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it's a great opportunity to come show up for your seniors and I don't know it's a good time it's fun it's Halloween let's get in the spirit I guess um for upcoming events we have November 12th the NHS volleyball tournament it's traditional it's always a good time yeah um tomorrow night we also have showcase for our seventh and eighth graders who are looking to further expand their education at Dartmouth and like any questions or anything they should go to Dartmouth showcase and there's going to be people there to help them out and we have a blood drive for October 29th sign up it's a great way to help save lives it's I don't know it's a good thing to do it is we have our PSATs Thursday for the 10th graders for who want to advance into potential placement and the 11th graders for the National Merit Scholarship yeah and we also have some senior nights coming up girls soccer is tomorrow Tuesday show up I guess like gotta rep our seniors that's I mean I'm a senior I'm playing like com support and we also have um football I think is upcoming and November 1st yeah that's exciting um we also had our freshman elections this year and it was a record number of applicants we actually did so well I think this year and I'm it's going to be a great future I think for them and we also have oh Sports every team is in postseason eligibility and our pink out game we had on Friday I think it went really well I was there it was a great time we raised money and yeah let's see our band performed on Saturday and Friday and they placed first go band I don't know much but you know I I know they're [Laughter] good and our NHS has chosen the lighthouse animal shelter as their charity I think it's a really good cause and that's all we have so far that's upcoming for DHS great thank you thank you very much for your introduction and your report questions comments no thank you that was wasent good job J thank you thank you as I say always you're more than welcome to stay but we understand you have some other obligations so you're also welcome to leave as well and uh do your homework or anything else that's going on sorry guys it was really nice to meeting you but I do have a lot of homework we think you made the right decision thank you thank you thank you thank you all right circling back here looks on the agenda the next up is the smck Southeastern Massachusetts educational collaborative quarterly update so I actually just uh sent this off to uh Miss gther to uh for it out to the rest of the committee so you have it but I will just uh brief everyone as you know I am on the uh the smck board of directors uh we meet six times a year and um we're supposed to report out to our school committees our own committees um quarterly so at the last meeting September the board appointed Ys truly uh from the Dartmouth school committee to be the chair of smck for the 24 25 school year and Michelle Smith thank you Michelle Smith for Marian to be the vice chair Mr John Nunes was reappointed as to the position of collaborative Treasurer um and Jack LeBron was welcomed as the new board rep from matapa three members Mr CER Mr Shay and Miss Smith were were appointed to review and sign warrants on behalf of the board board approved three recommended policy revisions to the smck employee handbook the board approved updates the fy2 spending plan in Revenue project projections as of September 30th the smck spending plan totals 13 m938 47 two of the collaboratives Vans were declared Surplus the board reviewed the findings of a DDS quality enhancement audit that had been completed in July on the collaborative sale adult program resulting in very high compliance and quality ratings in the renewal of the program's day employment and residential support licenses the FY 24 Financial audit is underway and the results will be presented at the next board meeting board received confirmation on the Cab's recent experience with the Desi financial review pilot the draft of which has not been finalized received uh the board members were given desie information and collaborative board member responsibilities they approved all the board approved all actions uh all staff actions that occurred the director informed the board that the clar is due for a Desi midcycle program review this coming winter the student services director updated the board in current enrollment referrals and waiting lists on the correlation and the correlation with unified Staffing vacancies the collaborative new Early Childhood public Day School located in the far north end of New Bedford is also now open which is uh wonderful wonderful uh the director provided a brief legal and legislative update and the uh FY 25 Board calendar was approved uh and moved forward any questions on the SM quarterly update and I I will say that uh it's they're constantly looking in ways to grow uh last year they opened up their new uh Center over and new the Dartmouth Side in New bford industrial park and they also have their new Early Childhood Program over in the North End CU as you can imagine with the way things are going postco is that there are is a need for a lot of referrals thank you very much thank you uh next up we have a school committee policies section A foundations and basic commitments a second reading and vote comments questions concerns we discussed this at the this policy at the last school committee meeting mhm make a motion that we approve the uh school committee policy section A foundations and basic commitments second we have a motion by Mr nun second by Miss Amaral on the motion any further discussion J hearing n all in favor I opposed extensions motion carries unanimously thank you everyone uh next up we have superintendent update date great thank you Mr Oliver so if you remember at our last meeting we had the opportunity to share the district strategic plan and again I want to thank you all for your support it really meant so much to all of us um even you know those folks that were part of the planning process um it was just uh such a collaborative effort and when we have a moment to like step back and take a breather you say oh wow we really did accomplish a lot in uh kind of a short amount of time but the time I I don't want people to think that that we rushed it because it was not a rushed process we truly took our time and it was partly because the district strategic planning team members agreed to meet over the summer as well and so we knew it was important to launch the district strategic plan in the fall and so what we're looking to do moving forward is as part of the superintendent update we have thought about restructuring how we report out to you as a committee um Mr Oliver made a great recommendation to put on the the actual agenda what the focus areas are that we're going to be reporting out to out about on a regular basis so we're going to we're trying that out tonight and so what you're going to hear from the US this evening is just that we've broken It Out by um by Focus area and so with that we're going to start off with uh teaching and learning as our Focus area number one and I'm going to invite Mrs Pavo and Dr t-bo up Miss poo is going to update you on where we are with our literacy pilot and some other things and then Dr t-bo has some things that are going on at the middle school and the high school uh level related to teaching and learning thank you Mr noes you mentioned it before and I was like just you wait I've got a little bit more for you tonight talking about our Pilots but under Focus area one teaching and learning uh initiative one talks about ensuring vertical and horizontal alignment of our curriculum instructional practices prek K to2 and um action steps one and two are talking in that under that initiative about the development and implementation of a curriculum review cycle as well as identifying and piloting and implementing highquality research based curriculum prek to 12 and so um I just wanted to give you some updates on things we've done sort of in service of those action steps our pilot um as Dr sa McGuire mentioned is in full swing our folks actually switched today from El education and started uh ckla and um they've done a great job they really have been a very very diligent and really just thorough group as a matter of fact they are uh headed hitting the road on Friday we're heading to barington Public Schools who um uses El education and has graciously invited invited us into their one of their elementary schools to see eel in action and then talk with teachers after that ask questions debrief speak with their leadership and their coaches about what they see um and then we are hopefully going to be doing the same in Barnstable which is using the other program so they really are just um just I can't I can't emphasize enough how diligent and seriously they take the process um and I'm very very very grateful for their dedication to the cause um also sort of in the service of that action step we have our um our uh I'm losing the word I'm looking for we put out our sort of um email to folks asking for volunteers to work on our curriculum teams and at the elementary level we have curriculum teams in all four core subject areas and they really do a lot of that work in the curriculum review cycle they are revising reviewing and in the case of ela piloting and looking for uh new high quality instructional materials that align to the standards that are in alignment with what we're doing um at the elementary level and then under under teaching learning initiative 2 which talks about designing professional development learning opportunities and that are relevant and support professional growth for all Educators and staff um on Wednesday of this week we have an after school meeting where our elementary folks are um going to be engaging in the first of a seven-part series on the science of reading um last week we met with a consultant from teaching Learning Alliance uh our elementary assistant principles and coaches are doing a train the trainer model where the facilitator comes in and works with our folks build the capacity within our own team and then we take that information and go out um we are grounding our work in uh the book called Shifting the balance it's um shifting from a balanced literacy to a the real true core science of reading and really hoping to build the understanding and the why so that as we bring in a new literacy program it's not just a new program for the sake of a new program it's grounded in research it's grounded in why the knowledge-based program supports the science of reading and the Brain science of how students learn how to read so I will turn it over to Dr tibo to talk about some of the work going on at the secondary level thank you Mrs P so similar to the elementary level there are several uh curriculum Pilots that are underway at the secondary level starting with um darmouth Middle School who is piloting open SED um which is a science program uh an inquiry based Science Program um so our associate principal Sarah Dias has taken the lead along with all of our science uh teachers at the middle school and they're piloting um one module uh in the science uh areas so that's underway I spoke with Mr Rossy today who um said it's going well teachers are really buying in um and Mrs deas is doing a nice job with that also at darmouth middle school and darmouth high school where um we have our Spanish pilot underway with uh the somos curriculum which is a competency or proficiency based uh curriculum so it's a little bit different way of uh more language instruction uh from your traditional grammar based um approach and so they met earlier this month um right here actually uh in this area um it was nice the teachers uh reported that it was nice to have time to collaborate you know especially our Middle School and High School teachers together um you know so uh again that's the horizontal and vertical alignment piece um and so it's nice to see and I just want to thank uh Mrs Hillary Souza who really took the lead she modeled some of the uh activities that um both her and um Senora Chamberlain have have done with the new somos uh curriculum so we appreciate uh they work on that uh finally at the high school in terms of curriculum Pilots um we have Algebra 1 geometry and Algebra 2 underway with Carnegie Learning um and as I mentioned the last time I provided an update it is a tremendous amount of work uh that our teachers are engaging in planning work um anytime you know you're implementing a new curriculum you're learning the curriculum you know early in the year you're still learning your kids and your students and so there's a lot it's a heavy load on the teachers and we certainly appreciate their hard work they work working um you know in addition to uh Miss uh chavier here at the high school being in on-site support they're also working with a Carnegie math coach Patty shut um who visited for three days um in October during her visits she visited classrooms observed our teachers and and the instruction in action met with our teachers to debrief afterwards she facilitated a common planning time with our teachers focused on um you know making some key decisions around uh pacing and open sequence related to the Carnegie um learning math curriculum in addition to that miss biringham our instructional technology specialist has been a tremendous support as well because matthia which is the um uh interactive AI component of the math instruction is very Tech heavy very tech-based um and so having Mrs Bingham here on site is a tremendous support um in terms of integrating the technology which is a good segue for the next piece I wanted to to mention which is uh Mass Q last week we had several Dartmouth High or Dartmouth Public Schools I should say um Educators who presented at the conference and so um Mr Oliver was in attendance and he certainly got to see some of them but I just wanted to um thank and give a shout out and let the community know that you are well represented by your dooth public schools Educators they're rep they're well respected throughout the state and so Mr Eric Bosworth um M Laura Gardner vosi Sandra chica Jess brittingham um they all presented on various topics related to technology integration so um like to recognize them and of course one of the highlights was Miss brittingham who presented the marriage of technology and curriculum with a spe special guest comedic performance by none other than Mr gashaw who served as the uh justice of the peace to administer the wedding ceremony for technology and curricul so you can imagine that um so in all seriousness it was each of those presenters did a phenomenal job and represented Dartmouth Public Schools uh very well um I wanted to also provide an update to the uh committee on I had mentioned earlier this year the Playbook initiative that we'd be applying once again um to be part of that exciting work we did apply I want to thank tier rad uh who was one of the trainers last year and also Audrey ker who's uh one of the trainers this year along with Tad they really those two students really had to work quite hard to submit several uh essays as part of the application process um we will find out I reached out to uh the project 351 on the Playbook initiative today actually and they will be announcing on Friday they'll be notifying which districts were selected so fingers crossed um hopefully we'll be selected to participate again also want to thank um Mrs Chamberlain um Mr Rossy down the Middle School Miss chavier here at the high school um Mrs Masari Mr Garcia and Mr Sullivan all of those Educators had a a hand in the application process so it's quite a collaborative effort and we really appreciate their hard work um I don't want to miss anything a couple just two other things we have a bit Expo tomorrow at darmouth uh Middle School where members of the high school business information uh and technology department are going to be traveling down to the Middle School to kind of help uh engage with our middle school students so that they can see what some of the opportunities are here at the high school so it will be things like um you know Mr pra's program our computer science uh program some of our engineering programs with you know Mr Martin Mr Brodsky robotics it's that kind of a Expo so that our middle school students can start to see all of the different opportunities that are available to them here at dmouth high school which is good coordination for tomorrow night which I know our student rep just mentioned but we have our showcase evening here at the high school tomorrow night uh I believe it's 5:30 to 6:30 um and that's open to the class of 2029 in the class of 2030 which is our grade seven and our grade eight which is a little bit scary my oldest is in the class of 2030 and that seems so far away just a short time ago but they're about to be freshman in just two years so um I think oh one other thing that we wanted to mention we we shared today the Dartmouth Public Schools leadership fellowship program which is a uh opportunity again aligned to our strategic plan but it's an opportunity to help us grow and develop leaders within our Dartmouth Public Schools it's open to any educator who wants to um be part of that can can apply um but the benefit of that beyond the pdps and um you know some great leadership experiences they'll work closely with a coach from the Lynch Leadership Academy who's also partnering with the uh administrative team and and leadership team um in the district to to do some professional learning work with us I think that's it that's it thank you thank you so I just want to take a moment just to thank you know obviously there's a lot of hard work going on in the district and our teachers who are piloting and our our curriculum this a lot of hard work that goes into piloting new resources and so we just can't thank them enough for being willing to kind of step out of your comfort zone um you know because we get used to doing the things that we've done for a while and these the folks that are really uh willing to kind of take a a step and hopefully lead us forward because we know that we have to address this as a school community so thank you to both Ross and Katie who are doing doing a great job leading those efforts out in the district um so this past week uh we held our principal meeting and we had a district leadership team meeting both focusing on leadership teaming with the DT District leadership team we focused on the district strategic plan uh something that's really important to us is that everybody starts to um have a really deep understanding of what's in the plan and so we're going to be a broken record for a while about that uh going out to schools going out to uh we have a family Forum I'll mention that again uh on Wednesday evening but in addition to that we added a component to our meetings with our principes where School leadership and in this past this case of this past week Mr Rossy was able to share information with the principal and central office leadership team about the middle school and then we split up and we visited classrooms and it was a really powerful experience not only for uh for us as central office leaders I mean we get into classrooms quite frequently but at times we don't get into sort of you know a a variety of classrooms depending on what our area focuses in the district and we are able to visit um many classrooms I think our teachers were welcoming uh they certainly didn't appear to be intimidated by the uh the uh sort of um what's the word barrage that's probably not the quite were quite the word I'm and I'm sure Mr Rossy had them uh quite uh they knew we were coming um but again that's the type of work that we're going to continue to do as we each one of our principal's meetings is hosted in a different school and so we're going to give the school leadership an opportunity to talk about what's unique about that their particular school and get into classrooms and I have to say uh the elementary principles how exciting was it for them to get into classrooms see some of their former students um making those connections the kids were super excited to see them and then for Mr sheay to see his future student body and so making those connections really incredibly important so we'll be doing that throughout the school year um also with the approval of the district strategic plan I want to mention that we're moving forward with uh designing the template for our school Improvement plans and that will serve as the basis for our schools to develop their own individual school plans but will be very closely aligned with the district strategic plan the high school will be the first one out because they're actually going through a neas visit and they need to be able to develop and present their Strate their school Improvement plan and in turn we'll be inviting them to school committee as you have in the past to uh to present their strategic plans their school Improvement plans to you as a committee and so I said said we're going to split it up by sort of our Focus areas so Mr Kylie knows that I moved budget and capital Improvement up because we didn't want to end on it and sadly he said I know I always feel like I'm you know giving the downer information but um just before he jumps in I just want to mention that we are still and I'm going to use this section to update you on where we are with Personnel moves and we're still in need of an elll teacher at Dartmouth High School to be shared with Dartmouth Middle School just a reminder that we put out a job ad for a substitute just last week and we we did put it un under uh substitute teacher preference for an El teacher but at this point we really do need a certified teacher to start working with our students because they deserve and they need to have the services that um there that we are actually required to uh to provide so with that monitors substitute teachers esps custodians all those things we're still hiring so keep that in mind and then Mr Kylie I know has an update on town meeting and to talk a little bit about Capital Improvements thank you Dr sa Maguire so um we were pleased that um last week at at town meeting uh we received support for all of our Capital Improvement um articles that were on the warrant so technology Hardware replacement bathroom Renovations interior and exterior painting Energy Efficiency projects and music equipment and generator replacement so all things that we're getting going and uh and starting on and while we're doing that um we're also beginning preparations um we sent out I sent out some uh preliminary information to the administrators in the district about um beginning to prepare the fy20 6 through 35 Capital Improvement plan um a 10-year plan so uh we're we're starting that process and we'll uh we'll move forward and we'll keep you posted as we as we develop that plan so great thank you all right we're going to move on to a little bit out of order but safe and supportive schools so I'm going to invite Mrs denisio and Mrs redlon up they're going to talk to you about some of the work that we have going on in the district related to safe and supportive schools are my pictures coming I'm nothing without my visuals um so I'm just here to share actually a little bit of good news um last Friday October 11th Dartmouth Public Schools was named uh unified Champion School District um this means that our schools at each level will fulfill the requirement of being a Special Olympics Champion school there you go thank you um in order to receive this designation a school must demonstrate whole school engagement with activities that promote respect and social inclusion inclusive youth leadership encouraging students with and without disabilities to take leadership roles and provide various opportunities for Unified sports only nine districts in the state of Massachusetts have received this designation so it's kind of a big deal um and pictured here you see John Bro U Mike Capello and Ashley Co Coker Pier Pont who work tily SLE to support Unified sports in the district and actually they were presenting at a conference and were sort of surprised with this award before their presentation so it was really a very cool thing for um Dartmouth and just more evidence that we're already starting the work of being you know an inclusive School District um and of course there's always more to do so just to show you a little bit more of what that looks like okay so here are some pictures of teams from last year that are either currently getting going or will be going on in the spring so this was from our Special Olympics day last spring at tab Academy with our elementary students has some more fun activities that they were doing and this is the Middle School UniFi bot so this is last year's yeah but they are currently they have a jamere coming up next week so that will be fun and then last year's Middle School UniFi basketball [Music] team the high school's unified bowling team which I'm really excited for to watch this I've never seen unified bowling so and then they are unified basketball team am all right okay I'll just leave it out um and then coming up on November 7th we'll have a unified athletes day or our unified athletes here at the high school will host the preschoolers from kushman and Potter for young athletes day so the unified um PE class and unified athletes have created this whole day for our preschoolers so they'll come up here they'll do some activities and then head back so that should be a really fun time for them um and then shifting gears a little bit away from the Unified sports but under safe and supportive schools so we are creating a district crisis response team um so this will include members of central office representatives from each school from nursing social workers administrators as well as representatives from Dartmouth fire and Dartmouth police so our first meeting will be on November 6th so we're going to start there do some info Gathering see where everybody's at and and then we're excited to share out updates as we get going thank you thank we we also just want to mention that we had more uh interest in joining the district crisis team than just about any team that we've had um that we've created in the dma schools so people obviously are committed to engaging in this work and if you remember last week we talked about how this team would then drive the work at the school level so we'll continue to develop what that is going to look like and present to you as that becomes clearer Mr Kylie you going to add something um sure just related yeah thank you thank you Dr s Maguire so just in terms of safe and support of schools this Wednesday um October 23rd we'll be advertising for Design Services for the Dello and Potter school fire alarm systems so we did um preliminary study work already um just to have an idea of what the scope of the project is uh and we'll be moving forward with design so um we will be uh the the packets will be available for um for designers to um ask for the request for proposal and then submit to us um in a couple of weeks so so October 23rd though it'll be available to be requested so th those are the kinds of things that kind of go unnoticed in a school schol district and yet at the same time we recognize that again making sure that we have effective fire detection systems and fire alarms and the appropriate Safety and Security protocols in place are really critical on a daily basis of ensuring that we do in fact provide a safe and supportive environment for our students it's certainly helpful as well for not only us but our community members to hear hear y and thank you Mr Oliver and then um closing with family and Community engagement again our fourth Focus area and I have to say boy was Dartmouth a busy place this weekend right Lots going on lots of great things going on that involve the community and so there are many ways in which we want to be intentional about how we engage the community and our schools this past weekend um beginning with Friday afternoon and into the evening the soccer players were uh recognized the seniors at their game uh followed by the senior girls at the volleyball game uh both teams won um so that's really great news uh we also had the seniors from the Council on Aging at our football game they had a nice little section for themselves and I have to say again I'm so impressed with their stamina because they stay through the whole game from beginning to end I Just Want to Thank A couple of people Nancy Amy Andy Rebecca brager they're they're the ones who really made that happen and the relationship between the cheerleaders and the seniors is just so sweet and seniors I don't mean the senior students in this case I'm talking about our seniors that are part of the Council on Aging and it really does set a powerful example of how we're connecting Generations in the Dartmouth community and if you remember that is something that's part of our vision our mission and our vision um that same evening just across the street actually across the field uh we had oh by the way the football team won too and it was a statement win that's what we call that kind of win against yes um so Mr Rossy was impressed that I knew that lingo so the the same evening just across the field Quinn hosted its most popular ever Trunk or Treat event um Dr Thomas sent me photos and it is impressive uh but there were as many many as 40 cars there that evening and many family staff and students showed up again the photos were incredibly impressive um at some point I'll share them with you if you're interested because people really do invest a lot of time and effort into creating this just um incredible Halloween setting in the parking lot of our elementary school and so other schools are following suit you heard our our students talk about our high school students are doing this on Saturday but the Dello and the Potter are also planning Trunk or Treat events uh Dartmouth this weekend uh hosted the World band competition this past Saturday evening um I know Mr noones is going to talk about that but I have to say it was an incredible evening I made a joke to the crowd saying I had to tell a few people they said what are you doing Saturday evening and I said well I'm going to a high school bin competition and I had some sympathetic looks and what I said to the group that I had the opportunity to speak to on Saturday evening was it was a wonderful evening like showcasing so much talent and there was all on the field with of course I'm going to say the greatest Talent being our dartmouth's high school band and I know Mr Nunes will we'll talk about how they how they turned out but I do have to say pulling up to football is also a little intimidating if you're looking for a parking spot and the band pulling up to the band competition if you can imagine was even more so it took me a while to find a parking spot Mr NS but I I will remember next year to make sure you have a spot Reon well that isn't no that that wasn't my that wasn't my reason but I'll take it um but no it was but it's really fun to see how many people do turn out is more is my greater Point here um so again an inexpensive evening of music and there was uh somebody who actually sang um really incredible evening so as far as our I have to mention our multimedia students um Mr parate who does such a wonderful job encouraging the students to get out there and be noticed uh but the media students placed in top three for a couple of categories of the mass do video contest um they are going to attend the awards ceremony on Wednesday to find out exactly where they placed the students had to write and produce a 30 to 60 second video uh about uh uh for the local community about having empathy at intersections and on the roadway and I think that that's a particularly relevant topic for all of us not just here in Dartmouth but throughout the state uh we also found out just today that one group of media students placed in the top 24 for the annual MIAA sportsmanship essay multimedia contest they had to produce a video answering the question as a high school student you are a role model for younger athletes who look up to you why is it important to display good sportsmanship to younger athletes provide three examples of demonstrating good sportsmanship on and off the field so really great relevant questions for not only our older students to think about but in order for them to Mentor our younger students um so there is an expo tomorrow morning as you already heard we have students uh very involved with uh lots of different things and I think the important thing to remind you us all of is that the Showcase is tomorrow night there's lots of the High School showcase there's lots of great things that happen here in Dartmouth and certainly at Dartmouth High School and we want to encourage our Middle School families to come to the high school to check out what we have to offer here because we want our Dartmouth students at Dartmouth High School and so with that oh in the community forum is Wednesday evening um that will be here at the high school in the auditorium is it at 6 or 7 6 that's 6 p.m.

but we' put that out we want to thank uh we want to thank mag Olia through um our town office who is helping us to put the word out so that it goes beyond the school district but also includes community members who may be interested in hearing more about our plan and so that's it for this evening so thank you you thank you questions comments I I just want to comment on um thank you for really bringing to life um um you know that each person within your like central office leadership team serves such an intrical uh critical purpose yes um and often I I mean I haven't really heard any criticisms of late but you previous to your tenure we are used to hearing from principles and it's so valuable but then there's like that one step back that really helps really impact you know what others are doing and uh it left me thinking gosh like we are how does how do you all do it all that you're doing and um it's not just sitting at a desk and answering a phone it's really just playing a critical purpose and thank you for bringing that to life thank you we have an incredible team here in Dartmouth and um central office leadership is certainly much talented did dedicated go above and beyond and beyond that our entire District leadership team um you know we we are very fortunate here to have such a committed group of of folks thank you well thank you Dr sa McGuire and uh I do I I do like the format as well yes you it was helpful to put that on on the agenda too so thank you it out you're welcome uh report of the chair I um I think I've spoken enough this evening um so I have uh nothing more to share uh so I will uh turn it over to my colleagues okay uh yeah the you know uh our student rep talked about it as did Dr sa Maguire but we had our home band competition Saturday night we had 13 bands yes it was packed was packed there was no doubt about it uh everyone enjoyed themselves type of deal uh we got the high score for the night 938 we took first place took all the captions and such uh headed off to uh stoen Saturday night for the Massachusetts Rhode Island state championship was scheduled to be on uh somewhere around 8:00 and such and then you know the following week we've got senior night on November 1st and then on Saturday we head off to uh metti for national championships that we go down to every year we'll you know go down and come back so uh I don't have a time yet they've got a block set up somewhere like between 4 and seven you know our division's going to be on and then Awards right after so it won't be a late night thank God you know to come home right and such we won't do that and I just seriously I I you know and I'm going to embarrass him but that's all right I just want to thank seriously Dr T for uh coming down to uh the uh Madera Feast grounds uh last week uh we had a number of students uh in from uh High School in the Madera Islands uh from uh Santana which is a village and uh they were Champions they did some microbiology design I'm not going there that's way over my that was way over my uh my my uh my expertise type of deal but they explained things like get the opportunity to you know get Dr TBO down to our Museum of madaran Heritage for him to take a walk around and then you know see some of the the the pictures and you know the artifacts and things that we have from from Madera there so I just want to you know and good uh was a good evening so thank you sir that's all I have Mr chairman thank you very much Mr n anyone else all right well with that uh the next regularly scheduled meeting of the school committee is scheduled for Monday November 4th 2024 same time same place at this point I I will entertain a motion to adjourn so moved second motion by Mr n second by Mrs zal on the motion any other discussion all in favor I opposed meeting is adjourned good night everyone good

[Music] H [Music] new the first day e with har and liia about homing dance take the look hi I'm Cammy here at Cat team news with two other students involved in student council now what are your names Lydia Holly all right now my questions are just going to be revolving around homecoming now my first question will be like when is it happening it's going to be on November 1st November 1st that's pretty close hopefully you have everything set up how much are tickets this year and when will they be due they're going to be $15 and we're going to be selling them in the cafeteria for the next week all right and where will it be located it'll be in our cafeteria this year not bad sounds pretty small though what entertainment will be provided during homecoming so we're going to have a live DJ and a photo booth they better not play chaa slide the entire time I swear to God they played it twice yeah I mean you got to vote you got to put in the songs you want to play you have to answer the Google forms very important stuff here rigged anyway that's really all the questions that I have it's really quick quick and quiet as they say you know anyway I think that's all that we have to say and all that all the information that's regarding around it so hopefully you guys can get it all in time and hopefully we'll see you there Thank you caty new signing off thanks for that is video this Saturday is Junior and senior Car Wash we need Vol see Mr L in the room 112 T in next week for hallow I am Meg thanks for watching see you next time on C TV News [Music]

e [Music] my [Music] than was I do like like might text there's stud not have your certific come to the table he did [Music] okay welcome everybody start oural school board meeting thank you all for coming first we'll have our call to order and we'll start that with pled of alleg pled allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the it stands one nation God indivisible withy and justice for all you could have the roll call of members please here and next is to approve our agenda which is a action name I'll make a motion to approve discuss Mrs Le yes Mr and yes next is to approve the meetings from our last move to approve meeting minutes from 10 second question discussion Mrs Le yes mrsas yes Mr M yes Mr that is our call to public I don't see any slips anybody on the phone okay moving right along we'll get to you guys sooner than you think with that we will have our superintendent presentation good evening president ay members of the community and all of our amazing students um it's been a very very busy month so um as you know our theme for the year is friends so this is season 8 episode three the one where Colts are running at full speed so we've had plenty of school activities with PTC sponsored grandparent Bingo we had our great Bingo callers Mr and Mrs Curtis there um I believe this is the second or third year that they have been the Bingo callers National walk to school day was celebrated we have field trips to Metta Canyon with our fourth graders red ribon week is this week and a big highlight is our book fair um sold $10,000 worth of books and in in sales so we received $4,500 um$ 45004 Scholastic book Scholastic dollars and you'll see the two students there they were so excited to get their books they had to take a picture of them um we had our Awards assembly for our state assessment so we recognized over 150 students at the assembly and thank you MOS Landscaping they are the ones who come and do our Landscaping they donated um certificates from Target they were $15 certificates and we were able to give certificates to all of our students so we're looking for new donors to get new gift cards for this year we did third grade since we received their scores prior to school ending and then we celebrated fourth through seventh graders so we're very very proud of our students and these were students who maintained proficiency and who demonstrated growth on the state assessment student leadership Lighthouse team meetings we had um anti vaping presentations presented by Patty Schuler um from the Amad Community Alliance so you'll see our students there we had our third through fifth grade group and then we had our Middle School group and um we're just very proud of them increasing their awareness and um they also presented the same group presented at our collaborative meeting with our counselor that we had this month as well first quarter Sports celebrations we are the football league champions any football players in the house our cross country girls placed second and our boys placed fifth any cross country students in the house well we have one of the coaches volleyball girls demonstrated amazing Improvement we had over 50 girls participate any volleyball girls all right the parents versus students volleyball game was a success as well so great great first quarter season for sports professional development Mrs quas and I and Miss Olivia from generation schools Network presented at the national Allah Summit during fall break um we're very excited about this presentation and we will be sharing it with the board at a later time and with our students because we talked about empowering communities collaborative leadership development and education so we have students videos students who talked about student advisory and leader and me we had parents from parent advisory and we had community members that and they were a highlight at the conference because we are really proud of everybody that helps make Continental what it is um continued community support thank you to Green Valley rotary for the donations of third grade dictionaries um and thank you to our greater Green Valley foundation and Continental Educational Foundation for the beautiful mural that some of you saw at Art night it's almost completed and it's in our cafeteria and the brick there the clar family want to thank Mr Nathan because he did um add bricks that we have that were paid for the last two years so it's all updated and so we will be getting sale doing sales again for eighth graders and for families who want to add to the brick Plaza so you haven't seen it out in front it is a really nice closet there um also Gabriel's Angels the r with the dogs program Gary and Ruby we did recognize them here before and Ruby and Gary are going to be moving to New York so um they're leaving in November so we will we're gonna try to get him here so kids can see him and Ruby but we'll send him off well well Wishing Well wishing Parts how do you say that well wishes well wishes um AAW the American Association of University women the Green Valley branch I presented to over 50 women and we received positive media from KAG N I don't know if any of you saw the KGUN9 report it is on the K gun9 website but they really did highlight our school and um talked about our override and our funding and our budget cuts so we very happy about that and the AAW women have supported Continental um in the past they they helped us purchase the second grade Chromebooks when we needed them and now they're willing to help us again with the end of life computers that we're replacing and they also have purchased a few bricks as well that are also in the plaza so again um we're going to make it a great year we're going to go forth and do please don't forget to vote November 5th reminder that our Continental override number 410 is the very last item on the ballot so if you haven't opened up your ballot yet you'll see Continental at the very end so we're saying start from the from the end and move your way up to the beginning of the B so thank you that conclude concludes my presentation I appreciate you all for being here thank you so that means yes on 410 some of those things does yes mean no no mean yes so ours is Yes means yes and tell 10 people yes yes thank you so with that probably the real reason yall are here is for our Cult of the month um presentation with that we get all ours up here please and we're go no [Music] all right so please parents and family feel free to come forward piur and you want to meet your child over there to help out their shirts [Music] somebody move the St Connor is a great Colt he's he is quiet and gets his assignments completed and this shows responsibility he is friendly to all of the students even in the other classrooms he follows the rules to stay safe he works hard all month and earns this award by being kind safe and responsible good job little one I absolutely love being your kindergarten teacher Mrs kisley is a sweet and kind student and friend to her peers she's helpful in the classroom and on the playground she shows that she's kind safe and responsible Haisley has a heart of gold she's a motivated student and a kind human in every sense I'm so lucky that I get to learn with you and watch you grow this year I am so proud of you pleasley keep up the great work Mrs Sal Everly Everly is such a great helper with a huge heart she's a caring friend to all her classmates ever tries her best at everything and is growing so much already I'm so lucky to have her in my class this Tess congratulations Sage is absolutely a Fab is first grader she's very kind to classmates and staff every day she's always friendly and willing to help others Sage is safe with classroom supplies and school equipment because she follows rules and uses things appropriately she's responsible because she pays attention she's ready to learn and she works hard to complete her assignments correctly and on time it is a pleasure to have sage in our classroom terrific work Sage keep it up Mrs Rodriguez W Benjamin is really kind and responsible I love having him in my class and look at that smile very positive too Mrs congratulations [Applause] Benjamin Kennedy is always kind to her peers and adults she has a huge heart and is respectful she strives to be safe at all times and is becoming more responsible every day thank you Kennedy for always being a good example others Daniela is my Cult of the month nominee because she's the kindest sweetest most respectful young lady she's a very bright student who comes to school every day eager and ready to learn she likes to S front and center so she can participate and be fully engaged she helps other students if she sees they're struggling and need help she follows both school and classroom roles daily Daniela is a role model student and I enjoy being her teacher and having her in my class this is he get upia dollia helps out in any way she can around the classroom if she finishes her work early she helps other students if the class has something on the ground she cleans up the mess in every way possible during school hours dollia is looking to help out and be the best that she can be Mrs N congratulations Brighton is very kind and loving young man who shows kindness to his classmates he makes sure everyone is safe throughout the school day and shows compassion to anyone that is in need of help Ron has grown so much academically emotionally and with his confidence I'm so proud for him trying his best at all times and for being amazing at participating in all activities throughout the day way to way to go bright in Mrs HW congratulations Georgia is kind to all of her peers and to the principal to is walking and is always willing to help others each day she follows our tle and school rules without reminders she's responsible with her school work and always complet her work on time congratulations this is Lane Jacob has a wonderful work etiquette and is always on task he shows respect and responsibility by completing tasks in timely manner he is a hardworking student Jacob has shown kindness to all his classmates and teachers around him he tries to help those around him when they are in need of help congratulations Miss W I'm honored to nominate Alon for this month's Cult of the month award to recognize his outstanding display of kindness safety and respons responsibility Alden consistently goes above and beyond in contributing positivity to our classroom and school environment by regularly looking for ways to make those around him feel included and valued Alden is always mindful of creating a safe environment and diligent about following classroom and school rules he has prepared returns homework on time and is always actively participating in classroom discussions I think alden's most admirable quality is his perseverance Alden is not afraid to give wrong answers and always wants to try again I love that about him Alden I'm so proud of your hard work and I want you to know that it doesn't go unnoticed keep up the good work love Mrs Flowers congratulations Chloe you've shown responsibility and perseverance every day thank you so much for that you come to school with a big smile on your face and you're ready to get the day going if you're ever unsure of something you always make sure to check in and ask questions and if anyone in the class needs help you are there to answer their questions keep pushing yourself even when things are hard you have been an excellent example of kind safe and responsible H congratulations for Mrs M Zen is one of the kindest students in our classroom she's a hard worker she's focused and she's responsible enough to know when she needs help it is refreshing to see her commitment to becoming a better student daily sine we will aeve achieve great things this year congratulations Miss house McKenzie is an awesome Continental cult she shows this every day through the way she treats her classmates McKenzie is kind helpful and always positive everyone at Continental Can Count on McKenzie to have a smile on her face she's always is responsible in completing her coursework and asking for help when she needs it having McKenzie as part of our school and my fifth grade class is a real privilege I'm so glad to know McKenzie congratulations Mrs [Music] Adams all right is that all of our quots are we missing anyone so right now we're going to ask if they can please come back with their certificates and stand up here and then we just have two Golden Horseshoe Awards to our St [Music] also l [Music] count of three say Rock one two [Music] three and then stay right there all right so next we're going to give our Golden Horseshoe Awards and these awards are our employees of the month and they are voted on they are submitted by their colleagues out the school so the first award goes to Michelle [Music] W Michelle is a programmatic special education programmatic assistant she's also a continental parent and many of you know her know of her let's hear a little bit about what her colleagues have to say when Mrs wtha was new to our team she was eager to learn and help in any way and has continued to be helpful to all she takes initiative and always has a positive attitude she's always willing to help even with her own plate full and is always going above and beyond Mrs wtha is a great hardworking coworker always has a great and positive attitude and is extremely helpful to everyone she also wears many hats and is always so positive she will be the first to help when needed she's an awesome person to work with at Continental she started out as a volunteer here at Continental she's been the PTC president and has helped in classrooms Mrs wera is an important member of our Continental staff she's always willing to help and step in when needed she's now one of our cheer coaches and is doing a great job developing the program the students love and respect Mrs W she shows such kindness to the students that she works with and has developed an amazing bond with them she's a hard worker and always enthusiastic Mrs wtha is a true star when it comes to having a smile no matter what is going on and extending help for needed the students love her and it shows when she walks around campus it is a true blessing being able to work with Mrs wtha she's amazing when it comes to working with a variety of students her ability to adapt to the student she's working with is amazing Mrs Mrs W takes on the challenge with a smile and never back down from just W to add something you know it's your program has been around for a little while but it's been like this and getting consistency has been a challenge and since she has coming in um she's brought that where the program just grows and grows every single year and the excitement and enthusiasm which is what you want Sher Cod triy to bring that school spirit um just illuminates the school and we really appreciate what she's done there um but to me it goes a little bit further than that um she teaches the students how to do her her job or their job with a smile and have fun and the one thing that I absolutely love and adore about Michelle and she probably doesn't know this is when she's in the STA Lounge which is like a ways away you can hear her laughing out loud all the way to my office everybody knows and my job isn't always easy because I deal with discipline and just hearing that laughter just like when I hear the laughter of the kids on the playground reminds me of what I'm doing and who I'm doing it for and it's the simple things like laughing with your friends your co-workers but they don't seem like your co-workers they seem like your friends um in the staff lounge and just that having this joy that you bring to the workplace is phenomenal I really appreciate that and that's a great example to me so thank you I just want to add that when I started here at Continental Max was in a stroller and I was begging I couldn't wait for Max to start kindergarten because then I knew that Michelle would be available to come work with us thank you thank you and next up we have Mrs Martha BB Hall and your colleagues say Mrs Hof is an amazing person to work with she motivates those around her and is always there to lend a smile to those around she's a team player who contributes greatly to our school and Community Mrs Hoff can be counted on when help is needed she's a caring teacher and colleague with such a positive attitude and huge heart the loving care that Mrs Hoff has for her students is so heartwarming to see she's a p passionate teacher who will do anything to make sure that her students feel welcome she truly thinks about her colleagues students and families and is so empathetic towards everyone's needs she does little things that leave a huge mark on the hearts of us her work family and her student family we're very grateful to have Mrs and now a little bit about this this year there's been a lot of changes in our schools that any of you have noticed we've really tried to increase the amount of play time that our students have and their interactions to socialize which has been moving to reduce anxiety and one of the big programs and the research that I was looking at is the let grow play club and what that is is dedicating basically every single day after school staying here until 4:45 which we don't have any clubs that really do that um all school year not just you know Sports the coaches do it but they do it for a quarter and so I really needed two staff members to have this and that's a lot that's a lot to ask to stay for that extra two hours every single day um and when I trapped Miss H in a conference in a school van coming back from California I was listening to the book um the anxious generation on cassette because everybody fell asleep and so I was driving the van and she woke up and listened to it and just totally got clicked on it and took that enthusiasm and when she heard that I was starting it asked to be one of those sponsors and has just made an amazing fun place for the kids that's her personality um and taking on a hard job and she knew it was going to be a hard task and starting something from scratch like that can be very difficult and intimidating and she did that without even flinching done an amazing job her in the partner so thank you taking that on job really appreciate count of one two three so with that you guys are free to go but feel free to stay for the rest of the meeting which probably another hour take we that on thank you thank you congratulations [Music] all all right guys you're ready for the consent agenda moving right along item number the consent we can talk about it after we to any discussion on the consent agenda I have some I would like to welcome our new uh Executive Administrative Assistant Jenna Ross on our six here with continental and say goodbye to our beloved na I fin learn how to say your name and also hang on we have a little for you best of luck thank you and uh Christy Stowell she left she left oh she left she she did leave well anyways she was here welcoming her as taking um Jenna's place as the new account so with that uh any other discussion on the consent Mrs Le yes Mrs Amar yes Mr mg yes Mr yes and now it's time to report items District financial report we've all been waiting well over a month for this Gregory you get this every month so yeah you have waiting a month for it no remember we had to skip last week so a lot AIT long so here is our district Finance report it is updated with all the curent balances that are roll over from the previous year um one couple things I do want to talk about within the district it's not really in the report but it affects the report um if you remember back in way back in June you guys had asked me to increase the ADM to 620 and we compromised at 595 our current ADM is okay um so we are currently 11.85 N5 ADM shy of our budget mon the importance of that is we get $513 per student which equates to $ 59,4 5167 in order to not have to do a budget Revision in December and have to cut our budget we have to be within 1% of that number which would be $ 56,18499 if we gain two more students prior to the 100th day and prior more specifically prior to the December reporting we will not have to cut our budget so that is a is a plus um have we had any new students so we have we have new students um but again we have withdrawn students and then new students come in so attendance is is increased by four students from the last board report but again the enrollment so ADM if you remember that only the special needs preschool students provide ADM for the school and kindergarteners count as half and the special needs preschoolers were also half so so we would need basically two full-time students to not have to worry about having to cut the budget this summer so yes we are $3,300 short but we would still have to cut out that entire $59,000 if we do not reach that magic number of of we anticipated that to some degree we we did plan a contingency for that so here's hoping everything goes our way good news yeah you have time and hopefully with the new boundary um the new families that were identified within our boundaries we might get a few students from that if not let our but they have to be actually enrolled let's say they say hey we're in a new boundary we're going to start second semester which is a logical thing to do right and so the 100 days January 24th okay but the revision is do in December so we need them before December so see gota love those accounting because we just have new students and will started today yesterday yesterday we had a tour for three students today and more people work for one more student so and the numbers I presented you were the numbers as of last Friday so they could have changed from what was reported Monday one over there you go we could be one there we just know we just know what has come in we didn't know what was left we're not let we always so as this is an approval item you done I I am done if you I will move to second more disc Mr M yes this one is a discussion great going to update us on the the balances that used to be held in the County's Treasury office that we were all I know I personally was confused about it for years like why is it just sitting there and we can't use it okay so there's recently a letter that's gone out discussing having cash on hand at the county treasurer's office and how we have no way of using it to a point that is correct we did have over a million dollar sitting um back in August of 23 and it's my fault for not reporting on this sooner so you know please hold your flogging until later um the County the County Schools office realized they had made a mistake um so they ended up transferring $1.3 million out of that fund and into the correct fund so they had deposited the money into the wrong fund we still have the money it's just not where it was when that board member had sent out his letter and was talking about it now the cash on having cash on hand and having budget capacity are two different things okay we need to have the cash on hand so we don't have what's called a registered warrant which means we don't have the money to cover our bills okay it's like not making sure you don't get a bounce check fee in your personal accounts okay that's why you have that money sitting in there so what this override does is because the the letter was discussing how there's all this money we don't need it what the override does is it provides us budgeting capacity okay so our budget is based off of a formula and that formula does not include how much cash you have on hand at the county Treasures Office okay what the override does for us is it increases our amount that we can budget for so the current 14% override gave us $559,000 so that's an additional $559,000 we're able to spend and it has nothing to do with the cash that we have at the County treasurers office now if go can you pull this up to the Excel sheet anyway okay so I don't know what happened with the spreadsheet so the county error the County Schools office error affected like nine 10 other school districts within within P County it went all the way back to fiscal year 200 19 so the 1819 school year they had been making the same error so to give you an example um T USD they had to transfer over $126 million you know Catalina Foothills was like 3.6 Serita was 1.9 you know there were just a whole bunch of districts throughout PMA County that had to have this this transfer take place so wasn't just a a it was wasn't us that had had this it was just about every District within Pima County there were some smaller districts like Bubba that didn't have anything um the accommodation District didn't have anything but the Jad had had money that needed to be moved so it affected a lot more than just our district where did they transfer that money back to Capital and it went to Capital white because that's where we're supposed to have gone original so we were running so when we were when that board member was here and we had you know $1.3 million sitting in our ml fund we were still negative 600 Grand with 500 Grand within our um Capital dollars after fixing a couple of different errors within uh from Pima County now our Capital fund has like $2.1 million sitting in it and we're at a negative 500 Grand within our M budget here we go all right so just click down there at Morana scroll down so there's what Morana had to transfer so $4.3 million for Mirana go to the next one I think it's Flowing Wells $2 million Flowing Wells next one ampi 11.5 so it was all transferred to their Capital yes it was all transferred out of their M funds into their Capital so that's good so it's really just all a bookkeeping thing it didn't negatively or positive no no just caused more work for you to be honest it didn't even cause that much work for us because they sent us a journal entry saying hey we made a mistake we've been making this mistake since 2019 here's a journal entry to fix it so we just enter the journal entry on our side our books go back to matching their books I can certainly understand somebody question you you know barely makes any sense yeah so so but I think a big thing to remember here that a cash balance and your ability to budget are two totally different things because we're only allowed to to spend what we can budget so our our budget being 5.7 million for this school year having have if that million dollars was still sitting in cash I can't spend 6.7 I can only spend that if that helps PowerPoint be nice next time I gave you an Excel spreadsheet thank you just okay new business the second reading of the new board policy advis and this is our we didn't have any no new business so these are the policies that um as I'm sure you have reviewed they changed the language from sexual harassment to sex discrimination and it's just including that language in the policies and providing HR departments um more a formal way of dealing with staff grievances or any type of sex discrimination complaints that might occur in the school okay so those are they've just been cleaned up by way and changed a little bit in the language there's not anything new in terms of what we have to do it's just the policy some of theab [Music] change and this is an action item [Music] I'll move to approve the second reading of the board policy I'll second it any discussion Mrs Le yes Mrs Mr M Mr yes and but wait there's another policy [Music] we did a first reading a few months [Music] ago so should this be okay so so we did we did a first reading on this one a few months back uh just some some background on this the district did not have a policy in regards to um security and surveillance cameras as well as audio reporting devices um what Mr Ferguson and I had done is we've gone through other districts actually did have a policy and we took what was in their policies to create this one so these are already you know coming out of Asda approved policies it's just customized to what Continental would we we did this one mon or two there just a mistake is the use of technology so they're both second reads separate Poli so there's no so the confusion is that usually all the policies in the first read are listed underneath each other so when we do second read They're All listed under each other so they're just broken up that's why we're doing three and just to clarify a little bit further the first one is a policy advisory that came from ASG this one here is something that we put together based off policies that as yeah looks so I'll make a motion to approve the security surveillance camera Poli discussion Mrs Le Mrs Mr M Mr and the second reading of the new advisory considering on technology so this one what they did is they added the um AI use so the policy ofd addes Technologies including the use of gener generative artificial intelligence programs and or Platforms in the classroom so again it's left up to a District's discretion on as to how and when AI can be used action item again last one for the night all right I'll move to approve policy discuss this Mrs I was still looking at the screen sorry yes M Mr M Mr yes and we've got uh getting into the holiday season it's anything jump out we got the carnival coming up [Music] Friday know that was on back think no ideas so with that any uh cover board discussions anybody got anything they want to about Laura do you want to share on the county meeting that we ATT um just kind of a collaboration on how to save yourself sinking ship I mean just kind of what things putting things in perspect perspective on um most importance on your task that you're trying to conquer um to least important so just kind of knowing where things need to be put in order um good food good night good company and it was a beautiful school so we were in Bale at aronda high school very nice very tght School but one thing with asba is that they are really trying to simplify their policies and narrow them down like the trust is um because I guess a lot of districts have left asba and are going with the trust in terms of the trust policy bridge and when we had looked into it we were still under contract with asba so it wasn't going to be cost effective for us to move to the trust year right two years two years so now asba is going to um narrow down their policies and simplify them so they asked if um I would be able to help preview and do some of the the reworking of the policy so we'll wait to see when they send them to me what they look like so it'll be interesting it'll be interesting no one I'm doing them a favor they asked would you be willing help so I said okay sure cost Grand sure sure give us a discount that we'll take a quick break you know what this is about I I'll talk to you at the okay all [Music] does every District old forms so with those forms so the county is moving over to a new system and as of right now they don't even know if they will still be those forms so we ordered just one packet of those forms just in case at least there's not like black carbon paper in here I'm surprised what was it AO machine maph that smelled so good the old copier remember that [Music] no okay come on Drew am you're making copies with two rocks and a chisel all right well thank you we are adjourned and pretty much now you

we were planning on having more people here from the community but this is the audience and we're going to be a very good audience okay so thank you and I would like to have Miss bti come on up and say a few words about minut you guys didn't clap for me I [Applause] amoud round Applause [Applause] Miss thank you so much for having us here today these students are of grades they're grades six through eth they um have worked extremely hard to join the chamber orchestra that's our top Orchestra here at Continental a couple things about just the music programs here in general the programs at least the orchestra has just about tripled in size the past three years since we're starting Jaz has doubled in size since I first started and in addition to that um the Jazz Band recently last year received Superior with distinction at Festival which is the very first time we've ever receed that honor your continental and Orchestra many of these kids weren't in that Orchestra but in that Orchestra we received excellent which is a very um great score for us just in general I'm very proud of all the progress that these students have made and I'm looking forward to continuing to grow with them the next few years if you are a sixth graders so a lot of sixth graders if you are a seventh grader raise your hand and eth graders excellent so these are the students that represent our groups we're gonna go ahead and play It's called Russian music [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] of [Music] [Applause] [Music] w [Applause] Fray at the Fall Festival at the cafeteria stage from 6 to 6:15 maybe 6:30 we have quite a big set for that but that was just a little bit of a um sample for youth so if you'd like to come to that they will be performing there um that's it from them so thank you guys for being here a couple things about our music program I am Kate director here so that I don't just work with middle school I work with Kinder through fifth grade first through fifth grade have musics here on campus as well as instrumental performances and then I found out recently we are one of the you guys and but um I recently found out that we are one of the only schools in this area that still continues with fifth grade onom so the other nearby districts have gotten rid of the fifth grade band choir and orchestras and we still have that here which is something that I'm really excited about so for this school anything on them for them to just keep putting in that effort thank you for having us orra this is the CH yeah it's the biggest one here we have two others in middle school and then we have a fifth grade okay I'm just posed Yay good job thank you thank you I just wanted to make sure yes yes chamber orra so parents I don't know I know for parent advisory Rebecca we have wanted our first meeting to be here at this meeting and our board meeting but if you want to go to the safety meeting that's happening in the cafeteria that's happening right now the scho safety updated meeting that we didn't want to cancel or have to so they're in the cafeteria right now seems like we don't have other members from the community um that wanted to know more information about Continental yes so we can goad do that okay and Chris I don't want to keep you here if nobody shows up anybody has any questions does anybody have questions to clarify part of the advisory Council you probably pretty well [Music] I did my version of your that's my bill you look here look here look to the right you see a minus that's your money

e e e it is now 7:01 Tuesday October 22nd 2024 and I call this meeting of the Board of Education to order Cindy would you please call the role AR here Gonzalez Thomas present Meadows present sler present mat here hilber here all right next and because I didn't talk to anyone in advance I will lead us in the pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible liberty and justice for all you uh we on items to remove or added from the agenda we are removing item 7.7 under reports Tom are there any others to remove or ADD no there are not okay great thank you all right under celebrating success I'd like to invite the enrichment CX Coach Alex puron to the podium Alex is the proud staff sponsor of the Bulldog me media team she's here with Dennis Pon and students Hunter Mason and Micah Gilmore and today they will be sharing the highlights and information about their team awesome removed side yes thanks perfect thank you all right um hi everyone so those of you that don't know me my name is Alex Pon I am the sports information director at Pavia high school and then I also teach at Alice gusterson and HC Storm and I also coach bavia girls basketball at the high school so um we're going to talk to you a little bit today about the Bulldog media team that's kind of part of our athletic department and then I'm going to let two of our student leaders talk for a little bit about kind of what they do some of their highlights and all that um if you go to the next slide please so um a little bit about the team so we have 77 students currently involved on our team um it really kind of started up this year so to have that number already is really exciting for us we started with I think about 30 or so last year and really grew a lot more this year um there's a lot of different roles for our students on this team so first one our broadcasters and camera operators so they're really in charge of helping make sure the broadcasts runs smoothly um operating the cameras on the field up in the box and just kind of making sure everything's going right um we also have photographers and videographers so if you've seen any students at any of our sporting events they wear these shirts on the sidelines they have our passes and they take photos and videos for social media for coaches to use to be put on Twitter Instagram kind of just for everything um our Graphics too and then we have our tech crew and producers um those students help with again running the broadcast running everything kind of on the back end um social media coordinators they work with our coaches in order to run their individual social media accounts because some of our coaches are not the best with their Tech and that's okay and then we have our team graphic designers um they help with the game Day graphics that you've probably seen on Twitter final score Graphics senior night Graphics kind of all that stuff they help make those for coaches um and then we do have quite a bit of Faculty involvement and support I just want to list a couple people there so um Inc incubator 2 and Link athletic internships so those are um Dennis Pon runs both of those classes at our high school um he's kind of like our go-to in the building for our students in terms of when they need to be asking questions or getting resources he kind of houses all that in those two courses um and he just does a really nice job of organizing the students and helping them reach their potential and all of those um and then his two courses offer a unique experience where we can partner with them um in order to allow those students students to experience those different roles on our media team um then Dave Andrews is our athletic director um he really provides his support with everything we do and he thinks it's a great way for us to showcase our school's athletic programs um and also our athletes through our own students creativity um and then Dr Smith has also been really supportive of our media team as well um as it just overall continues to allow students to work on their passions and grow as Leaders um so our leaders this year are Hunter and Micah and they're going to kind of talk to you guys about what our broadcast team actually does and then some other highlights from the year so I'll let you guys talk okay yeah so first I would like to thank just everyone as citizens of bavia and part of our community for the continued support of first our broadcast team and then the actual media team which is what this kind of BR uh branched out into so we started off as a broadcast team it was probably three to four kids all seniors last year who graduated and just holding handheld mics and kind of trying to get a product out there now through that we have grown into the media team and something that produces student produced student run student organized broadcasts whether that's announcing actually producing it and getting it online or filming the games we have a giant team that can get out a really great product we were looking at the stream yesterday and we were just noticing the crystal clear quality of the camera and the audio that we're hearing and the graphics that we're putting up so it's really become kind of an all-encompassing broadcast that's getting close to like that college level or that professional sport level one that you can see I mean it's great for the community of bavia and basically I just want to highlight a few things that we do with that before we move on to highlights of the entire media team uh we do interviews during the game like halftime we do interviews after the game with our athletes and get them exposure we throw up graphics on there with stats um we put them up with things before the game of rosters and we really just do a great job covering the games and it's basically all student Le so it's a really great thing that we've done and I'm going to hand it off to Micah to kind of talk more about metrics and some other stuff with the media team thank you guys all right um so some things that we've had recently uh multiple features with huddles game of the week uh they're the company that we use their software through and it works hand inand with a lot of the uh film that the sports use so it's easy to access some of the analytics we've had uh total loads so like the amount of people that have tuned in have been around 53,000 um about our highest count was the St Charles North otavia game that reached about 6,000 people for viewership time uh our Marquee game of the week was the St Charles North otavia game that was fun to do and partner with them so we'd like to thank them for that and we broadcast a lot of different sports some of the sports I've done that I've helped broadcast were girls volleyball and girls golf along with the football games we've done soccer and in the past we've done basketball and all the spring Sports so yeah some other stuff we do we integrate a lot with social media so we like to bring social media presence and promote the product through social media uh we have a lot of people who are interested in photography due to the classes at Pavia high school with that also being said the video production helps us find camera operators for the football games uh we collaborate with batv this Friday I'll be on the broadcast for batv so that's something that we're excited for being able to collaborate with a great organization like they are um we're doing Outreach to help senior citizens with these flyers that we passed around to the board uh it's helped try and promote and make it easier for senior citizens who aren't as Tech abled as we are and then the uh the distance Madness success uh Hunter can tell you more about that but it was a lot of success with uh track and we got a lot of viewership with that so I'll hand it back over to Hunter yeah just really quick talking about that one uh we actually got our highest broadcast ever on the distance Madness event it's a cross country event um I think there's just schools from all over the state of Illinois that come to our Fieldhouse and they run and it's one of the biggest events if not the biggest for track indoor in Illinois and I think we ended up getting 5,400 6,000 view viewers on that um which is pretty much onard of for what we were doing for our track broadcast at the time that was a really big achievement for us and I think we're going to hand it back to Alex now and kind of wrap things up awesome thanks guys um so I'll just kind of wrap this up here but overall we feel there's so many benefits for students with this program um obviously the power of creative skills within Athletics but it also goes beyond that this can be applied to real real world experiences and um kind of lots of and things like that um Mr Kim is featured up in our board here so um collaboration and teamwork these students are not only working with each other but they're getting to work with admin and our building teachers and we think that's really awesome for them um storytelling Mastery they're getting to tell story through their preferred methods so whether it's photography videography writing they get to do what they're good at and tell that story um we obviously see this as a career pathway sports management Sports media it's exploding right now so this is a really cool start for kids that are interested in that and then obviously building confidence U Micah got the interview of Mr Kim over here which is a pretty rare experience for high school kids so um lots of opportunities to be lead leaders and build confidence and then just lastly just kind of some of our goals for the future um obviously we want to continually improve quality and instruction for our creators um and then we want that increased exposure for not only the student creators but also our athletes it provides them with more opportunity for Collegiate athlete experiences and things like that um and then opportunities for students who are interested in this career in either sports management broadcasting Media or digital marketing we want them to have those experiences here so they can leave with that and carry that with them into college um and then lastly we see this as a potential to maybe even build into a Hands-On academic program at matavia high school um so on our last slide here there is a QR code this is the link to our huddle page so if you have not caught a broadcast yet please check out our games on there um you can watch old ones or if you're interested in seeing them do anything live you can email me or coach Pon and we can definitely get that set up or if you just want to meet with them and talk um anything like that we can definitely get set up so thank you guys thank you very much anyone have any comments or questions for them at all give you guys right amazing thank you very much it's a nice to see something and this is something we're going to kind of continue with the celebrating success and I really love the fact that it's something I didn't know much about so thank you for bring it to us great job guys all right next um we have a um approval of student ambassadors to office so uh I'd like to thank Danielle and uh Aon kilberg and Joanne Smith for taking the time to meet with the students who applied uh for this role I know both of our board members expressed how difficult this process was because every student interviewed uh presented a really amazing reason and highly qualified to participate in the program on behalf of the administration the board Representatives I am presenting Grace Nelson and Ka olberg as your new additions to the board ambassador program we get to do the fun Reading part in a minute so get to that so I will entertain a motion to approve the addition of Grace Nelson and Ka overberg to the office of student ambassadors so moved don't let Danielle say so moved second somebody somebody second second Rob couldn't hear all right Rob will do it oh she said it too yeah everybody said it everybody's excited for it so uh motion by Danielle second by Rob cdy please lead us in a roll call vote Gonzalez Thomas yes Meadows yes sliger yes arand yes mat yes yes thank you very much all right can I have Grace Nelson and K olberg approach the podium please all right so um we will have each of you take the oath of office and there's a copy that was given to you so you don't have to you didn't have to memorize the whole thing um Grace and Ka you can say that together so you don't have to go through it individually so if you'd like to start go right ahead I Grace Nelson who irm that I will Faithfully discharge the duties of student ambassador for the Board of Education ofia Community Unit School District 101 in I further affirm that I shall encourage and respect the free expression of opinion by myself and board members and others who seek a hearing before the board well welcome Grace and Ka [Applause] congratulations thank you for volunteering for this position as well uh we're excited to have you join Sara and d and when they present during public comments thank you very much be a full Podium tonight isn't it all right welcome to the meeting of the Board of Education if anyone wishes to address the board this evening please see our recording secretary to submit a form for addressing the board please put your full name and address on the form do we have any for tonight yes we do okay in general the board will not answer questions or engage in dialogue during public comment this does not mean that we do not take your concerns or comments seriously the board values active Community participation in the district's Endeavors and encourages people to engage with the district using appropriate channels and systems designed with your input in mind board members are not involved in the day-to-day operations of the district and cannot engage in business individually if you have specific questions or would like to further Engage The District you may submit your questions using the link on the website and the appropriate staff member will communicate with you our BPS 101 Communications manager Holly dman will now explain the procedures for public comment and call up our speakers thank you president Meadows speakers will be called up in order of form submission we do have three submissions this evening the first form received is the first person invited to speak when your name is called please come to the podium so that you can be heard all individuals speaking will be limited to three minutes the three minute timer will be projected onto the screen and once and will start once you're settled at the podium at any time during this meeting written comments may be submitted to our recording secretary Cindy Rodriguez at my right speakers should conduct themselves with Civility and respect towards others our first speaker is Agnes s neck good evening I have been working in bavia high school uh lunchroom employed by quest uh the previous Food Service uh provider uh for the last eight years until July when I moved to St Charles because I just had the bad feeling about the new company that was coming to bavia organic life now that the school year start has started I realized that I was correct to be concerned the prior two years I've been working at the coffee bar at the bavia high school the coffee bar was always busy and boy's kids laughed their milkshakes now you might think this think morning coffee was the most important thing about the coffee bar but in fact the most important was the connection to the special education program we helped special needs students gain work experience and essential skills the students would make drinks and milkshakes and take orders from the customers they loved working at the coffee bar this this helped them Gain real word experience for from for when they graduate and need to get a job in our community before I left bavia High School in May the manager of organic life Joe Joe arvia has assured me that they would be keeping the coffee bar available so the students in bavia special education program could continue to learn ensal skills this was also even said in front of the Pavia High School administration Josh Bullock however it has come to my attention that this program is no longer happening starting in August the coffeee bar size was altered to be so small that the students cannot even come in to help in fact the coffee bar is completely closed as of right now and not running uh I would like to ask bavia High School to make sure this program is back and running after all these students will likely become future employees in our comp community in fact they are I've been seeing them and working in jeel and and various other places another so that's the one thing I wanted to talk about was U for two years I was working with these kids and they did such a great job um another thing I was I have to hurry up another thing I would like to make you aware of organic life let go a vital employee to bavia high school Valerie also Alon had worked at bavia high school as a lanal manager for more than 30 years she worked worked for many food service providers throughout her career in bavia high school however last week Val was let go now let me tell you more about Val she is one of the hardest working employee I have ever known she was always at bavia high school from 6:00 in the morning mind you this job requires to be on your legs all the time from unloading delivery in the freezer to working around the hot oven stoves she did it she was an essential employee during Co and made sure our community was well fed thank you that's the end of your time our next speaker is Donna Johnston um this is my first time to attend a meeting so I was totally unaware of how the procedure especially the time limit uh and I'm not comfortable addressing groups but it came to my attention that a book uh was being uh taught I believe uh in the sophomore literature class called The Good Mother I believe is the name of this book and I expected many people to be speaking so I'm going to be clearly the least prepared but this book is incredibly are any of you familiar with it are there any parents here of of I was going to read an excerpt from this book but it is so beyond the pale of of perverted pornographic sexually explicit minimizes the content of this book and this is being taught to our 16-year-olds and uh the teacher defended it saying I wanted them to see a different world view and see motherhood from the perspective of China which I found unusual do we not have so many examples of our own American mothers that have been uh you know stalard examples or other uh mothers in literature whether it's uh from The Good Earth or Grapes of Wrath you know the mother and grandmother aren't even named it's just Ma and Grandma and yet they were the matriarchs they were the strength that got them through that horrific time this book not only does it does it send this message of perverted sexual content but it also um demeans our boys it this the one of the characters and again the excert is so horrific that I came prepared to read it but if I'm the only one speaking on this book then I feel like I can't but how does that make our young men it isn't just what it does to our young girls again these are 16-year-olds and um I would encourage and and strongly ask the board to look into this book to uh uh question the teacher what her thought process was why did she feel that our girls or our young men need to see motherhood from the perspective of China China of all places with their one child um policy that they had for over 40 years where millions of uh female babies were U thrown in the river and tossed in the trash and um this one alarming statistic that they estimate 191 million people have died in the 19th century from global conflict and that equals the number of female babies that have died from infanticide because of sex chosen abortions 191 million um so this why China and to call it the good mother it had nothing to do with motherhood as we know it and as we support it and embrace it so um this is clearly I mean we have 73% of people advocating for school choice this is a good reason thank you so much our final speaker is Andrew worth good evening president meow members I wasn't planning to speak today today either I appreciate where you're coming from here um I'm sure most of you are aware by now that there was a hold at the middle school because there was a security incident today you mentioned that you don't address questions and you won't respond I appreciate that especially in light of the fact that 20 seconds are gone already just a little bit of food for thoughts and things to think about as we're going forward um I I was told that if you have any additional information regarding the matter have any question questions or concerns please feel free to contact the RMS school office at that's the end of the email there's no phone number now I know where the phone number is so it's not really that big of a deal what is a big deal is it's attention to detail and it's facts and it's giving people notice some questions that I have we were said when I came in and spoke with you this afternoon that there's an abundance of caution that needs to be undertaken in these circumstances um as I understand it a a spent shell casing was found in one of the classrooms what would I would like to know and we'll address in writing further is what time was RMS placed on a hold status who chose to do that how and when were students faculty and staff made aware of the hold status and by whom for students that were say like in the cafeteria today when the hold was initiated what were they told who told them and when were they told what's the district policy for notification of students and parents when any action is taken pursuant to the EOP quick guide making reference to there's probably one somewhere in this building it's it's just a little guide that tells you in an emergency you can either have a hold secure lock down evacuate shelter most people are familiar with something like that in some context um the districts being on the website one of the things that it mentions is a hold and it says students are to clear the hallways and remain in the room or area that they're in until an all clear is announced I'd like to know when the all clear was sounded what what time that was at who lifted it I'd like to know if anyone was allowed in or out of the school or in out of the room or area that they were in while the hold was still in effect if so who and who gave the Authority or permission to do that it seems like if there's a policy we should follow it if it's safe for people to move around the school then we don't need the hold if it's not safe and the hold is in place people shouldn't be moving around the school also I shouldn't find out from my student in a text about this over half an hour before the district or the school lets me know what's going on the bavia police department was worse thank you Mr thank you that's the end of our public thank you Andrew Agnes and Donna for coming today all right next is our BPS Partners Bea Drew Ray how you doing today Drew good how are you good thank you um it's abundantly clear that there's an action-packed agenda for tonight's meeting so I'm going to try to be brief with my comments um so very exciting I voted today uh on my lunch break uh I went with my wife and we brought our daughter Leona and the uh the kind lady that hands out the ballots she gave Leona two I voted early stickers which completely made Leona's day um it was a lot of fun so uh if you'll bear with me I'd like to geek out um for a moment it's probably the social studies teacher in me but I still get butterflies in my stomach when I go to vote and I was thinking about that as I was standing in line today um I'm always an OD that you know I'm able to take part in that Democratic process and to know that there's other parts of the world where that is uh you know that right that privilege is is not afforded to some people um so you know again it's something I take very seriously and voting always makes me think of my favorite part of the US Constitution the Preamble and if you thought uh or wondering if I was going to read it to you yes I'm going to read you the Preamble of the Constitution it says we the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union establish justice ensure domestic tranquility provide for the common defense promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America a more perfect union that is a magical phrase to me I look at that concept of a more perfect union as something to strive towards and the institution of voting uh is accepting that challenge it's a challenge to all of us that no matter what no matter our differences it is all of our duty to constantly try and do better unless we forget that our constitution was born out of compromise if you know your history of the Constitutional Convention they clearly missed the mark on some things but this great experiment might have never come into exist we're not for that compromise and maybe that's something as a school district that we can take away from the birth of our large Republic we're kind of going after the same thing right we the people of bavia public schools in order to make a more perfect District a lot of the founding still applies common goals balancing the diversity of opinions and interests compromising collaborating musings of a social studies teacher on a Tuesday night indeed but a more perfect district is something that I think that we're all working towards and speaking of democracy on November 13th the Illinois Education Association Along with labor unions from across the state will head to Springfield to Lobby state legislators in order to undo the tier 2 retirement system in a nutshell the tier 2 system means that Educators firefighters nurses and other public employees that started their careers after January 1st 2011 have to work until the age of 67 to retire with full benefits our peers hired prior to the state receive their full benefits if they work until age 55 with 35 years of service if if you are tier two there is also a drastic difference in the salary your retirement income will be based upon and on the cost of living adjustments your pet uh pension earns postretirement this model is not sustainable and it hurts public education as a district I think we're incredibly ahead of the curve in our collective bargaining agreement in terms of our approach to supporting tier 2 Educators however this system is causing many to switch careers or choose not to begin a career in education in the first place so I would encourage anyone regardless of age regardless of profession to go to fix tier 2.com that's the number two fixer 2.com to learn more and find ways to take action thank you for giving me the time to speak tonight uh happy belated band books week go vote go Bulldogs solidarity forever with our brothers and sisters and besta good night and good luck that's true all right I'm actually GNA introduce Kevin who I think is going to introduce somebody else today so yes you are correct I will speak only briefly and then I get to introduce um someone who's been a great uh help in her short time as as best's Treasurer which has been about six months now um but has been a tremendous help uh personally to me because I'm one of those well they refer to them as a senior citizen who's not very Tech Advanced I prefer the term ex uh seasoned uh citizens but in any case uh she works at Rola Middle School where she is a great benefit to all of us there her name is uh someone well Jillian thored but she's our treasur at best bun someone I think and I hope you'll be hearing a lot more from uh in the future but please I'm going to introduce her let her tell you a bit about herself her family and then we'll wrap up our comments from besta for tonight Jillian hello um my name is Jillian as he said thorud um I am the treasurer of basa I also work at Rolo Middle School I'm the operations secretary there so I do everything MoneyWise which fits me well for Treasure um and then I also take care of Athletics at the middle school I am there with a excellent sta of Staff of people campus monitors I have an excellent three secretaries that I work with hand in hand I could not ask for a more awesome group there um along with administrators I've lived in matavia for 5 years now um I currently live with my husband and my two boys um actually one isn't home anymore um they both attended uh Grace MCW they attended my youngest attended Grace McBain my two boys were attended Rolo Middle School not when I was there um and then they both uh attended bavia High School my oldest Ben is currently going to Bradley University where my husband and I have met no coincidence there he actually chose to go there on his own um and he is uh studying electrical engineering my husband and I have been married for 20 years um he is best known I guess for his um demolition he is currently working on the Sears building if you're familiar in Hoffman Estates um he is the Chief Operating Officer for American demolition so he kind of does a lot he's a great resource for me um I have a younger son Tyler who is currently at the high school as a sophomore he is in tennis he is in the new e sports program which he is loving and he is also in chess so he is very busy also in the district um I currently actually hold a um teaching degree I actually went to Bradley for my elementary education taught middle school for three years um decided to take a step back let my husband's career go and I decided to take care of my boys so I did that for about 12 years ran my own inhome daycare after that when I wanted to get back into the field I actually worked for Target as HR so I have quite a variety of things in my pocket um that I look forward to Bringing towards this board and working with everyone um a couple things couple Hobbies I like to add in um I love to travel um we have a um camper up in the if you're familiar with delil Lake Area Wisconsin uh we go up there we go hiking we go fishing we go boating I love I'm a huge Disney fan if you ever see me I love everything Disney so you'll see all that um and then so I really look forward to working with this team here with administr ation with the board and with obviously um Bea as a partnership um so I just want to take a few minutes to introduce myself and it is an honor to meet all of you also so thank you thank you all right uh next is the new quartet of Sarah darit Grace and Ka there we go now we now we're up um so hi everyone we're the student ambassadors I'll reintroduce myself I'm Zora I'm jarit I'm Ka and I'm Grace and I want to say a huge congrats to you guys I know me and dar had a great time being student ambassadors and I know you guys will too um but we've had a a big week this week so a lot has happened um dance and football actually had their senior nights and it's actually so cool to see if you were there last Friday they all bring their baby photos so I think this is such a cute tradition you kind of see how they've grown up uh so that was super cool Friday exciting night and then we've also had some great wins with tennis they actually won their sectional championships and we have some athletes going to state so great work with them um oh um also the girls cross country won their Duane Championship or sorry not Championship Duane conference and the middle school girls their season just ended the middle school girls got sixth in state and the boys got eighth in state which is pretty incredible um and soccer and volleyball also both had their senior nights and they played really well and then some things that happened last week was best buddy had a Halloween party where they had a pumpkin painting contest um and from the looks of it it looks like they had lots of fun with a lot of artistic paintings so um yeah and then there was also open circle that hosted a ice cream social and I attended and it was super fun it honestly was just a big hangout with food ice cream and music so yeah that was really fun um also highlight there's a lot of Honor societies that are starting up their events so seniors are definitely getting involved with extracurriculars a highlight to specific event women in stem actually partnered up with uh science National Honor Society and they brought in guest speakers I was lucky enough to attend this event they brought in like two Engineers they talked about their experience working their education how they got there so it was def we're lucky to hear about their experiences and we learned a lot from that so it was a great event all right the musical this year is called songs for New World by Jason Robert Brown and basically the concept of it is it's talking about how the choices that you make can affect the world that you're in um I'm in the musical so that's one reason you should come see it um it's pretty cool there's two casts of characters um and and sorry there's um all of the songs that are in it deal with lots of different ways that people can cope with issues like isolation versus connection hope versus despair um resilience and perseverance change and transformation and whatever and the goal of the musical is to have the audience in the actors reflect on their lives and see how the choices that they can make in the future and in the past have affect Ed their paths and yeah where they're going and then music has been super big right now so we have five choirs four orchestras and four bands along with a lot of extracurriculars and in the past week they've all had concerts so big shout out to them and then bavia marching band their season just ended and tomorrow is the banquet but they were they had their most successful season so first at every single competition and then at ISU they got second in their class and 13th in state so it's a pretty big win and then we've won General effect at three of those competitions and best percussion all right and that's all we have for you guys thank you so much thank you good first start all right uh board liaison reports any committee reports soe do you have one start at your end sure um the beefy uh met last month and we're meeting again next on Thursday so um the Hall of Honor nominations are now open so there's anyone nominate you can get that in davia foundation.org um they added up all the years of teaching amongst the board members and it came to 2 23 years so our board consists of 223 years teaching thought that was interesting um the we are working on a beefy funded scholarship so not only the other scholarships we have but the bavia foundation is actually going to be having its own scholarship going forward next year um and that'll be starting in January um we haven't finalized any of the details that'll come Thursday we're working on that but we've come up with the idea so we are very close to our $1 million goal of when the organization started out say it was 196 something about right yeah um I think everybody had an idea of raising a million dollars and kind of living off the endowment at that point you know that doesn't mean you're never going to fund raise but that was kind of just the Pioneer Sky goal and we were very close to doing that at this point um some good news um I think Dennis was here earlier be beefy X is kind of a bank in some sorts we hold money for some organizations around the schools um chip in uh the robotics you know we just kind of funnel we hold money it's kind of a part of being a 501c3 charity um but Dennis's incubator organization recently got a grant from the Dunham foundation so he's been doing some work in his room there at the high school um and I believe Dominic got some money yes yes okay I didn't know if I could talk about it yet or not um $9,000 Com Ed Grant um for impr the Fine Arts so maybe when you talk you might want to mention something about that um on March 22nd of next year we will be having our scholar or scavenger hunt so we still will be fundraising but going on with that um so that's about it but lots of new things coming up right thanks you rob do you want to take R from Capital so yeah I mean I think top that million dollars I won't be able to talk that but uh but I think Mark and Tony are going to give like these awesome presentations they're just going to spend money Capital project plan updates and enrollment projections and forecast so uh I won't steal their Thunder that's that's coming up here later in the meeting okay so um plaque they met in uh September the October meeting got cancelled so just kind of went re introductions to everybody um they updated some of the language um they talked about their Retreat that they had um talked about the AI learning survey updated their plaque web page um talked about the Institute days and the results surveys that were back from the very first Institute day um and that was really about it for the policy meeting um we went over a lot of policies they're in tonight's agenda so I'm just going to touch on some of the ones um the 2.26 5 which is a big one that's just the title change for the most part 2.40 which is about board member They just added Infamous crimes to our board member qualifications in case anyone was going to run again or someone's going to run um yeah uh 2.27 that's a brand new policy so you might want to read that um 5.1 was just rewrote mandatory trainings to funnel them into eight different areas uh 4.8 they raised the max balance to the revolving front from $500 to $1,000 sue you know it's not a million but there you go um 5.1 5.2 7.1 2.27 2.65 is a lot of this the wordings changed um 7.20 updated Pages 1 14 and five to go with 2.65 is wording uh 7.1 page uh that's about our vaccinations and ours was more of a homegrown policy uh and now we're using the Press version of the date um of when they should have vaccinations submitted and it's only vaccinations we also discussed that we will review procedures and Exhibits that are not press uh but that are homegrown uh procedures and Exhibits will review them as a board great thank you a lot of work huh yeah was a lot yeah a lot of work thank you um Aon is off on a work event so you covered the policy portion for him so RJ anything to add no no um the Insurance isn't going to meet until next month okay wait no no no I mean last last meeting we we um approved the changes to the insurance policy so the message went out to the faculty about that um right after that so nothing since then okay thank you any um I did not I wasn't able to attend Equity or oh my gosh I want to say plaque that's what I was on last year CAC thank you um so I don't know if you would want to present anything is there anything that you feel is important um for equity and Brad sorry to put you guys on the spot but I don't know if there's anything outside of what we'll cover in the agenda that you feel is important for the board I just feel like since I wasn't there I don't really I don't the update sure um for the equity committee I'd say that um we were able to have a a really deep dive discussion about how we wanted with a new strategic plan move our committee uh committee's focus and work for the district and how we want also support our other existing standing committees such as plaque rack and CAC um student services team and take a look at what the roles are with the equity committee there one of the things that and Drew if I if I I'm trying to capture everything you and I have time on with the committee but one of the things that we also shared was uh how do we C capture the momentum on Gathering the student voices that we did in the spring that that work we did there and keep moving that forward and build on that so I think you know we've been doing that now you know we talked a little bit about panorama survey as an example of how we're we're trying to expand the reach of getting our students voices into the front part of our work as a district and so um we're going to continue these conversations we gave an update to our district coordinating Council which is the DCC our new committee that was formed after the last uh baa contract was agreed upon um in 2023 and so um gave that update there Dre and I are co-chairing of the equity committee and we're going to bring that Equity committee back together and get some updates and keep that that working conversation moving forward so that's Equity Committee in terms of the curriculum assessment advisory Council CAC um we had a dayong meeting which sounds painful but it actually was great um we had really honest Frank great conversation around improving our team uh we want to function at our best so we had discussion around what we can do to improve our team and then there's a couple of agenda items that the board will see um tonight that were recommended to Mr Kim and then on the agenda okay thank you I don't have anything further to add so we shall move on to consent agenda according to our board policy we designate a portion of the agenda as a consent agenda for those items that usually do not require extensive discussion board to action the items are generally teen recurring and can be grouped together for efficiency Steve would you like to share anything before we take action it's really kind of a choice voice if you want I'm going to I'm going to share the agenda or the uh Report with you all right 6.1 6.2 is the approval of the September 17 2023 regular and Clos session meeting minutes 6.3 is the uh Personnel report uh 6.4 is the uh approval of our monthly payrolling bills 6.5 is the destruction of our closed session recordings from March 21st to3 uh 6.6 are is the acceptance of two donations we're uh thankful and grateful to the uh Hendrickson fund of CER County and Naples Florida as well as Hansen Chiropractic for their generous uh donations 6.7 is the review of our close session minutes 6.8 is the authorization or authorize the application for the fiscal year 25 School maintenance project Grant 6.9 is the approval of um BHS overnight field trips there are a total of three of them I believe 6.10 is the authorization of a disposal of surplus property 6.11 is the special education contracts and 6.12 is the approval of our consent agenda anyone have any questions or comments all right I will entertain a motion to approve of all items in the consent agenda as presented so move by Sue second by RJ s would you leave us please lead us in a roll call Vote Yes yes yes meows yes yes Thomas yes thank you reports Tom is there anything to share this evening under reports or would you'd like to share the things under report sure I'll be handling fo requests those have been presented to the board um six were granted one was denied this this time around all right Tony treasur report nothing out of the ordinary to report uh there's a brief Narrative of what's contained the actual attached files thank you Capital project plan Mark no did I skip oneart it's the bavia Fine Arts Center yeah Dominic I'm sorry wellding back there my glasses you wanted to keep me really short is what it was um yes uh any other questions you have after the meeting I'm I'm happy to answer but I'm delighted to stand here and let you know a little bit more about what is happening at the Fine Arts Center uh in the past uh and coming up here in the future we have a robust internship program which is uh so it's a it's it's a finite amount of time because we aim to get these students off of the internship program and hired uh we want to be one of the first places that they work especially in the Arts and we have everything from uh behind uh behind the scenes to uh hospitality and front of house positions whenever we're doing something there are students involved with it some exciting things that we also have partnering with people around the country and into our schools is uh we have next slide please we have so we have B twins coming which they've been there in the past and these two gentlemen grew up in Brazil uh as they quote call it the slums of Brazil where their father taught them how to create make and use string instruments which has become their life every fifth grader in our district will come for free at a assembly to see that not only that during the day our video production class will sit in our new control room and stream out the event to any other classrooms that want to watch it live during the day not only that I have more for you that evening the students have the opportunity to come back to an evening show for free with their entire family of up to six because some of us have large families uh that is all paid for by the generosity of the Dunham fund and ComEd powering the Arts uh so that is one of our great arts in Ed initiatives this year we have a second one coming up next month and that is uh take three and we will have all of our string players in the middle school and the high school attend a completely free workshop and again in the evening all of those students and up to five other people in their family can come to the evening performance absolutely free of charge by the uh exact same Grant so as you can see we we bring in some national tours to provide an experience for our students every single one of them is uh is run by and students work on you see Paul Riser there the spotlight was operated by students uh spotlights a little heavy so they rotated they rotated on and off who was spotting him uh Jane Lynch is pictured there she came in and did a great presentation to and with our students and then all of those other ones we have work from students happening there so let's talk a little bit about tickets you know how how many people come through the Fine Arts Center this is a general graph bonus points to anyone who picks out Co in there um uh we you can see though the general trajectory is going up this is only for tickets sold we don't have data on actual people who come to general admission and non-ticketed things but we do see the impact we're having even larger because of our new streaming services as well how are rentals doing rentals are another way that our students get involved because each of the rentals students who have either gone through the internship are working there and getting paid there because we want them off that internship within 7 to 14 months or their training and learning life skills during that rental and emergency procedures and how do we open a building and how do we work with clients and they are the ones who are doing those things this just shows you that General trajectory is the same as the previous slides General trajectory so let's talk about how much uh some things cost there this is over the past uh eight years the toal total expenses were that five my eyes are bad here 5.1 approximately million the revenue being approximately 4.8 in that time period which means the total cost over8 years was $290,000 when it should have been $1.2 million because it costs approximately $150,000 each year on average amateu ised out so as you go up it gets a little bit more but uh on average each year just for our district events that's solely the district events that are here so all of those other things I previously talked to you about are helping pay for all of that so instead of 1.2 it's 290 now let's let's see what else we do because we're not busy enough what we have is we are working on conference rooms around here we uh we designed and implemented the camera and streaming system in here and that's the control room that I previously mentioned and let's let's go to the next slide and just see a little bit if you can play that video this is a combination for you of how we offer things this was our heart byhe heart national tour this has the original drummer from the band har and the original basist from heart these if you'll remember a couple years ago are the cameras that were purchased to create our control room and a system for our students you can see the basist right there and then shortly you're going to see the drummer they are using this video now themselves in their promotional material and it was live streamed out and it's available for on demand purchase if anyone would like to do such a thing but here's the greatest part about all of this this is is not done by anyone but these people that you're seeing right here we have our series of interns that are working and learning on professional grade equipment that is in CBS Studios itself in California and that is their product that is on their resume and that is something that they will forever get to say that they have worked on um so I think that's pretty incredible for them to be able to do that and that is that's a little bit about what we're doing uh thank [Laughter] you Dominic thank you anybody have any questions for Dominic if you want to ask him now okay thanks Dominic amazing Mark should have gone up [Laughter] beforehand it works I guess oh look at H's right on it thank you so the first thing uh we're going to talk about for this report is what we did last fiscal year and this was done over the winter um I already brought this to you as far as an action item to get the weight room floor at the high school replac so this is one before picture and this is what it looks like now um it was a huge Improvement um it's been used used obviously since about middle middle of January so far um and again I think the numbers continue to go up every time I go in there and even when I was trying to take you know today's type of shots um I had to wait because there was like you know 75 to 100 kids in there so it's very hard to take lots of pictures so hly if you want to keep going through here you'll just see when I brought this you notice the bubbling in the floor I mean I can remember at least four or five times those were tried to you know fix with different contractors inhouse um and if you continue you know that's what a weight room floor should look like so I think there's one more in here Holly just so you can andness see obviously it was um that product was different so that was in larger squares this is what we call a roll rolled product so it's in large sheets basically large rolls that's why it's called A World product um then the next one on here is from this past summer so the project it's in um was kind of well three different projects all together though there was the Fieldhouse exterior the pavi art Fine Art Center exterior and then the Fieldhouse interior and this is well hopefully you know this is a before picture then I tried to capture as best as I could what it now looks like today so again you can kind of just go through these hle um gutters all the gutters were replaced um and as you can see in here everything was painted um cracks were sealed um basically just taking care of that shell um this is also a picture of this would be the north side with the leaking yters that's not leaks obviously the concrete needs to be cleaned right there but um then we're on to the fire Art Center um this first one if I I just made you aware of this fine art center with a couple pictures but it's really hard to see when the tuck pointing is is done and the ceiling is done um if you go to the next picture um it is in there um and then the next one will be um a little easier most of you if you sit in the stadium at all and depending on what timeing if you look at that shot that's what it looked like before and this is what it looks like now um that's very important that's 45 ft wall um and I know I've May said this well I presented this at Rack so I know I said it rack but there was Daylight up towards the top of that inside um so that has been fixed um and Dominic even mentioned he knew exactly when was fixed because you could tell the sound was different and I believe it was one of the days that the band was practicing outside you could really tell the difference with that um then some interior looks at this so This was done the flooring was completely redone uh the mats painted and new lights so before and after and then this one you can kind of see the new lights as well um this is just a closer up of the um in surface so basketball volleyball plays on that um so that is what the new one looks like these are just some more pictures of before and afters and so far um this is what we're not even two months into it that was a picture of the mat that's the new mats um a lot of the biggest difference I know people have said to me is they can feel the difference like well I just talked to one of the uh PE teachers about on walking on it like by the end of the day it just feels much different and that's just you know obviously the quality of floor um the next thing for coming up so this is is um what's going to come in this fiscal year um some of it is going to be started quickly um and this would be one of them so the tennis courts so these are four pictures of what it looks like currently this is just kind of an overview of it and the major part of here is the cracking that's happening and you can see in some of these pictures um this was last done in 2016 and these have gotten I mean this is today's pictures but I would say over the past probably three years it's gotten significantly worse so the goal is is by hopefully spring season um this will look much different the other the next picture or the next ones are so I'm going to talk a little bit more about HC Storm so HC Storm this project is part of um really kind of the one of the first major projects of Warren safe dry and this is what the current layout looks like and I know might be a little difficult to see but I'll start on the right hand side which is staying the same so that's where the gymnasium is and then right below that kind of where the half circle is that's the entry way as you walk in so you notice there you just walk into basically an Atrium that leads directly into the cafeteria or into what is a kindergarten room in a music room and then you would have to walk walk straight into the office so if you kind of I'll leave it on there for a little bit Holly if you look the other part is if you go kind of the bottom part if anybody's a little closer can see I think it should say b0 B1 and B2 those classrooms are getting renovated and those three rooms are going to turn into two kindergarten rooms and the plan for that is to get ready for full day Kinder Garden which I believe is fall of 27 for the state that you have to have it right 7 um the other piece what's going to happen here and is if you go to the next slide this is what it's going to become and now this is just a floor plan um you notice when you walk in there's two different points so though you're going to walk into a vestibule and then you have to go directly in the office so the office area is what's currently now the music room so that's going to be an office um and the nurse's office will be in that space and then you check in the office and then you either then you can go into the next room and then or the next vestibule and then if you needed to go to a classroom or something then that way you would basically be buzzed into those so all the doors are on a system where you have to you know release door One release door two release door three for you to that's just the security measures that are in place so now that we're we're taking that office area then the old office area is going to become a music room and a sensory otpt type room some other upgrades that's going to happen I talked before is the lower kind of middle here is going to be two kindergarten classrooms and both those classrooms will have bathrooms within the classroom some of the other upgrades that will happen that it's really kind of difficult to show on here but there will be a new roof all new exterior doors and windows also um what we call rooftop units so HVAC related heating ventilation and air conditioning that serve the entire school all of the pods the schools and pods so a rooftop unit will feed each one of the pods so there's four of them and those will all be replaced um other areas that will be done is some upgrades in for um Health Life Safety one of them in the very top you can kind of see it's like the top middle it's that will because of the type of building this is it has to have um fire rated walls so those walls will be updated in here the other piece you can kind of see in the upper leftand corner there looks like there's a little new doorway and that's also Health Life Safety related and that just there a doorway has to be put there for means of eress so as I said before this is kind of starting the fiscal year how it works in the summer is June 30th is the end of this fiscal year July 1 starts the next most of you know as far as well the work's going to get done this summer but most of like the payment of this work really comes next fiscal year so that's why you have to kind of go in between two fiscal years this is the first project so really by the end of this summer will be about 20% done with warm safe dry and that's something the board voted on in Winter of 2023 the next Project's laid out um after this so and really when I go back and look all these pictures I'm you know when I'm kind of doing projects and working I'm working in the summer of 25 and the summer of 26 already so it's good to go back and see him but in the summer of 26 this same project will be done at Louise White also with that is um back at storm and that summer will be some sight improvements done at storm cuz storm is our only um actually our only school that has one way in and one way out as far as um entrance as exit from there so that will change you'll hear more about that in a little while or not a little while next next time I'm up here in October of next year well probably not the next time I'm here because I'll be back next month to get approval on this because uh the bids will um go out for this project um for the storm project and the plan is if everything goes well I will bring this back next month for approval for um the actual contract work on this the other projects that are in the future I'm have a lot to do with um well there's some to do with health Life Safety but a lot to do with um HVAC there's parking lots um sewing will be a big one at the high school some renovation done um seawing and then um but more to come with that the other piece with warm safe dry is there was projects that were identified and really it's essential projects that had to be done U what I'm working towards besides a warm safe dry is what I like to call the capital Improvement type projects so the projects that you know not that these don't improve learning um but it's really the ones that you know kind of as I put like nice to have but also what we need to kind of get towards and move our district in that direction so these should be done in about 2029 2030 but um we really should be kind of thinking about that next step as well thank you any questions thanks Mark thank you uh next is Tony for enrollment projections thank you so our enrollment projections um are the basis for our five-year Financial forecast of course we need to have an idea of how many students that we can expect and so we do them each year when we update our fiveyear financial forast Holly if you wouldn't mind clicking on that link there and taking us to the enrollment projection we're going to take a look at this I'll run through of the Salient details here um if you would scroll down just a bit you'll see a green graph with bars on it this is our historical and projected enrollment for the next uh for the last five years the current year and then the next five years the bars that are kind of faded are the ones that we're projecting the enrollment in the district has been downward for about the last 10 to 11 years maybe 12 I don't remember exactly which at our Peak ter of enrollment we were at 6,300 students that we served we're right now at 5,247 and that is exactly one less than last year however last year when I shared this forecast with you we anticipated something like 80 students fewer so there are more students here this year 80 more than we had otherwise expected now that's one of the flaws with this approach that we use this methodology for enrollment projections because we are using the past to predict the future and so this Yogi barer I always say I always joke about this y Yogi barrier would say something to the effect of you know like this works until it doesn't right you we don't have a crystal ball we don't know how many kids are going to show up here but we are using the last five years of that enrollment those enrollment patterns of you know let's say fourth graders that became fifth graders we're looking at that fifth grade class are there more fifth graders here than there were last year and we're looking at those patterns over the last 5 years to predict who's going to be here next year we also look at birth rate data so who was born in K County 5 years ago and what percentage of those students over the last five years have shown up in bavia schools enrollments are going down birth rates have been going down dramatically in K County birth rates were twice as much as they are today um and the variability in terms of how kids are born and who shows up in materi schools is varying more and more today than it has in the past and so it's very challenging to figure out how many kindergarteners we're going to have but these are what we call our home school enroles so depending on where you live in bavia schools which home school you're assigned to which Elementary School you're assigned to doesn't matter where you actually go but where you live means that you are a resident of bavia you go to bavia schools no matter which school you attend you're ours that's the total enrollment however there are some students who might have special needs and we cannot serve them in their regular home school and so we have fewer students who actually attend our schools they about 70 to 80 students who we outplaced because we can't meet their needs in our schools so on the next graph on the next page we're looking at those enrollments please what do you refer to students that are homeschooled homeschooled are generally not enrolled so if you're a homeschooled student sometimes you come to our schools for services and um you wouldn't be considered enrolled okay depending on what portion of your day that you're coming sometimes you can be partially enrolled and we would C you as a fraction I was just Yogi Bear would wonder why Yogi be would homeschool students are not listed on the home school list that's funny I never thought about that homeschooled and home enrollments yeah we our definition for home is just a little different but that's a that's a pretty Keen observation all right yeah might need an asteris there I think that's a good idea I'll put a footnote there this contemplates serving schools as I mentioned and this color codes elementary middle and high and you can see there's variation in there so as our enrollment has declined it's obviously it hits the high school last and we're just now seeing the declining enrollment over these last five years hit our high school and we're seeing that you our enrollment at the high school for many many years was roughly about 2,000 students and we're seeing that kind of stabilize it somewhere around 1,600 students and I and that's about a stable enrollment so on the prior slide we see that stabilizing enrollment we don't see declines anymore we're seeing enrollment equalize but it does fluctuate between the levels so whereas in the past when we looked at our financial forecast we're saying we're losing students therefore to maintain the proportions of Staffing that we've been accustomed to we could shed staff and still make do that's not the case anymore we're very near stable enrollments so we cannot anticipate anymore fewer staff members it's going to be roughly the same and staff me Members may need to be reassigned or moved between different School different levels but that that the overall te in terms of Staff should stay the same and when I say reassigned I don't necessarily mean you know we're pulling out a teacher and saying youve been teaching at the elementary school it's going to be great when you're teaching next year seniors at the high school you know obviously we're not doing things like that it would be a function of attrition and you know where Staffing are so we don't expect people to necessarily have to move although that is a possibility um but overall uh enrollment is stabilizing um we're seeing more kindergarteners than we would otherwise expect um um I don't know if that will continue um and the other thing is is we always get asked is what about the new developments in particular Ashton Ridge that's the new development that just started in the last month or so next to HC Storm School are those numbers included in here and the answer to that simply is no um again because our methodology is we're looking at the past to predict the future but one caveat to that is down the street where we have the Winding Creek development that's in the grace MCW boundary area that development now has been underway I believe for two maybe three years or somewhere there in between and those students have been included in those numbers and so that development has been coming online and so those numbers those enrollments are baked in it's very challenging to estimate how many kids are going to come from a Housing Development it's easy to do it on very large and high level Global numbers but it's very challenging to do on a small scale especially when you're thinking of like how many kids are going to be in fourth grade that live in this new Ashton Ridge Development it's it's almost impossible to do um at least accurately uh some more information here about student demographics and exits but I'll let you read that um and but aside from that unless you have questions about enrollment we can move on to the fiveyear financial forecast I have a good question what's the mobility mean Mobility is just as a function of the number of students coming and going from our school district so it includes both new students enrolled this year and students who left so it's just a percentage of our overall population that were came or went from our school district in the last school year you're talking about the our uh enrollment is stabilizing um what's the retirement class look like for educators this year do we know how many are going to retire good question for State yeah it's probably like eight to 10 at the max nothing like last year it's kind of back what it kind of what it's been traditionally although I do have a couple of appointments coming up so it could grow a little bit so not necessarily maybe having someone move but just maybe not fill any position right other questions yeah just start at one0 um do you have and maybe you don't know this but do you have an idea is is this like that lower Trend and then the stabilization is that our surrounding districts is that also what they're seen too or every district is has different circumstances that they face but I would say the vast majority of school districts say the yeah the majority of school districts are seeing declining enrollments unless there's something different going on in those local communities and predominantly that's the case in King County and a lot of that has to do with birth rats and it's not even an Illinois phenomenon it's it's a nationwide phenomenon 46 has declined greatly their their enrollment has gone thousands of students and so they've been talking what to do with some of their buildings now one interesting factoid by the way too to add to that is that Chicago has seen declining enrollment for I want to say 20 years but in the last two they've actually seen an uptick in enrollment which is strange in terms of what they have been seeing so again Yogi bar would say it works until it doesn't so all right baring that then we'll move on to the fiveyear financial forecast and Holly if you just hit the back button there and C that yep perfect thank you we're going to take a couple of different looks at our finances and try to think of it I guess in terms of your your maybe your home finances the first graph really looks at the net amount of money keep scrolling right down the net amount of money that comes into and out of your bank account over the course of a year just in terms of its volume and you see there's a people usually get startled here when they see this they're like there's a massive deficit there and there is in 2026 there is a massive deficit but it was planned so last year when the board adopted warm safe dry we committed some 55 plus million dollars to keeping our schools warm safe and dry and the ways that we were going to finance that are twofold one our operating revenues that we get in a given year we're going to pledge more and more of that money um about $5 million right now each year toward financing those projects and that growing at a considerable clip at 15% per year and fund balance and so what that 2026 um deficit is driven by is the operating contributions for capital projects in that year and transferring fund balance to the capital projects fund to pay for that project we're going to start work on HC Storm school this summer that's 2025 the 2025 fiscal year and a lot of those bills are going to come due the vast majority of those bills are going to come due in the fiscal 26 Calendar and so we have to have the money there to pay for those projects and we're putting a little bit more into that capital projects fund so that we can just do it in kind of one Fell Swoop you can see what's happening here on the next page is a look at our fund balances basically how much money we have saved in the bank in 2025 at the end of the fiscal year we expect to have some $70 million in fund balance and we're going to transfer some $20 million to the capital projects fund to pay for those amounts in 26 so our piggy bank goes down with that dashed red line across those bars is our minimum fund balance that we need to maintain for from from a board policy standpoint so that we have enough money on hand to pay our bills what we don't want to go back to are the days that weren't so long ago that am always obliged to talk about our tax anticipation warrants which are effectively payday loans so that we could pay for all of our bills and our payrolls we had to borrow money to get through the year because we didn't have enough cash on hand at a considerable interest rate so that we could pay our bills until the next round of property taxes come came in we want to avoid that happening again so we don't want to get anywhere near that line good news is this is manageable for us and of course that fund balance has to increase a little bit every year because we we have more and more expenses every year that ratio the amount of cash that we need to have on hand and increases just a little bit every year so the good news here is we're going to spend some fund balance to get the work done that we need to do to get keep our schools warm safe and dry if we go to the next page we're looking at potential impacts to these projections we're looking at different things that could happen potentially just hypothesizing what might happen that would change some of our assumptions this is a forecast there's no crystal ball here we're making a lot of assumptions that rest upon assumptions that have to continue for the next five years keep going um we're looking at realistic best case scenarios and we're looking at realistic worst case scenarios and so a lot can change especially over the course of 5 years but the good news is even with what we think the most likely scenario our blue line if you keep going to that graph Holly we're going to be just above the black line where we break even keep going there so you see that dip in 26 we talked about that $23 million in that transfer uh and then you see that blue line continuing through 2030 it is going to be really tight in 2030 we're not going to have as much cash on hand I anticipate as we do now in terms of balances we're going to have to be very prudent with our finances but things change we could be closer to that green line where we have ample Surplus but things go against us it could be that red line where we're going to have to make some adjustments we'll see but 5 years is a long time to be hypothesizing so I other questions that you might have just yeah by the way this does include we're going to as Mark alluded to with the classrooms at storm kindergarten and bringing on um full-time kindergarten we're going to have to hire more kindergarten teachers our projections do anticipate that that's built in yeah so that would be the one area where we'd be adding staff to accommodate a program change that we know is is coming so that's already Big 10 all right that's all I have thanks Tony thank you all right as a reminder item 7.7 was stricken from the agenda so next is uh review and potential approval of the dashboard data dashboard Tom would you like to take the lead on this yes absolutely so board um this is a conversation we've had for a couple of board meetings now um if you recall this is a a string of work and conversations that have come from the Strategic plan work as well um so the data dashboard was a component of the plan um so I was asked if I could bring a recommendation from the administration side to the board as to what um you know we may want to consider in launching this data dashboard and and given the options have been presented to you um we are recommending that we move forward with the Panorama blended with the five laabs data which would be managed in-house by our District staff um as a starting point and I believe you've had an opportunity to see that the Panorama model which is the new survey tool we're using for SE work with our students features a dashboard that resembles those of some of our um other proposals that we we interviewed that Holly was able to explore for us in research so we're we're that's our recommendation is to go with the Panorama model that's also going to blend in five Labs if you're wondering why five Labs there are some components of that data that are like under strategic uh priority 3 are not data that's going to be captured by Panorama um those are data that um some of our leadership team is going to have to U kind of pull together on their own and then we'll use through um file labs and and some other tools that we'll be presenting on the dashboard such as operational up time something Dave has talked about before when presenting to software upgrades for approval you know those are some of the components that some of our Ops teams are going to uh continue to Monitor and look at all right so does the board have any questions for me or the administration or for each other so the uh and this D so the dashboard will presented to us I forgot was it every quarter the dashboard at the moment we had talked about um doing buying annually so by annually um this coming December will be our first very first time of you know rolling out a conversation around our data and we hope to have the dashboard completely ready and built out um if not we'll definitely have the data points still to talk about and then by and then the current model that we agreed on was come June we'll do that second follow-up report for the board and then we still review the states correct the states dashboard is that what uh what a report report the school report yes yes and there is a lot of overlap in the data that's in the school and district report card that's embargoed at the moment but will be released at the end of this month um a lot of those data points are a lot of overlap that we've talked about in our strategic plan work so when you're saying it's going to be reported to us isn't the dashboard going to be updated weekly the data yeah but we'll come here to talk about it okay as an entire board right yeah everybody we look at but we're going to actually talk about it as a to they'll have a counter as a topic okay y people that go in and look at our data I don't think we'll display that on the page big giant Banner seven eight yeah I think uh my my big concern with the five Labs was kind of the static imagery that went along with it and I think that's kind of what we've had in the past and um you know BAS Bas on feedback and what I know about it I didn't think was very user friendly um after meeting with Holly and Brad um you know them demonstrating the Panorama uh version um the advantage to me is it kind of gives the user options to to look at the data and I think that's uh that's very important rather than just having like static images now I know we like we you just mentioned but we're going to have some of those five labs static reports initially but as we talked about I'd like you know eventually for us to get away from that and just use panorama with their reports in the system but we got to start somewhere this is a good place to start and and we're going to learn a lot as we go through here any other questions otherwise I will entertain a motion to approve the a data dashboard created using Panorama and five lab programs at no additional cost to the district second by recel second by Danielle Cindy please lead us in a roll call Vote Yes yes yes Thomas yes yes thank you next is uh the review and potential approval of the district Management Group to conduct a district and board audit so Tom would you like to please introduce us yeah yeah so um last month I had shared in comments and um had shared some email Communications with the board um that we were working on uh two groups that we were considering for uh auditing purposes with the district and this is again continuation from the Strategic plan and one of the action steps that the Board needs to take right as part of our accountability to the Strategic plan um the Administration has worked with two of our board members uh both Craig and Raquel thank you for your time in that and um they were part of the process in meeting with both vendor Representatives asked questions um know we were able to also uh hear their presentations as well um at the conclusion of that process Craig and Raquel U speak on behalf of them and feel free to jump in with your own uh thoughts if you'd like but Craig recel has shared with me that they're both uh wanting to move forward with the district Management Group which was the uh contract presented to you in the board book um to move forward for the district the the plan would be um if approved tonight then I will contact the group immediately um and start working on Logistics um part of the first step is to Center the work around the board and the governance and expectations and how that plan gets executed things that the group would like to make sure that they are on the same page with the board about how some of this work needs to move forward and also start addressing the accountability metrics um for the plan and they will then bridge and assist us in and executing certain steps they'll do an analys Gap analysis for the district uh surrounding your priorities as a board and that's why that's the first step that's really important um the other piece will be that they will be able to then include stakeholder voices in the various processes that get identified that need to be looked at in the district um and they're going to yeah help us live out our strategic plan and build some accountability walls around it to make sure that when we do our reports to you we all in agreement as to what data we're looking at and what we understand is progress and growth towards our goals all I have um just to kind of give you guys my impression I mean the the two groups we looked at Handover and uh District Management Group or DMG uh both well qualified both really well kind of representative in the um educational space uh for me uh it kind of came down to I really felt like District management who was going to work in tailored with us um and would kind of also give us really I mean even in our first kind of interview they kind of gave us some honest feedback about what they were thinking and what they were you know their their approach and that they would recommend um Hannah group is very qualified to do the work but they were of all a c isue in my opion asking us to direct them on what we would like to see in research and I don't know about you guys but I kind of appreciated the help me get to something and then maybe like a Handover type model makes some sense but for right now I wanted somebody to really kind of take at least me personally kind of a real critical eye and a real collaborative approach of working with us and giving us kind of kind of constructive criticism as it were as it became necessary or available so that was me R anything to add or yeah I mean I just agree the the DMG they were just I guess they were just to me I felt like they were just more No Nonsense like these are the facts and that like like they said like they kind of criticized us on certain things which good I mean you know be honest we don't I don't want to give you money if you're going to just sugarcoat things for us I know just be honest with it Handover they were really good they were qualified like I said um they had a really good nice library of certain things that we could do um but yeah like Craig said I thought they would maybe kind of ask us what we wanted when was more it's like no you need to tell us what we need to do to get better so yeah at this point at least in our kind of strategic plan process like maybe later that kind of wealth of knowledge and database they kind of have might make sense as we're tailoring things but I just did didn't quite get the sense so you guys have any questions for any of us on that for yeah this is the first time that I've had to look at something like this professionally or personally or whatever so I'm I'm a little like unclear with um I understand like the purpose of it so like when I was reading through it I mean I'm excited about something like this I'm really excited I think the part that I get a little nervous on is when I'm reading through um and I directed an email to you guys and maybe you can kind of help clarify here is just like it it talks about um like in the beginning phase one um you know having a strategic planning steering committee and that's made up of this superintendent board members and select District leaders um why are we not including other stakeholders in that part of the process yeah if I could address that that's a really good question so part of our clarification and they're very aware we've gone through a process where we we went through our strategic plan they're aware that we had a steering committee that we held Institute day meetings where our internal stakeholders came and presented and and that we had parent sessions Community sessions and surveys launched in Community right so they're fully aware of that they understand we're at a point that we're looking at some targeted metrics that we can hold ourselves accountable to and ensuring growth you know one of the things we talked about as a priority for the district was literacy across the board for all of our students we did talk about a significant uh the the disproportionality identification in some of our areas of programming so they're very aware that that this plan has gone through that process and so we're actually going to be picking up someone our a little bit further along in their work already which is what I appreciate and that's why they want to really get in and meet with you and actually In fairness to both groups that was kind of their recommended starting point um because we do have an actively re and very recently approved strategic plan that went through that process already so so when we're starting off we're starting off is this coming in and just working with the board on what your understanding of this and what what our vision is is that I mean yeah I think that's that I think you just captured the word Vision uhhuh uh which is a part of that they need to see as a board where your understanding is you know they're going to also explain to you what their work is and how they go about it there's a gap analysis that they perform on a district and they they they take a very um as Raquel Kim shared there's an approach that they take that will be focused on research and data and the facts and then they'll get in they are going to be on site that's part of their work so there'll be some uh remote meetings but there'll also be on-site meetings and there'll be an opportunity for people to start working with them as they start looking but they have to start here and I think that's kind of one of the things I tried to emphasize during the Strategic plan our proposal came from a body of voices and in the end we we did what we set out to promise to do in my very first month on the job here in this District was capture as much of a collective and collaborative voice of a strategic plan for you guys by may but remember I said we you you might vote on it by June because it was a big body of work right but what my promise was I'll try to get this to you by May so you can begin considering what you want to do with that plan right and so now that that's gone through in June um they're going to come in as part of that um action step in our strategic plan to start talking about where our goals are our priorities and start executing that so this isn't like the same steering committee that we were dealing with before no no no okay I think that's why I was getting a little confused because the steering committee was made up of a lot of different stakeholders I had an explicit conversation with them about that and they they absolutely understand that okay yep okay good question no I think that was a good question anything else or anyone else just give me a minute please yeah yeah take your time thank you I think that was my main my main um thing so with with their like the phase two um are they I understand so we're we're going over the Strategic plan that's in place we're going over like what our abilities are what our accountability should be and then we're kind of moving that on so that is it so that our goals can be figured out I mean is that what are they part of that process that's is that where phase two comes in it's like taking the priorities that we already have right uh there not going to come in and re redo re-edit all the priorities that have been built out already right that's been approved by you as a board what we're looking to do now is take that plan and make it actionable with the next steps and then also then we've had this conversation about well what does success look like for the district from a metric standpoint and that's a part of the conversation they want to have with you and help you bring bring us on the same page so that we can bring everybody else on the same page because that's a lot of questions that are coming from committees right now and that's why it's important we get moving I'd like to have this work get started if you look at the timeline on their contract it's aggressive we're going to get moving we're not going to wait around yeah so I guess and again not being in any of the discussions um when we think about I'll just pick like student voices so is their job to explain to us how we achieve that or I I I'm not understanding exactly what their um involvement is I guess if you could break it down to really basic because I'm yeah yeah no um their model will be working with with you to understand Direction they may try to coach you a little bit if there's um a you know a myriad of opinions and perspectives part of it is them understanding but part of that will also probably be them be giving you direct feedback as well um because they're basing their work on research and what effective strategies and practices look like for a district um from there then depending on what that audit will look like I can't speak to that because that's part of their work that's when they're going to then get embedded in working with the leaders and then different staff that are part of that and collect you know perspectives voice and understanding but also they're going to learn about us and then start analyzing um almost like a problem of practice to solve and work with us on how to do that part of their model teaches us how to do that ourselves so it's almost like training the trainer so that eventually we as a district can start to do that ourselves too which is a great practice than for us to be taught um you know and I think the beauty of it is we already have these collaborative structures in place and as we do this work a lot of that is going to be felt in our committees and that's a great thing because we just recently even had like our cat committee um DCC and we're talking about what and what are some of the you know metrics or The Guiding points that we're going to look look at as we continue to focus on or staying within the guide rails of our strategic plan and so they're going to help us with that okay so I think I think like just like you said with student voice right the way I understand it is like the the step one or kind of phase one is understand of us educating them what student voice means to us okay right and then they will then look at our strategic plan and say hey there's a gap here your strategic plan that you heard for the community and that you guys kind of ratified effectively says this thing about student voice and looking at the data and it's a little different than yours you need to close that Gap and figure out like is there something that's a Miss there then once they kind of determine that and get that kind of understood they can then go out and kind of work with the various Community groups or work with others that we need to I mean community at large um and then the step once they kind of identify that they would report to us on what they found and that's that Gap analysis of what the space is step two is then being able to solve whatever things they come up with or issues they identify right so that we can move forward with action I and that's kind of like what I was thinking but in this report it doesn't really that's what I was asking about Community um feedback because it doesn't really Define who the community and stakeholder is and so at one point it did say like the in the grass teachers but I I guess like you know you guys talk about my empathy and all that but as someone who hasn't always been brought to the table on conversations when I read these type of things and it doesn't specifically State who we want to bring in like it was really specific when we were designing the reg plan you're going to look at you know students teachers parents this does not saying anything to me beyond our board and the higher level admin and so for me that just gets a little problematic when we are looking at possibly shifting things in that I just for us to be collaborate like collaborative all the way through and I think you're what you were saying is that we might possibly have to work with different stakeholders but it doesn't say that in there I'm just a little nervous on but it's in our plan in our okay but it's already in the board approved strategic plan it's not their work to do it though right so their helping us find ways to make sure we can execute our strategic plan but not with talking to the community though yeah but um I'm trying to find it like I use an example here um you know if we're looking at uh any one of our curricular programs where we have staff and students involved in that and they look at our structures there and and start looking at the data we give them right we they're going to look at our dashboard they're going to look at our data with us Identify some of those gaps build process with different stakeholders and voices and then at some point they'll provide us what their thoughts and recommendations look like and when that happens that will have been done through our collaborative processes right like because we still have Voice through CAC plaque rack and all the other committees that we have um we still have for example the equity committee that's used last year as an opportunity to start getting student voices and we're talking about trying to find ways to continue that momentum that we have so I think I don't want you to mistake that any of this work is redoing the Strategic plan which was built with all that voice because you got to keep in mind this step is actually because of the Strategic plan so it's helping us to just take an audit at our curricular programming structures that exist in the district and find those gaps I guess my my specific question was that they're not working with the general like the community at any point they're just working with with the board and with admin they're not really like oh we want to see there sounds like there's a gap we need to work with the community for whatever whatever the case might be they're not doing that part of it it's not again it's not specific who stakeholder is in this report okay so that's what I want and I would say that that kind of work absolutely is all of us still doing the work um if that makes sense right it does no well okay all right so I don't think they're going to go door too no and I know you know that's what they're not you know they're just kind of looking at us in our strategic plan and saying you're not meeting the needs of the students in this area you're not meeting based on like our data what we already have right anything like that but there's no need for them to go and like hey checken is this working for you all and this group of people because like that's already what's is that what I'm gathering we already did that to make our strategic plan you feel like that part was already done right so no one feels like we need to collaborate with our public body anymore for this right I again this is out of my I'm not saying that no that isn't necessary I'm just saying the framework of sometimes when you define something you may Define it too much and say okay this is too broad right so stakeholders to in my opinion way I read that was like when they first meet with us maybe there's a discussion about who these stakeholders are and what we what we Define that as and the input that we need I think that would make me it's a little uncomfortable for me not to know like who's picking these stakeholders why are we picking these specific stakeholders do they represent a rounded voice of people and ensure that we're thinking of beyond the people who are at this table and what we can possibly represent and ensure because I don't feel like our job can ever be complete no matter what we do without that um and so I that's where again anytime we talk about stakeholder voices I just kind of want to understand and like how are we picking these people where does it reach out to and you know that part of it and it's just not clear so so Danielle I think part of the maybe the lack of clarity is because we don't know yet okay it's a an it's an audit part of their Gap analysis audit is what's going to steer us to where we I guess it would be nice if they gu it doesn't it's fine with you we doesn't need to stay there because the onlyi that is the only definition of stakeholders is which why I'm asking you this question so I understand that part but the only thing that has been spelled out is that it's just us and that's a little that's where I'm like I don't where's the benefit of that if we're not only using our own voices so you are saying that we depending on where we move just kind of Might vary I think there's an opportunity there for that and if they come back and say well that's a different level of service then they have an opportunity to talk about that you know goals shift sometimes as you discover your shortcomings or that a need for more voices in the room may allow that to expand if it's as a board we deem it necessary so um is that concern alone enough for you to kind of pause on it I mean we're going to do a vote tonight I just think it's or you're just saying hey we need to keep that in mind as we move forward yeah yeah definitely I'm I'm like I'm very excited I think that we would I mean thank you for setting down all that but like I that's a part to me that stuck out to me um specifically um and I you know did try to have a couple Community convos just say like maybe it's just a me thing because again of what I experience but I think that stuck out to people like who are the stakeholders and like do you do you go to the public or is it just an admin and board thing all the way through what is it like it's it's a little unclear so I was just a little uncomfortable but it's out there but I think it's a great thing to look at so no I don't want to hold up voting for that for me not at all thank you thank you thanks guys any other questions all right I will entertain a motion to approve District Management Group to conduct a door a district and board audit from October 2024 through March of 2025 with the fees totaling $100,000 barring the need for rework which will be determined and priced separately so move so move by Sue second second by Rob Cindy please lead us in a roll call vote Thomas yes yes meows yeser yes mat yes yes great thank you motion passes uh 8.3 amendment of board policy so uh Raquel and Tom Raquel you talked a little bit about this I think so um you guys want to do a little quick intro or yeah I I Raquel actually covered it earlier in her report so this is a title change they it the title change is due to um the requirement of the broadening of the capturing of groups that qualify under this protection and that's so we're just asking that the board reflect this update to mirror the statute's change in language any questions on that I will entertain a motion to amend policy 2 colon 6 265 as presented so moved by Danielle second second by Raquel Cindy please lead us in a roll call vote mat yeser yes meows yes AR yes yes Thomas yes motion passes thank you uh next is authorization to purchase a standalone serving counter Josh all right so last year I don't know if you remember I spent a lot of time with students talking about food and this is actually a followup to that so um I had a lot of great conversations with uh Dr Smith's U uh Advisory Group and one their number one concern was lunch is not long enough make lunch longer so it didn't really make sense for Dr Smith to have to do that so what we really focused on this year is making the experience of getting lunch quicker therefore making their social time longer so one thing that we've done already is we've adopted scanning IDs at the high school which is making the lines go quicker but there's still only three points of sale which makes it you can only follow so many people through so the purchase of the Standalone counter does two things one it allows kids who just want to get like a water or a bag of chips they don't have to go through the main cafeteria line to get that then get the what they need and then just get about their business but the other thing that this do is allows the lunch ahead program to continue to service the students without having them go into the main lunchroom so that way we can order pre-order head their paninis are waiting for right at this counter and they can get that without navigating the line in the main serving area so uh this was completely student driven uh by their wanting for lunch to be longer but instead we'll try to make the serving time quicker any questions how long before it kind of gets implemented like um is that a this year thing or oh this is going to be done like instantaneously instantaneously instantaneous that Mark instantaneously instantaneously Mark your car yeah basically yes I forget now when I read it it was like at the request of quest or we're purchasing it from organic life purchas it already and then we're buying it we're taking ownership of it so that happens with a lot of products okay okay so my question is in three years whatever when we have to reevaluate our contract correct we go with back to Quest or we don't go with our is there we own it now correct but we bought it from them is that a problem no okay that's no okay that's one of the reasons why we're taking ownership off so when okay that's I just want to make sure that it wasn't yeah no that's a really good question so is this like a kind of like a pickup counter it's a pickup counter it also has a nice spot for like pizza to be served out of it's really just a way to get Quick Service food without going through the main line all lunch ahead orders will go through this line yes there are we just shifting from the main cafeteria line to this to this new single serve counter are we going to have to start having delays in in this area no because in theory right it's all new and relative but right now everyone goes into that main cafeteria area and they've got to be serviced and then they've got to leave whereas if we're having kids use the lunch ahead they're doing that part outside of so that's 30 to 50 kids throughout the day that aren't going through the line still being served food but that allows the kids who are buying food to get through the line quicker it's just like separating uh if you were go to like Chipotle you don't go through the main line to get your pickup order right you just go to the pickup order count so it's the same concept D will this be it this is going to be in the back of the high school marks better with the north Southeast won am but um it's in the back it's in the back corner it will be in the back corner of high school in the um cafeteria itself and what's nice about it too is it's on casters so we can move it whenever we want um so if we want to move it to a different location no problem so anyone else I will entertain a motion to authorize the purchase of a standalone serving counter for BHS C IIA from organic life for the amount of $ 29,31 62 so move by RJ second second by Sue Cindy please lead us in a roll call Vote sler Yes yes yes Thomas yes yes yes thank you motion practices next is authorization to to purchase maintenance Vehicles mark thank you uh back in 2018 um part of the capital projects plan at that point is to really get on a cycle of replacing Vehicles we were never on that cycle um this is really just a continuation of that cycle um there are still some Vehicles left in the fleet that are 2008's yes they're getting pretty old um but we're just going to kind of continue that cycle the other thing not that has anything to do with this but um the other point is we're going to start doing this also with um driver's ed Vehicles so you'll be hearing that in the near future as well to get them on the cycle um we already do this with activity buses we have a lease on those so there's a lot of different vehicles in the district actually well over 20 vehicles that um the Ops division overseas so this is just kind of a part of that um and again you know these do everything for push snow um uh deliver food to different schools um pull mowers for mowing the Lawns um so again like I said um hopefully you know we'll get there but you in a couple years our you know 2016's are going to be 10 years old so again this is about every depending on the year about every one or two years you'll just see Vehicles kind of coming through to keep you know keep them reliable and doing what they need to do in our district so we're selling two from 2008 Yes and so we're buying so two of the three that we're getting are replacing those yes and the other one is actually for the um HVAC technician position that was approved a while ago but we've just kind of been filling in the vehicle now for that person what is cooperative pricing Cooperative pricing is basically you know there's different coop operatives they can go through like sourcewell Omnia so they've already basically well the easiest way to explain is they've already really been bit out um so instead of actually bidding out the vehicles this pricing was already done okay so we're we're aart as a district of a few of them sourcewell and Omnia Partners is the main two so this is meaning that that has already been done Vehicles aren't exempt from bidding you go through Cooperative they put out the bid they collect the pricing they find the lowest price and we can buy through that cooperative for amount yeah all right I will entertain a motion to approve the purchase of three new maintenance vehicles from Gerald Ford and the amount of $17,250 so move so move by Rob second second by RJ Cindy please lead us in a roll call vote yes yes yes meow yes AR yes yes thank you motion passes next is text on display Brad yes I'm asking the board to put the book uh just Mercy on display for a period of one month to gather feedback from the public you can see the the board item there this comes from the high school English Department and was recommended to the superintendent by CAC thank you any questions okay uh just just on this this process here so anytime there's a new book it goes through this this process here there's three levels three different types of levels of materials so this would be an anchor material which means means that all kids would be exposed to it so only the Board of Education can approve those anchor materials so every kid in this particular class will read just mercy so it will go through this process with board approval there are supplemental taxs which are a part of our curriculum but there's like choices for teachers and students within that and those are approved at the CAC level and then the the last level is responsive materials so if something happens in our world or you know we're we're in an election season right now teachers can bring in materials that they uh need to teach those things responsibly within their classroom so those are the three levels responsive is on the teacher supplemental is on CAC and anchor for everybody is on the board of education is is the rough Theory with the responsive one that like you need to be timely with it and you can't quite go through all the other processes so it's kind of handled departmentally of sorts and from a teacher we really want plc and groups of teachers looking at those materials to bring them in to teach something that's happening in our world or our community right just because good to have many eyes on those materials a lot of readers but um that is the the point is if something's happening we want teachers to be able to teach and that is their vehicle for doing that but if it's something that's good and it sticks around they should move it to supplemental or anchor kind of up the chain all right any if there are no other questions I will entertain a motion that the Board of Education placed just Mercy a story of justice and Redemption on display for a period of one month in accordance with the Boe policy 6 col 210 instructional materials so move so move by Rael second second by Danielle Cindy please lead us in a roll call vote Thomas yes yes mows yeser yes mat yes yes thank you motion passes that is for our action items uh discussion items uh 2526 school calendar draft Brad yeah this is your first look at the school calendar for next school year the 25 26 school year which that date seems amazing to me sometimes um but around this time of the year we start getting phone calls in the curriculum Department with people who are amazing planners because they start asking about when the breaks are going to be for next year because they're planning family events and things like that so we try to bring you a draft of the school calendar I I can't get my leg together like that but uh a draft of the school calendar this month and then we would bring it to you for approval next month I'm a big believer in small tweaks in the calendar because that allows people to kind of adapt to that you can see just a couple of tweaks we would start school on a Thursday uh one this gives us a tiny little buffer for construction at HC Storm um but there's also a lot of learning that we have to do uh with our staff in those beginning days of school right so like we want to start the school year off great and uh so that we have two Institute days and one work day um that doesn't mean a lot to the public who looks at this calendar but teachers and staff would be engaged on those three days and then we would start school with our students on August 14th um the rest rest of the calendar is pretty much the same um and we would end as we have before just before Memorial Day we try and there's lots of calendar rules from the State Board of Education so those are a factor we look at our neighboring schools and like kind of where they're starting so schools in King County around us because our staff have kids in school there too and then um we look to some of like our partner districts because we share a lot of students with like Fox Valley Career Center Mid Valley Cooperative so we look to see that we're in alignment with those as well and we work with our staff to kind of bring out issues that they'd like to see in the calendar sometimes there's things that we can do sometimes not one thing that could happen before I'm off this board I would love to get rid of that last half day last day of school the last half day oh I know you you always have a good reason for it well could you more more half days but no right that that half day is for that the last remaining half days is for our parent teacher conferences it is problematic for parents who work it is a weird change of schedule for them used to have several of them but it's it's much better now for just personal benefit that's all I heard it's much better I I forgot that's what it is teacher conferences parent teacher conference mention this last year got one so if you have feedback you can send way um and then we'll bring this back again um with any changes I'll make sure I note those for next time and then you'll have a school calendar in November for all of those early planners and then you'll work on the next calendar year as well yeah we'll get started right again it's just it's a treadmill Groundhog Day yep the next item is the new course proposal so BHS again this is something that went through a c process BHS is taking a look at um a new course for next year this would be digital music production and digital music production is a course that would be housed within our music department so we currently have a class called rock and roll methods which is uh really popular with our students it's run every semester that I I can remember uh it's a term class and it's designed to bring students who might not be into performance music into the music and arts department this would be paired with that and uh gives kids some digital music production experience some of the projects that they proposed seem pretty cool to me and very relevant to a student's life around music a new course in a while we haven't added a new course in a while each new course kind of throws a little Ripple into the the pond of scheduling at both our Middle School and High School uh so it's been nice to kind of just deal with what we know but this is I think a great U addition to our music department yeah I don't recall the last time we had a new is is probably preco that we had one of these we just have we just we just have to decide if we approve the curriculum behind it or like the curriculum will come at another time you just offering the course so do we want the course or not yeah we want to put this in our course catalog and you guys get the the final say on that our staff believe this is a good idea but we take this through the board because there are you know different perspectives and we want I don't think they've ever done this yeah I don't remember seeing this at this point it's a discussion so you know if there's any questions today about it or reach out afterwards to kind help understand you know and these are classes that you would expect some reasonable level of interest in like teachers have talked to you about it students have expressed a need a desire or is this kind of a I think this is like if you look at some of those projects creating ringtones might TI Tok Trends this is what kids do are exposed to and do constantly even when we don't want them to do that so I think getting them in the Creator process is actually really important to me um so I think that this is a great kind of addition to that and when you do a high school schedule term classes are really difficult so when you compare two together that way you get a semester along course so putting these two things together will not have a dramatic impact on the high school schedule um like if you're adding a lot of semester courses or new courses all the time it is problematic you mean with the rock and roll yeah would be buddied up with that so kids would probably take both but please forward on any comments or questions and then we'll bring this back U the high school will start registration soon after you guys approve this process talking about kids in their courses for next year moves fast thanks Brad yep appreciate it uh review of board policy first reading she do it again she she actually she covered all of them early I don't know if there's really any need for us Raquel and I to talk about it uh she covered the changes and this is just a first read if there's any discussion now or uh similar to what Craig just said about uh Brad's last item if there are questions that come please feel free to ask we do have another board policy committee meeting as we've shared with you we're always going to have a policy committee meeting between the regular board meetings so our next one will be on November 4th no 4th any questions on these policies time to read them absor them a bit more okay great 9.4 multi multilingual update hi Jen hi are invite Jen and Ming up to the the podium to give you a little update on our multilingual program I was waiting for the official invitation good evening I'm John Hicks and I'm Ming Shelby and we're eager to provide you some information as well as highlight something um component are in our bavia multilingual program so bavia serves approximately 700 students who speak over 54 languages and our El service department um works with students who qualify for services there's 320 our you're fine hly our multilingual program is really um nested in our strategic plan and really um connects with the mission statement of empowering every student to acheve achieve their unique potential through an equitable and personalized experience that supports post prek 12 Pathways as well as the two priority statements of enhanced teaching and learning practices and fostering inclusion and belonging specifically as we work with our parent groups and um our Community Partnerships um in terms of our El programming our program is really supporting students prek through 12th grade with diverse language skills to be able to gain English proficiency of speaking writing listening and reading in terms of curriculum access we help students with a Core Curriculum by building background knowledge and academic vocabulary and then in the summer we provide students Early Childhood to 8th grade non-fiction and fiction book packs so that they can dive into books and spend some time in the sun spend some time outside reading and continuing that growth of that English language proficiency in bavia we said there's 700 students who speak over 54 languages but this information really represents our 320 students and the languages that are spoken at each school bavia is a diverse Community but you can see that um some of the languages are more prevalent in some of our schools but it's exciting to see um how Global our community of bavia really is and how multilingual our students are hope you brought your magnifying glasses so you could see that super small print up there so part of um how we measure academic proficiency is every student who is identified as elel will take an access test in January and so a part of what we do is Monitor our program of how our students doing with gaining academic proficiency and monitoring them to exit elel our bilingual program is housed at HC Storm featured on the slide is Eileen Matos our um kindergarten first grade bilingual teacher and the bilingual programs the focus is really by Literacy for students in both Spanish and English to highlight some of the supports at RMS and BHS for our multilingual Learners is last year we um adopted a new resource with English 3D and language launch so language launch is for our newcomers we're just learning um our language as well as getting used to the environment around them and English 3D focuses on uh proficiency levels and academic language for both um RMS and BHS and then at the high school they have the El breakfast these monthly breakfast for El students to build community um and just like a time for them to all get to hang out together and be together in a very relaxed setting and then last year we partnered with plusme projects so you'll notice in the photograph um on the left is the CEO and president and founder Richard Reyes and he got a chance to bring our students together and share like why what's important about your story you can see in the back of the slide they're generating their own stories where were you born what's your family um because every story matters and it's important to share so that was a unique opportunity for both students at RMS and BHS so this slide really talks about the support our El students get during the school day at the elementary level we've been consistent with push in support report um and wi time so they really have that attention and then at RMS and BHS our co-taught classes um and in super small font we really wanted to test your eyes late at night um those are the classes that are currently co-taught and BHS this year expanded the levels of math classes that had support and then there's a el study Stills class that students get that um targeted support with academic language and then at Middle School Bulldog block as well and then at BHS there's a bilingual counselor that helps students navigates all those things relating to academics the life all that kind of stuff that's really important for a high schooler as we look at Foster in inclusion and belonging we really want to highlight our district initiative of communication so our families let us know how they want communication to how they want to receive that communication and so with Hal's help we are really breaking down those language barriers so that families and students have access to school information and communication for all families and along those lines we have we have purchased interpretation equipment that's that suitcase that's up there and we actually used this at our last bpack meeting we had a presenter who was speaking in Spanish and we had a family in our audience who could speak Arabic and English so one of our translators our interpreters spoke English and the family wore a headset so they were able to participate in the Pres presentation and be able to take in information about literacy and being a biliterate family and student by wearing that headset so that's something that we're going to share and be able to communicate with others and be able to have that suitcase travel throughout the district as we have family meetings and and give information the last piece is a requirement from isby that we have to have a bar a bilingual par um parent advisory committee that's called bpac and we have um had had the opportunity to have four families attend the bilingual parent Summit in May and those families now are part of our bpac leadership team and providing guidance on what information they want to have presented at Beek meetings so it's exciting to have those pieces of communication and support for our families as well as our students so thank you for letting us highlight a little bit about the multilingual program and this can't be done without our amazing teachers and administrators who are fantastic and stand by our kids and listen to stories and welcome them you thank you thank you I have a quick question I'm just looking at the little headset things it reminded me of an equity meeting um will these ever go to like the actual inclass so that when teachers let's say it's our class um and they have a student that maybe is newer and they're not able to speak English instead of depending on another student to maybe translate and take away from their time but to utilize these in class are we at that point or is that something like do those work for that purpose or they would not this particular system operates on like radio waves it doesn't hook up to the Wi-Fi the other piece that you're talking about is technology does get better and better and there's different apps and different programs that teachers can use there's like Google translate on your phone that you can use and it can pick up the communication or you can take a picture of the slide and it can be in a particular language we're also using like Microsoft translate that allows the teachers to be able to have information in English and then it'll translate into another language on the student's Chromebook so we do have those supports and those pieces technology is fantastic it's breaking down barriers and the other piece that we are trying to navigate in balance is that ability to have our students also practice um in English so we have that that bridge to be able to translate for them but also continue to build that English proficiency so that they can work on those English Reading Writing and speaking skills so we're trying to navigate both um but we do have technology we work with Dave's Department all the time as new things are coming out and sometimes it's like oh I went to this conference and we heard about this device can we use it and then we work with our Tech Team to try to see if we can use our filter is that the right word Dave and our pieces of is why we have as a team so that we can find out what we can use but this is really handy because you can use it outside you don't have to re you know the Wii requirements um and so I think as as the technology gets better it would be great if all of a sudden you could put on a headset and it would automatically translate into the language that you could understand we're not quite there yet that's so I think one of the te was a um one of our art teachers was talking about that you know they show like tours at in different museums and the people are talking and she was just talking that point um it also it brought in to my mind like I uh when we do have uh parents who are not on english- speaking calling to our schools do we is there anything like that where like real time they can talk and it's being translated to those parents on the other end of the phone yes we have an interpreter service that you dial in and then they have a translator that will do that interpreting and translate so that parents have that information we use it all the time in IEP meetings or if we have El meetings or pieces like that it's on our website all of the teachers in the district can use it and it's really efficient and it's a great way to connect with families so like if someone caus storm they just say like please hold and they get the translation system that's great than thank you I just was looking at that it jogged one of our Equity meetings and that kind of right thanks thank you I have a few questions oh yeah yeah um so it says the um percent of students exiting in the five years is that our goal is to have them exit in five years and then is also does this include the uh any graduating students yes so it is our goal within five years and um the state level is at like 5.9% so the fact that we're at 10% is really amazing that we're above that um and the access it's a little bit tedious but there's this big window of opportunity that occurs during fourth and fifth grade so students who come in during kindergarten are identified they our goal is always like during that fourth and fifth grade that window that they'll exit at that time okay and then we have 320 students in E is that a pretty good average of the last four years it is in terms of um welcoming new students we really have more of an influx from like Venezuela colia and Ukraine but it really has been consistent we've also been able with that ability to add more staff at the high school and the middle school so that we can have more co- talk classes so with that consistency in programming we're able to have more consistency in staff previously when our numbers were lower we had more mobility of staff and we had to move them around but now in the secondary level we're able to see that we can have Co talk classes in science social studies Ela and math at the middle school and then we've been expanding as we've added more staff at BHS to have more students in those classes that are graduation requirements so um outside the core classes what are their supports like when they take electives that's a great question answer so as we're excited that our students have the opportunity to take electives sometimes in some schedules they may not be able to take an elective course because they are in another um class working on their English but our structures and our priority atavia has been to have students continue to have those elective options in those Support classes their El teacher can work with them in terms of like using some of the technology to be able to use to understand what is happening in class the El teachers also partner very closely with the teachers who have um the e cluster to say like let's frontload some academic vocabulary or whether there some things that you're working on that I can help and support so that's you know some of those ways raal that we kind of work and help and then how many endorsed El teachers do we have great question oh we just did the math on that Rael so all of our EC teachers are are also eel endorsed um and then we have about 35 34 staff members across the district who end doors and that is also a goal for us of having more teachers who are endorsed so that they can support across multiple areas not just areas where there's so what's the goal like how many teachers would you like to have endorsed every single one is it too bold to say 100% I'm just it's up to you I'm just curious yeah I think so because here's the thing is like the strategies you learned during your ESL endorsement I went through it many years ago it's good practices for all students it's not just for one group so if our 100% of our teachers are endorsed and have this then they can impact far more students than um just like a a subgroup of students and many um college courses for teachers right now are offering the ESL endorsement as well as your um General ad and your certificate so there's a lot of combinations that are really our recent grads are really um are coming to us with that endorsement how does that work for substitute teachers um as far as needing to be endorsed you know what are requirements for them when they are um needing to be pushed into the E classes like when a classroom teacher has a sub that day or like when the El teacher has a sub or when there's a substitute teacher that's yeah being pulled into the classes do they have to be Ur as well no right now there's no requirements are they bilingual no not necessarily but some but not all yeah so usually during a core class they'll have the a CO teacher and the core so like if I'm a normal math teacher and Rob is my co- teer he'll if I'm subbing then they'll try to rotate well like at an elementary level I you know I know storm very well so if you have Kinder slir that's Matos I Matos and she's not there that day we have permanent building Subs are they expected to be a bilingual to fill into those roles are you pulling they don't have to be how does that work for communication many times our students are able to understand as a kindergart yeah yes and they're receiving their instruction in half English and half Spanish so as we're working toward that goal of English proficiency they are being um you know they're receiving Communication in both languages throughout the whole day and I think storm does have a bilingual she's a part-time or or a Subs yeah okay mhm it's obvious not ideal right yeah yeah but the kids are so resilient and like you know even when we walk in the classroom they can tell like our Spanish they're like oh they're like clearly not bilingual and like we're able to communicate and work together and um they're very generous with being forgiving to okay and across together I'm going to add to Across the state there is a huge need and a call for bilingual teachers as well as SL teachers I just got something on my Instagram ISB is really doing some advertisement so bavia as long as the rest of the state is really trying to find that opportunity to hire more teachers so if you know anyone Danielle tell them to apply yeah we're looking I mean everybody is it's because it's a massive need everywhere I just think of like the eel Hub at storm and I just I kind of have brought that up as we should probably I mean shouldn't we have a sub that can fill in that is bilingual that would be great if that person existed yeah and to and to Echo Danielle what you're saying too um RMS hired two new El staff this year and so now all three e teachers at RMS are bilingual in Spanish and English so that's been a great asset to the a building so yeah that would be great than thank you everybody all right last discussion Point uh we have board matters um on this one this one's set aside uh for board members have dialogue on various topics um it might not necessarily use at every board meeting this evening we're going to kind of give an opportunity if people want to kind of continue discussion regarding the data which we talked kind of a little bit about earlier um and P specifically about board policy seven uh column 180 but also to give a chance because I know um a number of you met with Brad and Holly to kind of look at some of the and if you had any information you kind of wanted to report out of that or any discussion so leave it at that that was a really good meeting with you guys it was it was helpful to actually like sit down and kind of see what how how deep you can really go with everything um and that was part of you know we we voted on the uh the dashboard and I was appreciative that you know I know that the data is pulled in a certain way where Panorama it's not getting plugged in but something I had asked about was um you know there are certain things in uh Power School that we're not able to capture and like the stuff that we have to actually report on like if it's a harassment or bullying doesn't go through Power School um like the the actual criteria that we have to kind of go through um to report back to the state um that's being done on that Google doc form so I'd asked if that can be plugged into data and that is something they said like Holly could do if it was something that we had asked for so if there is specific data we could it's being kept um it's being kept now to comply so we could ask for it to be shown up there but it won't be on canama um until like we can actually get that done like make it more personalized I guess Beyond those like few different bars but it was really interesting to see how far down like all the stuff it's kept yeah no no and I know I personally would like to have an understanding from our board what we want to see if we want to see any of that specific to 7180 um and not today but like I think it's to me it's important that we don't just wait to see what happens this is something that like I I made clear and I personally feel that um I think we should have get try to get it as right as possible and be upfront with like what do we want to understand about our bowling because because we are in this new period of where we are capturing a lot of specific information um and I guess I would just I prefer to talk about it and maybe have that conversation together as a board there's anything specific we like to see show up on the dashboard related specific to this policy so um my thought is if there are board members that have some topics they want to kind of collect together a couple of things that you'd like to kind of continue to talk about if there's other ones and we kind of see them come together then we can kind of work onu there's enough kind of kind of impetus behind getting that discussion going so um otherwise we can just definitely make sure that we kind of look at the data as that you guys bring it online and see a gap then that's say the board can discuss if we feel that that's a gap that needs to get filled like just let you know what data points we for specifically yeah like if you say hey I think we need to monitor broing a bit more closely then some of the data may be easily provided then yes let's kind of put that or we want to look at Chronic absenteeism maybe more than it's actually being able to be reported or on a schedule or whatever part of me says in my opinion let's see what kind of coales is understand what that begins to look like and then find out based on that oh that's not reporting quite what we we expecting to see and then give them an opportunity maybe even to talk about like why it's not you know because maybe expectations versus reality are a little different or maybe just how it's being um accumulated from a data perspective is not capturing reality I think this is I mean we're talking specifically to the bullying policy not not to any other part so when I ask my questions and that's where I think an a discussion might be important because it's if I'm understanding correctly the data that we are now capturing is not on the dashboard it will not show up on the dashboard and it's not part of power school where pulled it's going to have to be pulled from these Google documents that are being kept um and so if we want to understand if um what our racial incidents are if we're having like a uptick on in this place whatever it is that we care what we've heard and what we feel is important at this point so our dashboard does not show that so in order for it to show it we're going to have to talk about it and so if we wait what are we waiting for I what I'm kind of like we're going to wait for what though because none of the data that is being shown on the dashboard is this data we're not capturing bullying data but we can but we have to would decide as a board do we want to show it on the dashboard do we want to have it presented in a certain way do we want it presented to us I think that's that's why I'm asking for a discussion a further discussion as a board so how do we get that done do we have a so we have like you're saying solicit basically opinions from each of you if like yes I'd like to discuss this topic further I think you know I think it should be something that's presented to the board I think it should be something that's shown off you know put on a dashboard element or whatever to kind of do that and kind of do that as a part of a potentially a special meeting or a lighter meeting we have coming up which November is a long meeting so it probably be a special Mee well yeah I mean one of the one of the main things that I was hoping for was to see the the data on incidents types um stuff like that to be able to compare to see you know one if there's a a way to measure if there there a way for us to have a baseline so then earlier in the school year M so then we can have a spot to say where where if anywhere was there an improvement MH if there's any type of data that we have that's readily available now to see so that we can then say are these areas for improvement or if that's Tom's decision to make cuz you know so that we're not saying improve on this area this is you know right kind of the balcony versus the Dance Floor thing right um but to understand what areas of data you're using to drive decisions that you're making or practices that you're implementing that's what I would like love to see like um that's kind of my thought process on it I I thought that that was maybe I misunderstood but I thought that was kind of the the driving factors behind seeing some of this data was so that we could I don't need to say everything I just said again but set a baseline okay track Target data I mean is there anybody that feels that we I mean shouldn't be looking at the day I mean is there a base understanding of like go ahead and collect it and present it to us so we understand what that is me save off an email process you know but you need to be very careful of that's going to be like we may end up having to end up in close session if depending on what the what you put on there attach to that of I don't I don't think any of us would expect it to drill down so deep I don't think that's a yeah and I think that that's why we need to have that discussion for sure but I don't know Open Session versus closed session we can decide well it just depends on the data that ends up getting done and I think Sue's just and I'm not trying to put words in your just we got to be cognizant of what we're asking for the data they presented because we got to be careful about that particular subset of data yeah sure because you can inadvertently drill yourself into a student's identifying issue think they'll be able to let us know if we're we're approaching that if we're asking for something at least that's a hope you guys were did really awesome at showing us like that's why that's not a good idea and that that's how you can narrow that down so I mean that was awesome okay and we can open it up to other items like for me I think the big thing was I'd like to be able to show like more academic performance data um and I I talked about this scenario with at our at our meeting is I'd really like this dashboard to be used by prospective new families wanting to move into this district and they want to know that type of information so like you said that academic piece it was like you can't click on it say what are your sat SCS but could have Hol show the static images yes but eventually like bring that all together so would it be like a board meeting that's not specific to this policy but just in data as a whole time we do that yeah like we want this on data Das for this is the data and have that discussion on what's important to us as a majority or no if I may yeah and I think this is a perfect time to insert that the DMG group that you approved can also help guide some of that conversation a lot of their metrics that they'll point to are you know research based and best practices and best gains of growth and what metrics we should be that are based on our strategic plan so they they could be help that's a good point they may say for the you have this goal and you're tracking nothing that supports that right you know so like if we have a goal of academic performance and we're not showing anybody about how we're supporting or succeeding at that or continuing to work on that then we need to do that you know yeah so okay yeah good yeah all right so that doesn't stop anything you're doing from a dashboard of generating that because my challenge has always been like the data is so broad how do you begin to see and like what you can call out of it is almost like well try this yes I can do that try that no I can't quite do that like me be a little bit of let's see the first basis of what it does but let's go ahead and continue the conversation with some of the other items that you you mentioned and then you mentioned and can look at some of those okay all right thank you very much Administration Tom anything you want to share for comments yeah um so I just like to say good evening everybody who is here thank you to all of our presenters thank you to our audience members I am stealing Aaron kilberg Thunder since he is not here I feel like someone have to someone has to say so I want to say thank you to our guests here in the audience tonight and thank you for sharing your thoughts um I know it's meaningful to the board and they have as you can tell very thoughtful conversations and Care um so I want to start off by acknowledging um the incredible work our staff and administration have been doing with the start of the year as we are nearing and inching towards the end of October there's a lot of work that's going on I think it's evident in the progress we see in our collaborative committee meetings um but I also think you saw glimpses of it tonight in the pr presentations that we saw the work that the students shared that they're doing and you hear about all these internship opportunities that our kids are being exposed to this is the momentum we're going to keep gr on right and we're going to continue to get better um I I'm also very deep deeply grateful for that level of dedication and hard work that everyone is putting behind this and the thoughtful conversations um with all that said this could not be done without the incredible leadership of our building principles and assistant principles um this week highlights uh principal appreciation month which includes our assistant principles and so I just wanted to share with the board that there is a deep amount of gratitude in the leadership of our principles when the Embargo data comes out you will see that um the work that we move can not be done without the building leadership and um I just want to take a moment to acknowledge them U for the immense pressure that they are feeling every day of the work and the tempo at which they must operate on a daily basis um so I just wanted to say kudos to them and I and that our principles are appreciated and assistant principles um as we reflect on the great work that's already underway it's clear that not only we have a lot of motion but there's more to come more ahead of us you approve some things tonight that we will all work on together um just yesterday we continued important discussions at our DCC about the role of AI in education and in our field and what that possibility looks like as is it impacts students and their lives um we are also uh as you saw tonight um you approved some things here that were a part of the work that we've done in our committees that are responsive and and create an environment that's responsive to our student voices and needs as well and our staff such as the approval of the anchor text to be displayed tonight right and that was a direct reflection of conversations that came out of CAC but conversations that emerged from student voice and teacher voice so you know I think if you're ever searching for examples when you're uh you know engaged in a conversation with Community you know in your spaces that you live in these are great examples for you to draw from um I also want to express my appreciation for the board's decision on approving some of the work that we're moving forward with tonight such as the dashboard and the uh um uh auditing group that we're going to be using as part of our strategic plans calling right for next steps I think this is going to help us all move forward and and do this together as an entire district and next month I'm excited because we're going to begin reviewing our building and District level data with the board so building principles are working very hard right now to prepare their presentations for next month's board meeting um all eight buildings will be going forward and presenting to you uh at the board meeting um then the following month the district will be presenting to you at at the aggregate level as a district so I'm excited for you to hear about the great things that are happening but you're also going to Glimpse get a glimpse of what each building is identified as what some areas of targeted prioritized uh work is for their building with their uh building leadership teams so we're super excited for that presentation as well you know I I think um I don't believe our buildings and our leaders are falling into a trap of we're good we're good we're good I think they're trying to what we're all trying trying to do is say here are some great things we're building upon right and areas that we're looking to reflect on and then on a final note I do want to take a moment um uh to thank our RMS teams for their work today during the whole situation uh being personally on site I was able to witness firsthand the care collaboration and professionalism of everyone involved um I also want to reinforce my appreciation to BPD and chief Maza for being on site and responding as quickly as possible when we were brought uh the situation was brought to our attention um I think it really just reinforced for me how deeply committed we all are to the well-being of our students the collaboration working together as a team people dropped everything that had to be happening on the school day and responded to things and so um you know this is again one of those processes where um we also spend time looking at our own internal feedback we look at feedback I know we've heard tonight some questions or concerns and we do hold a after Action Report meetings so that we can break down what did what went well and what are some things we have to shore up but I wanted to thank our RMS team uh for how responsive they were right so that concludes my comments for today right uh board comment Su do you want to start I'm good thank you okay thank you Rob she gives you no time to prepare I needed a couple minutes to think about it um so I guess uh maybe uh so celebrating successes uh what we had this earlier this evening uh I'd like to do more of that I mean I hope we're not limiting it to just one per session if we can get two three four whatever whatever it happens to be like to hear more about those uh those uh those items so um and then uh just real quick I I have to give it I just generally don't do this but I have to give a shout out to the bavia girls tennis team um they won sectionals for the third time out of four years and um four of the girls are going to State um actually I guess they're leaving tomorrow and they'll they'll play on Thursday so good luck to them as as they go upstate not down state so um but uh the other thing is uh Brad Nelson I wanted to say appreciation to him and it's my my my involvement as a family member in the tennis program is coming to a conclusion here so but uh he has done an outstanding job so he's one of the best not only coaches but best human beings that uh we have as part of our community so just a great uh appreciation for Coach Brad Nelson that's it uh so I'll say congratulations to Theo 7th grade girls volleyball team for winning the End season Conference tournament happy National Filipino American Heritage Month happy Halloween and happy dwali to all those that are uh just want to express my gratitude to the Roto staff as well as uh the police department um having the opportunity to have a closed session to understand the security measures and everything that goes on I know that there's a lot of involvement um seeing on social media the Public's um desire for knowledge and understanding what's going on it's understandable and as a parent of the child who at Rolo it's understandable to stress and want to know what's going on every single second um but I know that you are all taking care of the school and the students first and then you're going to respond when you can so I appreciate it so I'm just expressing my gratitude for doing that that's all that was really nice um I think this is the only time the only day that I was happy about my daughter being home with the flu scooch over a little bit um she's a Rolo student so um yeah thank you and I I mean here definitely we as parents are concerned and I I responded to you Tom and I appreciate the transparency I don't know the timeline behind everything and we don't get details understandably um but I did hear from some people that they just even though you didn't have the answers that you still said hey this is happening just you're aware and then I I just appreciated the um education piece behind it um so again I don't know the timelines but just reading through that it just again that's what I want to say but um it's it's always hard when you do have your student in the school because that's a piece of your heart so again I was just like glad you're in the bedroom with your flu just stay quiet um uh I wanted to kind of bring off of uh Rob's talking about our celebration I think one thing I would love to see too is our lower grade levels like I I really want to hear about their celebrations too but I mean I love when students are up at that Podium it is the coolest thing I don't know if it's just like a weird thing with me but I just get so excited because they're just so cool standing up there being able to talk to all of us and give these presentations like the broadcast kiddos I can't I can't stand up there and give a presentation like that um so I just I'm so proud of them and so I do love to celebrate I again would love to see some other kiddos up there too I I love hearing from our high school kids um this is something just personally my husband I swear every time we watch games he is he says stuff and then the like the the announcers say it and I was like man this would he would love to have this something like this like I I'm just excited to see where our students go with this as it being an option how cool I mean just it's really really cool um and then yay for all the collaboration and I think that's all I have I just I'm really I'm grateful for our new student ambassadors and just the celebrations that we can have with our kiddos um from my perspective um I took a few notes like lower grade levels and close session and some stuff so we'll talk about that later um the RMS I just kind of one of the interesting things that I'm kind of continually learning as my first year as board president I got a phone call from him as he's driving over to say hey I just want to let you know because I don't have a kid in school right now so I don't get the emails I don't get the notifications and all that other stuff so he let me know and we talked about kind of like when do we let the board know and when like the decision really that they determined was kids first safety first let's get a grip on understanding what's going on make sure the parents all know and then let us know you know kind of thing um and then and the one thing I will say kind of that I saw that a little bit because I don't usually see too much I'm limited like Facebook or whatever online is but was nice see when someone was like I didn't get the email someone usually a few minutes later like seconds later was like here's a copy of it right like people trying to kind of educate each other because you can't control how fast things H your inbox sometimes um I uh the uh other thing is I really was kind of struck today that while we have celebrating successes at the beginning really feel like through a lot of this there was a lot of successes celebrated today you know with BAC with like moving forward with the um warm safe and dry you know there's a lot of kind of good things that we kind of percolating because a lot of work is getting done and I know sometimes it feels like we probably talk a lot but things are happening up here um and behind the scenes more importantly um and then lastly we had a meeting with um fellow bavia governmental organizations this week we're starting in kind of a the the group decided we're all going to meet quarterly so that's the bavia library that's uh the school district with us representing it uh that's the park district and the City of BET so we're meeting quarterly with them just to kind of share are there things we need to be concerned about um the mayor's at them we learned a lot about growth in bavia for a little bit on that um and and it was a great it was a great meeting it was a fun meeting um and and we talked about things like one of the examples we probably spent 20 minutes we had a very nice agenda we didn't follow any of it but um she but we talked about Ai and like what different entities we're kind of looking at for that and how like the part distri is looking at it for streamlining some of their operations and you know um the library is talking about they're getting ready to kind of run some kind of classes and and begin to educate people in that because I'm seeing profession and libraries are some of the ones that are taking the Forefront on trying to teach the pitfalls of it while the education fear figures out how to kind of safely let it into the world so um yeah so it was a good meeting I'm looking forward to that in the future so and with that I will entertain a motion to adjourn so mooved by Danielle second by second second by Raquel all in favor opposed none it is now 9:47 p.m.

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e good evening everyone this is your host Jeff mne along with my co-host Steve venu as the East Meadows take on the agam brownies last week Easton Meadow beat Pope Francis at home one nothing what do you think about that Steve that was certainly a huge victory for the program uh I think as most of our viewers probably know Pope Francis had been undefeated in MIAA western Mass play so huge win for the the Spartans last week we hope they can build on that um for a big week this week with agam tonight and then on the road to South Hadley on Thursday that'll be an interesting matchup as well South Hadley's number two I believe in western Mass they're they're a solid team as well first we have to get through the brownies who've you know have a decent record this year uh I don't think the record is as good as the team themselves are I think they're a better team than their record shows Y and again anytime you can win seven games that's certainly depending regardless of what league you're playing in that's a you know they're they're like you said not to be taken LLY the Spartans are going to have to come out with uh you know a good effort to take care of business tonight okay and we're off open kickoff controlled by agam they drop the ball back to build from their own defensive end Shina mne gives pressure Laura pero gives Chase there ball is loose at Midfield and oops emusa tries to play the ball through denied as she goes to M whitward Bella white steps up can of plays outside on the far sideline to Addie Addie's dispossessed there but steps quickly to retake the ball agam intercepts the clearance pass and B is battled for Possession looks like Susa has a line on it looks to switch it can't quite get it switched plays up and over to's going to get in she'll get through that yep o nicely turned by the defender we have to do that fill those gaps today from the their for forward or Defenders when they pass the ball up they have to be the first ones to the ball in the Midfield too much room to carry at Midfield here have to step on that ball Kylie Marino looks to deal out of the back goes to Anna Roman who plays over to gab Gabby to skie up Gabby lets it play out wisely shielding it out and gag like a lot of other teams in this league they like to pack it in leave the opposite side of the field wide open so if we can get the ball to the Midfield and we get a switch yep that'll be a key Susa to whitler whitler looks to send to skoy can't quite get the ball there missplay there mne with terrific on ball pressure oh it's an unfortunate whistle good ball good defense agam will get a direct kick restart from just inside their own uh offensive end look to be played in from there Spartans get 11 players behind the ball nice step by Anna Roman mat comes tracking back on that Yep looks like that'll be off agam for a near side throwi in for East Long Meadow did the same thing last week against uh Pope Francis came out slow hopefully yeah got into a rhythm there so hopefully they'll find their feet under them and uh find a good good Rhythm it was when they stepped up their on ball pressure that they really that they they turn the tide against Pope there was was impossible for Pope players to find a way to turn on to turn the ball forward that's it it's always tougher for them to have their back to the the goal right yep the throw still looking still looking possesses plays back to Kylie Marina who plays a through ball that just falls short of Susa there and a miss misjudged ball there looks like it may well it's not going to run all the way out Emerson with the pick y she looks to counter quickly same thing you were talking about Jeff trying to get it to that weak side before agam could readjust Susa looks to deal back mne mney with a nice ball to O Gabby just quicker look a second faster on that reaction to go through with that ball good job good job that's a good look to move that ball quickly side to side that's one of those things we get the ball One Touch to the middle switch Fields the whole other side will be open just a little bit too far otherwise Gabby would have been off down the sideline with the numbers which is it's what we want ball goes to mne she serves back to Ken Marina who looks to then play the ball up and through to almost to does control it she's got wward through nice move one more Gabby wide good pass good ball Gabby looks to take herce cross the middle back to mne who has time to operate one more watch Gabby off sides back out to Emma nice dri Emma goes right through there you go Emma Sosa there you go goal Emma Sosa good job good job seeing Gabby disi off sides not pass in a tour which would have been off sides and taking the ball up the middle and scoring what a great job by Emma Sosa ter that was terrific Poise in the front it went mne and then mne to disi dool looking back to give the ball back that was four or five touches on that before that opened up that was really good poison possession you have to try to figure it out so we'll look by number 10 emmaa nice service misplayed by a headball there from agam and Jeff I certainly don't want to get greedy but this game would open up and get a lot a lot easier and a lot more comfortable if the Spartans could string three or three or so goals together here in the first half that would certainly be nice absolutely we've had that problem all season of not uh really finishing the game off good look good look she's got her make her play it make her play it that's not going out make her play it good well this is another thing I think that they're in trouble with with that they have is goal kicks from what I've seen and heard I don't think that they're uh they're not good at clearing it out of their Zone well this will be a terrific place to win that just about five minutes gone here the Spartans have already taken an early uh one- zero lead on a goal by Emma sua early on again that' be a good place to win that ball and a Roman does looks to drive it back in no one picking her up oh good ball just a little little heavy and that'll be a throwi in that's going to be a deep throw in for agam this should be a good place to lock it in um that's not so bad actually to win that uh to give that throw in up there and try to see what can be done agam I think tried to buy the goal kick no such no such luck good pressure coming in from the Spartans it's a headball that goes back towards the goal and that's out so the Spartans will get a good chance to attack from deep in their own offensive third Kylie Marino throws the ball back to Jill Stevens Jill had a terrific assist on that Susa goal against Pope Francis last week ball goes wide to Jordan brings the ball back to the middle up over the top Gabby chance she got her space got the numbers get a good cross plays it back to ma nice turn just missed it just missed it no worries Jill has time to track back pressure coming and that ball stays in Kylie Marino down there chasing it oh that is terrific closing speed as we've often said from both of the Marino sisters really good closing speed hand yep looks like Jill will play that dead ball restart from uh within the Spartan defensive third and awam wins the ball there Anna Roman's the first Spartan to step to it Kylie plays the ball out and there'll be a chance to regroup uh and set the defensive alignment as awam gets the throw in on the near sideline just inside of Midfield good win by Anna Roman out of the air ball is Ping ponged back and forth out of the air that ball is pushed I think a little too long deep throwing for EA y exactly substitutions Eve Butler Mia petto Ari Goldman for Gabby disi Anna Roman and Addie Jordan okay as you mentioned Jeff this is a deep throwi in um on the near sideline for the Spartans they'll need to try to make sure they build this ball out Kylie finds Eve and it's played out from there that'll be an Agawam throw in agam sends a number of players forward and that's a tough B got to again good job by E Butler to get in front of that no call there Bella white with the clear Sabina clears the ball out and the Spartans will have a chance to regroup now this is when you just want to lock it down you don't have to run through it just lock it down and because otherwise they're going to come in like that you have them locked in in the back contain it y make them play it short make them play it back or Square just don't allow those seams up front to go through zag wson do a lot of that so far they're going to go in and out they go to the midfielders give go right to the back and the trip is called on the far sideline and it looks like Kenna Marina will put the ball back in play from there oh NOP sorry Kenna will pinch to the middle while Jill will go out and play the ball in from the far sideline one by agam then Jill wins it back Jill looks to go through and she does this was very effective again uh against Pope she'll Retreat now and they'll reset their alignment Kenna will come up and take the throw in from about 35 40 yards out on that far [Music] sideline plays the ball in nicely Susa could oh no Mis touch there though it's nicely cleared by Agawam controlled by the Spartans mne goes through she looks to serve wide to petto pto's got wheels she could get there stop it good job by Mia y nice stop by Mia with a touch well done nice service sa all the way through oh beautiful ball to the middle clear out hit that Bella yep hit that oh what a good ball through by oh that's right good Shield that was a good ball good ball work inside that's what I like to see nice unselfish play by the Spartans there almost almost slipped almost slipped Susa in through the back door there just under 30 minutes remaining in the first half uh East LA meow one agam zero Jill wins that ball out of the air plays it to Mack who has a chance to settle distributes to Bella it looked like now oops there's a indeterminate possession at this point still knocked around a bit and it runs long for an East meal throat substitutions Addie Addy Jordan Anna Roman Lily Dunn emmaa Eve Butler and Bella White ball is thrown back to Jill all by herself at Mid like to see switch plays a nice service ball just just just headed by the backline defense from agam there Mack has a chance bring it down Saina wins the ball nicely shielded fights for it again a second player is able to dispossess she tracks back contains contains any threat ball is stopped there ball goes through stepped up nicely by uh Ken Marino but unable to clear it the full way agam looks to distribute operating there broken up by Ari Goldman nice defensive check back by Mia petto as well that ball served to the middle Roman steps up and when Jordan could be off one through it o a lot of ping pong here yeah let's get it down to feet settle not that that could be a Troublesome ball out off good job by Emerson to come out well seen that's one of the things I like what she's done from this year to last year she's definitely a lot faster off of her line getting to those balls I don't think there's maybe one ball this whole year she's it's been close otherwise she's been really good job of coming out getting those it's been good and that's all part of the learning the position and good decision making so certainly it was a good good play there to neutralize what was a dangerous through ball for agam a making their first substitutions of the game Jeff said he would take care of the easto substitutions if I did the agam substitutions and I have once again dropped the ball tonight so well he done applies pressure just unable to win the ball at Midfield Brownie's come back for an attacking possession cleared out by kenam Marino that could run long but with what we're giving Chase it's always hard for me to tell exactly where that far sideline is it does go out for a agam throw in one there by Dunn possession battled for as it goes back to kenned to serve a nice ball forward another win out of the air The aguan Backs have been good out of the air so far Jill gets around the outside Kylie Marino looks to shift and play the ball back out witw gives Chase as she sort of back checks there a little bit and Anna Roman wins the ball coming out of the back ball goes through Addie could have a step to it she does where's her Runners we going to need some people to make the run through send that run through for her yep gets the ball down in the corner yep Mia P got it chance she could beat her take her Corner me good there you go obstruction good job by Mia that was a quick whistle you don't usually get that call all that fast so I'll take it the dangerous place um K Marino hits a terrific ball from here couple of runners in Jill Stevens forward is she often is on these balls to win this out of the air Kylie looks to serve good nice service agan wins it out of the air again man they've been good out of the air in the back so far not sure what the foul was but it's it'll go against East Long Meadow Jill quickly hustles to track back to that Center back spot I think we need to get back into the uh get the ball on the ground take the momentum out of awam and right momentum shifting a little bit towards agam's way with winning the ball pressuring the ball winning the balls in the Midfield it's certainly with 25 minutes left in the first half one goal is certainly nothing to nothing to sit on and say okay we're all set we need to continue to push um and see what we can get for more offensive pressure and more goals here aguan mounts a nice effort here Mia petto checks back and the ball runs out looks like we'll have some substitutions Bella white Lucy Parsons Emma Sosa and Anna Martin in for Mia petto McKenna whitward Sabina mne and Ari Goldman so Kylie Marino with a throw in on the near sideline Bella white wins it and plays a nice ball up and over o That's the misplay you've been looking for out of the back and agam they've been so good out of the air the goalkeeper stays put does not come off her line Addie gives Chase Chase comes in on the far side as well good place to go through here anna Martin comes in with a good Chase good Hustle by Anna Martin just played offer at the last second that'll be a an agam throw in from right in front of the East Long Meadow bench oh we'll have some substitu oh no I thought sorry my mistake I thought there was some agam it's a good ball for face she gets a through ball oh good look for Lucy just doesn't quite get there what's the call I don't know what I didn't see that one I think the last couple of calls been a little soft both ways yes this is going to be a very looks like it's going to be a tightly tightly officiated game too much space for her to win there go Lucy Parsons is off take it kid good ball to Bella white Bella white crosses it back Addy goes in almost almost good combination play um with some of the uh upfront people Parsons then looking through to try to push that ball good work agam controls it drops the ball back and looks to build out of their own end nicely taken by Lily Dunn who then distributes good ball off to Emma who got bumped from behind but no call nicely done on a by Lucy yep Lucy with a nice feed to Ky Kylie lot of congestion there for the Spartans have it have it m if she can get a clean look at it yes oh good shot by Emma y good job to get her hips around that as she was going away from the goal good good drive on goal nice Save By The aam Keeper and she'll look to get her troops and minions distributed punch the ball out and it goes through without being won just over Midfield Ken of wins it there there you go keep it on the field switch it to the round there you go like not quite one there that's all looks to have an agam Runner does Anna Martin will track her all the way back will shield her out Shield the ball out well done that's one of the plays Steve I think I would like to see when Jill gets it play it off to the outside back and then work your way up there not just constantly up the middle make them stretch the field out wide then when they get out wide then you have that middle open Eve Butler and Gabby Doolan Anna Roman and Lily done out yeah I agree Jee especially as you said I mean a lot of these teams that we've seen that sort of shift so far they're they so overplay the ball side of the field that strong side that if you're able to shift sometimes there are seams there that's a seam right there but Stepped On by Jill well done yeah that's how we scored the first goal we played the ball right out back and around work the way up the the ball up the field they're a a play tight and they're looking for those little seams to put it through too much aguam pressure here not enough one balls not enough not enough wins in the back for Ison meow and a little bit too a little bit too passive a little bit too complacent allowing that ball to get into to the the East Long Meadow end of the field we got to continue to push and and see what we can do to possess offensively here yeah like you said that one uh one goal lead isn't much that you want no even two again too much space for her to win that ball and carry that's just too much space in the back nice step by Kylie Marino y good chance for ball goes through for Parsons she's on she got a chance to get there Bella White gonna give Chason just come up short now we got to lock this down mark up your girls just don't let them turn let them play everything back continue to apply pressure to that back line and that goalkeeper see right now we have girls that are wide I don't get that much too much it's it's throw in girls are wide open y not the girls that are even on the other side of the field and again it was that tight mark against Pope it was that it was it was suffocating it was absolutely suffocating there was no chance for them to turn there was no chance for them to play I'd love to see um A Renewed sense of that that real tight defensive pressure because that play with that high intensity yep yep of course easy for me to call for high intensity here from the booth of course agan plays the goal kick short East Lomo should be in on that E Butler goes back to Susa has room to operate good ball leaves to Lucy nice ball good Ball by Lu hit that o back again looks outside to Jordan nice turn ni turn oh nice unlucky unlucky unlucky that was well done everything but the finish right there everything but the finish a terrific shot from Addie on that nice pass great Save By The Keeper who was able to Parry it away but not out of danger and then just a little bit High a little bit high and wide Lucy Dunn just missing her first Varsity goal so we'll take that one next time no worries that was a good continued pressure like that is going to yield benefits so if we can continue to play that that high pressure uh in that last offensive third of the field that'll be a good look for the Spartans Mack whitler Mia petto Anna Roman Saina mne in and the people that they substituted for now to be Anna Martin Lucy Parsons e Butler Susa coming through Gabby she'll have a chance to turn her she does nice cross good cross who's there m whitward gets a piece of it still out still in put it on goalie's out who's there there we go well done now that's how you stay with a go that's how you stay with it m whitler stays with the ball gets a cross off for Addie Jordan to be right there to put it right in good work by both girls that's why that's how you stay that's that's the idea of staying with the play right we always tell them when they're younger stay with the play it's just out of the keeper hands Mack stays with it gets a cross off to Addy Jordan and that's one of the terrific things not only is McKenna whitward a highly skilled player she is also totally totally Relentless and terrific for Addie to stay with it as well to remain in position and to put that ball in awesome job Esa meow up two nothing with just over 18 minutes to go by number four number five wh with the assist terrific good things happen when you apply pressure good things happen when you apply pressure ball goes through that's a tough ball there Kylie will run it down good work by Kylie stay with it and get it goal kick wow that's nicely won that is nicely won good kickoff Kylie to place it off her foot and keep us Jill plays a nice lobbed ball out petto seals her Defender plays it turns plays through it agam wins it there on the near side looks to play to the middle has Laura pero there who can't quite get enough on it go back possessed at about just outside of the 18 by by Mia checking back that ball goes in dangerously there you go M takes it good job keep good job by B it's been like seven games the first bow I've let out I was goingon to say do you want I think that goes back oh wait well yeah a number of years ago yeah the basketball that's when I was coaching yes Emerson and I needed a backdoor screen for fourth grade girls I said did anybody know what a backd door screen is in Emerson was the only girl that knew what a screen was never mind a back door screen so that's why I gave her nickname B for bow NOS back in the days for those of our viewers that remember the Bon nose campaign so macarini knows Bo Jackson B noos so yep so forever I always know that when somebody's going good job Bo I know that Jeff is in the house somewhere giving a shout out to Emerson so and she totally loves it good job ma almost well done it's a good idea to try to Spring Mac loose [Music] 16 minutes remaining uh awam zero East Long Meadow two uh good job with some renewed offensive pressure in the last couple of minutes good job with that defensive seal not allowing Agawam to turn here they have a chance to go to the middle oops Bella white runs it down goes to the far side and it looks like agan Midfield will have a chance to operate however nicely run down there by Bella White I believe ball goes into kenam Marino and Roman with a Twist turn very good goes back the other way just had an opportunity and mne goes through to the middle nice service just over the top and that'll go that'll spring Susa who's on side nice service from Sabina Susa cuts it back in oh good work by Emma nice pass Lay It Off yep back to mcki O good look good look good work nice combin play Sabina with a lovely serve up and over the top just off the top portion of that defender's head for awam that freed up Susa went back to the middle and then SAA got her own shot out of it well done it's an awfully big net Steve coming coming from a person who scored one goal in my entire Varsity career I'll try to I never scored I know her brother's trying to uh one up on her so Anna Roman wins it there ball distributed back out to Bella white nice Kye who's got a chance to see the field she'll see it slide one through yep nicely ball to Mack ma still stays with it unlucky unlucky now this Agawam could go quickly and try to get numbers but they don't East Long meow Retreats nicely into a good defensive posture uh and is going to be hopefully able to neutralize that threat I thought agam had a chance to go quickly there but they did not so no turn see aam does do a very they do a really good job getting the ball to the midfielder and then the midfielder getting it to their outside mid o nice distribution from Susa Beautiful by m who's go MIA going through right by her me have a good cross oh nice try by Mia petto all right oh that Max saw that coming on the ball she got and she just laid it off a beautiful ball petta was able to beat her Defender terrific combination play I me tell you one thing tonight these girls nobody's being selfish they're looking to pass aboutall and they're in the Box passing the ball off they're not trying to force any of the shots getting goodlooking goodlook shots that's what I like to see it's a good ball out of the back from the Islam meow Earth from the agam keeper on that punt into the Islam Meadow end oops misplayed there at Midfield Susa gives Chase if they could turn her over and Saina wins it there Susa looks to see what she's got a nice through ball what a ball by Emma beautiful stay with it Addie also stays with it good shot what a through ball what a yeah that was a nice outside the foot pass by Emma flick to thread the needle beautiful oops a little bit over the top here Kenna will go back for it and play it back out balls out on an errant agam head be an East L meow throw just inside of Midfield on the far sideline they're making great runs tonight too they're the midfielders are holding on to the ball just long enough to Bella drops back get good Lin Jill has a chance to distribute and she finds Mia who does a nice turn right M serve this one across Mia continues to provide Chase [Music] there she does forces the missplay yep good work Kylie Marino taking the throw in Anna Roman Loops in for a run to the corner and that's where it goes tried to lay it off to Mac a little bit too heavy on the head but I like the idea Eve Butler Ari Goldman Lily Dunn Lucy Parsons Anna Martin Gabby disi I nailed it if I were you I might that that that's that's got to make the Highlight re for the end of the year that's my highlight that was that was impressive Mia petto Emma Sosa ma whitler Anna Roman Bella white and Addie Jordan folks you don't see that every day that's uh that's some that's high level announcing right there that's it poised seamless not rattled by the large number of substitutions and delivered not at all hopefully the East metal players that everyone's good about where they're going to reestablishing position with that many substitutions coming on at once the skie goes through it and LLY Dunn gives Chase Gabby wins it again mne locks in in the Middle agan with a chance to go through this is your freshman connection up here Lucy Parsons and Lily Dunn up top so we'll see what they can do when they get the ball there it goes here we go and it Springs Lucy Dunn makes the Run unmarked although somebody looks like they're going to pick her up now Lucy will beat her to the corner pull back there drop back good coming through oh Butler with a touch that's a little bit too heavy but the idea is right to go back to Parson's outside nice run by Lucy I like that you know she she didn't try to force it being a Freshman a lot of times you might want to try to force that in and she knows enough to pull back doesn't have the numbers pull back lays it off to Ari and unfortunately just had a little heavy of a touch it's good work out there we've gone under the 10-minute Mark for the first half uh here in East Long Meadow the Spartans uh leading the visiting aguan brownies by the score of two to nothing nice ball out of the back Kenna plays it there seals her off and the ball goes out of bounds for an awam throw in um just into their just barely into the offensive zone for them and the throw goes in played by Laura pero good ball yep Parson's almost had that outside of the foot turn herself this freeze somebody loose for an outside run and there's a runner in the middle if she can see good work by Kylie Marino to come over y corner kick okay we'll get to see what the Agawam corner kick play looks like here again two to nothing is certainly better than every goal we have is good but certainly not an insurmountable lead at any by any stretch here so want to win this ball and clear it agan puts a number of people with an out swinger into the box beautifully done nicely hit what a good head just a little wide but that's a good that's a good aerial it's a good aerial win right there we know you love your corner kicks well I shave some years off the end of my life I don't know um what I would like is I would love to go into the I would love to go into the half with another East long bow goal I would love to go in three nothing at halftime that would that would make my world a better place to be Jill Stevens looks to clear that ball on the goal kick she plays a nice ball up and over and it's one by y done hands up and over back done by Eve to just seal it Jill looks to go quickly catching Agawam in transition plays that ball flick over the line yep uh Lily Dunn looks to play through it doesn't quite get it Butler wins the ball there they look to try to they look to at least slow up agam at Midfield and they did she's got a through Runner outside she didn't see her knocked over there and agam will play it from just about Midfield a dead ball restart they send a number of people forward looks like the Spartans will hold just outside of the 18 nicely won by Jill Stevens dun tries to go in she gets a foot on it first well done and she wins it again can she send Lily or Lucy over the top she does lovely ball no call looks as if Lucy may have gotten a little tripped up with the Fe inter interfered with with near the far sideline but did the Scorpion drop no no such call no there's been many of them my un oh that is a that is a the Scorpion drop we'll have to work that back in again later agam throwing goes in and is won by the Spartans I think Kenna had one of those last game and she smiled when she was on the ground yep it's a there's some question the Agawam agan players thought that perhaps they had won that throw in but the referee's indication is that it will be a restart with an East Long meow throw in in their own offensive third Saina just looks for the head there GRE is over the top she continues to play that back Kenna Marino steps up agam in transition here the Spartan Defense has to regroup and get back goes down the far sideline Kylie looks over her shoulder she's the only one if this ball comes back to the middle this is nice step by Jill yeah well done o body's flying referee says play on Lucy tries to get through oh Jill Stevens makes the run I think Lily was offside I don't think they could have played it through to her there but that time she's on she's back on that time off to the races Off to the Races here she looks back she's going to have Kylie Marino nice serve oh oh beautiful push through oh almost Sabina just slotted that ball through that was lovely well done nice cut back by Dunn good to find mne she tried to slot the ball through good unselfish soccer and it looks like a number of Spartan substitutions are ready for the next Spartan throw and Kenna fights off two girls and out of bounds on us Jill gets a foot in there wins the ball nicely done shielded out for a goal kick well done all right Anna Roman Mia petto Emma Sosa Bella white Ma whitler and Addy Jordan in coming off Lily Dunn Lucy Parsons Sabina mne Ari Goldman Anna Martin and I think that's it nope oh an NOP see I should have let the expert hand it and can Marino good job nevertheless Steve Well five out of six all right let's bring it down to feet y nicely won there Jord get a little switch of a field ball kind of Ricochet back Kylie will have time to turn it up field and she does yeah midfielder she passes it to herself lays it off nice ball oh Emma puts one to the middle Chas on that if she tries to Shield it that's not going to work good run by Mia petto to get there excellent and that's a push whoa no call shocking nice step by Anna Roman yep and there is an infraction called there which did not look nearly as egregious as the one that the referee neglected to call or chose not to only a few moments earlier I'll take this one we'll take it I take this Emma I just I rip it on that one of those knuckling balls on net yep yep and then just let people have ADD it for the Ricochet she hits it 10 yards in front of the goalie short shot and then you crash the net yep beautifully done oh what a ball what a ball or that or that what a ball or that what a ball I tell you when that ball goes in it's the people at home when she hits the ball it's not just a a lofty ball that ball is knuckling and all of that so regardless of what it looks like that ball she hits the ball hard and that ball five or six people in western Mass who I would pick in girl soccer to have hit a dead ball restart for me and Emma is one of them that's just a lethal lethal ball uh Emma sua yeah there you go that's your uh three nothing Steve thank you he middle go by number 10 [Music] emmaa awam looks to go down the near sideline tries to serve back to the middle ball is there for a runner misplayed there happy birthday to Sandra Susa today with uh Emma scoring two goals for in the first half the game's not done yet so a hattick would be nice we'll always take the Hattie guess who's eating tonight that household everyone's everyone's doing well good Bella White Checks back to the ball now you want to maintain this three nothing lead you don't want to give up anything before the half that's a dangerous ball yep sure is so let's try to regroup for the last couple of minutes here and win that ball back look to regroup pressure it up o nicely done nicely turned dangerous ball yep what a shot by in it's a nice shot by Kylie Warner you know what that ball was almost identical to the that one that yeah from Long Meadow yeah ta yeah on that Long Meadow goal unmarked from about 20 yards Just Deadly that you know that's one of the things where when they get the ball they're that far out you could just contain you stab at them somebody like Kylie Warner is really good she's looking for you to stab at her cuz the moment you stab at her she's just gonna do that quick little move kind of like a Mila Dillard and they turn around and they go you know right by you or Tiago so I guess that means we get we need the fourth goal in the next to get me my three-goal lead at halftime so but again it just it's indicative of what we were talking about which says that you you can't you can't drop your shoulders and say okay we're all set you need to continue to press and you need to continue to to load up as many of those goals as you can and maintain your intensity both offensively and defensively absolutely I think we're on Booth cam I was smiling as my wife was trying to get a picture of us a noticeable drop in ratings for the last 45 seconds or so all right let's see what Esau meow can do coming out of the timeout we don't want them to get that uh little momentum going into half want crush it exactly right you want to crush it in these last two minutes now yeah I think what what's the uh total for the state rankings is it three for girls soccer maximum yeah maximum so kind of going forward you want to you want to get that three goal you can win by yes any goal you any game you can win by a three goal margin especially with us moving up and the ratings you can almost see that number 16 so you can get a first round uh home game would be nice right and knocking on the door moving up to 22 this morning with the latest rankings so yes slowly chipping away at it all good let's see if we can let's see if we can sneak one in in the last two minutes here ball is one out of the air by agan and played all the way back to the agam keeper who will look around distribute as we go under the two-minute Mark official time will be maintained by the officials on the field for the final two minutes one by Agawam nicely played out of the off the Ricochet there by Kylie Marino Bella white steps to it Emma has a chance to shut it down and Addy goes outside hold your line done just the right the idea was right Gabby was there just an ambitious ball over the top be a deep throwi in for Agawam we saw we were able to able to create some Chaos on this the last time if we can win this ball and then push it back to the middle uh maybe a chance for a through Runner here agam Ready's for the near side throw and it's one by Susa who plays it back to the middle ball is Ping ponged around Addy Jordan has it Eve Butler back to Addie Addy tries to play it up and over that was a hand ball yep not called certainly was though wh leaves it off to Addie Addy with a put that fire oh stay with it oh good intensity good intensity excellent pressure what another good Ball by Ma layoff that was really nicely done see if you keep hitting those gaps hitting those little through balls they're going to have a lot of opportunities like that the awam Defenders don't seem to pick up our Runners when they're going by they're just seem flat footed Bella white possesses it mid somewhere between Midfield in the in the 18 nicely won there by Eve distributes to petto petto pushes outside loses well loses possession Eve tries to maintain it gets it to Susa nice touch by Susa and that's just about what I have for the two minutes as well well unfortunate to give that one up in inside of five minutes but the Spartans do a nice job of getting some offensive pressure at halftime East Long three Agawam one e e e okay here we are back getting ready for second half action between Agawam and East Meadow here at East Meadow High School 40 minutes remaining second half Spartans leading 3 to one Spartans will take the opening kickoff goes from Jordan to Susa Susa plays to white white tries to find ma through and she might have her on that seam stay with it Mackie yep good job she can't pick it up nicely done Bella white looks to win the header Shields off the attacker nicely won there by Kylie oops Bella tries for the win but it's poked through Kylie recovers and she'll play it to the far sideline pretty good first half Jeff yeah I think you really good the first 20 minutes and then it was in and outs awam did a good job putting some pressure on it we had a lot of scoring opportunities which is which is good for us y a lot of good passes and hopefully they keep it up I think the first five minutes of this uh half is really going to see what we can do or what they can do I think there should be a lot of high intensity yep an Roman steps through she's got witw witw goes continues the Chase and agam looks to play it to the far or the near sideline rather and they'll wait here Chase given and contained by Kenna Marino who plays that ball through to Bella white oh bananas away from Bella a little bit there and there's a runner through if they don't oh ken STS on it terrific closing speed oh good job by Jill to come over that'll be an Agawam corner while we have time Steve I'd like to give a shout out to Beverly and Barry down in Florida we've got we've got fans up down the East Coast je we we're we're extending we're extend National two of Mia pto's biggest fans I understand so the agam corner will be from the near side here they run a few people in from the box it's an ins swinger it goes all the way through it's not cleared and there it is ball goes back to the middle nicely won there by Kylie Marino ball goes out Susa checks back can she turn her yes she can push her through P yes push her through One Touch Too Many yep good hustle back to get o unlucky good hustle back to get it that's one of the plays I think that Emma gets called on so many times during the year just because of her size she knocks other people down and too big and too strong yeah H unfortunate not to be able to just slot one through there to Bella white that would have been Off to the Races I think for for Bella on that one Kylie look looks at what she has and is she going to turn her outside turns her back up field nicely done ball comes into the middle Emerson will take it from there she looks to counter B quickly gets it out to add Jordan nicely done add's got room to run nicely slotted through Bella white gives Chase one there by bechne who pushes it back to Bella Bella goes back to Saina Sabina goes back through nicely done Roman with a all right nive yep she could dribble all the way through and she's going to try yeah unlucky almost picked that ball up when that agam Defender hit the ground was almost able to go right by her we lose all of our all the B balls agam looks to operate on the near sideline Bella white comes out with it there mcken mcken walks run through it got space yes tries to play to White intercepted white Chase there ball goes through Jill steps High somebody has to recover for Jill in the middle Jill wins the ball unlucky that's been the same quick whistle I mean In fairness it's been yeah they've been calling it through Emon comes out the line yeah pick it up please pick it up please this is not to my liking because it gives a gives a father years off the end of his life good yikes yikes I understand it tactically but I get nervous yeah but the refs have been pretty consistent with that call throughout the night which that's all we can ask for right at least if they're consistence not one way or another Shield it out and she does and she's going to go quickly goes to Kenna Marino in the back goes back to Addie who goes back to Kenna and the ball's played out on the near oh no wait I guess not Mia petto in for Gabby disi Ari Goldman in for Addie Jordan and with you with you back in the substitutions all is all is right in the world Jee that ball goes miss that I said with you back on the substitutions everything is right in the world the order has been restored to the force balance has been restored that's a push yep well called well I would wait to get numbers here I would wait to get numbers yeah yeah that's when they got a caught in the middle players yep that's a problem that's the defender ball y little push Ken stays with it good work k Ken pick it up and quickly over their head Mac has it tries to turn her inside Sabina mne goes through looks back to the hand Ball B and she's going to go through it plays it again to Susa Susa looks to distribute outside and over up and over down the line of Mia Mia's going to give Chase you know with her speed she's going to make her turn it there and she does good work they kick it out of bounds and we get the ball down in the 15 yard line got real quiet here really quiet our call is heard throughout that looked like a hand ball again but perhaps not an arm outside of the natural shape of the body so no such call throwing forth coming for East L Meadow nicely done played out again by Agawam I'd be fine with that play for the next 33 minutes well anytime there's a throw and you know it's going to go at least a couple at least three or four perhaps we've exceeded bedtime for the ball girls for the first half and goes into Susa who continues to fight for that ball now looks for whitler to win it goes slotted in between there a couple of e Meadow Defenders they'll have to hustle to get back awam doesn't have the numbers no Ari Goldman checks all the way back on the far side which is well done and she's there to play it out nicely done that's cuz she tracked all the way back on that ball by Ari she tracks back again just container just container yep exactly just container well done container don't let her turn well done Jill serves it out Mack gives Chase nicely possessed by the agam back line and Sabina looks to play through to White AR's going to let it run wisely and we'll have some ISO substitutions we have Eve Butler in for Anna Roman and Addie Jordan in for Bella white 32 minutes remaining in the second half East Long Meadow three agam one the restart will be a throwi in from Ken Marino it's taken by hand thought it was by agan but it's only one and possessed because of a hand ball looks like Jill Stevens will take the dead ball restart Direct Kick from just short of Midfield new one somebody should check too you got Mack you got Mac right there draws the defender so tough Far Side Runner Agawam keeper clears the ball and looks to play it through Mack shielded off the ball nicely done by agam they're going to try for a through Runner Jill steps on it and Ari just fairly dispossessed there's numbers for a agam has three girls on one girl there's three girls on a can of continues to Shield that ball gets through somehow back to the middle Mia petto good comes in to clear little bit loose in the back right now yeah that could be it could be a little trouble Steve if we're not marking up those girls when you know there's four girls on one girl down there little bit of communication that's better no Allowed no turn no turn no turn Mac plays her back well done no still no y nicely won by Saina to flick that header out Jill Stevens plays it out of the air and out of the air again Eve Butler gives Chase plays the ball up to suu who has a chance for a touch by sends herself Center back sent her back now we got the numbers you got Ari Goldman if she can switch fields to the other side nice Cross by ddy who's there and no pressure certainly not quite the offensive pressure that we saw in the first half was a nice ball that went through looking to try to try to follow that up with some pressure the ball switched fields to the near side agan plays the ball through and another agan Runner Kenna will run her down play it out good Hustle by Kenna to get down there and beat the girl agam looks for the throw and they'll throw the ball back too much cushion for her too much cushion for that player that ball has to be that ball has to be challenged that ball has to be challenged on that throw at Midfield not enough defensive pressure coming up Emerson looks to build out she goes to Sabina SA has a chance to turn and face up she does gives the ball to petto goes a little bit long on her Jill and Eve come together for that one Mac has just a chance for a touch and stays with it there you go Mac oh that's holding totally held as a former Defender that may have been a very smart play absolutely 50 yard line you could have had a break away don't let ma get by you so a good place for a hold if you're a Defender all right right let's turn the tide here let's shift the momentum let's see if we can punch one in here well not there agan wins the ball out of the air Kylie Marino looks to play it back Jill's got it she might cir right over the top right over the top that's trouble that's trouble those the the signal is for onside good work by Kylie once again Jill good save by the agam player yep Susa looks to turn she does ball runs wide on the far side line momentum's possession is definitely in aam's favor y I would agree with that oh Susu whist whistled for another tough call on the far sideline now this is see here's a problem with this number 17 for agam nobody's marking up right and that's just that's only at this level that's two passes away from being trouble it was not a fou it was a throwin interesting isow will get this throw but we have four ISO substitutions coming on Bell white Lucy Parsons Lily Dunn Anna Roman in Eve Butler mck whitler Sabina mne and Emma Susa or off off 27 minutes left in the second half Esa meow with a lead of three to one as we can now see on our new scoreboard we have on the screen which looks awesome yes turns and faces up n there's numbers here East lomto is flat across the back not a good look nice step oh we're winning we're losing all these balls they're just they're just first to the ball Lily done off gets through oh send her through yep get through Lucy Parsons is off goes to the far Corner get a good little cross oh nice cut back yep maintains possession drop white Dro that ball white yep Addie looks to turn L Dunn wins that back goes to Anna Roman Corner through yep good rip maybe a little ambitious from there push that ball to a corner try to win the ball in possess and maintain some possession here it would be nice build some offensive pressure and see if we can perhaps get that three-goal lead back ball is played wide to The Far Side and Lucy Parsons gives Chase there it's bouncing around petto also fights for it y digs it out leaves it for Parsons try a corner if it o nice win by Lucy yeah goes back to oh white going get acoss nice turn way to get your hips arounded kid good work that's a great ball and Spartans will try to maintain the win of possession there Ari Goldman looks to go up Anna Roman continues to play agam tries to play it out of the back Kenna kind of caught in between and she goes through yep and she wins the ball be low throw at Midfield looks like the easta medal High School varsity team is now going to be the ball boys I like that that's that's good good Jill pushes the ball to The Far Side Kylie Marina with a chance to face up and serve a good ball lovely to Bella white back to Anna Roman now we now we're in business oh just broken up by the awam defense Agawam rushes with numbers they push the ball long and ahead Kylie it's a late offside call it's a late off side call but it's there it's living a little bit dangerously that was a tight tight window must have been off off by about a step he was right there for that one correct Jill Stevens will look to play the ball out of the back nice ball to Addy Jordan who could play through it on a Mis touch Addie continues to fight and battle there she wins it nicely done Bella gives her space pushes outside to Parsons Parsons tries to turn the corner she does cross anybody there no Good Work by Lucy Parsons she's doing a good job today winning those balls down in the corner to roll the ball and good pressure coming back there from Ari Goldman Ken Marino looks to distribute back he time to operate nice try nice step by Ari steps and she's got time yep o unlucky be an agam throw in and we'll have both agam Andy slam meow substitutions Anna Martin Gabby disi in for Ari Goldman and Addie Jordan four East lto players are on the ball now I don't feel like we have to let the people at home no deser there's not a Time on it just a score okay we'll still we'll continue with the time uh 22 and a half minutes remaining it's cutting to some of the things I get to say get to say oh it's funny nicely turned by Kylie that is a pro turn right there wins the ball back Lucy Parson still there looks to beat her inside good Ball by Lucy nice win by Bella white looks to Anna Roman who drives Lily white or lyly Dunn rather nice what a ball by Lily done Anna Martin puts one through Anna was almost Anna Martin to Anna Roman right that would have been nice nice little pass by Lily Dunn over to Anna Martin puts one into the center and almost has a shot on that that was one again that was three passes and it went from one sideline all the way over and that's the way to move that defense yep a lot of open space Bella white looks she has room to be dangerous here in between Anna Martin and Lily Dunn agam looks to push the ball outside it might be too heavy and it is you somel substitutions Addy Jordan Emma Sosa Sabina mne Eve Butler in for Anna Roman Lily Dunn Mia petto and Lucy Parsons and oops it's an inadvertent knee there power knee and a ball goes all the way back Emerson will play this one out not a very good ball played out at all she did herself no favors with that ball lousy ball played out of the back by the sletto keeper no harm okay no harm Kylie with the throw in or sorry Kenna with the throw in and now serves the ball big ball back to the middle one out of the air by agam man agam has won a lot of those 50-50 balls in this half settle it bring oops another tough first touch got to try to Addie luckily has a chance to turn it up field and she does that ball will stay in it's a good run it's a chance for an now there's only so many places she can go right nicely done by Bella through it Emma turn or Gabby turns continues to apply pressure ball goes back plays it out Addie looks to serve Emma Susa on the outside Emma can just tries to turn her and can't that's a big ball coming in yep yep this is the future of easta right here these are their ball boys they're all in fifth and sixth [Laughter] grade looking to dominate the Suburban Basketball League this year Jill steps to it and Kenna runs it down chance to turn it outside off of agam yep that's an East meow throwing well done and we got a substitution I'll do this One MA whitler for Gabby to skie when it's one at a time about my speed you killed [Laughter] it another ball one out of the air by agam and they're winning a lot of those balls out of the air yeah and another one and another one that they're the first two nice step by Anna Martin ball gets slotted through and that's not going to be no no no that's again poor play out of the back you got to control what's going on back there more communication better communication in the back agam throw in looks to be served to the middle nope no turn allowed coming out of the back is B white and this could be a chance for emusa to turn this Defender this when you lock it down right y she got to kick it out of bounds play it in here 18 minutes remaining uh East Meadow leading awam 3 to one Kenna will have the throw in from here inside of the agam defensive Zone which agam is just first to the ball yeah and this will be a direct kick on a push be an Agawam kick as they look to once again make a foray into the east LA Meadow defensive end of the field amasus is there to give oh it's a foolish place to ask for 10 you're just wasting time if you're Agawam your own that's I what difference does it make Well Done by eastl meow ball goes up and over oop and Bella and Jill together looks like it'll be an agan throw in from there and the ball goes to the middle nicely played by Addie Jordan in the back I would like to see some more of those onew combinations that we had to put some pressure on this defensive back field AB absolutely feel like it's just the kick and run and they keep getting possession and coming down well especially if they're going to win all these all these 50/50 balls yeah you like to see him play to feat make him Chase cuz that's what they were doing earlier on passing the ball around they were chasing we were finding those holes now we're just hoping to kick it in their defensive line not miss it uh substitution a switching of the anas Anna Martin off and a Roman on awam throw in on the far side and it's misplayed there and it'll go to an East L Meadow throw in Kylie with an up and overball to Mac and as Jeff says the throwin tend to come in threes this will be uh I he called no he called he called that on Mack okay I don't think Mac got her money's worth on that one she gets her money's worth a lot during the game not that not on that one not on that one Agawam serves the ball in and it's opened up as it goes through for a Jill Stevens header another another one there too many wins here by aam Sab looks to turn that's intercepted ball goes through Jill steps on it again nice play by Bella too much long ball here some maintained possession would be better it's too early for a too early to start to play these long Balls to the corners you really like to get another goal here they were so dominating in a first half yeah got lucky on that one that probably could have been a breakway that was a that was a good through ball so it's an agam restart on a drop ball so the ball be dropped she'll get to serve one in nicely served there Jill comes up and wins it Jill's about the only player we have winning balls out of the air yes it's going to be an Agawam throw it would be a lot nicer last 14 minutes if we were able to turn the tide here a little bit and punch one more in that'll be off Agawam if it goes out it's off agam o it look like Anna kicked that off of her but it'll be an agam throw it's a good throw to the middle Jill goes up and over the top with it B white nice job Bell she's got a head on that one yep just enough to play it out sa with a foot on that one ball goes back through Kenna looks to come out of the back she's tripped no call trouble here no trouble here trouble here trouble here step on it good good work by Addie trip that's a trip yep we'll take that no hurry to get the ball back in play here and Jill plays the ball from the back to Sabina nicely chested down she has room to turn and face up heavy on the touch good Ball by awam to play it back Susa gives Chase and she forces the misplay as the ball goes out and AR Roman looks to go down the near sideline she's got options actually she got too many too many options here people got to spread that out a little bit Canen of allows for the aguwa M touch all right spread it out switch the fields y off of Agawam they're just stepping in front of us every time y first to the ball right that's a key element and Kylie goes back to the middle of has Addie wide well through she does such a good job slowing the pace down and not you know everything's poised and controlled Addie a little couple of steps too many every time she gets that's what you need you need somebody like that to just slow the pace of the game down get possession and she does that every time she gets the ball awam first to the ball again yes uh not exactly a news flash at this point we've seen it a number of times for the second half ball boys are getting a little excited all right Goldman in for Eve Butler Mia petto in for Addie Jordan and Lucy Parson Lucy Parson in for m Whit were and Roman brings it down good turn no no chase agam throwing one possessed by the O and it got fouled there yeah when you see that back Shake you're going to get that call all the time you I see that a little head whip yep and Susa with a chance to go high take her exactly get to the middle go through it go through it stay with it oh unlucky handball probably the right call but unlucky I think I'm ready for a little excitement here Steve yes something to happen a little bit on either side mostly this other side yes I could be fine with that yes and good job by Lucy all right thank you you ask and shall receive Lucy Parson down the Sidelines it's another cross and get a corner all right corner Jill Stevens header calling it right here that's what we got coming I think he's goingon to have Jill stay home Jill's got about 30 head balls today she's like I can't do another one all right then we'll call out the uh it's got a bounce around emusa for the Hatty B here well who's our tallest girl out there right now an oh Emma's our tallest and Then followed that up by Anna Roman after that I think it might be Sabina and Kenna nice oh there it is put it in just over the top well at least we won the ball that was good we did get in there and get a win on the average height of that corner kick in the Box was 5 foot one that's with Emma's 5 foot 10 if my math is right that's with Emma 510 factors in that okay oops and Emma with a chance to turn even that even that had a shot chance man she could just turn and hit it whip fast like that when she does it's just that turning shot is it is quick aam looks to restart with a goal kick and they do guess who want it again and it's going to be I thought wide but nope not wide Kylie Marino chance to Shield it out good job by Kylie good just a little bit over eight and a half to go in the second half near side throw in deep in the East Long Meadow defensive zone for Agawam ball goes up and over and a r clear y A's got almost everyone up at this point and I understand that you're going to try to play for a goal but you got to try to pop one over the top here there should be a chance for isto to go off to the races on offense that's a tough ball she's on side Kylie Marino oh and turned outside that's beautifully won beautifully won got her body between the offensive player and the ball that was able to turn and hit it to the far sideline that's a tough play well done she's shutting him down over and over again tonight o that's a nice turn on the outside nicely one there again Kyo space don't run away from her show for help her out give her something there we go lay it off to Mia got Runners Bella white cuts it back this way plays It Wide yep Kenna's got SP a little too wide for Kenna and that'll be an East meow throw in I'm not sure who touch it East meow I'm not sure who touched it but Islam meow has the throw Sabina mne out Lucy Parson and Emma so out Mack witler Addie Jordan and Lily dunnan and we've got a goalkeeper switch as well Juju godette goes in replacing Emerson voo I didn't see her on the line and well I mean hey that's I I missed mine earlier so s minutes remaining just under seven minutes uh East meow 3 Agawam one it'll be a fars side throw in for East Long Meadow looks like Kylie Marino will take it I think this game is sucked to death out of every fit here it is definitely they're just miserably quiet too much action early on nicely won there by petto and the ball goes through agan plays a tough ball over the top E Butler on the chase down and the offside call a little bit late but it's there and looks like Jill will have the take the kick out of the back for the restart on the offsides infraction and she plays it short to Anna Roman who has a chance to turn outside oh and she gets hooked right there yep well done it's a tough play at Midfield if you're ago off if you're trying to mount a comeback you don't want to follow somebody with no one else within five yards of you I think they just want to win every ball I guess that's it I that's their option right now is try to win every ball and nicely won by the Agawam header Eve comes back wins it at Midfield without a possession eastl medow tries to get back into SP space Mack looks to play it and it'll be an eastl medal throwing on the far side substitutions Gabby Desi Anna Martin Emma sua and Sabina mne in for Ari Goldman Jill Stevens Mia p and Bella white Mark is he keeping the last five okay and the last five minutes will be kept on the field by the referee so we're inside of that time now we'll try to give you our best unofficial guide to that on my own non-official score clock here as we continue to go through these final five minutes we look to have an East LA Meadow restart on the far sideline no ball boys to be found at this point and the restart will be there ball goes back to Anna Roman plays the ball to the middle looking for an Martin doesn't quite get there Osa Shields gives to mne mne pushes a nice ball through to Addy Jordan who has a chance to go through herself off one o that's aou got to be in front of him right in front the girl didn't get the ball and smashes into Addie ju comes out with a nice play got to close that off in the middle ball goes out to the sideline make sure we get in Retreat mode here and Roman will chase that down yep plays it out there East metal defense a chance to regroup big throw incoming goes to the inside mne wins it momentarily but then it's won by Laura peralto from there pero sorry oh up high ball goes to The Far Side good work by Kylie she turns on her balls over and somebody's got to get in Step In Front don't let her hit it step in front don't let let her hit it Anna Martin goes back for that win frenzied play here the ball goes through and juu with a nice save good job by Juju waits to see it sends the ball down the far sideline to Mack and Mack goes through an impeding Defender she possesses plays to mne who plays a nice over the top ball to Jordan this is going to be tight she might beat her just a step away that was great man she accelerates she gets faster as she goes it's crazy she does that on the 8 meter in Lacrosse yeah that's she's quick off of that girls have the8 meter in Lacrosse and she a lot of times she stick checks them just in that eight meters that was very impressive I've got just about three minutes gone which would be about two minutes remaining here in the game if my time is close to the officials time got Addy Jordan M whitward and Emma Susa off and Lucy Parsons Ari Goldman ly Dunn yep see if that freshman connection up there can put one in the back of the net with Ari being a sophomore and Kylie looks to push the ball across it's intercepted by an Agawam Defender Stepped On by petto mne looks to distribute to Parsons possession is fought for in the outer third there Lily Dunn checks back to the ball nicely done she's fouled there there a little push Kylie has his chance the outside yeah and and a Roman but you don't want to get too far up I don't see a center back right now that's a tough place to leave that somebody needs to drop and fill that spot I have under a minute to go here Jeff he's got a minute 19 doing pretty good okay perhaps I am off we'll see and it looks as if there we go Lucy come on Lucy get a foot on it Luc Lucy oh Lucy Parson with a goal what a great job by Lucy Parson her first is that a goal oh outside of the netting what oh geez that looked like that went in oh thought We snuck what a great job Oh I thought Lucy with her first goal I was sure that that was near post I thought it snuck right in and Parson's back the service there from Anna Martin gold I've got about five seconds remaining if I'm on but if someone else has about 40 seconds so four three two one I guess my time is off so I would say at any point the game could go serve it in being good maintain that possession well done smart play I think you guys are all wrong yep my friend in front of me still has another 10 seconds so he might be right so she and it looks like I would imagine this kick will probably be it they'll probably let Agawam take the kick serve it in if hea wins it that should be about it or no I'm now at almost six minutes since the clock was stopped they have the official official time yes and Roman plays it out to Mia petto with the headball there got to apply some pressure at Midfield that ball goes through it's stepped on there by Kylie and that'll do it your final score from East Long Meadow East Long Meadow 3 Agawam 1 will close out the regular season on Thursday night in South Hadley thanks for listening everyone take care

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e e e Mr nreu here Dr pontano Mr ranc Court yeah Mr Russo here mrakia here Mr yanus here okay Mr capana and I believe we have our uh High School representative on the board of education and I bad with names I apologize Valen Valentina thank you for joining us again and for being part of the group thank you um at this time I'm going to turn it over to our uh superintendent of schools Dr Hayes uh we normally try to follow the consent agenda but we have a nice crowd this evening and and some things going on Dr Hayes Mr I'm going to ask you to please allow me to go out of order and um I'm going to ask the Board of Education and the public to please open your agendas to page 10 I'm going to ask you and Mrs calib please join me in the front Public's knowledge I'm honored this evening to be conjoined by all of the principles inide par um we have PS3 Mrs brco with us R from PS5 M Mar from ps6 Mr bner and from the Middle School Mr Lombardo and Mr and we also have Mr Pinto from the high school us thank you so much for being with us ladies G gentlemen we have some tremendous news to share with you and we want to let you know that during the Spring of 2024 14 of our students achieved perfect scores on the New Jersey student learning assessment that was done um 12 of them had perfect scores in English language arts one of them had a perfect score in mathematics and of those 14 two of them actually had perfect scores in both English language and Mathematics thank you for being here and congratulations to and you have the four names in front of you if you'd like to recognize your four students Mr BR sure first of all I'd like to congratulate my four students what an accomplishment it is but it does take a village and I want to thank the teachers and the parents people working together makes the students succeed and um I couldn't be more proud of Allison galz she scored a perfect score in bla and Allison's teacher was Miss Chong if you could just give us wave Miss CH thank you you'd like another perfect score in ela was [Applause] Isabella Isabella's teacher was um Miss catm I'm G to skip the next one is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] conat [Music] conratulations to [Music] [Applause] [Music] while waiting just like to thank Dr Cal and the board of education for all of your support um and implementing all the programs that really help our children reach the highest success possible so thank you very much Umar congratulations we are so proud of you you have a perfect score in both Ela and math it's a true Testament to your hard work and dedication throughout the years um we know definitely in your future you're going to continue to make us proud and we're always here to support you so the door is always open at school board it's always your home so congratulation number six good evening everyone first of all thank you all for coming this is a wonderful time for you to be here this is a wonderful celebration what's what's very important is the school and Home Connection without that we all want to be here tonight so I want to thank all the parents for all the support you give both us and of course your kids congratulations everyone I also like Mrs Rose just want to thank Dr Hayes Mrs Cal and the Board of Education without them we wouldn't be here before I bring up Janessa I was talking to her dad before and he was very surprised he's like wow you mean the school the town recognize our kids for this this is great and it's something that Cliffside has been doing for a number of years because you're all special everybody's special with you you're the cream of the crop and we only wish you all the best and Mom dads relatives please stay involved because without you they wouldn't be here I have the honor of calling up Janessa Lee who had a perfect score in ela school all right congratulations to all of the recipients tonight um getting a perfect score on one of the njsla tests is quite an accomplishment so um congratulations to you congratulations to your families uh we're lucky enough in the Middle School to have a few recipients this evening uh the first of which is our expert botanist and animal scientist and uh credit to uh to Jacob's uh perfect score should go to his Ela teacher um he had Mr Deo uh for last year U so quite an accomplishment so Jacob come on up [Applause] so the second recipient tonight um had a perfect score also on the njsla ELA test um and her teacher um last year was Mrs lose so Ashley herado asencio please come up [Applause] and this is the second year in a row this is the second year in a [Applause] row you want to do pass them you were the principal okay so we're going to do the high school students as a group I think I saw three of them show up this evening uh these three students were also um also scored a perfect score on the ELA test as well and these students had Miss Leslie lose last year in e8th grade honors so it's quite an accomplishment for her as well as the students and the three students are Alvin Katie and Isabella [Applause] got than before we break uh the board of educ here want to congratulate all parents students on achievement uh but we do owe a lot of credit to Dr Hayes Mrs Cal and the great principles and administrators and awesome teachers that we have throughout the dist we've been blessed as Board of Education and we have a great team that we can work with so of Applause for those [Applause] all eth graders who were now in the high school that's why I this is RO last year's eighth graders last year most [Music] maybe they could take cookies to go agenda next we go through the agenda um I think so yeah and um we'll go through the agenda and I'll make note of neighbors do you want to make special notes of um resolution I think it's 50 something that opens the launch for the juniors and then give Valentina a shout out so let's go to sorry Joe no okay so 56 57 so it's going to be resolution 55 nope it's not keep going back I know L did a special one for it Transportation comprehensive meance plan consent to for school bus surveillance joint Transportation post agreement approve the joint I thought thought is it the last [Music] one excuse me look [Music] anybody want e e e as I during CL session there are only resoltion month and I think the only one I'd like to 17 rather and the only one I'd like toled publicly is resolution number three Ruth tambourin Rodriguez retirement effective January the 15th and I would just like to ask to note to the board that I sure we're accepting that resignation with regret uh we wish Ruth Anne a wonderful retirement and we wish her all health and happiness and we thank her prolifically for all of the service she gave all the good service great service she gave to high school throughout the years I know Mr Pinto's already shared with me she's gonna be Mis tremendously anybody else want to comment on ran I'd like to add on to that I was privileged enough and accept for Mr capano um there were four Hib investigations this reporting period three alleged one confirmed in all cases there was there was parental notification provided counseling provided and in the case of the the confirmed hi investigation disciplinary action was dispensed I'm going to ask the Board of Education to please open the agenda to page seven onto policies and procedures and I'd like to read this aloud resolution recommended by the interim superintendent of schools to Grant permission for the Cliffside Park High School administration to extend open lunch privileges effective October 28th 2024 ough Mr Pinto may want to adjust that date but I we appreciate you granting it to us effective the 28th if we can pull it off by then for juniors and seniors for the 2024 and understanding all rules and regs governing the open lunch you remain in effect Valentina thank you so much for last month's presentation you and you your fellow students outstanding job you guys did and I thank the Board of Education publicly for listening to you and for accommodating your needs thank you I think that's it for me Mr Comm thank you uh Dr Hayes I'll ask for the assistant superintendent's report please uh at this current time uh the curriculum office is working diligently on uh the curriculum audit for uh upcoming qac monitoring and uh supervisors and um myself are in the process of you know auditing all the Curriculum maps and you know forging on through with uh board policies and regulations so we've been bunkered down doing a lot of curriculum making sure that the instruction and the effectiveness is there for classroom practice um observations and walkthroughs um observations have begun less PL are in full effect and um you know for um I've been working very closely with Mr alvan on on his njsla presentation which he's going to uh speak to you very shortly um about tonight and he's going to present to you our njsla thank you thank you and for the public you know that'll be done after the meeting and uh you know the scores will be uploaded uh to uh our our our school uh website uh anything else Mrs Cal at this time committee reports uh anybody with committee reports I know there's a lot of things going on with building and grounds we we spoke about that in uh our work session uh a lot of work going on with the the lobby uh renovation delays on certain equipment doors Etc uh everybody's aware of that uh any other committee reports before we move on okay I also I know at our uh last meeting and and in the last four weeks we we've been discussing the overcrowding uh issue in the cafeteria um I know that Larry uh Pinto the principal there Mrs calibri Dr Hayes have been engaging with the the fire officials here in the buau and I know the school administrators have uh uh put together a plan to alleviate that and uh we know once the the lobby uh uh project is uh done there'll be a little bit more space down there but I'd like I know Larry not to put you on uh uh you know I know we didn't discuss this but is there anything that you can give the board uh and the public a recap what has transpired from our last meeting when we had some dialogue about the overcrowding issues ETC I know the official Greg yantas was up there he did revisit I know our professionals from Land Associates came in and gave some recommendations I'd like to turn it over to you for a few minutes to give us some sort of a recap since the last four weeks of our last meeting to where we are today and I know Greg Yantis did uh return and uh did give uh uh some uh promising news to uh Dr Hayes that that things seem like they're getting a little bit better so I'd like to turn it over to you for a quick recap uh so we reconfigured uh the cafeteria to force flow through the cafeteria as opposed to stud just stopping at the entrance um so we uh we we relocated point of service we also relocated I guess where some food is served uh additionally we created uh during the passing of class or during the transition to launch uh we created uh downstairs and upstairs uh one of the issues that we had was students trying to go up the same stairs all students coming down so now we were forcing the traffic to a stairwell that's less utilized um mron also or chief of f also allowed us to open up an additional stairwell um stairwell H which previously was only used in emergencies uh has been opened for student and staff use so that is another uh access point to the cafeteria uh signage was placed up in the areas where we're concerned we also set up a number of stanions and uh taped the floor with directional markers in the ways in which students uh we need students to travel uh to allow safe travel and to allow flow uh into the cafeteria and uh I believe uh it has allowed greater movement through the building uh for capacity or for seating capacity we open aium so the auditorium is now available that's another 250 seats that are or more 320 seats that are available um we also pull out a bleacher uh each day in the gymnasium um so there's a bleacher available each bleacher can sit another 175 students and we have discussed uh during inclement weather whereas the weather turns um opening up a hallway with classrooms um we have discussed that with Administration currently right now classrooms are available uh for students and staff um uh seeking extra help or Club activities so from your your assessment uh and I know I heard from um you know the Fire official Greg yantes things look like they're they're progressing well with some changes we've made so far yes they appear to be yes okay and I know we still we're still discussing a long-term plan and and all of that to uh alleviate the overcrowding issue with the the block schedule so you know as the Board of Education knows we discussed that this evening uh there's a lot of things out on the table and Atlant associate is working with us uh we are confident once the lobby renovation is completed it's not going to uh resolve all the issues but it it's it's going to alleviate uh some of the problems but uh based on your experience uh Larry uh safety and all of that I know the administrators are around I know the fire official was present a few times uh everything is safe at this point and and there's no no issues uh on hand I'm not the expert to to speak on that but I can say that I've worked with the fire department and I've worked with the engineers to ensure that we do have proper erress and evacuations for our student population and our staff uh as different phases of the U project have changed access to the building we have continuously adapted with the input from the fire department with the input from the engineer to ensure that uh you know we can operate safely and securely uh We've also um we've also uh with the security uh I guess the security lays on we also are planning to uh do more drills during the lunch activity we have always conducted drills during lunch activity but we are going to focus more of our drills during lunch activity so the students and staff are thank you Dr Hayes anything in reference to uh you know the Fire official I know you engag you had some conversation with him he's told you that everything seems like it's flown well yeah I went to the school I think it was last Friday that he Revisited it was the day you were out in the morning was that Friday I believe it was Thursday Poss okay so it was last Thursday Thursday yeah I went over to to witness it with Chief yantas and he was pleased he said it's a th% better than what he saw the first time thank you so much and he was going to lift the abatement he said also thank you any other committee reports thank you uh Larry appreciate it um okay I'll turn it over to uh L Alano for his report thank you Mr capano Mrs Cal mentioned the qac um we have a couple other monitoring and audit projects in train two Food Service one administrative review one procurement review and as I said we mentioned CC and our annual fiscal review so right now we have essentially four audits SL monitoring projects in train and parallel going on at the same time challenging times but we will get through that uh We've also started to engage 2526 budget thank you to the board the Committees Mr capano Mrs Cali and Dr Hayes uh we started to uh look closely at the potential capital projects may go out to bid in the springsummer of 2025 we'll keep everyone posted on that and just a couple of resolutions I want folks to focus in on is resolution number 50 it's our comprehensive maintenance plan it's essentially what we have to do and submit to the accounting and state each year it's essentially a a plan of in regard to what they call function 261 it's our required maintenance is how we're going to use that function how what dollars we're going to spend on a function by school and how we're going to spend those dollars got has to be submitted and approved to the state via resolution which we will be approving this evening resolution number 51 is provision provision is our camera contractor vendor they will be installing all new cameras and all new DVRs on our 24 buses right now it looks like the timing of that will be the winter break the week of December 23rd we're trying to push it for the week of November 4th they could not mobilize that quickly so I'll keep everyone uh posted on that that's exciting stuff to get our cameras and DVRs uh upgraded for the upcoming school year and Beyond that's it pretty much it Mr capano thank you Mr Valentina as the high school rep your report please um so the homecoming is coming up Friday we actually got uh 60 more kids than last year which we're very excited for I know Mr Hayes approved the Masquerade MK because it's going to be a masade uh we're going to be posting that it's only covering the eyes not a full face mask to protect your students and faculty and I also want to turn over to Myas who to speak Valentine he did a great job with the masks thank you so much really nice email evening good evening so with Junior's going on for Lun with the news uh we're going to release a form we sent it to Mr Pino and our supervisor Mr Bernstein so just to to get the students where they are during lunch and also where to see where students are moving to and where they're going to be during lunch so it goes to freshman sophomores Juniors and seniors on the form it just says where do you go during lunch what do you do during lunch are you in clubs and if you participate in lunch inside the school it's just to get more data and more research to see where all these students are going and to make it you know Junior going out for lunch and seniors going out for lunch to see where everyone is so your first name again Nicholas Nicholas thank you so much yeah Nicholas appreciate that just be aware that um you know we commended the during our work session your principal in reference to the seniors really have not given anybody a headache you know we we've looked at other districts that have open lunches etc so we've been fortunate and you know if you really can get the word out there with your team is that we we hopefully the Juniors can follow that same uh situation because you know it the high school administration has uh and Mr Pinto brought that up this evening they're really preparing you for uh you know I have a son in college and they're preparing you for the future and uh if you go to college or not and you know whatever it may be uh so it's a good system in place there some freedom but with freedom becomes responsibilities also just take that seriously with your team but there's uh just you know with junors going out and seniors going out you don't go out to Russia you know rushing causes imperfections we want to like have a safe everything's good you know not just rush to oh Juniors get out you know just wait get to get to how Juniors leave and seniors leave but we still have to talk about all the stuff question you guys thank you great job Nicholas thank you thank you at this time that uh wraps up our uh committee reports um I think the consent agenda we went through with uh completely before we call for a vote anybody from the public any comments you can come up please state your name address come up hi my name is Heather 482 Lincoln Avenue I just want to thank you for addressing our our concerns last week last meeting with the up and down hallways I really do appreciate but I have a quick question if you go to a restaurant and you want to have dinner are you going to be okay if they tell you to go sit in the kitchen I don't think so I don't think you would be okay with being told to sit at a bar that's crowded either so how is it okay for our children to have to go sit in an auditorium or room or a stairwell or a hallway so that's one of my concerns and then it goes a little bit deeper where's the sanitary option because if my son goes and sits inside of a classroom but he has a shellfish allergy and someone eats it on that desk who's cleaning it and how do you know where my son is how do you know that he's not in anaphylactic shop in a classroom with no other kids there because he's not being watched or there's no set space for him to the 11th graders being able to go out forun thank you last meeting you guys have discussed maybe putting a a boundary is that still in effect would that be in effect a boundary as to like local establishments they would only be allowed to go to because they're within specific ranges of the school no with the with the senior uh we we did not have those boundaries uh Mr Pinto put a plan in place you know they are leaving the building and it's their responsibility to return to uh so I was just curious about that do some kids sometimes don't come back Etc I can tell you for you know the vice principals and uh all the administrators really do a good job and from the reports that we get from Mr Pinto uh they are no issues is it perfect no I mean I'm not concerned about my son I I mean he's very responsible he has a good friend group and I don't think and I think he's more scared of me with him not returning to school on time and than anything else but my whole thing is like where's that where's the extra layer then where's the sanitary options where's the where's the table why do they have to eat on their laps you're opening up bleachers but why are they sitting on a bleacher why are they sitting in an auditorium yes it's 200 more seats but you're taking 600 children out of the school if you take every senior and Junior you still have to account for 700 children to eat lunch and I understand clubs and I understand everything else but it's still not there like get a t putside tables remove some teacher parking have some park on the street or drive-thru or open a field or something you know they have catering tents and heaters and whatever and I understand it opens up a whole another door but it gives them a spot to sit because if you went out to eat and you didn't have a spot to sit and eat your dinner you would be a very upset Patron and you probably wouldn't return so that's where we come in as upset parents that you're cattling all of our children into this cafeteria where might be food left at the end of the day because they're not M they're not cooking for a massive 1300 people so my thing is how is all of that being settled like my son brings lunch every day because he doesn't want to deal with it he's already said Mom if I wait I don't eat so I bring my lunch so now he doesn't eat he gets pushed and shoved in a hallway and sometimes he sits on the stairs so to me that's not fair I pay taxes I want my kid to sit at a table if he chooses not to if there's space that's one thing but if he chooses not to because he's forced not to that doesn't sit right with me so going forward how are all of these things going to be alleviated so uh you know some some great comments and great points I know that uh we have the courtyards in the back that are open during good weather uh we haven't explored in climate weather with heaters Etc that may that's a great point that may be an option we do feel when the way the lobby is going to be designed that there there may be some with uh you know uh some uh stools against the walls with um you know an 18in counter we've seen that in other schools and and it's nice it gives more open space and I know we're making Provisions where they can charge their laptops their phones Etc uh we look we are looking at all these Avenues we have the engineer engaged to give us a report and give us options on staging on how we could uh you know uh divert the kids to to certain areas uh you know they are great points we are talking with the engineers and they're going to work together with our administrators and Mr Pinto to come up with a plan uh you know you brought of a great point about cleaning Etc and uh the only thing I can tell you is that they're valid points you know when you you have a 6 700 kids in in one spot things are going to get dirty but you know the condition of our buildings uh you know and our custodial staff they do a great job cleaning I'm not doubting that but they're not cleaning after every Lunch Period they're not saying hey you use this classroom hold on let me go from a table you know I could assure you that if there's an eating at the last meeting they said classrooms were opened up for children to eat in and the auditorium and the gymnasium there's no food Allowed no food allowed there's no food allowed in gymnasium so there's seating available for students so how do they have lunch at lunch period in the gymnasium and they can't eat there sorry I'm I'm just backtracking a little bit because you did say that you opened up the auditorium open so during LUN so what are they supposed to do eat outside and stand up and then go inside and sit down we have we sell approximately 550 lunches per day okay um we have seating in the cafeteria for over 400 students the cafeteria and immediately outside the cafeteria we put tables CA stud stud classrooms are available there's cleaning products in the classrooms now classrooms are available only there's right so like Wonder Girls today have pizza for all the participants in Wonder um some kids we do training we during the training we'll bring in lunch for the kids um not all the children come down at the same time so sometimes kids are in the clubs and then kids are eating and then the kids up Med Media Center has seating for approximately 75 students so there Isa was in the cafeteria every day I'm in the cafeteria there are open seats in the cafeteria some kids are choosing not to be in the cafeteria um there are seats outside we do put tables outside right um while it's not ideal no child is told they need to eat in stairwell or they need to eat on the floor we actually encourage them not to to use the spaces that we have today I was encouraging students who were sitting on the floor to go sit outside it's a beautiful there's no one sitting on these tables in the courtyard so I understand there is a disconnect but what we're seeing right I understand Aon I understand that you know what you're not going to try it's kind eror I'm tell you son up there it's chips will not get so says it's just it's just not worth the first 15 minutes you have trying to get a meal CU that some of them that might be the only meal that they're going to get that day so the first 15 minutes it is crowy and that's why we encourage Club activities to run the first portion of lunch we encourage our teachers to offer extra help at the beginning of lunch but we I can I cannot tell the students don't run down to the lunch room I mean we have we've told them to find especially the opening of school when you have 300 new freshmen in the building their first priority was get to the cafeteria um and I I I would I would offer it to anybody in here to watch what's going on now compared to what was going on a month ago I I do yes I been told that there is a difference has it been like sely drastic I don't know I'm not seeing all the conditions um but what I'm saying I'm just going by my son his friends they just don't know stair off I understand it's a clean building I do Comm the school district for having clean build they're very C you know after few hourss walk but we we can assure you that the valid points we we're looking at every Avenue possible to you know um try to reduce the impact to the students so we are looking at all those things and the engineers working on a plan the fire officials been there gave us a clearance and you know he's coming back he can come back anytime unannounced and I have to say that the administration there uh is doing a nice job uh controlling everything but you brought some great points and you know we are going to discuss those things and uh we'll take it from there thank you thank you anybody else from the public please state your name and address address Mar um yes I've been told there have been slight changes so Kudos on that for four weeks of right Kudos on that Larry I think you said something about the stairwell being utilized we uh We've expand we we've opened stairwell H uh which is now accessible for the science wi to the uh driveway for what just for access to the cafeteria um it was it was accessible during emergency we had closed uh we had closed it um where we were told we understood that it was to be closed during the construction phase um we had the contractor reposition the gate and now or correct and during the use of the school the door is unlocked students can use the stairwell sure but not to assemble assemble there no not to assemble in in the St okay no I just misunderstood it sounded like they were it was opened up for them to use that as cing and so no no okay okay my my last question I'm not going to make it long was there any ever any conversation in the past before we even came last month more in addition to the high school there there definitely is we we spent a two-year plan on a comprehensive plan in conjunction with the mayor and Council and the burrow to expand the burrow had bought the synagogue property to add the parking and to add a High School annex okay that that started around the covid period on that study the study was completed you know we had projected x amount of dollars and uh now that that number has inflated with construction costs Etc uh we're still doing that study we sent it over to the New Jersey Department of Education they responded that the plan uh can work and uh we're still uh continuing to study that to put an Annex to alleviate hopefully about 400 kids if that doesn't work we're in conjunction we've been negotiating the last 10 years with Epiphany to uh possibly uh buy that uh facility we had it appraised and we're still waiting it's very hard to work with the arch dasis and to come up with a A number that tax payers can digest also but we are looking at these things okay thank you anybody else from the public please Hi how are you Hi good you name and address please uh Victor fre 56 happening how are you Victor very good thank Youk you once again just on beh of parents I just also want to thank you for looking into this matter I appreciate the that's been made however um again forgive me if uh if I'm a little lost on where we were up to this point but has there been a thought to possibly reinstate the for periods based on the uh grade levels we had that's that's a great point we had that discussion this evening I brought it up to Mr Pinto when we went in when we were in our work session and you know uh Mr Pinto gave us an analysis of other school districts and how the block lunch has been effective uh you know and uh also How It prepares them uh when they go into college or trade school and and as a board of education uh we're not administ administrators we're not professionals we're checks and balances we rely on our professionals Etc and and Larry brought to this this to our attention he's the principal there 10 years ago uh 10 years and he brought it to our attention for many years and we were resistant to Let's Stay the not go to the block schedule let's go to block schedule and then we saw after he conducted an analysis and a survey that a lot of districts are doing that and we've seen a tick in kids that are more engaged with this type of schedule test scores were going up Etc and and we we were wrong and we said you know Larry let's move forward with it and there are going to be pros and cons with it and Larry has assured us that this is the way to go and as the 10 years he's been principal there and I've been on this board 19 years we've progressed tremendously uh with curriculum activities Sports Etc so we believe in our administrators and they do believe in uh the block schedule and this board of education is going to stand behind it at this point so does that does that mean that this isings the block schedu is to stay but the Board of Education uh with our Consultants has also done a demographic study of enrollment Etc our enrollment is down in our elementary schools and our enrollment is up about 35 kids in the high school we are also engaging Fair View uh of where they're projecting their enrollment is going to be so we're looking at every Avenue uh to try to try to stay ahead of the curve with uh you know enrollment and and and the population uh before that we always you know our desire was to to build this Annex to the high school we possibly if the annex doesn't move forward we may have to put an addition on the uh the high school we also look at what the impact would be to the taxpayer I know that our priori is first and foremost safety our children uh but as a board of education we have to look at our $66 million budget and how it impacts the taxpayer and what we could afford this this board of education and this school district has no Debt Service The Debt Service we had was paid five years ago when we put the we built the number six school edition and that was $6 million but today the cost factors uh which again we do consider them every day is to put a an addition on a building is about a million dollars in classroom so we got to make sure we have those resources we also have to have our checks and balances but we I can reassure you that we we don't turn a tin ear and we're looking at these Avenues appreciate that I just I just hope that in the interest of the children and their ability to continue excel at the rate that they're excelling based on the presentation prior to this uh session um I just hope that it's it remains in line with that idea and you know we get to that point sooner than later because the you know with the capacity issue in lunch from I don't know if time would be on our side at that point my final my final concern is again about the uh I just want to revisit the part about the the stairwell being repurposed as an entry point um I just wanted to be sure that there was no any any consideration or implementation of that doesn't come at the expense of the any compromis of an evacuation option I I have to uh let you know that our Fire official Greg gontis takes these matters seriously he's visited the site numerous times and I could assure you that the administration at the high school will never compromise the safety of our students I can assure you that and Larry if you'd like to interject I'll turn it over to you the stairwell was opened to ensure in the event of evacuation we can get everyone out of the building um that's why we we asked can we open the stairwell um we also thanks to uh the engineer chief of office a whole number of individuals also access access so we want our students to be able to access the building and access the building safely with minimal obstacles as possible um I think this this the project that's undergoing in the high school right now is kind of compounding the sense of I guess claustrophobia per se I mean the project is compromising once the Project's completed I believe these issues we haven't had these issues years enrolment is up but it's not up significant so I think once this project relieves itself I think the students will be much more comfortable have morees right now they don't have a large that would be beneficial to have that back just until that until the project is seen through said is there is there another has another area repurchased as an evacuation that there's no additional entrance the entrance is the main main entrance that's the only entrance to the building that stairwell is that stairwell was taken offline during the project that St roll is back online it does nothing more than provide Eris Ingress for students from the driveway into the media center and into the science I could assure you that um we're working uh extremely uh hard to to resolve the issues um I can't I can speak on behalf of the Board of Education here uh Teddy's been here 19 years with me uh and everyone else has been here a long time also uh we're not going to turn it to in here and we appreciate your comments and suggestions and we hear it on the street also and I can tell you that we're fortunate here in Cliffside Park uh that we have ad rators that uh care and and bring concerns to us and we rely on their feedback but I appreciate your your input it's it's it's really valid thank you also anybody else from the public one last thing sure entryway that's being built right now yes what's the just here what's the purpose of that what was that what's the purpose of that space that space first of all the space was outdated from the 60s okay and uh we we had to do some infrastructure work on piping wiring Etc and uh walls were crumbling uh floors were starting to come up Etc and we decided to expand it because as Athletics are starting to expand we need a little bit more space for for the school Etc this is the part off the the driveway correct correct right a glass enclosure yes yes correct but also there's a Lobby in there that that's another 50 to 55 ft by by 25 30 existing one correct yes and we've taken all the walls down Etc to make it an open Flow we took columns down Etc to get more space more flow into it and to update it as you know uh so it was outdated it was built in the in the 60s but not meant to be used for a place of assembly no but but uh meant to use as a a place where people can come engage with one another possibly against the walls like I said we'll have we'll have uh counters where you know a good 50 to 75 kids can engage in there based on square footage of course the Occupy load abut but not a place of assembly no it's it's it's that's but correct I'm getting that but that's my point right it's still over I'm sorry no you can't be really as simple correct right but that small addition right doesn't take into consideration the overcrowding because it's a place of assembly okay so when you say oh they can go there and and didn't say that excuse me when we went to high school remember the history Wing yes okay it's not the history wi when we went for the history R so you know how you come out that door you come out to the to the fo area the outside area then you come into the gym the three doors off the driveway no I'm inside the school by the history room when we went to yes then you come out the door there then we're in the outside then you go back into the G the triple doors outside okay so the problem now is everybody's using one staircase to go into the cafeteria by the special education that's their case right so now once that project's open once that's open again the kids can come in from the high school I mean from the history Wing come down and then come into the come into the cafeteria both ways no I get that so so there's where they're so there's where they're choking now they're choking in that stairwell so we never we're not saying to hang out there and all that we're saying it's going to eliminate the choke so I get that when we were in school remember we used to pick different staircases to go you can't but you can't compare we have three launch per but still you still alleviate the choke right now you're putting 200 probably in sail ball correct I get that you you follow me I'm agreeing with so we're not using as assembly it's going to eliminate the 200 to like 150 and then you spread it out yes I get that I get the used for we used to stand there and hang out and everything else go buy the pay phone back in the day there was a pay phone there but my point is my point is it's it's an addition right I get an entry way you want to modernize I'm all four I get it but we did it but hold on we did a whole new gym okay we put air conditioning in the gym listen to me so we just finished all that we put the air yeah but Daddy you're not you're not making your point better you know Mark I hold done but if your son graduates and if it's raining outside and we got to do it hosted inside you're going to want the air conditioning hold on I wrong I'm going to want my son to be safe and not overid so don't even bring up Teddy don't even bring up the the gym don't CU you're wrong on this one that's your opinion if's wrong with the gym my my point of coming back coming back was my question the addition the glass enclosure as the entry and I understand you want to modernize it make it inviting for also better flow during events Etc absolutely and I'm agreeing with you J am good but it's not a place of assembly to bring extra kids in it's not that that's why we didn't say that and my point is the the issue is the overcrowding I understand Larry with the means of egress and opening up a stairwell and and Coring kids a certain way that's great and I'm I'm appreciative of that that has been done in the past few weeks I really am I sincerely but it doesn't that small addition off the front it's not alleviating the overcrowding we're not disagreeing with you there but that's what I'm saying but it was specifically said oh the kids can go into this space and hang out it's not a point of assembly right but again we we've told you in previously that kids have an area that they can go have lunch Etc Larry indicated that and by doing with the lobby it's it's the overcrowding is going to alleviate a little bit we are looking at other avenues we spent three years with the Department of Education at the state to try to get this Annex up and running and I understand the solution is we all want to fix the overcrowding issue it's not going to happen overnight it's not going to happen overnight and if it's dollars and cents and if we go out to a referendum today to ask to put on a 4 or $50 million addition onto the high school I can assure you that the in the of Cliffside Park that referendum is going to get knocked down because if you look at all the referendums in the state of New Jersey that have gone on in the last 5 years maybe 10% of them have passed and they weren't really big expansions we are looking at different Avenues I've told you we're looking at the Epiphany we're looking at uh possibly this Annex with with the municipality we're looking at those Avenues I agree it takes time I just want to clarify that that place is not appoint of assembly for over gra thank you any other questions thank you at this time uh Mr Alano anything else on your end uh no Mr capano Dr Hayes no sir I'll ask for a motion to approve the October 23rd 2024 consent agenda please of a motion from Mr Russo and a second uh from dreww okay thank you so much roll call Mr Alano Mr Capo Mrs Abu yes Mr capano yes Mr NW yes Mr ranc Court yes Mr Russo yes Mr Baka yes okay so move thank you everybody for attending this evening's meeting um and I'm going to ask for a motion uh to uh close the meeting that's and I'll second it and uh we'll ask uh our um presentation this evening to continue our njsla e

e e e it's I've got it but I've never used it I might have to use it in t good evening everyone present thank you I've asked um our new um weas our principal that's starring tonight miss Reinhard to lead us in the pledge alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic it stands one nation under God indivisible with libery and justice for all thank you we now have item 1D adoption of the agenda motion to approve as written second Lisa we have a motion to Second Carolyn Lopez I emry no I Tory Anderson I P coute hi Robert Downey I so moved we now move on to item two superintendence report Dr lman thank you Mr Downey last week we welcome welcomed over 20 business partners to our first partner Luncheon of the school year Maricopa high school student Lauren via Ruel a leader in our Deca program shared her experiences offering a glimpse into the real world skills our students are gaining the event highlighted the strength of our community connections and the mutual benefit these Partnerships bring this afternoon the district office Courtyard was filled with energy for the musd wellness Fair an opportunity for all of us to learn about maintaining a healthy lifestyle and connect with various providers attendees enjoyed healthy snacks to stay energized connected with vendors offering wellness products and services and entered Raffles for a chance to win amazing prizes this event is part of our commitment to goal three organ organizational culture striving to be the gold standard in Partnerships for health and wellness and the healthiest District in the state thank you to everyone who joined us and made the wellness Fair a meaningful experience it's that time of year again musd is making waves with more nominations and wins for the creme deopa Awards with thousands of nominations for local businesses and people it's great to see our teachers schools and principles in the mix desert Sunrise High School won best public school with Maricopa high school and Santa Cruz Elementary also nominated congratulations to Tracy deseni from Santa Cruz Elementary for being selected as best teacher and to fellow nominees Stephanie archet and Becky bird we also applaud principal Stephanie Reinhardt from Santa Cruz for her nomination for best principal congratulations to all for their outstanding achievements and contributions to our district we have some the creme deopa people stand up desert Sunrise there we [Applause] go on September 26th we invited parents to honor musd teachers who've made a lasting impression on their students with more than 150 heartfelt nominations the profound impact our teachers have made was evident many Educators received multiple nominations each accompanied by stories of dedication and compassion each nominated teacher received a certificate as a token of our appreciation for their unwavering commitment thank you to everyone who helped make this day truly memorable this week is National bus safety week and it's an opportunity for us to shine a light on our incredible Transportation team drivers mechanics bus AIDS and support staff work tirelessly to ensure our students arrive safely each day to recognize their dedication each team member received an musd tumbler as a small gesture of gratitude we are so grateful for all they do to keep our students safe and our district running smoothly in honor of national principles month we shine a spotlight on the extraordinary work of our musd principles these leaders are the backbone of our schools guiding academic growth and fostering nurturing environments for our kids their dedication and leadership are deeply appreciated thank you to each of our principles for all you do every day to shape the future of our district let's hear it for our principles they're here we are proud to announce that desert Sunrise High School's own Claire Dane M tonis has been selected as the 20242 Eco rise teacher ambassador from a competitive pool of Educators Nationwide Claire's passion for sustainability and climate education continues to inspire students and teachers alike through grants and Community collaboration she will help students creatively address local environmental and Social Challenges we look forward to the positive difference her work will make both in the classroom and Beyond uh that was a lot of good news about musd and its people and that's my report thank you Dr lopman I move on to item three governing board members report member Lopez thank you president Downey I um only have one thing to report but it was I think one of the most fun things I've ever done was be part of be awesome scavenger hunt and I got to dress up in an alien costume that was kidnapping me supposedly and I ran all over Copper Sky field and had all these teenagers try to find me and it was a blast so that was it thank you member no thank you president Downey uh I was able to attend the uh All That Glitters against abuse Gala that our own uh board member T Tori Anderson puts on every year and this year was um even better than last year as they always are so it was great to see the community out there for such a great cause and um thank you Tori for supporting um such the shelter and everything you do for that and uh it is also the start of Red Ribbon Week and so that's why I'm wearing my red rip red shirt and I was able to participate with uh exceptional hospital where I work and the B awesome youth Coalition as long as well as the MHS Deca Club who designed the back of the shirt so MHS Deca designed this awesome logo and uh all of the staff at the hospital are wearing these shirts for Red Ribbon Week to bring awareness um to the importance of uh students and kids staying drug-free and the effects that that has on their uh precious amazing minds and so uh there's an article in in Maricopa about it but was really pleased to participate in that with MHS Deca they submitted a bunch of designs and they were voted on by the staff at the hospital and let me just tell you those kids are super talented it was very hard to pick just one uh they uh had such great ideas and neat designs um so that was awesome and Red Ribbon Week runs through uh next Wednesday so don't forget to wear your red and I think that's all oh no I was at the partners lunch in I was at the partners lunch in that was a great event with our business partners and um so I was happy to participate in that oh I was also at the chamber breakfast yes thank you Miss krae I got to attend the chamber breakfast and um see all of our chamber partners and if you haven't checked out the Maricopa chamber uh they're a great organization very involved in the community and uh they've got a lot going on so I highly suggest that you look into that and that's all I think I think I had one more thing but I can't remember thank you member Anderson thank you president Downey so as you know um October is domestic violence awareness month it's also breast cancer awareness month and uh there's and it's also Alzheimer's awareness month so there's a lot going on but bottom line we have a phenomenal Community I am so honored to be a part of this community and to be able to celebrate recognize and acknowledge what goes on in our community and thanks to you um I'm very proud of the fact that this community always always strives to make tomorrow better than today so thank you from the bottom of my heart um it was an incredible event um sold out event and it was all to recognize the fact that domestic violence happens but there is resources and services available so thank you to my community and I love where I live so thank you Mr Downey I remembered my other thing go for it okay uh speaking of MHS Deca they are holding a and I don't know what they call it but it's young entrepreneurs U market and so there's going to be uh they went around all the elementary schools and recruited little young entrepreneurs that are going to Showcase their their business ideas and sell their goods um this weekend this Saturday and so uh look that up MHS Deca has a Facebook page um but I highly suggest that you go out there and check out all of our little budding entrepreneurs in Maricopa that's it thanks thank you vice president crae thank you president Downey he's having more fun than me um I too attended the partners lunch the chamber breakfast which Dr lman uh spoke at and we actually hosted that chamber breakfast at Desert Sunrise high school so thank you Mr verigo and your staff for opening up your school during fall break um that fall break did go by really fast uh it was a wonderful event um that Mrs Anderson puts on uh her and her team of volunteers just did an amazing job and it's always great to get together um and see so many influential people in the city all coming together uh for a great cause uh and then last night I attended uh the MHS swim meet normally I don't normally they don't have swim meets on Tuesdays um they only have them on Thursdays but I usually end up working every Thursday so that was a really nice um nice opportunity to have to come and watch our our athletes and they are so it it was such a great event because all the athletes supported every team member even the ones that weren't on their team clapping for them cheering for them and it was really nice to see the great sportsmanship that was provided by all the teams involved so that was kind of cool and that's all I have thank you I make mine quick I attended the um the business partner lunch in um it's great to see the community businesses um partner with musd and for us to actually support them and hopefully we can get that Synergy growing as the time grows so that we can actually have courses within our CTE programs that meet the needs of the growing businesses within the community um with that I'll move on to item four recognition specifically 4 a spotlight recognition Miss Terry well welcome and good evening everyone thank you for being here tonight the Maricopa Unified School District is excited to honor Spotlight recipients across three categories community members musd employees and students before we begin I'd like to thank our sponsors at Freddy's Steak Burgers and Frozen Custard Culver's Frozen Custard and Butter Burgers and chin Circle for helping make tonight special for our honores our first honores our community members who contribute time and support to make a difference in the lives of the students and families we serve congratulations community members as I call your name please come forward to receive your certificate and give a quick fist bump to members of the governing board and Dr Lan then make your way to room 123 for a group photo Mr Harmon give us wave so they know where to go for room 123 all right congratulations to Troy and Jen scowen community volunteers from Butterfield Elementary [Applause] School Harrison braad and volunteer from Maricopa elementary school [Applause] Daniel Wy Community risk reduction specialist from Pima Elementary School Dana Blair business partner from Saddleback Elementary School Hannah ganderi Boys and Girls Club leader from Santa Cruz Elementary [Applause] School tamama peran Book Fair volunteer from Santa Rosa Elementary School [Applause] will B volunteer from Desert Wind Middle [Applause] School John Donahue and mayay Community Partners from Maricopa Wells Middle School [Applause] trayon Martin GCU adviser from Desert Sunrise High School Ivonne Roman parent volunteer from Maricopa High School Jessica Chevron Community partner from Maricopa Virtual Academy [Applause] congratulations again to these outstanding Spotlight community [Applause] members next we are proud to honor our Spotlight employees of the month these staff members are phenomenal individuals who go above and beyond expectations to meet the needs of our kids and support their school communities congratulations Spotlight employees as I call your name please come forward to receive your certificate and give a quick fist bump to members of the governing board and Dr Lan then make your way to room 123 for a group photo congratulations to Carrie Russell fifth grade teacher from Butterfield Elementary [Applause] School charity hun fourth grade teacher Maricopa elementary school lath alansan ESS teacher from Pima be Elementary [Applause] School Jennifer gay resource teacher from Saddleback Elementary School [Applause] and Lauren unth Administrative Assistant from Santa Cruz Elementary School Valerie Wyant academic coach and interventionist from Santa Rosa Elementary School Nancy chod RN from Desert Wind Middle [Applause] School Teresa Henderson seventh and eighth grade history teacher Maricopa Wells Middle [Applause] School Lisa Hollenbeck lead custodian at Desert Sunrise High School [Applause] Josephina Nichols academic coach Maricopa High [Applause] School Kim bayanan 11th and 12th grade math teacher at Ram Academy [Applause] Rick Abel substitute teacher at Maricopa Virtual [Applause] Academy David mle maintenance worker from the [Applause] department and Pablo Reyes grounds keeper from the grounds [Applause] Department congratulations again to these outstanding Spotlight employees [Applause] and now we are thrilled to honor our Spotlight students of the month School principles select these remarkable students based on their outstanding commitment to their education their school and their Community these students set the bar high and are recognized for their efforts in academic achievement demonstrating Great Character helping others in being great ambassadors for their schools students as I call your name please come forward to receive your certificate and give a quick fist bump to members of the governing board and Dr Lan and then make your way to room 123 for a group photo Mr Harmon give us a wave again that's where you go for room 123 and congratulations to Camila mosa poina fifth grader from Butterfield Elementary [Applause] Morgan green fifth grader from Maricopa [Applause] elementary David Ham fourth grader at pimu elementary [Applause] school Olivia Ortega kindergarten student Saddleback Elementary School [Applause] Owen shorack third grader at Santa Cruz Elementary [Applause] School Melanie noria Vargas second grader from Santa Rosa Elementary [Applause] School Leah from Bonia seventh grader Desert Wind Middle School Miles Armstrong eighth grade student Maricopa Wells Middle [Applause] School Nyla Bryant senior at Desert Sunrise High School [Applause] Nicholas Dy or Dy Jor desert Sunrise High [Applause] School Manuel Castillo Jor Maricopa High School [Applause] Daven Moreno sixth grader miraca Virtual [Applause] Academy Amanda sop payz senior at Ram [Applause] Academy and congratulations again to these outstanding Spotlight students parents we have one more recognition before you meet you meet your kids in room 123 in partnership with Maricopa Rotary Club we'd like to honor a deserving group of students rotary honors young people who are developing leadership skills and making a difference in their communities rotary students as I call your name please come forward and miss crae and Mr Abel will present you with a special certificate in addition you'll receive a $50 gift card on half of the rotary they really want the certificate we know a special thank you goes to John and Mary L Smith Education Foundation for their sponsorship that helps make tonight special for our honores congratulations to Mason keber eighth grader from Amica Opa Wells Middle School [Applause] Randy aosta Madrid sixth grader from Desert Wind Middle School Christopher Carrera senior at Maricopa High [Applause] School Jake no sophomore desert Sunrise High School [Applause] Johnny baransky Junior at Maricopa Virtual Academy and Amanda sop payz senior at Ram Academy [Applause] congratulations again to our rotary students of the month that concludes our recognition for tonight we're going to take a f minute break break to allow everyone who was here for recognitions um and for here for recognitions to make their exit um unless you want to stick around for classroom Spotlight in the business portion of our meeting which you are welcome to do e got [Music] e e e that's not my you e know okay we'll start the meeting in about one minute thank you e the quarter still going turn it off okay everyone we'll uh restart the meeting we'll restart the meeting with the item five information items specifically 5A classroom Spotlight Santa Cruz Elementary School Miss renhard good evening president Downey Dr lopan governing board members I'm Stephanie Reinhardt the proud principal of Santa Cruz Elementary School I'm here to present our classroom Spotlight highlighting Arts integration at Santa Cruz this aligns to the musd Strategic plan goal one every student graduates prepared to create innovate lead and succeed with a focus on our gold standard signature program in the Arts this also aligns to the musd portrait of a graduate specifically the innovator attribute by incorporating the Arts students are encouraged to be flexible thinkers and explore Creative Solutions which will help prepare them for their Futures beyond graduation Santa Cruz has had a great start to our Arts integration program in our first year we established our expanded specials classes to include drama media arts and dance in addition to our music Visual Arts and PE programming in our first year we had quarterly Arts showcases with one major production The Nutcracker this year every grade level will be showcased and we will add another major production The Lion King we developed an Arts design team to support the integration of Arts within the classroom this year the team will be working on developing a 5-year strategic plan for implementation we continue to provide professional development for staff this year we are moving beyond the foundational knowledge that we learned last year and shifting more into learning strategies and structures of Arts integration one of these professional development opportunities is called acting right the actor's toolbox in the modeled lesson coming up you will see students utilizing the five tools that actors use these five tools are body voice imagination concentration and cooperation the actor's toolbox is a routine that harnesses these tools and prepares students for learning it is a physical contract that students sign to demonstrate their self-control of these areas these acting right tools help to provide Focus calm and balance and prepare students for instruction I would now like to introduce one of my second grade teachers Dr Kristen ozac there we go and one of my Arts teachers Mrs Terry nordoff they and our wonderful students are going to demonstrate an Arts integrated lesson utilizing the actor's toolbox at the end of the acting right routine the teachers and students will be combining these standards for ELA and drama using a drama technique called Tableau Tableau is basically creating a living picture that captures a moment in time students will be modeling vocabulary they are learning from our Wonders reading curriculum in their tbls [Music] now we're going to move into our cooperation challenge boys and girls I need you to find your Cooperative group of two or more students remember to show us with a fist bump right boys and girls you all have your vocabulary cards and I want you as a group to think about do I know this word have I heard this word have I read this word you're going to put your thinking caps on quiet coyotes now we are going to talk about the definition of our vocabulary words I want you to share with your partners the definition of your vocabulary words quiet coyes all right now boys and girls we're going to use our vocabulary words in a second sentence and I want you to pair share with your partners and share your sentences quiet coyotes sometimes we draw our definitions for our vocabulary words in class but now tonight we're going to actually show our Tableau for our vocabulary words the first step in the one minute Tableau is to think about your word how we've already done that in our vocabulary we're moving to second step share I want you to share remember to start I was thinking and as soon as everyone has shared put your hands on your knees our third step is to plan what should we make I want you to share what we should make with your group and once you have shared put your hands on your knees and the last step is to create your Tableau boys and girls create your Tableau amazing I'm going to come around to each group and I would like the speaker to tell me what your word is what the definition is and what you and your partners are doing our word is spies and it means watches and seeing something and summer is magnifying glass I'm binoculars and Brandon is telescope very nice good job all right here I am at this group our word is Journey and it means a long trip human is a airplane and I'm a motorcycle thank you amazing work all right here we are at this group our word is nature and that means the Outdoor World and alah is a butterfly and I'm a TR Delan is a son thank you very much you all can Pat your backs excellent [Applause] work all the teachers at Santa Cruz were trained on the actor's toolbox in July here you can see a few affirm ations from one of my teachers and a few of my students I love that students recognize the focus that this routine helps them with in addition we are seeing a decrease in Behavior referrals specifically looking at Dr O's classroom she has had uh six to seven Behavior referrals in the first quarter of each of the last two school years in this year's first quarter she had zero students and teachers have the tools that they need to help them succeed as we move forward our Arts design team will help us fully integrate the Arts into our classrooms this quarter they are doing some action research by developing lessons teaching them and collecting data on the effectiveness of these lessons compared to grade level classes who did not do arts integration this action research will help us to evaluate and refine our program as we are implementing schoolwide we are also developing ways to connect with our community our artch showcases continue to be a big focus of that we invite you to The Nutcracker on December 17th featuring our fourth graders with a cameo appearance by our preschoolers and we continue to develop our teachers capacity through professional development Santa Cruz is a school demonstrating Harmony of the Arts and a symphony of learning I'm happy to answer any questions thank you [Applause] I don't have any questions I just want to thank the students and parents and teachers for that amazing demonstration and I want somebody to teach me that actor's toolbox thing like I think that's really I I need that before I start the day that is really awesome and I think it's wonderful that you're implementing that in the classroom so thank you thank you I move on to [Applause] item I move on to NM 5B review of the 2023 2024 facilities project and capital expenditures Mr Harmon good evening president Downey governing board members and Dr lman the purpose of this presentation is to review the facilities projects and expenditure for the 23 24 school year and highlight some of the great things that have been happening around the district this uh will align with Goal two every student has access to and equity in excellent Educational Services resources and programs and goal four Community Pride through excellent customer service Sound business practices open and effective communication and safe and attractive facilities I want to start off highlighting some specific projects um from our the sfb building renewal Grant starting with the roof replacement at Maricopa Wells this grant was over $2.1 million carpet replacement um at Santa Rosa through the building renewal grants over $100,000 awarded a complete repair of the well number two at Maricopa high school over $255,000 awarded some other notable projects uh through the building renewal grants we had roof repairs fire hydrant repairs water heater Replacements throughout the district some concrete replacement at Santa Rosa fireand repairs at Butterfield um collectively we received over $2.8 million in fiscal year 24 from the skate state school facilities oversight board up from last year's record year of almost 1.6 million our facilities Team Works diligently on this grant process to maximize the funds we we receive the building renewal grants that are awarded through the Arizona school facilities oversight board are a big part of our project budget these grants can be painful to work through and drag to the Finish Line um and there's no project too small for um for the team to apply for funding as long as it's a qualifying project a big shout out to Rob Duran he's in the audience and him and his team and all the work that they do it really is is a a Monumental effort and it's really paid off great job I'm going to transition to um some an adjacent ways slide here um we have a number of adjacent ways projects every year um related to our asphalt uh kind of our repaving of our parking lots or any fire Lanes will qualify for adjacent ways funding um here's three specific Firelane projects funded through uh our adjacent ways fund last year the rest of these projects are funded from The District's unrestricted Capital outlay fund we had fencing districtwide here are three specific projects Santa Cruz Pim and Santa Rosa wood floor paint and recoding projects at are middle schools and high schools those look really good our administrative buildings the maintenance transportation and the district office were built with bond funds and therefore cannot qualify for sfb Grants we funded the weatherization of these buildings last year um not only improving the look and feel of the buildings but also improving the maintenance and useful life of them as well some other District funded projects included uh tree trimming to reduce the amount of broken limbs we get during storms LED conversions emergency lighting grass over seating um hydrostatic testing which is required every 5 years for compliance uh playground shade fabric replacement bleacher repairs at Maricopa High School carpet and flooring districtwide and an expansion of the maintenance parking lot this is just a sample of the projects uh that we wanted to highlight but not an exhaustive list um this last slide just shows an overview of all the spending from our District's unrestricted Capital outlay fund 610 as a reminder we received last year five almost $5.2 million from the state for Capital funding the other 4.5 million dollars we spent came from onetime carry forward funds from M this table breaks down the spending by category um as as listed in our chart of accounts 3.6 million for Construction Services that's anything that that took place on you know on the building or the grounds um 3.1 million for textbooks and instructional AIDS 1.2 million for technology and 133,000 for furniture and equipment 623,000 for non-instructional software and 275,000 for vehicles that was a light year we did purchase some school bus but they weren't delivered until this year so um we actually PID for them in 25 that's kind of a fun overview of our projects and our overall Capital spending happy to answer any questions you may have Mr Harmon yes I love this presentation you know why just have a soft very soft spot in my heart for the maintenance on how hard they work um going back to the U Maricopa Wells roofing project um did sfb Cover the entire costs or were there some funds that we had to pay because the build building may not have been covered because it was Bond funded that's a great question I might need a phone a friend if I forget but I think I got it the uh the gym at Maricopa Wells was funded with with uh with bond funds and so that was excluded from the scope um we did repair the roof we did a kind of a a an alternative replacement um since it was covered by District funds but it has a I believe a 20-year warranty on what we did on the gym so we did replace the gymnasium on our own that $2.1 million though that is the grant that covered the rest of the school okay um and some folks may not know but that MHS well number two that has been a project that has been in the works for almost a decade so um so that was awesome thank you so much and yeah a huge shout out to our maintenance crew because they really do work very hard and a lot of this stuff is done over the summer and during breaks not to disrupt the school year so um and that's really hot outside to be doing some of these projects so Kudos and thank you Mr Duran thank you member coutre so I don't have any questions I just um all the years that I've been on the board it's nice to see this report because I know this definitely adds to our safe and attractive schools which is one of our our strategic plan goals um we want safe schools for our students to learn in but I think in all the years I appreciate the fact that you have been applying more and more for the building renewal grants because what that does is that saves US money in our M budget so then we do have the money for the roofing or for buses or for other Capital Improvement projects so thank you to your to your team for reaching out and I Know It Takes there's a lot of paperwork involved in in doing those grants but it has saved us millions of dollars and I just want the public to know that that it costs a lot to maintain these buildings um it's not cheap to replace the carpeting or the roof or or the doors or any of the other things so um just just a big shout out to your team and to maintenance and to you know and just to staff that helps maintain these buildings it does cost a lot of money so thank you for seeking out those grants uh and I'm impressed with the way that we've been able to maximize our dollars and that we have the money to continue to maintain our buildings so um just thank you I know it's a lot of work but like I say in all the years that I've been on the board I think this is probably the most that I've seen in improvements for buildings that has not come out of our M budget um so I'm impressed so thank you yeah thanks again uh m Mr Duran you we we uh we highlighted we get about $1.2 million from the state for all capital needs if I if I'm able I give about a million and a half of that directly to the facilities team for for maintenance and if there's a special project we we can find some additional funds so to get 2.8 million on top of that is much more than double what we can typically afford I mean it makes a huge difference those projects so I'm like I say I'm impressed it's amazing I just build on member Anderson stole a lot of my thunder what I was going to say a lot a little bit of flaver to it this is the most we've ever received and U from the sfb on renewal grants um I believe it was six years ago we started to chart this and that year we got something like 50,000 $50,000 yeah that's what we applied for and that's what we got now we're progressively through the last five six years we've increased almost every year and this is by far actually I believe last year it was 1.5 million and this year is 2.8 million so um keep it going and what's a lot of effort the money doesn't come free the the state doesn't come to the school and say hey we'll give you half a million dollars it don't even come and say we'll give you $100 you have to work for it so again uh reflecting that member honors said Thank you to Mr Don and yourself for um pursuing this because it is money and that comes in additional to what we receive from the state and it helps us use that money and other things like the classroom at least is a key Focus for the um for the board thank you president Dy thank you Mr har then move on to item six call to the public and we do have one card U members of the board may not discuss items that are not specifically identified on the agenda therefore pursuant to ARS 3843 1.1i actions taken as a result of public comment will be limited to directing staff to study the matter responding to any critic ISM are scheduling the matter for a future agenda the board requests that all comments be limited to 3 minutes or less and that the public refrain from using speech or language that is offensive or inappropriate pursuant to board policy 3-23 please state your name and only your name for the record Fernando ruman did he stay yeah yeah I think he left okay so oh well you heard my voice I AP that was it we only had one card and uh I'll just say he did want to thank meropa School District but anyway we'll move on to um item seven consent agenda motion to approve as written second least we have a motion to Second Carolyn Lopez I adamary no I Tory Anderson I Patty coute I Robert Downey I so moved we now move on to item eight action items specifically 8 a discussion of possible approv the Personnel schedule Mr bakid thank you president Downey and members of the governing board and Dr lman we have the schedule in front of you tonight and I'll take any questions that you have seeing that there's no questions not even from me I'd like to make a motion that we approve the HR schedule I will second Lisa we have a motion to Second carollyn Lopez hi anary no hi Tory Anderson I Patty coute I Robert Downey so moved Mr Beck I believe you have something else to I do thank you president Downey it's my pleasure tonight to introduce Christen Nash stand please she's going to be our new ESS interim ESS director for exceptional student services and and she has her Entourage with her as well I believe her husband and very good wonderful [Applause] welcome welcome J Amy when I move on to item 8 B discussion of possible approval of the revised policy 5- 406 restraint and seclusion Dr Scott good evening president Downey members of the board this policy Revision in that we're asking for is to be in compliance with accreditation with the National Association for the education of young children as we continue to really aim for that goal gold standard we are wanting that gold standard within our preschools and we want this accreditation they are they do require specific pieces for compliance within the uh accreditation process and this is one of them with the specific verbage so we ask that the governing board approved as written I don't have any questions did you have questions I don't have any questions this is for who for preschool for preschool is this child on Child is This adult unchild it's for staff staff I think it's the restraint and seclusion policy so it's that's all appes to that's all I just need yeah thank you absolutely if there's no other questions motion to approve I will second leis have a motion to Second carollyn Lopez I no I Tory Anderson I Petty crae I Robert Downey I so moved we now move on to item nine adjourn so moved second Lisa we have a motion to Second Karen Lopez I adary no I Tory Anderson hi Patty coute hi Robert Downey I so moved thank you everyone we're now adjourned missed it by one minute [Laughter]

stand up andg to Ali to United States of America stand [Music] Nation Road call Al present Terry present Michelle here GL here Dron laurenita here Rich Julie and I am goad take care of all next on the agenda we're going to I have uh public participation the board welcome public participation and ask the speaker please limit their comments to three minutes speakers may offer objected comments of school operation and program that concern them the board will not permit any expression of personal complaints or defamatory comments about Board of Education personnel and students nor against any person connected with the D public Public School System therefore the start of the board I'm sorry got got ahead of myself okay uh we allow three minutes for people to make comments and coming for the board um the board May notify modify the limit by a majority vote for those present at the meeting so at this time I'm going to ask if there's anyone one that would like to speak and has not signed the form we would like to speak saying that we move on down the agenda could I have a motion uh to accept the consent count I'll make a motion that the Board of Education to approve the consent calendar exibit it's 24179 through 24-1 184 ever amended and in accordance with the exhib listed motion made by K could I hear a second second second by a in a question concer consent form uh this is one correction for the community relations committee can't you there's a correction for the community relations committee meeting minutes um it references the superintendent event which happened on the 21st of September in the report it listed as Rogers Parkman school should be brought you okay to no okay all the fav the motion I do we have anyone from the educational staff representative to be to speak tonight no our student I'm going to turn it over to the superintendent for the presentation than my name is PA I'm your secretary um I'm currently waiting for our vice president she's stuck in traffic but I'm going to go over some things that are going on at DHS so it is our spirit week this week Monday was anything but a backpack Tuesday was 9s and and Wednesday Today Was character day they were a big success a lot of people had really fun costumes especially for anything but a backpack people brought in bins some people brought in Hover hover boards like crazy fun things um tomorrow is class color day so our staff wear red our freshman wear pink sophomores wear purple junor wear green and senors wear black and tomorrow during last B walk is also our P rally which we've been doing a lot of planning for so it's very exciting because we have a lot of different clubs and different DHS students participating in it we have we have our DHS captains we have our fall varsity teams we have glass captains we have um our magal our singers our sing national anthem before we start so lots of different DHS are going to be involved and then Friday is our homeing game where we're going to be announcing our home and the scoreboard dedication is that day Saturday is our homecoming dance which we prepared a lot for which is very exciting as well and um um so for homecoming preparation and P rally preparation had volunteers come to help um students within theol we have some parents coming too on Friday which is really nice um um so photo Club um at our school we're uh having them run a photo booth for free um at the homeing so students there taking pictures um we're have nice sta drop set up and then I want to of this month our Class Act Council so our elected class Class Act captains went to the aquiter conference and you won two Awards you won a leadership award and a sportsmanship award so that's very exciting that's add this case um we've also recently had a few senior nights for boys soccer F hocky and girls volleyball which were all success um a lot of people showed up it was really great to celebrate their seniors um so that was a a good time as well um we have the club Fair coming up at our school on November 6 um we've contacted all the advisers and clubs um to make sure that they all get a chance to be represented at the club fair so that would be a good way um for student participation and just kind to know what we have to talk about so I say last week last week or two weeks ago was PSAT testing they tested around 1500 students and multilanguage speakers did not take the they were taken on tour Toom and they were doing a presentation in Spanish and Portuguese so that it had more Outreach options um yes and then we had during those PS tests seniors had their pictures on the fields when they lined up like at the 25 on the field and then they did their hand on the wall um recently we've also had the nth grade of school rotate through a three part day so the first um kind of activity that they did was activities with their team um the second part was presentations with Sr and the third one was skills enrichment so they kind of got to experience different things and um kind of get to uh see what supposed to um and last thing um we also have the scoreboard dedication on Friday for the game which you've all been to um and just a remind that as well um quarter 1 closes on November 1st um so students are kind of working hard to wrap up their inre and make sure that everything's in on [Music] time and then November 2nd November 2nd in the class of 74 is coming in for t for their 50y year anniversity anniversary and us as B members and I believe a few peer leaders are going to speak have the school and so that's very exciting and then we had a lot of people take the SE ly this year and pass was a big success um one of the largest numbers of students at VHS took does any board members have question for the young students thank that I would like to thank you for just working together and bringing us the announcement from the school and I really appreciate it that smiling faces and working together thank you so very thank you I just before I have Dr rockco come up um I just want to say you know the Seal of by literacy is a is an amazing example of another asset that we have here at the public school system that we don't always talk enough about we don't get credit necessarily in our accountability index we don't necessarily report out out on that but I'd love to make that part of some of our indicators that we start to do that we start to uh report out on because it's a tremendous asset to the students and the community as a whole when our students are graduating by literate languages so um thank you for reporting that out super important thanks okay um I'd like to welcome Dr and Rocka uh to provide a little presentation for us as part of the Staff Development Goal 2.1 under the um the district and the superintendent's goals so as you remember uh Staff Development Goal 2.1 is through collaboration with the district PC committee design train and Implement an effective new teacher um administrator and support staff evaluation of professional learning program and Dr Morocco has been largely heading that up along with the central Office Team and she is our resident expert now in our new TL program and is going to talk us um today a little bit about the high level overview of where we're at with that training and that that work evening everyone great to be here with you tonight to some of work we've been doing towards our implementation of our new and professional that's going along with it has been year of work to get to this point very excited about where we are plan this year so tonight I'm going to just talk to you a little bit about um so tonight I'm just going to share work of the professional developmentor sh guidelines can include many of the um some documents in there that you can link to um The Continuous learning cycle which is the biggest shift um professional learning for teachers and leaders ongoing this year and then ongoing walk of the so in these documents that we have shown here you can link on any of those documents with the picture of it and it will take you to this whole document if you want to explore that and at the bottom there are links to the orientation for educator video and the education for leaders orientation for leaders video that we State as well they're about 12 minutes long to give you a very brief but thorough overview changes to the plan so last year um the con State Department of Education issued new guidelines for the educator leader evaluation and support documents um this was U really a representation of some significant shifts from the guidelines written back in 2012 upda in 2017 over the course of the school year last year the pedc worked with Ed Vance to really understand this just in in the changes in the plan and the guidelines we worked with a representative from edance who came to work with our P committee on multiple occasions as well as with our leaders over the summer and going into this beginning of school year so that we had a really strong understanding of the changes and what that would mean for us the P committee reviewed various plans we plans from Massachusetts concut from Island just to see if there were pieces of plans that we thought would be a good f for gber ultimately when the state issued the plan that you see in the middle of the screen educator uation support plan we the P committee agreed to adopt with very minor changes the state offered uh some choices to districts you could start from stretch Andel your own plan you could take your current plan and tweak it to fit the new guidelines or you could adopt the new state plan which is what we decided to do F District the district this slide just illustrates some of where the major shifts were um but overall the biggest change in the plan is really moving from a plan that was originally designed to be a growth plan but over the course of time became more of a compliance kind of a piece and this plan really divised by the pushes back on the growth of leader leaders and Educators it really encourages teachers to say here are the areas which I wish to improve in my professional practice and here's how I want to do that and here's going to this is going to be the evidence of my working from that plan so it's really devised to be way for educators to their learning and they need to grow the most significant shifts was a chance to streamline the plan and really focus it more on the professional learning the old plan in the Marzano model we had a chance to select two ppgs which were professional practice goals then there was a student learning outcome and an indicator of academic growth and development this plan changes that and extrem lines the plan to an educated growth model where they identify what they want to learn how they're going to learn it and what the impact of that learning is going to be on student outcomes what they select does have to align to professional practice standards um The District's strategic plan and the school Improvement plan so there does have to be alignment it's not just a random selection of what they want to improve upon there is alignment to those things this is just a single page summary of The Continuous learning process in terms of the timelines of goal setting and the process itself there's not been a significant change teachers will teachers and leaders will set their goals in the beginning of the school year they do that in collaboration with their evaluator there is a midyear review and then there is an end of year review the thing that is a significant change is that in the goal setting again they're aligning it to professional practice standards in the past we've used Marzano framework so that there were that was a standards based program framework but this is now aligned to the CCT which I'll show you in the next slide um the school Improvement plan is an area where teachers need to refer to the school Improvement plan to say within this plan we've identified these are the needs of our school in alignment with the Strategic School uh strategic District plan plan I know that in this area this is an area that I want to grow in order to support those initiatives teachers identify the goal they identify their professional learning they think about their impact of that learning on their professional practice and their impact on student learning one of the things in this plan is that at any point in time over the course of the plan they can meet with their evaluator and say here are the changes that I need to make this may not be meeting my needs right now and the needs of my students so I'd like to change this plan um our old plan did not really allow for that in compliance piece it was the old plan you would set here are my action steps here are my six action steps and would check them off as they were completed this plan allows the educator to have flexibility in that if they feel like something's not working to meet the needs of their students as well as their own professional growth they can meet with their evaluator and make changes to that plan the other thing that's different about this plan is it can be a multi-year plan our our only plan was a one-year plan if an educator feels like this is a place where I'm going to grow um I may want to move to make myself an exemplary educator in this area and it will take me 2 years to get to that point they can do so if they want to work collaboratively with members of their team they can do that as well so really the focus is on how do I grow and how do I help my students growth for my own growth and is that going to take me one year it may take me more than one year so they can expand it from one year to 2 years to 3 years that's a collaborative process between the educator and the evaluator whether it is leader and their evaluator or a teacher and their evaluator This is highly focused on self-reflection and observation feedback so this is is a plan that beginning with the goal setting it is really taking a look at their educator practice and saying based on what I know about my students based on what I know about my strengths as an educator here are the areas in which I want to grow it is a collaborative process with the evaluator so if an evaluator feels that maybe a teacher needs to grow in a different area they can make suggestions to the educator and together they can make changes and think through that process together again there is an opportunity to monitor adjust and revise that professional practice goal and it's always based on collaboration with administrators and based on evidence and feedback feedback in this process can come from multiple sites it can come through the observation process through the evaluator it can come through coaching which is non-evaluative feedback it can come through peer coaching in which is again not evaluate feedback so if teachers are working together in PLC and my colleague is giving me feedback about something they use in their classroom that worked maybe I've been invited to go in and observe in my colleagues classroom and give them some tips um that's where the feedback cycle is and that's where the self-reflection process comes in as well we are focused on very high leverage professional practice goals and administrators are expected to give very specific timely actionable feedback for teachers so it's coming in I'm going to be very focused on the feedback that I give to you based on your focus area and I'm going to give you suggestions to grow in that area but I may come you may also have your colleague next door come in and observe you and give you feedback on your practice one of the shifts I just discussed was the professional practice standard again we used the Marzano model previously um it it was standards based but it was a different set of Standards so they do align very closely what we are using is the CCT for teachers uh the CCT for Service delivery effective Service delivery which is our PBS staff our coaches um slps fall under that model and for leaders we're using the Connecticut framework for leaders so with this hasc come a very comprehensive year-long plan for professional learning supporting the understanding both of the new model and the embedded components there's a process piece to this that we've had to work through um we've had to familiarize staff with the timelines the expectations tiered interventions if you need to apply T interventions um and all of the parts of the plan that have are more compliance-based so there's been some sessions on that but we really have focused heavily on understanding the new standards that we're using really unpacking those standards we've dedicated a number of the after school times throughout the course of the year and we're heavily focused on the early release days this year to do this work so beginning in September we started by unpacking domain one um which is the classroom environment domain teachers and administrators worked together to unpack those domains that that domain to understand more clearly what it meant we put um our school leaders through several days of training of unpacking before they were able to turn around and turn key this training with their school staff we started with domain one we have we're doing things a little bit differently um we are unpacking one domain at a time to help to better understand each of the domains within each of the rubrics we are putting our school leaders through intensive training with those domains before they roll it out to their staff we are writing we did write a collective goal in domain one this year this is the only Year we will do that um teachers if they wanted to select a goal in a different domain were able to do that but for the most part I think almost all of the staff agreed to work within the domains pra getting practice in writing the goals because the goal writing looks very different than it has in the past so in September we unpacked domain one we tied that work with our PBIS work because that is a major undertaking in each of our schools we wanted to try to align as many things as we could so we didn't overburden anyone so the first unpacking was domain one they then aligned that to the strategies that they're using within their schools based on the PBIS strategies and together they wrote a collaborative goal those have all been submitted administrators will start the process of reviewing the goals with the staff just yesterday we started unpacking domain 2 which is the planning domain um that was very successful from anecdotal comments that I've heard we connected the planning domain and the understanding of the planning domain with a data review from each school so each school was able to select data points from their school that they really wanted to focus in on whether it was literacy math some schools focused on both some schools may have also focused on their attendance data and then they looked at how they will plan within their lesson planning to implement those professional practice goals into their planning to establish those plans for all students Kelly took her ppis uh P I'm sorry PPS staff and worked on that through the service delivery model as well after these last two sessions we sent out a survey to all School staff who participated um and really I I think this is one thing that in all of my years in Danver we've seen the most positive feedback from staff um and given the process that it could be um it's really exciting to see the positive comments from staff coming back um they've like the process of moving rolling it out in such a comprehensive way um they feel like this Collective work around the goal has been helpful to help them really understand and to elaborate on the process themselves so we will continue that when we get those surveys back we have a pep committee that's scheduled to meet right after that so we have one coming up next Monday we review the feedback we send that feedback out to each of the buildings so they then see what the feedback from staff is if they need to make any changes they can make changes um an example was in one building we saw that there seemed to be more uh feedback related to the process um so we ask that administrator to just spend some time in their next meeting going back and articulating the process more clearly with staff so that staff would have a better understanding so that feedback from staff has been very very valuable to us pek will continue to work over the course of this year we have some subcommittees that are working there we will work on um devel further developing single point competency that we're using and as we are rolling out the plan we are seeing some things that need to be tweaked and adjusted a little bit mostly is around language that may be a little less clear in the document and we know we need to go back and revise some of that language to make it a little more clear but really is the state's understanding that at the end of this year revisions will be made to the plan and in some case they may be minor in some case they may be more than minor um but it's really taking advantage of the feedback that we're getting from stab to now turn that plan and TW that plan to really fit the needs of our district and our teachers and our students how does this fit into the academy model so it is they're working the high school has really embedded that work into the academy Dr K I'm sure you can speak more about that but I know that um this last session the academy leaders the the aps have really been leading each of the sessions unpacking the domain and then uh identifying the areas where it best fits and the lines to the academy work that's going forward just just to add to that so this is a model for for all teachers across all domains k12 and so the academy there could be some areas in the academy and by Academy that um are of more concern or Focus you know when when using and looking at data uh than others so there can be some differentiation in what they're choosing to focus it on but it's really about improving teacher practice teacher pedagogy relative to the delivery of instruction and effective student outcomes so those whether it's at the Academy whether it's at the middle school the elementary school um the evaluation and the observation cycle um that we have applies to everyone and what the teachers are choosing to focus in on and what schools have zeroed in on to align um and to back into District strategic plans can be a little bit different so long as that they're in alignment with some of the things that we've adopted um to of think back from what you said can you give me an example of what would be a goal that a teacher would want and the different end if you can give me elementary to so we we are focused right now in in domain one which is creating the classroom environment um for increasing student engagement and the commitment student commitment to learning so a teacher May write a goal around um high expectations for student learning which is that they're divided by domains and then there are indicators within each domain and then there are attributes within each domain teachers can select one indicator and take the whole indicator or they can select specific attributes within the indicator to work on so many of our Educators I know have selected high expectations for student learning which is one of the attributes under um indicator 1A which is creating a positive learning environment that's responsive to and respectful learning needs of all Learners So within that attribute it may be that they are looking at um specific types of questioning questionings for students and making sure that they're asking questions of all students within their classroom so it's holding all students to a high expectation um and making sure that students are engaged in the class by selecting questioning strategies that will engage all Learners so a goal for them may be to increase their ability to ask a range of questions it may be that they want to develop techniques and strategies to probe questions for students who are reluctant Learners um probe questions of students who give incorrect answers so how to rephrase how to give pause time but there what they would do then is to to Really research what strategies are effective strategies for reluctant Learners um what strategies might be high engagement type strategies in the classroom for all Learners so as they research those strategies one of the practices that you would expect to see in the classroom would then be that they would be implementing those strategies when you go in to complete an observation as an evaluator um you might be looking in a planning session because there are reviews of practice that you can engage in with a teacher um during a review of Cl practice when a teacher is doing their planning you might ask them how are you planning to engage The Reluctant Learners in your classroom and if they you would hope that they would refer back to some of the learning that they've done on their own and Independent Learning some of these will also be school driven if it is a part of their school Improvement plan there would be collective learning around those strategies as well you would expect then a teacher's reflection to to have some type of way of addressing what change they've seen in student um when I say behaviors I don't mean like um are they behaving correctly but by student behaviors are you seeing students respond more to questioning because you've created an environment in your classroom in which students are more willing to try they're more willing to participate and more willing to take academic risks within the classroom so that could be one within domain one that we're that we're working in right now excuse me if I sound ignorant on this um is it these teams or is it by grade or by subject within the school this is why I was asking about the academy model because the academy has their own teachers so to speak uh in the grammar schools are you uh dealing by grade or by the different subjects uh in professional development I mean so the answer is yes to all of those things so it might be that a teacher um individually selects a goal because they feel that that's a need for them to grow professionally these are professional practice goals so they're goals that Crosscut all content areas they're high leverage instructional practices it doesn't they don't align specifically to One content area they can apply to any content area so they really are high leverage professional practice strategies been working you're saying they work together with is it within the Departments or within they could they could work together within a department if there if there was a common goal that the members of a department felt was something that they wanted to work collaboratively on that they also saw this is a need in our students in order to meet that need we need to learn how to do this in in a better way or a stronger way or a different way so they could collaboratively work as a department to do that so just quick question does this um add a lot more time to each of the teachers like how much more time or is it consistent with what you know the model looked like before as far as commitment of time and you know I think it's fairly comparable to the amount of time I think because it's a new roll out a new model it it will take a little bit more time this year the idea from the state is that it really streamlined the process um and eliminated some of the things that teachers were required to do um that they did it because it was a requirement not because it really helped them to grow um so I mentioned before you could select two professional practice goals in the former model um and you may have an evaluator come in and observe in a classroom and and never see that professional practice goal in practice um and sometimes those professional practice goals were not tied to the SLO the student learning outcome they were SE separate this really streamlines that process to make it one process um and it eliminates some of the paperwork in addition to it I think this year it may feel like it's a little more heavy because it's a new process as we work through it we we've tried very hard to align it to the things that we're already doing so because we've rolled out the new PBIS work this year we've tried very close to to get people to very closely tie that to domain one work so really look at here are all the strategies that we're going to be implementing through our PBIS model this is how it aligns to the attributes and the indicators within domain one now how can we make that connection between the two so you're not doing this PBIS work and now I'm going to do this work for my professional um goal that we' combine them again we we are expecting that data work to take place so we've aligned that work through the after school time with the data reviews tied to the lesson planning piece so how are we using this data to now plan to instruct our students so we're we're really trying to very carefully align it so they're not seen as very separate entities that are working but the process is very aligned thank you it was nice the way that you can reassess you know instead of just kind of checking off the boxes like you mention so yeah I probably worth time I think for people that that's something that they appreciate that they' say if this isn't working for me can I change it where it was more difficult much more difficult to do that in the old model you had if you said you were going to do these six things you needed to do these six things and show me evidence of these six things but in this model you can say you know I decided I was going to do these two things the students sitting in front of me need something different so instead of doing these two things I want to try these instead because that will better meet the students needs and I can grow in that area thank you and Jun thank you um so I'm I'm in process to try to establish my goes I can help you with that processes establish for my goals I'm a little behind but it is what it is but what I see from the evaluation process I think is more of going back to the old way I think it's more the teacher taking control of their own um progress professional development instead of someone telling them hey this is what you got to do I also believe that you know um it brings me to my my level of I can self self-evaluate myself which was never done that before um you know I set my goals and then now I got to see if I can if I'm using the smart method make sure I'm meeting you know uh my my goals and if I not then just like in life we have to go back and re-evaluate our goals so we can so that's self assessment I love and I I really in the in the in the long term comparing to the others I think that you have more of the from the from the administrative side of the house I think you have more of a mentorship they more of a dictator or whatever uh so that mentorship could be that mentorship could not could be not only from the administration but also like you said uh either a department head or a peer that is working but the bottom line is the self assessment is is basically is the is the student getting anything out of my my process My Method uh of teaching or whatever it is but uh you know besides being a little complicated and being behind on my goals I think it works better to show yeah it really it does put the relationship between the evaluator and the teacher into a much more collegial relationship um it is a it is a mentoring coaching role um because it is really designed to be a growth model thank you I have a quick question I know the V model but I also heard that you have a lot of expectations and hopes and I just have a quick based on the superintendent goals um how will the teachers um will select the goals that align with the same align with the goals the superintendent has um with the district so the the superintendent goals have been shared um with with our school leaders all of our school leaders and their school Improvement plans align to the superintendent goals so the educ the school lead leader goals should now align to to the superintendent's goals and the Strategic plan as well and then the teacher goals filter in under that as well but because it is a very large umbrella um the teachers there there is a a lot of placees where a lot of places where teachers can say yes under this plan here's where I need to to develop in order to contribute to that goal the best whether it is my school goal whether it is the district goal there is alignment between all of them thank questions again I just want to say that and I'm looking at this whole picture of the new evaluation it really falls into play of what we want to do with the superintendent's Vision where we want to go with with the district so it kind of I think it the state the the bill not but the state here is the teacher the teacher is what's going to make that culture change through this allowing them their way of teaching instead of being told how process yeah we spent a lot of time talking with school leaders about do all of your teachers understand that they are the factor they are the factor they're the determining factor of the trajectory of the child sitting in front of them so we spent a lot of time having those conversations and it it is the teachers work in front of the class that really will will set the trajectory for that student and if I could just add I think it's important I know there was a question about like professional development time typically at this point in the year we would have one early release day that we've devoted to uh teacher evaluation um so far the staff have at three so I think that shows you the amount of time to make sure that this is red out um we are spending substantial amount of our professional learning time with Educators to make sure that you know handful them and walk them through in fact an and I were having a conversation and based on some of the feedback that I received from some of the staff particularly in the people Services Department that have a different uh rubric to follow because some of their rules are different that they were having some questions around domain one and even though we were supposed to have bond to domain two it was time out we're going to go back and redo domain one we're going to clarify any misconceptions and then I'm sorry domain one and then move into domain two so we've really set um the plan for this year to allow for a lot of time a lot of focus a lot of attention a lot of Fe back um and I feel like yesterday particular two days ago say track of time Tuesday it was yesterday um across the district there was kind of a okay now things are further clarified because we' Revisited it multiple times allowed people to look at some samples and examplars and really had some coaching conversation so I think in that regard we're doing it really well um and afforded a lot of time for it so um yes it's more time consuming because anything that new is new is um but I also think we built it naturally and allow teachers time to work on their plans you know during their workday not after hours not those types of things and we'll continue to do that as we move forward thank you thank you thank you an I just want to add one last one last component to that I think the thing that um I'm most proud of and I and I believe the cabinet as well is the level of collaboration around that pek committee um that has been it has a different feel tone flavor and culture than it has in years past that started last year here um and we have a cross representative a very nice robust representative of Administrators um teachers um our unions are present at that as well leadership um we have their professional Union leadership there uh and we have teachers from elementary middle school and high school from different subject areas and some of those conversations have been extraordinarily Rich super productive and very very um Forward Thinking in the way they we're approaching um the the the other component to this is you know early on once we kind of took the rating away from this process we stopped rating teachers with a number and a GPA if you will on performance the level of angst comes down and people can actually focus in on their their practice and what they're doing and they feel less threatened and that ultimately is how you get people to develop and reflect uh when they're comfortable and there's a trusting environment and so uh you know we're very hopeful for this it's also coming at a time when we've invested in um our assessment systems over the last couple of years years that people are becoming more uh Adept at understanding their own data so that picture of how my students are really doing whether they're proficient or how how much they're growing has become more clear and has become more depth with data their understanding through this model now it's my prediction will be that how my teaching practice influences how this data moves and what in my practice can I can I leverage to help increase these outcomes so I think we're at a place where all these things are going to start to come together over the next year um and I'm very hopeful for it and I thank you for your leadership and I thank you Kelly is huge part of pek as well so it's been a productive Venture so far the teachers and administrators have been great thank [Music] you we got board standing commit community relations um so Community Relations Committee met on October 10th and we reflected on the superintendent meet and greet U that happened in Middle School um and then we also discussed planning for future community events um Dr CLE was kind enough to put together some Google Documents with a request to our committee members please contribute ideas about uh various talking points for those events for the board um as well as um you know putting um various Community groups connected to so we can leverage those connections um you're asked to fill those out before we next meeting which will be November 13th at 6 pm.

thank you curriculum committee La is not here but you have the minutes in the with the agend so just read them and she report the next finance committee [Music] Jan do you have anything to say I do Mr J ask if I can report out that's okay okay all right um the last meeting was October 16th we reviewed the September 2024 Finance report which is recommended to the full board for approval and is on tonight's agenda uh there was a request that the $160 million operating budget be separated from the 7.5 million in one one time arpa funds that's also on tonight's agenda just so that more numbers have a clear picture of what our budget looks like um there were some additional requests made by the committee including finances reported out by School site um a detailed itemization of the alliance Grant and a blind item budget book for the 2425 school year um as of the last meeting um our finance director mik Weaver confirmed that the non lapsing account that the board approved is still in the process of being opened and he also confirmed progress on the 2023 audit and uh anticipates moving to the 2024 audit at the end of December um the last request is from the chairman himself has requested that board members submit in writing to him any additional Finance reports that they would like to receive on a regular basis before the next Finance commit finance committee meeting which is scheduled for November 20th at 6: p.m.

Mr Weaver do you have anything to add to the finance committee okay thank you policy uh policy committee has not met since the last full board meeting um but in light of the conversation that we had at that time um we're going to revisit a conversation around policy 41 40.2 uh which is compensation of central offices and staff before it comes back to the board for a second read the next policy committee meeting is November 6th at 6 p.m.

thank you sites and facil thank you uh we had our sites and Facilities meeting this past Thursday evening on location of Dan bradville um want to thank all the my committee members for coming and uh the board for U allowing us to take a firsthand look at all the wonderful improvements that were done over the summer and talk about plans that we to be doing in the future um I want to thank the city and everybody that worked on getting all of that done in a matter of 3 months it was quite amazing and it it's looking really great so I want to thank everybody for that and thank you to Dr Caso and Dr Sing for helping put it all together for us it's nice to actually see the things that we talk about especially in sites it's more of a visual type of committee so it's uh it's really great we can do more of that in the future we don't have a next uh sites uh meeting yet but we're working on I want to thank you as chairperson of the committee you did an excellent job the board members that are attended and everything I thought it was a beautiful experience to really to see what was going on and uh I appreciate um the tours that I did in the uh special treatment with Dr Sy and Dr Caris did to make sure that I was involved in that and I want to say thank you all our committees have reported so we're going to move on to action item he motion that the Board of Education approve final plans contract specifications and cost estimate for phases 3 and four of the danur Career Academy project state project 03 4-1 153 n and to authorize the chairperson of the Board of Education and the superintendent of schools to sign the sg- 042 forms for submission to the state of Connecticut for approvals as recommended by the sites facil motion made by L could I hear a second second secondment by Al in question seeing none all in favor could I hear I I thank you uh we don't Mr sely do you have anything else additional to say or Dr no just want to thank everybody for a great sight's meeting and uh joining us for the tour and uho his comment we hope to be able to do more uh on site meetings in the future do we need the jum for from the uh City at this time having answer any questions if there's any questions I have any questions just we had the blueprints here you had the opportunity to come by and and Rie them and those that attended the uh High School um last Thursday you had the opportunity to see what was going on whatever was in so we like the young man to go home he need signatures we just say thank you I don't not sure great realizes how much goes into preparing those packets and then probably 12 dozen meetings I I know that only that I've had let alone how many more You' had with other people so thank proba work on this thank you I mean you guys are the key drivers in this so you couldn't do without you we appreciate all your go thanks thank you and thank you you sending your life away going you got to check okay moving on down thank you for your patience action item B action item Bou allocation of American Rescue plan Act of 2021 ARA funding motion that the Board of Education approv the memorandum of agreement between the city of Danbury and the board of education for the $7.5 billion allocation of American Rescue plan Act of 2021 parentheses star or quote arpa close quote parentheses funding in accordance with 24-1 186 to Res submit the motion I second motion been moved in second any question concerning the motion see none all in favor of the motion I oppos motion so car action item C I make a motion that the Board of Education approve the September 2024 financial report uh uh 7124 through 93024 as recommended by the the finance committee and in accordance with exhibit 24-87 motion made by could I hear second second by teres any questions Mr we you okay okay all in okay action item D I'll make a motion that the board of education except for second reading and adoption policy 35424 3 food service charging policy as recommended by the policy committee and in accordance with exhibit 24-18 motion made by K second [Music] by you have to talk just a little bit I'm sorry um motion made K second any question concerning the motion CN all in favor I I I motion so car action item e motion that the Board of Education approve the 2024 2025 superintendent district goals in accordance with 24-19 motion made by I need it I hear a second secondment by any question concerning see none all in favor can I hear I motion so superintend okay thank you um so included in your packet um we did conclude an update on the October one enrollment data and I submitted that also earlier last week for for review and at the 2023 October 1 collection date we had 12,114 students and in 2024 the time stamp on October uh October 1st of this year is 11,923 um and so as you know those numbers fluctuate over the course of the year as students come in at different points um and as some students exit our roles um so we're in the process of still going through that um at probably in a couple of weeks or so so we'll have carolans are come in and we'll do a deep dive on our enrollment we can study it further um but right now that's this is just a time stamp um some of the number of the decrease in the number as you can imagine is attributed to our kindergarten uh change and legislation and so we we do have less kindergarten students um currently right now that we've had in last year in 2023 we had 876 kindergarteners report by October 1st and this year in 2024 we have 679 which is a difference of 197 so um you know once we get moving and the that's no longer in in the dip GE um these numbers will stabilize and see a rebound in in this okay but again we'll do a deep dive on on on our numbers concerning enrollment um at another date um on the alliance Grant update I'm happy to report that uh as of just today I got a cross divisional approval on our first submission uh we did get it kick back initially because they did not want to see copier uh in the alliance Grant so we we definitely reprogramed some of that money uh and we had to what's interesting about the state this year one of the things that they asked us to do and a lot of districts had to do some revisions was around uh tagging all of our strategies by school so we have been talking more about reporting out by how much money we're spending by school and as part of our per people expenditure the state is now really interested in understanding with Alliance grants and the grants that you get at the federal level um when when you put a strategy in place um they want to know not just one large District number that goes towards the strategy they want to know how many staff staff members are being allocated to a school and how does that break down into per people people expenditure um you know plus or minus you know from our our normal floor is so it's interesting in the direction that they're going in and it's going to help with reporting um and it's also going to help us to say hey you know what we have you know maybe we have a distribution problem here on how we're resourcing one school or another it helps it doesn't the district and the state to more clearly identify those things and to create a more transmar atmosphere so um I'm looking forward to seeing how those reports shake out once we're done um but for the next board meeting um I'll go through with you um with this group and I'll probably send it in advance of the breakdown of Alliance and then have to take a look at it okay um I did send out earlier uh in the week the parent school safety letter um that was a letter that was um issued issued as part of a joint effort across the state from meded lont Charlene Russell tuer who is our commissioner and ronell Higgins who's our Commissioner of department and Emergency Services um across the state school districts have been struggling with these sting incidents um but also more of a you know all call for a heightened sense of of security cyber security safety uh child security and really helping parents get informed um of what is of uh you know what to look out for um as part of this and as part of the recent Alliance uh submission um I am looking at ways to help with the parent education side of this so to providing a resource from the district to allow our parents to get educated on all the things that they can do to help keep their children safe um and needs group does a little bit with this individual schools have dabbled in finding cing funds together to help with this but from a district perspect perspective I'd like to create and Equity across the district and make sure that everybody has access to resources to engage our parents and helping our students St safe um so more to come more to come on that and the superintendent district go progress um as you saw tonight Dr Rock will presented on go 2.1 in the in the superintendent district FS over the course of the next several board meetings we'll try to highlight um you know one of the the board goals and the district goals um together and make sure that we're reporting out on it so we engage in dialogue around those over the course of the year as as we go and then the last one um which is great is our b b Cary award for excellence and educational communication so the home schools just received the announcement that we were going to be getting two Awards uh one for the district the 2024 District board of education budget book so this uh won an award for good communication think it really told a good story uh of where where we were at maybe maybe a little bit more so than in years past I think we're all kind of proud of the budget book um for the story that it told out comes are a different story in terms of what we get for the budget so I you that work um but uh certainly this is a good indicator that we're on the right path of of good communication so um you know there was a lot of work that went into this this just wasn't us you know me in the background creating a narrative Mike C put a lot of effort into this from medicine now Grace Molina as well for her graphic and attention to detail and she's she's a perfectionist comes to making sure that these pages and everything are right so just want to say a big shout out to them and the second award was a special award for our welcome and registration packet so the types of information that we provide um and how we engage and that one is uh laor baras over at the center Grace M again sh and an so big shout out to to that for making sure our parents at registration then have everything that they need so that we're pleased to to to get that award um the last note I'll say is that we've got an update um for the board members that the dedication on Friday at the game board members are are to report to the black box at 5:30 as the location for the reception that's it on my rep board chairperson uh report is very brief tonight uh just want to remind all board members when we have obligations and I know we can't be it every place when we have committee meetings we need three board members out of that fire committee to have one to take care of this okay just a reminder okay when we are here for our board meeting I need six people to make a COR to take care of this okay and I know we can't be on time all the time and what I do Tred to get around and make sure that we have the action item I assign them to someone and that we can move on down the agend because we have other items to take here so just a remind on um November the 14th I'm s of asking do we have anyone that will be able to attend uh the um convention and be assigned a delegate for the convention and that purpose of having a delegate in that assembly is to get Danberry on the board as far as being a cave member and not participating because where their policies and things are all made up in that delegation so uh I just growing that out tonight and if you can make the hour is from they got 4 to6 delegate assembly and that's where all the important information done at that um convention so um if you can make it let me know um and Mr silly you want to talk more about it so at least Danberry will have a voice not just only paying our dues and say we are a member of K because the big issues happens and big discussion happen at that assembly and we have never been at least invited to that assembly so we need to get on the boook thank you GL so uh the way it works is this book comes out uh a couple weeks ago I think they sent it out to board members and this is really the agenda for that delegation meeting they go through each of these items piece by piece they put them up on the board and then all the delegates from all around the state there'll be people there from Bridgeport Stanford New London everywhere that has a school board people will be there and everyone has a little paddle with a little plate on it and you vote up and down whether you want these to go into the policy the agenda that K will then bring to Hartford in the U in the legislative session so this is a place where if you don't like one of these policies you can make it Hur and they will literally change the language right there in real time and everybody votes on it so it's it's really an important place that we make sure Dan Danbury has its voice heard there um because this is an agenda that's going to move potentially hundreds of millions of dollars around Hartford and this being in this room is where we decide what what they're going to be fighting for when they get there so um yeah we we are allowed two members uh because of our enrollment size um and that will be Thursday night I believe it starts at 6:00 and whoever the delegates are just please contact me and I'll I'll make sure you get all materials you need and are ready to go yes do we have representatives for the rest of the week There's a training that's going on on the and 16th we have people going to that the convention is just what that Saturday Friday and Saturday yeah we have four people going according to the convention okay you sign up to go correct so um the session that you're talking about from the THS thir andbody for what we're already sponsored for the fr the registration right so the registration I believe the board members who already replied for the registration that's already covered um but if there but if you need to stay over um that evening Thursday and Friday just contact Cara and we arang Kelly Kelly and I will be there on Friday just Friday during the day so we'll see see what there so my concern is we need two two delegates for Thursday from 6:00 for the deleg so okay so please let me know so I can let know okay that's it let me discussion about anything you know move on I need a motion to enter into executive session so move by the all in favor all right teres do you want to read the full motion oh sor sorry executive session motion that the Board of Education recess into executive session for the purpose of discussing the proposed collective bargaining agreement with the D School administrators Association Ry dsaa Clos parentheses comma for 2025 through 2028 comma with possible action in public session thank you the all in favor could I hear I all P just okay second [Music] [Applause] we e e e 2028 is presented motion by second by J all in fav motion so could I have a motion toour m [Music]

e e e welcome to the October 24th 2024 electronic meeting the environmental commission we will conduct this meeting like an inperson meeting so during roll call please indicate your location public comment is welcome and will be via telephone only to speak at public comment call I this information is available on the published agenda agenda in the Public Notices section of the city's website and broadcast of this meeting on CTN Channel 16 AT&T channel 99 and online at a2gov.org watch CN Ain will you read the land Heritage statement yes land the city of an arbor occupies is the ancestral traditional and contemporary lands of the anishinabe including Odawa oju and bwami and W do peoples I further acknowledge that our city stands like almost all property in the United States on lands obtained generally in unconscionable ways from indigenous peoples The Taking of this land was formalized by the Treaty of Detroit in 1807 knowing where we live work study and recreate does not change the past but a thorough understanding of the ongoing consequences of this past can Empower us in our work to create a future that's supports human flourishing and justice for all individuals thanks Aaron uh we do the roll call now yes uh council member Amman here Ann Arbor Vice chair Brown you're muted Steve here in an arbor you uh chairperson Curtis here Ann Arbor commissioner Dale here and I'm council member dish mentioned she might be late she here not yet uh commissioner Graham I'm here thank you uh commissioner guber mentioned she'd be absent today as did commissioner Marson as did commissioner marski uh commissioner Mitchell you're and N Arbor um commissioner nedrich will also be absent today commissioner peterswood here in an arbor thank you commissioner Smith here in an arbor and commissioner whing I said should be absent as well thank you that is a quorum okay just barely so barely we'll get through this um first is approval of the agenda is does anybody have changes to the agenda they want to make I did have a last minute addition of um something in the staff updates um we had some the um a quarter 1 um reports from solid waste so those have been included in the staff report update okay is motion to approve the agenda move first and second okay can we have a vote on approving the agenda raise your hand say yes yes yes okay all right uh does anybody want to make changes to last month's meeting minutes is there a motion to approve the meeting minutes Steve yes Anya second so there all in favor of uh approving the Mee minutes raise your hand say yes yes yes I think that's everyone um so next on the business is public comment uh this is an opportunity for people to speak for up to three minutes please call 888 78899 and our meeting ID 9620 336 6543 to raise your hand press nine to unmute press star six City staff will select callers who have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of your phone number when speaking please move to a quiet area and state your name and address at the beginning of your comments there may be a delay for up to 30 seconds before a connection is established Aaron do we have any callers no callers okay um next is the unfinished business the uh resolution that we were talking about last month do you want to bring that up and show it and yes so I kind of have to complain about how the calendar legistar Works uh just now when I went to go there to open the resolution I had to download it rather than it promptly opening I don't understand why that has to be done that way why can I just open a file directly into my web browser or whatever happens rather than having to add the thing to my hard drive just the question is that true of Word documents and PDFs or does that just doesn't matter what the file is you have to download it in order opening don't mind me being crabby I just I'm generally crabby these days especially till we get through the election do you want me to just laun in sure just I mean we can I would say we should at least discuss definitely discuss the things that have changed since last month yeah absolutely and just page through slowly or pan through it slowly so people can read it as they go if they haven't read it before so I can just um talk through some of the changes that happened sure that sure would you prefer a red the redline version or the clean version H I think the red line just help people visualize what what we're mentioning is fine yeah yeah we do have a clean version of people like it but I'll start while she's pulling that up um there was there's one uh whereas that people felt was uh we could remove which we did um and then I added another so in the end it didn't make it much shorter although I did look for some opportunities just to try to take out some uh um some unnecessary text so um I don't we want to scroll down a little bit here um not not to jump out of order but I kind of do think it might be better to do like the more substantial stock first so um here's you notice an entire wet where is removed so um this one there is a little bit of discussion last time about this uh whereas and and again I I started with um creating this resolution based off of the one that Detroit had pulled together so um uh and then massaging it from there so um but the some of the discussions had been that we're not sure if we even really agreed with the statement um assuming that banning uh single use plastic bags or single use containers and requiring there to be Alternatives would be a hardship on businesses and consumers and um someone brought up that that's that's presumptive and probably maybe not even the case anyways and so um doesn't to have a place in this um so we just removed it and then if we go down a little bit more there's a new whereas um added that spoke to the other other main point that I heard last time um that that this is just as much about trying to remove that barrier of the unnecessary uh um involvement from the state and just bring the control back to the local government and allow us to address any local government really to address an issue that directly affects the community so um so those were the two major things I heard from our discussion last time and I um tried my best to respond to those in this and then I I think I heard that it was just if there's anything we can do just to shorten it and so this is where Aon if you wanted to go back up to the table we can sort of go through slowly I removed words that did not have any impact on the meeting essentially so like there's a part and a couple of whereas is down where it says whereas as the Great Lake State Michigan blah blah blah unnecessary language as far as I'm concerned um and then there's a little bit farther down um it's talking about uh that you know fossil fuels are used and greenhouse gas submissions using every stage of production for Plastics and then it goes into to explain what all those stages are not I'm not sure that that's needed so it seems just like extra text so I proposed removing that um and there may have been other small just like removing things like bats and other uh maybe that was it so so those are those are the changes nothing really significant um and I and I think only things that were discussed At Last At the last reading yeah here mute sorry about that what about the questions St Brown add it at the end um yeah I I like that idea that's not I I like the idea I don't know what the process is um and I I'm not sure who we would ask to find out what the process is you know I don't even know is that is that a common thing to resolve to ask somebody else to also Advocate on your behalf looks like you might know the answer um yeah maybe um I I've approached the Michigan Municipal League before about posos issues um you know wearing a separate hat not as part of the commission here and um if you look at their website um most of the environmental um um you know they take positions on all the BS in the state legislature and most of the environmental bills like this one are under a subcommittee called the there's a committee that they have called um energy and environment and um and if you look at it uh they are just about um opposing all the current bills in the state legislature you know that were put forward um in in this cycle so um and in haror only has one representative um in um in the entire Michigan Municipal League it's um it's in the finance subcommittee which is um and so our Treasurer is on that committee so um you know there's there's um there's an arbor doesn't have any input into that committee but I thought it would be useful because um this is a important um please chime up anybody else if they know um more about this than I do but um they are like the league of um you know of local governments in the state and they're their lobbying their voice has um their voice um you know is listened to in the state legislature so I'm not sure how I'm I'm not sure really how to present this to the Michigan Municipal league but it it occurred to me that it might be good for an arbor to raise its profile within this um organization so uh but this is a separate discussion I I agree I think that there are a fantastic resource I I don't know whether and so I'm not saying dis disagree I think it's a great idea to engage them I'm not sure whether or not that's something that is done separately or if that becomes a a you know therefore be it resolved yeah no I don't know the process you know I think it should be part of a separate resolution you well there' be way more venues that we might ask if we were going to reach out for help and collaboration with other municipalities and organizations across the state I it could be productive for the goals of the city you know absolutely but um I think it deser we we need to have more of a conversation within City staff with our with our Consultants via the council who do that kind of lobbying and Outreach for [Music] us maybe maybe this resolution isn't supported by the council when we get there but if it is then they ought to add it in the hopper of our lobbying organization whatever it is council member Amman you have a question or comment I just wanted to say this is great I wasn't able to attend the meeting last month um so I didn't get to hear the initial discussion about it but um and maybe you talked about this last time but my understanding was that part of the reason why we are not allowed to do this in the state is because an arur started talking about doing it and bad things so anyway I think it should be addressed um anytime I visit another state where I'm forced to pay for a bag I just think we're so backwards so um I appreciate this work and uh you know as far as lobbying the Michigan Municipal League I don't that's not TP typically I think mostly the way that I've heard of the Michigan Municipal league is as a resource um they provide training and things like that for uh elected officials um so typically we would you know our lobing efforts definitely focus on the people who uh get to make these decisions and so it's certainly appropriate to include the information about forwarding it to our uh State delegation and the governor so anyway just thank you it looks great I'm sorry what is it we can't do I didn't I don't think uh what I don't think I said we can't do anything I said this looks great when you first started speaking you said somehow we'd been blocked from doing yeah this is the what I've always heard and this you know perhaps I have it wrong but there were a lot several things that were banned at the state level that were in response to Ann Arbor talking about doing it and I understand this to be one of these things that possibly you know predates me that we had talked about doing doing a plastic bag ban and lo and behold um the Republican legislature you know made this not something that you could do at the city level which which we don't have anymore so Full Speed Ahead please yeah wasn't that's I completely agree thank you yeah it was it was actually Washton County that passed a that passed a an ordinance I think Yousef robbi was um was behind it when he was working on the County Commission and um and uh the Chamber of Commerce responded within hours so does anybody else have questions or comments on this do we want to have um a vote on it a motion to vote for for approval of this yeah I would suggest you strike my comment yeah and um and let's let's consider um exploring you know what the what the pros and cons might be of U being more communicative with the Michigan Municipal League because that might be in multiple things too not just this M oh yeah it would it would it would involve all the operations of the city so someone want to make a motion to approve it Rita do you have a question or comment you're muted oh gosh I'm sorry to move to approve second okay do we have a vote let's have a vote raise your hand say yes I I yes okay that's approved unanimous so we have a short agenda today that was pretty much the only agenda item we had something else lined up but that fell through the cracks and then I talked to a couple people last week to see if they wanted to present and they kind of begged off due to short notices so um we have no more agenda items except to go through report outs from the work groups and U so we'll start with that um biodiversity we did have a meeting uh last month um attended by myself Rita Chris Ana Wendy and Sean Reynolds uh we discussed the questions and Bridget also sorry um we discussed the questions from Mai and the sustainability Landscaping workshop and we also discussed what people would like to see addressed in the natural features focus group meeting of the comprehensive plan um I will say we did have that first meeting in the natural features focus group today we did I didn't make sure everything was brought up that we had talked about there were absolutely no commitments uh Which Way But anything's going to go on they're still in the I'd call it the information gathering phase they're going to start writing the rough draft fairly soon they will think um rough draft be for the natural features section maybe early next year and I'll get to see a preliminary copy of that at that point in time um so I don't know which way it's going to go I couldn't tell you from the conversation there were no commitments of what will or won't be in there but it was a good conversation but also 90 minutes goes really fast for people who have been in those especially when you have a bunch of people with opinions who want to ask answer a lot of questions questions does anybody have questions on that yeah Brooks I was just wondering when's the deadline for completing the comprehensive [Music] plan I don't know off the top of my head um sometime next year I believe but I'm not sure Steve I'd have to go look at their website okay yeah yeah I will too um I also went to the public meeting yesterday at the library just to get an update and you know people were able to vote on things they wanted so I got my little stickers and I found the natural feature of box and I went dot dot dot dot dot Aaron you have a comment I was just curious how many people are at the natural there were seven people invited and there was Brett Leonard and one two three four three consultants and one person from Brett staff thanks any other community groups like who was from the planning staff uh Brett Leonard was there is Steph member who was that somebody new to his group who was taking notes I look it up is good okay Michelle Bennett okay very good uh no Steve no one from Wild on is there um couple of professors from ummc's were invited neither one could attend due to other conflicts uh Shannon Gib Randle was there Mike cost was there um Patrick uh last's Jud I'd have to look it up he's do he's landscape architecture local company was there word for peter po who was very famous in town yeah um somebody from the um Drain Commission was [Music] there uh the D the director Rebecca from the heran river Watershed was there also good okay so a good group I thought it is and fairly I think in general most we mostly agreed on things on the advice we gave what gets taken you know the Planning Commission has to balance what we were talking about with all the other feedback they get to come up with something that's a workable plan for all parties um so next report out would be circular economy Eve you're muted still I'm sorry um we had a meeting on October 16th um that Sarah Mason attended and um so we were we were asking her basically what uh what goals might um might help City staff with their projects and so Sarah's come up with two things um the first one was the uh County was county is is beginning to put together a mandated materials and management plan it's mandated by eagle by the state and Sarah's the city's representative on that body um they uh their first meeting is going to be in November 14th and um and so she'll keep us updated you know through the um circular economy working group about the progress on that front um they've hired um RRS as their consultant for drafting this plan and um you know mostly just make sure that they comply with the part 115 requirements um in the newer state law and um and then the second thing we discussed was the uh City's more life less stuff campaign you know there was contracted to the Ecology Center and I I think maybe some of you have seen some um Communications about that in public in town um I wasn't so familiar with that myself um and but basically the city staff is um putting uh the future it's a it's more or less a campaign you know for um just buying less stuff you know with the reduce looking at you know the old reduce aspect of uh of um you know of um of solid uh you know of um of of reducing consumption uh reduce recycle and um you know Reduce Reuse or recycle so the focus seems to be more on just buying less stuff and um doing more um uh exploring more reuse options you know such as with the uh you know with the Kanas Center out on the west um uh out of on West Jackson Road and um and so one thing that we were talking about doing was um uh they need more um they needed more uh publicity via social media so commissioner Smith um was interested in helping out with that and so we'll see how that develops um they're looking for three stories that they can put up on the city's website you know about uh you know about more life stuff so they're looking for three stories so they're asking um the uh this working group to help disseminate um the information and try to help get uh stories about more stuff more life less stuff so go to the city's website um and see if there's something you might want to contribute to that um and then one thing Sarah I thought would be useful is if we as if the working group would compile um we could uh and this this had had to do with um the last resolution that we just voted on um is there's um we could help staff and Council perhaps in in tracking State legislation uh tracking whatever state legislation relates to um solid waste and um at least for this working group and to try to you know maintain a table um and um and have discussions within the working group about what resolutions might be drafted about um you know addressing state laws just like you know the the one we just voted on so um Sarah Mason thought that would be helpful and um that's it and um and um we talked about oh we just talked about the um Solid Waste fund financials you know that she'd get it to us by um um by early November she'll email it to the to the commission and everybody can look at them and then compile questions um send her qu any questions you have about the financials by November 18th and that'll give her time to uh you know to callate them and answer them uh and be prepared to answer them on the December 5th meeting of the full commission so that's it Steve on the questions I would suggest we send them all to Aaron first and have Aaron coate them as opposed to to Sarah doing that seems like appropriate for us to give her a single list of questions yeah that sounds good uh so next would be water quality I don't think I got anything from Sarah NR on that I don't know Steve did you get anything from her on her report out uh we did have a meeting of the working group on October 18th um it was attended by Sarah myself um and um and it's actually grown quite a bit Aaron was attending as well as um but Sarah's recruited some people from the some students from the University and uh Kelly mccab from the Heron River Watershed Council and so we scheduled a recurring Zoom U meeting for this working group um every third Friday from 12:30 to 1 and um and then I have an action point to talk about to um to investigate a little bit about the the new EPA rules on posos emissions from Wastewater because EPA announced last year or early this year that um they would start regulating posos distres from Wastewater uh plants like an Arbors and um through the MPD process other than that um we have um our major I think collaboration here is with the haran river Watershed Council so Kelly mccave is keeping us updated on on the uh tmdls you know for phosphorus in the river they they still haven't Eagle is is like at least a year behind on on their pering process both for an ms4 permit and the tmdl um determination for the Heron for phosphorus and the Heron River as long as as well as eoli but they're focusing more on eoli right now than on phosphorus so um you know we we have some goals we have some smart goals first one is chloride you know which U comes from Mostly road salt um and storm water runoff from road salt that's been applied to roads and then there's a group of us that are going to look at the storm water codes and um and U study up on those and see what we can um and and review what what what was imposed with the green streets the city's green streets you know um um policy that was started in 2012 I believe and then um you know the eoli and the nutrients we have a a group of people that are interested in following up on that and then um and then we've also like uh um you know dived up Outreach and tracking like um attending her on river water Council mid Heron um here on Partners meeting that's quarterly that's the the governmental body that's basically dealing with um you know dealing with an Arbor's consent judgment about um you know dumping phosphorus through both storm water and waste water treatment plant dumping phosphorus into the Heron River and then card um and then the card group you know that's following the Gman plume and then eagle and um rrd um aon's taking both of those topics and then um aon's also um going to keep track of what the county water commissioner is doing on various issues that's part of her um assignment as a staff person anyway that's it uh anything else eron okay yeah nothing to add thanks Steve he next is the energy commission John mki sent me his comments um so I'll read them off it say uh the sustainable energy unit is on the November 5th ballot I encourage everyone to inform the themselves on the proposal and support its establishment which is his position not explicitly or formally that of the energy commission uh the commission so agend into toping in the last meeting was to consider and approve a resolution of support for the updated green rental housing program the 820 strategy 3 action the resolution was revised to request that a city council increase the certification threshold for landlords using the checklist pathway which most Commissioners deem too low to drive meaningful greenhouse gas reductions and to meet the 820 targets for the program and rental properties generally and B the program formally be revised periodically for Effectiveness and for needed revisions uh some background information the program will affect approximately 8,500 buildings and 31,000 rental units in the city over half of the city's residents live in rental housing units the a20 plan's original timeline for the green rental housing program was adoption in 2021 and implementation in 2022 an initial proposal was presented to the energy Comm mission in March of 2022 but it was considered deficient in the accompanying resolution of support never voted on in light of the above quick implementation of the program is key to meeting our CN goals it is important that Pro program which will drive significant sustainability improvements be improved ASAP so that is John's feedback on the energy Commission on the parks an Marson sent me her uh feedback and these are the items were covered in their meeting on October 15th uh Parks is going to experiment with a temporary do dog park in vetfield 4 from November to April there has been demand for a dog park particularly on the west side of town the gallop Park bridge is mostly complete there's a ribbon cutting ceremony planned earlier this afternoon uh we approved a Construction contract for repaving the parking lot in pass around at B anonio Park and the pack declined to further explore ing property adjacent to the thirst in nature area I think the next report out would be from Council I can't think of anything council member dish can you I'm sorry acquiring uh school property next to thirston so the Nature Center is better protected ibly don't know the answer that's I don't know the answer before um there's quite a lot of controversy about that yes the school system wanted to um basically build a new school in the nature area you know instead of um instead of demolishing the old school and then building the new school on on on the same um site that the thirston school is now so um a lot of people in the neighborhood are upset that they're getting um that they're going to get rid of the nature area you know it's been a feature of the it's been a valuable um destination for the neighborhood for many decades but you know that's um so I'm not sure what the uh you know who owns the nature area it sounds like it could be the public schools because most School owns it yeah Public Schools name for Bill sta who was this uh pioneering environmental uh professor at the University in the 80s um absolutely wonderful man who really led the way on citizen activism about nature centers and nature areas wonderful man student of my grandfather okay council member Amman yeah just wanted to say that um I think quite a few of us on Council probably all of us have been hearing getting a lot of email about confusion and some frustration and questions with regard to the school's Capital uh plans and so I think because so many of us sent questions to the city administrator because the school hasn't really I mean I don't have any more information than than you all do from their meetings um but I believe that our uh City administrator is talking with there intendent to get us more information about a variety of things related to their plans so thirston is one but in W four um people are really concerned about how they plan to use some people are concerned about how they plan to use portions of loton park for a playground that would be used by the school during the day but would still be part of the public park as well as I hear a lot of concerns about their pickup and drop off expansion plans car-based pickup and drop off expansion plans so those are some things that I've been asking questions about I I don't really have answers yet because I've been getting most of my information from mli um but hope to have some more soon and I guess I would just say I would strongly encourage you to reach out directly to the school board and the superintendent um with your feedback and concerns because a lot of this is in their Court though I hope we have more information and you know we'll be collaborating with them of course on some of the street uh things which is where I hope can intersect with them on the drop off and pick up stuff but so next is report from chair I have nothing else to add besides what was in the biodiversity update so I think it's a report from staff sure yeah I can just share my report up apologies and Rita to answer your text since we have nobody from the Planning Commission on the meeting on our list there's no reason no way that we can really get a planning committee report out Cil member dish right oh yeah doing that one yeah okay yeah I mean I'm not nothing jumps to mind right now that we've done that's explicitly relevant to this commission but um I'll quickly look through my notes and see if anything jumps out at me but you shouldn't wait while I do that um yeah just a few updates from OSI so we have officially given our 10 10,000th tree uh going out into the community um six years early uh so you can read an update on that um then there's some information about a $3.1 million uh grant that we that um was obtained by OSI um to support equit Equitable decarbonization in the Bryant neighborhood um public services so we'll get started with the LED street light conversion um you know we've talked about um that issue here before um or at least in in the work groups um so work on that should get started at the end of 2024 um and then as I mentioned um I did include some kind of last minute Solid Waste uh fund quarter one fiscal year 25 updates and those um that link will take you to uh the lar file so you can find those um those reports there so feel free to to browse and send me any questions thank you thank you to anyone who worked on the lower temperature LED lights and a little less brightness really good idea thank you [Music] dis yeah I found one tiny thing that's a little bit nerdy but um they we've made a change for when people are just repurposing you know doing interior Renovations that enable a repurposing of you use of a property they do not have to do a site plan and um run that by Council it can be administrative approval and that actually means a lot for people because site plans are expensive to have done and then it's an expensive process that you pay for the city so you know we really want people to repurpose space we want them to you know create bedroom units in their basements that you know provided that it's consistent with the zoning but there no there's no reason why that sort of thing should go through lots of Hoops so that could be um something that the environmental commission is interested in thank you so next as items for next agenda we'll have a few topics from the circular economy work group that we be reported out on and part of that I'll be going through the finances again so that's why it's important that if you have any questions to get the questions submitted to Aaron so she can get everything Consolidated and sent over to Sarah so Sarah can get the information from the finance people um our next meeting would be on December 5th and for the new people because of the holidays we don't have a meeting in November and December but they would both line up on holiday so we just have one in between so we'll have one December 5th and then the the one after that will be later in January back on the normal schedule so next item is um public comment this is an opportunity for people to speak for up to three minutes please call 888 78899 enter meeting ID 9620 336 6543 to raise your hand press nine to unmute press star six City staff will select callers who have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of your phone number when speaking please move to a quiet area and state your name and address at the beginning of your comments uh there may may be a delay up 30 seconds before connection is established Aon do we have any callers uh no callers okay before we have a motion to adjourn does anybody else have anything they want to ask questions on or comment on so is there a motion to aurn and one of will be a second so I think we're all great good thanks everyone thank you you night for

[Music] all right I'll call the meeting to order at 7:30 all right perfect we do the United States of America for it stands one nation God indivisible andice for all Mrs re here Mrs Helm here M Allen here Mrs R here Mr Golden here M julo here Mr Jones Mr or here okay I please have a motion and a second to approve the Action meeting minutes from the meeting from September 26 2024 motion second all those in favor I oppos or abstain abstain Perfect all right Mr ahe all right welcome everyone thank you so much everyone for coming out we are going to do our monthly student awards and this school year we're doing something a little bit different so we are having one student highlighted from each grade level that we are inviting to the board meetings uh every month and as an added bonus this year we had um one of your teachers actually write a little something about you that I'm going to read so students when I call you up you're going to come up here stand next to me real awkward you're going to be super nervous and I'm going to read what the teacher um wrote about you and then you're going to stay up here with your certificate and then we'll take a picture together okay sound like a plan okay awesome so our first recipient of an award from our prek class we have Mr Jude Warrington come on up dud congratulations sir hold that there all right Jude is super kind to his classmates and teachers he is always willing to help someone who needs it in addition Jude does a great job of using his manners and is always including other children during play way to go Jude job okay our um student from kindergarten is Rita adalay I'm gonna read it anyway Rita acclimated to the classroom nicely she instantly became a leader to all of her peers so congratulations Rita our first grade recipient is Willow hail congratulations you go um teacher this teacher said I'm selecting Willow hail for the student of the month because Willow is respectful responsible and always has a positive attitude she's a great role model Willow was very caring and is always willing to help a fellow classmate I am so very proud of congratulations for second grade we have Ella Nelson Ella's teacher said Ella is very respectful student to adults and her peers she helps anyone that asks and always makes good choices she is also very brave and can share her feelings appropriately when she needs help herself all right for third grade we have ariela Ione congratulations ariela is a dedicated student who shows compassion for others and is willing to help when needed she is thoughtful hardworking and kind she took the time to help a new student without being asked congratulations and our L student from JFK here we have Hava relli Hava is a model student for respect and responsibility she appreciates help from her teachers and is always mannerly she works cooperatively with other students she is positive patient and wants the best for others she works well with all students she gets her best and wants to do the right thing for herself and others all the time congratulations all right let's go get a picture together hold your certificates FR your face Jude put yours down a little bit there you [Laughter] okay now our awards for Eisenhower our fifth grade award goes to this month Cameron Cole congratulations just coming from football or going to football coming from football Cameron Cole is an outstanding student he is extremely focused in class asks clarifying questions finishes assignments early and willingly helps other students he is hardworking and advocates for himself when needed Cameron is consistently respectful to his teachers and his classmates congratulations our sixth grade student of the month is Mark rippen congratulations s Mark is a hardworking and dedicated student he is focused and attentive in class Mark works well with others and is respectful in class Mark participates turns in his work in a timely manner and is knowledgeable on the concepts presented congratulations Mar our seventh grade student of the month is dieri Nunes Nova [Applause] did I say your first name right yeah okay good I thought that's what it was Neri has been a pleasure to work with to begin the school year she brings a cheerful attitude to class each day and puts effort into each lesson she participates in class discussions and demonstrates intellectual curiosity well that's a good one she makes sure to ask for help when she needs it and to help other students succeed as well great work and last but not least our eighth grade student of the month Rex Bannon in the short time Rex has been in eth grade he has been a positive role model for all students at DDE he is kind to all students and offers a helping hand to all who ask for one congratulations now it's time for your picture I'm Sor that's nice good job congratulations good work keep it up all right everybody thank you so much for for coming um you certainly can stay for the rest of the meeting but you don't have to so this is your chance to kind of get up and get out of here so you right thank you for coming thank you for raising amazing children have a great night [Music] by ready yeah Miss Botley is now going to our supervisor of curricular curriculum and instruction is going to be presenting our 2024 um testing our assessment results great um thank you so much for having me and I'm so happy to have an audience this year right I will be presenting our 2024 State assessment results as you know this is the um the requirement as part of our um accountability for this dat so we will go over each test that the students took in the spring of 2024 which includes the NJ in ela and math for our third through 8ighth grade students um an njsla in science for our fifth and eth grade students our special education children took the dynamic learning maths which will reference as the dlm and our multilingual Learners which is previously what we used to call our e our Ells took the we to access 2.0 so we will go through each of those and our results stop me if you have any questions along the way so to start we'll go over our access say for Ells this is the test that's given to the children that are in ESL class those are students that are learning English for the first time this test has four sections it assesses listening speaking reading and writing and there are six levels of development while there's no passing score because children learning English can take as long as they need to to learn it they they suggest that if a child scores a 4.5 or better that you release them from the ESL program and just start to monitor so we're looking for that 4.5 cut off um you'll notice that I put the children into grade bands in some grades so as to protect their privacy um thanks that's better um something that is important to note in this slide is um unlike previous years these bars are pretty high right we had a lot of elll students this past year we started the year with 23 students in our ESL program and we ended the year with 39 of those newcome of those 12 were newcomers to the United States so 12 children joined our school speaking no English so that's why you see a lot of light blue in some of those bars um now they're progressing wonderfully but if you are new to America you would expect to see an entering score so that's why those there's so much light blue there we are are starting this school year with 29 much more manageable number as far as our Dynamic learning Maps this is the assessment that's given to children who are primarily taught in different standards than their peers they have a significant cognitive disability that prohibits them from being able to work through the njsla um so instead they work on a ability appropriate curriculum we had eight children participate in this assessment and you can see their scores there just like njsla if they were in fifth or eighth grade they also took science all eight of those students were in District this year okay um the major assessment that we took was called the New Jersey student learning assessment at Ela and math that has five performance levels a level four meet expectations or a level five exceeds expectations is consider considered passing so we are looking for a level four or a level five this is the breakdown of our schools of our scores from 2024 in language arts we had 42% of our students pass that is on the left and in math we had 27% that's on the right so we are looking at the light green and the dark green portions of that pie this is the trends for our district from pre-o and postco so you'll notice in 2019 before the pandemic we were at about 48% and 44% for ELA and math respectively since covid we we after Co we were at 35 and 22 and we're slowly progressing upward we are just not yet where we were before the pandemic so the most recent test is that one on the right where you see 41 and about 27 this is the proficiency for that same njsla this time broken down by grade level so third grade is to the left e8th grade is to the right language arts is to the left math is to the right a higher bar means there are more children in that class and what we are looking for is as much green as possible dark green or light green is passing now the science test that's only given in fifth and eighth grade while it has the same name it has a different scoring rubric so there are only four performance levels for science again the top two are passing so a three or a four is considered passing we had about a 20% passage rate for science um that was 25 out of our 123 students okay so if you take the graphs from those last two slides and turn them into percentages this is what that would look like so by grade level your Ela score is in blue your math score is in Orange and then your science score is in purple you'll notice that in all cases with the exception of third grade we did better in ela than we did in math so the next logical question when I saw that was is that how the rest of the state did right did everybody do better in ela than in math so um this is also by grade level and by subject Berlin Township students are those in purple and children in the state of New Jersey are those in Gray so you can compare how our students did to those in the rest of the state so we are looking for a purple bar that's higher than a gray bar we had that in ela 4 Ela 7 math 7 algebra and Science five right okay so what I wanted to do then is essentially I rearranged those bars and now this time it's by grade level to see if there was a group of children that might be either really succeeding or really struggling and I found that in seventh grade we were above the state average in both language arts and math however in third fifth sixth and eighth we were below in both so while I was looking for Trends to to find like a cohort of kids or some where to focus my energy it felt to me like it was a little spread out with the outlier being that one that that grade that did exceptional so if we take those scores and think about the group of children to see how they did compared to themselves right to look at our growth scores this is what it would look like the farthest past 2022 the one just after covid is the light orange progressingly it's hard to see on here but getting darker toward 2024 what you would hope to see in these graphs is upward movement again I'm looking for a trend and I don't really see one in some grades it goes up and some it goes down and some it goes up and then down or down and then up nothing here stood out however if you were on the board last year or you heard this presentation last year you remember we talked about what was the fifth grade and how much lower they were than their peers that class is now the current sixth grade and you can see they they're still pretty low compared to their peers we talked a lot about last year how that's that is a class that was highly impacted by virtual learning right those children were in first grade when we went remote missed second grade Miss they were remote in second grade the years where you're learning to read and then came back in third grade and were expected to read to learn yet never had the last two years face to face with their teach so we're keeping a particular eye on the class of um in ela they were hovering right around where they were last year which is still solid right because that's still one year's growth in one year's time um in in math they went up so we are happy with that but we are still unfortunately below the state average so if we dig a little further so now we've looked at grade levels and let's look within those grade levels to see if there's a trend that we can find amongst the subgroups of children so the categories across the top are the categories that the state lays out for us gender ethnicity economics and disability um economics is either disadvantaged economically disadvantaged or not economically disadvantaged so in your mind that's that might be a little backwards right non-disadvantaged are the children you would expect to to do better the words might be confusing um where you see the blanks so the boxes that don't have any information in them that can mean one of two things that either means there were under 10 children in that group so for the privacy of the children I eliminated the data or there was no difference there was no ST statistically um significant information to share in that box what do the different colors mean nothing just to draw your eye to the yeah so it's a great question that is sorry I should have put a key that's okay um my my eye goes to again it's hard to see but right there and that upper left in language arts by gender female outperform the males in five of the sixth grade levels and again if you heard this presentation last year it was the same so this is the second year in a row where we're having females outperform males in language arts so you know it's my job to then dig in like why is that happening and what can we do so the first thought I had was um is it possible that you know you do research like why this might happen um that we are reading books that aren't centered around boys that the characters are mainly girls so I took a survey of our books and we it's the opposite actually we have 70% of the novels that are read whole class to the students have a male protagonist I was like all right so that's not it um are the boys checking out books from the library do they have the the materials ible to them and our male students are checking out 52% of our library books again not what I expected to see so while I stand in front of you and tell you I can see there's something happening there I I don't know the roof cause of it or really have many ideas on what to do about it those library books being checked out they're staying in a book bag I have one of those yeah the voice aren't really they're fing they're not reading it I mean it's very possible and you know like well what do girls want to read about they want to read about boys like I don't know the the protagonists are males they have the books um it is important to note that our entire language arts department are female teachers so that could be something um but we have other departments that are mixed differently so I'm going to keep an eye on that but if any of you come across anything you think I should look into as far as as why that might be I would be happy to hear it well I noticed when my kids were there that the AR was done differently when my older kids were there opposed to where where it is today and I know as they got older they stopped doing the AR goals and they stopped doing all of that and I think that enticed the kids to want to read more by doing that that's my opinion but I I just know my older two read more than my younger three did because there there was no great that they were in the mix of Co during their middle school years but where my older two were out of high school already but that definitely makes a big difference I think giving that it's like when we were kids they gave you the little Pizza Hut certificates when you read your book so if you're not sure what Mrs Reed is talking about we have a program called AR and the kids take a test at the begin three times a year and it assigns them a goal or how many points they need to read and each child then gets a level that they can read that is their independent reading level and when they go to the Library all of the books have the number the level written on it and they pick a book within their range after they read the book they go on this program and they take a quiz it's either five or 10 questions for their comprehension and based on how many they get right they earn points toward their goal and children who meet their goal get prizes at the end of the markeing period so we throw pizza parties we have free time on a Friday and then children who don't meet their goal usually have to go work on reading the things that they didn't read to to earn the goal and each child's goal is differentiated to their own reading level and their own growth based on how they do on that first assessment so that's what Mrs Reed is is referencing like encouraging those pizza parties also have like charts that the kids would sign as soon as they met their goal they still do do they still do that okay I know as they got older they stopped doing those hanging in the hallway outside of every language arts class is a chart and it says AR Achievers and when they meet goal no matter what point in the marketing period it is they can go out and sign their name and then there's extra prizes if they surpass their goal right so if your goal is to earn 20 points and you earn 40 and you've met 200% of your goal you get to go to the pizza party and you get a cupcake or what you know whatever the price may be um thank you for that Mrs re I was certain I would think AR math would be kind of similar although that one was a little that one was a little that's not a product that the company offered anym oh really okay well that was a little crazy we' replaced it with um Study Island yeah great yeah um so getting back to this the other column that caught my eye is the one on the far right students with um I with no IEP outperform children with an IEP in most areas while that makes sense to me because there's a reason that child has an IEP and needs a particular individual learning plan I do feel like as a district we can't just leave the column like that and not look at why that might be or what is happening within that so you hear like oh the child has an IEP they might not be able to pass the test and that's true but are they growing from the year before so that was the question I asked myself and um I've pulled up a lot of reports and done a lot of number crunching but the state has a report that they call the performance report now keep in mind that the performance report comes out a year behind so this information is from the 2023 state test but it will give us an idea of generally where we are until we get the new one so this is about growth they give each district and each subgroup of children a a growth score an what they call an msgp that they want the children to average and they break it down and you can see that the only area where we did not meet our growth score was students with disabilities in math so in all other areas including students with disabilities in Reading we did meet our growth score again this is a year behind so I look forward to seeing this similar chart coming out soon with our most recent scores when I pulled up that report I decided to pull you this one as well this is the overview the first two columns are proficiency that means did we pass the bar right like are we over the hurdle and we know we're not we just saw that in all those slides right the the third and fourth column are are we growing at a significant rate and in most cases there we are which is positive again a year behind so I look forward to seeing this for the upcoming year I bring this to your attention um because we're in a qack here right and it will be not many months before I'm up in front of you again we're talking about curriculum and programming and this is what they're going to be looking at so I anticipate some red in our proficiency columns and some green in our growth columns and I want you to just be ready for it also um the strategic planning committee has talked about things like do we need a program do we need to change the math Series so I've been calling some companies and we have some trials out with some teachers so that they can you know start looking to see if it's a material issue I have reports for Megan for Budget season so we have feelers out there when we get these reports and I will certainly follow back up when qack comes around but I just wanted you to see that so that you're not shocked by it in in a couple of months and then the final thing I wanted to talk about was um overall if I'm saying we're growing and we're growing steady but we're growing slow is the state doing the same thing so the blue bar and the gray bar are Berlin Township students in ela and math and then the orange bar and the yellow bar are the state of New Jersey students so you can see everybody is growing slowly and in fact the state is starting to Plateau so while we're behind them we are still moving in the same direction of of them and that's positive and again on the left on the two 2019 column you'll see where we were preco overall I would just like you to know that we are trending upward but slowly we haven't yet passed where we had hoped to be where we started um I'm going to continue to analyze the males in ela thing until I find something to grasp on to um we have some extra supports in place for the class impacted by virtual learning that's the sixth grade they are our priority class for RTI and they've been offered extended RTI after school By Invitation Only and then keep in mind our influx of ESL students and that they will then be wrapped into these numbers we have trained all of our teachers in sheltered English instruction so that regardless of which teacher gets the ESL students everyone is adequately prepared to have them does anyone have any yes when you go over curriculum coming up will you be also you com and to make sure our curriculum is very similar so when they do go off the high school they're going in the high school or even playing field basically um in all hesty I don't usually do that because I write it based on the standards so if the state is telling me in eth grade they need to know this that's what I want in our curriculum now Pine Hill and and Berlin Township have similar um curriculum because our children are going to go there so I need to know that when they leave eth grade they're on the path to be successful in ninth grade and particularly in math we're finding that's the case um lemington does very very differently and our our children aren't going there so I don't feel the need to kind of align with them um but that doesn't mean I don't talk to them no I understand yeah I just want to make sure like especially when we're changing over curriculum that it's going to coincide with each other because I want our kids to be just as good just as able to be valid dictorian as the clementin kids I understand you know that kind of thing yes so we you all actually approved it in I believe it was May the new curriculum with the 2023 Ela and math standards so that started we started implementing in September so we are well on our way as far as that and that will be one of the QC monitoring points is is our curriculum up to standard well one of the things that I noticed just being on both boards is that we've had foundations forever yes we have um since my daughter's 27 since she was here and Pine Hill didn't get it until I got on the board I've only been on board for nine years so like just the different curriculums like the way it's done not saying ours was better or theirs was better could be equal but just being the same I think it's kind of like when different states teach history differently learn it differently if you remember last year JFK had the ASP plan with the state and we were given some extra money to use on curriculum as long as it was databased and one of the purchases that we made was the hegerty product so if you've been hearing about the science of reading and changing the way we teach reading um we did purchase that entire kit we trained our K through second grade staff on it now because the standards were Midway being changed when we purchased it we didn't throw out the old one right so we still have fundations and we still have guided reading we had that complete hit but now we have heery in addition so this year we allow the teachers to make the choice that's best for their group and we told them to do it based on the students in a small group so your whole class doesn't need to do hegerty but if these children need it they can have hegerty while these get guided reading and so on So like um what is itan we're doing that as an inter tier two and tier three intervention in RTI and what about like Wilson Orton Gillingham is very similar okay yeah so we currently don't have any children in Wilson okay good questions does anyone else have other questions for me what math program do we currently have we have go math till the end of this year um go math 1.0 the version that we have is being phased out so we I have samples coming in of either go math 2.0 or into math okay and what uh Ela programs are you looking into as well for the curriculum um wonders and into reading okay do you know what Pine Hill uses I don't no okay I'm just I I don't either because it's the lower gr yeah and it doesn't as so my district is also a sending District where I teach and we use into and the district we sent to uses wonders so it doesn't like you were saying doesn't necessarily have to line up more about the standards I I get like a little bit morally torn because if you when you watching this data like what's the what's the Highlight at seventh grade right every year I stand up here and I'm like how come seventh grade is like killing it and knowing what I know about the seventh grade team of teachers they don't use the materials they make their own slides they make their own handouts they use their expertise of their subject to make what they think the children needs and it's working for them but at the same time I can't tell a District of people that I'm taking away their materials and that they have to go create it right so I I Teeter on this fine line between um respecting their professional decisions and knowing that sometimes that's the best thing we can have and purchasing something because that we have something then to fall back on so you know I'm I'm in that I'm in that now we're having lots of discussions but does seventh grade use novels mainly yes yeah which would make sense like I mean even if you bought an into or a wonders you could still do a k to six or a k to five like it wouldn't NE what you do in early Elementary is different than Middle School yes and when I did the analysis of the novels I was looking for gender in the novels but I happen to find out that um they read a lot more books in seventh grade than they do in the other grade level so because I asked all the language arts teachers to give me the titles of the short stories and and books that they're reading and that teacher list was significantly longer than some of the other teachers so um that might correlate also so I might have stumbled upon some information I didn't necessarily go looking for [Music] but is there anything else I can answer for you okay thank you you're welcome wake up have to go home stay here so next on the um on the agenda you'll see the the district mission statement um which is is very lengthy and actually in the Strategic plan I think it was night one um you know they we we brought that up that that probably needs to be revised into something shorter and easier to understand so we will be working on that underneath of that you're also going to see our two approved District goals from our last meeting uh that first goal really being about improving communication between the school district and the community um specifically facilitating the strategic planning process which we are are underway we have one more meeting for that and then we we'll begin to build out that strategic plan and then District ho number two um a lot of what you just heard um Mr spotle talk about which is Monitor and review our district curriculum and instruction make sure that we're using the current best practices her and I have had a number of conversations about what we've done in the past what we're doing now and sort of where we see the future going there so um both but working diligently on both of those District goals and then the board goals we reapproved um last month as well they're listed there for everyone's review and then like we said after strategic planning is done we always reserve the right to update all those goals at this point then we will open the meeting to the public to for the discussion of agenda items only can I have a motion and a second please motion second none right now um for the discussion of agenda items we're going to motion a second then to please close the meeting to the public motion second all those in favor report all right that that may have been the longest weight I've had to get to the superintendent report since I started was aw was great was very very good yeah just I got I gotta get I gotta get back into gear here um all right so first on the list here you'll see items A and B are our Safety and Security drills um both fire and safety drills that we uh performed with schools uh in September um our item C is monthly reports uploaded to the portal for review uh the board members if you if you do go into look at any of those reports you'll notice I made a change so that many of the reports are the same format now and include the same information and it's based upon the um the the principal leadership uh standards um so it's it's very uniform and it should it should help to sort things out item D um we had two um reports of Hib at the Middle School uh this month and both of them were confirmed not to be Hib item a is just confirmation of the head results from last month's meeting item f um I emailed everyone on the board about this we had 10 policies as I'm catching up on things that needed to be uh reviewed and updated those are updates that are pushed out by school boards Association so I went through you'll see them in the portal as well um and anything that was changed is just highlighted a lot of it is is legal uh mumbo jumbo things that needed to be know things things that needed to be things that needed to be updated um a n on policy um we're also looking to make some updates to our uh prek policy I know the board discussed that a couple months ago I have a couple recommendations of things that I've been looking at so I'll send them all to your to you for your review for potentially the next meeting or the one after that um item number two uh is play more Sport and Social Club to use the DD gym that's something new we've had that before uh item number three is a ton of mes here that will be approved as advanced uh volunteers um for parents volunteering in the in the classroom item G we have a number of field trips that have come in already which is something that was very important to me coming into the school year I wanted to make sure that we don't get stuck at the end of the year um so we have we are trying to approve all of these field trips as soon as we can uh item H is Personnel um we have a um new care support staff new full-time custodian and hot off the presses this afternoon I hired a uh first grade teacher uh item number two is a um resignation item number three are two leaves of absence item number four are our sing positions for uh basketball and security for those games uh item number one under curriculum and instruction is an Animal Welfare Association that is a guest speaker they come in and do like a stem activities with our students uh down at JFK that's always a fan favor and that is it for my piece of the all right can I please have a motion and a second to approve superintendent items XA through XI motion second my motion St thank you very much um any questions um Mrs Allen yes Mr Jones yes Mrs row yes Mrs Reed yes Mrs Helm yes Mrs Juliano yes Mrs orente yes and Mr Golden yes okay thank you all right can I have a motion of second for business Finance items X I A through x l and then I'll go through all of them motion second thank you all right items a through D are the financial report for the period ending August 2024 no line item has been overexpanded there are sufficient funds available to meet the financial obligations the treasurer's report and the secretary's report were in agreement for the month of August there are no changes in anticipated Revenue amounts or sources e is just of the bills which I believe everybody had a hand in kind of reviewing them and approving um everybody got done them right all signatures BS um f is to approve the September 2024 listing for source for teachers the rates are listed there the pay rate as well as the bill rate G is to approve the cafeteria dispersements for the month of September 2024 in the amount of $27,988 51 H is to approve the care dispersements for the month of September 2024 in the amount of $2,492 48 I is to approve tuition contracts for the 2425 school year these have all been budgeted for um the one is Katen back for a grade 12 special education student another one for glester County Special Services School District that's for a grade eight student and a preschool student and then we have um Eastern students attending Eastern they are mckin vento students at grade nine and grade well um moving forward we also have the Camy County Technical Schools um tuition agreement to approve again also budgeted um J is to approve professional development and travel for some of our staff members K is to approve a nursing contract for the 2425 school year with Bata and L is to approve the budget calendar for the 2526 school year which was uploaded to the portal most of those dates are just kind of like General time frames because obviously we don't have the release from the state yet with you know when is our public hearing and when do we submit to the county and when's the budget address and when all that stuff so um they're just kind of General timelines for everybody to review again qac wants to see that we are reviewing that approving it um you know things that nature so that's why that is in there does anyone have any questions all right Mrs Allen yes Mr Jones yes Mrs R yes Mrs re yes Mrs Helma yes M Juliano yes Mrs orente yes Mr Golden yes perfect all right old business I don't think we have any old business uh new business committee updates negotiations nothing on negotiations at this time um all of those are settled right now um finance committee we did meet our finance committee met before the meeting um budget report looks good no deficiencies there right now revenue report we've gotten for September we started getting our state aid um and our tax levies are coming in just fine and and on time which is great to keep us operating um for student out of District placements nothing has change but we do have one student awaiting uh potential placement so I'll keep you up to date on that all of our final expenditure reports for the grants for Esa Ida and and the American Rescue plan were due October 18th 2024 and were all submitted um Assa accounts were collected from both schools on the due date of October 15th I believe that's due the first week of December and then our um annual Transportation report is due 11:15 I'm just doing some comparisons now but I anticipate that'll probably be submitted before um the Jud dat so that was it for finance committee um School New Jersey school boards well obviously they just wrapped up their convention Mr Lee was down there for a couple days um wheel and Deon I said budget friendly AKA um so I don't know you didn't give me a full I saw him at the roulette table a lot of money I he was going there it was it was it was it was a great convention um you know and and we we spoke before the meeting if there's ever a uh you know if I can if I can get some of our upward to join me in future years I think it'd be really beneficial for us to to get together down there and go to some of those sessions together um because I did learn a lot going down there this year have have Services Michelle um the last meeting they did they actually went to the experience Center in Norristown it's cor uh corbette um it's has to do with Furniture in different places and they're starting to create special furniture for schools I did not attend if I had something else going on but um the next meeting they're going to discuss some of the things they saw just furniture for where students um that struggled to just kind of stay in a desk they'll have basically different versions of flexible seing um so that they wanted to check it out to possibly incorporate into Camy County um Mrs re I know Hi H we had our meeting a few weeks ago um we interviewed a new board member we didn't make a decision on the person we're keeping it open for another month we're g to keep it open see if anyone else applies if not we'll make a decision the next board meeting or and if somebody app decide on that as well um we were introduced some to some more new staff that weren't there in September um we went over the Hib self assessments and the ssds um I'm sorry the Hib and the ssds self assessment we went over the 2024 testing assessments just like we just did here for Berlin um the new ba started the new assistant superintendent started and the site council meeting with Mr Kula is coming up next Wednesday the 30th from 6:00 to 7:00 in the media center it's an inperson one the meeting after that is January 22nd it will be virtual they do request that parents get involved this is a way for parents to get involved in the community to get involved um if you get his uh principal report every Friday I believe is when he sends it um it's at the bottom of that to like register for site Council um 3:26 is the next inperson site council meeting in the in the media center and then 528 they're going to do another virtual one so four this year um and we are starting the teacher and staff member of the Year nominations so I I believe that's also on Mr Cora's principal I think I read that the other day and you can nominate as a parent or you can have your kids nominate as well um Cy County School Board Association there is a hybrid meeting on Tu Tuesday December 3rd at 6 p.m.

pursuing to the open public meetings act adequate public notice has been given by the secretary of the eam Township Board of Education in the following manner posting written notice on the official bulletin board of the Board of Education Office emailing written notice to the Bron and County Times in The Courier Post and filing written notice with the m municipal clerk of e sham Township Mr Yates can we have a roll call please roll call Mr Bach here Mr Brown here Mr Demari here miss Fox is a notified absence Mrs null here Miss Lee here Mr Thompson here Mr fisicaro is a notified absence Mr Conan here we have quarum thank you Mr Yates we will now be looking for a motion to enter executive session whereas an njsa 10412 allows for a public body to go into close session during a public meeting and whereas the Board of Education of eam Township has deemed it necessary to go into close session to discuss certain matters which are Exempted from the public and whereas the regular meeting of the Board of Education will reconvene following the end of the closed session at approximately 7:30 p.m.

call the meeting to order looks like we have uh any adjustments to the agenda today no sir all right you have any public comments okay thank you had a good team to work with this year so thank you we appreciate it all right new business Mr gibon yeah so uh obviously the purpose of this meeting is gcta has ratified the proposed CBA and before the board can officially ratify and approve uh the CBA we have to have a tenative agreement meeting in which uh we accept public comment on the terms of the tenative agreement they've been posted to our website they're obviously here in front of you and so it's just an opportunity for us to share this uh information uh publicly you can see I'll just quickly kind of read through this um you can see that we've obviously made another shift um in our salary schedule um to where we're moving starting pay for bers from 45 to 468 and then it builds 2% on all the way down and then for Masters we're moving 46 to 478 level below that is 2% on down so we're continue to push the p starting P to remain uh competitive um so uh obviously each teacher will move from the level they are to um the same level in the new scale and then teachers that um are eligible to take a step down um will also take a step down so um so there's a a nice pay increase there and then uh in addition to that um we are increasing our Corporation contribution for health insurance from $6,100 for sing plan to $6,600 so $500 increase and then uh the same thing with the family plan increasing from $4,500 to 15,500 um you can see that we're going to index our ECA stiens to 468 so that's the be you know the starting pay and then we're adding um Middle School FFA and high school FFA ECA positions and we're separating those out because our goal is to eventually have separate you know have a separate teacher on a separate person for each and then um an adjustment to middle school cheer we're deleting that from the UCA schedule splitting that off into two separate ones um because typically somebody who does the fall doesn't necessarily do the winter like that's a really long season so we're splitting it into two separate even if it's the same person um we're increasing the index for AP dual credit college level courses from 02 to 03 um and then we're increasing um boys and girls varsity tenis coach from 9 to1 and then on top of that um just some language that we're put in contract is to uh work with the gcta um to study a flat dollar SC salary schedule compensation model so um obviously one of the things U coming down from the state is is forcing us to increase um the bottom of the scale that you know both candidates for Governor have said that they're going to continue to push the bottom and so obviously we want to continue to do that um with the way our percentage scale increment works is as you increase the bottom disproportionately also increases the top and we don't we want to make sure that we don't um have a scale that prices us out of being able to actually giving the steps right um so we want to we want to take a look at that and we don't want to do that during actually uh during parging season because it takes a lot of time and a lot of study and so we have some language in there to work together take a look at that to see if um we can develop something for for future so those are the highlights um of that um actually I'll share with you because I shared with Aaron today we received um a report back from I don't know if that came from the do I think it was the doe where um a few years ago legislature put into effect having to uh hit 62% with your teacher compensation so 62% of your tuition support Revenue needed to go to teacher compensation that was the minimum we were at like 69 something so we're like seven and a half% um above that Mark um which is really good and that's all before um the increases um of this year because we only had roughly $230,000 in money but yeah we're investing over a half a million dollars um Plus in addition to uh for Teacher compensation so we're doing a doing a good job there and making sure that we're directing money into the classroom so that's all I have there are uh no action items on the agenda so this was just to discuss the terms of the agreement and accept um public comments so outside of any questions is the basically the health insurance staying about step like it was staying the same we any more two or from there was a there was an increase in um premium rates um set by the trust okay um and that's one of the reasons again that we're increasing our contribution is to help offset that so that way the increase in uh salary isn't all eaten up by the increase mhm and health insurance rates how much did it go up six and a half% six and a half we have a shop at what's that we're part of a trust that's that's a figure one yeah that's a good Y and it's been a good it's it's been good for us very good in past experience being in on the trust board to do the insurance they shop a lot good yeah and it's a that's a big lot bigger increase than past few years but not as bad as some other health insurance trusts that I've been part of where it's been like a midyear increase on top of another increase right yeah they shop a lot so I think Trend was like 8% something like that so we're still going Trend yeah they're Trend usually Trends below what the the average is but excuse my voice okay I want to say Mr giy I do appreciate all the hard work that you put into to doing this isue here um as every think I can speak for everybody on the board that we want to continue to take care of our teachers and uh give them the best that we can um just to you know help them live better but to keep them here as well and keep them happy so thank you for all the hard work that you put in the putting this together always does anyone else excuse me anyone else have anything further hearing nothing further I will entertain a motion to close the meeting motion second a motion on a second all those in favor all any oppos meeting is adjourned thank you everyone thank you enjoy the rest of the F time

call meeting to order we'll start with the pledge I pledge alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all welcome everyone to the school board meeting this evening remind everyone that we are live streaming um the meeting um we'll start um the meeting tonight by entertaining a motion to accept consent agenda items motion by Earl do I have a second second by Pat any discussion all those in favor seven of if anyone is present who would like to speak to any item on the agenda or any other topic hearing none we'll move down to um new business and we have some Neola policies a batch of Neola policies for first reading please reach out if you have any questions those are first reading policies so please review those and let make you know if you have questions um next um down under programs we have some jchs course addition yes we just have an inform and Mr Roller and Mrs eving here to give you the list of proposed courses all right so you guys uh Carrie was able to send this out a little while ago um to you guys to review the first set of courses that we have are in our CTE department and we've been working to add CDL the CDL Next Level program of study pathway which will lead to uh CDL lure we've been working really closely with Tim our transportation department and some very invested community members um to work through the logistics of this and make this happen for next school year for our senior level students and I would just like to add to that we had some local community members that came to us and said you know we would really love to be able to see our students get CDLs before they leave and um I can't say enough and I'd like it to be public about Tim Tim jumped right in um this is something that that a neighboring school district has been offering for the last year we're going over Tuesday with Tim to meet with them um Tim has been right on board to make sure that this was an opportunity our kids could have so very very excited to see that program go in yeah and excited you know to be able to see some of these students graduate with CDL and and come back to support our Corporation as bus drivers along with any kind of other opportunity that they would have excellent uh the next two under multidisciplin AR our personal financial responsibility and Computing foundations for digital age the personal financial responsibility is one that we have had on the books um we had on several years but we added this again because of new diploma requirements so this is now going to be a required semester course for every student that graduates from Jennings County High School according to uh idoe Computing foundations for a digital age is um also required from the state this is going to be a general introduction into computer science and will also be required the two additions for Fine Arts are Advanced 2D dimensional 2D art and advanced 3D art um these are important to add because as we have added our fin our Fine Arts locally created pathway that's also an option for box three for graduation um we had recognized that our art students only had one option which was AP Studio Art to be able to meet requirements so we wanted to give them two additional Advanced courses to be able to choose from to meet that pathway great any questions that item isn't inform so thank you for um sharing that information great great information um next again under programs we have an assessment update so an update on our assessment data and we'll just be talking about K8 tonight we're going to separate out secondary from K through a lot of data and so it's kind of nice to take it chunks so looking at our performance this would be for last school year how our students performed um on state assessments so some celebrations we are seeing growth across the district for our kids and that is a very big celebration for our students and our staff and so some things I'd like to highlight five out of six of the grade levels showed growth in ela and math um half of our grade levels in math met the state average or within one point growth was measured in both tested grades for Science and um we are attributing a lot of that to that deep work in stem we've been doing across the corporation and five out of six of our schools met or exceeded the state literacy average on I so some really great growth things occurring and we're excited for our kids and our staff if you turn the page this shows you some specific um scores we are making progress we still have a lot of work to do and a lot lot of growth that we want to continue to make but you can see the scores in green are um progress from the previous grades our fourth grade particularly we've identified need some extra support they last year's fourth graders um they are the ones that did not show growth on the test for the year previously these would be our kiddos that were kindergarteners during the pandemic and so we've had multiple meetings as a um admin staff this year and with teaching staff collaborating and working on what can we do to to support them this year to help fill in gaps and make sure they're moving forward so a lot of intensive intervention going on for the that grade and we're excited to see these scores across the board showing growth we want them to keep growing though and exceed that state average next screen this is the breakdown by building um the hardest type of metric there is on I learn are the measure of students who passed both Ela and math so they had a passing proficient score for both that's the first First Column you see the state average for that is a 30.8% and you can see where each School fell along that ranking um and then the ELA proficient total and the math proficient total which are higher than the combined because a kid could be proficient English but not in math next screen you've seen these scores before these were our I read results um showing progress across the district and as I said five out of six schools meant that state average for the I passing rate our goal is to see greater than 90% in all of our buildings this year um our districts are sorry any of our schools that have experienced uh any challenges they have digging into the literacy Cadre work and science of reading we are seeing so much progress with our kiddos across the district and using that science of reading approach so we're really excited about that work next screen so these are the action steps that we have taken so far to get to um the growth occurring throughout K8 and that we are continuing to take so we have active School Improvement teams um with action steps for school Improvement based on our strategic plan and individual building needs and those involve individuals across the school on those teams um we've continued professional development and mentoring for our new certified staff members we have participation in the state literacy Cadre districtwide sharing and professional development professional development on science of reading instruction increased and focused support for students sub groups for those that are struggling we've implemented udl and PBIS to also support our students we're working hard on stem certification and programming and we're seeing those results um in science across the district and they correlate to math we seeing a lot of the time um I learn checkpoint participation was optional this year across the state we chose to do that District yde to get early data on how our kids are performing so we can do quicker and then finally professional cation we' really increased how we're sharing success stories and um sharing things that are working with our kids both in teacher groups grade level groups among schools and across the district so those are the action steps we've been taking and will'll continue to take as we're working hard this year so that item wasn't informed does anyone have questions for Niki okay hearing then we'll move down under professional stff we have one recommendation yes please I'd like to ask for approval for Eric Kelly to serve as the Jennings County Middle School seventh grade assistant boys basketball coach entertain a motion to approve I have a motion by Mary Lynn second by Travis any discussion all those in favor 70 next we'll Mo um move down under support staff we have some recommendations yes please asking for approval for Cameron Carney to be served as a Jennings County High School volunteer wrestling coach Victoria Jameson to be hired at s Creek Elementary as a PA Pro Brandon McIntyre Jennings County Middle School seventh grade head boys coach and on the next page Charles roel cpio heodan termination rain a motion to approve moved motion by Pat by a second second by Cheryl any discussion all those in favor seven now we have a quite a list of seven coaches we do so I'm going to have these in two different categories El basketball coaches for fifth and sixth grades that are being recommended and then we'll follow up with third and fourth grades for the fifth and sixth grades asking for approval for Everett Jor Wilshire Dylan Boswell Levi burn Courtney chry Johns Megan Napier Brett Woodard Nathan Chad caps Bob Sullivan Aaron green an Clarkson Dina Monday Jack stclair shanon murn Jerry Wagner Casey ernes and then once hiring requirements are met for Derek Hillen David barley and Jeff Stoner please then at the third and fourth grade levels asking for approval for Justin Snider Jeremy Owens Zack schroer or shraer Greg chry Johns Tera Kelly devb Johnson Bryce DS Owen Miller and then once um pending hiring back once hiring requirements are met also asking for approval for for Mike Snyder and Caleb Marley that's a crew that is a motion to approve those um recommendations as read motion by Travis I have a second second second by Cheryl any discussion all those in favor seven of I just want to thank all of those individuals right it takes a it takes a lot um we know to run a great program um coaches um in all positions um so we just appreciate them offering their time in coaching anding our students so next we move down under fin and we have some donations yes and before we start can we pull the fifth one down maryn Wickham can we pull that and take that separate yeah so we'll first we'll entertain um let's just do that one first all by itself and then we'll do the rest that okay with you yep perfect so first one maryn Wickham $1,000 The Hope food program so we'll entertain a motion to approve motion by Earl second by Pat any discussion all those in favor and those abstain maryn obain so six and St and then we'll take the rest as a group so asking for approval to accept these donations F and A&M Masonic lodge number 219 $250 to BCE for student snacks roseacre Farm $650 to BCE for student snacks nvic $250 Grant to Hayden Elementary to purchase electricity and circuit kits for stem projects in Miss thst's fourth grade classroom 812 Driving Academy LLC $250 to Jennings County High School Hurley's hul kan's Club of North Vernon $200 to jny County Middle School food pantry and donors choose $1,920 and 80 cents to Sand Creek Elementary for Smartboard for Miss recker's classroom we'll entertain a motion to approve motion by Mary ly have a second second Cheryl any discussion all those in favor 70 um next we move down to relations we have an yes you have an with vincen University um for the high school for their Excel dual credit this is an annual asking for approval entertain a motion to approve motion by Chelsea Sorry by Travis any discussion all those in favor 7 o um next we're down under other but I believe we do have something under other I have one other asking for approval for the presented insurance rate change for particularly for classified position nursing RNs um to change that beginning on the November pay as presented entertain a motion to approve mve Pat do I have a second second by Chelsea any discussion all those in favor 7 hearing nothing else will entertain a motion to adjourn motion by Pat have a second second by Mary Lynn all those in favor seven meting add