll take any questions out of the superintendent's office at this time any board member have a question for the superintendent okay hearing none we'll move to the assistant superintendent report Mr Bishop please might I'll be brief tonight uh Mrs cogins uh was able to share a little bit for us I want to thank you to to Lisa for bringing that up and share with everyone on uh September 13th The District in cooperation with the community received the distinction of being named a vision zero District by the Connecticut Department of Transportation this is due to the concerted and coordinated work of the district and our community in an effort to be able to promote safety uh this award was made possible by the collaboration of the school and District administration um uh Brandon Richard and James Mona who are two teachers at Canton High School for some of their work in developing a a bike pathway um bike technology pathway in partnership with Jan Tanner of benador bikes um and then also through work with our community members including those from bwalk hon uh the temporary traffic and Safety Committee and all of our neighbors so we're thrilled to be able to be recognized for doing that work uh I'm grateful for that uh recognition and then on uh uh September 24th we had an early release in support of teachers really focusing on using language to support and when necessary theas students making sure that we have an outstanding School culture and climate um it was work it was done in coordination and collaboration with our district culture and climate committee our Equity committee and our pts Department I want to say thank you to Amy GIC from CIS and Kelly d Martino from Cherry primary school and Mrs mle for her leadership and being able to help coordinate and make that day happen and then uh our upcoming professional day will'll be focusing on the data that we're receiving from our first universal screen that we provide for students this this uh fall any questions out of my office uh Mr Bishop can you give the board just a 30 second update on Cherry primary school and where we are in the building project please absolutely uh we have U we've met together as a team we're coming back together to be able to um prioritize the options that are aail a to us what we understand is that the board of Selectmen had commissioned the pmdc to move in a particular direction the working committee that had worked together to provide uh a potential solution um gave some additional information that's requiring us to take a step back and reevaluate further with our Board of Selectmen to be able to cast a new uh Vision going forward but the work continues um and is uh going to keep moving forward with uh the conversations with that group and eventually into our pmbc again anticipate as well thank you sir any questions from Mr Bishop we don't have any online okay thank you thank you Mr Bishop okay excellent the fun part the student report I'm sorry did I no she's she's after students like that no the fun part is students and then we get to [Music] business and you're a f part too some Maggie do you want to go first or how do you want to who wants to go first tonight I can start okay I'll be reporting on CIS so in the month of September CIS started recognizing students for Positive Choices by Hing up respectful responsible and Role Model Star cards Maggie can you just speak up a little bit cuz I'm getting old thank you uh CIS participated in start with below week does create a sense of inclusion and kindness C had its largest students Council this year with many ties in the race house representative the school held its first advisory meeting of the year and students created a hello brick that would be added to a start with Hello wall with the school Ela and special education teachers have their first PD session with Ela consultant F gold uh fifth graders went on the project oceanology field trip while a little chilly both groups had a great day uh sixth graders have their first uh their first of a two-part series with Empower leadership last Friday CIS got's first ever character car off each home room and preschool class will car or decorate their styrofoam pumpkin to be in likeness to their favorite book character and the students will vote on a favorite pumpkin in Halloween and the pto's annual prid night will be held on on Friday October 25th Board of Ed members are welcome feel free to be AC thank you thank you so uh CIS their their SCH government is uh they meeting they've had their meeting how often do they meet I didn't get that okay I was just wondering maybe you catch that for me Julia okay um I will be reporting on cherra um so in partnership with forti Transportation uh Mr amera and Mr Barnes engaged in a student lesson on bus safety um and this also involved visiting a parked bus that was in the parking lot so they were able to actually put into practice um on Friday October 4th CH held its second all school meeting of the year at this meeting they focused on the bare necessity um and they watched a video that the faers were involved in making and it was supposed to teach the younger grades what it means to be like respectful and to really uh kind of show the values and how to get like positive cards and at this point they have received over 400 positive cards as a school uh the second graders have been on a field trip to rber Nature Center uh where they're able to connect the science topics that they're learning in class the real life um and coming up uh the this month the kindergarteners will do their Halloween par to CHS and uh in the Middle School uh this year chook will be holding its Field Day in October and this will be a great opportunity to enjoy the fall and also to build connections and teamwork between uh students and teachers um and cheber has launched a new birthday book club um uh this birthday Book Club is where when it's your child's birthday you donate a book to the to gr uh library in their off excellent report thank you Lucas I suspect you're going to get high school yeah high school middle school and high school so for the high school we have our PSAT set up and practice day um this Thursday 10:10 and uh next I believe Thursday I not Thursday Tuesday 1016 106 we take the actual PSAT for PSAT 11 uh 10 and 89 uh which is also the middle school for 8th grade um soon uh Kent high school will be honored for winning the Michaels cup which is a sports honor the fall play will soon be taking place with hsal and tech prep well underway um the annual prisons concert is in development with the seniors selecting producers and working to pick a theme right now um currently us sport of EV Representatives districtwide are interviewing students about their goals for the year and soon in the high school we will have spirit week and the game day coming on upcoming Friday excellent excellent great great report so what's what's the mood out there right now we're through September and we're going talked over everybody kind of in the swing of things and yeah it's back to normal good well you guys are smiling so I you're representative of the school so I suspect everybody's smiling right okay well thank you for those reports any questions for the student Representatives okay thank you very much now we go to the other fun part this is Robin on uh the business managers report great thank you thank you good evening um tonight we um just going to talk about the September results Financial results for the district um we went um finance committee reviewed um all of these this the overall forecast for September is unfavorable $ 56,86282 188 special education is forecasted to be unfavorable 593 684 um which is NS after the 560 we had a little movement in Salan benefits that was positive we did have some uh to replace um hot water heater in C Middle High School um that was not budgeted um for so we'll be over a budget in that area and then again the special education over budget condition is due to having District uh transportation and tuition um um and let's see and those expenses will be offset by some forecasted revenues um for excess cost cost um were to come later on that um we did review some budget adjustments to for the month of um um September um to um reflect the allocation of the provision for salaries okay I'm GNA ask you a whole your questions because when we get to the finance report Mr Bush and M Robins will kind of give you an update on the uh Finance meeting today and then you can ask your questions there um okay we're of and running to uh C celebrates and our continuous Improvement plan updates by Mr depo and Dr Kidwell thank you for being here tonight we appreciate it any students here from the high school over here here [Music] so nice uh to be here tonight um and we thank the board for the opportunity to speak uh and celebrate some of the things going at the high school um Mr you you ask Lucas about how the school year is going I'd have to say it's quite busy uh busy on all levels stely with the teachers and certainly with the students we are up and running there's so many activities going on um and the weather's been been wonderful so so between Outdoor Sports and indoor activities we've uh we've just really uh been portal and hectic I think but also really in a positive way I think all students are highly involved tonight I'm going to be speaking specifically about four groups but in my mind uh it's really representative of um the school student body as a whole um in terms of the activities that happen in our school early in the year it's hard to celebrate a whole lot of things so this is sort of a hybrid of celebrating certain things but also informing the board of some fun things that are going on and some things to look forward to I'll also be speaking about my continuous Improvement plan and in that we talk about learning environment we talk about opportunities for students and when we talk about plan planning um and budgeting um we've often added cying positions to offer opportunities for students to be involved and I've always appreciated the board support on that and I think what we'll be hearing a little bit about tonight is students who take advantage of those opportunities but not just take advantage but invest in those opportunties to the point where they become full-fledged leaders and really more than ever tonight I think we're celebrating the leadership and the maturity of this group because not only are they involved in certain capacities but they lend themselves and Lead themselves or lead the Endeavors to the point where um you know they just top not the first group I would for those members of The Writing Center um please come forward by Dr Kidwell we have five members tonight four are present um I'd like you to introduce you to Kendo forsland Elizabeth pelen Ariana Schuman is not available tonight and nor the BGE uh most of you on the board were able to to uh hear a brief presentation on October 2nd where they spoke at length about their um commitment to supporting students one undering of our of our student population is um the ability to outreach in the community um Outreach uh through volunteerism and and through areas where they're committed to um certain elements of of um the schools and the broader Community this group in particular has taken their talents um to just simply support students every day in our school um but I really feel like they're their opportuni is a little bit unique as mentioned in in the presentation they take a course called The Writing Center um wrer Workshop wrer Workshop Writing Center Writing Center all right and within that um they essentially um are selected or or asked to be involved in nth grade and take the course during their 10th grade year and they learn all the ins and outs as um we discussed last week about how to support students in their writing we have many layers of support in writing but uh these folks act as peer coaches um to help um students in all elements of writing um they're um connected to ninth grade um teachers when when they're doing writing assignments and it progresses all the way up through um College um essay um writing as well and I also want to mention about this group you know this group is is is um willing to give up their time but they're highly invested I mean they athletes here members of the drama music productions as well so they're very busy during this uh school year but yet they find time to work with students during the week I would also you miss I didn't mention Miss mly who who's here to join us tonight miss mly is really the the think tank behind uh the course um we had a different element of how we supported student writing when she came to me about 8 years ago and said I think we have a better idea and she did uh the hard work and learned through Ukon about the program and and then brought brought the course back us than Anna and I know the stud directly from Anna um and have continued to to give so I I'd like to honor you tonight and thank you all of you for your support of of student growth here in our school and being role models for volunteers and in our community so I'd like to thank first kend Forman and off you can get your certificate from Dr [Applause] IDW Ariana Schuman [Applause] B all right you guys can start we're going to a picture in a moment those here represent Mr Depo if I could just say the board that was there at the CIP we were very impressed with the with the generosity of time and the kindness that you show to your fellow students in helping them in their writing development so it it was a very impressive presentation that you made to the board so thank you thank you so the second group I'd like to uh honor tonight are members of our Leadership Council the warrior Leadership Council who are also um preminent athletes in our school and you you Jo I'm sorry and um again not only are the athletes in our school but they certainly act as Role Models uh and their leadership um is above reproach as their leaders in in each of their Endeavors um I'd like to introduce them first individually and then talk about sort of the collective reason why they're here uh Nick Le better is here he's on a soccer team he wrestles he plays golf he's captain of the soccer team this year he was all all conference in golf last year L Conor plays field hockey presently she's also been involved in indor track and softball where she's all state in both field hockey and softball as an all and all conference in indor track she broke the school record last year for shotbook and um she'll probably shoot at it again this year uh she's the captain right now for the field hockey team Juliana you know her here as as a member of the Board of Education she also runs AC cross country in and outo track and she was the Captain for uh this cross country team this year she's all conference inor trap so you see um the breath of Athletics uh prominence that we have here but also the leadership that they bring forward this year as L just mentioned we were honored and we had been honored a little bit for the Michael scup award and I want to thank M church here or M Mrs her here who um helped also develop that it's a combination of things that we do behind the scenes such was organization um it's also um over ly as part of our community for our sportsmanship both um in the stands and what we do in our community and then also on the field above that uh we want a Fred ball summer Sports of sports specifically this year for some of the things that these students help run I'd like to just just um it's about a 90 second video but I think it's worth watching sure here if you would mind just running that that kind of talks about why we want us to work for that's for for [Applause] So Yesterday members of the our Leadership Council um joined several other um High School um high schools throughout the state at um the cic leadership conference where we were um given our Michael cop and these three amongst others received the award the picture is there and so again I do believe you know as much as they are here for themselves they do represent um you know the greater good here on the athletic fields here at K high school they truly are sort of ambassadors for all the athletic teams where they represent themselves so thank you for all that you do uh individually um you know in all your accomplishments but also collectively for you do for the athletic teams thank you so much Nick um Juliana and so that Michael's cup Awards really distinguishes and separates Canton from the rest of the pack and what we do and when we look at a vision of canton's public schools and what a graduate looks like you know as I was looking at that video you've checked off three of the five boxes and we're just very impressed and thank you for all your hard work and your generosity and kindness uh to others so thank you Juliana Owen TR group Owen so you see a few familiar faces and a few new faces here um the triam is basically our our music um groups that support um music in terms of you know leadership uh Within the Music Department and U this group represents U basically leadership of that we have Owen who's the president who's also a member of our chamber singers and a future soloist and a drama leader we have Julie Adams a vice president who's also a tenor saxophone in the band and a choir and a chamber singers uh this is Shay Shaker and Shay is a secretary and she's a clarinet play the clet in the band she's a member of the concert prior and she's been in several of our uh future plays and musicals as well we you all know but he also plays a French horn in the band he's trumpet in a Jazz Ensemble and a Basse singer in the choir last year he was selected uh for the northern region band for the French war and he's going to audition again next month so we wish him luck there and this is Anna cop she's the historian she's also a member of the chamber singers uh she's a featured soloist in our choirs she's a drama club leader as well she's been several of our plays and musicals and she was also selected last year for the northern region course and again heading to another audition next month so we certainly wish you well Anna um verying to what I said uh about the athletic department um this group is is supremely talented uh in their own right um they give back to their um fellow um members uh in the band andic choire with their two religion leadership um they um supported um the greater good of um the Outreach that's going on right now in the music program and I actually want them to talk a little bit about some of the Endeavors that they've just recently accomplished and that they will be um you'll be hearing more about soon so I'm not sure we going to speak but we do have a couple sides to work for I do it but I don't know the script um basically we there was a night that was at the community center um that invited anyone who was in band singers um actors really anyone who may have to audition for entering into college or a specific field that they're looking at um and I believe Yukon was there it was represent from Yukon I believe art and maybe another College um pictures and they just kind of gave like tips about you know whenn auditioning and stuff like that and very important just giving information about different things that you might need to appes auditions and stuff all right I will talk about the hearts trip to New York City which occurred on September 28th it was a very fun day out in the big city where we started by going to the Museum of Modern Art for a couple of hours before going to see the Broadway show Hades town the ma performance where we then ended the day at the restaurant bubble gum right in Time Square and it was a great day for everyone that went great memories to celebrate the Arts uh this is so upcoming soon we have the first Coffee House of the Year this is the fall Coffee House basic basically if you guys don't know coffee house is an open performance night where anybody can sign up um we encourage it to be uh performances that involve the Arts so it could be a solo singer it could be a small band that you do on the side or it could be some kind of other performance like maybe a d like you uh do dance outside of school and you'd like to take that in like a lyrical performance um coffee house is open and it's a great way for students to go and express themselves uh basically just go out have fun everyone can show up I believe uh to next Friday not this October 18th uh that Friday at uh 7:00 p.m.

at Cherrybrook and we are going to be um hopefully hearing about our reading resource selection thank any questions for uh curriculum and Technology I want to make sure we get that title curriculum and Technology onto Communications pass yeah so uh from from our perspective uh we continue to work on information to go up for the the public through a video for uh our chry process as that continues to crystallize for us we're also um working on a new newsletter that we intend to be able to come out right around right around November um early November with highlights from the the Board of Education opening the school year um Lucas also stole the lead there too with the next installment of you did are good uh with the next installment of the students Center video that the student board event the student board event reps are are providing to be able to talk about um goals as we think about our our Focus this year as cultivating growth um going out and being able to look at in addition to the goals a district what are the goals of our kids as part of telling the story for us as well that's great I'm I'm interested at getting that newsletter out any anybody have any questions on Communications Okay calendar events I'll just remind you again the ca uh mixer is 10:17 Bill Phelps um is 1022 at halftime tri board meeting is 10:21 Nancy Grace's celebration for life is 10 28 at the firehouse in 26 I'm sorry 1026 at the cant Street firehouse and again is uh Eric just mentioned curriculum is 10:30 9 to 11 in the Middle School both States primary school I'm sorry primary school for oh it is primary school sorry is is that where it is now permanently or just for that okay thank you primary school thank you for that correction any any questions for the chair any issues on calendar anything else BR sure it's I think in regards to the Strategic plan but I guess my question would be like if we don't see something in there should we just email you that's a solid point so if you see something in student achievement for example which just stay one go thought so if we didn't discuss something tonight yeah email um Claudia and Claudia will make sure that we're going to put it in no matter what so if somebody emails I'll put that in red for next meeting and then we'll have student achievement when we went over we know we got to look at i h we'll make the changes that we made and then if there's anything in student achievement that we didn't discuss t i put it in okay I guess I just need some guidance on like where occupational learning would fit in it's basically what I'm touching upon is like an occupational learning especially Cherry for the younger students and like hand washing things like that cleanliness going into um uh you know flu and sickness season and just learning environment okay okay thank you okay finally I'd like to ask is there is there anybody that wants to volunteer to man for man a table edit for an hour on October 19th to give candy out to the kids that's at the park that's Ms Pond Park right we got two kids so you guys are great pardon me I'm part of it for the as thank you okay okay so if we could just get one just from uh setup is at 11: but it goes 1100 at 12:30 would you mind me okay great uh I'll talk party about arranging get candy and the table CET Banner that we put so you know supported that thank you so much for that can I just add one thing Jordan just answer your question because I want the Strategic PL is a big part of the board so what Jordan gave examples of like hand washing and and different things like that and this guide and learning learning environment and belonging where that will go is Implement Wellness programs and initiatives to promote the mental and physical wellth being of students and staff so specifically if it was one of the continuous Improvement plans that would fit right in there and I guess just really quick I know it's Le um when or where will you see like the plans on these items so so like we see you know that one Implement Wellness programs like where would we continuous Improvement PL so if you go yeah so if you go into Drew's plan tonight that's in your packet if you look at his goals he would be able to go into a student achievement and look at what we discussed tonight and I can guarantee he actually that I crosswalk he matched them up every every continuous plan will match up against the goals and strategies great okay can I take a motion to adjourn please thank you thank you Cindy second K any any discussion on this we can go for another 20 minutes if you all those in favor at 8:47 8:47

the 5:30 Athletics bus will be available if needed the total cost of the program is $825 all of eligible students are encouraged to participate September athletes of the month G Gustavo far farella varsity football Anderson Ortiz JB football Ethan D rusher freshman football M mathas young freshman football Diana Rosa JB go Ashley qua JB go Jayla fanz JB Che and camil varsity soccer GTS spirit week and homecoming plans are underway for our annual homecoming celebrations including Spirit Week running from Monday October 21st through Friday October 25th more information on Spirit Week themes to come soon Friday October 25th will be a fun and actionpack day with a pep rally being planned for all students during the school day followed by our homecoming football game at 5:00 p.m. and a homecoming dance at 7 p.m.

I believe and the uh High School cath okay so um this group again um does a wonderful job representing the music department and all that they do again in house but also the public as well and you'll be hearing more about everything that the department does throughout the years this was again to celebrate the work that they've done and that they will be doing so congratul again Owen Juliana sh thank you so much so so again your words I have to tell you I do recognize some of you without your makeup from the plays but but but the plays the plays are outstanding the musicians are unbelievable the singing that goes on we we have such a talented music and arts program and you are the of it so just a wonderful job we're looking forward to the spring play that's usually a musical right I think so I don't know if that's been selected you don't have to reveal anything yet but uh we we all try to get to to all the different uh events so thank you for your time great good job right so uh that was a wonderful segue I think for the final group come on up the final group going here and um so you know there is a bit of a crossover and a blending of this group but these are the our drama club officers that I wanted you to meet um this is collaborative group that works to support the director Mrs Taylor to plan dat all the dama club meetings and in general these theater Productions that you were just referring to so it's important that that um you see these some are in front of the stage some are behind the stage but uh James Barker who's our senior recently was a in the Adam family last year um he'll be the lead in in Big Rock City at Candy Mountain this year Corgan pendel is a senior as well and she's with our Tech representative last year she was the assistant stage manager and this year she's looking to be the lead stage manager um we met already but and also is is in a drama club and she recently as we said uh was hug The Adams Family it should be uh Unice in big rock at Cy Mountain a junior U and again he was in ad family as well um and he will be performing this in this play um and we also have Claire CL Dr Who a sophomore um and again in the family it will be in big rock uh at Cy M I mentioned that a few times as you can see that we have uh our play opening November 7th so it'll be that weekend the 7th 8th and 9th and maybe James or any else can tell for a little bit about the play yeah of course I would be happy to uh so briefly mentioned uh the play that we are putting on uh this fall is Big Rocket candy mountain now I wouldn't be surprised if none of you have heard of this before it is incredibly nich but I feel that you will find it to be very very fun it is extremely funny it is cheesy and all the right ways and it is a Rance a little uh but I don't want to give too much away but I will give a basic synopsis of a little bit of I want to keep it short of sweet essentially a big businessman is trying to make it on his own he is not doing well uh so he sees the public as a good investment to see business opportunities to see what they can offer and a hiy comes to him and says I got an idea for you and then a grand adventure of music and love and chaos and a lot of death uh happens and it is all beautifully portrayed and I highly recommend you all see it now that is the synopsis of what the show itself is now if I may I want to give it over to uh Claire and Anna to tell you a little bit about what the drama club officers play uh the sort of roles that we do and what we hold the power that we hold in the drama so a lot of what we do is um gather the group together like we all meet up in the auditorium for reversals 3 days a week and so we kind of just say hey let's all get up on the stage we're going to do a warmup and we do a Qui game before M gets in we organize we just organize drun things and we do a lot of just getting the people to know each other and getting the for people familiar with not just the people in the club but the things we do in the club as a whole whenever people split up into smaller groups dur certain scenes drama Hub leaders will uh take the lead and make sure people stay on track uh we will generally recommend good warm-ups and team building activities to help the cast get closer and uh generally our leaders and people to look for for advice and Direction during all of the shows how many people in the drama clook I would say around 2530 that's fantastic you know what you do is not just for the district or the school but our community just Embraces this what you do people look forward to seeing the talents and the things that you do so thank you for the behind the scenes and for the in front of the scenes that you all do and James I I I I didn't recognize you in the beginning until you spoke your voice your voice is very distinct it's a beautiful voice by the way and you're going to have a career somewhere using that voice I'm sure here yeah so again uh congratulations to James Coran Anna and Decker and Claire all you do to support Dr program thank you so much [Applause] so the whole board pictur why memb [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you all thanks guys [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] okay if we can uh bring it [Music] back and Dr K going to take us to a brief presentation or of the continuous Improvement so um thank you for a few more minutes um to really just give you an overview of the CIP or our continu Improvement plan I did speak with several members of the Board of Education October 2nd you go compl in detail I'm happy to answer any questions I know all the it's part of the board packet I just a couple mentions in terms of the continuous Improvement plan at the high school I hope you know first and foremost that it is exactly the same as last year uh in terms of of the big picture goals um as I mentioned the other day um we had need some strong inroads in several of the goals and the plans within the goals have been effective um and many of them were were starting to emerge so we maintained uh several elements of the goals so you should see about 75 to 80% uh duplicity from from the previous year um there are a few further elements and as I handed out just a quick one pager in Blue uh I mentioned uh I kind of pulled out what might be different from the year before um so again uh you're well aware of the goals student growth and achievement Partnerships and Community engagement Financial sustainability learning environment belonging embracing equity and Workforce Development um and before I dive into the goals you know I do believe that within each of the goals you know we do have um some results that we're we're trying to uh work towards we also have um really strong elements the goals in terms of what administration uh does what and what the teachers do to support uh the process within the goals and I think that's the most important key that the process in the action steps are really sort of um help bring uh these goals forward um some you can you know pinpoint a number or a measure and others um you know we look forward to just general growth in a particular area um I'm happy to answer any questions um either from the one major or from the um the CIP itself um um board members any any questions you know I I will say that so impressed that day that we spent with with you and uh the students from the uh wri Workshop uh but the improvements have been significant across the board and uh you've made great Headway and tremendous progress and I think it's you know based on the leadership that we have and and the way that the staff has come come together and collaborated to make that all happen so um I know that day we were very impressed with some of the uh some of the information that you provided uh I know you're getting the condensed version but if you have any questions I think uh you know feel free to bring them to me or to Dr Gman and we can get those answered for you uh down the road okay anything else for a quick comment it was was really a wonderful morning uh I was said it that day that keeping the goals same and refining them makes so much sense uh because there sort of almost internal goals some of the areas you picked out uh and we only walked around for about 40 minutes uh but you picked up a sense of Engagement uh a sense of quiet work uh kids seem to sort of be enjoying school and you can't fake that you know that that just was imp permeated to walk around and stepping in the classroom so thank you it's great great day thank you okay we'll let you get home to dinner thank you so much for all your support our processes and forward to meeting you again thank you thanks for coming tonight thank you okay thr U thrill to have uh here tonight um to go over oh I'm sorry hang on one second we we I you know um is is the agenda is I want to get something out out um so that we can move it to to deal to to kind of handle things while we have our board attorney here so I'd like to have a motion that we move uh recommended actions consent agenda forward to this particular point we'll move through that pretty quickly and then we'll get to this meeting so move okay second thank you any any discussion on that you want to vote on them now yeah we're going to we're going to move it up we're going to take one by one vot on now okay so I have a first and second any other conversation questions all those in favor iOS sorry we're not voting on them now we're discussing no we're we're going to take the recommended actions from the consent agenda and we're going to vote right now we're V just mov the agenda yeah moving the [Music] agenda so again all those in favor do I have seven right thank you okay have have eight here have eight eight okay so eight of all right thank you H okay um so we start with consent agenda approval of the minutes of September 5 2024 uh and September 10th 2024 can I have a motion my motion thank so motion to C Board of Education approve the consent agenda thank you Cindy second thank you Jordan any any discussion all those in favor okay that's 80 thank you so you did the first one right so you had to do the approval of the audit it's It's all under the consent agenda all all three of those are under the consent agenda so so we'll take it we'll take it one at time approval of the audited U audited 2324 financials if we're given have a motion to approve that was given that last me right thank you Erica second thank you Jordan any questions on that all those in favor I 80 on that thank you and then the approval of the UN audited 2425 financials as of September 30th 2024 uh including July August and September thank you Felicia second thank you Erica any other questions all those in favor okay so that that Tak yeah going to do the trans talk about that appr that's what we just did July and a oh there's two sorry we did July and August we need to do sep I put them all together July yeah when I when I asked you a motion you did them all yep okay so now all right then we go to Anna Anna we're going to we're looking for information on the approval of the budget transfers for the fiscal year 2023 2024 terrific um this is something that we do um each year uh the board approves the budget during um the budget season in the previous year we finish out the year with some variances in each of the line items but because it wasn't approved budget um we do have to the board does have to authorize these adjustments in order for us to have a revised Budget on record so um again this is for the fiscal year that we've already reported on um the budget transfers are just a a separate document and topic okay I'll take a motion that we uh move cam Board of Education approve the budget transfers for fisc year 2023 2024 after I give the motion I open discussion requests motion thank you uh thank you Kim for a second appreciate that um open up for discussion anybody have any questions for Anna on this I mean this typically what we do on the transfers wean out okay all right all those in favor I oppos okay you know thank you very much okay uh now we're going to uh I just read okay so now I'll take a motion on uh the camp board of education approve revisions to policy 4021 prohibition of sex discrimination including sex based harassment Personnel such policy shall be considered for adoption at his second read at the next Board of Education meeting I'll take a motion oh thank you Jo second have a second please thank you s okay we have a first and second any discussion yeah this is a federally mandated U policy came up at the first policy meeting in September uh it's a little bit complicated and we felt that some additional information was necessary would be important for us to understand it completely uh so we had our board attorney come to the last policy meeting had a very very lengthy discussion about it where say Jordan and I asked a lot of questions over for about an hour period of time we had a fair amount of of input from the public as well uh and we recommended United members of committee there for first read tonight and I will leave our board attorney is here so we did we did uh ask the public that the public came forward I'm very appreciative of the questions that we get on this because I understand this policy is a little bit complicated uh but however um the questions that we received really had nothing to do with the policy they had more to do with the implementation so there's really nothing to further to discuss on the policy the questions were more based on implementation so I I have nothing to report on those on those particular questions any other questions from the board I do I have questions in regards to actual policy and how it's written okay so it just how it's written here in regards to the timelines so there there's a bunch Where the dates are brought up of 7 Days 5 days is that the only option that we have so let me give you an example Sarah just so you know exactly one talking about so this is series 5,000 so if we're looking at oh my God let me it's page nine that helps so this you know Onan we're talking about 4,000 right now 5,000 they're the same ex it's probably also still page eight um sorry yeah so page nine B and take meetings from the date of the written notice Prov into subsection 3.3a the parties will have 30 school days to reach a resolution so that's just an example I guess my question is is that our only option um for most of them I don't want to say it's for all of them about going through but for most of them um the title 9 Federal Regulations say that you have you have to choose something that's reasonable um but there beyond that you do have flexibility for changing some of those exact time frames okay so like for instance we're filing a complaint on page 13 fining a complaint be filled within 30 school days of the alleged occurrence when you're saying school days I just want confirmation here let's say a a grievance needs to be filed of something that happened in May or June there a school day over the summer um so school days is defined on page six okay and defined means the day that school is in session and designated on the calendar posted on the district's website and its discretion and then equitably appli and with proper notes to the parties the district may consider business days during the summer recess as school days is if such designation facilitates the pro resolution the okay so then it's the current has happened in let's say the 24 to 25 school year over the course of the summer it would need to be filed then it could be it would fall within we wouldn't need to wait until the fall the school days correct okay well I mean based on this definition that if the district May useit our business St during the summer recess I just wanted a clarification on that and then is our title n coordinator work year round outside of the school year so do she working through the the course of the summer 12 months 12 months yes no so how would we handle that so partly that in that case the if you look at school days if you don't have somebody being able to do a prom resolution and it doesn't sorry I lost the definition I go back and look the exact definition um if you don't if such designation does not facilitate the pr resolution because you don't have the the people to do it then you because part of it is too that you can't necessarily do an investigation if students aren't in the building depending on what the the issues are right you don't have students to talk to okay so that's it all together okay so is there room for us to say that this could be within 90 days just to cover the summer I guess I guess that's what I'm looking for is to make sure like where's the administrators are still in compliance but we're not asking the coordinator to come in over the summer we're asking students who might be traveling to do the actual full investigation is there en way in that actual time period so I think what we have decided in terms of put putting 30 days in there 30 school days is and the definition of school days is kind of giving you the discretion to use business days in the summer but you don't have to is because I would hesitate to expend expand it more because Title 9 says that you have to promptly resolve from L and so if you put [Music] 90 what I don't know school days business days whatever I think you run into the potential of being outside of that reasonably C time frame and so by having it as 30 days 30 school days in in most instances that's going to account for it and in those certain instances where we don't have the staff or we don't have the resources to do a promt resolution you have the flexibility there to um to not be not in comp Sarah you talking regulations or the policy that's in the yeah so this conversation is the regulations not policy correct the policy yeah the policy is the first four pages corre cor and that's implementation correct okay all right that was really my biggest one is I just wanted to make sure that we would still be I guess the regulations even if it something happens let's say the last day of school and there needs to be an investing grievance investigation process and we don't have our Title 9 coordinator for those whatever 12 weeks okay so you're saying that that would be covered okay that was really the biggest piece that I wanted clarification on and then why is there no difference between the students and the Personnel the right like I read through this in are basically like copy and paste there is no difference and that's intentional corre okay okay so I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything okay um I think oh one other question that I had uh and this is my last one I believe is um I believe that there oh so if I read in the stud or in the Personnel it says and this might be the regulations again so it might be out of line with the policy here but it says if um an expulsion needed to happen so there could be like a prompt expulsion that would have to have to happen with a student but would we still use the word expulsion in regards to an employee board um I'm not sure exactly okay let me see if I can find that exact page and it it's past page four so again might be out of questioning I guess but okay so it's page 18 and letter e it says if and this is in the Personnel so if expulsion is recommended reers student respond to the board for expulsion proceedings pursuant to Connecticut law but I didn't see anything of with Personnel if they're found to be guilty of whatever this is and they need to be terminated I'm just looking to make sure I so it's remedies and disciplinary sanctions yeah so if you look at the okay um possible sanctions being included but are not limited to discipline up to an including expulsion for students and termination ofemployment okay I I'm trying to read all of the a lot and I'm not an attorney so okay all right thank you that's all I have for questions that thank you okay we have a first and a second close discussion all those in favor all those in favor for what motion okay moving it from first reading to Second did you go please yes8 thank you okay now um I need a motion that the C Board of Education approves revisions to policy 5030 prohibition of sex discrimination including sex bias harassment students and such policy shall be considered for ad option at a second read at the next Board of Education meeting we have a first thank you Felicia second thank you Erica discussion hearing none all those in favor iOS he up okay thank you very much and the final uh motion tonight move that the camp board of education approve the homework policy 6154 I have Mr uh shy uh speak to that in a second can I have a first Mr Shyer second Cindy thank you very much discussion Mr sh just on it was uh somewhere in this gigantic folder it's one line added recognize when the policy was written it was a seven period day the new policy is an 8 period day with two days of of uh long extended periods so it allows uh teachers to give homework on Thursday or Friday so that not help me out here one line it's it's page two homework may only be assigned on it it changes from Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday um and it's simply to homework may be assigned on the days in which the classes are session this classes don't meet us today that was my okay any other questions on there I do have one question are we allowed to approve it because this is just because it's an amendment because don't we have to do a SE any policy change we are you could you could choose to to approve it on one read yeah it's it's the C Board of Education approve the H policy system and that this if you remember that the policy committee though will be discussing homework in general General at a future poliy meeting this was just a a quick change that was actually brought to um the the Board of Education several years ago to make this change but to let the public know because it came up at policy committee meeting tonight the policy committee is going to look at uh H more which just looking at the technology committee and the bylaws uh right now and this will be a future agenda item so this is just to move basically practice at High School just really because of the BL class correct so we have a first and second are of the conversation questions hearing none all those in favor I oppos 80 okay thank you very much thank you sir thank you so much all right now it's my pleasure to introduce mrle who's here tonight to give us an update on uh special education and the Thrive program so can I just uh jump in before Mrs M goes there's been um some questions from the the Board of Education just to provide an update on tuition and programming which aligns very well with this's continu Improvement plan so there was some specific questions related to that and we'll also be asking Mrs mle to make this same presentation when we go to the board of Finance in November it it it goes a little bit into uh the the public common question that we've received today regarding budget one of the major shifts that has changed in 10 years is special education that far out seeds the inflation rate and Mrs I'm mle will talk about it so we're very fortunate to have mle us me uh so good evening everyone uh I appreciate the opportunity uh to provide you all with the tuition and programs um and as Dr grman um so eloquently stated and you actually stole a little bit of my intro of this presentation is directly aligned to board World 3 which is financial sustainability and efficient operations which is directly connected to my continuous Improvement plan and the continuous Improvement plans of all the administrators in the district uh I want to begin with two things one programming for students with disabilities is incredibly complex um and there are multiple variables that are constantly in play and when we um anticipate our budgets at the very beginning of the year uh it's virtually impossible to anticipate all the possible changes um in programming or movein with students and that's why you often see um big swings in the in the special education tuition and transportation lines I also want to take this opportunity um to celebrate uh what we do as a department in collaboration um with our families our students our outside providers um we do not work in isolation we are a team uh I'm incredibly proud of everyone from our secretaries to our par Educators our jenet and specialed teachers and administrators and all of your support here at the board um we could not do the work that do for students about quers um so with that I will jump in and begin so screen's a little small my vision at this hour is not ideal so I'm going to peek up my notes a little bit um but you'll see on this slide over the three years I wanted to share um a couple of points here one is that you're going to notice that the uh K12 all student count in the state um is decreasing but you'll also notice that the prevalence rate in special education continues to rise at the state level and in Canton um and one example of this is um in the area of emotional disability uh that has G up in the Last 5 Years 10% in Canon so 5 years ago we were at 24% and now in that category or 34% and it's our fastest rising identification category in this District um so coming in and um thinking about how to advance our programming through Services through briide is a key step in addressing those student needs so this slide uh my intent here is to give you an example of the wide range of variability within costs in special education when I mentioned it's incredible complex on the high end if you have a student who requires wrap around behavioral supports therapeutic uh possibly locked facility you're going to be on the higher end of the tuition well over 200,000 uh our average based tuition rate is around 100,000 that's not accounting for specialized transportation and the low end would be services that happen above and beyond the academic school year think extended school year um to during additional summer therapy that go above and beyond do during our regular course of year you say the transportation a little okay so the also the average cost for transfer is $44,000 annually per student per student exp what that is so that's uh that's the rate caught so many times students who are in an out of District placement uh may require solo transportation for uh different reasons does that include if a nurse is onic reason it could be a medical reason but it could be for a monitor could be the need to just add an individual run if the student is placed at a school that we don't have other schools um that we can ride share with so every time we have to add a run to a different school it's an additional $44,000 here I answer your question but you also need to understand that the the tuition cost that is not regulated by the state of concut it's not regulated so that is talk right now within State legislative bodies that superintendents have gone to our representatives to ask for regulations to regulate the the increase that schools can to can charge so for example Barber does a great job with and says 3 to 4% going back to inflation of what is typical 3 to 4% schools can say well you know what it's going to be more like 9% so if we budget at 3% which is responsible growth and sometimes far they budget 4% I'm like no go three and half because I'll split the middle with you because it should be three but you'll get a bill it's a 9% increase it's not regulated right so why don't we just pick another place then Barbara why don't we pick another place I know the answer but I because uh schools are there's a it's complicated there are many reasons one is that uh we are limited in our options for highly therapeutic programming in the state of Connecticut um and the other is we are faced with a situation now where the weight list to get into some programs as well over a year and a half um so if we have students that require a therapeutic placement sometimes we're looking at transferring them close to an hour to get them the supports and services they need um so we don't have a lot of options they really have a monopoly and they're privately run and funded they have their own boards um and I've experienced uh tuition increases of close to 11% this year in some of our facilities which is just sticker sha right so this next slide gives an overview of actual expenses for out of District students this particular year um so it's took it's a great care to make sure that this uh data is anonymous um so it's not tied to a specific student um that I would reference but you can see here the base tuition for student a is 205,000 uh when you factor in the alart services for OTP speech behavior um that's an additional almost 8500 Transportation if the requireed monitor is above that 44,000 so in this case we're at 54,000 so we're at a grand total of 268 uh for one student um so you can see here that the swing is fast you look at students they have a base tuition of almost 73,000 they don't have related Services um they they have a parent transport or situation um and and that's the cost so so the board understands $268,000 in the year 2024 was now $268,000 in 2004 it could have been 50,000 2004 it's just that is the the how quickly things have changed when something is unregulated next slide um so there was a question about what were there any documented savings from our IND District programs um and these are savings uh from the last fiscal year uh so I'll draw your attention to what was thought in the tuition budgeted section um so just going by student and we budgeted 11 19,700 um with our Thrive program we were able to bring uh couple students back to District um in this case um we had a a tuition savings coming back mid year of almost 61,000 and we also had some Transportation Savings of 24,79330 594 um and what I want to point out that's most important is those savings could then be reinvested into our district programming to make those programs that much stronger so um we build to S practices we have extra resources available to us for able to then reinvest those saes back into our program l a good question um I know like on this other one it's student adnc is this school ADC meaning different schools within the district so different schools I the next two slides down the operational clost to run Pride program and our learning lab program in District as you know both of those programs we offer districtwide um and the Thrive program in total cost see where the numbers are coming from uh and again I'll say this reflects our commitment to offering high quality in District programming programming and services in order for Thrive to thrive as a program it needs to have behavioral support and therapeutic support so it requires Social Work support embedded and behavior consultants and behavior text to support individual student needs then turn to the learning lab program that program operationally costs 870,000 um in the swing here the difference is most of the students in our learning lab programs require either a one toone par educator support or a two to1 support um so there's a higher we have I believe 18 par Educators supporting that program are they fully staffed are they fully staffed we are much Clos CL ER to being fully staed than we were last year at this time we still have about four par educator positions that need to be filled so this slide is I think it's my favorite slide of the presentation I'm going to point out the key to you um and try to break this down and explain where it's coming from so so canton's um PP is our per people expenditure so it costs on average $1,575 per student to educate a student in C Public Schools when you require an out of District placement it's four and a half times that amount so that's where we get per people amount of 88,000 for a special education student that needs outp and that's just their tuition when you factor in the average cost of Transportation I came up with an out of District base cost of 132,000 per student now in the program potentially this is all hypothetical but potentially we have 18 students in five if those 18 students required an out of District placement that would cost over $2 million when you factor in the operational cost of $551,000 you have a potential Savings of 1.8 it's very tiny print so I'm not going to the exact number uh and then in learning lab if you do the same exercise you have a potential Savings of 1.7 does everybody understand that because that that that's a big chart so what Barber's saying is that drive costs $551,000 to to run if we didn't have Thrive the potential of those students being outplaced would be a total of $2.3 million right by us having dropped 551 th000 1.8 is savings that we are generating from this another example of why our budget looks different than it did that's 51,000 that's operational and the same thing with learning lab so right there if you total it all together by my simple math it's approximately two 2.6 Barbara of six if we had to outplay children so investing in our industri programming and making that as strong as possible is a key step to maintaining that fiscal responsibility that we talked about in our board goal next slide so this slide is about XO plus and it's very very general anybody has specific questions about exit plus i''d be happy to follow up with you um outside of this meeting if need be um but I wanted to point out that in 2324 we received % so that's a significant hit and what this cost refers to is anything above and beyond that threshold of $888,000 so the district has to eat the cost of the $888,000 no matter what if your cost is if it's a $100,000 outplacement you get 70.5% of what's left of that let's just say it's 20 grand you get 70.5% left of that um so it it helps but you know we're advocating strongly directors in the state superintendence to fully fund excess cost it has yet to be fully funded Barber what's the reason for the discrepancy if the state said 88 yeah I appreciate that question so I asked the same question to uh the state department and it was explained to me that what they do is they annually they look at all of the school districts in the state of Connecticut and based on the level of need in um some of our larger districts uh they have to re reallocate the amount of funding that's available um So based on that redist redistribution provided with us yeah answer so so I intend to invite our state representative state senator to the board of Finance meeting a so they can hear our financial report and B I think Barb's report was so so enlightening that they need to hear this also so I hope they can make it but I'm going to get on the phone tomorrow and invite them both welcome that conversation I know so [Music] I if it cost $100,000 to send student out place you subtract the 20 that should have cost you subtract it 88,000 on that 100 okay that's your thresh four and a half times per people whatever is left you get 70 and half% of that that's question just to follow off with that so the 19,0 575 does that include uh specialized services or No like is is that so that's what it cost to educate with nothing extra so the the state does a Formula based upon and help me out because this is complicated the state does a Formula that generates looks at your tax Bas how much your budget is how much um your town could afford and then they come up with your per pup expenditure that's what it comes so it takes out the special education takes out the out of District um special education cost okay so this would include prog 19,000 I would I would say that that's the average amount for a general education student and then a student that requires special education related Services they're above and beyond what they get during the school day there would be additional cost to educating even there there's such a thing as a high cost IND District student that would go above and beyond the 19,000 so it just depends on the student and their their IEP needs totally understand that but I I guess what I'm a little bit confused about is the actual calculation of that number and it sounds like so any student within the fry program would be attributing to this okay okay so these are key steps to mitigate high costs um the first being investing in programs like learning lab and pride um keeping our students in their home District where we set the standard for our rigorous high quality expectations for all Learners um is key and we're training our staff and we're building our capacity um so when I think about budget forecasting um I think about what needs do we have in our student population and where do we need to invest in training supports and resources to make sure that our programs are um align to best practices and that we're ensuring faith for each and every one so fa is a free and appropriate public education and all special education students are G students first they're entitled to that um investing in District Services goes right in line so that's looking at recognizing the need um when I joined the district a couple years ago that we needed behavioral consultants and behavior Texs to support some of the emotional regulation needs that we were seeing in our Learners um we've successfully built Partnerships with Quantum behavior um to ensure that we have Consultants um meeting with our programs regularly and also with our PBS teams regularly our school-based teams meet and we consult on individual student needs and put together plans um also I mentioned budget forecasting leveraging our grants so every year I write uh the idea Grant which is the grant that um helps us supplement the cost of Services um and we try to we work very very hard to be incredibly thoughtful around um programming and planning for what our needs are through that and we're always monitoring these programs ride is new it's still in its ady stages it's only been around for a little bit so we are still learning as a team and coming together in our meetings to to think about what we need to do to continue to make that program strong and sustainable for many years to come we do the same with learning lab in our preschool programs um our structured literacy we have structured literacy staff in each of our schools to support students with thisa so it goes much further than Pride um we look at it for all of our programming in the district um and then lastly I just want to say that Community collaboration is so critical so we have um Partnerships um and shared services for example uh 18 to 22 program with Randy bear um is our program for students who require Services Beyond Canton High School from 18 to 22 and sharing the cost of that um helps mitigate what it would cost a small town like can to in to create their own transition program so we share those resources um we also have a partnership with c and behavior and they're running a hybrid Clinic um it's the first year of that program uh we have as you students who are participating it's incredibly successful they spend a portion of their time at the clinic and then they're with a on toone Behavior Tech who goes with them to school for the second portion of their day um and it's keeping them students here it's creative programming with Community Partners to make sure that we're continuing to meet those individual needs I just start talking about some of this yeah um so I will summarize but our 18 to 22 program um is key our Behavior text um embedding uh things like talk therapy with our social workers through Pride helps to enhance that program to make sure that we're giving opportunities um as a group of for students to work through areas of need such as etive functioning or emotional regulation um we are also exploring this year starting a home visit um protocol uh and the intent behind that is we have uh because of those needs with emotional regulation um and emotional disabilities that we're seeing in the district we are noting that we have students who are experiencing School avoidance um and we're looking for opportunities to re-engage and reconnect them with the learning process so that starts with those core relationships at home and making an effort um to do that Outreach and even if it doesn't work right way planting those seeds and eventually that that will um get our Learners re-engaged with school um and then uh lastly the um last piece that I want to mention I've had the opportunity I was invited to join the working group with um CPAC which is the contic parent Advocacy Center um around language equity and access so a law was passed this year um requiring um translators and interpreters and um an understanding of the parent multil language Bill of Rights um so we're working really hard to get the word out around that um and that parents are entitled to that we want them to be engaged in the PBT process um so encouraging that homeschool connection is is another wonderful partnership that we're incredibly proud of so as you can see we're working really super hard in PBS um but it's not in isolation it's in Partnership Mr Bishop grman Rob so it it takes some Village um I'm incredibly grateful and to the team in this district for all your support thank you bar great presentation I know one you kind of touched on this a little bit and I know the board of Finance was interested in this when we uh when we were talking about th and I know we in the infancy there was hope that maybe we you were talking a little bit about this we can expand and maybe grab other towns with with a more reasonable tuition than they they would get outside how far away you think we are from maybe getting something like that in place I think that every year that we build in stronger practices we get one step closer to that so I think if there are opportunities to explore that um even this year I would be H into it if an opportunity came I'll share with you uh another school district reached out to me today asking questions about what our learning lab program looks like and ask to come and visit the program um to get a sense of how we're supporting activities in daily living at the elementary level um so you never know we're talking as directors we're exploring and they may come to me and say hey I have a student that we're struggling the program for would you be open and those are kind of it happens organically um to start and then we can formalize the process but it be open to exploring that opportunity one one of the original Advocates of of Thrive one of our supporters Andrew La is here tonight he was one that you know they they saw the U they saw the possibilities and the opportunities and I think I think the board of Finance would say if there was a um additional seeing these numbers if there was an additional investment so that we can do something like that to allow you to to in and get there I think there would be um you're going to get question I'm sure appreciate that how about other board answer this and I miss that I apolog are was able to bring any aners back who were out place the numbers that you haven't had to out place is great but anybody who y so the earlier slide where I spoke of the 179,000 those were um three students that we brought back to District last year yep and I anticipate um at this time on forecasting that we're in the process of bringing two students back fantastic Kim just we wondered just like there surveys and formal feedback that they get at the end of the school year you know for all the schools do you have any process or getting feedback from the families speciic specifically involved in Thrive and then also the population of students that you service thank you for that question I appreciate it so I don't have a formal process um but we do have like PBT uh during PBT we have a opportunity for parent input around programming um so we take that as anecdotal data and information um to help gauge you know with how how our students are feeling about the program and our our parents and honestly I think as as our Learners get older we really want them to be able to communicate clearly around what's working for them and what's not so encouraging them to be part of the PBT conversation around their programming and what their needs are um is is critical it's essential feedback to help us go back and Provine our program thank you the only other question I have was the piloting home visits so that's new is there a certain percentage of students that are part of that we we are just in the meeting stages in exploring what a protocol would look like we have some students who are not coming to school and that's your that's a strategy you're using to thanks Kim other questions so who does the home business so we're developing that protocol I've been working very closely um with Francisco beers at crack um and the recommendation is that we have Behavioral Health person attend um with another adult that is that has a relationship with with the individual so that could be an administrator it could be a teacher um it could be um corre liaison it could be a lot of different people it really just depends who the right person is but we always care that person for safety reasons who go cars um care that that person with another individual that we can connection with any other questions that was just a great presentation a good warm up for you for the board of Finance meeting that's right thank you very much excellent good numbers thank thanks s for helping on that too yeah thank you okay fantastic all right so let's uh move to you know one one of the things that uh we talked about at the retreat was uh the board has been a little bit Tardy on this is is getting our strategic plan in place and the way we decided to uh to approach this is uh the superintendent has helped us develop um against our goals and priorities um what the Strategic plan should look like what our priorities should be over the long term tonight you have the first uh board goal and don't forget you saw it in Packer from Mr dep pipo the vision of a Canton graduate kind of you know is one of the lenses that we're looking this through but what I'd like to do tonight is take that first uh first Board of Education B of priorities for number one student growth and achievement and just go through to see if you have any thoughts or changes on a through I so I I think I'll take I that says align standards based curriculum instruction and assessment across all grade levels and service of the vision of The Graduate any questions yes so I have a question about the word align so there's there are different types of alignment we're talking about vertical alignment or horizontal alignment I think it would be both so when we say alignment it's broad enough to allow the administrators within their own continuous Improvement plans to say we're now going to be vertical in line with our ninth grade or we're trying to be for so it allows the flexibility so a line for a strategic plan would be broad so that's what well ask on that all right and just a reminder to the board the whole purpose of the Strategic plan is that when you're seeing the continuous Improvement plans they're going to be able to put by their goals they're exactly what Cindy just asked where if they put something in there say align standards within English vertically across they're going to be able to put board goal one a so we know exactly which one they're doing so you're actually sitting there when you're meeting at the schools or here to check off which part of our strategic plan did we had so thank for asking that actually Drew pipo did that in our last uh when we met with his continuous Improvement he actually aligned or he checked off which board goal that work so perfect good question B expand career in college Pathways to provide more opportunities for Future Ready cour work I have a question about that too so is that Future Ready like is that how that ised fure OPP for Future Ready y okay okay thank you see identify Trends and gaps in student achievement and to guideance structural adjustments um I had a question about that one too only because it reads a little bit like a like a typo that and in there so give us an example yeah give example give an example of what it should be identify Trends and gaps and studed achievement uh to guide take out you got that order so take out the hand okay Hannah's Hannah is our person that's charting this all out and then plotting remember this isn't final folks this is just kind of going through then y great D Implement draft uh Implement datadriven personalized learning for students to address individual academic needs and learning preferences put the word instruction in there somewhere I don't knows I feel like after personalized learning and instruction it's like personalized learning and instruction for students to address instruction so it would read Implement datadriven personalized learning and instruction for students instruction and learning yeah Implement data personalized instruction and learning instruction you say no a yeah Implement data personalized instruction and learn I like that we so much I like that that's good good suggestion establish regular feedback protocols with students and parents Guardians to ensure that they are informed about academic progress in areas for improvement that makes sense can I just ask a clarifying question there obviously I know like you said it's meant to be broad um but when you say feedback protocols with students like rubrics and with parents and Guardians it's like power school or or whatever like parent teacher conferences I mean it's that I think the whole thing needs to be looked out one of the things that we received from the the survey that we gave out last year to families it kept coming up of feedback providing more feedback so we have to analyze administrative team has to analyze what type of feedback families are looking for that's going to take some time and that's why there isn't direct answers to that question that we got we know we have to do better job providing feedback Pre K through2 saw that right you good F develop and expand Partnerships with local colleges universities and businesses to provide students with real world learning experiences I have I would add the word like Community I know there's the word businesses but like Community I don't want to say businesses again something with the community like you know preschool we have nursing homes we what about what about businesses and Community what if we said develop and expand Partnerships with local colleges universities businesses and community the organization and the community just overall and the community that's good you got that Hannah you don't have to AG no no it's a good good suggestion excellent that's what we're doing this for okay G train teachers in high leverage instructional strategies to promote deep understanding and Mastery of content I'll turn to our two teachers High Leverage What does that mean I don't know yeah so so there there is meta research on the impact or E efficacy of individual strategies there's some things that work really well and then there's some things that are nice that we may have held on to in the past that we like but they're not really doing enough to be able to drive student AG gen in terms of instructional strategies correct okay I I sometimes think that pairs is an essential teacher so I would say [Music] staff train staff yeah that's good good catch got that Hannah that is it is it teachers and staff or is it just sta yeah instructional strategy deep understanding you good Cindy what are you thinking through um well so the the teacher training and high leverage instructional strategies uh that promote deep understanding and M of content for students is that what that means yes okay we can for students I mean I don't know I don't want to be like the more we put students in there the better um that how about as John just said uh train staff and high leverage instructional strategies that promote deep understanding and Mastery of content John and supportive student learning and supportive student Lear very good that's awesome I I'll take Jordan's R in this you got that Hannah isy all right eight continue to explore international certificate based programs to expand students Global competency remind me what international and certificate programs are so there are a couple things that are out there there is the um like a World Language duel uh dual language uh certificate that's out there and part of it too is just looking for more those opportunities to Brad the perspective of of students beyond the C public schools there are some things Jo that are out there that haven't been even utilized within the the local area that we would be able to Divine Define and be able to lean into the idea of being Global Citizens would that include um John like the international travel that they do or it very well could and it's about being able to to state this is these are expectations that we have as a district or as a as a high school and experiences that we want students to be able to have and then we are able to say through our process we can certify you that's one way to be able to go about that um so I had a nups to move 1 H to five and to take 5G to one so sorry you say change the order uh no oh so taking from board B five y g which is ensure all students have access to Advanced coursework extracurricular activities and enrichment program move that to one there's a St that staff to GB that's work yeah so I know that we're only focusing on one but I'd like to move 5G so that from embracing Equity to student growth and achievement and then what would you move out of one I mean we don't have to move anything out of one but I also thought that 1H would fit better in four go five I I don't know if you agree but we talk about International exchanges Global a lot more in the embracing Equity so I thought that flip would make sense but I mean I was looking I have no problem if the board would want to move H in bringing that conversation when we get to board goal number five just to slide it over there we can put it in both spots right now folks uh um that that's not an issue there's a recommendation to move H to five we could keep it in um board goal number one right now slide it over to board goal number five because the administrators haven't even looked at board goal number five yet okay and then when we get to board goal number five come back to that one Jordan for G right so that's the one that I wanted to move to one though so should we talk about that one now sorry wait so I wanted to take 5G and move that to what well and that was the one you said Jordan it could exist both and both but it would have a different meaning because in five it's about this is about diversity correct equity and inclusion and in one we're talking um we're talking uh curriculum and instruction but okay I just think uring all students have access to foror extracurricular activities and enrichment programs is so G the theme of G and like I said the administrators haven't got here yet the theme in G is just access and access to make sure that students and staff have access no matter their their color their their gender that they have access to Advanced coursework extracurricular activities enrichment programs that one is not written based upon student achievement that's just based upon access student achievement may be a result of that but it was just written on access um the the inter the the letter age I I I can go I think the ministrators I think one administrator did say that that could go to board goal number five also and we wound up with in number one but I think it's worth since we're in writing form and we're going to come back I think there's been a question that I think we put H in board goal number one but Hannah let's throw it in board go number five also and then we can come back to when we nail it down does that make sense and then we can always come back um because we're going to remember this well I know I'll remember this we'll come back to letter G and when we get to board goal number five and then we'll have this conversation again does that make sense yeah it does I I I do think that agent addresses student growth and achievement but we can take a look at it okay uh I utilize contemporary Technologies to maximize instruction and support of Future Ready learning I don't know if I like the word contemporary Cutting Edge or I don't know contemp hard to be it's hard to be cutting edge in any school district contemporary is the stuff but you would expect it to be contemporary would you well and and what I would say too is as much as we want to be U Cutting Edge there there's there is a there is a leading bleeding edge that's a part of some kind of a given 21st century we're already in two and a half decades into well I I agree with you that I didn't have a that's just a that's a that's a buzz so you know if you just want to make it simple you could make the recommendation we leverage Technologies to maximize instruction I said how about relevant instead of contemporary utilize relevant technology how about [Music] leverage Technologies write theology specifically when they do continuous okay so how do you want to write it use I like relevant uze relevant Technologies relevant as in like well contemporary it's another way to say contary got a student um I just had to I just see fut [Music] missell go Maggie your dad's going to walk say question where does citizenship says Ure students are College and Career race where does citizenship and digital citizenship is it coming somewhere here or is it later on Joe that's a good question [Music] and the the carrot that I had there after Technologies would be something like in Associated practices to um in support of Future Ready learning so I was trying to think of that same that same perspective Joe uh when we were talking about technology like how are you ready to be able to not have it use you but you use it for good so I don't know if that Associated practices is the right way to be able to say it the idea of being Future Ready is kind of that concept of being able to use those things well and for good well I think digital citizenship and citizenship are pretty important and I think they ought to be specifically referenced up like maybe somewhere else would you think Future Ready learning and citizenship I don't know maybe learning environment aot no that needs to go somewhere I'm thinking about supporters like you know 21st century Global Citizens that shape of changing world not to Ste maybe just think about it why don't we uh how about current current can you ask your principl why don't you come back with us to un eye see if there's better way to write that next meeting when we take a look at the second one would that be all right because we're not voting on anything your principles might have a better but what it means to be a good of the United States is not important so and and that's what I'm wrestling in my head I'm wrestling in my head is that a continuous Improvement plan or is that within like broad enough grad like is it is it broad enough like to write digital citizenship and citizenship is it broad enough my head says it is broaden up right and that the the principles can drill down without within their continu play that is one that we got stuck in the mud when we met as administrators so so so Joe are you saying that citizenship piece is missing there is that just ask where is it where is it I could find so for sure yeah Compass yeah compassionate CZ where is it in the goals yeah so we'll we'll come back at the next meeting when we go over board goal number two a through that one's that one is partnership with Community engagement and that's actually a shorter one so we'll come back if that's all right to with I with it Rewritten and then we'll look at board goal number two administrators have not looked at go number two yet so what you have in the the book the draft book that I gave my gut says it will look different than what you have but you will get a copy like you did tonight one with all right thank you that that works fine all right thank you for that that was excellent input by the board and I I appreciate that very good so let's let's move to our standing committee reports I'll move to uh Mr Bush and Mrs Robbins for finding [Music] the um only other thing that we really discussed other than the finances uh was that we're going to be talking about uh ease for athletic events uh moving forward if we're charging students and or parents or adult residents for sporting EV by the basketball games charge for right now we will have anything else you want to add any questions for the committee okay let's go to policy Mr Shyer we did not discuss Title Nine tonight we did it the September 23th special meeting I've already filled you in on that we adopted the first read tonight uh we did have lengthy and I think really productive discussion than you Jordan John and who High School principal was there too about cell phone use technology use in school um preliminarily we seem to think the current policy just adopted last year is is good as it stands it's the regulations behind it uh that are yet to be determined especially through 12 and uh Ruth and Andor Drew are going to back to us hopefully in November with proposed regulations so we had to made some of good progress I thought it was a very good anything any questions for our policy we're looking at our bylaws too yeah they need to be refresh and then on to curriculum Mrs Hayes yeah so curriculum we met um in September and we just give you a couple of highlights we um heard the assistant superintendent monthly report um successfully on boarded 12 new certified staff members um we looked at our curricular legislative updates uh one of which will be implemented um second semester this year at the high school the personal finance management and financial literacy um class that is a requirement now and will count toward students stem credit requirements um and then we also looked at our Canton educator evaluation and growth plan and reviewed the state required amendments um to that which were fairly minor and then lastly we uh looked over the fall District standardized assessments and that was it our next meeting is going to be October 30th 9 to 11: a.m.