Kapoor did you were they your students thank you and Congrats again so we'll have to have you keep this streak up right all right I'm so moving on we have next item 5.2 employee recognition the Kamiyama award board cabinet I hope you're having a great night I very excited to be recognizing a class of 1972 ask tech I say that because since she's been part of his own high school and she's never left and all the banners when you go into our gym they she had hurt her hands on on with either her hands her coaching her spirit oh she's she's a part of was a high school when you think about all the the CIF championships that she coached a softball team in 1984 CIF when you think about the mentoring and and the guidance of Lisette Salas she's always Ricky recognized recognizing and remembering all the hard work that Miss Goering has done and so anytime you go into the the Hall of Fame space anytime you go into the gym of Azusa just know that there's no one that loves that space more than Miss caring and so just super excited super proud to be here to recognize Miss Gary and the person that has allowed her to put in all that the extra hours and all the extra work for our astok Scholars mr.
to tell them to quiet down and I have no doubt should this project go forward that it will be the exact same case there is no amount of noise buffering that can attenuate alcohol imbibe crowds and live entertainment and that venue how many of you have actually taken the time to go walk this area take 10 minutes and go walk through these buildings they are the lowest cost possible denominator structures built in that area of town they are cheaply built they are cheaply engineered they have been allowed to decay there was no central heat and the wonderful concrete building that they talked about this is just the wrong project in the wrong place that district this overlay district is becoming one of the most sought-after high-end rental districts in the entire Midwest there are a multitude of projects you'll be considering the dte area redevelopment and a housing structure and I have no doubt that given time another developer will come along and they will have an appropriate residential business use for this land the only motivator for this company beyond doing something romantically interesting for the community is financial I have no doubt what they're paying for using these buildings it's significantly less than what they could give and have in the downtown dining entertainment music area that we already have that's where they should go and I intend to fight it thank you anybody else make wanna make comments three minutes mr.
Mill's seconded by Commissioner Trudeau we are in discussion stretcher down Thank You Alexis for the corrections and the cleanup one really small thing is there are two ands and the sentence in front of us and I'm 14 and Ali's so it suggests taking the first handout that's the only thing I had to say thank you any other discussion in chapter 1 now the last sentence of the definition Street highway alley says the word alley shall mean any such way or place providing a secondary means of ingress or egress from a property so for places like minor in court it is very skinny for sure but that wouldn't meet the definition of an alley because that's the primary access for those Lots so I have not come across in my experience we're not considering an alley as a front and frankly we've not been applying fronts to alleys - I like in the downtown there's no front setback we don't take the front setbacks in the downtown area I I understand there might be concerned there's perhaps some situation I'm not thinking of and I would respond that that is the purpose of the Zoning Board of Appeals commissioner Ackerman Thank You mr.
Louis University this fall and we wish you the best [Applause] with Julie Flores I'm John Pearson from the dairy Alliance Club where the second-largest lion Scoville state of Illinois and the Lions Club International is the world's largest service organization Julie is a recent recipient of our Bob Council scholarship she's the first generation of a family to go to college as an outstanding hard-working student Judy Julie was a snowball beater a student preschool teacher and an active member of her church she plans to attend or university seeking a degree in social work [Applause] we also invite you to our 4th of July parade to Vienna would actually Stevenson [Applause] sh Stephenson is a recipient of our D : Alliance of founders scholarship she's a member of the student athletic trainers and the girls bowling team national German Honor Society and Emmett Ashley has been a leader for snowball mad dash Mustang way and a volunteer for national disaster relief she will attend st.
Saluda is correct in that our former controller bill Davidson did discover deliverance I'm sorry I'm sorry bill Levin's they discovered that the 3.3 million dollars was missing one thing to notice he discovered it seven months before I took office we don't know we did a lot of investigation and we did a lot of research we talked to the FBI we talked to our chief of police and what we discovered is that many of the records that we needed to try to determine where the 3.3 million dollars had gone were missing we don't know when that happened but my guess is it happened over a long period of time from the town not closing its books every year and saying hey my accounting says I should have million dollars in the bank my bank account has 900,000 where's the difference so that is where we are with that we built the general fund up since then on the increase that I'm talking about 29% if you look at the mo rate increase right and the amount of money that's been cut from the state budget that's what equals a 29% thank you please state your name and your address Madeline Delia 16 Vale Road so I was just wondering in the presentation you focused a lot on tax increases and why we need to increase spending in Brookfield but I was just wondering if you had any plans on how to cut spending in places where that could be an option as well because people can't handle all the tax increases that are being proposed I was just wondering if there are any future plans on how we could get that under control [Music] well I agree with you that it would be a best the best case scenario for everybody in town is that zero percent increases in our taxes but as we discussed tonight we're losing money from the state every single year at least over the last four years we have to make that money up second we have obligations that are contractual such as union contracts for the teachers and all the people who work in Town Hall so we have cut spending in some areas and if you'd like we can go over that in greater detail I don't have all those details with me but we have cut some spending we've cut the board of education budget has been cut from the request every single year the town's budget has been cut the increase has been cut just as everyone in this room feels it things cost more they do and we have to pay for those things and what we're trying to do I know this doesn't really answer your question directly we're trying to pay for more things in cash and that will save you a lot of money in the long term that's but if you want to come by my office stop by but I go over the list of things where we have made cuts okay [Music] hi Mel putilov 12 Riverview Court it is my understanding that last year's budget there were two errors one forty four hundred seventy thousand dollars of employee reimbursement for the insurance 130 thousand of assessments was this included back in this year's budget yeah so the fourteen seventy thousand dollars was budgeted by our finance department last year and they had included 13 months of expense versus 12 and we caught it 138 thousand I'm not sure exactly what you're talking about with the honey oh yeah so the bellman assessment from the WPC a again our controller put it in and she did not realize 19 months ago that that assessment was rolling off it did so we had one hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars in an assessment we did not have to pay and we we corrected that this year thank you are there any further comments or items for discussion Jack Jack Jack it works ok sorry I'm short so I just want to thank everyone for Detroiters for itself so I want to just now thank the birds I will note the budget I know it's it's hard to see no taxes go up over here but just his point I think just the nature of where we are in the world today it's very hard to get nice things and not pay more for them but importantly I just want to thank everyone for a change in tone so when we moved here five years ago I was sort of shocked the level of acrimony and lack of professionalism in how the town's finances were being managed in the sort of entitlement attitude that I kind of found with some of the leaders as sort of a fact that it was a privilege for us to sort of be in their presence and kind of forgetting that that really they're here to sort of serve us as community members so I've seen a big change you know across both house it's not meant to be a partisan comment just generally I feel like there's a lot more cooperation that everyone that's up here is really working towards making the town even better than it is and you know you can also just a lot of negativity so I just want to say thank you um Laura Orban 95 Stony Hill Road so also I would like to thank all of the boards and everyone that worked on the budget I know it's a very long process and this is sort of hopefully the end um and hopefully this will pass so it really will be the end I think that when things are going well people are not as engaged in the process and we don't have as big a turnout although I agree that there is a large community that is watching from home right now but I I think that everything that we heard tonight it seems all very reasonable I think to me it sounds like you do have a very steady plan the increase and the item costs for bonding the investment in schools recovering from you know major cuts even from a few years ago what a $600,000 cut in one year I remember at the time talking about the fact that that will take five or ten years to recover from just in and of itself not even considering the fact that then every year after that they're still going to be investments that have to be made listening to you talk about the controlled sustained growth having the factor for teacher the potential for teacher retire the teachers retirement having to be a consideration which may or may not happen so to me this seems all very logical and reasonable and clear that it was done as a cooperative effort kind of as as what as Victor said I I think the tone is a lot different and so I appreciate that I I feel like I still have this is the letter last year there's always you know a few days before the budget you get something from an anonymous PAC that says don't support the budget because it's too high and I really hope that we don't have that this year and as residents we can all give you the support and the courtesy that you have given us and putting together something so reasonable and useful for the town and be advocates for the budget and unsupported as well so thank you for your work and I hope we all can give you the same respect okay if there are no further questions or comments I'll close out there's one right I'm sorry rich can you come up because people that people can't hear here you go again I don't mean to be pesky but I'm trying to find a number that you're using to determine 29% and you said the millwright number the MU right number is 3 million the budget expense is 3.4 million either one of those numbers as the denominator is doesn't bring 29 percent so I'm just trying to figure out what number use it that's all let me know if it's okay with you rich I don't hold people up I'll send you how we got to that number does it make sense are there any further comments or questions if nothing will close discussion on this particular resolution because this resolution must be voted on at a referendum there is no vote on it tonight but the Town Meeting does need to set a referendum date tonight which is the next resolution so we're gonna move to resolution to vote on referendum date can I get a motion from the floor please to set Tuesday May 21st from 6 a.m.
Gary who's also an aspect or I saw a gnostic teacher but having said all that the boring stuff is around because it's it's it was only a matter of time so yeah until she was recognized for this prestigious award but the CSA da the California State Directors Association aren't mrs. sandy Goering at the first 51st annual state athletic directors conference in San Diego on April 6th sandy received the su camión award one of the most prestigious awards a California athletic director can receive sandy is very active within the state serving on the Foothill citrus at the Rec Directors Association CES ad a CAF southern section and the CIF state state boards sandy recently earned her certified athletic administrators title CAA and this data represents her continued growth and high level of competency accomplished through continuing education and passing a very difficult CAE exam sandy brings a great deal notoriety to her school district area and section through her service and accomplishments and again everything that you see in the gym and the Hall of Fame has something if not everything to do with with Miss gearing in our hard work so let's give it up for Miss Danny Gary so have here Sandy gearing for receiving the prestigious Tsukiyama award because of her outstanding leadership and contribution as a California athletic director all right moving on congratulations sandy moving on we have item 5.3 employee recognition the cube award and I'll introduce the cube award from from the dice and explain what the history of the cube award is the loser program that was started in a 1990 school year and over the years has recognized over 200 employees and it's one of the rare employee recognitions that we have in Asuza where all the labor groups bargaining union leaders as far as management come together to select outstanding employees throughout the district for their service to not just Asuza in the community but their service to one another and so they're recognized and nominated by amongst and each other and then we have a group of employees and management folks who come together and actually select our winners so at this time I'd like to call Meghna Nasser the director of physical services to present she's truly deserving the outstanding employee award Anna has made significant contributions she came with 24 years of experience in accounting before coming to Azusa I have worked with her since then she's very hardworking friendly and always professional at all the time and she has a smile on her face ni is very knowledgeable in her duties and provided training to several employees in the department and she works very closely with other departments and purchasing department she is thorough and often seen explaining procedures and greevey processes with the school site for so long she has such an amazing attitude and welcomes any new employee in the department with kindness and respect her peers thinks very highly of her and says she is walking encyclopedia for France ba ba she is knowledgeable friendly caring and respectful she is truly an asset to the district she's she's not only amazing employee but also she's amazing in her personal life she has a lovely family her husband she has two sons and a daughter-in-law and she loves children really very much and especially little girls so unfortunately I don't have any well she she loves cooking and brings wonderful Filipino dishes for all of us to enjoy and she is really good cook her family and Azusa family are here tonight she has her husband and her son and daughter-in-law can you please [Applause] Anna Zara congratulations for consisted contribution dedication to the students of Asuza I present you this queue even though that the students don't have interaction with you you are behind the scenes which which is a pillar in our district without our employees that are behind the scenes making things happen our district would not be moving the positive direction that it is right now so congratulations [Applause] and now I'd like to call up miss Laura Clarke printable of Dalton elementary school good evening everybody I have the pleasure of introducing you to Veronica surveen Veronica might look a little familiar to you because she was just honored last week at the Teacher of the Year ceremony so this is this is her year although every year is her year because she is amazing every single year and lastly last week I talked about how much effort she gives to make our school a better place she improves our school climate she improves all the events that we have so today I get another chance to share something else and that is about her teaching veronica is a kindergarten teacher and kindergarten is so hard I just can't tell you how hard it is I am so grateful for her every year at the beginning of the school year because those little ones don't always come in ready or willing to go into the classroom and so and we've even gotten some in years mid-year students who aren't so ready or willing to come into the classroom and Veronica makes such a happy wonderful place for kids now this is her daughter Sophia by the way she's a mother of two and her daughters in kindergarten so and like I said the students can be very challenging at times and this year has been a particularly challenging year for students in her classroom not only with behaviors but turnover and other a myriad of other issues and as you can see from the smile on her face the beautiful smile on her face that she always keeps a positive attitude she works so hard I mean nobody works harder than Veronica she is absolutely dedicated and the kids want to be in her classroom it doesn't take very long for students to be willing to stay in her classroom because of the wonderful learning that happens in there because of the joy that she brings to them to the students to the families and the funny thing about Veronica too is that she makes such a wonderful environment that her pair don't leave so she has parents volunteering in her class 1 right now as a fifth grade student and that she's been volunteering ever since so I'm just so grateful and pleased to honor her twice this month for all the wonderful work that mr.
dinner I also am the coordinator of the downtown historic study and taury sort of group we've been involved in lots of things over the course of time and what we've done is created a multi-million dollar sort of project in the downtown the Kurt yesterday as a matter of fact we took 260 students from community high school various tours of the harvest history with regard to its importance in terms of who it is that we are and South University I lived in the amber a for 30 years and during the course of that time I was related to a lot of the stuff that was there all the people who were there read cry and the village apothecary and all that sort of thing their role really in creating the the Art Fair directly from the South University people themselves they clean their own speech they put up the locations where you could have public art actually for that yearly thing that we do and bring in all these people into the video I just want to say with regard of the nature of that is one of the things in terms of art we need to identify our project is being both art and its artistic one and education one and then what we've done is we've created on South University in those three blocks of situation in which we put in six elements of exhibits two glass frames and four wall images which are made of porcelain enamel in there currently they're moved to various locations some of them and they will be placed back we hope and what we're gonna work to have in place back perhaps in different locations in that area so that people can have a real sense that regard of what South University was over the course of time because those of us who lived in South University or those of us who lived in the the areas on the other side of Washington are County they walked down south University to get to the University of South the kind of real sense that they had that this was a part of the nature of their identity it's something that we refer to and both artistic and educational and I expect that I'll be speaking again perhaps not to this group but in other groups you know whether it's the Planning Commission the City Council on the nature of this issue and we support certainly other art in the area downtown but we paid for all the art we raise the money for all the others there and we hope that we can cooperate with the developers he really getting it back to an area where what we can do is conduct our tour is once again down South University and show people what it used to be and have that as a part of its identity in relationship to what's going there today we're not opposed to the nature of the development we want to see ourselves get as much as we possibly can out of it thank you thank you very much more comments I'd entertain a motion to adjourn all those in favor say aye we're adjourned you
chair for we set aside for 5:17 3a but it's probably more out of curiosity than will be impactful but so this was originally this was language originally passed in the 80s and then it looks like at some point it was um it was and we believed inadvertently I've got a forensic analysis okay it appears unfortunately this has happened before but it appears that when when when you proposed an amendment and then another staff person comes along and proposes an amendment if you don't take the most recent version if you take an old version then the new amendment gets overwritten inadvertently because versioning control does the UDC helped to eliminate that risk it should good all very interesting very interesting Thank You mr. Mill's mine is following up on that exact issue so the how it's written now and going back to the 1980s version is this how staff had been interpreting it for the last yes 30 almost 40 years yes okay so this was one of the things that we should have caught in the process of the UDC because when we were when we were creating the UDC we were trying to go with how it was actually being interpreted rather than necessarily where there were conflicts right exactly okay I just want to make sure it's not changing practice and the things that we've seen in the last we've seen a lot of park donations right especially up on the northeast side and so as long as we've been interpreting it as we are now yes drafting it right and that's we must have had a project recently that came up and said oh no no you don't get penalized for park land donation and someone must have said well where does it say that in the code like oh wait no that's not right and then you will go back and do the search through the code to find out you know where was the correct one but yet the history of this amendment is that your your floor area ratio or your density would be established prior to so we don't want to penalize anyone for doing a park land donation it specifically says here that lot area does not include public or private right of way and that's you take your live area afterwards you know there may be benefit to changing that but that would be that should be built as a change but this is a correction I can we have the documentation to demonstrate that this is a correction but the UDC is a it's an ordinance now you can't just change change norden's very good thank you all those in favor please say aye opposed it's approved moving on to ten six fourteen River you drive we will start with a staff report Leo thank you this is 614 River View Drive annexation and r1b zoning designation these folks are proposing to annex to connect to city water and sewer the River View Drive area is off of Gettys near the Huron River and gala at the park staff is recommending approval thank you this time I'd like to open up a public hearing is there anyone in the audience wishes to address the Planning Commission in regards to this item seeing no one I will close the public hearing and read the motion the University Planning Commission hereby recommends that the mayor and city council approved the Wilson berry annexation and our 1b single-family dwelling district zoning 614 River View Drive move bike mr.
Louis University with seeking a master's degree and athletic training [Applause] can keep insurance in true-blue shop earnest Monaco born Theo George wheeler and Danny please come to the stage my name is Caitlin Morgan and I am here to present the David a convex auto ship on behalf of my family as well as the donors who have contributed to this scholarship fund the David Conrad scholarship is in memory of my brother David who was an outstanding student in receive support through the special services department at dgs David approached every challenge with a positive attitude and was motivated by his desire to attend college my family created this scholarship to be awarded to envision individuals who demonstrate his same determination in the classroom David accepted and enjoyed every person for his or her own unique qualities and this year's recipients are no different Caitlyn charms always approaches new challenges with a positive attitude and someone without drinks that effort needed to be successful in high school and college she have plans to attend award University Andrew Lucia has a great sense of humor and brings us to everything that she does he's a very critical mathematical and analytic thinker I plan to attend Co deep before studying engineering in future earnest Monaco exemplifies a wonderful spirit demonstrates leadership skills in integrity he's been involved in gymnastics swimming in football wha DGS he plans to attend Zod as well Warren fields a strong student he shows great perseverance in her classes she was a self advocate for herself he was a member a variety of clubs she had fun plans to attend NIU to become a kindergarten teacher George Withers were Catholic motivation and willingness to persevere that's astounding he's always polite and respectful towards my years of teachers in class and he works well and is able to be a team player he plans to continue his education at Zod is very respectful to Stanford students alike always offering help to others around focusing on himself strongly advocating [Applause] my name is Randy Dolphy neither the member of the South Pole board for the last 14 years the Dallas organization began in 1969 so Dallas is celebrating his 50th anniversary this year it was formed by a group of mothers who were dissatisfied with the lack of athletic activities for young women the Dallas scholarship is named after the leader of that group leader gable who was the former collegiate athlete advocate for women's athletics we did gable taught physical education at Donna's growth south from 73 to 1993 and was the girls varsity head basketball coach from 1973 to 1990 she's remembered of your Gunners row South High School Athletic Hall of Fame the dolls program in the end 69 with only two teams 2:14 today to the softball organization search girls from kindergarten through high school in currently consists of 67 teams and over 800 girls the dolls support their current and former players in a variety of ways including employing them as coaches instructors umpires as well as through the scholarship the dog scholarship is not based on softball ability or talent rather a selection criteria for baseman academics community involvement school extracurricular activities volunteerism in character Emily checks all of the boxes she's an exceptional student and her list of activities and accomplishments is long including National Honor Society English tutor Special Olympics basketball coach the leaders for athletes committed to excellence operation snowball and super fans she participated in Downers Grove South ball track and field as well as a member of the Metropolitan Youth Symphony Symphony Orchestra she also is project unified working to unite the community to the inclusion of students with disabilities she is an exemplary role model in every sense of the word the Davos organization is extremely proud of Emily and knows that she will continue to be an exceptional ambassador ambassador for her family school and community her future is bright and we look forward to hearing about her future successes with that this great product that the dolls presents scholarship [Applause] my name is James the Daughters of the American Revolution grace is being honored this evening as the recipient of the DAR good citizen award the faculty go seniors outstanding apologies service leadership and patriotism your grace as this year's recipient see the certificate a special pin in a check [Applause] good evening can I please have travel cars join me on stage so this evening my name is Jennifer Martin is on the activity director here at Diamond scripts out I am presenting the award on behalf of the Sons of the American Revolution the Sons of the American Revolution or as they are at the patriotic predatory organization established in 1889 its members are male descendants of people who served on the Patriot side in the Revolutionary War that they are how to establish the National Archives in Washington that does historical research grants student awards like this one disposes of a country and preserve sites related to the American Revolution past members of the SAR include seventeen presidents of the United States representing both major political parties each year the Fox Valley Chapter of the SAR Awards outstanding citizenship certificates to more than 60 male and female high school seniors in the area Bob kandi senior is selected by each school based on the criteria honesty courtesy respect leadership and patriotism it is my pleasure to present tonight's awards [Applause] next I would like more in theater join me on stage this evening I have the honor to present on behalf of the district 99 support staff association and the district 99 support staff Association is proud to present one deal with the seer scholarship each year this association chooses one student from south and one student for north who is pursuing a career in education Lauren is attending Northern Illinois youth University in the fall with intent to major in early childhood education her experience here at dgs has opened her eyes to the impact teachers can have on their students we are thrilled to have Lauren accept this award and we wish her the best of luck [Applause] good evening that face call Joseph Koenig jr.
to 8 p.m. as the date and time for the annual budget referendum Bob Beldon great thanks and can I get a second Eileen that's great thank you is there any discussion of this if not all in favor please say aye okay all opposed so the motion has passed so with that sir who's there I'm sorry yes great um rich Telugu moves to adjourn can I get a second Mel right okay great with that we are adjourned thank you so much and have a safe evening Oh all in favor everyone who just stood up ready to go Thanks I'll get right one of these days good night everybody thanks for coming [Music]
bean does her mother is here in the back if you went away her very proud mother and she should be very very very proud of Veronica so congratulations Veronica and Sophia thank you hello there you know your mom's getting a really really big prestigious award it's in here can you see it yeah can you help for taking care of it okay can I hand it to you okay okay Veronica I didn't get a chance to just last week to in you know congratulate you individually but I know you've been in kindergarten for a while now and it does take a special person to speak right it does take a special person to be a teacher in kindergarten you have 25 rambunctious kids running around and the patience that you need and the creativity and everything that comes along with that and just being them but you're like a mother to 25 kids along with yours at home but I just want to thank you for being an outstanding employee in our district and for continuing each year to just be the best that you can be and more thank you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] congratulations to all our awardees it's always great to recognize all the great work happening in this district so we'll move on now to a section sec 6.1 and this is um comments public comment from the floor from the from the public we have three cards everyone wishing to address the board gets three minutes so we'll start with the first one and that is Laura Clark who asked you to come back up again um you want to speak on item 11.15 donation oh do you want to postpone it it are they coming tonight or not you don't know okay we'll just hold on okay all right next we have item ten point oh sorry we have we have Jorge dole solace speaking on item ten point two good evening hand poor audience citizens of Azusa you know I've been involved with district matters for probably the last 10 to 12 years and nothing is more aggravating than to have a taxpayer a resident ignored and I mean the word ignored recently I raised that is because on January 28 I submitted comments and questions at a citizens Oversight Committee meeting and then get a response didn't even get an acknowledgment from staff so on March 25th of this year at another citizens Oversight Committee meeting I took the time to put all my questions and concerns in writing expecting a response which was the direction given by the citizens Oversight Committee to the superintendent and to the assistant superintendent business once again not even a call not even the knowledge meant whatsoever so yesterday citizens Oversight Committee had another meeting and I went in and I submitted three pages of comments and questions regarding the information being provided to the citizens Oversight Committee which contain at least 40 errors at least 40 years and I went back and I looked at my January 28th meeting notes and it talks about a project being completed completed project that's what the information was presented by staff to the citizens Oversight Committee completed January 28 HVAC which is air conditioning and roofing at Lee at 1.8 million dollars in that yesterday's meeting that same item appears as work in progress for the sum of three million forty five thousand and nine hundred dollars is it continue or not I mean how can you trust information being provided by staff to the citizens Oversight Committee in the public same thing with kitchen upgrades faced one too sloppy completed January 28th that's what was presented okay 1.2 million dollars yesterday's meeting work in progress please wrap up your Center one point six million dollars thank you so that's your ninety two million dollars citizens being spent without proper thank you next we have one more person Brody O'Brien speaking on the art gallery steam board dr.
Mill's seconded by Commissioner woods do we have any discussion all right all those in favor please say aye opposed it is approved ten seed 2019 2020 City Planning Commission meeting scheduled approval we should have that any discussion so the only topic of conversation is July 2nd so July 4th falls on a Thursday this year and we generally have canceled that meeting for the last couple of years any feedback on that how does certainly at the Planning Commission's discussion we could go ahead and leave it on here that sets up that expectation of having it should we have a petitions but maybe we'll make an extra effort to make sure that we would have adequate attendance at that meeting prior to confirming any projects for that and if for some reason we have a lot of people on vacation we will cancel the meeting okay thanks there's one senior Shrek I mean that's just also that if there are any major site plans coming through perhaps not putting in on that agenda to give the public opportunity to give input well I just I just hear before people already know that they will not be here no I would propose we strike that meeting behind removing the July 2nd 2019 meeting off that list all right any other Commissioner Mills if we're making that move well we still will have we have the working session or will we turn that working session into a public hearing or should we just wait and see what happens at this point I would recommend keeping it as a working session okay all right and then Labor Day that's September all right what day is Labor Day this year September so it's September 2nd so our meetings moved to the fourth okay all right any other discussion move it move by Commissioner millisecond by commissioner get Brandel all those in favor of the amended scheduled for 2019 2020 please say aye aye opposed all right moving on to audience participation is there anyone in the audience who wishes to address the Planning Commission in regards to anything see no one is there any Commission proposed business we are adjourned thank you you
and Isaac marcha local luggage to the stage [Music] my name is Mallory Hardy and I am a teacher here at Davenport South and I'm also the president of the Downers Grove Education Association which is comprised of 415 educators from north-south and our transition 99 building we represent all of the lessons to educators within district 99 and it's my great privilege to be introducing two gentlemen who are striving to embody what we all embody as the 415 teachers in our district and that is a desire to shape young minds and support students as they step into their careers and so we offer four scholarships that are entitled the dtea scholarships that are for students who are planning to pursue a major in in a career in education we offer two scholarships to North High students and two scholarships to high students and we are hopeful that you will continue to the tradition that you have been surrounded by here at South High to support students to advocate for students and to be champions for students both in their academic pursuits their social-emotional pursuits and their birth and development as human beings so without further ado I welcome Joseph Connick jr.
Kaminsky gentlemen our teachers have come tonight to supplicate you for funds sustainable funds for the Art Gallery two years ago we approached Dana Mitchell to start a fine arts PLC group and the district gave us permission to do this and in that first year we secured a location next to my room and the district with with our help transform that spot into a Art Gallery and we had one art show and then that art show we spent about a thousand dollars to put that art show on us of our own money this year in our second year as the fine arts PLC we put three art shows on and I haven't I don't have a running total from everyone right now but I can tell you for myself just for this art show I'll I will be spending about three hundred and seventy dollars and I already spent close to that on the february show the red show we are dedicated teachers we want to see what's best for our students we are going to continue to grow this program and do what's best for the students of Azusa but we would like for the Board of Education and the leadership and Azusa to think about a sustainable fund that is beyond the current funding we're getting from either our site or our L cap funding which is wonderful there's been a it's been a great increase and it's been helpful but it's not enough we're asking for next year for twenty five hundred dollars to put on the art shows that we have planned right now we are looking to do between four and six art shows in the art gallery next year this process isn't just a celebration of students art it is an amazing authentic experience for our students to have real-world experience in participating in an art show that can go on their resume that can lead to college and other art shows for them and so we're asking that you support us in making that authentic experience [Music] thank you for your time in your consideration thank you so we want on the agenda we have item 7.1 comments and requests by the for Adrienne yeah first I want to congratulate our colleague Gabby for your amazing achievement this past weekend in graduating with your masters and social work itself just want you to know that your whole community yeah your whole community and all of us we're proud of you thank you for all you do also I was able to go over to the college signing so as usual high school had a had a rally that I was able to attend and it was incredible the way that they had a balloon arc and they had students kind of coming in in the different sections whether it's students that were going into community college or into the UCS or into the CSU's and millets and I was just blown away by the numbers of students that were rushing through the you know those different segments so again incredible incredible work going on there at Azusa and throughout our district and also I went right from there to Gladstone High School where where again students were honored and all the teachers that were lined up during lunch to put color-coordinated beads and kind of celebrate and just just champion our students for their achievements as well so again just just great job to our students and also to our teachers and administrators and staff for I'm celebrating that work and then also this last weekend was able to join are a few folks here from the district to go over the USC because we as we can see over here on the wall three of our schools were honored as top schools within the county I'm leading the way for educational equity across the county and so paramount Lee and Austin Ellington were honored and so again just just great work to see the amazing things going on in the district so much to celebrate great Yolanda okay good evening everyone I just want to wish all the teachers happy appreciation week but as far as I'm concerned it should be like everyday I don't know why they all have this you know when we free classified one week for teachers when you know why can't I just think all the time you know so I want to wish you happy teachers appreciation year and I went up to Magnolia Elementary School on Earth Day they had an Earth Day assembly so mayor Rocha and I and Roy Chavez from the Park and Recreation he's a superintendent of the parks and recreation we spoke to students the importance of water conservation and about using their plastic bags and styrofoam you know cups in place that they do not so I had to go home and throw mines away because you know my kids are saying practice what you preach so and I also want to thank the principal Marcela Fonseca and let Noli community they donated a beautiful magnolia tree to the city but mr.
Kubek on Joseph has expressed a desire to continue the work that he started on and pursue a passion in education that he found in his work tutoring students and physics primary and he is going to attend Lewis University studying the physics and secondary education congratulations [Applause] Isaak is a musician and Isaac's letter recommendation blowed his band director said that he was seven-years and working with students and education in music education throughout the country and not just here Downers Grove Isaac grows to the very very top and he said that if what Isaac is doing as a student is even a remote version of what he'll do as an educator he is going to do big things and make quite a difference in the life of many many musicians to come isaac is going to attend it when I state in his majoring in music education congratulations [Music] if I can now call to the stage please Dylan flowers demon is the recipient of our James M Dodd Memorial Scholarship this is another scholarship that is sponsored by the damage from educational association in the memory of Jim Dodd who was a teacher here at South High in the Social Studies department and Jim loved everything related to important policy politics and he was also very passionate about the field of international business and the DGA awards each year one scholarship to a North High student and one scholarship to a South High student that has plans to pursue international business and learn foreign policy and different levels as this year's recipient of the Jim Madan Memorial Scholarship [Applause] Arthur challege and majoring in not one not two but it's like considering three possible fields two of which are very aligned with what James M dad was passionate about political science and political economy and there's also a passion to pursue the field of criminal justice and Dylan is considering also an enlisting in the Air Force down the room so we are very proud of you Dylan they were very honored to give you this I'm going to take off of my identity of Education Association hat and put on my dinosaur Junior Women's Club hands if I can please call to the stage Gillian led tonight the damage approaching their Women's Club is in its 60th year this year in our community and it is an association that is made up of typically between 60 to 80 women in our community of Downers Grove and the surrounding suburbs that are passionate about helping others through community service and philanthropic efforts fundraising is a piece of that but the greatest passion of the women in the organization is hands on service and each year we offer students in district 99 their attending district 99 schools are living within the boundaries scholarships on this year more than ever movemove II emphasized the role of service line with our organization's mission which is to help others in every way possible we really centered above all else the idea of community service and that philanthropic value seeking out our recipients this year and out of a pool of many many candidates who are most worthy Jillian's application isn't really shined Julian is probably has more hours in the day than most of us in this room I don't know how she does all that she does to help others in her family to help others at her school and to help others in the community and we are very very proud to be offering Jillian a scholarship is in honor of her dedication to helping others Gillian has plans to go to Grinnell College and she is going to aspire to become a surgeon so while she might not have a lot of time to do community service over the next eight or so years to come she is certainly going to be continuing her tradition of helping others and so does with great pride that the damage grove Junior Women's Club presents Gillian Palladino with our scholarship [Applause] when the cold my name is Joseph president of Educational Foundation this is the 20th year that Japan has been warning scholarships high school seniors who reside in West LA whose parents are members of the chain to assist them with their college tuition this year we received 14 scholarship applications from students as we area high schools the students were interviewed and I am pleased to say that all 14 students are receiving scholarships totaling $8,000 all of our scholarship finalists will be invited to attend the luncheon on May 14th or they will be presented to our chamber members on behalf of the Education Awards Committee and the Kenyan one can thank them congratulating parents teachers and staff at Downers Grove High School on the perfect job we've done raising these young men and very medical college the workforce whatever challenges they may face after they receive their diplomas and commence a new beginning you can be very proud of them and what they have accomplished us our line the Chamber Education Foundation and awards committee also wants to congratulate the work winners this evening and all the members of the class of 2019 we at Westmont apron commerce and tourism bureau were very proud of each another why'd you and what she must have much success in your future endeavors we know there will be a credit to your parents your school and community after you graduate from high school it's not a scholarship there's also my pleasure to present a scholarship an agreement replace intent grounding University of Nepal political science [Applause] so I'd like to invite Kelly Jankowski and Carson all turrets so we got 1927 Calvin Coolidge was president there are Model T Fords all over the place and the Victrola portable record player with the crank was first introduced and it coincided with an explosion of popularity for a recorded music well on the same year the Downers Grove music slot was formed I think it may have been out of alarm for the shift from locally performed music to can music but the technology to play recorded music has certainly changed a lot over the years but our passion for live music hasn't wavered so on Tom Ewing from the Donna's world music flow and for over 90 years we've been supporting music arts development here in our local community and one of our key missions and passions is to encourage young local musicians for many decades we've been recognizing locals stood musicians through our competitive music awards programs this year music club provided over $7,000 in direct support to use music education so tonight we're going to recognize two outstanding students at dollar south on both seniors receiving college music awards so this year's college Awards go to Kelly in person [Applause] so mighty exchange Williams that guy region here 2011 starting all the guys off feel and you're seeing Meredith couple months didn't get China tomorrow scholarship is dedicated to memory of my office former gyroscope southwestern class of 2000 Gary stem graduated from Purdue University in 2005 with a degree in aerospace in aeronautical engineering here before accident in October 2004 during his high school years both the four-year pop up there and wrestler the maintaining academic graduate my brother was also active in Boy Scouts in the community young like me his love and dedication to my family but his friends honored to present this award to Auntie grammage and Christopher major based on the principles growth integrity in service [Applause] congratulations to thomas world Bridger in class of 2019 thank you for having us here this evening as we recognize one of her fellow classmates is a recipient of the Keller joyful Lachlan immortal pilots fellowship our daughter Callie would have been a 2015 graduate at Lyons Township High School in a 20-19 college graduate heading enter the next chapter of her life but during her freshman year at Elte an intruder took her life after she arrived home from school Kelly's legacy lives on through loss and tragedy as we in so many friends neighbors and classmates whose apartment support our foundation sir joy and her name china tallies memory we award scholarships to graduating seniors whose work and character reflects killer spirit for example Kelly played tennis for LTV so we asked the recipient to play a sport for three out of four years she was a solid student so we asked the recipient to have at 3.04 a coin or a bottle ultimately Kelly was kind and compassionate love to have others so we asked your recipient to write an essay and how they have done others for the class of 2019 across many schools we are announcing tenth powers scholarships renewables for years for a total of 96 thousand since inception went to class of 2012 we have awarded 75 scholarships valued at 537 thousand this includes a class of 2019 today we are here to honor a student from Downers Grove South the class of 2019 this young man reminded us the way Kelly was instil is his concept served him helping out an opponent during a golf match to improve this chitchat one small air can change a person's life as they say in this small direct but helping out an opponent during the match was self selfishness and probably changed his opponents game across for the better the students bring for the future are impressive he will continues during the topping others in ways as he did here where he was one of the founding members of the doubters rural south unified Club which was what Special Olympic athletes to unify the school to sports a new choice back he is a profound respect for life for others in himself and demonstrates his respect for others and a life on a daily basis whether it's helping out a student in need or organizing a peaceful protest regarding school safety after the Parkland school shooting just as he's shown respect for others he surely has a burden I respect this year's territory Locke Lamora foundation scholarship recipient will receive 1500 per year for a total of six thousand this would recipient dollars for Southwest several cars [Applause] [Music] [Applause] my name is Cathy stack and I'm with before tubular products Nucor steel company first I would like to congratulate all the graduating seniors under academic achievements and wish you well as you start this new journey in your lives today I'm proud to honor Vincent with the new Corps scholarship to be used over four years at the college's choices the new core combination is Comfort comprised of several different words today I'm presenting Vincent with the Community Foundation Scholarship this scholarship is unique as that is ultimate it is for eligible applicants in counties when we have a place of business this award rotates from ear to ear I mean ever to beat your cycle these students must be majoring in engineering or multiplier gene and their parents may not be employed by Newport in 1934 and were made the decision to leave no child behind inward intelligence to dependence of new employees since 1974 on the equity portrait Miller products and new personnel preparation [Applause] with the following students please come forward Abbie Carlson Andrea Davenport Lillian Dempsey grace - Lucy dumped her Nicholas itza Dylan flowers Melissa Garland in German Anthony grammage ruyan attorney Ryan Kodiak Kelly Lyons Samantha Martinez Connor O'Laughlin trucker Mopars Joanna Palladino Samantha Perkins math Harry Hunter the Dodger who'sa was the whitener and Vincent women [Applause] [Music] my name is Timmy Hamilton and I am a member of the South High School Parent Advisory Board we mean monthly with principal Schwartz about the workings of the school and I put rental feedback to the administration on a variety of issues as a group we also supply volunteers to the school for a few of the special events and we so DJ's spirit we're at several key functions the money earned from those sales has been turned into twenty three $500 colored scholarships we were excited to have so many students apply and the following students were selected to receive the Parent Advisory Board scholarship this year congratulations [Applause] [Music] and Carson Aldridge and Samantha googly our dough under the stage [Applause] I'm here today with Woodridge Rotary Club and I am presenting the jack casino music scholarship Jack casino was past president of Woodridge Rotary Club and both the music performer and a music lover this scholarship is named in his honor and it is the first year Woodridge rotary is offering the scholarship Carson Aldrich is a trombonist in the band program performs in marching band pepin chamber ensembles and the Wind Ensemble he also had a lead role at the stage production of Robin Hood he has been performing trombone in ensembles for 8 years and as a soloist at competitive competition for five years in the future he plans to participate in the st.
Chavez said he's gonna plant it right in front of magnolias school they already have a spot for it I also went to the Azusa adult International Day and the Adult School students and staff had performances with dancing and singing in their culture they had this young lady she was singing in Vietnamese it's really really nice with a really beautiful outfit and we had the singing in Spanish and dancing folk dances so I go there every year and it's a lot of fun did the students come out and I know they have a great time I went to Sousa high school and the gladstone JROTC change of command and pass in review ceremony all the young and young men and women ladies they look really nice in the uniforms they did a perfect job I'm not sure how long it takes into practice but it was just so perfect them changing of the colors and it's kind of a touching ceremony because when you see these kids some someone you know that there are seniors and every time I know that they're seniors are kind of you know like oh mine they're leaving so I want to thank senior army instructor First Sergeant Marvin Herbert from watson high school an army instructor sergeant first class Henry Gennaro's when mezuzah high school I went to Paramount elementary school and they had the mother-daughter dance it was so cute you see the little boys dancing with their moms you know I think that's a great memory for them she said it was really beautiful right mr.
Olaf band orchestra and sing in the choir Samantha googly our dough is down there sounds principal efolio must and was selected to participate in the magnetic all-state festival she also participated in the state championships she shares her musical knowledge as a teacher's assistant for the freshmen concert band Samantha Samantha's talked about how music gave her a sense of family in high school she plans to play in the University of Illinois marching band in the future congratulations to both on winning this well-deserved music scholarship [Applause] technical will I please join me on stage [Applause] on behalf on behalf of mayor Roger C Clare I haven't asked to make his presentation Bolingbroke we are audre see Clare is awarding this scholarship to a diverse group South senior who resides in Bolingbroke this scholarship is not from the village of Bolingbroke but from the mayor personally this selection is based on academics and co-curricular tivities this year's recipient is Nicole and she has been involved in very many activities here at South High School [Applause] please have chocolate I kinda gotta come up with me the Woodard Junior Women's Club is a nonprofit organization that supports local charities with the structure that allows women to develop their talents and leadership skills by working together to serve others in an effort to foster a lifetime commitment to community service we present a college scholarship each year to a male or female senior Fernwood rich who has already shown a passion for serving others we proudly present this year's scholarship to Jacqueline I'm Conterra who so eloquently summed up our own philosophy in her essay noting the importance of making a positive change bigger small in the world and teaching people of giving a helping hand can go a long way when you work with others Jacqueline has made many contributions to her school and to the larger community in which she lives both by her active participation and service projects and becoming a leader to encourage others while still achieving academic success congratulations [Applause] [Music] good evening everyone my name is Dale stone edge of the village administrator from the village of Woodridge that is my pleasure on behalf the village of Woodridge and crow lodges who's the developer of the international southern business park in Woodridge had the opportunity to saving to protect the 29th he was sitting in Tula Woodridge prolong his scholarship the scholarship nominees are reviewed by a distinguished panel leaders and the recipients are ultimately selected based on the following criteria good citizenship academic excellence demonstrated leadership campus or community involvement and residency in the best time Phil would say rich it is my pleasure this evening at behalf of Mayor Gina Cunningham the Bulls were trustees up on rich to recognize mr.
Fernandez so it was nice I went to Center middle school and they had a 300 basketball tournament during their lunch time and the students um they played with the process the elimination and we was left as two girls and two boys so they had a great game the kids are rooting for both and as you know there's a winner or loser but you know what they only want like one point and it was really a lot of fun thank you first of all thank you everyone that came to our meeting times a full house yeah we're talking to people at first I I do want to recognize the t-shirt teacher appreciation week without teachers we you know we just don't learn so each one of you guys is truly appreciated I appreciate you and I like I think I I concur with my colleague here that every every day should be Teacher Appreciation Week day so congratulations um I do want to let you guys know that actually today Foothill middle school is having a Beauty and the Beast that's happening right now from 7:00 to 8:00 which we missed so we can catch tomorrow if you guys are available I will be there it's like believe five dollars a person they're fundraising and I believe it's mr.
Philip Mycoskie was being the recipient of the 2019 village' liberation [Applause] you saved the best for last Kelly Jankowski I'm Bob breaker and with Woodbridge VFW Post 1578 Veterans of Foreign Wars the United States we establish a scholarship with the attention assisting one or more high school students in their pursuit of continuing education this scholarship was named after former Post Commander Jim Stewart the Iraqi war veteran was very active with many the causes of the VFW Jim died in 1999 after cancer the applicant must demonstrate the spirit of what Jim Cott Jimmy Stewart believed in namely his patriotic and community-based Christmas the recipient is also must be a member or relative or descendant of a VFW eligible veteran with me tonight is Morris Stewart James White Woodridge VFW is proud to this [Applause] at this point in the program we've completed the presentation from our community members on behalf of South Asia well I would like to recognize and extend our gratitude to every community member present here tonight in the organizations that they represent it's a pretty amazing gesture on their butt and it's inspiring to think about what that says about our larger community sure I can speak for every student when I say regardless of the dollar amount but I know I speak for their planet they appreciate your gratitude or the awards you've extended to them and we extend our gratitude to you so please join me [Applause] [Music] I really have to uh graduates I hope you paid attention and heard some of the criteria that these awards were giving for us it's more about what you do for others that will get you recognized throughout your life so at this moment we're going to take a three minute stretch break we're going to reset the stage do not leave the auditorium dispatch at your seats for three minutes and we'll get started with the school [Music] thank you we continue now with the self academic recognitions all of these awards will be presented by your system principal for a counseling experiences [Applause] and reflecting on we honored that I have of recognizing our academic honors awards I was thinking about how this group of seniors is often recognized for the answers they have they do well on tests but I would argue that that's not why we should honor them tonight not because of the answers they have because I would say that every single one of them in reflection aided by their teachers are the students that have the best questions so I encourage you to remember that as you head off onto the next portion of your life journey questions are far more important than answers is I've got to know more adults in my life I'm always impressed by people that have great questions as opposed to ones that know the answers and I encourage you to keep that value in how you present yourself as a scholar in your next journey the first group of scholars were recognizing tonight are those that earned a 3.4 GPA or higher after seven semesters if this group would please stand and fix the audience and remain standing [Applause] there were 160 seven of them in the senior class that heard a 3.4 GPA or higher a great admiration of Industry yeah take a look at that I have great admiration for this group because when I was a senior at South High School 36 years ago I graduated with the three points 390 v8 so it was salty about that they di turned in math but I'll get over it soon but really congratulations great work keep it up the next group of spellers we're going to recognize or the ones learning the academic highliners if this group would please stand [Applause] before I say a few words about this group I would also like to point out that there was live not mentioned in the program and we will rectify that soon those not in the program were operated go to per ton for Teleca coming wave Ashley Wells and Vincent Woodman this group of students put this in perspective 4.0 or higher after seven semesters so you might be thinking well as they like screenings right well it's not it's a lot of babies I had a lot of honors classes students really stretching themselves and push themselves into territories across academic areas this group really deserves our appreciation for the and finally they please have the students with her academic distinguished honors please come to the stage [Applause] so as I say a few words about this room I just want to point something out that just happened and I hope you heard it as well it's one of the reasons I like working at South High School we do recognize our athletes and we recognize our musicians and our artists and our actors but you heard the applause and cheers for our distinguished academic honors it's something that's valued here above all others in most cases and I'm officially all of you recognizing that in their ears that academic excellence is truly what we value and I would also say that every single one of them along with taking the most rigorous courses available excelling in almost every single case are also extremely involved students you've already heard that several times where the presenters not sure how they get everything done in one day but they have been leaders for us in a variety of environments and situations so I'd like to read their names now as mrs.
Adam I was putting that together and he's put a lot of work into that I want to go ahead and share with you guys that today I had a chance to go to the Southern California cement Mason training facility and I was able to get some information for to share with our Adult School and and for our students who would be graduating i I want to go ahead and thank Terry Perdomo and they left and Brodie and all the art teachers for putting the time and energy that they do to their students it's it's extra what they do and I'm sure a lot of the teachers they you guys know put a lot of their time and their money into it and I just want to thank you guys teachers and the art teachers for just putting in that time these students will will will be so much better just because of you we have somebody in the crowd today and it's her birthday and she decided to be here today said I want to wish Melissa ramnik a happy birthday and I am happy to announce that this last Saturday I am an official MSW Masters in Social Work and I was hooded last week Wednesday and Saturday I was able to walk and receive my degree so alright I'll be brief congratulations Gabi we're all very proud of you um and I echo what my colleague said about about Teacher Appreciation Day I think the bedrock of our of our schools is our the teachers in the classrooms so you cannot thank them and we can't thank them enough for what they do I do want to move just finish off on a very honest ombré a little somber note I mean that is well kind of so on the aijalon announced on May 22nd there's gonna be a very large rally up at the State Capitol CTA is participating aft participating the School Board Association is participating and we're all going to be up there demanding full and fair funding because we live in a state where we're the fifth largest economy in the world and we're 41st in funding and so when we look at our budget and over the couple meetings we're going to be looking at our budget right and we're gonna having hard conversations about how do we serve the students that we need to serve at the level that we want to serve them in with the bunny that we're getting from the state and it's not fair to any of you it's not fair to our students and so we will be joining up there with with all of the other colleagues across the state demanding that the state address this issue because that's where our funding comes from and so I want us to keep our eye on up there because ultimately we make local choices here but it's all driven by this box that the state puts us in right and so I hope I hope we'll see you're the union presidents up there with us and other representatives of up there with us or I think there actually might be some local rallies as well demanding with the state provide us with the funding that we need to have so that we can pay our teachers fairly so that we can provide the services that we want for our students that the level of service that we want for our students um so with that we'll go on to the rest of our board meeting and we'll move on to comments and reports by student or member could not attend today so we'll move on to our cabinet just wanted to you know Anna has already left in her family but she's part of our fiscal team and just in the short time that I've been here it's been an honor to work with her and see her continued contribution to the district and to the fiscal team she's kind of been our go-to person to bring in all of the new folks into the department and kind of show him the ropes so very appreciative of her and her contribution thank you I recently the Board of Education made that very difficult decision of moving towards closing schools and our work with our bargaining units really took hold as we started to negotiate the effects of those those closures and there was a bit of a culmination that took place on Friday we're in able to execute the effects of those closures and I have to say that I I continue to be just awed and honored by our teachers because throughout the very difficult process they really were outstanding professionals very classy knowing that the many of them were moving from schools that they've been at for many many years and where many friendships and celebrations have been shared and moving on to new and different schools and as we all know that change can be difficult and I have to say that our teachers were absolutely amazing and it really did take a team effort on the part of the district and also our bargaining unit leaders as well so I like to express my sincere deep appreciation for everyone involved thank you very much thank you thank you good evening I just want to take the time to thank in public our parent advisory committee that oversees our El Cap process we had a full day a couple of Fridays ago where we went through some proposed changes for the out cap I do see some of the members in the audience so thank you for being here tonight and I just want to again just say that how how proud I am about the the manner in which the Inquirer they ask questions they collaborate they they see each other they bounce off of each other and tonight we're going to be sharing with you some recommendations that came out of that of that meeting but I just wanted to publicly thank all the committee members thank Jennifer O'Brien for her work with the PAC Plus this year as well thank you good evening and again I like the others I want to first off thank and congratulate our teachers for the work that they do day in and day out and earlier somebody who had mentioned but Kim like having 25 children can you imagine and yet the magic the teachers do whether it's with the littlest kids or the oldest ones is amazing and really does change lives and so thank you for what you're doing I'm also want to congratulate as Adrienne Greer did are that big sign over there this is going to be in front of Paramount Lee and Ellington top schools in LA County this is a brand-new award that USC put together and that ward signifies they're in the top 15 percent of schools that serve here in LA County over a million students I think that's really really pretty high so let's go around to applause and let's see here I see I see Antonio here alexis is here and let's see who else hey come on come on up Anna all of you come up I want you to have a chance to be seen by the group here okay teachers come come come yes everybody come up Lika if I can ask you take one picture here with the board in background but then take a picture over there by the banner please Adrian why did you go with them since you went to the wait wait wait hold on all right Rick could take it over there with you in front of the other vision since he trekked out to us seat ahead to be with you guys on Saturday well you should know Alexis that she went there [Laughter] and thank you to all the staff that made that happen for the students and and you know for the honor of your school is really really incredible the other thing I wanted to congratulate people on and share the good news we just heard today that glass in high school they have their WASC review earlier in the year and they got the highest accreditation rating which is a six-year rating and we're very very proud of them so congratulations that's in high school thank you very much all right thank you before moving on to closed session - I just wanted to add one thing so I misspoke earlier when I talked about we want to make sure all our teachers are paid why we want to make sure all of our employees are paid well right I think I think I had Teacher of the Year on the mind so our chief Sofia's all of our employees all right so next moving on report of closed session I it matters no nothing to report there there was no action taken so move on to Jen item 10 section 10 general functions we have item 10.1 student board member role and before I turn this over to Adrienne I just wanted to let the board know I asked this to be an agenda item because I know we talked he talked about it briefly during public comment but I think we want to get our processes in order and so that means if we're gonna send a board member off to do some work for the board we want to make sure we discuss it and give them directions so I asked them to put the two puts on the agenda and I asked Adrienne to drop a brief proposal of what he's envisioning in terms of how do we engage the students to create authentic engagement and so I'm turning it over to you Adrienne thank you talk about this thank you so so yeah I have this there's a little note here that I dropped off for review but but in essence and to reiterate some of what would have communicated in the past I think that we have we have really do have a tremendous opportunity to engage our students in in different ways than we have with the student board roll up till now I think it's great that we have representation that we have students that are that are here across the different schools but I think that again there's a room to to actually have dialogue and create channels for for students to directly communicate to us and so I've laid out some some things for us to consider so one would be for for us to define our purpose you know why do we have students what the reason that we would want to even have this to have students here just so that we're on the same page about that and then also refine the process and the structure of that role and so purposes that I have that I you know suggesting one that we're providing the school board with student perspectives and insight to be best positioned to make informed decisions at the Dyess to to provide clear channels for students to communicate matters of importance to the school board on a regular and ongoing basis so that it doesn't just happen when there's an issue or when when a challenge arises or or just when we're celebrating but that there's there are regular points of communication and also of course providing opportunities for students to gain leadership abilities as representatives of their peers across the district and so some of the structure that I'd really like us to consider is one develop a consistent process and criteria for our student board members to be selected and identified as a student board rep and then also reshaping that role a little bit to be so that again it can students recognize what their role is as a representative and that there are channels created and promoted for students to be able to communicate any important matters up to them and over to us at the board level and so I've already sat down and talked with Linda a bit about this and but I want to make sure that I'm doing as I'm wanting to take next steps I want to do so with a pointment and blessing of the board and so I'm asking to be considered to take some necks some further steps and be appointed by the board to do so so can you clear so you have some pretty some pretty detailed suggestions for the process instructor so have you this is has this come out of discussions with the students or where's it where's this coming from some of it yeah so a lot of a lot of this came out of a student that sent me an email earlier in the year just about some wanting to connect and so I went and sat down with her and some of her her peers and realized as she's communicating some of the things that she's communicating these are great things and and maybe it's an extra special situation that I'm that that a board member is coming and sitting down to meet with them and talk to him about some of these things but how do we make that not extra-special how do we make that regular thing where there's regular communication so that came out of some of those initial conversations that I've had with those students so moving for I mean do you want to just turn this into update our policy to reflect this or is there a process you want to go through with to sort of finalize these recommendations no I'd like to I'd like it to take some next step before coming back with with the recommendation which would include me continuing to go and meet with with students further around around this work and shaping what it would look like all right so you're gonna meet with students at like the board members or the school sites what do you at the school sites I think I want to start with some of the students that that where this idea was birthed from I want to honor them and honor some of their suggestions and so starting some conversations with them but even you know talking how do we include leadership classes and also expertise of teachers or and/or staff that that already at the school sites also understanding what has the process been up till now that's something that I've asked and I don't know that we have a clear process at every school so there has to be some investigation to know where we are in order to take steps next steps on on what it could look like melanda so I'm reading right here where he said coach school remembers on how do you make more comments providing insights well I do know they do they have a CSV workshop right and what did they learn there it's just what they learn when they go to sort shop yeah I wonder knew so we currently so we currently send them to the Council of the California Association of school councils training which is an is in September CSPA also has a student board member day at the CSP conference and we've never sent anybody to that oh this you know I've never really accepted it so um but I'm not sure I who's gone with who Scott we've always had somebody with their my counselor so maybe you can even find out what they learn at that training yeah and whether it's my compare that to the CSB a training as well to see which one it would be more valuable and even even speaking on that like what I mean as far as coaching I'm grateful that we you know we have our students that read us you know different events that are happening during their their board comment time but again I think there's a room during that time for them to really use that as an opportunity to share out valuable information and valuable comments for us as a board so you're not you're not you're not talking about coaching what they say but about building leader capacity exactly right okay so I think I think he's just looking for a direction for us from us to say yes go do this Adrian so well yeah it sounds great I think it's good I think this is a great great beginning to be able to build a partnership with the students and building their their leadership skills and using that time for not just reading off dates and events that are happening and as our our crowd kind of dozed off for a little bit no offense to school board member role but at the same time if there's issues going on or there's a dialogue that needs to be addressed I think this would be a great time to for them to address it so you can find out excuse me how are they selected yeah I mean are they only need to be ASV or they're just any student they want to participate I think you know I don't think we know that how they're selected because usually I notice it's like the school president the president of the school you know I like to get the opportunity to any any child that wants to participate maybe through an application absolutely yeah right process that's yeah well there are some boards that interview and choose and we've left that towards the sites but but I with this there's we can discuss the different options out there right if you just in detail just how did the rotations gonna work just so we all have a clear understanding so I'll give you say because what I what I envision so right now the way that it works is as I understand it we have school board members that from each of the sites that take a third of the year but they're only assigned for that role just for that one third of the year my suggestion and and what I want to kind of sit down and look at is if the role was for an entire year but there was throughout throughout the third of the year one of them was designated to actually sit down with us but they're still having time to meet and connect and make sure that information is being shared up they meet so that that way they're communicating up so there's there is always representation and some of communicating matters that may happen at Azusa high store or other other places from that perspective even if we have a student that's from ceará high school that's currently sitting at our at the dice from what I recall when we did have when I first came in there was a student at stat here the whole year and they were either juniors or seniors and you know they had sports or at the end they wouldn't come you know either they have to do homework or they were senior their graduate so I think that's when we changed it if I'm correct to the 3rd because we did they used to come and then they didn't come and they wanted to do other things so my recommendation was have a hybrid of the two yeah that would be good and I think so in terms of timeline are you think woody I mean what's more ascending so yeah so my hope would be able to have some conversations do some work now so that starting in this the upcoming school year we can be able to launch with the new model okay all right all right Thank You Adrian all right and that wasn't an action item so we'll move on to the next item to the citizens Oversight Committee annual report I'd like to invite mrs.