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there's so many people in the Ashlin backfield that they're lining up with uh now they spread it out they show pass let's see what they do second and short it's pitch to morone cuts it inside has the first down and then some as he breaks loose and he's going to beat one guy he won't quite do it but morone takes it down to the 20 yd line 25 yd pickup Jamie merone good blocking by the clockers up front hello and welcome to the plateau at ashin high school's William Kunis field I'm Rob silver I'm one of the many voices you hear on waca Sports but before all of us there was this Manan to my right you may not know him by looking at him but if you've listened to any of wha's coverage of ashin sports over the last 35 plus years you definitely recognize the voice of the man Robert Bob ther welcome Bob thank you rob thank you for having me glad to be here and uh thanks for sitting down with us we just kind of want to recognize what you've done with over 35 years of uh volunteer efforts to grow Ashland's coverage uh waca Sports uh long history how'd you get started well you know uh I grew up in uh Dam Massachusetts the clock has played denam last night uh right here at cunis field and I grew up in Dam and uh I had a high I had a grammar school principal who was a famous Denham High School athlete and he also was a a Boston College Hall of Famer just like Bill cunis was you know and he was an educator just like Bill cunis and he instilled in us this love for High School athletics I mean it was a tremendous uh atmosphere you can imagine imine just like a day like today with the the Fall colors and the cheerleaders and the band and the stands filled it was a a tremendous thing to see and that's when I fell in love with high school sports and then my neighbor down the street Paul Burke he asked me if I would like to help him broadcast the ashon high school football games on cable eight as we used to call it and uh I was thrilled you know I'd been taking my kids you know when they were four or five years old I was taking my kids to usually just the Thanksgiving game game you know but I was thrilled to have the opportunity Paul did the play byplay and I was what what they used to call the color man and uh and that's how we started we did the home games on Friday nights you know nighttime football was you know fairly new it started pretty much in the late 60s uh nighttime Friday Night Football started in Massachusetts at least in the late 60s and uh it was a every night every Friday night was a great night for a football game and we were thrilled to bring the game and in those days of course the idea was you'd record the game it it would be edited in a fashion and it' be recorded on a video cassette tape and the tape would go into a big machine at the station at the studio and it would be broadcast on our channels cable 8 I think we had 8 10 and 11 or something in those days those were our channels and uh everyone had a VHS recorder at home and you could watch your son's football game and tape it and own it forever once I saw how much people loved uh the football games on television I started to think what about the other sports what if what if your kid doesn't play foot what if your kid doesn't play foot we've talked about that football gets so much of the coverage but you were instrumental in expanding that to the other sports out there and just rattle off some of the sports that you've covered and I never let the fact that I didn't understand a sport stopped me from right I know I've done football with you and you don't understand that one but my goal was that it would be at least one videotape of every sport that the team could have and the players could have and the players parents could have forever so I tried to do you know field hockey incomprehensible to meh we tape it anyway we mentioned we have Bob ter roian covering that for us now you know tape it and whenever the whistle blew I only I only had one thing to say uh there's a whistle it's going to be Ashland ball it's going to be Medfield ball whatever that was my only no explanation of the penalty because I couldn't understand what the penalty could be sure yeah soccer but baseball soccer you know soccer we had championship teams you know we had CH we played at Buu in the championship game you know tremendous we had tremendous teams we had good luck in all you know swimming at the KE Tech pool fantastic on television the pool is tremendous uh on television I get a woman whose daughter was on the team she knew everything about swimming she'd sit with me i' just let her go she'd tell the whole story and meanwhile you didn't do any inpo interviews did you just jump in there no and I didn't wear a bathing suit either but I but I didn't get splashed or not and you got to broadcast the games people want to see them well you're going to be broadcasting with me next Friday this is uh this is Saturday the 20th but uh what you say the 19th 19th yeah but uh Holliston 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e e e this is an audio test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test definitely not continuing to test are we good sir so yeah test test test test to neighbors test test test test you might want to give us a little more level test test test she's probably sick of me but e e e good evening everyone and welcome to the Ashlin planning board meeting of Thursday October 24th a reminder to everyone that the meeting is being broadcast and recorded So first on on our agenda tonight well is the call to order which I will do at 7:18 and next we have the clerk's report Kate thank you madam chair we have received five correspondents to the planning board from the last meeting since the last meeting um two of those are other boards or committees in town so I'm assuming you'll respond to them and then I think two of them will be it's not it's a specific response will be Town planner and then one that is sort of our regular the clerk's response okay just um keep uh letting Peter and I know when they're there things that don't seem to be taking care of or ask us to I know you're do a good job taking keeping on top of that all right great all right next on our agenda is public comment since we do have a lot of people here tonight I do want to say that um this public comment session is just for General issues of the planning board there'll be a whole separate public comment issue on the public hearing so this would be for things that do not have to do with MBTA or the other issues in our agenda just it's just for general public comment so if there is any general comment public comment we will take hands online or in the room you would come to the microphone and I will limit that to one minute per person assuming that everyone is actually coming for something on the agenda do you see any hands Peter uh at this current time there are no hands and just to all members online uh Andor all residents online please note that you do not have the ability to unmute yourself um and so when there is a time for a public comment we're going to ask everybody to raise their hand online and then we will uh move through um public comment in an orderly fashion okay all right then seeing none we will move on to um our the one public hearing we do have tonight which is the opening of the um uh MBTA communities bylaw um Peter I will turn it over to you to kind of officially open that public hearing excuse me yeah sorry thank you so tonight the pl board um opens the public hearing um regarding uh Master General law um chapter 40a section 3A which is also known as the MBTA Community zoning law so in accordance with the provisions of Mass General Law chapter 48 Section 5 of the ashon plenum board will hold a public hearing on Thursday October 24th at 7:15 on the proposed amendments to the ashon zoning bylaws and ashon zoning map the subject matter uh the subject matters are being proposed in compliance with the multifam zoning requirements of the MBTA Community section 3A of mgl chapter 48 and specifically noted below um this public hearing was posted in the town clerk's office and it was also circulated um in the newspaper of General circulation that would have been the Metro West Daily News the proposed zoning amendments and zoning map map amendments are available at the town clerk's office by appointment during the regular office hours Andor our Ashen MBTA community's website through the link through the following link that link is listed on the agenda and it was also Al in the public hearing notice as provided parties wish to be heard on this matter should submit comments uh to the planning board ahead of time and or appear at the time or place indicated above that is tonight at 7:15 welcome all uh it's a much bigger crowd than normal so I think it's great that everyone's out uh to learn about the MBTA communities furthermore information uh uh excuse me for uh for more information or to submit comments please com contact myself Peter matk uh for everybody in the room my name is Peter matk I am the town planner director of planning uh my phone number and email address we listed so tonight uh we will go through a presentation about the MBTA communities um and then that will also include the districts that are within the proposed districts um right now there are five districts uh but I will wait uh and I will um present and we myself and Trisha Kendall the chair will present a PowerPoint with that said I will share the screen share the PowerPoint please note I am running the zoom meeting online so I'm going of doing two different things here so please be patient with us as uh there are a lot of people here in the room and there's a lot of folks from Ashland uh Andor interested parties online so please uh I thank you for your patience in advance and um just because we do have a lot of people in the audience and a lot of people online usually aren't so popular um I I thought it'd be good idea just for the planning board to introduce ourselves as Peter said my name is Trisha Kendall and I am chair of the planning boarda Katherine Jersey I'm also the clerk for the planning board Amanda Hayes I'm the associate member on the planning board and we do have uh two in our number um Anna tesinsky and Marcel Arona who um aren't at the meeting tonight um so um you may see two other people in in other meetings or at at town meeting um that would be here as well but uh that doesn't stop us from having the public hearing tonight we do have a a quorum of three out of five members of three out of five full members um and so we can open that public hearing right Peter three of five correct we are are ready to go okay so um what we thought would do first um just because there's so many people in the audience is to go through the um go through a presentation that just talks about a little bit about MBA the MBTA communities and how we got to where we are so um I'm a little out of practice giving this presentation um so the requirements for MBTA um um ask us to create a zoning district with at least 50 acres my glasses on so you're starting at the yep you go you can go to the next slide yeah so it's creating a zoning a uh a zoning District or districts we have multiple districts that is a minimum of 50 acres and 20 acres has to be within um a half mile of the MBTA station that's the one here in Ashland not the one down the road um toward Southboro um each district if we have this more than one place has to be at least 5 Acres it can't be smaller um half of our land so half the land that we need to use total has to be in one big chunk we can't divide it into too many little pieces um the minimum gross density for all the areas we assign is 15 units an acre so that's as lowest we can go and we have to allow multif family by right this is to encourage obviously not only the building of homes but the building of homes for families um and the all the districts have to have some kind of access to the train station it needs to be connected to by a road say it doesn't have to be within walking distance all right next slide Peter oh I'm sorry yeah sorry Pa Peter is multi multitasking here okay so it's important to understand that the zoning district is not building units it's just zoning it's on a map it's on paper it allows it to happen but it does not build any units okay so because we are a commuter rail Community versus a tea Community or different kinds of communities we need to take our housing units as of the 2020 census so our Ashland housing units are 7,495 housing units in Ashland we're required as a as a commuter rail District that we multiply that by 15% and then we get 1,124 units housing unit units that we need to zone for not build right um so what we did on the rest of this slide is just to kind of give an example of what that would mean so minimum density if we take our units and we and we say we want to have the the density as low as we can 15 is as low as we can go so we would take our units 1,124 divided by 15 and that would give us 75 Acres at that density remember we have to do at least 50 but if we went minimum density we would have 75 that's one scenario another scenario is the minimum land Den density what if we only used 50 acres and no more we would take our total we' divide it by 50 and that gives us 23 units an acre so that would be with the smallest land mass that we can use we would have to do 23 units an acre now our solution is what we're proposing is is NE it's somewhere in the middle right so um yeah there's there's a few uh there's there's a whole spreadsheet that the the state requires to to be filled out that takes into account our bylaws takes into account minutia of this law um but we won't get into all of that today all of that has been figured in the bylaw that we're proposing okay next slide okay so it's just um I'm just going to go through these quickly there are certain areas that we cannot exclude that we cannot use in our bylaw one of those is excluded land it basically includes most areas that are not state or town-owned um you can't use land that has a use restriction or is that conservation land none of that land is allowable to be used for for this MBTA bylaw so next one um the next one is uh sensitive land you actually can use the sensitive land if we wanted to um as part of our zoning District that would include flood zones and farmlands and things and obviously we didn't want to do that we don't include any um sensitive land in in what we're proposing and this next one is trickier the density denominator it's hard to um it's hard to even even get into what that means but it's just um it's it's some lands that you can that you can um You can count for in your total land area but you have to take them out when you deal with the density we have very very little of these in what we're proposing you can see that some of those so this that would be the orange area and you see that some of those overlapped with the green area and overlapped with the gray area they're just areas that in general you you don't really want to use again it came into effect very very little in in what we were um what we were doing and then in the the state spreadsheet um the assistant Town planner um uh really worked on on that a lot um Alvar Oar aspara corre um and uh he was the one that got into that detail but we don't want to it doesn't affect us much and it's not land that we use so we'll just go on to the next slide okay so all of the um the underlying color on kind of shows all of those green gray and kind of orange areas that we're trying to avoid or that we need to avoid in putting together the Acres that we do want to use and I want to say when we started this process I I think about a year ago uh the planning board and the select board together decided to form a working group to start looking at at this law in detail and and how we would approach it in ashin and that working group included Peter machic the town planner Alvaro asaro who's the the assistant Town planner myself and Joe minani from the from the select board so the four of us have been working all year to um to look at the law look what's available in Ashland how we could fulfill this law it was not our job to say if we should fulfill the bylaw or not we were we were our charge from our two respective boards was to find a way find the best way that Ashland would comply with this so that was that was the charge given to our working group so um so we started first of all by having a few um a few just general guidelines that we felt strongly about one of them I I would say is that we have a comprehensive plan and process that we put a lot of money toward we have a large group of citizens working toward that comprehensive plan and our group of four people did not want to make decisions for Ashland we didn't want to make decisions that should be made as part of the comprehensive plan process that we all get to vote on right um and that includes a much larger input group than ours so um so we were very sensitive that we also decided that we have a lot going on in Ashland as I'm sure you well know as far as housing and other changes we wanted to use what Ashland has already been doing Ashland has already been building housing and permitting housing and we wanted to use that as much as possible which we are allowed to do by the state and to use the land that um is already in process for housing again because we didn't want to make decisions that should be coming out of the comprehensive plan process this just has to come first because the comprehensive plan isn't going to be done for a little while so the working group has been working that way we've had several forums um two before the Springtown meeting and then two other ones in in the last several months um we've met at various times with between the planning board and the select board to give them updates to give the larger group updates to get to feedback and um finally we um we landed at the bylaw that we're going to talk about tonight um which uh several meetings a couple meetings ago the planning board also went through it in in detail um so the the properties that you have you see up here there's ABC and D oh so that and FNG I I don't really want to talk about FNG but um there there's a few there's a few Parcels on here that um sorry this is this is from an earlier uh presentation there are several parsels we decided not to use for for various reasons um I could so um but let me just go through what yeah well we don't have one that was that oh yeah we do that's just okay yeah I can also bring up a map well don't we have the one that we're if we go forward don't we have the slide about the ones that we actually just are using okay yes okay so these are the ones the other ones early on in the forums a few months ago we had a couple properties that we had considered using and ultimately decided not to because we thought they had risk for for different reasons if you if you are aware of those properties or if you have questions later about those properties I'm happy to help to to talk about that but what I really want to talk about is um what we're actually what we're actually proposing in the bylaw so these are the properties where we're actually that we're actually working on um a is Cirrus right it's already built there's already housing on there but that doesn't mean we can't use it and that and that this so the Cirrus land mass takes up that at least 50% of the land that we're proposing that's our big piece right right the other ones um uh letter B you can see kind of right in the middle of the map that is 100 chest oh Cirrus I'm sorry it's up Memorial Drive like uh 135 um by the Dunkin Donuts by the train station and it's the development at the top of the hill um so you you can't see it from the you got to go all the way down Memorial Drive to see it it's right and so it's it was built in that you can walk down to the train station yeah you can walk down the train station from there sorry there count it's okay so the the units don't count we're not counting units we're not counting built units we're counting the potential of the land to hold the units so in these properties in these properties that I'm going to talk about the state would consider them empty like just empty land as if whatever was there was just gone right just empty land that's what we're looking at it's just land it doesn't matter what's on it now okay make sense okay and that's why it's just a zoning thing and not a building thing so a is is serious and and please do reach out with questions if you if something like that comes up um B kind of in the middle of the screen there that is 100 Chestnut Street that is um by the Avenue of the Americas and it is currently in construction if you've driven by it right so right so that's that's that c right down in the corner there that is 501 Pawn Street the planning board that is right on the right on the edge between Valley Farm and the mini golf right there's a piece of land there and the planning board approved a project there about two years ago it was so the planning board in 2020 approved the project on that property um and that was for10 units with 25% affordability right so there's a there's an approved project it nothing has been built on it yet um then if we go back up you see e again kind of near Cirrus that is kind of a little skinny strip of land and that includes burnhams and it includes basically connect church that that land along uh Pleasant Street and then you can see f um that is 10 to 60 Main Street the the mill the mill buildings and those are our five pieces of land that we decide to use we could have put it all in one we could have put it in more pieces but these are the ones we felt we felt good about yes um only as it relates to MBTA as it relates to the bylaw because that's what we're in a public hearing okay I'll wait I'll hold okay nothing again just to remember that for the MBTA bylaw for the MBTA for the state they consider that that land empty as if that it doesn't matter what's there okay um all right uh if we go back to the presentation I'm sorry folks Trisha before we go back to the presentation do you think it might be useful to just talk about the like when the law was passed and like what it's like when we have to comply like the sort of not um maybe Peter can do that I don't have it right in the top of my memory right now yeah Peter's just going to give a little history of the MBTA bylaw what the actual why we're doing this basically yeah excuse me so just a real quick kind of synopsis um so excuse me everybody in the room thank you um so the NBTA bylaw was um passed back in about 2020 um and it was done um by previous governor Charlie Baker and was done as a as an economic development package right and so the the the purpose um really and the goal behind the NBTA communities is to um kind of open up and open up housing right and as as Massachusetts faces a housing crisis and faces a housing crisis today right there's not enough housing and for the last three decades we haven't built enough housing as a state not just as a town um and the MBTA communities is building upon infrastructure that already exists right the MBTA so the MBTA as a whole as as a organization has nothing to do with the zoning indoor title but it was back in 2020 that the state the legislature um in in at the time that the governor Charlie Baker passes regulation and the regulation um and it was to make obviously communities a lot development at 15 units per acre Allowed by right now that doesn't mean that any unit has to be built right the state in its model they want to show the the towns and cities and towns need to show that the state that zoning allows for this to happen um and so this is being done Ashland is a um a u a we are a host of a tra of a excuse me commuter station so we're known as a commuter station town and so um by law and and I know there's been a lot of um news going on about MBTA communities but Ashland as a host Community um our deadline to um adopt a bylaw is December 31st of this year of of this calendar year um I can tell you um and this is maybe a little bit of a Sidetrack but we Trisha and myself and Joe manani and Alvaro um of the Plenty office were working uh we did have a planning and a bylaw put together leading up to last Springs town meeting um we did not move forward with that because we wanted to see um really what the situation was going to be in ashin at the time and closer to the um the deadline and um we did know that there was these 240b housing developments that were coming um and there was talks of that and so obviously we kind kind of held back a little bit I can tell you this bylaw was put together to take advantage of existing housing in Ashland and housing that has already been built and or permitted number one and it also looked to gain compliance um Ashland and and really the other thing to note and to understand is that there are there that money is at stake for communities right if the if if one doesn't um adopt right at this point the state has is going to withhold um funding uh such as grant funding um and with that um that's a big that can be or could be a consequence um so that is the matter excuse me I see your hand and we're going to we're going to open this up for public comment at at a at a time and and we'll let everyone come to the microphone and speak so thank you for context with the state what the law does is say there are different tiers of communities right we're a community that hosts a Commuter Rail station that's different than a community that is adjacent to a community that or near to a community that has a Commuter Rail station it's different than a community that has a t- stop um if you're you know very very clo if you're Malden or something like that right that has they have different requirements so Trisha walked through what our rules are um in terms of density and acreage and all of those things the sort of rules it's a puzzle it's a puzzle that Trisha and Peter and Alvaro and Joe have been working on for a year and the rules of the puzzle are different depending on what type of a community you are so we're dealing with the rules that Trisha mentioned about you know what the minimum density is what the minimum acreage is um what we're allowed to split the rules in other communities depending on whether they're an adjacent Community or a te Community are different right so we're playing with the rules of an MBTA um commuter rail community and um and I think it was helpful to sort of give that context I just have one comment um Peter I'm not sure everyone knows the term by right maybe we should just explain that briefly sure so the term bu right is it's going to be allowed without a special permit right in zoning when you dig into zoning um a lot of zoning throughout Massachusetts and I and I say throughout the Commonwealth um a lot of towns use this special permit obviously as as a as an Avenue right um and so with that the state is mandating that all all development within MBTA zoning is allowed by right that no special permit needs to be granted by a granting perent Authority which would be the planning board and in some cases the zoning board um and so that really in theory is is as I would probably say is one of the cornerstones of the MBTA uh bylaw is that this development has to happen by right now planning boards and towns have the ability to go through what's known as site plan approval any development that would come into the town of Ashland under site under the MBTA communities would have to go through site plan approval um and that is a uh a a a major lift by any developer but that's going to look at um access Public Safety um but also it's going to look um for design um and and it's going to follow the b in make sure it follows the bylaws um that the town either adop you know would adopt when in the future law was up on Beacon Hill one of the concerns was removing restrictions from removing ways that communities put hurdles in front of development for multif family housing right so they're looking at a housing crisis as Peter said you know the state as a whole has been building less housing than it's needed to for decades to accommodate sort of how the city and the surrounding communities have grown and so removing things like age restrictions um removing multif family that some of the things the rules of the puzzle that we talked about earlier tonight um are designed for that purpose right to say like you can't put these these restrictions on um the land that is set aside for MBTA zoning um and I think part of what the working group has done and what the planning board has talked a lot about is um being careful as Trisha has said to utilize what we've already done in the town of Ashland because while while the state is considering the land empty we all know from a practical perspective there's something there already that helps us compared to you know taking a completely new parcel of unbuilt land um and so when we're talking about these Parcels they're you almost all of them are either permitted or or or built yeah so you clarify the yeah if do you want to go back to that slide just that shows the five clarify that yeah yeah and I just wanted to say thanks to to the board for for jumping into things I'm I'm so deep into this that sometimes I can't see the forest through the trees so if you have questions please and something isn't clear please uh please let us know so if everyone sees um e on a um and sees that black circle around it that identifies a half mile from the station um I can say that 40% of the total land area has to be within that half a mile radius and 40% of all total units would have to be within that radius because the town built cus right cus is a 398 unit um apartment complex permitted in 2016 built in 2018 I believe occupancy granted were occupy per occupany permits were gr were issued in December of 2018 um that land area is 28 Acres that is a huge piece and it's the key Cornerstone to making our calculations work in Ashlin um but that is the the the regulations um call for having 40% of the total units and 40% of the total land area within that half a mile circle of the train station okay if so if we can just um if if people wouldn't mind letting just letting me get through like what our proposal is do you have a well this is the this is the um Circle that was given to us by the state within a half mile radius yeah for 40% of what we use right so we're allowed to use Parcels outside of that Circle but 40% of what we use has to be inside so that's where Peter was saying that Cirrus is such a big part of that because that is inside right so everything doesn't have to be inside the circle right just some of it has to be inside the circle 40% of the total area 20 it's about 28 it's about 28 8 Acres so it's a little bit over the 50% margin which is another rule that we had to look at right so the state regulations right call for um half of your dist half of your district has to be contiguous glued together right which is a huge piece and so because we have cus cus in our total acreage as you can see on this slide is 56 acres in total right that 56 Acres gets that's above the minimum land area of 50 acres which is needed right and then with Cirus Cirrus is about 28 Acres Cirrus gets us above that 50% contiguous in addition because Cirrus is so large and it's within the half a mile um buffer of the train station it also checks that box per se um when it comes to the state uh rules and regulations that they laid out um that all cities and towns have to follow Peter do you want to slide up with the parameters yeah or you're trying to go to Sor um yeah I want to keep uh I want to go back to those five properties that we can start to explain those because some of it I'm doing in context this one no the um the one with the five that one yeah so there two slides but yeah started serus so just to look at these a little bit more carefully okay so remember the the goal of the working group was to try to come up with a plan for ashin that actually affected Ashland as little as possible that was our goal because we already have housing that we've been developing and approving and because we have a comprehensive plan in process and we did not want to step on the toes of the comprehensive plan which is coming from the residence right so that was our goal so this is how we I I'm going to explain how we why we decided to use these parcels and why we're using them so again the first one is Sirus Sirrus so that's pretty obvious it's the big piece of the puzzle and we put a a good amount of D I don't remember the exact density we put on that um Peter can you remind me as we go along yep so it's um it's about 28 acres and we put a density on it I think of 22 I think it's about 20 I think it's 24 units per acre um is there a what no there's sorry it's um there's not a maximum density but in this spreadsheet for the state for instance you couldn't take one parcel of land and just say we're just going to make that really really dense and we'll put all our housing there because with all of the other ashin bylaws which these projects have to follow they have to follow setbacks they have to follow height limitations they have to follow those it would be impossible to make that work right so they they both have to be doable for the state regulations and they have to be doable within our bylaws without changing the bylaws or or we or you have to change the bylaws to make them doable okay and the density is only one rule in the puzzle there's also the minimum acreage there's like all of the different rules of the puzzle right so they're not they they don't let you say oh you can put as much density on 10 acres as you want right we have to do the minimum of 50 acres yeah right so um okay let let me get through the five and we'll take more questions okay so again the first one is Cirrus um and that one is um units remember it has to be a minimum of 15 we can't go lower than that that one will have a density of 21 units an acre right um area B which is along Pleasant Street remember from burnhams through connect Church um that area we we put at a density of 15 units an acre the lowest we could have it the reason we thought that would be a good property to use um is that it's inside the circle right so it gives us some land inside the circle and actually the bylaws that we already have in place um the zoning that's already in place in that parcel already allows multif family housing to be developed at a greater density than MBTA is asking for so that's with that's in within our bylaws right now right so we're not we're not giving MBTA anything because someone could already do it it's already in our existing bylaws all right um the next one is 10 to 60 Main Street which is the mill buildings right it's across from the bagel table um it's one of the sites of the 40b project so we wanted to use this because it's a pretty big land mass um we have that again that set at 15 units an acre now this is a whole separate thing from the 40b projects this MBTA bylaw and the 40b is that that we will be dealing with very shortly in Ashland they're two totally separate things but we decided if housing is going to be going there and sooner or later something will go there a project was before the planning board even a year ago um we wanted to be a to keep it you know we wanted to be able to use that land in is in our equation so the current proposal in front of that will be in front of the zoning board of appeals for that 40b project sets that density at 36 it's actually 31 units 31 units an acre we've set ours at the minimum at 15 units an acre so um so again keeping that very low if someone's going to use it they'll have to use it at very low density then we have 100 Chestnut Street that's the project again on Chestnut Street is in construction right now um we set that um density at 30 units an acre sorry which is basically this a very similar density to what is being built right now so we're keeping the density it's that building is already going up um and we basically match the density that was already there try again trying to use what we have um for our density and just to note that development is 174 units in 105,000 square feet a commercial just for facts and the conversation yes those are for rent yeah those would be rental units those are rental units and then um last is the 501 Pawn Street that's I see again the one between so that that parcel actually includes Valley Farm 369 yeah which is 369 pwn Street and includes the empty lot next to the uh the mini golf right so at the very end of Ashland so it's those two properties that are included in C and that density is set at 22 units an acre so the 22 units an acre would be a lower density than the project we actually have approved for there and and the other half of the site is already covered by a large building is that those two together I want to say it's so so just 501 Pawn Street is about three about three three and 3/4 acres and so one of the rules in the MBTA zoning excuse me talk so let me ask your question first so that P Street 501 Pawn Street is about three and a half acres per se right one of the rules in the MBTA zoning is that a Min a district has to be a minimum of five acres and so what we have to do is we have to glue 369 which is a which is a recently developed project that we see that we have we're making the assumption that land use will most likely not change because that's a very successful business at the residents at Valley Farm and the 50501 pawn Street which is a permitted project and what we did is we theoretically we we we did not match but we brought down the density at 501 um just above what they would be allowed to do by right because we do already have a permit there for 120 units which is a which is also what that permit also includes is 25% affordability which is a positive thing um for Ashland and the Ashland subsidized housing inventory which right now is below the state mandated 10% so um as we go so so those are the properties we're going we were going to use um okay well maybe I'll take some okay no that's fine if you need to yeah um so um what we want to do is to um well obviously answer any questions we want to make sure you guys understand what's being proposed but what we were trying to do with the proposal is to use land that's already built on with housing land that is already have approved projects on for housing um and then to you know look at in in the case of um in the case of Pleasant Street adding on what we need to to get to the Finish Line kind of here to get the units that we need but again in order to in order to change Ashland as little as possible so um our theory was is basically that it's it's highly unlikely that the um that Cirrus will be torn down in order to build something else or that 100 Chestnut Street which is currently into construction will be torn down to build something else so we're that's what so what we're trying to use what we have since we have already been engaged in housing in Ashland um before before I take more questions Peter this is is um since this is a public hearing the typical process on a public hearing is that you do need to come to the mic and state your name and address we've been very LAX on that but for in order to be recorded properly that's typically what we need to do I don't know if we have another a loose microphone that sometimes we have those in the room so we how you doing so we do not have a loose microphone in the room we're going to have to ask everyone to come up to the microphone um and and state your name and your address and then um and then you can State your question I will also take questions online so I will kind of volley back and forth between online and in the room um so just please be patient with us as we try to listen to to to the to the statements to the questions and then try to get you know a response so so and then that so if people want to come to the microphone that the bylaw online which we can also put up here on screen um should be hopefully um after hearing this explanation start to be a little bit more self-explanatory it's it's fairly concise for a BW there's a lot of definitions that's the whole first page but really it talks about dividing our responsibility into five subdistricts which I've named and then to and then to describe to have a chart about what is what are the setbacks and things for that District now all of the setbacks and the the numbers in there are taken from the bylaws as they already are so the only thing we're looking to put on here is is the is a density which is required by the MBTA we're trying to use our bylaws as they stand so the decision about what to do in ashin comes through the comprehensive plan process and not through the MBTA process so um one thing so all of this is our current zoning stays and the MBTA is an overlay that's right so yeah so the what um our our zoning is getting a little complicated in Ashland and it would be nice to straighten it out in future years maybe after comprehensive plan but this is an overlay District so the NBTA District goes sits over everything else and developers can then choose like for instance along Pleasant Street the first overlay district is industrial right that that's our old zoning so if someone wants to come and put a Factory I guess um along Pleasant Street that's the underlying zoning I don't think anyone would do that on top of that is what's called add it's our Ashland downtown zoning District a and that allows for a whole different set of uses that are more applicable to me a a downtown area you know some businesses and housing and things like that right this sits this would sit on top of all of it so so that a developer doesn't have to follow MBTA he can follow he or she can follow any of the zoning that's applicable to that spot so we're not changing any of our underlying zoning we're just putting this option on top of it but this option on top of it has to pay attention to the underlying regulations and going back to that theory of this isn't saying that the unit that units have to be built it's just saying what's allowable if someone using the Pleasant Street example wanted to come in and build on that strip they would have to say which zoning they're using right and they can't so T Trish's point about how the zoning that's already there the add zoning allows for what we are allowing in the MBTA zoning we're essentially just using what we've already allowed in our existing zoning um and that's the only unbuilt and UNP well not completely built and not completely per or not completely permitted parcel that we've proposed everything else is either built which means it's low risk because to Trish's point someone would have to tear what's already there down and rebuild under the MBTA zoning or it's permitted and they would have to take in under consideration whether or not they wanted to go all the way back through the process and use um the MBTA zoning rules instead of what they already went through and all the expense they already went to to get their permit and the only example of that is 501 pond so do people have there were questions out there please don't be shy about coming to the microphone you just need to state your name and address this just formal for for these kind of meetings and I just want to make a note uh for anybody online uh please raise your hand and I will call on you and then I will click to allow you to unmute uh unmute yourself um so with that said I see one person in live uh at the at the podium so please miss step forward and St your name and address my name is Kimberly lentos and I live at 79 hildale Road and I just want to say thank you and I really do appreciate the position that you're all in in trying to make this happen in the best way possible I just really appreciate that up front um a question I do have um so I don't understand I lived in hopkington 20 years ago and at that point they were talking about 40b and they were addressing their 40b and with all the development that's happened in the last 20 years in Ashland how did we as a town why are we still below the 10% minimum because I know that it's a 10% to 25% for um municipalities and I'm just curious between the units that have been built over the bunch of years which is where why wasn't percentages sort of Taken along the way instead of it being a big problem all at once to try to catch up so um does that make sense yes but um those percentages that you're talking about about the 10% has nothing to do with the MBTA these are two completely separate things well so you were talking about how just I'm just curious because some of the units as you were talking about earlier were about the 40b in the percentage so it's the density they do they overlap in a little bit which is what you so I apologize if the question is timed right no what we're doing is comparing what we're doing is comparing what the MBTA would allow to go there and showing that we have made a a significant effort to make it very much lower than the 40b would be putting there but we have no control over that part of the process it it's not related to the MBT process I think that's a common point of of confusion though so 40b is a totally separate law right that's been on the books for for decades sure MBC communities is a very new law that's from 2020 right and so they have totally different requirements the requirements around um affordable housing and and what and there's we have that's a very very long sort of story as to the 40b answer I think it's important though to clarify to Trisha's point that the only the only consideration of 40b as it relates to to MBTA Zoning for us is um is that the a 40b came in on a parcel that was potentially advantageous for us to use in proposal no oh that was the one that you had cited earlier I apologize it's 1060 main it's the mill building which was before the planning board last year so help me understand then the comment that you made earlier regarding 501 so let me take this let me take this so right so back in so I understand where you're going thank you I think I can say this I can't speak for the town for the last 20 years is sure right I I don't think I I I can I can do that I can say is that um Ashland as it's developed right um we the town of Ashland has allowed um has has within the developments right has has built in 10% affordability right so it's kind of keeping level we're not gaining there was no G ground gained within that affordability within that 10% number right okay previously I would say there there was two developments one was approved as a 40b and it's in litigation right so the town lost its count on that we haven't really discussed that we're not taking in that into account that's a that's a that's a development um which was kind of a budding cus um but to your point of the 501 Pawn Street right is that the town of Ashland gave a special permit and a density bonus right to allow 120 units to be developed through a special permitting process process right 25% of those units are going to be affordable which is a pretty good permit right um and but that project was never moved on right and so right now it's still vacant land the permit is still live right um and but with that we want to protect that permit at 25% affordability right because with a 40b and with 25% affordability the town gets to count all those numbers onto the town's subsidized housing inventory right so that's how you get those big jumps within that percentile right and so that's what we're trying to protect we said hey there's a pretty good permit we rote it and that's going to give us a pretty good bump towards that 10% goal I can't go back and speak to the town to say you should have done you know you can't live in the you can't live in the past right um but to the point is over the last 20 years there's been a couple 40 BS right um the last one that was um developed is um Ashen Woods which was I believe in about 2014 2015 if I'm wrong that was 66 units right um and since then there hasn't been any 40b development um but there's been other development in the town of Ashland right you know Ashland grew uh I can I you know by a fact of the Census Data Ashlin grew by 10% from 2010 to and that's adding units such as cus um Legacy not Legacy Farms excuse me um the lanterns development um and so there was many things that have happened um also ashin was also booming within subdivisions you know since the 2000s you know there's been a lot of subdivisions subdivisions at Ashland did not have any inclusion Ariz zoning built into them right so those were all market rate housing and so yes we are kind of trying to pick it up a little bit and that's what I that's how I can answer your question um but also we try to use that permit to our advantage but also we're trying to figure out a best way possible with all these numbers and all these possible situations to how to say hey we've take it into what Trish said take advantage of what we've built take advantage of what we've permitted and to minimize um what we think is minimizing the impacts on ash so getting five in one Pawn Street really is like a win-win it's a win-win exactly it's a win-win because it's a permanent project at 25% affordable right and then we add 120 units and this is just a kind of a theoretical thing but if cus which is 398 units that's built at 10% affordable right if that was built at 25% affordable the town of Ashen could have counted 398 units to subsidize ours in inventory we would be we would have a much higher percentage right now there's 41 units that are affordable within cus that are on our subsidized housing inventory that's a big difference um when you look at those numbers from that standpoint the only other question I have regards busing because I know the percentage where the um there was something that had said that where the units have to be within a half mile of the train station that for those units I was just reading some guidelines on the MTA communities it was saying that um additional MBTA Transportation would potentially be something that would come down the road to help assist people from those developments to getting to the train I was just curious if you had any comment on that I don't you know what I've been following this stuff for the last I I I'm going to tell you I'm going to be direct with everybody in this room and everybody online I've been following this stuff for four years and uh and I think as as a planners out there we're just trying to we're trying to do the best to get in compliance I think you know knowing the state and being on all the calls and doing all the homework I think that is that that whatever that verbiage was that you read I think the biggest thing I don't know where that will be in the future um but I I I really don't I think the biggest thing is for town they want towns to adopt zoning at this point okay thank you very much for you got it um I'm going to go online Miss Pam Mims has her hand up uh Pam Mims I am going to ask you to unmute thank you um pamm M 20 Rond way Ashlin I just have a couple questions um the first question I know you had mentioned about protecting the permits so I guess the question is if you're protecting the permits what would stop a developer from coming in and saying I want to utilize those permits and that would add to the housing so what what would stop them I think um well I mean Peter you can do do you want to answer that it's not um it's just that the permit has been granted so the the person the the developer can go forward with their project what we were saying is that um that that is that there is that is an area of town this would be 501 Pawn Street that is an area of town that that it has already have um an approved project for that so and someone holding that permit so if if housing is going to be developed there anyway we might as well use it for MBTA Community zoning because there's already going to be a project there that that that's all it meant okay and then the other well a couple other questions um you're counting in land that's permitted um does the state allow to use existing units and so you can count those existing units in or do they require new unit the state isn't interested in any existing units on any of the properties right it's as if they look at they're only looking at the land and and what we could allow to go there it does not matter if it's built or if it's version okay virgin Farmland so we don't need to count any units that are already there okay okay but but you can count those as you were mentioning because they're already there no we pretend they're not there we're we're kind we're just compare what we're doing and maybe this is the confus confusing part we're comparing what we need to be there or what the what we need to count in zoning as a theoretical problem and we're comparing it to what's already there or already permitted to see if they're about the same because remember we don't want to we don't we're trying not to affect change through the MBTA change is going to come through other things but we're trying not to affect it through this zoning so we're using it as a comparison to say okay Cirrus has this how can we make it so that we're using that land without um without burden overburdening Ashland with something else does that does that make sense okay okay so it's okay and then the last quick question is you know say and we'll go back to Pawn Street say a developer came in and said I'm going to develop that land and any other land that's necessary for this particular MBTA zoning um how is a town going to pay for the additional units that are added in I mean the resources are are stretched now and how's the town gonna pay for those existing resources or new resources what what do you mean how does that you mean um like um what do you mean what is the town going to pay for well the town's already stretch with certain resources like water and just basic resources so now if you're going to add in you're going to Lop on more units say a developer wanted to develop Pawn Street so now you're G to Lop on more units because there's going to be new units added here I mean it's great that you're going to try to use whatever you can use but we all know looking forward into the future there will be units that will be added the to is growing town so I look at it and say is the town going to have to increase the taxes to pay for those additional res in ter in terms of 501 Pawn Street there is an active approved project for 501 project for 501 Pawn Street that was approved and went through the planning took about a year to go through the planning board process and I think we approved that project two years ago right um so at that time we did look at Water and Sewer and all the other things for that project so in terms of our study we're assuming that kind of that project is built and so we're going to it's not we're going to count it towards mpta even though it's it's it's so Pam to your point like a developer has already come in and wanted to develop that land and put a project before the planning board and it went through the entire project and it was approved and they hold that permit they can break ground when they want to that's all that's all set and so when we're talking about what we allowed in the bylaw and the density the Strategic consideration was how do we make this not more favorable than what they already have there so as that there's not an incentive for them to sort of scrap everything that's already been done right right and so that's and that's what that's the Strategic consideration in all of what we've put and and what the working group has assigned on the densities and it's the same for anything that's already built right because it's much more it's much less likely that something that's already built they're going to tear down as Trisha has noted but the theory is always like okay well what let's say someone did just want to go crazy and tear down what's there let's make whatever the MBTA is own is not more favorable to them than what has what already exists and so that's what's been done in each of these Parcels if that makes sense I think what I'm just simply trying to point out is that um any additional units is going to tax the town resources and I look at the big picture who's how are we going to pay for this so that's all that's it's just a comment you don't have to answer but that's just my statement and what I'm saying so thank you Miss thank you I'm going to come here back into the room uh to the to the podium uh Mr Mark donon uh Mark uh I stated your name but can you please State your address marony 119 Main Street ashon I have two maybe three questions to ask about this first first question is how much did the state get involved to talk and Ashen to go for their guidelines in in what Essence Mark well through the guidelines that saying from the state to show that they got they are good for housing because there's a house insur they were saying what was the guidelines given to get the talk started well I think you know I think there was comments you know this goes back four years you know and and there was there was a draft comments the town of ashin submitted four years ago a letter like most communities um then H the department of of the the eohc which is the executive office of uh livable communities they issued the guidelines so Ashland is one of 151 communities within I would say Metro Boston that have had to use the same guidelines um in the same rules of the road to try to figure out how do you apply these to to two Ashland into any other community um and and so Ashland has been using the same rules in the road um the same guidelines as southb and hopkington and and and in in Framingham and in NAC um and we're also using the same um model um and and the model is another you know I would say huge Excel data document driven by data um that we've also had to Wrangle with um and so Ashen is doing doing uh using the same the same framework um that every other community is okay thank you um what about um has the state talk in in if in the state help the finance for Town budget have they talked about what's going to do to the property tax I don't I don't think we can forecast the future you know and and and look into to see what effects of of development is going to be on property taxes Mark um so so I don't think we've looked into that matter but that does the state say with MBT this NBA project did they say it's going to increase or decrease if it goes through I would say the state is stayed silent on that um and and they are not hinting and they're not going to go one way or the other I think the state from their standpoint is is ex they are this is a a law and and regulations that are asking communities to adopt zoning um they are not weighing into if a community if if a if a if a um excuse me a district or MBTA zon is going to negatively impact um a housing indoor or property taxes I just think the state has not taken their influence that far okay and this is the last one this comes as I asked this one the 50 a how many acres is the is this property going to be grandfather to have grandfather in the term and what terms grandfather what ter once they're going they're going around the states saying they got to have to have so many acres that is in that's for the community distance mhm okay and um how many acres is that right now that's on that's on their books so are you asking how many acres are within the half mile buffer of each train station how many acres is in the is in their regulation bylaws well the state doesn't have a total number of Acres right it applies to the town in certain ways and and so I don't know if I the data to to to answer that question mark um but the state is saying that each town in a minimum has to have has to have a minimum of 50 acres um in total and with a minimum density of 15 units per acre now for the town of Ashen because we're above we have to zone for the the 15% of the existing hot total hot total excuse me total housing unit count um we have to have a minim we you have to have that minimum of of 50 units okay from that I tried asking this before with the um as I was emailing earlier in the week about the zoning and stuff like that what does the structure building structure and footage have to do with this would you when you when you put a buildings on structure it's this is just zoning Market doesn't have any so the actual what the building is or the structure of the building isn't it yeah that it's it's not a part of this regulation and would still go through our normal planning board process just couldn't require special permit and all the building codes would have to be followed okay well now this is they want to put want to help put in multifam housing right correct those the structures correct so they have to go buy so some so much regulations on us on that property Lottery yes or no yes they go They're going to go follow the Ashen bylaws and then they're going to follow the State Building Code so the state saying through the property codes that's in this town to build they're going to understand that as they may not be enough and on the property sites what would happen then well the spreadsheet that I was talking about earlier takes into account all of the Ashlin bylaws and get they get put the Ashland bylaws gets puts into the spreadsheet which which says if the density we're putting there works right it goes through those calculations and if it works or it doesn't work so we've been doing that for the past year putting things within the state spreadsheet that was given to us to confirm that it works now until the state actually goes and checks it themselves we we don't know for sure right but we're fairly confident that that what we're doing checks all the boxes does that make sense I can say this Mark that using all the tools the regulations that the state has provided this plan that the town of Ashland has that we will that we are presenting to tonight having a public hearing on and that we present the front of town meeting fits the requirements in my professional eyes of of the regulations okay and this should be it this brings me back to the question I asked first how much does the state put into Ashland's designs for this for those reasons you know any questions we've reached out to the state um we've worked with our Town Council um who's doing this for many communities um you know we're we're doing our best to stay having open lines of communication with the state um and we believe the model that we have um with the with the five Parcels that we have with the total acreage and the total units meets the requirements of the state now it needs to be approved by the state and we'll get to that point in time um if approved that town meeting um and and so I would say you know we are we believe I believe that this is this will meet the qualifications of the state and very last comment would be that the state and some other towns have disagreed and tried to block it that that has occurred right I will not I'm not going to dance around that one but yes I think everyone in this room and you know we no one no one lives under a rock in 20 you know 2024 um I can tell you yes the town of Milton has been in the news for the last year and a half right um there was SJ there was Supreme Judicial Court hearings three weeks ago right um I did follow him as the town planner you know I I I listen to them you know some people you know would be uh wouldn't always admit to that but I did and uh they have a case you know but right now the law is the law right and we need to just see take it as as what it is on its word and uh we the committee represented the town feel like that we've created a plan that meets the the attributes of the law and it and it takes advantage of what ashon has developed and it's tried to you know hopefully will you know minimize any impacts but we feel this plan will um meet the law and that will allow us to continue to move forward this end my time thank you is uh the state with their legal pool in the state house will fight strongly to keep forth what they're going through now yeah I think I think Mark we need to move on but thank you for your questions so can that be answered I I'll sit down after um can that be no because affects what going to happen in the future maybe not here but it could affect the the state house thinking go to Mark I can't I I don't think any of us here at this table can speak for the legislature or the state house and I think that is that the question you ask nobody at this table has the answer to and I think the question is I think that the answer is time will tell um and I think all towns are in the same situation and I think all towns are trying to do the best they can and this town is going to find out either way how well they did thank you Mark okay all right thank you everybody for their for your patience I'm going to move to the next person with their hand raised online Ken Ken I'm going to ask you to unmute uh thank you very much and um I'll try to I'm just a little confused so I just want have a couple questions I want to pre express my appreciation for the work that the team has done with the creative efforts to roll in the projects and that have been developed and in process but my assumption is is that the original intent of whatever law was passed by Governor Baker was the intent was to actually create SP uh places that will be developed and so my question is with all the work that you've done um and at some point my assumption is that that the state or the NBA District or whoever is going to make those decisions could turn around and say open those lands for development and and they BAS basically are we're committing at at some point that that land could be developed maybe will be developed and and it's probably going to even though they follow our bylaws and so on I it appears that the actual decision process kind of like in the 40b cases the developers could go around the town and move that to to go forward am I incorrect in that assumption I I just was looking for Clarity on yeah it's hey hey Ken um it's it's important to remember that um that this is a zoning exercise and and um in fact most of the areas that we of the five areas most of the square footage that we're putting forward is already built there is already buildings on it that would need to be torn down in order to build something else and and these aren't small little Cottages that are there it's not a small neighborhood being being turned down torn down it would be tearing down major buildings which would be very expensive in order to put up another very expensive building which is part of the reason we did what we did to make that process as UNF financially viable as possible Right which the state allows us to do they are okay with that with us using what we already have so um so so I'm not does that answer your question not not quite because I think we've been able to I don't know exact trying to figure this out but if we had something like 50 or 60 Acres whatever the final calculation was and the buildings occupy half of that or something like that is there not a possibility they would come in and just say you have to completely you know allow people to build out the rest to meet the original intent I mean I'm just um you know we've heard about the 40b where the the the contract the Builder can go around the town in terms of what get happens and so and if the 40b is at a higher density rate you know do we end up seeing that you're the plan on the density is really you know potentially just going to be set aside if someone at the state or at the mvta district or wherever the decisions are made say you you have to open all that land that's not not currently been built on to to building and and I guess I'm looking at the cus plot it looks like about half of the plot is built but then there's about half that isn't so could that just be a state decision that that has to be you know to to turn it over to the contractors to go ahead and build when you're when you're talking when you're talking about the Cirrus plot that half has been built um the Cirrus and maybe it was confused using on the on the drawing that we were showing because there was a another area of color around Cirrus but the Cirrus area of the 28 Acres it is it is built it's built with buildings and parking lots and some low garages and pavement and and so it is built out yes is there's some areas probably of buffer and setbacks as there are on all of our properties yeah there are there are some setbacks and things like that but but but there is an acreage that there is an acreage that's just empty that the the surrounding acreage is not a part of this of the of Cirrus that we're looking at that was actually a that was actually a a parcel we decided not to use in MBTA and this just looking at the diagram it had a and d my assumption was a was serious and D was uh available or whatever empty B is so I think might the other note is that the state doesn't have the difference between 40b and NBTA zoning is that the 40b process you know has the town has very little involvement right the MBTA zoning law is still an Ashland zoning law like it there's no the state is not going to come in after we've P if we pass a set town meeting and the state agrees that it meets all of the parameters that they've set out um for the MB to meet the requirements of the law of the state law um once that happens the state's not no longer involved in anything that sort of gets built using that zoning it's the same as any of our other zoning so it would just follow all of the as Trisha said all the existing Ashlin bylaws um all and they would have to a developer would have to choose to use that zoning overlay the MBTA zoning overlay and so to the point sort of that we've said a couple times tonight is that the idea is that we're using Parcels that are already built and the density that we're including in the MBTA zoning law which is is the new the what we're proposing um to become compliant that's all strategically done the density that that would be proposed under that zoning is strategically done to make it not more advantageous than what's already there if that makes sense to disincentivize like tearing it down and starting again yeah okay I my assumption was it with that we were allocating as much of the built space as possible into the project overall meeting the requirements but that there were open spaces that uh were part of the acreage that you know could be up for I would say you know development and that that may be fine I'm just saying who makes that decision is that yeah that would be the that would be the developer that would make the decision that can say Okay um if I own Cirrus and the density that um that this MBTA zoning that we're proposing is higher than their current density up in s but they would have to decide okay you know can I where can I squeeze in that additional housing and parking while meeting all the other Ashen zoning bylaws and while accommodating all the residents that live there so is it is it possible is it possible that the owner of cus can move everyone out and fit some more stuff in there and then move everybody back in it's possible so um but again these were the choices that we made to try to choose things that were as unlikely as possible but what what the future says I I can't you know predict it perfectly all right well thank you for your answer thank you K thank you Ken uh with nobody's uh hand raised online I'm G to go to the present to the to the podium uh so please state your name and address hello my name is Melissa I live it thank you I second that thank you for all your hard work you did answer a big question of mine when I came out tonight was was this going to take up more Parcels I think that's what most people were worried about because we just went through a lot of construction so thank you for your consideration and keeping the impact low what I was curious about is what were the grants that the state was kind of holding over you guys to not you know allow ashin to have his funding for the town if this didn't come into compliance would you mind speaking to that that was my only question sure you know there's a list of Grants is on our website just so to just to make note uh we and Ashland have a whole website called the MBTA Community website all this information is on that website um a list of those grants are on that website um and I will say that um all the public forums that we held were actually videotaped and actually put online but with that said to answer your question the major grants that would be withheld or mass work grants um any um Mass municip excuse me Municipal vulnerability grants um any Economic Development grants um there's some really big items here big ticket items right um infrastructure grants um and so per se the town of ashon as we all know just went through a vital you know reconstruction of our downtown right that was done with a mass Works Grant right that would not have happened if we did not have if if this law was in place and if we did not have zoning to meet indoor qualify and so with that said those are the type of projects the type of grants that are us stake at this point okay see someone online you want to take them first yep uh Joan G Friday I'm gonna un ask you to unmute yes Jon G Friday ww Road um I'm on the historical commission but speaking as I'm an independent resident um I apologize my computer uh V video is not working um I I know you're tired of hearing from me but I'm tired of kind of tired of saying it too but um my feeling is if I don't try then I can't complain so um I I think this um this is in no way against the MBTA committee they've worked countless hours to try to come up with the best plan for Ashland um I preferred the last proposal personally that did not include the mill buildings I have a real worry about the mill buildings although that ship may have sailed if that falls through I worry about giving anybody additional impetus to do something um and I and I understand the overlay I'm not trying to make you go through that whole thing again but I it still is a concern to me um but my concern really is with the state the the law and the towns from not bonding baning together to fight this um I think it's it's inequitable um the law um I don't know if people understand but we're being punished for the density that we've already built um we built um 914 Apartments between 2010 and 2020 that are basically not counted if you subtract those from the 1124 then we should only have to build 210 and it's it's you got a town south borrow next door which has more land mass and is only required to build to Zone I should say not not build but Zone I understand that zoned for 750 apartments and so I think right there there is a lawsuit that that this law is inequitable um I would like to see the towns do that um but I'm just that's probably um not going to happen um but we already are on a water bin and as um I think it was Miss MIM said um where will where will the water the schools and the resources come from and when we say that the town won't come back back the state won't come back and force us to do something else with some of this land they're already forcing us to do something with land we they didn't tell us this before they built before they built the MBTA station this was forced afterwards and they're holding us hostage with grants and I think it's just it it's it's appalling to me honestly um so those are my comments um I appreciate everything that the the um committee has done I truly do and I I know that you're trying to make it less of an impact on Ashlin and I really do appreciate that so thank you for my for listening thank you Joan hi Paula Parker for 15 Captain e Circle I appreciate all the work that you're doing I know it's not easy I spent 10 years on the pawn Street project working group um a noble Mission the pay stunk but it's a noble Mission and I'm happy to see that pawn street is coming to fruition I have a question Peter you mentioned that does this have to go to um a vote on the floor of at fall town meeting yes and what if it's voted against what happens then what if residents say we're giving we're giving the residents an opportunity the state's not giving residents an opportunity because this is a mandate I happen to agree with Joan and that it is quite Draconian and the punishment is like a mafia Style enforcement if you don't comply we will punish you that aside what happens if the residents of Ashlin say no we don't we're going to exercise our right to to democracy and we're going to vote no on this then what happens then then on December 31st and or you know December 31st as the ball comes dropping down in Time Square and we move into January 1st we fall we become a non-compliant community within the MBT regarding the m BTA communities and then you know we'll move forward I think that's what that's my direct answer and and that's what will happen Okay what will come from that time will tell I just wanted to know if residents did have a right to exerise their vote and that's what I wanted Town vot that's what I want to know I think everybody here wanted to know because resents do have the right to vote you know this this zoning article will be on town meeting that is going to be held on November 19th at the high school which is a Tuesday night um and yes this will be voted on um and if it doesn't carry majority vote then um then we will fall out of compliance as the uh as the ball drops on the New Year okay and so we if that does happen we will not be the only town right and so we will be in a category of non-compliant towns and um the the I I don't know what the future will hold in in that Essence uh but that's what will occur thank you another question um during a hearing um I believe it was with wind development the project didn't move forward but the owner of wind development mentioned that developers receive subsidies from the state for these kinds of projects is that accurate if it's accurate what is the percentage that a developer would receive on a large project from the state I do not know okay to tell you the truth so uh is that fo you is that Foya information do we know typically no it's not Foya no you know I do not know when the development comes you know I do not know nor does is a part of the Plenty board application to know and understand the subsidies that one gets from the state okay you know because I do not know in my Essence my question would be to the developer right is there financing coming through the state are they going to the state uhlc are they going to the you know Mass development or Mass housing excuse me right um quasi public private development um I don't know where those mortgages are coming I don't know whether the construction that that's not really part of what the planning board overview oversees within that application process right I understand that's not your purview I thought with your expertise you might have some knowledge because when he mentioned it it just it it it Rose a question in my mind so I'm not going to waste time on that particular question last question is that pawn Street already has the uh Pawn Street mixed use overlay District correct does this zoning overlay that so there are three layers so there's as of right zoning there's the pawn Street mixed juice overlay and now there's the MBTA communities zoning is it now three layers that the developer would yeah okay yeah it's three layers yes it's three layers it's almost and it happens within zoning you know we're not the this this kind of moves forward but yes it's almost three layers makes it incredibly complex zoning is a complex thing Paula and and and that's why and that's why I just I have to say Zoning for a town is the last lever of control for the residents to have a say in terms of what goes on what's built I understand that when somebody purchas purchases the land they have their rights I get that whole thing I've advocated for developers I've advocated for residents I just have to say I agree with Joan that I think that the Mandate is Draconian and I think I think a lot of people feel like they're they're losing their control because they're losing that lever and the only lever they have left now is town hall and again I appreciate everything all of you have done I know it's not easy and I know it can be contentious I just have to say that and thank you all for everything that you do thank you Paula please yeah hello Lorraine dorsy from 30 of7 Captain Circle so I just wanted to know whether you think it's the the reason that all these uh towns along uh the the the railroad have have this mandate on them do they think that all this new housing all these people are going to be taking the train into Boston every day I mean is that why they're doing because I'm sure there're people in whan and Sudbury and Sherburn and other towns that also they drive into into Boston but so should they be putting shouldn't they have some uh in mandate to improve their housing too yeah so all those communities are part of the um part of what needs to be done so are they do they have a mandate about how many housing they how much housing they have to add how many units mhm yeah Sherburn and whand and yep is it similar to ours yeah so I can show you this map right here bring it up so this is the state's MBTA communities map you can see right here yeah and and it list NBTA communities Community categories um here we are in Ashland we are a commuter rail Community we house a a commuter rail stop Framingham NAC Welsley Needum denim Westwood um I'll read a few uh selfbow westbo these are all commuter rails adjacent commun adjacent small town yeah but all what happens to all the ones in the yellow all in the yellow yeah they're called an adjacent community and what are they they have a mandate similar yep I didn't know that yep well I feel better about that yeah every every one of these communities right that's on this map up here that you can see is dealing with the same matters that we are dealing with here in Ashland and across the board okay thank you for clarifying that thank you for your work yeah no problem thank you any other questions or comments from the audience or online here we have good evening everyone my name is Peter D I'm believe on Al Trail nearer to Pawn Street and we're talking about units 1,24 units how many people uh in your mind will assemble those units well we don't iage what I couldn't give you yeah I couldn't give you an an estimate on that I don't know what what size these units are and it's not my expertise to say that what what we have to keep remembering is that for a lot of those units in a lot of those locations the people are already here or the buildings are already here right like for Cirrus it's already built right so okay Sirus is BU Pond is not built and some other area is not built as well and never in your mind come questions how many people we add to Ashland Community well you have to remember that the Mandate of the working group and to per and to create the bylaw is about our mandate was create a plan create a bylaw that would allow Ashlin to be compliant with the state law um with the and we put on it ourselves with the least impact to Ashland that was our mandate right that's what we work to achieve so did we try to figure out exactly how many people that might bring in no you know because that wasn't you know hopefully you know maybe none right there might not be a single project that ever gets built under MBTA zoning yeah but we we should go from the worst condition not from the best condition so we need to be prepare and my question is if those, 124 units all of them are affordable units no no how many percentage is there affordable Unit 10 10% correct yep okay thank you yep hi uh 375 America B I just have a comment that uh you built already practically occupied uh house on H chest Street and it is um 174 units uh two bedrooms one bedrooms they Reserve parking space for two cars per unit couple of days ago I had to go to the route 9 and usually it's 5 7 minutes it's took me 40 minutes to be there because traffic was terrible I I left house at 8 a.m.

hi and welcome to downtown trick-or treat live from bevcam downtown I am one of your fabulous hosts Madame ducat the The Witch of Beverly and my co-host here how yall my name's farmer Mandy meet youcome oh it's going to be so exciting today for the next 2 hours we're going to be doing some interviews of wonderful little G LS who are all dressed up in here for candy we've got tons of candy inside bevcam downtown including a few spooky things going on Farmer Mandy how excited are you oh I'm just darn tooting excited I mean over the moon I'm over the moon over the moon absolutely like the day my my my favorite Pig was born your favorite Pig and who is that Rufus Rufus the pig he's a little Squealer he's a little cutie I had a little Squealer one time too but that was someone I turned into a pig so it's a little different o but we have I think we have some of our first little little people here hello there hello there would you like to tell us all about your costumes why don't you stand right here and why don't you face the see the camera right there that's smile and wave to everyone at home you are live on TV and why don't you tell why don't you tell tell's your name Lucy Lucy and who else do we have here what's youry can you help out gr gr nice to meet you what is it Grady gr okay and what's your name Annie Annie nice to meet you all and and Lucy why don't you tell us about this gorgeous get up that you've got on um it's something in my cousin had when she was a little girl a that's so nice she passed it down to you that's wonderful that's sweet and what about you what costume do you have today flash all the Flash and you look so good and you look like you got some muscles like you whoa you've been working out whoa look at those muscles say something what is your costume are you princess what what's your princess name is it your name are you a princess yeah yeah you look like you got some sparkles on your face we have some magical characters here are you guys excited to get candy wow why don't you go on in and get some candy thank you so much thank you we've got drn cute aren't they cute just adorable Dr Robert is here helping us out bringing in new costume people Dr Robert why don't you introduce yourself real quick I am uh Dr Robert from Beth cam hospital if anybody has any medical emergencies please let me know I'm ready with my stethoscope and where did you graduate from um the Medical University of Beth cam sounds legit I'd trust you well I certainly would trust him to bring in our next costume guest wouldn't you we can find somebody yeah all right oh I think we can go find some people farmer Mandy I've been wondering I've been wondering a question what do you do in your free time well I like well I like take a nap in the hay with my favorite pet pig and I like to go to Ho down a little dancing fairy here oh my goodness hi are you Tinker Bell T would you like to be on camera come on over here yeah come on here see that camera right behind you why don't you turn around and wave at the camera for us there you go now everyone can see your costume wonderful oh Tinker Bell is shy I imagine fairies are usually quite shy would you guys like to tell us about your costumes I am Bumblebee from from from FR forers Bumblebee from Transformers and what's your name wonderful you look great Sonic and you're Sonic the Hedgehog how fast do you go go fast yeah got to go fast say that again I think that's got to go fast there you go there you go are you guys ready for some candy yeah down over there we got some El down over there that's a really good tip So for anybody who's who's listening and and trying to get their own candy you get the tip down over there down over there anything else you guys want to say to the camera uh just to go fast got to go fast thank go go go I love it I love it and who we have the camera's right that way so that's where you guys want to turn okay and if you're speaking into the microphone then the camera can hear you are you guys ready you want to go first tell the camera what you're dressed as um I'm dressed as an angel oo and you I'm dressed as Taylor Swift Tay Tay is here oh my goodness and who else do we have a devil ooh quite the dichotomy and what about you uh I am either Taylor Swift from her red era or the greatest showman I love it I love it y'all look great that's fantastic does anybody does anybody have anything really exciting they want to share about who they're dressed as today anything anything what would you say as an angel to everyone else in the audience um I am um that is fantastic advice I couldn't have thought of something more profound would yall like to say happy do you have anything to add no you got to face that way M Miss Tay Tay who is also the world's greatest showman do you have any advice for how to be a better showman give the cand give the candy to the children oh what amazing advice and f f finally Tay Tay number two do you have anything you want to tell anybody about how to be more fabulous um just be you just be you that is great I hope you guys enjoy getting all of your candy wave to the camera again say hi to everybody at home hi thank you why don't you guys get going we've got candy through there would you like to be on camera yeah all right come on through face the camera over here wave to everyone at home all right would you like to be on too come on over skeleton I dressed up as officer sardines but my real name is Victor oh okay and what's your name what are you dressed as what wle John as a skeleton from fortnite awesome from fortnite can you do a fortnite dance all right let's see this oh oh you're hitting the gritty oh my gosh that's great you're going to be a Tik Tok star and a YouTube star and a comic well you guys are on YouTube right now you realize that you you guys are YouTube Stars right now is there anything you want to say to say Zip Zap that's extremely Olympics oh I say and my Star Comics will be ghost kid blue Pon show and pencil kid anything else you'd like to say about officer Sully it's officer sardines sardines oh like the fish uh there's that guy over there he he's literally a taco he's my friend and he likes stealing tacos I don't know why do you think we're going to be able to get him on this show I'd love to talk to a taco Thief maybe maybe you can put in a good word for us he's he's very goofy thank you so much for being with us wave to everyone and go get some candy all right have a good day hello would you all like we have so many incredible little cave people here yes come on forward and take a look at that camera there you're going to want to look right there oh she's going right into the camera she's going into the Prehistoric Age stand right next to her so what are your names my friends my name is Maggie Maggie and and Isabella Isabella and Maggie now can you tell us a little bit about what you're wearing today I'm Jack Sally and I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm P oh is that your dad is that your daddy uh Fred oh FR just off camera nice is there anything you'd like to say uh to your audience out there you want to say happy Halloween or want to say anything happy Halloween um I'm not sure yet though you're not sure all right you want to say happy Halloween to the camera happy Halloween that was so good thank you so much you are so brave for coming on camera with farmer Mandy and Madam to cat thank you I hope you get lots of candy thank you yeah I I'd be out get our class thank you wonderful thank you all set go get some candy farmer Mandy I got to work out more getting up I know that crouching I'm used to it milking the cows I you know that sounds like a great exercise I should get into I just use magic to do it all and then it's just kind of done but it really doesn't help out with the whole like glutes you know I got you yeah yeah oh who we got whoa who do we have come on over here wow that's a nice smile you have what's your name uh my real name or no and what what are you dressed as today oh I'm J digital circuit what would you like to say about your character you want to tell people more about who you are I got candy there you go the amazing do circus and yeah do you want more candy no no no no no it's a good thing these are on wires good I didn't think mic drop was still in I thought you ended everything with skibbidy nowadays there you go under there now there you go all right enjoy he really got on the camera there oh he has such a great personality that money who else do we have it looks like a butterfly hello a little butterfly has flown in do you want to come over here what's your name a why don't you stand right here right here you can look at the camera over there and look at the camera and say hi why don't you flap your wings for us wow that is just [Music] beautiful oh oh it is are you friends are you guys friends oh we lost her we've lost the candy Dr Dr Robert can you please show our lost candy we have a lost and found candy I don't know how you can forget candy we have a kitty cat would you like to kitty cat stand right here there's the camera wave to everyone at home I have a cat on my farm she eats all the mice and what's your name Quinn Quinn and what are you dressed as a black cat and are you lucky or unlucky lucky yeah that's that's what I thought that's what I thought as a witch I am uh an expert on knowing whether or not black cats are good and bad luck and I pegged you for good luck the minute I saw you do you want to say anything to everyone at home no oh not even a meow she's so mysterious what are you most excited about today eating candy yeah what's your favorite candy I don't have one you like all candy equal opportunity candy eater understood do you want to wave at everyone at home and then we can send you off to get more candy give them a big meow perfect hello hello wave it everyone welcome oh you have a hood there are you all right can I take a guess at what you are okay let's see I get three guesses okay how about how about that are you a pig no yeah no no okay farmer Mandy second guess what don't you guess some kind of fish I need to get a better peek at that that hood there but I think it's that alien looking fish that's like got the little things coming out of the head ax axle Axel fish are you an Axel Rose no no all right we're on our third guess we're on our third guess what's the can we get it can we get it are you an axel lottle oh yeah yeah that that there is a big word we got it and can you tell us anything about your costume um I don't know that much well how about what's an ex lot's favorite color pink yeah it is pink you do know a lot you do know a lot now I have to ask why did you decide to dress up as an Exel I like exal where did you learn about them I don't know Minecraft maybe no that's that's good you excited to do today get candy uh that seems to be a theme I think it's the most popular answer of the day do you or do Axel have a favorite candy do you think yeah what would that nerds nerds I love nerds it's kind of like fish food well I I imagine an Exel would be a nerd don't you think maybe yeah yeah anything else you'd like to say to everyone at home before we send you off to get more candy bye bye thank you so much oh she's skipping off I love that is skipping off did you see the little fish tail that's just kind of going like and she like swam away oh yeah that's a axel Axel blle Axel Axel blle axel a I don't think I'm going to get it I think you got this farmer Mand I think you Axel I don't think there are too many Axel Farms I'm mostly aware of Axel for my potions oh yeah they help me they help me stir the potion is what it is I don't use them as ingredients I thought you popping them in there no no no no no never never no they make very good assistance I could see that they're very cute I think so I think so I'd keep them around let ask uh let's check in with Dr Rob Dr Rob do we have uh any more they're all they're all settled on getting their candy right now y can't see this right now but there is a huge crowd right in front of Beth cam downtown right now and they are all excited about candy and decorations howdy you can uh stand here and take a look at the camera there oh you got your sunglasses on you look like you're Hollywood now who are you can you tell me your name and your costume I'm William Willi what are you dressed as a cool Spider-Man oh you're a cool Spider-Man is that cuz you have sunglasses you do look very cool what uh what does cool Spider-Man do uh your camera's right over here there he can two lasers out of his eyes for real is that why you have sunglasses so you don't hurt anyone with your lasers that would be my guess he can also fly and also what you can also fly you can fly you can fly I can fly too but only with a broom do you use webs to fly uh no a I only use I used the jpack to fly what was that I used the jpack to fly oh okay I can helicopter helicopter all right I can also dance is there oh that's a good dance oh look at that thank you so much for dancing for us is there anything you'd like to say to your fan uh give you want to hold it oh oh right oh my gosh I want to sing you a song I love I love I love I thank you so much look hello you are sparkly the camera's right over here so I why don't you guys stand right next to me and and we can share microphone farmer Mandy do you want to get over there and we can share microphones there we go perfect you look fabulous thank you can you tell us a little bit about your costume so I'm the Sun and I'm the moon oh I get it I get it um we're big best friends uh we dance together and and we're really excited for this year's Halloween wonderful I imagine the in the moon would be best friends that dance together yeah I think so sometimes we see them in the sky together don't we yes we do we do definitely so what made you think about these costumes for for this year so we're best friends so um like we wanted to do something matching and our favorite option was Sun and Moon we we first were going to do like a weird blowup costume but then we were like let's just go with the metallic pants and shirt you guys look like dancers can you do a little dance for us um yeah all right there we go that's wonderful do you have anything else you'd like to share with everyone at home before you take off to get more candy happy Halloween coordinated as one would expect from these Celestial wonders hello we have more people you want to come so the camera is right there if you want to say anything or or you to watch the be juice movie it's really awesome but is that what it's called be and and there's two there's two of them and what happens if you say it more than once um he comes son I think that's what happened is we we said it earlier and you showed up is that you heard us saying it earlier no I did not hear you saying oh okay okay MH what so what does Beetlejuice do can you tell anybody who doesn't know he um he can turn to a snake how spooky in the first movie in the first movie okay and um um he can possess people just singing stuff like really fancy songs he sings things no he makes people he makes people sing things I get it he can he he can he can turn PE um in like a show he turned into this like big Beetle spider thing into a spider I think I kind of that's awesome that's awesome I think that's it do you want to say anything to to the folks at home before we send you off for candy um no thanks okay thanks so much thank you why don't we move right back over here cuz I know the son not not the not the little person who was a son but the actual son the real son um is uh is coming coming over here and we have so many games I think we're a little why don't you cross over here cuz I think got our swich s we've crossed the streams which a a popular movie tells me not to do oh okay why don't you guys all stand in between us right here that's the camera wave everyone hello [Applause] woohoo that was a really good Yahoo can you tell me what you are I'm a Minecraft character that's awesome I play Minecraft too I'm Mario and what does Mario do wo there you go and what are you a soccer ball and then finally a Ghostbuster oh we're going to we have seen some ghosts today oh yes are you going to get them all yeah oh yeah oh yeah that's that's a wonderful dance and then we have a little and what are you AEL yes a and I wait my dad's car and we are the power of twins wow who's the power of twins twins you're all in there I have no idea Finn the final Twin's over there yeah the final twin is over there oh my goodness I've never seen so many twins more twins all right everyone say one final thing to the camera and then we'll send you off for candy yeah on the count of three 1 two three perfect thank you so much thank you oh my gosh you scared me you're so Fierce looking fabulous costume what is your name uh Logan Logan you tell us about this costume you have here it looks like you kind of pieced all this stuff together uh yeah um I I had to buy a lot of stuff of Amazon tank top was from Target and the jeans was from Target too so and who are you again uh Logan no who you who are you today oh I'm Wolverine no no like cuz Wolverine is Logan in yeah exactly there we go my actual name real beard no are you sure it looks really convincing no is that your real hair no oh this that your hair that's impressive did you did you style it yourself yeah no my dad helped oh he did a good job when you're talking though there we go right over here you are Live on YouTube right now is there anything you want to say fantastic you want to say happy Halloween subscribe please subscribe to Bev cam a thank you so much look great send you inside we'll get you some good candy yeah already got cand you can get more if you want tell them I sent you what a great costume fantastic all the details and did you know that Wolverine is traditionally Canadian I did not oh my gosh who we have here come onary like to be oncam television hello wave to everyone on YouTube and everyone watching at home can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your costume um I work for nightmare.

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okay I told place Sandra just real quick you don't have to up regarding your know that's like that I'll check you see yeah what's our Forum 529 what the Happ he stepped up from I know he was theree that was funer that was nice I I walked in right at a oh thank you okay so all right yet it's Thursday October 24th 2024 uh we are now going to start the meeting at 5:30 um and for the record this meeting is being recorded anything you say will be on there okay so be careful uh Miss marel can you please do roll call today is a special board meeting of October 24th 2024 at 5:30 pm members of the board in attendance president Linda Chavez presid vice president Andres Kinto he's not here yet clerk mam present member Cordina Lera presid member Andrea Flores Shelton she's not here and members of administration superintendent Herman Sera presid that was loud make sure you're here okay can you all stand for the Pledge of Allegiance please the United States of America to the stands Nation indivisible andice okay we do have Quorum um and moving on to 2011 Bo president may I make a statement sure regarding the agenda sure yes uh first and foremost I would want I want to apologize uh it was a uh I inadvertently left off the land acknowledgement and so what I would like to do is um ensure you that it will be at the next board meeting and and moving forward uh there was a resolution and uh being new to to this position I didn't realize that it was not on there so I just want to apologize and I want to read it for you so the land acknowledgement Board of Trustees of the alumrock Union Elementary School District does hereby acknowledge that the district's schools and Facilities sit on the traditional lands of the MMA alone people and the board of trusties further acknowledges with respect to the MMA alone people tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area for their stewardship of these lands so thank you uh uh president uh Chavez and uh I'll turn it over to you thank you thank you um moving on to 2011 report of overall Capp and the lcap data from the 2023 2024 school year uh Miss Sandra can you please speak on that that one hello and for the record and for the record uh vice president came in at 5:33 um this evening I'm going to ask um Tara Bickford um she's director of academic services to uh provide a report to you on our Casp results from Spring 2024 and elpac as well some um preliminary lpac results as well as some of our um action items um um responding to the data thank you and also let the record reflect please sorry uh the trustee uh Andrea Flor Shelton is here at 5:34 yeah good evening President Chavez trustees superintendent Serta Community tonight I'm pleased to be here to share with you the results from the 2024 Casp and elpac results from this past spring in front of all of you up here I put a packet because the one in your book had a few edits to it after the fact so I apologize but your packets should have that all there for you um as you'll see this past spring students in grades 3D through 8 took the esac assessment also known as the cast um for language arts and Mathematics and you'll see on this first slide that 27.8% of our students met are exceeded in language art while 20.39 met or exceeded in mathematics you'll see the breakdown of the different bands in different ways as I share these slides with you um our next slide is going to be looking at the year-to-year comparison of overall performance data it is evident that our overall performance has not demonstrated significant growth but rather has stayed rather stagnant if you look from year to year this next slide um looks at the grade level bands from year to year so I've put a line between each grade level band and so you can see within the grade level the growth from 2022 to 2024 or if you look at the third grade band and then look at the fifth graders that's the same cohort of students and we did show that those kids are growing um when you look at that cohort of students so we do know that students are growing it's just the way you look at it just depends on how that looks on the data um our next slide here looks at our Middle School the same way sixth seventh and eighth grade and you'll see a similar comparison of our sixth grade 2022 students to now last year they were our eighth graders and they similarly made about a 6% growth oops oops jumping all over um our next slide here talks to our race and ethnicity comparisons with our biggest subgroups within our district so we have our Asian Filipino and Hispanic students and the year-to-year growth here um and we can see that our Asian population had a um couple percent growth there and then also to our Filipino while our Hispanic youth they are one of our bands of students that we have been identified as under CSI and we'll continue to see similarities across some of these performances where we know we need to focus on that subgroup of students um as we look at at student group comparisons here this is looking at our English Learners our homeless youth our socially economically disadvantaged students and our students with disabilities again we definitely see the need to do some strategic work within our subgroups here it's also really important to note that some of this data can be a little interesting to look at because if you look at our Ela data we know that we had a huge increase in newcomers last year and we also reclassified more students out last year so that's going to be a different group of students from the year prior same with our homeless youth we actually increased our homeless numbers quite a bit last year so that also increased the numbers of students within those bands not just the percentage an really interesting layer to this is when we look at the those students who are continuously enrolled with us from 2022 to 2024 and what you'll see is in ela the majority of our students fall within either continuing to maintain a Year's growth whether it's below or on grade level but they're maintaining that same year-to-year or exceeding while 16% are um declining so that tells us that that we are at least maintaining them we definitely want to look at how to accelerate them more than one grade level to make up that growth so I'll talk to that in a little bit as well now we're looking at math math follows a very similar Trend in that we are pretty St stagnant overall um didn't show much growth or decline either way you look at it however when we start to look at grade level bands again you're going to see within the bands different things here math actually doesn't show the same cohort of student growth but instead from year to year within that grade level we're seeing that growth happen um and that might be many factors something that we definitely need to dig into a little more but definitely math standards accelerate each year obviously um but that's just another data point that we are growing within the grade level is just not the cohort s meth and now 6th through eth we do see sixth grade here growing um we do not see that same cohort growth as well right and seventh grade we show a dip and a decline that we definitely want to look at what is going on in seventh grade and what can we do to increase that this year and I'll talk to it in a little bit we're doing a lot of work with our eighth graders around gear up to make sure they are ready for high school math and so that's been a big initiative that thanks to Manny and the gear up Grant we've been able to do a lot of work around and again I'm bringing us to now math and race and ethnicity so again we see our Asian population grew about 3% um while our Hispanic population more or less um maintained where they were at still not performing at the same level of their peers um and again our elel homeless SED and students with disabilities um again these are groups that are identified with us under CSI so we know that these are already groups we need to work with and just to reiterate we did have a bigger band of newcomers coming in so their language access to math is definitely going to be a factor and then our homeless population we I believe came close to doubling last year right so that has a big impact on if the kids have the right Resources with them too that we're going to be looking at and then I bring us to our continuously enrolled students for math so again this shows that 8 82% of our students who have been enrolled with us since 2022 um through now they haven't moved out moved back back in um they have 82% of them have increased or stayed the same in the levels they're at which when you think of levels from year to year that means they are growing one year right but whether it's below level oneyear growth every year is probably what we're also seeing there okay so now we're moving on to our lpac data and I will say that our lpac data has a couple layers to this remember that um lpac is assessed on all English Learners within the district and so any student that would have reclassified last year won't be factored into this score um versus students coming in newcomers are definitely factored into these scores so we also see some data where we've made some movements and it's showing but here you won't get that picture per se but we did hit 41% of our level three and fours um our El's are level three and four excuse me and when we look at that from years the threee comparison it looks like we haven't made a huge change from year to year however I do want to highlight some of the stuff that's been going on so our intervention specialist last year really targeted our English Learners and last year alone they completed 3,252 intervention plans together as the 15 of them that met and that was about 22.1% of the student population were involved in some sort of intervention cycle um some of those were not focused on elpek but those that were really honed in on what skills the students needed to increase and get to the proficiency rate and we see a really big increase in our level fours um in oral language from the year prior to this year and then we also saw a huge significant increase in students who reclassified um throughout the year last year so in 2022 23 we reclassified 206 students last year we increased that to 362 students that we reclassified and this year we're already on a good track where we've already reclassified 124 two months into school so we're confident that we will continue to reclassify at a really high rate um and continue to move those kids to be able to get access to to the courses so we have work to do we know this so we have been working this year on many things and we have more to go um I ready we brought that in as a new assessment this year and we're really trying to hone in with teachers and sites on hitting growth goal targets and what the growth goal Target is it's taking a student's typical year-to-year growth and saying within three years if we break that down into doable bands this is how much you can grow to get proficient within 3 years so I already has calculated statistically what a kid needs to do to hit proficiency within three years if they're behind so that means that students are growing a year and a half two years um growth at any one point and that's where we're really honing in to get them to do it with all of the I ready assessments and lessons that the teachers are pulling to hit that um standards Mastery and targeted instruction we also really honed in on our mtss our multi-tiered system of support tier one instruction with the in our classrooms we said we need to really hone in on those standards and make sure teachers are teaching with the curriculum first that hits the standards and then looking look at the tier 2 and supplemental programs from there in addition we brought in hegerty districtwide to do foundational literacy with our TK second grade teachers we were seeing loud and clear that our students really needed some more um phonics and ponic awareness work so I'm happy to report all of our teachers in TK to Second are diving in with our foundations and really building up student literacy um again we have our intervention Specialists back we have reduced to 10 versus 15 and they're only at our elementary sites this year they're focusing on all of the students who are near proficiency and really boosting them into proficiency as well as our long-term English Learners um we have we're in differentiated assistance with the state as a district uh for our students who are homeless and also our African-American students in the areas of academics and attendance so we have two separate Cycles going on currently one for attendance looking at our foundational literacy programs and then the other really honing in on our chronically absent processes for our homeless students we figure if we can't get the students in they're not learning we need them in their seats in order to learn and be there um and then we are also doing CSI work with nine of our sites nine of our sites got tagged last year from the state for comprehensive strategic Improvement um I hope I got that right uh and they are honing in on academics and attendance overall we have one site that has a suspension rate they need to bring down but um they are also doing cycles of inquiry around around these subgroups and these pieces they're working intently with ir doing more datadriven um PLC work with their staff and they're bringing in other intervention programs to help site leaders are also um running and engaging themselves in cycles of inquiry within our leadership group and they're taking that back to their leadership within their site to do some plc collaborative work around data together our Middle School actually has a cohort of Math teachers who have willingly taken on the lead to lead a collaborative group of Middle School Math teachers to look at data best instruction and really making sure that all of our middle school math has the right supports in place to meet our students where they're at and Beyond I talked to our Gear Up resources earlier for eighth graders making sure they are College and Career ready going into high school and Beyond so how are we preparing students for high school math is a big one because if our students are going in in high school below grade level they are then behind on their a3g requirements so we want to make sure that we are lining them up for those a3g right away we also have Foster and mckin vento students being supported by counselors across the district who are doing case management with them um and we have tutoring opportunities for all students in the Extended Learning Time space expanded learning time um and of course we're doing professional development constantly I just got done with a literacy task um Zoom with 66 teachers which was phenomenal um really honing in on Literacy for our students so every week you can see PDS coming out of our office really honing in on math literacy and um framework um work and standards Mastery for our students we know that we still have work to do and we're continually reflecting on everything we're doing so in our next data Cycles we're going to be comparing the student I ready diagnostic data this is going to be our first set of comparison data with high ready we're going to be leveraging the dashboard which the dashboard releases in December um and we'll be presenting on more of that information come January to really compare that one big factor there is going to be our LP growth and seeing how the kids performed within those English learner bands um and then cycle of data inquiries continuing with our da work our CSI work and all the different plc's going on around the district so that's our presid presentation around Casp if you guys have any questions thank you very much for the presentation does any of the trustees have uh questions for Mr ter bford Mr um excuse me superintendent s what I wanted you to there's a lot of acronyms in in yeah in the presentation so if you could just expand on what Alp is right um so that because there's so many acronyms in education is kind of like ah so if you could just expand a little bit more on what that means yeah so elpac itself is a English learner performance assessment um and then within that every year they they give you four bands of placements and one being is your introductory level to english four being you're pretty proficient you just need to show Proficiency in our state assessment on English to be able to reclassify um um and then LP is actually the performance index for the English Learners and that's based the dashboard uses that one and what they've done is they've looked at those four bands and they've broken them into six and they've broken it into in a statistical way that shows if a kid is making the proper year-to-year growth they're hitting those markers within the lp so so the state doesn't expect a kid to go from a one to a four in one year they expect him to grow a little under one band it's broken into six year six years of growth and that's why by year six in school if they're still not growing they're considered long-term because they're not hitting those growth targets so language development takes several years so LP just refers to that they're hitting the marks within those six segments of year-to-year growth I hope that makes sense yeah and the way the the way um because I visited some of the sites and some of the principles were actually they had it they had the English learner progress indicator the lp some of them had it in their office I was at Jackie montenegro's uh school and she actually you can actually see some students some actually do grow from one to four but it's it's it's how the sites are monitoring uh at the individual level right which student is actually showing progress from one to two right one to two low one to two high yeah which are the six broken bands and it it's it's great data to look at especially when you're comparing it to you know the programs right the curriculum that you're implementing and the assessments and whether the assessments and the instruction is actually moving students forward uh and it's it's it's great to see because then teachers can you make adjustments right the district also can accommodate the professional development that they're offering at uh for for the site so thank you ter because I know it's it's when it was when I went through that I was like wow this is great and so I'm just continuing to monitor that we'll be sharing the actual LP the performance growth of that in January with the dashboard because that's when we get those official scores given to us oh trusty Flor something thank you for all of this a lot um so I'm going to try to pick my questions out of all the questions my brains thinking of um on the the breakdown so like the the the actual number of our homeless students is very small compared to let's say the S for S kids right are you looking at like the SE kids by race and ethnicity as well so we've done that as well and if that's something the board wants to see we can also bring that back too because we can look at the Dual implications of things and yeah the intersectionality of it all and because I at the end of the day we have all this data to help drive right that intervention so what I'm so what what does the the um race and ethnic data plus you know the sort of this situational factors tell us about because I as I'm seeing all your interventions I'm also trying to figure out what's the um cultural component or the parent leison component like what are the other what does all this tell us that we are we would we might use as an intervention are we using the race and ethnicity we do in our da work and our CSI work we're looking at those multi-layer of identifications okay the comprehensive strategic Improvement that's CSI okay yes see that's like I'm sorry what does it mean mean lingo talk comprehensive strategic Improvement and da is differentiated assistance so those are both basically saying this group of students needs support they're disproportionately performing compared to their peers in California or in our district they've hit a red on the dashboard we need to give them support and if you guys remember the dashboard presentation um from last year we talked about to get a red you basically Decline and you have a low score so it's two factored to get out of red you need to show growth and a higher score so I yeah so I guess what I'm saying is is you know it's kind of like so we're going to go all in right because of these disparities right so yeah so then we should see movement because the other folks are doing they're doing okay right we love for everyone to be a meet at ored but we're going all in so that's I guess it's um it's just kind of hard to tease out kind of with the jargon and then the other thing um oh gosh I just had it they lost it there's a lot can I just add to what your question so I just wanted to say that a lot of um like you said the teasing out the the um digging into the data a little deeper was done um at the end of last year when we um knew that our schools were um identified as CSI and also our district Asda and so we as a team got together looked at the data and actually did Fishbones and digging into the the cause you know anal cause analysis a root cause analysis and you know why are our kids in these different subgroups not performing at the level that we need them to and why are they not making progress and then plans were made based on um those um root cause analysis good context or you know sort of we hear about it like in okay in a wellness center and a this and a that you know and so it's just that context of wrapping around for the academic growth so and then you reminded me of my two other questions so um you talked about comparisons right I know you know everyone's struggling but have we looked at what our neighboring districts like is Mount Pleasant seeing are our Mount Pleasant Andor varas or S they kind of in the same boat not that we have time to do all this analysis but um there there's similar comparisons in some of our districts around us there's some districts that actually showed baresa had some pretty good growth last year and so we had a discussion with their assistant soup of instruction um one day at our differentiated assistance meeting to try and figure out what their key was right and we've also been meeting um with all of Eastside districts um through SBF Silicon Valley Education Foundation has been hosting our East Side Alliance where all of the district leads come together instructionally and focus on math instruction um and that's been at the center of our discussion as we go into adoptions next year year is how do we ensure kids are also getting prepared um across all of East Side in our districts because every District's struggling in different ways I think yeah and it just depends on what those factors are last year in the county the county increased the amount of districts in differentiated assistance exponentially they had to like go back to the drawing board and refigure out how they were supporting because they had such an increase in districts needing extra support okay thank you my last question is just um and I'm sorry if I missed it but if CSI is by becoming CSI is that like like oh if we hit 60% then we're out of CSI or something like where where does that line like I guess like seeing all this it would be good to see like a goal line or a Target line so it's like okay we're so close we're really far away what's it going to take like yeah I can bring that information back it's very dependent on Ela has a different Matrix than math does and it's called a 5 by five grid and it's based on score like scale score numbers plus growth so they Factor those two pieces in to get out of it you generally have to have about a three to 5% growth from year to year but also you have to bring that bottom score up too because it's really a line like that yeah and and let me also add that um we have nine schools that are under comprehensive support and intervention um and they each had to submit a plan on how they were going to um make Improvement at their School site to move out of CSI that CSI um identification and so um we definitely could bring back a more detailed um report on CSI and different ated assistance so the board can understand a little more about how that works and how we move out of that um identification still trying to like there's so many M right and so it's like what are the key three you know three is a magic number like what are the three things that this board should be like hoping you all you know what should we be measuring every because then there's another dat board there's because it's the so I'm just trying to figure out is this the one that so if so if our so if our schools move out of CSI then our district itself is closer out moving out of differentiated assistance because they're they're correlated right um so definitely what we're looking at is our tier one instruction which is our core instruction right and how do we strengthen that for our students and how do we provide proide those supportive interventions for the students that aren't making the grade and get them to where they need to be so that that impacts CSI and then CSI impacts da so they're all related um and I think that if we had to set a goal for ourselves is that we truly strengthen that core instruction in our classrooms and meaningful interventions that support the students that need that extra support istics see the pace of grow right it's like needing to be realistic about and I I'm just making it might take 10 years or is it five right like we're hoping it doesn't take 10 I know I know right but it's just like if we look at PACE or things that are out of our control that we need to understand right that um so like having something to shoot for and being realistic about the resources to that yeah and and you're asking a very very good question because that's something that I think uh would be a conversation in a workshop so that when the board does meet or a retreat because I know we've we've mentioned that we can look at the data and then we can you know have a conversation around okay what are the goals where do we want to be in six years if it's going to be a six-year strategic plan or a fiveyear strategic plan and what is the actual right let's break it down into five years or six years and how what's the growth going to look like year after year so that we get to the goal that we want to set where we want to see all our students and so so you're asking some very good questions but I think yeah we can definitely come back with another presentation around which which is actually good because it will keep you informed and we can provide you with data that we can then when we meet I I believe that's a conversation we've talked about meeting possibly in in February when we hold our Retreat or even sooner January was it January yeah thank you president CH is reminding me January don't forget so January when we do meet we H have that Retreat you won't be here unfortunately but and we can you know then we get the other thing chronic absm right like if we can bring chronic and down and this should go up right so it's trying to figure out how all those dos can you go back to 2022 2024 math comparison yeah Daniel see J got it this one orace sorry so I I have in front of me I think it's important to look at yeah the numbers are incredibly sober the largest number in the district correct students at Approximately 80% roughly and are are a number un acceptable um have can we I know that every year State gives us something to shoot for it's different so it's difficult to do a apple to Apple or orang orang comparison but if we were to go back for example a decade ago where would we find ourselves if we tried to figure out how to find metrics that sort of communicate with each other as a district yeah it's really hard to compare that because it's a completely different test from 10 years ago yeah um so it's not comparable in a data set you could look at if we were making Target or not um and we've always struggled a little bit to meet Target at a high rate we definitely know that we went lower during the pandemic and we're struggling to get back to where we need to be so I think if you did a meets from one test the meets now on this new test you're going to see a significant low lower number and we don't know if that's due to pandemic we don't know if that's due to the new blueprint um of this test you asked a very good question uh vice president Kinto uh during covid they did modify the esack a little bit and so you are you know it's not going to give you uh the results but I think it it would be good for us to look at three years three years right so if we go back three years which is we're sharing the three years with you but I think moving forward we can then show you the four years right to see how we're we're we're growing or not and what adjustments are we making or changes we're making to address it one of the one of the interventions or actions we have in place is the svmi work you want to explain a little bit about what we're doing there with our teachers and our principles yeah so that goes back to our East Side Alliance work across all of easts side districts we're working with Silicon Valley math initiative who are training up lead teachers across the district to be model classrooms in math practices getting kids really engaged in complex math um critical thinking skills and practices engaged in the classroom and then that's coupled with another training for other teachers around math framework work within so those Two Worlds Collide and then we're having teachers and principes observe these model classrooms happen and ideally that's eventually folding out and folding out year-over-year as we build more robust lead teachers in the math work this year was the first year we're engaging in that and we're about depends on the grade level some grade levels have done two trainings some have done three where the teachers are being released for a day to go collaborate learn with teachers from across all of East Side to learn really strong practices for math instruction when you do break down the math data it's apparent that our students are really struggling with what are called performance tasks and those complex task problems that they have to break into multiple math problem sets to be able to accomplish the task and then they have to be able to explain it and describe what was happening so it's not just the old algorithm a plus b we know that they're also struggling to get that descriptor out which also when you have English as a barrier that's also going to come into that as well so we have the S the Silicon Valley math initiative happening in coupling with our English learner work with constructing meaning continuing um to build those English development skills with our math programs as well but we do have stuff going on to try to help support that but hopefully we'll see an impact thanks thanks for permission um and I get it there's no Apples to Apples if we go that far back but I'm sure that we do have the data and whatever it is that they determin to be proficient if I request that I get uh that uh decades worth of of data so even whatever it was that they deing to be proficient then because I remember com here to alrock more than 10 years ago and we were signing on these big boards and pledging to have all kids Prof and so I just want to see where and and I commend the work that's being done I also I do believe that it the lockdown really messed kids because I saw it as they were coming out in into Community College and there was a a couple of years where it was like something really left them really that that whole lock down really me really did something I finally started to observe that that's been going way little that's just my observation no sort of anecdotal it's based on my observations not some sort of study that I mean you can look at our third graders who did take their test last year and the third graders last year were the ones who started the pandemic in kindergarten so you built all your foundations on distance learning so we know and then kids in those foundational years Kinder first second third are all having holes because whatever they didn't get through distance learning we know that that's not the best practice for our students and what they need so we're happy to be back in place and we're looking at where that growth needs to be hit harder we want all kids to keep growing but we definitely have some areas that we I think can pinpoint and highlight and find those big leverage points for us if I get the DAT both Matt as well as really appreciate it Mr s can you share that the request with the whole board absolutely yes I'll share with theard question thank you um I have some questions but before that I'll uh make a comment since there wasn't any other space to do it thank you so much uh superintendent said that for um taking accountability for the oversight of the land acknowledgement um it means a lot I know we worked hard to get that on um and hopefully um I'll do it here requesting that since next month is National Native American American heritage month I know we have a family in our um uh Atlanta Community who's moak Malone um Mom Julie um and her son maybe we can invite them to come and do um the formal land acknowledgement um since uh you know that one we're you know regrouping we'll never do it again and I think it's appropriate for the month if that's um okay with my uh peers as well um and then in regards to this thank you so much for the presentation it's heartbreaking I can only imagine as you're creating the the you know um slides and just where we're at uh but it's important to know where we're at right so we can move forward um and in addition to some of the data that's been requested is it possible to also break down by school I would like to see that um definitely if we don't have that but if you can uh provide that um and then curious I ready we've already um that's a program that we use correct we just started back on it this year we had it so we were doing it and then we're long time ago we got rid of it for four years and we decided what we had was not giving our teachers what they needed so we went back to I ready this year after listening to our teachers big time and um go back into it so we just have one Diagnostic in December they get their second diagnostic so we'll get to see our first set of growth with I ready okay yeah I remember as a parent I'm like I think I remember hearing that okay um and then I mean just thinking back and looking at the numbers like you know was it were we really doing that good when we had I ready four years ago I'm not saying you have the answers now um that we get to invest in and bring back was it really that good and my guess is yes because you know we all wouldn't be bringing it back if it didn't work um and you brought up another good point I'm curious about um you know I know you've been meeting with teachers and the team um and then hearing you know that I already work for them so I'm interested as to what the teachers are saying about this data the why um and not just teachers but the students and the parents uh you know because we can set all these goals and put it on the walls but if they're not engaged right if we're not listening as to why why why do you think we're here or not even that how can we move forward because then they'll tell us what they're not getting um as teachers students and and parents um I think that would be good I know creates more work but I think it at least gives us that feedback as to what they feel they need in order to move forward and come up to goal and just so you know that is part of the needs assessment work that all the sites do at the end of the year with especially those CSI comprehensive strategic intervention schools um they have to do A needs assessment not just with their staff of teachers but they have to bring it to their school site Council and parent Community groups and if they're a middle school they should be also including their student council on it they should have a student council member at least present on their School site Council so they should be getting some of that voice but I agree we can also get more information thank you for that and I think it's important right my um I'm guessing that this uh student um is somebody that comes to school that's probably meeting you know standards I want to hear from those that are not and I'm glad you bring that up because actually now that brings up in our differentiated assistant work we did empathy interviews with students and with parents and teachers so we had different people talking to different populations we specifically honed in on our homeless student population last year with our differentiated assistant work um it was more focused on attendance but also that impacts our academics we know so um it was really honed in on why they were feeling like they weren't welcome in school or weren't coming to school what factors were going on we did intake meetings with new parents um who were reporting they were in a homeless situation so that we could understand what factors we could help with um but we'll continue doing that work and getting into the field and getting more of that qualitative data going on to understand no thank you um and I I've been working with um a couple different uh districts who actually have people that have been hired to literally go and pick up students and support them in getting out of the house into class um and I you know I thought I thought about it and I'm like wow right like and and the difference that made in the attendance and so it's like of course it's investing in a position however the investment of getting those students to class and then what that means for you know the data right and then the Ada um so just thinking of you know those things I I saw that and I'm like you know what a great idea uh because it's working in these districts um and then you know also grateful to that as you mentioned already the East Side Alliance and their investment in our eighth graders and also you know um when I asked U Mr Barbara about moving Upstream right and moving towards our third graders and then eventually earlier um I look forward to more of that so um it was great to be out at the tech you know a couple weeks ago with the eighth graders um and just grateful for for those Partnerships um and then also Early Learning Center that we recently open right pandemic so hopefully we see the movement in our data in the years to come with all of these things um so and I'm looking at you but obviously you know talking to all of us as we move forward yeah with this thank you so much problem uh TR Nan we have a problem with our Hispanic students and [Music] Ian new so newom another obvious you know lack of that it's it's one big giant culture shop to move learn the language get this the shine of light what are some of the challenges that our district has educating students right because it's like math type language and kind population of students swim at the same time right so all of our English Learners have to have designated ELD in their day in a middle school that would exist as a full period in elementary it's a designated time where the teachers working with those level of students and they very much um differentiate to the needs of the level of language proficiency they're at um but I am happy to announce that we just brought in U another intervention specialist we were able to hire a teacher to replace her in the classroom and she's coming in to support newcomers across the district really honing in on our high population areas of newcomers and she's going to be doing intervention Cycles Beyond um what is happening in their designated ELD time and in addition our sites are individually doing um after school interventions Beyond as well for a lot of our newcomers and we also have that tutoring available for many of our students so there's work happening we are happy that we just got that tosa brought in so she'll start that work next week and we'll see some great growth happening from that and the other part of that is you know May me oh aside from the you know we we we expect a level of uh suboptimal attendance from our homeless student because that I mean that's part that's part and parcel of of you know being unhoused is sometimes life gets in the way but uh you know we we have a mole our Hispanics in population obviously has has L mobile population right so it's not like they uh is there anything that we're doing to to help encourage uh attendance with our Hispanic students yeah we're encouraging attendance across the board with many of our students we're looking at those chronically absent students our principles have been tasked with they have to hold by biweekly attendance meetings where they're looking at those students who are either at risk or have started to have too many absences appearing I think it's three if they hit three then they need to be having those parent meetings finding out what's going on what interventions are needed in addition to that there's incentives going on left and right so some sites are doing kind of like house systems where they get points for the percentage of attendance they have going others are individual point structures like I'm going to use another acronym PBIS positive behavior intervention supports um you have attendance um recognition going on where I know at hubard she was just talking to me about if a kid gets perfect attendance from one week to another they'll get a special prize and get a certificate um each of our sites should be doing something special for recognizing a attendance and they're encouraged to do so it looks a little different though at each site because of how they've structured their systems and their houses or Point structures and stuff but yeah well thank you know thank you very much Tara thank you very much for the informative report as well and it leaves this board with uh was it a lot to think about going forward yep thank you round two um I actually as we talking about 10 years um I was thinking about what I saw at hubber with the um holding on to the phones during the day so is that also an intervention that we're thinking about expanding because I think in the last 10 years this has gotten the way of having a book in your hand or a love of reading instead we're like and our you know tension Bans are all s all now all of us YouTu included um so thinking about the Yonder y Yonder pouches y are we gonna are we looking to expand that thinking about the little ones I don't well we don't have all of our middle schools using the Yonder pouch pouches yet um so I think that would be the first step is getting it across all of our um middle schools but but it is pretty costly um for each Yonder pouch and we were able to use some um emergency covid funds for those last year so it would need to be something that is built into our our budget at some point but I agree with you I think that um pulling that distraction away from the students would um would definitely support with the learning in the classroom and I guess I probably the first question I should ask was has it made a difference at hubard it has it has they have definitely said well academically we would have to look at to see since they started they just started it um at the end of last year yeah I think second second half of last year and I was also at Shephard Shephard um also is is doing it and they're doing a very good job I was actually there and I was like wow well and you know what the Prince Po it was it was pretty interesting because we're over by the the track right the they have an intramural sports and a student came to the principal and actually gave her the the cell phone when can I collect it because she took it out and the principal is right there so it's like okay pick it up after school and we're going to contact your parents so Sheppard I know is doing it but that's something I I think the other thing we need to look at is uh I am I've asked my my uh executive team we're going to be looking at board policies so we're going to revisit the cell phone electronic policy uh that uh to see if we're up to date and see if um we need to update it so you may be seeing some new board policies coming your way and I just wanted to just double down on the kind of the old school to be the TR officer kind of model but you know in a a 2020 you know era version of like how can our parent lisons or something play um a deeper role in that but um I do think we have to sort of Get Back to Basics with knocking on doors and figuring out how to get people to school so I like that yes okay thank you justy um bring back tabs which one um so excellent point on uh the the device uh the bully pulpit by the governor was one of the most amazing things I saw actually used it bam and immediately you guys went ahead and did something and it it got down to the school site level and with I I I get it it'd be good to go out through technology and these very costly things but good management good uh Administration uh can get well obviously it's not going to be exactly the same but it can achieve the same goals at with no cost at all um I i' I've observed it and I've seen uh the effectiveness of somebody who laid down the law and uh the cell phone is no longer going to be available during school in front of uh in front of the the School site staff so uh with given our our financial situation I would suggest us go out through and look for the mo least costly yes and and a very effective way of going out there and saying hey no more cell phones I I saw it happened and it was fascinating to see the governor go out there and make this pronouncement I don't know what you guys did somewhere but I saw it at the Grassroots level at the line staff it it started being implemented and there new rules out there there's no more access to cell phones and uh and it was it was it was very fascinating to see it happen and roll out immediately it was well in government speak it was immedia but it was good so my suggestion is we go out there and look for these P pouches unless we get a a grant or something like that I would suggest us just figuring out some good strategies administratively on how to proceed yeah we we actually I just want to add to that to your point um high school districts are the ones that are struggling a little bit more and again I come from a high school district and so we implemented re you know just came out with some guidelines you know and and also guidance for teachers and for administrators so that they could enforce the electronic devices policy and uh there are some that principles got very creative and you're right they looked for the least expensive way to enforce it and they sell these lockers Amazon 50 bucks for like 60 and so there there are ways so we'll definitely look into that so thanks for the uh the recommendation Just One Last point I realized that there's no going back with um unfortunately all the horrible incidences that are happening Nationwide every parent wants to know that they can shouldn't something happen they they know how to get a hold of their child so I'm not please don't been true my words of saying let's get random all the fils uh I don't I personally wouldn't U agree to that given the nature of our the reality that we're facing in 20124 thank you very much for all the presentation and since everybody pretty much asked all the questions and I'm racing as I'm going you're like scratch scratch yeah that's what that's exactly what I was gonna say next okay so seeing that there was 102 missing on the agenda I would also like to say that the discussion and or modification of the agenda uh the board may change the order of the business including but not limited to an announcement that an agenda item will be considered out of order that consider ation of an item has been withdrawn postponed rescheduled or removed from the consent calendar for separate discussion and possible action the reason I'm doing this is because I believe that we should be on record that we're allowing the public to speak even though there's no public comment right now I am going to ask for public comment right now on this item seeing there's none hold one second please uh seeing that there's none just wait and that it'll get explained please don't interrupt um and so I wanted to add um 102 for the um modification of the agenda because I did w to uh take uh okay I did want to take a comment if if anybody at this time wants to uh move anything um vice president kto I'll number one we're on 2.01 uh 2.01 102 actually there was no 102 so I'm just asking for to I can speak that okay go ahead wait so wait wait just stop for a second go ahead fin okay so um finished go ahead uh I did and there's none all right make com go ahead Madam chair I would ask that we open the agenda okay and I would ask that uh we move item 3.01 to after uh the the close session okay right before I get right after 6.01 6.01 okay so I have a motion do I to to move uh what vice president gto's tion was so do I have a second uh second by Min famam um Miss Maribel did you get that um what uh Mr kto just said yes that he wanted to move um item um uh 301 to after 601 okay thank you now go ahead okay I'm sorry I wanted to reind back to the formal um the the previous item that you read and just went through quick what was the item before was the public comment so um we just did the presentations 2011 but seeing that there was no 102 I felt because we in the past have been dinged by the state and I want to make sure the public comment is uh there's a record that we did allow for public comment so I get sorry so my question is was it that and I was confused so I don't know if our audience uh was confused there no there until those two just walked in there was no audience other than us here so I just a wanted to uh I it was me not making sure that 102 was on there is it okay to open that now that I understand it's already I just I just felt like you rushed through it and I wanted to ask what was happening uh because I didn't think it was going to you know create you you not um knowing what I'm doing but we already have a motion in a second and uh is there any public comment or discussion I'm taking in public comment first on the modification of agenda yes uh seeing that there's none uh any think you allow people to now would you like to come well I don't think you allow people to stand up it looks like she speak is this about the item that we're talking right now about the modification of the agenda yes okay uh sure Julie Dominguez so I'm a a tribal member for the M Malone tribe and I'm also a parent um of a student within the school district so um you know it was brought to my attention um not just for this meeting but even previously that there has been discussion to remove the land acknowledgement from these board meetings and so with that I just I would like to be present I'm not always available to come to these board meetings but I will be more present now um my child actually read the land acknowledgement for the first time ever in Spanish at the noos at adante too where he's a student and has been since TK so I'm just here to make a public comment in regards that I hope that that doesn't ever go away as you know our tribe is currently in Washington DC with my 17-year-old out there my brother um my chairwoman and they're fighting to reaffirm our federal recognition status so thank you excuse me um even though you are speaking on um what you're speaking on that is not the item that we are discussing right now we are discussing discussing about moving one number that's on here versus another one so but thank you for speaking and and uh we will um put the land acknowledgement on there and thank you very much I appreciate that I hope so sure okay so uh any trusty comment see one there you go uh trusty Explorer Shelton just the agenda do we need to accept the report to I'm GNA do that I'm gonna do that next I'm GNA do that next I just jumped in um be because um I wanted to kind of keep some order even though I'm backtracking uh but yes I will call for that and I just think that item on the agenda should have a correct it should it consideration like we should accept the report approve the BL very okay yeah it's a little bit different but uh thank you for pointing that out so so that's the end of discussion all in favor uh raise your hand so it's 5 z um and so now I will uh we we took the that we were going to modify the agenda 301 after 601 and so now I will take a motion for the re overall report of the Casp and alcap data do I have a motion okay I have a motion for acceptance report okay acceptance or report whatever way you want to put it uh any um public comment seeing none any okay and you gotta be ready you gotta give me a second um I just had a question because if you're moving item 30 1 until after 6:01 then in close session you're going to vote to appoint somebody to a position that you haven't approved their job description yet that is just interesting to me yeah interesting stuff here in all rock you don't have to tell me I've been here 20 years so um but yeah thank you that's any more public comment any trustee comment okay yes uh I believe you second it okay all in favor please raise your hands it's 5 Z motion passes for uh 2011 uh so we will be go ahead motion approve the balance c01 and.

so it's either going to be virtual or in person um how to manage your school budget with inflation prices if anybody's interested in going just let me know and I'll register you um that's December 3rd wanted to get it out in enough time uh public comments uh motion a second to open the meeting to the public for the discussion of non agenda items motion second all those in favor poster Four's four is yours thank you so hello everybody hello um I've met all of you I know a few of you very well um but for those of you that don't really know me um my name's Ed gry I'm a captain with the police department here um I've been inside now and liaison with the schools for the last couple years I worked a little bit with eth when she was here um and then since Adam's been here we've been a lot talk a lot yeah there's a lot that goes on so um just just to give you kind of a real quick bio of me so you kind of understand where I'm coming from with what I came here for um so I was I was in the Army out of high school uh out of there I came in I went to Police Academy I was at the ver County Sheriff's Department I went to chis for a while I've been in law enforcement for 24 years while here I was on the SWAT team Firearms instructor you know all these real big manly Macho things right um but those of you that really know me I'm I'm really a sucker for the kids right like I'm in deep I develop the Youth Academy I still work with them all the time kids with in the Youth Academy that were here for day one are still coming back and they're driving cars and have jobs and stuff now so um you know I get invited birthday parties you know they come and knock on the police door or hey are you working can I come talk to you so I'm very close with these kids right um so that being said I genuinely care about their welfare right um and what I'm here basically for is just to gather some information for you so I I've kind of taken over from where um I know you guys have talked to Chief Gordy and the mayor before about the The Shield thing with um with Edith I just want to make sure I'm on the same page I got some questions to ask about it um a little bit of put um so I I basically just get little bits and pieces you know this person said this this person said that I I just want to make sure I have the same story and that we're all on the same page about my position um so I Ed Edith initially had had an agreement and please if I'm wrong in any this let me know um so my what I've been told was that Edith uh and the mayor and the chief had an agreement to each I guess the school was supposed to buy a shield we were supposed to buy a shield so that we had one of these and by Shield if you don't know what I'm talking about you probably do by now it's a it's a rolling Shield that's probably a little bit bigger than this um to be used in that worst case kind of scenario you V all right that kind of thing so that being said uh from what I understand well I know we bought the shield and I know Edith had a verbal agreement to buy it then she retired and I have to say I actually work with Edith I think actually lik me I don't know I I I worked through over her pretty good I think I she smiled a couple times um but um so my understanding was there was this verbal agreement um we got ours Edith retired Adam came in um I spoke with Adam about it uh on several occasions and listen I understand and I told this to Adam when we spoke about the shield I said listen I I you know I understand that there are priorities and him just coming in the shield might have went from here with Edith down the year I get it so what I'm here to do is just basically understand what that priority is on your end and maybe talk to you about any misconceptions about why we need that Shield right so what I will tell you is we have a shield now so we we spent almost $144,000 on the shield it's just collecting dust right so my position is okay we have it I understand that you have a lot of things and I agree with some the things you need are probably higher on the priority list than the shield do not disagree with that um what I what my problem is is I have this piece of equipment that is hard to move right so I can't just leave it at the station and if this happens here I can't just go get it right if it were in one of the schools I might be able to send someone it does break apart in two pieces very heavy pieces someone like myself probably can't lift anymore but maybe a couple of the younger guys can get it where I needed to be um at least if I had it closer or in one of the schools it would be ready God forbid something happened like this in one of the schools if it wasn't I might be able to if I have that free minute go to the other school get it where I need it and still utilize it so any misconceptions with that as far as the shield goes um it would only be that one and listen I understand we can't put a dome over the school right metal detectors at the school like we don't want that right I get that um I genuinely care about these kids and if I was faced anybody here ever been on a line with a a long gun while it's being fired I have it's very different it's it's it's humble right these handguns are like they're nothing right when you're on when you're out there and you're and that it's I can't even really explain it right so if we're faced with that oh what do I do excuse my language I need to get down this hallway and if I had if I'm being fired on by one of these we have portable Shields probably not that much of an issue I might get shot in the leg or something those long guns I'm not going to make it I'm not going to make it my partner's not going to make it those Shields won't stop those so in order for me to get to your kids if they need me I need that Shield so it's cumbersome it's big it's ugly they do sell things that go over it maybe you can put it in a corner I don't know but if that oh crap moment happened and we and anybody found out that we have this equipment and we even though maybe the school didn't have enough money to buy another one we didn't do anything with it they're going to come me right or or the chief and they're going to say did you have the equipment and I'd love to be able to say and cover for the school or and say no but I'm I would have to say I do have it I couldn't get it there and then you know what's going to happen they're going to dig well why wasn't it there well listen I I don't know what to tell you maybe you need to go and talk to XY SE I don't know so what I've been told is that there might be some misconceptions as to why we need it or its Effectiveness and it from what I was told it was the board that had these questions so if that's the case lay it out and I'll I'll try my best to answer them now like I said I've been on the SWAT team I've used these shields and right now you can't even buy them because all these schools are trying to get I have other PDS calling me to ask me if they can buy our Shield because they can't get them so a lot of schools are getting them they're very expensive and you know what now that they're in such high demand those prices are going up and up and up so do you have any questions other schools are have them I know bores is getting them I've gotten calls Waterford once ours um and listen I don't make the calls I just go by with my CH Township gler Township so they are they are going and and like I said I understand like I go to so listen just as like you know I go to these meetings right I go to the uh I've been there the last two meetings we've had about our planning and I feel useless because I don't have a lot to add to it but I'm there because I care right that's the only reason I go because I do care I don't have a lot the two to offer the two teachers I work with are on my on my team are probably sick of me going because I really don't have anything to contribute to I think they appreciate it yeah they might appreciate it but you know I do yeah but uh but anyway so I listen I'm here to just say I understand I want to work if I can work with you or come to some kind of conclusion with this because in the end I I just I'm stuck with this equipment that I can't use I don't think we're opposed to having it if we could find the room but I know someone had said like transferring it from place to place like if it has to go over a lip of a building or or a doorway or something that it it's not necessarily seamless or doesn't really work so it's very heavy and it is on Wheels so what I will tell you is um if I had to if it was in a school to take it to another school I have to break it down into those two pieces so it would that would be so there's the one where I'm receiving fire down the hallway and I need to get down there right away hopefully that Shield is in that school because I need it now but if it's more of a hostage thing with someone down that hallway with a long gun and I can get to this school and get it over there I might have a couple minutes to get it there but once there through your hallways even if it's over little lip it it's it's bulky it's supposed to be bulky but whoever's pushing that so you have a person that mans The Shield his job is just to move that Shield so I'm older but I can still I can still get it up over a lip so anywhere through your hallways I'm going to be able to move that my job is just to move the shield to cover everybody else um but like I said the big problem is like I even looked into getting a car and have it it in a car but it's just it's not feasible just doesn't work but to answer your question lips are a problem it'll slow anything down because they the whole object is so we don't get shot in the legs right so it's it's like this far off the ground so I think that the 30,000 foot view starting point was uh the last the board spoke of it not enough any opinions have changed uh was that we wanted to ensure we got first a meeting with the office of school preparedness uh to review our security posture to see where what our priorities should should be uh because as you mentioned this isn't an inexpensive piece of equipment and budgets only go so far right so we want to make sure that the most important things are focused on uh and that's what they do that is their entire job so we want to have that audit so we can see where it fits in that priorities uh the second piece is making sure we know how does that fit into the overall response plan because just simply having it isn't enough as you said you need to know how it's going to be used where it's going to be used how it's going to be used so that way it's not just sitting in a room somewhere what do you mean by that you mean to see it on paper or to actually be informed because I can tell you a shield is it's like a pencil I know I don't need someone to tell me how to use it I know how to use it so it's easy to make that kind of assessment but the question would be things like where is it going to be stored if it's going to be locked up or not if it's locked up now that's an extra impediment to you gaining access to it the key and and if it right who has a key if it's not locked up then there's the potential that well what if the person you're coming after gets access to it and now it's a very different scenario so there's a number of things that could go wrong with it and we'd want to ensure that none of those are going to happen in our pursuit of making sure that we have everything we need uh and then the last piece to it in my mind is that uh this is sort of The Last Resort type of equipment I would rather Focus efforts on the prevention side of it because not only does it make this not happen it's also just generally better in the school environment because students that get those supports do better and so we get better performing students and avoid these sort of scenarios okay so what I'll tell you is um I I my first one of my first words were I agree you probably have other things that are higher on priority list don't disagree I just have the equipment that we don't we don't need to spend money on right now it can just go somewhere right so I can't tell you where to put it I can I I can I can tell you like maybe where in the school where it should be and that that is even kind of Common Sense needs to buy out front door somewhere um and as far as locking it up and stuff that would be something you guys would have to do um but I want to put this in a little bit more perspective for you right because all that stuff you just said that you need to do to get to that point it's probably not I you're probably not going to do it I'll be honest with you I love all of you that's probably not going to get done we're getting the inspection done next month with the but this Shield we've had for a year I understand but it it came to us we got the je bordon contacted um Anthony P pet our interim superintendent between Edith and Adam right and we've been waiting for this inspection for quite some time it's supposed to happen next November is what it's schedu for so the only what I want to point out is um I mean does everybody live in Berlin Township everybody here all right so um I can tell you that um you know and listen I I I'm I'm a little naive too like I I grew up and I live listen I live I grew up in glosser City no jokes leave it alone um so I I you know I grew up in these neighborhoods it's it's it was tricky I since then I moved to Newfield I live in Williams town I'm it's kind of like all right you get that sense of security and but I will tell you and I know Adam can confirm some of this uh because he's been made aware there are guns on our streets there are guns on our streets in kids hands who actively go to this school or to the or to uh the other school or to surrounding schools we've caught them with these guns they fired these guns they've been with other kids in these schools while they shoot these guns in our town happens so that oh it it will never happen here I'm telling you it it happens here outside of the school right now um and it shocked me the last few years it's just getting worse and worse and worse but it it's happening and it's here we're just able to prevent it we're able to keep on top of it our communication my communication with Edith was not a tenth of my communication with Adam literally three three or four times a week we're talking about what ifs what's this person doing can you help me with this we're always working on it so I just want you to know like it it's out there and it does happen without putting names or anything um and it's in our it's in our town um so if it's not that far-fetched that that oh moment where we might need that Shield could it could be here right and I would hope like my kids my kids are in college now but you know had I had I been Maybe not as complacent I might have looked into a little bit more and whether my kids were safe whether that PD had whatever um you know equipment they needed and just to put that in perspective like everybody knows cops carry tasers now right well guess what that's probably going away because I just got a quote for tasers it's like $130,000 we've had four phasings in the last four years we needed it all four of those times but you got to put a price tag on it right so I understand what you're saying I just I and understand things take a little bit at a time I just I my end of this just started right and I just I've been I've been watching this tripping over Shield kicking it with my foot and I just I just wonder like if it happens like and I see it there I don't know that I'll be able to live with myself knowing I didn't at least come here and explain things to you and say listen whatever we can do or whatever I can do to help um kind of you know get that going a little bit wait can I ask a question and I'm sorry if um I should know this and I don't but so you have have it and it's ready to come to us it's been ready for a year okay so the pl the problem is is just that we need somewhere put it you need some and I understand is space you always need space right everything is space space space you're waiting to give it to us and us to fulfill that verbal agreement to get another one so we can have one of those schools I'm here just to make sure that what we have now we can get in there and we can revisit okay I understand it was a verbal agreement with Edith in the past I know it's expensive and I I'll be honest with you I I've told ad him I said listen your camera system if I'm you that's higher on the priority list for me so I just don't understand like what's the problem like just get it here we'll find a place how big can it be we can put it behind that thing you know I don't understand like because it's already bought it's already for us trying to figure out which school do you put it in right and that's where we kind of ended last that's where we ended last time we only have one where do you put it so and you have to have a lot because even regardless of whether it never happens or not it's here have it we just need to get it here and then I worry about it imping the respon the response time if something were to happen if it's in another school I mean we all saw what happened in rol I hate to say it that's the exact case that we would need that but we all saw what happened there where the police officers waited 77 minutes to go in I hope that Gody none of ours would do that well that's why I those of you that have been but if we have to wait for them to get this Shield that could impede the response time because they mean oh we're waiting for the shield to get there no I want you to go in there if you're here my kids not just yeah hold on to that because if I have to go down a hallway on I'm sorry were you in the military yeah all right so if that person down the hallway has a hand gun I'm going to go down there with my shield that that little Shield that we carry I'm going down 100 miles hour I'm not going to do a yaldi and I can tell you most of we have a lot of young guys that are now but most of the old guys are going to we're going to risk our life for your kids which is exactly what I would expect it's suicide when you're going up against a one of these rifles that they carry because it all they got to do is come out and two seconds later I'm I'm cutting half and now now so you are saying that they will wait for the shield to go into those classrooms no what I'm telling you is if these people if the person were to have one of those long buts that's what concerns me I would never say that okay if so I would treat your kid like that was my daughter in that classroom okay I'm going to probably commit suicide getting down there but guess what now instead of you having those initial listen we're a small town you're probably going to have two or three cops show up immediately if I run down there do that now you're down to two cops probably down to one cop now you got no cops now there's no communication to anybody that's coming there and you're just going to keep losing cops because we don't have any way to get down there but if if the communication is is such that we have an active shooter and we get a little bit of information where you have a long gun I'm not saying that I'm not going to go down there but if I walk by a door I just need to open and get this Shield I want to get down there make it down there and then be able to save your kids okay but what if there's so many scenarios that don't if it because you're have it it's not that's not no I understand but if it impedes the response time that's where I have a problem with the Shields and of school preparedness get their expertise uh to determine uh where should this go and and how should we proceed from there right and I don't want to make any other judgments because ultimately they know more than anybody else in this room on how to handle that they are specific School preparedness that is expertise when I so I I teach everything at my PD if you name it I'm teaching it domestic violence Pursuit policy use I teach it all right I um what I will tell you I always tell everybody I teach don't what if a scenario CU you're going to drive don't ask me hey what if this happens cuz as a police officer what if a scenario cuz you're going to drive don't ask me hey what if this happens because as a police officer you get the craziest things happen you just can't what if it but that one scenario I'm going to run down the hallway but flip it what if I have time because it's not an active shooter but I know he has a long gun now I got a minute to grab the shield and then if things go co no you got no go back to what I said in the beginning go back to what I said in the beginning because now I can send two cops to the other school if it's not an active shooter to bring it over however so before weend however you could have just bought if she would have bought the other Shield if we each have one in there then we I just want to finish my sentence all right let me finish I'm let you finish I think that I think we all understand that I think the part of it is number one it could be it could be housed in a different part of the school what if the shooter is on the right side of the school but it's in the left side of the school doorway I just don't want to do I appreciate what you guys are doing we all have the same goal in mind we all want the schools to be safe for that reason we want to ensure we get that audit from the office of school preparedness to find where would be the best location for this device once that's been determined in coordination with the local police department then we can all stay on the same page on what a response to one of those scenarios would look like and hopefully it never happens corre 100% couldn't agree more thank you like I said I'm just just spel my whole objective was to I'm not here to attack Kim because I love Kim and I love her family but uh but like like I said I just any misconceptions that you have I am not going to I'm going down that hallway either way but if if I'm able to grab that on my way I'm gonna grab it because I want to right thanks thank you thank you thank you I'm here for the same reason just maybe a little bit different what he said I'm here to ask you to get another Shield the okay because I feel we should have another Shield we were the school to watch we I don't you probably remember when we were the school to watch we had the news media down here and everything there's nothing more I know nothing about CH just recently I found out with a long was I never knew the difference between a long gun when my Police Department says they need something they're the experts we're not the experts you guys are not the experts on you might have been in the National National Guard yes okay these guys work with us every day okay when we came here it was me uh Chief 40 and Mrs El Dr and when they were talking about it the chief volunteered for us to give the other Shield which I was a little shocked because I would think it would be the school's responsibility to get the shields but anyway I thought what's more important remember our budget is half of your budget we do the entire town do you have you have 500 kids in the school about 64 600 kids we service the whole town Police Department everybody we I had no problem because when they said it was very important to have something like this for security I said okay we'll pay for one it's really important not where we're going to to put it but we need another Shield because I don't want to be the one responsible to say oh I chose the Kennedy School or I chose the Eisen School nothing's more important than security I don't think these guys would make this suggestion it wasn't something that they thought was very very important how are you guys going to feel if someone comes in there and we don't want to get the shield I don't think it's about one let's not put out there so is it about what's it about it's about it wasn't Us in those seats so now they want do their homework to get all the information to make an educated decision but do we want to be our ultimate goal is also keep oura then it's on up right exactly and I said that from the beginning because at first Dr ashma said they wouldn't give me the money she said just pick a school I says I'm not picking the school because I don't want to be the one that says I picked this one school and then it gives God forbid something would happen to the other school but it's personally I'm not here to find out what school it should be in I'm here to ask you please consider buying one of these can you buy them from multiple places it's I don't know can you buy them from multiple places I've never looked into purchasing them I just know that the longer we wait just keep in mind too the better schools are getting on well I think too that it just it's taken so long to do what we said we were going to do because the superintendent search was so long we did not expect that to take that long right so it's also there was a change in the state law about uh how the schools prepare for these sorts of things so the office of school preparedness was also delayed who by the way does the the study when they come down here within like two hours andever the school just so you know so it's not that they come and they do this you know crazy you know what I mean but but again who are you going to trust more the state because we all know some of how they do certain things or your local police department that's going to be the ones that's going to be here God forbid if something happens and you if God forbids something happen and kids get shot are you going to sit down and say no what we didn't want to get it to this school that I mean I I don't again I know nothing about this but I'm listening to what our Police Department saids this is what we need like I said we were PS we bought one we bought one for the school and then I heard someone said here that and again you hear all kinds of things well it doesn't protect the kids at protects the police if they're not alive neither are our kids uh completely understand and agree on that point but that's what I'm here I'm not here to say where we're going to put it I want you guys as our representes of the school to get us one of these for our kids because I don't think the parents would be too happy knowing that the township bought one and the school sitting there thinking about it's been two years now almost if you want to buy one or not it's crazy again I would know nothing about this but if your Police Department who are the experts on security and safety telling you this is what they think they need and like I it's the better schools again I want to be the better school again I want to be the school to watch again thank you thank you comments motion a second then to close the meeting to the public it was my second thank you 846 all in favor I oppos orain um I don't think we have an executive session we're waiting for the audit and everything else like that unless anybody else feels the need for one I do we want to discuss what's going on Orit if anybody feels that we should have one I'm more than happy to uh also I'm fine with waiting until we've had our security audit and have that discussion in November when's the audit again oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to look it up what technology for we should talk about it tonight a little bit I think okay so you want to have an executive session to go in and discuss school security on what's what's and the reason for this discussion is whether not to buy another Shield or I don't H don't think that's an executive session uh so I think it might be more about where we would put that shield and then we get into the school's security posture security posture right because knowing which school has it or not could impact a potential if somebody had ideas of doing something in that regard yeah that would certainly impact security if it's a public knowledge that's the which school has and which one doesn't right so from what I understand at the moment there is one and it's not in one of these schools and that was its intention so uh if I'm it's not in any school for right uh and that was what the Township's intention was for to be in a school uh and it is not at the moment and that was one of the points brought up is if we have one why is it not somewhere here and I think that's something we can discuss and become actionable now uh the purchase of a second one uh would be a later thing down the line after our security audit to find out where that sits in our priority I don't think any of that is executive session not even where to discuss to I refuse to discuss which school it would be that that part of it is definitely executive session and that's what we wanted to settle potentially tonight okay we'll leave so you guys can talk it doesn't matter it's on video anyway thank you thank you does everyone want to go into have the discussion about where the shield will be placed the current one that they currently yes we tell Jacob we need to um it down once he tells us we are um not streaming we'll go ahead and go into executive s screen chain I'll wait for his confirmation I like I don't like to assume anything we leave nothing to chance no I want it in writing November 14th by the way security and that's before our next meeting yeah right yeah because Thanksgiving is late this year so our meeting is probably something like the 22nd 23rd yeah the1 you're like I'm G be real clear that that's e e e guys are we good thanks Jacob all right so then at this point um so just a comment from the board that we have discussed the placement of the shield and have determine where we would like to see it placed uh the district will reach out to the township uh in the near future to work out the details uh of Transportation Etc Perfect all right so then at this point we don't have any other business can I have a motion of a second to adjourn the meeting motion second right all those in favor I opposed or obain all right have a great night have a happy Halloween happy Halloween Mr Gold don't leave

now therefore be a resolve that the Board of Education will go into closed session for the following reasons as outlined in njsa 104-112 items 2.3 to 2.4 do we have a motion motion by Mr Brown seconded by Miss Lee Mr y's roll call please roll call on Executive session Mr Bach yes Mr Brown yes Mr demarcy yes Mrs null yes M Miss Lee yes Mr Thompson yes and Mr Compton yes the motion carries thank you we'll see you all back at approximately 7:30 p.m.

you're going to do the first half with me you're going to make forward to that looking kind of going to be your your swans your farewell from the from the booth but you know you're always welcome back you know well Bob it's been a pleasure and uh looking forward to next Friday night and like I said you're welcome back anytime for any broadcast we we'll bump anybody for you you were the best thing that has happened to this station the way you've come on and uh carried the it's been great I appreciate thank you all right thanks everybody for watching and I just want to say good night and go clockers

and bumper to bumper Route 135 and CH Street was practically empty street now it is stay in line to take right turn to 1235 when you build some new buildings do you think about traffic or just we have to put the building and do what is look what is happened so to answer your question when a new building does come in and application is in front of the planing board 100% yes this board looks at traffic typically within any project that gets built there are pro there are traffic reports there's traffic counts those are peer reviewed by a professional engineer within this matter of the mbtk communities we didn't you know looking at traffic um we did not take we that's not part of the process right and it's not part of what we had to do but I would say if a project does come in right 100% I can tell you that traffic is looked at it's analyzed and it's a major topic of disc discussion but it didn't help it in 100 Chestnut Street 100 Chestnut Street was there was a traffic study 100 Chestnut Street in that development from Howard faford was outlined back in 2001 with Mr Howard fa in the town of ashon when was I I was still in high school in 2001 so I cannot speak to that I was here you were here I understand that I was here and I was told the traffic no no traffic because it was epidemic period of time I understand traffic wasn't here and and and to talk about 100 Chestnut Street is um I'm happy to do talk about 100 Chestnut Street um till the leaves fall off the trees right um please come in and and sit with me during the day and I'll explain everything this is already building built it's already built what about others places where you want to Bu from from from every every every development right that is comes into the town of Ashley traffic is looked at um 100 Chestnut Street was looked at and we did the best we could as the planning board um dealing with the facts that we have in in in everything that kind of surrounded that project um but I will tell you right now traffic is always analyzed thank you I I think it's important to remember um that um this whole MBTA communities law came about because we are so the state not just Ashen the state is so short of housing right it's and it's not just actually not the state it's across the United States right starting in the housing crisis of 20062 2008 right when when housing wasn't built and obviously everyone has seen that on the news in for for a while now and in and in every news Outlet right and we're also seeing it amongst ourselves and our friends and neighbors like um you know housing prices are Skyhigh rental prices are Skyhigh because there's not housing right young couples can't find a house there's nothing to buy right so so the answer from the state not from us from the state is we need more housing housing housing housing to bring housing prices down to to provide houses for for everybody right so so these these laws then go on into place because the first thing communities do is build walls like oh you can't build here you can't build there no multif family here not here right and pretty soon there's no place you can't build housing anywhere CU every Community wants to do that right we want to put up walls and and save ashin for just the people who are already here right and everybody wants to do that and so there's no housing and so I think that's what starts to make and and I haven't been involved with the state I don't know anything about that but that's what makes these laws start to come into effect that almost that everybody has to do their everybody has to do their share all these towns have to do their share right may not like like it but it's like our share and the same thing about 4vs you know it's like we don't we don't like them they go out of our control even on the planning board right as as hard as we work to try to to make buildings that are good it's out of our control but it's again it's a means for the state to say towns you can't build a wall around your little town and and not build any housing when you live in a state you know we we all live in the state so um so we're on the tail end of that we don't have control over any of that we don't have control over 40 BS we don't have control over what the state does all we were trying to do in our little four-person committee that reported back to the planning board and reported back to the select board because remember there's the planning office and then there was one member from each planning board and select board working through this we were trying to work through a solution not about the 40 BS but about the MBTA community that would put us in compliance so that we could continue to get those grants but hopefully our intention was to have hopefully no to very little effect on ash we're hoping to that our regulations here aren't very appealing to any developer and they would take a different route than this one because our underlying zoning in some cases already allows more than this in other cases the site's already built you know there's already something on it and so it's yes you see get things getting torn down all the time but generally not it's not a Valley Farm you know Community facility it's not no one's tearing down Cirrus and and putting something else up so it was very intentional can we predict the future might someone come and tear it down service I guess so but we're we're putting our money on that that is probably in like an unlikely scenario and even if they do they're not going to be able to build too much more than what they already had right that was our intent hoping that as more housing comes to Ashland and it will I.E the 40 BS the things start to come out of the comprehensive plan as to where that housing should go what it should be like how we start to control it how we start to build the infrastructure structure that we need to to make that happen right we wanted that bigger picture level of thinking to come out of that bigger drive and to and to to form this bylaw to kind of get us through without losing funding without losing accessibility to Grants without putting in a lawsuit which is might be expensive for the town I don't know how that works um that again that's not our that part of it not it's it's it's not our purview it's not what I was asked to do so um I can't really comment on it but hopefully that that that's the way I see it from my perspective um happy to have any again and that's my perspective not not of my board but my personal perspective please sorry what we're going to have to leave but is most of this housing going to be rental housing so it does not say within the state get parameters it doesn't have to be rental it could be home ownership but does not pertain would it most likely be rental I would probably bet so the ones on the board now are they mostly going to be rentals yes because that doesn't give young people any Equity that doesn't give them a real start uh you know we we have like nine grandchildren and some of them are look they can't afford to buy and they're spending all this money on rent uh so it would be nice to have small places that they can buy and build equity so that that's that was just my I I I do not disagree totally agree okay thank you I think from the perspective of just sort of continuing on what Trisha was saying you know we might not all agree with the actual text of the law that was passed and signed by Governor Baker five four or five years ago I think we're making a the committee has gone to Great Lengths to make a cost benefit sort of um analys right an analysis to say like if we whatever proposal we put forth at town meeting the potential cost to Ashland is because so many of it's are so many things are already built right sarus is built it's a huge part of this proposal it's rentals but it's there um the to Trish's point the idea of tearing that down and there's not really a lot of incentive to tear that down and build something else under the way this the zoning our proposal would work um I think the C the potential cost of losing these grants is potentially quite high right and so whether we agree with the law or not or the the background of the law I think is neither here nor there I think what we're all deciding is whether not the what the proposal we're putting forth for Ashland what the cost benefit of that is and there's a cost you know of to the question around what happens you know if we vote that down at town meeting if we become non-compliant on December 31st you know we don't know what that looks like from the state but we do know that they in the in the text of the law those grants those Mass work grants are are sort of up for um we could lose them and that and we're thinking about that cost benefit we're saying okay well what could we lose if we pass it and I think the committee's whole to Trish's point the committee's whole theory has been let's keep the M the impact of this to a minimum right a community could go and Zone 50 undeveloped acres for this law and they would be facing you know a thousand new rental units we aren't in that situation in the way that we've structured this proposal right um and that was very intentional and I I just I would like to say as as a resident and a member of the planning board I am really grateful for you and the committee's work in that way okay so it seems that the people that are going to really benefit from this are the people that are building these units and abely absolutely so it's hard to in if you know we have to have a goal to PR to really have affordable housing and that can lead to home ownership you know that's the only way people will build wealth well it's true but it's hard to um you know even building unless you're building condos which is apartments that are owned right unless you're building there's no you know that that does take virgin land to make little neighborhoods with you everyone having a little house with a little yard we we do have to have open land that to use up for housing so that's and and you need a and you need a lot of it because it houses in little yards take up a lot of space so it's it's a um you know which one is better like I I don't I don't know I but I I totally understand what you're saying yeah yeah okay thank you good night hey Michael kman 141 Al Trail uh I understand that uh after if this project will go live uh the number of units will be increased in nland number of citizen of asland will be increased what do you think about um fire department medical assistance police assistance number of people going going up so it also should be taken care of is there any sorts of this I would just say naturally is as the population grows so do the so is the police force so is the fire force right by itself yeah we all pay taxes yeah and it's called in it's New Growth up yes it should it should is it part of the plan I understand that you cannot plan for traffic until it's actually built I think that's part of the comprehensive plan what's going on right here is just looking at the zoning and what was tasked for us to do by the state law and that's what we're trying to do okay so it's limited only to one layer of Zan correct okay and again when when you're by the way thank you for great job you're doing thank you and and just to to note again with the things like because we have those questions too well what about the water what about um what about schools what about but every single community that Peter is showing on that map they're all asking the exact same question what about their water supply what about their schools right so all the communities are asking that question yet we still need housing right how do we answer that question so yeah just you know and this is a State website I'm happy to show it to you you know but these are all the communities that have to go through it you know so if you want to cherry pick um any Community that's around here um you can kind of go on and and really kind of go through it I'm still stuck at B I was looking to get to h i I apologize yeah it's cities it's not small but it's everybody it's it's every one of these communities okay uh it's hopkington it's Holliston it's West Barrow and it's southb U it's all the abiding towns and and in including Sherborn and n and framing him you know how many are non at this point not off the top of my head um there was a wave of communities that were um were approved last uh I would say annual town meeting session I know there's a number of communities that have passed it and or or teed up or slated to to go in front of their Town meetings uh I know I know uh need them past theirs um IP switch the other night did not um I know you know there there's other community ities uh that do not know you know I spoke to the planner over in hopkington the other day you know they are ready to go I thought I heard your holla oh okay sorry um I talked to the planner the other day in hopkington you know they have a plan they're going to move forward with um but they have it slated that they on their town meeting this this upcoming fall MH hi it's Melissa again 173 Leland Farm uh just about the offsetting cost is are the um the grants that you're hoping to keep online for Ashlin are they usually slated to try to help keep down the cost of infrastructure and taxes like with those grants help keep us from having a jump in tax that's probably something would be good to to to consider yeah I think that's one thing to consider I think you know the grant it's it's a large portion season towns are still trying to figure out you know how it would how it's financially going to affect them if it doesn't pass um I a zoner I'm a planner I am I deal with the zoning um you know we can I'm not the finance expert um how would say but um the the grants that are available uh they make towns you know obviously yes do they keep taxes lower yes because if a town wants to do something right and it doesn't want to take it out of its general fund and it goes out and gets a grant to have it paid for right then that means we're not pulling it off our general fund raising our taxes did the last um project that we had downtown all all all of that that just happened um the the could you speak to that as an example did the grants that you had for that keep the taxes from going up in I can say this the project that is in the downtown would not have happened without the grants did it keep our taxes down yes okay because we would have not we you know you're looking at that this project in the downtown is about a $13 million project give or take right we've received $8 million in Grants give or take to help pay for that what you see in the downtown is is is not cheap right um and I think it looks really good right so I am proud to work for a town that has done this in their downtown and it's not done yet the polls still need to come down there's still a lot of work to do a lot of polls in the middle of the sidewalk there is a lot of polls in the middle of the sidewalk right um but yeah that's going to be done in time right and that's the next step but I that this project wouldn't have been done without getting Mass Works money um here in our downtown okay thank you any uh any other comments in the room or online so um so Peter correct me if I if I'm wrong um but so between now and town meeting we the planning board has a meeting tonight and we have a meeting in two weeks well with no November something correct November something it's November 14th is our next meeting so before that time the planning board needs to take a vote to either support or not support the bylaw as written right that is that is online the bylaw as written um before it goes to town meeting that is correct so um we can take that vote tonight as a board we can wait and um continue the public hearing and have a second public Hearing in November at that time we will have to close and and vote there will be our only other opportunity before town meeting so I'm just trying to get Now comments from the board about after the discussion tonight um and uh obviously we're still missing one member um what approach do we want to take um I feel like keeping it open because I think I I really appreciate the room full because people came to be thoughtful and listen and they're evaluating their vote right so having it open gives us one more chance for people to ask questions and some of them are aren't under our purview but I think that they still need to be asked and this is one more place that we're at least willing to engage so I I would um hope that we would keep the hearing open and have it on our next meeting other comments do we have time for that yes 14th is our board meeting yep the 14th is going to be our board meeting the the the town meeting will be the following Tuesday um but you know what is required by the the law is for the planning board to take a vote and to report back to town meeting and so whatever way the vote is I fully will anticipate and be prepared um um working with Trisha to have you know comments um developed by this board um for town meeting is or any is any well we know Amanda may not be joining us for that meeting it um um is every what other people's schedules look like for November 14th like this is 5 days before town meeting because the other option is that we because I'm I'm wondering about um okay let me ask that question first about schedules for November 14th I would plan on being here we don't know for Anna obviously sometimes her schedule changes quickly yeah I would say we don't but she's also careful to she makes a commitment to come I mean same with me something could happen that's why I'm saying I'm planning but I think that we would probably know if she knew she wasn't coming we're striving to to get a vote everybody on the table right um we just need theum I assume I'm sorry can you say again Marcel I I think we are striving to get every every member of the board to vote right is it fine somebody's we just have to have I think um legally for the process we have to take a vote before town meeting um I think um so that has to be done it and we'll need a quorum for that we need at least three right to um and um what concerns me a little bit is I don't if we continue this to the 14th and say um I don't see why we wouldn't have a quorum but say we wouldn't have a quorum would we then continued it until the the 15th or you know just some quick things so we can get it yeah you would continue it until you can you can continue it up until the Monday before um you know it's it's a little tricky because we have to keep announcing the meeting well I don't want then you're putting out notices you know so if I couldn't get if if and I'm Excuse me I'm going to pull out my phone um but theoretically if you couldn't get a quorum on the 14th on the 14th you have to post a meeting for the 18th which is the day before town meeting to get it in to get a vote correct yeah so so and then and one more thing is that so there is also a possibility of us kind of and and we haven't discussed which we we need discussed but if we want to take a vote tonight we can still have a forum for questions and understanding and everything still on the 14th we can still have that Forum which then continues to the because this goes to town meeting whether in whether we in favor it of it or not that's correct right so whether we vote for or against it goes to town meeting right that's correct I there's no harm in taking the votes and I be sure that we have the time to do I agree and if we want the public engagement we can always keep it on the agenda as a forum rather than a public hearing yeah it will just not be a public hearing but we can let people talk it's a I would need I call the public forum yeah for informational session on the agenda and then keep things moving I think that's a nice compromise if there's Quorum tonight CU it feels risky it's a win-win you need ask in your discussion uh you are free to stay but you can walk out on us at any time is any one of you will change their mind in one week or two weeks what you already have in your mind that's a good comment I um thank you so I guess I guess maybe you should run for planning board um so I I mean I guess the question goes out to the board I mean I know how I obviously I'm voting if people feel confident if if they're we can go ahead and do that um I'm a little leery about the tight deadline the five days before makes me a little nervous and for what reason I don't see any reason why to put us in the predicament that something goes wrong nothing's going to change and we keep the conversation open for anybody that wants to ask questions so there's no loss so I I would be in favor of voting T I feel the same to that's why I asked you the right at the beginning it's November 14 too close for that I am good to vote if you okay I know you would rather wait but I mean it that's fine okay all right is um so I'll take one last call if there's any question questions from the audience any public comment or or online Chris kishka live in B one Circle uh looking at the proposal you know it talks about the subd districts and it says it falls like a Falls in uh the rail Transit District but the map and that coloring to show that it overlays cious as built like is that part of this I I didn't see where that's part of this and that and would that trip up people in town meeting thinking all of the rail Transit District say gets this gets this overlay we'll we'll have I can tell you we'll have clearer Maps if that's it if that's tripping up you um I'll we'll have clearer maps for people to review at to meeting um but um like it was stated today it's more of a layer um and it is not resoning the the whole District um but um I myself will will make sure that there's better maps for the public to view so there's no misunderstanding than thank you yep thank you uh M Jo G Friday uh I'm going to ask you to unmute first I want to apologize I thought I was muted when I when I thought I heard something heard my husband follow call it and he was had any a problem but anyway um I I did have just one clarification um and that's the the density of the yellow areas um lady that asked about it those are those are that separate they're a separate District though than the mvta district right and and they are a different density is that correct um I'm not sure about the yellow areas is was that on the the slide presentation that you're talking about um sorry the town the town map right so the yellow areas was that but was that on the slide presentation where I was showing the five areas no okay the the the proposed on the the the state law okay um oh one minute oh we're talking about the state stuff yes okay right here yes uhhuh okay so the the green the green is the real MB MBTA towns and the others are lesser correct so so the the the dark green which Ashland is that is considered a a community excuse me a um commuter rail Community we host a train station it's on Pleasant Street um hopkington does not own their own train indoor host I'm going to say MBTA training station and then they become what's known as an adjacent Community okay and then you have Sherborne and Dover which is an adjac jent small community Dober and Sherburn do not host their own MBTA um station and I believe their population and and don't quote me on this I believe their population is lower than 7 a half thousand people which is always a threshold within between large and small town so if you have a population lower than 7 and a half thousand people um and I may have my numbers mixed up um and you are not a host Community then you into the adjacent small town category each of those small town categories have a different percentile of units that you have to zone for so excuse me oh no I was on the right thing um so then this is all State website if you come back down here and I'm just going to see if I can go to Sherborn so they all have requirements under the law they're just different thresholds correct so their unit capacity is 5% so if you're a small adjacent town you have to zone for 5% um of your housing unit total if you come over to hopkington so hopkington is it a adjacent Community just which is interesting because they're within like 100 yards of over an NBTA station basically yep but they're not technically and talk not technically an MBTA town so here their land minimum is is is 50 and their their minimum um multi family housing capacity so they have to zone for 750 units that is 15 units per acre uh with a minimum of 50 units um that's what hopkington has to do they have a total of 6,645 houses now if you come to Ashland sorry Ashen you can see we have to account for 15 because we are a commuter rail and so right now to 10 2020 census numbers we have 7,495 year round housing units as part of our community right okay yep so the the town that that I mentioned earlier was um South borrow which is a Comm is an mbj community and they only have to zone for 750 just a comment that um one other one other question um the 10% did you did I hear you say that you can that NBTA requires 10% affordable so 10% so so there is there is under the npta law there is no affordable however all communities are are allowed to put in a uh a minimum amount of 10% um with in in in fact that would if if if built that's going to keep Pace with the Shi numbers okay that's good okay and but there's no senior housing allow is it not allowed as part yeah it's not allowed as part of the MBTA district there can be no age limitations indor family limitations and the reason for that is because they're trying to build or they're trying to remove restrictions that are making it hard for families to find housing so saying things like you know having age restrictions or saying um you know that you can't have um um this number of folks in the housing or you can't have this number of bedrooms Etc like all of those restrictions can't be there because they're trying to create housing that families can access 100% yep no you nailed it I I would argue that I'm a senior and I I am a family but that's but I'm sorry I'm sorry I I understand that that they don't that I understand that they wouldn't mandate it but I don't understand why they don't allow it I guess that's the that's the difference and and they don't also do they allow us to set aside so many for Ashlin residents so uh that's a great question uh and I do not have the answer to that okay that would be that would be a good thing to add if we can do it but okay all right thank you thank you again for all your hard work I I I truly do appreciate that I do thank you okay so one another hand up online that is Helen Nicole Helen Nicole I'm going to ask you to unmute hi um yeah I just have one quick question Helen Nicole for Elliot Circle so I I just was wondering uh when all these 4bs go in and the density in in the town goes up does that mean that these numbers that are required for us for our unit numbers will for the MBTA will those also increase at the same time to my knowledge it just Curr time no however I cannot predict the future uh and there's no crystal ball every state every town that's dealing with MBTA communities um is dealing with the current numbers of 2020 I've actually asked that question to the state and there's been no answer to that question uh will this change with the new census that would come out in 2030 um it may you know and then every town will have to re-register however nobody has crossed that bridge no one is has answered that question cuz I don't think anyone has really kind of gone that far I think at this point we're still at square one where communities are trying to adopt the bylaw to meet the um to meet the the law um as drafted okay thank you thank you Kim lantro 79 hildale Road super super quick just following up on what you had just said about how if I understand what you were saying about um is it the MBTA that can't mandate how many people are in an apartment and like you were saying is that who you were saying can't cap how many people can be in there because they're trying to create housing and if it's not under that mandate which board does regulate as far as how many people can live within so many square feet of any any apartment like why my point being is like can you fit 12 people in a two bedom apartment I'm just curious I think there's State occupancy laws and everything that we talked about how you would still have to follow all of those rules you follow all the town bylaws what there's what the purpose of the law was when when we sort of went through that original first slide where we said you know it can't be age restricted it can't say it can't be multif family housing those sorts of things they're trying to remove some of the barriers that sometimes go up that prevent EX um housing that anybody can access and that's what it is so they but you would still to our Point earlier have to follow all building codes all Town bylaws all occupancy rules all of those things about you you can't cram their there are lot regulations and and things on the books that say you can't put 15 people into I guess that was my question was who does regulate that so that you know because sometimes in the wording it sounds like the town bylaws are what goes by and sometimes it sounds like like no it's the MBTA laws that supersede it's it gets confusing sometimes hearing who sort of gets whose regulations are first remain existing it's just that you can't in as part of the Zoning for the MBTA zoning rules you can't add some of those Hur some of those um restrictions sure yeah it was just a capacity numers thing I was curious about thank you you're welcome right seeing saying no one in line and no hands raised online moving slowly in case someone gets up so what we what we need to do first is to um uh make a motion to close the public hearing I make a motion to close the public hearing for the 2024 special town meeting zoning article and is there a second a second all right uh roll call oh any discussion on closing the meeting or not closing the meeting okay roll call vote Marcel I Katherine Jers I and Trisha Kendall I um so if there is no other discussion um we can move to a motion the motion would be to approve is that right to recommend okay the motion would be to recommend the article um the recommend the article for a town meeting um with a positive with the positive vote in support it's a motion it excuse me it's getting late it's a to to support the the the bylaw as drafted um for town meeting I will unless anyone else I will make a motion that the planning board um support the bylaw as drafted for the MBT ta um communities law and a second uh roll call vote de Marcel I Katherine Jers I and Trisha Kendall I so um what this does from here we will on our November 14th meeting we will keep a space open for any further questions discussion um the bylaw as it is written even here today isn't in our ability to change any modifications minor only minor modifications would be allowed at this time would have to take place on the town hall Flo or town meeting floor um so you you can find the B if you haven't already in its exact language on the website and um we hope that you are all at town meeting because you're probably now amongst the most knowledgeable people about this subject so thank you for attending thank you Trish can I put um can I put a plugin for can I put a plugin for people to sign up for notices about that planning board that they can get our general business on yeah I'm thank you for coming everybody much more exciting when people are here thank you yeah I think the only issue like Kate is that the notice that you would send out would be online email the same means by which people maybe have a hard time if they're if they're getting information from the paper which is why they came here or maybe it's just because it was the opening of the public hearing I'm not sure that'd be it'd be oh yeah so it's definitely the hearing but I think the point is zoning is important and people don't know until they see that and once the comprehensive plan is done presumably there will be zoning changes right they're not part of the comprehensive plan and we need those people so we have to figure out how to get them like well we'll have to think about more about putting things in the paper I guess you know like with a whole list of meetings or you know whatever um but I think that's a valid that's a valid point um so I do think can I just make a t followup that um there's prob should be some more prep work before town meeting like an FAQ sheet definitely I got I have some notes like I think just lining up those areas the density um like but simple simple visuals like what's already built like that's there um frankly frankly um you know we we had talked about yep we're gonna have to go through that slide presentation for town meeting given the forums we've had and the multiple listings we've had of planning board and select board disc discussing this issue I I I had no idea so many people would come to this meeting I just I maybe I just wasn't thinking about it properly the room was full yeah so there people standing with the empty chairs so so that's why we scrambled a little bit with the you I had told hey Peter bring that pres the last presentation we did so that we can use that if needed but I actually didn't think that I'd be needing it so that's amazing so I think I think it was great but it also was great to make sure we're prepared to meeting because I think without some more stuff yeah no believe me I have prepared for town meeting a number of times so we will be doing our homework I think even some of the questions that aren't as relevant like the taxes the service traffic like we we can think of a Kind polite way to put them on there because those were some of they weren't the distraction people but like is this going to affect my taxes like that that law doesn't and there are unknowns right we can be honest but like I feel like the have to be precise though because the Pres going around the purview of that the specific task can model the the presentation has to be very precise it can't go into those neighborhoods but you can have you can have a a frequently asked questions sheet and we did this before the zoning changes in 2021 we had a whole packet of information that helped to explain those zoning changes better that people could read on their own even though we could we didn't have time or authority to go through all of that you know actually on the floor I again I think you for sure and I also like I don't know if this is allowed in the presentation but I do think an early slide on what this plot is what it isn't yeah would be totally totally agree I think it's just that again I I take responsibility for that like we but but typically we have we have done that we've had these introductions and I'm like oh my God these people have heard this how many times yes and it was a completely different audience and I I that is totally fair does um I'm not trying to I'm just watching what happened to be successful at town meeting help but I think maybe even some like pictures can we put up a picture of Sears because people like I didn't actually know where it was which means they don't know what it looks like I completely agree and I think that to to contextualize yeah so much of the question and so much of the conversation was around well we're going to build you know these 12200 units and everything and and just sort of again remembering that it's zoning it's not a mandate to build and our whole strategy is that there is on the majority of these Parcels something there or something permanent to be able to show what's there I think is helpful like no one's going to tear down it would be very unlikely for someone to tear Never Say Never but never we we're trying to that would be a surprise yeah I I think that I think it's a good idea and we'll have the recording obviously to go back through and like you said K capture the questions how we can kind of summarize over this how we can have the right Graphics because that question surprised me too about where you know what's srus you know where is that or even the question about the busing like there might be some communities where you really need but like understanding exactly how proximate A and E are to all the train yeah like you couldn't you wouldn't take a bus from oh no I think was church I took that she was looking for are we going to get some extra services for this like for our community not about a bus train I I think that's I I might have misunderstood can we add the graphics and your first slide like together like the radius that you have in slide 10 should probably come right up front so connect your parameters and the graphics and we definitely should make sure we have the right map because there was like f and all that which is not here it was hard to read too so it was it was so let's make sure that we have the right map that's and going back to those questions is it possible to document those questions so that somebody can read it and not ask that question on the DAT well that's that would be the frequently Asked question we can Target for can we target for next planning board meeting which is close to to meeting but still ahead and try to get that on the website yeah well I was going to say and and yes I think that but um I think also we can Target for the 14th when oh there might be that that that we have the presentation that we're going to use at town meeting we can practice which we know it falls to you but I mean I think you just stepped up no I think you did a great job I'm not trying to be critical I'm trying to be helpful to present this in a way that makes it like I very much appreciate the people making it clear they get to vote on this and I will stick to that right but our job is to present it in a way to make it clear and you know what you you did something that was very effective I thought I I I thought there's so many details on this conversation it's very easy to get lost and the maps and the colors and the these and the numbers but when you when you started explaining Trisha that what what was the what we were task with doing from the state and what was the the the vision the and the purview of this effort that should be clear the first thing you said because because then then people people understand okay we were not tasked with doing this we're not building the buildings what we are tasked is to comply with the minimum amount of pain for the town right and we did it based on these two or three premises and now we're going to explain the details of it but that has to be said first yeah I think um I think definitely we can use that meeting on the 14th to have a little bit of a dry run of our documentation of I because I think it having more sets of eyes would be great we can have a test audience whoever is here to see if it is understood better you know and more clear and I just feel a little uh boy this you know Don't Judge Me by this this foot forward because I was just totally I no you did great I don't I just felt totally unprepared because you did great no I I do not take it at all I just want to be helpful like if there's something I can do help with what I'm talking about I will help I'm not trying to just magically say make it happen I just like there's a bunch of stuff I think could make make it go smoother even if you need a like a working session and even if it's on Zoom we can just kind of all come on one hour or something and D up if you want to go through the order we can do that have to wait till 14th the 40b response like I'm I'm happy I no one will believe me but I am going to be bored in the next two weeks so you can use um and I think yeah we're not listening to you there only couple of questions which I think people are not clear on the built and unbuilt section and I think that's whatt the pictures if we put a picture of Sirus though like seriously that's G to that's going to make and he put put a picture of the um the senior complex yeah yeah yeah no I think it's the clarity of buil and that kept coming up if we even solve that can I just I'm going to stop I I know this a great conversation but I think we just have a couple more things on our agenda and I know the attorney for 501 Pawn Street is still here so um I was wondering because I didn't so just as to make a note looking at item number five um 100 chest Street which which is going to the um signage at the Asher um the developer he was in the room Roy mcdal saw him tonight he he just stated that he had something came up so he just wanted to kind of asked and he emailed me just to move that out to our next meeting so take home the the the pictures look at the the the the the the look at what they're proposing uh and that's that however that's for the signage that's for 100 chest 100 chest Street there's no public hearing on that so I'm just going to move that agenda item to the 14th okay I just want to make a note that we're jumping to um agenda item number six which is 501 Pawn Street and tonight Mark I want to greatly thank you for your patience I know that was a long public hearing um but it was important one here for the town of Ashland um regarding the NBTA zoning uh so with that said I just want to set the table a little bit Mr Mark kblack he is um representing the development of 501 Pawn Street um and it is uh that was a the developer was tras development um and according to the permit which is special condition number 16 um regarding the site plan approval and the special permits we're due to laps and are due to to Laps on o excuse me December 8th of 2022 excuse me I'm getting a little ahead of myself according to the to special condition 16 it was two years the this the decision was going to lapse two years from the date of the approval the date of the approval is December 8th 2022 thus the date the permit lapses is December 8th 2024 for the record um we did receive a letter and and that is presented in front of everyone tonight uh within their packets that they well Mr Mark attorney kobac um acting as the agent for 501 Pawn Street TR development is requesting an extension to that permit um and from that point on Mark I'm going after you know as an introduction uh to your request um do you want to please step forward and give the board update on what's going on um and and how things are going out at 501 Pawn Street I just allowed you to unmute yourself I'm sorry about that yes good evening I'll be quick uh there has been a delay on this project as you know uh in terms of vertical construction but we have done a number of things the mass do permit for the curb Cuts was issued in June June of 2023 the uh curbing uh work is underway the site has been stabilized the U material that was on the site from the former faford ownership has been removed and I think most importantly for the board the off-site sewer improvements that were a condition of the special permit have been have been performed we've also been uh involved in construction drawings and I would say the delay is mostly attributable to financial issues we all know know and have heard about interest rates over the last two years or so uh so the request for the extension is to keep the project um in line and viable and after hearing the discussion tonight I see it's also an important part of your planning with respect to the MBTA bylaw thank you um any questions just one um because I was curious about the delay what is the expectation now that whatever interest rates probably we know where they are I I don't know is is there any expectation on at this point and when the project will actually start getting built I would think that uh the expectation is that there'll be further movement on rates um I think the entire world at least those of us in the US and um those of us in the development World in particular expecting another rate change to the better uh this fall and so I would expect that the economic situation improves drastically uh going into next year and that would be our expectation at this point um I think for me and you know and looking at this I mean obviously we put a lot of we put a lot lot of work into that project and I think we came up with a project that we were you know fairly happy with but uh but that said there's also just crazy changes obviously going on in Ashland um and a lot of things in flux it seems like and I wonder if um I'm wondering about the two-year extension versus a one-year extension um versus you know having an empty lot sit there another two years it's already been sitting there two years I'm also wondering about getting getting some input from you know other from select board Town manager about other things that are going on in the town that so that we can understand how this fits into the bigger picture of um of the town we had talked about at at our Retreat which all of us were there but were you there Amanda yeah um just not an I right um and we had talked about the boards like working more together and I I I just feel like I'd like more information about what's going on in the town and different perspectives we might gain before we give a a whole twoyear a two-year extension I'm I'm not comfortable with kind of giving a decision on the Fly here and I I I I didn't realize that um I didn't realize that when I saw the person on your screen that that they were here for 501 during that whole discussion with MBTA so um I apologize for the long wait but I wonder yeah I'm I'm not sure I'm I'm wanting to to just jump right into this and make a decision myself tonight on on the extent of the of the but that that was the reason for my question because I was I mean I am I'm bumped that two years have passed from all the work that we do with this project and nothing I'm glad that to hear that some things are have moved ahead but I think it would be good to kind of incentive for the project to actually move forward um I wouldn't be opposed to a one-year extension I was actually wondering maybe from Council what the rationale was for the two was it just because it had already been two and so just do a two-e exential what's the idea especially if you're thinking to marcelo's question that spring is sort of feasible from a financing perspective a a couple of things if I may the the uh the statute chapter 48 was amended within the last couple of years allowing for special permits to be issued for up to three years your bylaw and this particular permit only allows two you have probably heard in the past of something called the permanent extension act that's currently under contemplation um by the state legislature and might also get enacted these are um kind of global Statewide recognition of projects being shelv as a result of various things whether it's the supply supply chain issues coming out of covid or economic issues associated with inflation and interest rates um so what is going on with this particular project at this time is Not Unusual and as the board mentioned a lot of effort went into planning this project which we still think is a good project for the town and as I've mentioned very briefly because the is late um this um site has undergone considerable amount of work uh since the project was approved material on the site that had been stockpiled in there for many years by faf has been removed the off-site work associated with the sewer upgrade was completed uh architectural drawings have been um developed so it it it is not that this has um been um ignored Bo by my client and uh I think all the momentum is going into completing this project and the request for more time is not out of the ordinary so I would really request that you act on this tonight and that you grant the full two years that we've requested will you I mean I I um I was thinking that so in keeping with if you're extending a year that's in keeping with sort of that three year permit time and I looked up other towns I mean some people have once hard stop 6 months up to um two years and again we're not we we can make our own we're not I'm just saying doing research of others that um the two years out of the box I would be more comfortable with the one year I don't think that precludes another one year we're not saying that our bylaws do not say that some towns absolutely say once one extension and I don't think we'd be saying my next question so are you sure that that it doesn't prude an I believe it's by our bylaws which we we say yeah I I it says typically for SP plan special permit you can do it um you you can obviously extend and I have there's nothing on our bylaws that I I would there's no red flags in my bylaw I agree in variances that's a different situation um mean those extensions are a little bit more obviously tenuous um but uh for for site plan special Department in this instance um we could extend it twice yeah so again um I'm just not sure and maybe because of the the the the um detailed discussion we just had that I'm I'm just not ready to I I don't really know what I want to do in this I feel like I need some more information to understand what is one year is it two years I'm not opposed to giving it extension I don't think but I do want to understand and the bylaws that we have in place I want to make sure we have all that understanding so and I don't want to be rushed I I know that people like to come on on and get an answer but I I I would feel rushed in that I need a little bit more time to absorb this and and and what it means yes it's an easy question extend yes no but I think it's a little deeper than that we spent a lot of time on this project and I want to make sure we get this little tail end of it right as as well so um I would just I would just want to talk about it again on November 14th let's get our data in the rote that you know it doesn't it doesn't expire until December 8th so we we have time here to you know to think this through to get all our questions answered that's all I'm saying the 25% housing that we are counting because of 501 that number is there a ticking bomb of when that number it's not goes off yeah it's no that's that number is part of the permit um and that was part of um no will the extension make any difference NOP that will carry through so it's not it's not even in our number now because they're not buil but it's not counted so those 25% those so those 20 those units right that's considered a local initiative project right we the town of action cannot add those units until occupancy prits are granted and there has to be deed restriction point in place it's a long process um that that has to take place so that there's no time bomb there's no time frame connected to the affordable housing component of the project would you concur um Council yeah no that's fixed um those all of the conditions of the permit will stay in place and and I I guess I don't understand the chair's position about being concerned about what the bylaws say the they're this is a vested right I think arguably the conditions that have been met currently have shown that there's been a substantial investment by the client in this permit I think it continues to be invested right I I I'm not even convinced that I need to be here tonight um based on what has been done and I guess I don't understand what the uh request is for more time to analyze this didn't we hadn't we looked at this project um in painful detail when the permit was first issued we did can you tell me what is the what's the downfall and uh what what makes the the difference in letting us have two weeks to meet at you know at a time that's not 10 to 10 and and to and to talk about it then what what what is the difference I mean I I personally have witness this board's very busy agenda uh with a substantial uh MBT bylaw proposal that you have um agreed to discuss again on the 14th um I I just don't understand why the board would take up more time to discuss something which is a pretty straightforward pretty standard request for the reasons I've cited and why you would delay a decision on this I mean it's to everyone's benefit to address it now and be done with it isn't it questions from the board or comments from the board I mean if if everyone is you know knows what you know has all the answers they need I mean I'm I I think it's straightforward but at 10 to 10 I am just not in a place where I feel comfortable saying that two years is the right move or that one year is The Right Move you know that that's me but you know and I I don't see I don't see what the downside I mean he he seems uh concerned for our time which is fine we but we can put this on the agenda first for next time right we could y that's not a problem and get get it done first right but that's that's just where I am I'm mentally tired and this request was made when the submission for the request uh it came in a couple you know week or two ago obviously we lost our we didn't we didn't meet yeah and so it kind of it's been it came in I think the most important thing is obviously we're starting a conversation now um in October and not you know further along uh closer to the date um the drop dead obviously the DAT of the decision was filed with the town clerk was is December 8th um yep to dea's point around I think Shi right like my the one to two consideration is also like that's like the longer it doesn't count the longer it's not built the longer we can't use it and we're so I I I guess that would be part of the calculus for me in in terms of a onee versus a two-year extension okay just pushes everything now but no but the the the argument one way or the other would be to create an incentive um because like the Cil just said they're they're they're they're making their hedging um in favor of of of a potential interest rates cut and could come it could not come it could come the next quarter or the quarter after uh could spend two years waiting for that as well right I mean you could make the argument that a w year extension would we kind of put um well an incentive no it's not definitive because you we could get another extension I'm just um it's unfortunate that that the interest rates cause that because we all wanted that project to to be at by now MH so but I'm not opposed to what you are proposing patri I'm I'm I'm not I'm just I I'm just tired and I don't feel able to make um I don't feel able to make what what I would feel a decision comfortably uh versus just yep let's get it over with you know type of thing and that and that doesn't feel right to me but I'm only one and if you guys aren't feeling that way I can trust your mental state of mind since we do have that two months November 14th pushing this out till November 14 doesn't seem like a big left and I do like the idea of looking at it step in outside that planning board preview and understanding what happens if a project is delayed with the select board and other committees and I think it's nice to kind of understand the big picture um so I don't see a harm here of why we can't wait till November 14th and if we can think of some other digal questions it may be straightforward we may come on 14th and say you know what two years makes sense let's let go for it but and we could put it first on the agenda let's put it first on the agenda you know so we can handle it when right right when we start I don't think it'll take long yeah you know but um we can yeah versus starting at this time of night Kate did you have anything to fine okay uh attorney cak I think uh obviously I think we're we're ready to vote tonight on this um but I I can promise that we'll put this back on the agenda on the 14th of November and we'll put this first um and uh and then I think any information that you can get with work that has been done you know within a memo I think I can present that we can kind of take that into consideration um and then obviously hopefully come to a decision on the 14th so so I I I second I I again thank you so much for your patience um with your MBTA Community you listening to the our MBTA Community discussion but uh that's that's important discussion for all communities and then um and obviously I'm I'm happy to be in contact with any concerns and or questions do we need to have a a vote on this or something formal no at this point that it's just a request that's on a public hearing okay um and so I think we can just make a motion to move this item agenda item to um November 14th right oh well he can make I'll make the motion to to move um move the 100 uh 501 Pawn Street application um extension um to November 14th and we will put that first on our agenda at that time second and a roll call vote goodbye Marcel I Katherine Jers I and Trisha Kendall I and I do think it's important to understand obviously that we did work hard on that project we feel good about I think at least I continue to feel good about it I'm just not in a frame of mind after that first after that agenda item to jump on a decision without thinking it through through thoroughly so all right uh attorney call I'll be in contact with you in the coming days okay thank you thank you okay um I guess we just didn't but we have a lot of other stuff I don't think if anyone has any um obviously update updates you know throw them out there for the our tremendous list of ongoing projects um um I was just going to put the um comprehensive plan if so I think there's people on the board that we put on a list um to participate in tech technical working sessions those will be early December and we it's quote early December we don't have dates so we know that people may or may not so um that's been that that'll be kind of ongoing the next couple weeks but also if you have contacts with um those housing Economic Development some some knowledge or overlap with somebody that their work we we are accepting other names like we're trying to reach out and not always use the same people if possible um so did something go out and I apologize if I if it didn't I didn't see it did something go out um about like in email asking for the type of people you might be looking for and uh you know is there a list of hey we're looking for real estate agents or we're looking for engineers or you know um not that I know of I hope so but I mean we might be past that so which is why I'm asking at least starting here reach out um to people so so we're collecting there's five technical working sessions Mark um it want as to be those names get collected we need 100 plus people right 20 each those get sent to the um consultant and then it's up to the consultant sort of like self- selecting like okay I can't really make that time frame so we will probably give names more than 20 assuming some can't make it um but no there's work in progress It's just the last push to make sure we're not using always the same people right right um I think everyone agrees with that I'm definitely The Pusher about that but but the committee agrees with that we're trying um because when you throw out names you throw out the names you always come across but maybe someone has some connections and I think we we want to use expertise so if someone has a connection that they're related to Metro West they do not have to live in Ashland necessarily um like they Michael Herbert used the example sub Sudbury Valley trustees is a holder of our some of our conservation we might want them to come for instance so that's an example yeah I guess um if there's anything if there's anything you can send even in a short email because again it's the same thing it's like at this time of night I'm I just I can't think of a I can't think of anything but that doesn't mean I don't know anyone I just can't think of it at this moment and by the time I leave the room I'll forgot your request yeah that's fine if I can do that yeah it can just some little reminder we put it and it is unfortunately um I did miss the meeting there was a meeting Tuesday it got rescheduled and I couldn't make it but I believe there's a very short window to kind of collect the last push to get that all bundled up so pretty short window if you do have suggestions and then people on this board will probably be getting requests just so you know we did we did put in names so thank you all right thank you um anyone else have anything on that long list of things that we check in about okay then I think we can go down to let let's talk just a little bit about um um holiday meeting dates obviously we're meeting the November 14th that's an important one already and uh the signage for 100 Chestnut Street I imagine will come back at that time yeah I'll put I'm going to I'm going to plan to put the signage and then the 501 pwn Street one and two on the agenda and then whatever comes after that um we kind of work its way in so so 501 then 100 Chestnut and then MBTA and then MBTA and that can we won't put anything else on and that can just yep so and there's nothing else that should need to come on for that November meeting uh not at this point um there is a project coming forward the the town dog park um so I think that could be a small presentation um I think we're working on the application now that's been a project that's been kind of in the process and I think I know the town's trying to get that moving along there's some Grant funds attached to that okay um so um but I'll follow up with the board on that that's kind of a that's a good project it's a it's a it's a it's a park park uh on Memorial Drive um and so we we'll probably have to I I may have we may have to put put a little time in for that you know presentation into our public hearing we don't have anything scheduled to to to discuss the letters that we got for the 40b so we can we have them on the agenda tonight um the the 10 to 60 Main Street and the 61 wavy Street um we have been in contact with the developer for 10 to 60 Main Street I believe he's going to file fairly soon um and then we'll have to move forward from there um what's the next step I mean what's the next step it's what is the what what the only thing I wanted to know is when I read the letter there there was a suggestion by Mass housing that that that the developer um um kind of discuss or reviews the few things that that the town requested all zba it's all with the zba just all zba so there's nothing for us to at this point no you know we'll but the you know we kind of go it goes to the zoning board of appeals right they'll have to file an application and then the first step in this process is we will have 30 days to open a public hearing um once that project's filed um we have to move quickly and but there go but but there's no there not actionable that hearing is it the first hearing well but the hearing would be for what I mean do we really have a standing on on on Mak it's not a CH it's not a public hearing with us no it's on the zba with the zoning Bo of appeals yes I think we can you know as a planning board you know you know we they'll may they may solicit comments from us yeah and I think we can and then also we can attend the meetings as as you know residen is the town of Ashland okay um those meetings um you know we we we're meeting with the chair of the zoning board of appeals next week to kind of get an understanding of you know how you want how we want to set it up I I believe that those will be back here in public in in person meetings the zon board of appeals has been meeting online um so I think with these 40 BS we'll we'll be there we'll have representation from Town Council um Leisa me you know me uh Talan um and uh we'll go through the process to the letter of the law this is potentially wishful thinking but the fact that there there were sort of more of those in the 1060 than the other one I feeling like it's a good yep not better than not having them in there yeah no 100% you know with the language more of what the suggest strong suggestions from the state about things that they wanted uh the developer and this to okay come ready to discuss at the CBA um I wanted to just be an advocate for Anna's request because she asked me to she wasn't here about so if two of them got approved and now you're over is there what's the legal opinion about that is that actually so so you'd be over the 10% with two projects correct and and that has no bearing so now it's a weird thing because that means 10 developers can come and do that if that's are we over with either one by itself no but with yeah yeah that probably answers the 10 developers question we not with with Anna's qu with Anna's question is and the way I read Anna's question is that if another person comes in right between now and the approval of that 40b to Mass housing what does Mass housing do I don't know what Mass housing it would do but I but what I have learned from the last six to you have no idea 12 months is that it's very common for communities to face multiple 40 BS at one time um the numbers that the numbers that matter the most right is is the Shi in the present right not the Shi in the future right uh so I think we can you know and I think this is a matter of what we saw right you know we said this is our Shi and if you had this and if you had that and if you had this boom we're at 10 right but they didn't say they never took you know did they take that into consideration I'm going to say no right because they ended up issuing the letters of Eligibility anyway anyway right because it's not until they're built until they're added to the Shi that those count right and so I think that's what you have to look for now I don't know if bass how you know if it wents to the if it goes to the eohc um you know and does another 40b come in do they approve it I don't know how they would look at that I thought we were over with one of these our letter said you you can pick one because you'll will be at you get into you get into if everything 501 if 501 go you know 501 happens if if ugc gets a ruling and pulls a building permit it's a lot of it's a lot of hypothetical at the end of the day um which is definitely well it's unfortunate that they both got that way but there's nothing we can do there's nothing you can do and you just got to take you know one way you know one put one you know put take it you know play each hand and and keep on moving um I will say there is another 40b coming in it's a one Lot H Habitat for Humanity lot down on Main Street and that's a that's a project that has to go a 40b route due to some you know historical you know rulings um and I think that's a that's a pretty that's a good project the Habitat for Humanity home infield development um that will be approved uh I believe that will be approved by the state it has not yet um but um but to Anna answ to Anna to answer Anna's question I would say it's up to Mass housing but I I am assuming that yeah they would because um they're worried about the Shi at the date that that application files so looking at the calendar uh we have the number November 14th meeting the meeting after that is Thanksgiving day or would be Thanksgiving Day the meeting after that would be December 12th um I don't suppose if there's if there's any way the dog park can wait till December 12th that would be great if they can't they can't I get it you know um but the time you'll have to tell them the time will likely be limited um given that we're down to single meetings for these months um and um yeah on December 12 well we' probably be very relaxed well I don't know maybe something else will pop up between them but yep I can but I I get it you might not be able to just throwing that out there yep um otherwise otherwise we just have meeting minutes unless someone else has an announcement or I want to put it in a plug and I know that no one wants a stuffed meeting but to try to have the developer for the new pawn Street project at least discuss it since the application wasn't complete it's not submitted and I think it just might help things ultimately go better along the project and maybe not but it might at least you know speaking to you offline but yeah you know and following up with everybody here I think I can write email I can email the the the engineer and I can invite him you know I'll I'll take the the I'll write email and formally invite the applicant to the planning board and if they want to do so I think that's appropri um and then we can kind of move you know they can go um we can kind of see how it goes but I can reach out and and do that and I think that's an appropriate first step I think that would be a good idea too we talked about that and about an informal meeting that's not a part of the official process right so whether that's December 12 or the first meeting in January you know to kind of you know I think I think that would be a good idea too to okay I can take I wrote the many minutes and I don't I didn't have any comments I frankly did not even look at them this week I apologize what date are we at okay is September 12th and then there September 26th I think there's a joint meeting in between I have to get out uh I'll put on the next agenda that was the one with the select board and the uh The Joint meeting with the select board and I think that was September 18th and I'll have those ready for the next meeting just make a quick plug um ctpc they're having their fall workshops um if anyone is interested um they're starting to put these on Zoom which is a good thing so I can I can send that out if anybody is interested uh please let me know are you getting to go to the uh the planner conference in Springfield it's like next week or the week after yeah yeah next next Thursday and Friday I'll be out in Springfield that the they have some really good well the titles I don't know if they'll be good workshops but the titles look pretty good on some of they'll be pretty good it's always a pretty good conference um I have to get um as an accredited American planner I have to get my CM credit points and I'll go out there and actually um Samantha Riley our sustainability coordinator is going to be a presenter um and so she's been done some really great projects on heat mapping um with Framingham and um natic um within some M mapc Regional projects and so they're going to actually be presenting out in Springfield so which is pretty good uh plug for Samantha she does a great job um and she's got a lot of good stuff going on with sustainability at this point so please look out for those and in in the newsletter a lot of stuff happening there everybody ready so I make a motion to approve the uh minutes from September 12th 2024 meeting second the roll call vote I was in the meeting Marcela I Katherine Jersey guy and Trisha Kendall I all right give me just a second to look at this is it just me or are these meeting minutes starting to feel like actual conversations transcribed in these meeting minutes is it just me that feels that way it's like literally we're talking about like for example this paragraph line 72 this may be a question for Tomy me to address how to not decrease like it's feels like it's actual conversations and meeting minutes I thought the meeting minutes we got I think at the last meeting felt different than this and now they're back to that very detailed yeah um which is not a bad thing but feels well like script I feel like it was more detail but not as good and I so I agree in one way but it's fine I mean if which just maybe we do communicate cuz it was sort of missing maybe important details but putting less important details is kind of the flavor I would say for for I have a question on the line I just read that now it said edits were made to the draft minutes but if it does should we strike that if if we're not saying what the edits were it's on line 140 on um September 26 edits were made in the dra minutes it's I mean I guess it's fine it's just a little odd to say edits were made but not mentioned like yeah I don't think it needs to be in there I mean that's what I'm saying should we strike it yeah yeah I think otherwise I'm this I'm good kind of skimming but it seems to be generally you know what we talked about okay yeah make a motion I make a motion that we accept the September 26 2024 minutes with the small edit second and a roll call vote Marcel I Katherine Jersey guy and Trisha Kendall okay so meeting minutes are done I think that's all we're going to squeeze into this evening and uh we have a game plan for our meeting on the 14th mhm make a motion and we'll see what big events happen between now and then forc eviction a shell of a human treating withy use the first to recover yeah make a motion to adjourn is there a second second and a roll call vote Catherine Jersey K Amanda ha ey and Trisha Kendall ey all right thanks everybody

Co I am their highest employee and uh we need 55 more people to hire 55 more people you're looking for can you tell us what would make a good employee of nightmare co uh very scary definitely need to at least uh Sol your soul once and uh you need to be prepared do you think farmer Mandy here would make a really good employee maybe maybe that's that's a good sign I don't know am I scar uh change the outfit and maybe change the outfit change the outfit I have a scarecrow that he might want toly how about me how about me do you think I would make a scary employee maybe maybe I'll take a maybe we should apply we should apply will you put in a good word for us I guess thank you so much yeah anything else you'd like to say to the folks at home uh be prepared prepared for for what for my people mind control all right well you heard it here be prepared for mind control thank you so much for that warning thank you I'm scared now I'm a little worried no no no no we're going to be fine because we're going to be in the interview process by the time uh by the time they get around we'll be on the inside yeah oh my God I see some twins over here but we also have a witch over where Chien there's so many people who do we talk to next I so these are my chickens from my farm brought your chickens from the farm they're getting ready bad had their chicken Fe exciting chickens from the farm and what is your farm called a Mandy's Farm Mandy's Farm chickens this is a really great surprise today we're super excited to have these chicken come on my chickens this is um good gracious which ones through uh your farm and your chickens and and just like do do they make organic eggs I know who they are yeah these are my so these chickens these are my prized hens they do lay organic eggs this is my Annabelle she's a little sweetie see here H she's a little tired and this is my my rosily uh they're very good chickens uh I've had them they look a little tired right now they've been laying a lot of 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this one I think that there is Elsa is that right Elsa Elsa do you have anything to say uh yeah I'm 6 years old and I am in fourth grade wonderful and I think you are Raven is that who you are you want to say anything Raven I I am 6 years old and I am in first grade you two are darling can you tell us how did you pick out your costumes we'll start with Elsa uh so a lot of my friends like Elsa and that's how I choose my character and uh Elsa she has powers this is your microphone why did you tell us um this um I my a lot of friends like Raven my so my friend Sophia she really likes Raven just like me and um she really wanted to be Raven for Halloween and she did so that's why she's my friend and I wanted to be matching with her that's wonderful that's nice do you guys know your catchphrases yes Elsa what's yours m is it Let It Go yes yeah you want to say it Let It Go wonderful and Raven do you know your spell ASAS R zos wonderful hopefully we don't summon any demons today are you guys ready for some candy yeah yes perfect why don't we send you off and you'll go get some candy thank you so much for joining us today let's wave one more time have a great day bye hope you get lots and lots hello we have looks like a dragon why don't you W the camera over there turn around and wave you look fantastic can you tell us a little bit about your costume um oh I'm the Ender Dragon of Minecraft you're the Ender Dragon of Minecraft I know you you know me yeah I I just see you last Halloween I just be Mario farmer Mandy I'm a celebrity wow I know you well I know you too you want to know how how because I play Minecraft oh so can you tell me can you tell me how to defeat the Ender Dragon um you get the arrow and a sword both out and Tack them at once wow that's a great strategy great strategy I hope everyone at home is paying close attention uh can you tell us what your favorite candy is um skos that's really exciting cuz we have Skittles for you are you excited yes why don't you go on inside and we'll get you some thank you hello come on over we got some great costumes here here line up over there okay I'm right in the middle here hello all right well who do we have here I think I know who you guys who all of you guys are you do that's so exciting I I have no idea you don't know farmer Mandy I do not we'll have you guys introduce yourselves okay so why don't we start with starts with an S okay I'm Snorlax and Snorlax is what a Pokemon oh is that all you're going to say about Snorlax he's very fat he also really appreciates a good nap doesn't he yeah yeah and how about you I'm bakugo and tell us a little bit about bakugo his Quirk has explosion and he makes a lot of explosions I hope you're you're going to keep those uh under control today we have a lot of people around collateral damage you know y you know yeah and how about your costume I'm tandro from Demon Slayer Demon Slayer and um basically I slay demons that's it slay demons that's really cool so Tandra where is your sister today um I left her in my backpack at home that's fair that the sun is still out so that makes sense that makes sense farmer Mandy this makes sense I promise she must be real small I well she can shrink oh that well that makes sense do you guys want to say anything to YouTube or any of the folks at home I'm um um let the world know that I am here there you go thank you so much very inspiring I can't imagine who you got that from did you have something to say too uh kill demons there you go there you go I hope you guys will enjoy getting some candy we've got a ton right through there thank you so much all right we got some more Hello interesting characters here some Dapper people here wow can you tell us who you're dressed as I'm a gangster or a Mafia Boss a gangster and mafia boss and then someone equally scary and who are you Jason ah well your name is Jason well you're very you're very scared scary character can you tell me a little bit about Jason he what does he what does he do he kills people oh oh that's that's that's great is that why you got that uh weapon there yes all right and how about the mafia boss what do you do I basically kill people too oh two very scary gentlemen here very scary what made you want to be a Mafia Boss and Jason like he what yeah uh I just like Jason cool cool I like it I respect it is he the guy that gets into your dreams no okay that's another one that's a Freddy what kind of candy are you most excited about today heres Twizzlers wonderful those are I don't know if you guys have been inside over there yet but we've got tons of clay candy oh okay well I hope you get lots of Hershey's today do you guys want to say anything else to the folks at home see you oh see you bye bye I thought you were waiting some more some more come on hello all right hello hello I think I I can tell who you are but would you like to tell us about your costume introduce yourself my name is Griffin hail very nice and I like I like this outfit you have here it's very official although at first we almost didn't know notice you because you were just kind of camouflaged into everything else how do you how do you make sure that people don't walk into you all the time I don't know you don't know do people walk into you a lot cuz they can't see you no oh wow you're really good then at avoiding people so what kind of what what are you most looking forward to today I don't know Candy yeah are you um do you have any other recruits with you up over there if you want to just you today oh so you're the only one on duty huh yeah would you like to say a happy Halloween with us to the camera all right ready happy Halloween happy Halloween thank you so much hi there hello hello you look very scary who are you today scream who are you ghost face from Scream o can you scream for us waa I'm sure everyone at home really appreciated that you're welcome from me that was powerful all right well why don't you tell us a little bit about who you are who you dressed as I think you guys are going to have to come a little bit this way move just to make sure we're still on camera cuz you guys are Live on YouTube and on cable all right go ahead I'm Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas and what does Sally do I don't know what what inspired you to uh be Sally today um cuz I thought she was pretty yeah and she's got a lot of like bright fun colors and what inspired you to be um so we just and my mom that's a good V I like how you did your makeup too everything from welcome would you like cool wonderful we got two different conversations sorry about that is there anything you guys want to say to the people watching at home um hi happy Halloween perfect happy Halloween thank you go get some candy farmer Mandy yeah do you want to take over for a bit sure you can take a break and I I think you can use a a microphone to uh just have the kids hold for a bit and I'm going to go off and um I might I might get up to a little bit of Mischief I'm not going to lie little bit of Mischief I will reconvene later that sounds good all right come on over okay wow this is something else so tell me what is your name and who are you dressed as today my name is Paul and I'm dressed as a blowup alien who's kidnapping me blow up alien where uh how did this abduction start can you tell us the story oh can you tell us the story there we go uh he came to my house one night uh like last night and um so I didn't realize and he was like under my bed so when I woke up he came out and he like grabbed me so I've been like this all day wow wow well what are you excited about tonight with this event uh getting candy yeah that seems to be the seems to be the theme around here but he wants me to give him half my candy or else he's not going to let me go so oh it sounds like a raw deal so you're going to have to do it yeah yeah so I'm going to need a lot of candy that's for sure well is there anything you'd like to say to bevcam to the cameras here uh come on down cuz it's lots of fun lots of fun yeah all right well thank you very much yeah thank you have a good day hello hello okay we got a couple people here so here I'll hand this to you first tell me who you are uh my name is Gio Gio what are youy say hi hello big boys say hi hi and tell me what you guys are dressed as today uh that's Scooby-Doo and that's Dino a dino um I'm justess as a big BBC I'm dressed as a dinosaur mhm I'm dressed as a squirrel and what about you I'm justess as a big BBC I'm dressed as a big BBC wonderful I'm dressed as a big BBC too and what uh what are you I am a squirrel what are you excited about with this event today um are you getting lots of candy taking all the candy from the little kids oh no taking candy from babies um taking candy kidnapping a kid and putting him in my van and giving him um the Uncle Randy treatment that's a little terrifying what do you you guys want to say happy Halloween to the cameras hi Halloween I'm going to hello hello what oh what you're going to be for Halloween all right why don't you turn around here look at the cameras so I'm going to be a can of hunts a can of hunts ketchup no hunts hunts I love hunts you and I didn't know it was going to be trick or tree right now so so you're going to dress up on Halloween right yeah awesome and what about you a burrito a burrito delicious how about you um I'm going to be um doll p mix I'm going be Dolly Parton mix oh oh very cool very cool what about you I'm going to be soy sauce ramen noodles soy sauce ramen noodles love it are you guys having fun today yeah very much awesome getting lots of candy I'm going to get 1 th000 pieces and I just turned seven and I'm going to I'm going to be first time I'm a trim being seven oh wow congrats and make sure you go in there get some candy from bevcam too we have lots you did oh smart very smart well I'm excited for yall to enjoy your Halloween and get all the candy you can want to say happy Halloween to the camera happy Halloween happy Halloween you guys are on camera right now happy Halloween all right thank you you guys have a great time hi hello oh goodbye mic here you go well tell me a little bit about yourself what's your name who are you dressed as I'm Cameron and I'm Patrick Mahomes because he's the world's best quarterback oh what makes him the best he can throw 60 yard bombs you can I can yeah very cool I like your costume is that your real hair no oh it looks real whoa you got shorter hair under there that looks real cool have a good one all right who do we have here okay welcome welcome I'm going to pass this around so tell me who you are what are you dressed as today I'm Vera and I'm dressed as a pirate pirate awesome how about you my name is sien and I am dressed as a '90s rapper I'm Natalie and I'm dressed as a vampire I'm Caroline and I'm also dressed as a '90s rapper oh got a couple '90s rappers are you guys having fun today yeah awesome nice um what inspired your costume ideas anything I'm not sure not sure just in general just like you just liked it I just found this at Spirit you found it at Spirit I was on Tik Tok and I like found the idea and I was like I'll do it it's cool I was just like with my friends and we were like looking at Halloween costumes and I just like I don't know cuz like I know it's a little bit basic but it's cute so it's very cute would you like to say happy Halloween to the camera happy Halloween all right well thank you all right look at this hello how are you we good how are you great great could you all introduce yourselves tell me what your dress as today sure talk right to the camera I'm Casey um I am a kakamura which is a pirate in um the movie Moana this is Moana also known as Zoe wow and here you go honey you tell them what's your name this is Nora she's an astronaut with her dad who's also an astronaut very cool hi say happy Halloween hi happy Halloween happy Halloween can you say happy Halloween all right thank you happy Halloween thank you have fun enjoy your candy oh thank you hello oh I love these onesies so welcome tell me your name uh talk to the camera there tell them who you are today I'm Isabella and I'm dress up as a Dalmatian I'm AA and I'm dressed up as um zebra I love it did you plan your costumes together yeah yeah you did oh what what inspired you um well schol yes School an is the only outfit we had was school you did an event at school with costumes or yeah yeah okay that's cool that's cool they're very cute where' you find these outfits um Amazon yeah Amazon everything's on Amazon nowadays awesome well anything you'd like to say to the camera today um well guys have a really good day and like yeah awesome all right have a good day you thank you it's your turn well hello hello there oh you got some some teeth going on there now why don't you talk to the camera there tell them uh what's your name and who are you my name is Trent my name is Trent my who am I what do you mean by Who Am I who what is what are you wearing oh I don't really know you don't really know you some kind of monster or something not a clue not a clue you just W woke up like this do you know what Willie's onee land is I don't I don't what's Will's Wonderland I'm trying to act like that oh all right that's that's what you're going for right now are you scary J and we want you to have yeah that kind of anyways what um what do I do well you're you're on camera talking to all of Beverly right now so what would you like to say to Beverly on Halloween watch one L more often thank you very much have a good day right now hello hello welcome so tell me who what's your name and what is your costume today my name is Sky and I'm an undead Skater Boy all right well you can tell the camera a little bit about um your Undead skater boy costume and what inspired it um well so I was being rushed to get here and I was like I want a costume and uh mine I'm going to be The Lorax actually and since I I it's not here yet and you know we have skateboards at home and I put on these pants and I went to my aunt and I said what what can I do with these pants like get me a hat get me a and she got me a hat she got me a shirt and this is how the look came we have fake blood in the basement so that really well done something you threw together so you got two costumes this year yes I do that's pretty cool I like it it's a good vibe thank you so much love I love your costume farmer costume thank you very much I had some chickens just left but uh oh that's they were pretty cute that's too bad yeah yeah well anything you'd like to say to um Beverly uh thanks for thanks for sitting here and listening all right happy Halloween happy Halloween to you too thank you enjoy of course well we've got some really great costumes around here I've seen some little dogs dressed up uh my chickens are back again hello come on over here right in the camera there look right in the camera and who are you what are you dressed as today I'm Evee Eevee Evee nice to meet you and what is this costume you got going on from descendants from descendants and what's your character Eevee oh you're Eevee what's your what's your name when you're not Eevee kin oh gotcha gotcha um what inspired you to dress as Eevee from descend because it's a cool costume it is a really cool costume are you getting lots of candy today yeah having a good time yeah awesome awesome anything you'd like to say uh to bevcam the camera there happy Halloween happy Halloween all right thank you so much and who are you uh s a fire put your mask on with your mask are you coming back oh you coming back with your mask perfect perfect oh you got some candy in that there you go all right I love that mask so can you come face the camera here and what's what's your name my friend Damon Damon and what uh what's this character that you are today a ninja fireman you're a fireman ninja fireman ninja fireman that's why I get the mask I got it and are you having a good time at this event yeah awesome did you get a lot of candy so far yeah it was stumped in my mom's wonderful would you like to say happy Halloween make sure to get lots of candy thank you both all right you guys are up next bye hello howdy I love these outfits so why don't you introduce yourselves to the camera tell me a little bit about your costumes today um I'm Joe uh I just came back from school so I didn't wear my costume but I guess I'm a teenager in the 21st century and um yeah I was originally Michael I love that uh I'm uh I'm Moon and I'm Yi isidori but gender swwa and I don't have all my costume are you going to uh go out Halloween 2o and you have different costumes for that yeah cuz I just have I I just went with a shirt and shorts cuz the rest of it hasn't come yet oh all right yeah well it looks I love the wig it looks great and what about you are you going to dress a different costume for Halloween yeah Michael Myers Michael Myers that's a good one too anything you'd like to say uh to the Bev cam here or you want to say happy Halloween or uh uh Happy Halloween all right great thank you so much enjoy oh we have a little pig here uh did you escape from my farm come on over here and look we can look in the camera hi well you look like uh maybe a little piglet is this a piglet this is Piglet y this is your own piglet this is my own piglet where's Winnie are you Winnie I'm Winnie waa oh there are the ears tiger was going to come too but he got stuck in traffic of course tiger got stuck in traffic so cute and look you got those little piggy toes yeah yes you do little piggy toes I just had my chickens were just by the other day they they're 16 months oh my go how old is this oh you're 7 months piglet see I'm seven months old I would be very impressed if you said that Winnie the Poo a do you like watching Winnie the Poo you do I can tell by your smile can you say something say goo go she's hypnotized you like my hat and you like the microphone right yeah yeah well so nice to meet you want to say happy Halloween to everybody happy Halloween thank you poo and pig bye say hi to T tiger hello come on over here and right in front look right at the camera oh howdy I think I see some great costumes here I think we might be uh related you you work at that farm across the street from me right no no you don't or maybe I I'm mistaken you for a different cowgirl so tell me what's your name and what is this costume see Rose and I'm a cowgirl I love it I love it I like your boots I have boots like those at home home and what's your name I'm Nora and are you Beetlejuice oh and there a new movie coming out I already watched the original you already did it was it good it was great oh wonderful and are you all having a good time yeah awesome awesome time awesome time lots of candy right yeah are you going to go out for Halloween too yeah yeah definitely yeah awesome do you have anything you'd like to say to the camera we're here to the city of Beverly um should we say happy Halloween together all right ready 1 2 3 happy Halloween all right well you guys have a great time I might see you at Rodeo sometime soon all right take it easy come on over right over here I'll pass this microphone down so look out the camera here all right so you two look similar can you tell me about who you are what your costume is um so I'm my dad because my dad's um a a police officer and she just wanted to match me she wanted to match you well you both look great and you got real badges there yeah awesome what else you got do you have a gun uh no all right I was worried it came with the costume but I didn't you got handcuffs though yeah you going to arrest me no all right cuz I didn't do anything we were going to be something else matching but we decided to do just this so it's like just like just simple kind of I like it I like these are very good costumes and how about you um what I what am I uh I'm like a ghost type thing and here you can take this um I'm like a ghost type thing yeah um you're like a fancy ghost like an old timey ghost and you were crying looks like it yeah cuz you're dead it was sad to be dead yeah I understand yeah are you having a great time yeah yeah and how's the candy they're not being stingy with candy are they getting lots of candy C yep that's good I don't know if you've been into our spot yet at B cam but we have a lot of candy in there you have okay yeah we do not disappoint well it was really good yeah is there anything y'all would like to say to the camera I have a nice night yeah um happy Halloween happy Halloween happy hallowe Halloween perfect thank you so much all right y'all come on over welcome welcome all right we got a long line I'm just going to pass the mic on down all right tell me tell me about who you are what you're doing here today you all right here well let you start go down this way what are we explaining our who what what's your name and who are you oh who are my name's Marissa and we are all dressed as soldja boy oh gotcha my name is Tonka and I'm also so my name is Belle and I'm also soldja boy my name is Arya and um we are twins my name is sopia and yeah awesome that you're also so it's a group costume really what uh what was it that made you decide this um mainly yeah we're doing it for our Beverly field hockey team yes for Beverly field hockey we love bever because we love Beverly field hockey and um we just felt like we need to celebrate that awesome awesome are you guys going to get some candy today yes we already had a few pieces y okay good well we have bags in there if you need a bag oh wow we have bcam merch bags no they're just they're on the table they're just yeah then get some candy we got lots of candy thank you all right you want to say happy Halloween happy Halloween all right thank you thank you hello howdy there's a camera you want to be on TV camera over here so stand right yeah you can stand there that's fine here you go so would you like to tell me what your name is and what your costume is today my name is Eddie and my and my costume is do fatal do Vader wow and do you have a lightsaber here yeah what does it do does it worky again whoa here all oh my gosh whoa that is really cool and and how about you what are you uh I am an imperial officer Imperial officer and Darth Vader now Darth Vader are you having a good time today yeah did you get any candy yeah lots of candy yeah we have even more candy in there too if you want to check it out uh what do you want to say happy Halloween happy Halloween thank you so much have fun thank so much oh I forgot to ask you do you want to tell us who you are sure I'm I'm the Death Star to go with my my uh Dark Side gentleman right here that's great it's a great collaborative a lot of fun we're really enjoying Halloween oh wonderful well you got another chance too absolutely double Halloween right all right thank you I see some fabulous costumes here come on over check out the camera there can you tell the camera what your name is and who you're dressed as um my name is Buckley and um it um um um um trying to show your sleep here a robot are you robot of some kind yeah cool are those all your different buttons that yeah what do they do do you do cool stuff yeah but they're not real those aren't real buttons I thought they were real for sure that's pretty cool and are you having fun yeah yeah are you going to um go out on Halloween too yeah get double candy awesome would you like to say happy Halloween Beverly happy Halloween Beverly that's so nice thank you so much have fun and get lots of candy oh I think I know who you might be can you tell uh the camera here a little bit about your name and who you are today my name is arella and I'm Maleficent oh Maleficent and can you show off this um really cool cane you have there is this a what is this my glove oh does it do anything magical it just like kind of shine it's just shiny oh okay what about what else you have you got some wings you've got these cool horns and feathers are those real feathers you have awesome so what are you going to do on Halloween are you going to go out again second time same costume awesome are you getting lots of candy today yeah yeah good good would you like to say uh Happy Halloween to the camera happy Halloween all right thank you well you look wonderful have a good time hello hello all right well would you like to tell uh Bev cam here what you are dressed as today I am dressed as Ronaldo Ronaldo okay and what inspired you to dress as Ronaldo he is my favorite soccer player oh yeah is he really good mhm you've been following soccer for a long time yeah yeah awesome I think about four years four years oh you're a big fan yeah yeah have you been enjoying this event yes a lot of candy mhm awesome and uh is there anything you'd like to say to the camera today happy Halloween happy Halloween all right well thank you so much you look great oh my goodness so what is your name and what are you dressed as today um my name is Max and I've dressed up as lucky the Celtics mascot oh you're a Celtics mascot do you have um some other family members dressed in itic attire I have my dad your dad where's your dad um let's see I got to see you together oh look at that so you're Celtics too yes awesome so what made you guys want to dress as like Celtics and Celtics mascots um this year I really started liking them you watch it together uh-huh awesome would you like to say happy Halloween to the camera happy Halloween happy Halloween all right get lots of candy enjoy you're welcome hello it looks like I have some really cool characters coming up are you popping back in I have come back in I worked some Mischief magic I know I saw you off on your broom and I was like do you want to be on camera oh you're Live on YouTube right now I think we got wrestlers you want to be interviewed yeah why don't you tell us about your costume I'm a summer wrestler and what do summer wrestlers do they like uh like try to take down their opponents can you do like a Dos Koy for us I don't think so I don't know how to do it that's okay that's okay we've got a junior suer wrestler here perfect that's wonderful you're on YouTube right now do you want to say hi to everybody at home would you like to see happy Halloween happy Halloween anything else no thank you thank you did you want to be on camera too think about it it looks like it is pandemonium on the streets everyone is out and about they're having a fantastic time we have a princess here a princess yes you look fabulous you look like you've got lots of jewelry going on who are you today Belle Belle oh so you you know the Beast yes is he really a nice guy in real life yes yes what is um what is your favorite thing to do Belle my favorite thing is about I can I can um play with um my friends and my and my brother and sisters that's really nice are you all having a good time here yes yes and are you getting lots of candy let's let's see how much you got okay yep that's a lot of candy right there well would you like to say happy Halloween to the camera happy Halloween to everyone that was so nice thank you so much you have a good time bye how wonderful so sweet she said happy Halloween to everybody everybody that is a lot of happy Halloween to do everybody we got some we got some great people coming through here oh we lost one and we have a flamingo over here and I see butterflies and there's just so many people around that I don't even know what to do all every Pokémon I think I've seen every Pokemon I every Pokémon I see uh police officer aliens oh uh I might know what this is is that a Dem dog let let me go see if we can get them on camera dorgon yeah let's try that I think that's a stranger things dog over there we're going to see if we can get him on camera what all all right well we got we got a lot of people walking around here and everybody's really excited getting their candy together oh we got a cool cool costume over here look at this dog hello dog hello you look great what is he dressed as or she she's a demorgan to uh the micophone she she's a demogorgan to uh help uh or to combat here I love it I love your 11 costume you got the nose bleed want to look at the camera over there you don't have 11 quiet real quiet yeah I love's not I love your family costumes it's wonderful thank you so much I'm a fan of stranger things it's really yes we are too F show yeah yeah you'll having a good time getting candy we are and all that yeah that's great that's wonderful we're going to press on but thank you for having us happy Halloween you too thank you I see some people over here oh a dragon a princess oh we got an army guy would you like to be on camera so actually if you stand right next to me and turn and face the camera there we can interview you all right I'm going to pass it on downline so why don't you tell the camera your name here you can hold this and what you are dressed as I'm Lucas and I'm dressed as a army guy army guy and how about you my name is Charlotte and I'm dressed as a ring Master love it my name is Leah and I'm dressed as a zombie cheerleader a zombie cheerleader how about you can you look at the camera um my name is Sam and I I'm will fary wonderful are you having a good time yeah happy Halloween happy Halloween they were adorable they are just coming out of the woodwork oh it looks like we've got we've got got some mechanics over here oh yeah mechanics would you like to be on camera here we go all right y'all have to tell us about all this so uh he's an F1 driver and we're his pit crew yeah so we've got our wrenches uh you know for quick pit stops and uh you know he's got his little F1 regulation onesie uh and you know his uh cardboard F1 car I love and you guys you built that F1 car yourselves this was built ourselves hand painted yeah and how long did that take you uh maybe 30 minutes the hand paint an engineer help a little while long we had to like the paint paint was the uh was the hard part I like that to the artist all right well I think I it turned out real good and how does he feel about it he feels pretty good he always wants it to be quicker but you know yeah it's a little a slower race car at moment yeah exactly yeah yeah yeah but uh what do you uh what inspired you what inspired you to do this we found this uh f11 Z at the thrift store so naturally you know you build a costume from there yeah exactly at a time that quite a fine to find a F1 costume in his size at the thrift store like what are the chances of thatone you know Keen ey Keen ey indeed well do you want to say happy Halloween to the camera there happy Halloween happy Halloween thank you so much he's driving away he's very fast all right bye little guy bye oh hello well come on over here look at the camera I think we might have an Ariel are you Ariel yeah yes and why did you decide to dress as Ariel today because I like it do do you like the movie yeah do you um have any favorite song from the movie yeah what song do you like um when when she falls on the sand when she sings what do you like the like look at this stuff isn't it neat wouldn't it make my collection complete yeah that was one of my favorite movies when I was a little kid until I got sea like under the sea right under the sea oh that's a really good one yeah yeah and you like is flounder your best friend yeah awesome and would you you like to say a happy Halloween to the camera happy Halloween happy Halloween she said thank you so much like Coco go oh come on over Coco wow you a mermaid on a seahorse she swam away Hi how are you good and would you tell us here you can hold the mic if You' like tell us uh what's your name and what are you dressed as today um my name is Will daily and I um I'm a Hobs from Calvin and Hobs Hobs from Calvin and Hobs wonderful you look great yeah and this is I am Rowan and I'm dressed up as a skeleton as a skeleton I'm Kai and I'm dressed up as a clown wonderful and are you all having a good time yeah yeah a really good time a lot of candy so far wonderful you all got your different bags love it that a pillowcase yep awesome yeah and uh would you like to say anything to the camera um you want to say happy Halloween or happy Halloween Beverly awesome thank you so much enjoy thank you all right we got a lot of great folks coming through to say happy Halloween to everyone here in Beverly oh we got a cat over there I think we might have a fireman nope who we got oh here we go here we go we got a little tiny a lion I think are you all lions yeah well lion family H which oh okay that's all right I can still tell come here baby so tell me about who you all are and what you're wearing today uh look right at the camera I am the Wicked Witch of the West right not the wied wit of the East thanks you can you can have oh sorry sorry no no problem and this is my name Char can you say your name who are you you say Charlotte that's a microphone so we can hear you I am uh gnarly Charlie the half human half line I'm kind of a hybrid uh project went wrong but we're doing all right I love it say hi stage right a so cute I love your wig oh thanks it's very fabulous used to wear a wig yeah it's like bright as the sun right and I felt like I could skip the whole green face paint if my hair was Green so exactly exactly well you all look great do you like to say happy Halloween Beverly happy Halloween Beverly thanks for doing this thank you so much and enjoy your candy thank you that oh we lost your say bye charl oops look at the camera say bye W say bye oh so cute got a lot to take right now shy Little Cub thank you you take care to sah oh we got a firefighter hello what's your name and what's your costume today hi my name is Sam and I'm a fir fighter is there you know you putting out any fires in Beverly today um yeah there was one near the town hall there was one in your town hall yeah oh dear was it a big one uh yeah kind of you got it under control though yeah we had to have two fire trucks oh wow wow where'd you park your fire trucks you got them around here right over there right over there awesome are you having a good time yeah and you got lots of candy there too all right would you like to say happy Halloween happy Halloween happy Hall thank you so much my name is Kristen happy Halloween we wanted you to introduce yourself too thank you so much bye wow wow look at these costumes howdy how y'all doing doing good would you like to tell me a little bit about yourself like what's your name what are you wearing here you can hold thisa I'm AA and I'm wearing a fairy costume inspired by Flora a fairy from the show I like called winks club very cool hi I am elanie and I'm a fly aaric mushroom and it we just so coincidentally ended up picking a fairy and a mushroom costume yeah very cute I'm Elijah but I'm not part of them she's just my best friend um my costume is Gambit from X-Men 97 he is featured in a lot of X-Men but uh very cool and did you all figure this out together what inspired you well I was part of a family before and then we met her and I decided to go with thumb because so I was an X-Men 97 n yeah 97 6 yeah okay 97 that's right all right very cool awesome oh enjoy your day uh would you like to say happy Halloween to the camera happy Halloween all right thank you get lots of candy and enjoy so much thank you very much a lot of great family costumes and group costumes we got uh what's this cat for mayor here hello there uh what's your name I'm cat F cat F and um what brings you here today I came to Beverly to support all the cool cats in the city I love it I love it are you having a good time oh amazing time Wonder perfect oh perfect I get it I like that now um uh what ins what inspired you to run for mayor I was inspired just to provide clean beds and food for all oh that's all the cool cats is Just for Cats or for other animals and humans everyone everyone okay so we're all cool cats yeah everyone's a cool cat everyone's a cool cat I love that well would you like to say uh Happy Halloween to Beverly with me oh yes thank you so much you're welcome enjoy too hello oh you look familiar can you tell the camera here what your name is and what your costume is inspired by my name is Charlie and um I'm Wednesday Adams from I from The Adams Family yeah uh I want I I'm Wednesday because I um I'm actually in a play and it's the Adam's Family oh wow so I wanted it to just be Wednesday are you Wednesday in the play or are you a different character I'm an ancestor an ancestor yeah cool and what do you who's this who do you have here this is thing oh hi thing hi he's waving to the camera is thing your friend yeah yeah you guys do a lot together does he help you carry the candy that's really nice is is there anything you'd like to say to the camera today um not that I can think of right now we want to say happy Halloween happy Halloween awesome thank you so much enjoy and get lots of candy but make sure you brush your teeth afterwards well that was that was Wednesday from The Adams Family I like her she's a real she's a real serious character you know oh my goodness wow wow wow wow all right where do we start would you tell me a little bit about uh your costumes here today um well this guy's from the future he uh came back to uh save me and Mom MH MH and the rest of the world right what do you think Bud oh see he's he doesn't want's a machine he he doesn't communicate in that way is he what's he saving us from the end of the world and AI all right yeah mostly AI these days but yeah I hear that's big a big issue well thank you for for saving us all yeah and how yes oh yeah I probably didn't say oh you guys specii there yeah Terminator Terminator Terminator is here and what about y'all Sarah Connor and this is my son John I'm her son John he's your son yes all got questions yes you look over your age that's for sure are youall having a good time awesome that such a great organization as bevcam I know does this amazing content and covers these wonderful events you believe what a great team they've got over there I'm just this random person off the street I don't know her at all saying this thank you so much anything else you'd like to say uh say happy Halloween we'll be back oh you'll be back will you thank thank you so much thank you bye bye oh this is making me hungry for some reason would you I'll hold the mic for you since you don't have any arms would you look at the camera here and tell me what's your name and what is your costume today my name is reys and we're PB and Jay PB and she's Jay my name is Shay and I'm Jelly because she bullied me into this she bullied you into it well are you at least having fun now yeah and you're like you're sparkly jelly yeah yeah you added your your own little Pizzazz to it yeah what um why did you want her to go with PB&J with you uh I don't know you don't know it just popped in your head just wanted to be PB andj are you best friends yeah I think like peanut butter and jelly are also best friends so that makes sense yeah awesome you having fun yeah should we say happy Halloween to Beverly yeah all right ready happy Halloween Beverly thank you so much have [Applause] fun looks like we got a nice crew over here thank you so much all right we'll go we'll go down the line here you can tell me a little bit about what you're wearing oh we got another little Wednesday we just saw another Wednesday earlier all right well look at the camera there tell me what's your name and what are you dressed as today um I'm Maddie and this is Macy we're dressed as polar opposite clowns polar opposite clowns I love it and how about you uh my name is marus and I am dressed up as a Navy SEAL I love it and why don't you tell me about your costumes my name is Ethan and I am be juice oh who are you you're and who are you Elise you are Elise say Wednesday Wednesday oh Wednesday so cute and all you all having a good time yeah yeah yeah love this love it anything you like to tell uh the camera today um there's lots of cool costumes yeah any have is there any costumes you've seen today that stood out to you oh yeah I've seen a lot of beetle juices i' yeah a lot of beetle prodes lots of Reds from the new Descendants movie yep yep there was like one costume that really stuck out to me it was like a it was Bob from beeto juice and it was like really tall costume oh that's cool that's cool yeah it's really fun to watch everybody walk by yeah uh would you all like to say uh Happy Happy Halloween to the camera happy Halloween Halloween thank you enjoy we're Bev cam so you can be on uh television on local cable and talk about your costume if you want what about me what what' you say I said what about me you can be on camera too why don't you just tell us like what's going on here what what is this just remember folks the jelly of the month club is a gift that keeps on giv all year long you heard it here thank you much you you might enjoy jelly I like jelly I like jelly yeah excellent thank you so much fun with the kids Happy Halloween Brown what should I say well you can introduce who you are and what your costume is to start okay so my name is Ellie and um I'm a killer clown and my dad is very embarrassing because he his outfit is just a lot but and these are my two friends you can go you can go you can go I'm Marie and my outfit's a vampire um I'm Sarah and my outfit is a vampire oh wow well you all look great thank you so much happy Halloween all right well looks like we got another crew here would you come on up and um look at the camera for me okay we got a nice variety here could you tell the camera what your name is and who you addressed as today my name is Alish and I'm just as red from Descendants the rise of red my name is Becket and my costume is a ghost love it my name is Li I'm dressed up at chlo uh I am dressed as the old Scotty dog old oh Old Scotty dog are you all having a good time no no having a good time having a good time have you seen any have you seen any other interesting costumes today yeah yeah what did you like a guy way I liked a guy wearing like um he was riding a dinosaur that's pretty cool well you all like to say uh Happy Halloween to the camera happy happy Halloween say happy Halloween no no oh thank you you'll have a great time happy Halloween all right let's see why don't you tell the camera here what your name is and what your costume is today my name is Gwen and I'm a Cheerleader and what about you my name is Gilda and I'm Anna Anna nice love the costumes now are you guys having a good time here today yes yes did how did you come up with your costume ideas just online you saw it online you saw a good costume and you too yeah yeah I like it no not online no I it's a real competition uniform is real you're really a cheerleader that's cool is there anything um you'd like to say to the camera today Halloween's the best holiday in the world you think it's the best holiday in the world I love it I think Christmas is Christmas pretty good too that's that's also true well thank you so much you want to say happy Halloween to the camera happy hallowe thank y'all have a great time oh my gosh he a little minion all right well can you tell the camera here what your name is and what your costume is today I'm KK and I'm a minion um I'm JJ and I'm just love bloody you're just bloody oh well we'll have to revisit what happened there now what uh what is your minion from what movie theable me four thep me four okay is that one of your favorites no I just picked up random you just like the costume I like those little glasses and what about you why are you bloody what happened to you were you attacked yeah yeah probably yes you were don't you remember you don't remember that's that's so you just woke up like that and you were like uhoh I'm bloody oh that's a little scary you should go see a doctor okay all right would you all like to say happy Halloween to the camera happy happy Halloween thank you have a great day wow look at this costume would you like to introduce yourself hi my name is Emerson and who were you today um and just Emerson you're what I'm just Emerson today oh okay and you look fabulous did you pick out this dress yeah cool and are you having a good time walking around yeah yeah lots of candy right yeah have you have you seen any other cool costumes today yeah what is your favorite um I don't know you don't know it's hard to choose right there's always something cool I like when I see little dogs in costumes little dogs and little babies dogs are cute yeah would would you like say happy Halloween with me to the camera yeah all right happy Halloween everybody have a good Halloween thank you that was great I have some more friends coming up here oh look at this would you like to introduce yourselves yeah and tell us a little bit about your costume and what inspired it and you can look right at the camera there hi I'm Amelia I am a um hi vampire and what inspired me to do this is because she told me to told you to and what about you I'm Amma Lonzo and I'm a vampire another vampire I Amilia and I'm Beetle Juice bye-bye oh thank you happy Halloween happy Halloween happy Halloween thank you another oh it's a cool lightsaber all right would you like to go so first so talk right to the camera introduce your yourself and your character please hi there my name is Solomon and I am a punk rocker fabulous what inspired you to be a punk rocker today well my mom once was steampunk but I chose um Regular Punk over punk rock I mean regular Punk over steampunk I like I think that was a good choice are those real piercings I got to ask no they're just clipons oh they look real thanks would you wear that necklace if you weren't in costume do you think you'll wear it for fun uh maybe maybe maybe well I love it and you got what down here some chains this is a pocket chain pocket chain very cool and what about you over here hi my name is Asha and I'm Dela and what inspired me to be the Vader I went to Disneyland this summer and I saw a storm tube and I was like I want to be someone from Star Wars and I chose do vad oh that's really cool you had a great time in Disney yes that's awesome well you both look great is there anything that uh you'd like to say to the camera happy Halloween say happy Halloween all right you say happy Halloween too happy Halloween thank you you both look great and perfectly in character enjoy those are some great costumes wow looks like we got a couple people coming through here oh my gosh I just saw you from a mile away you got the fruit up there you got all the colors why don't you tell the camera what your name is and what your costume is today okay um I'm um I'm Eva Marie Flynn and this is a costume that I got from the joffin shop and I really love it and what inspired this costume today well my sister used to um my sister used to wear it and then I really wanted to wear it cuz I just really like like the bright colors and like um how it left oh that's great so it's been in the family yeah maybe you can save it and then like maybe a niece or a daughter of yours can wear it one day and it'll just keep going maybe that would be cool it have you been seen a lot of other cool costumes today um yeah it's pretty interesting oh would you like to say happy Halloween to the camera with me all right ready happy Halloween thank you so much enjoy I hope we get lots of candy thank you hello hello we got a couple people here come on up come on up so we're going to look look at the camera there okay why don't you tell us what your name is and who you're dressed as today uh my name is Scotty and I'm dressed as Austin Matthews awesome and what who a tell them a little bit bit about who Austin Matthews is uh he's a hockey player on the Toronto Maple Leafs and are you a big fan yeah yeah you like him awesome thank you so much and then we'll see who's yeah why don't we pass it on down there tell us who you are today oh you like to tell us are you a dog say I oh you go who he's shy well you can tell us who he is he's a dog are you a dog dog a I like it and what about you um um I'm Mike Myers Mike Myers okay here you go no here we go pass it on down I'm a clown here tell the camera uh I'm a clown what's your name Grayson and you look great are you having a good time would you all like to say to shout happy Halloween happy Halloween camera there you go thank you oh we're dancing over oh my gosh all right so you're going to have to tell tell the camera who you are and what you're dressed as today oh I didn't see you there you come on over I'm dressed as tubeman and I chose this because uh I want to be a big tube man Tube Man okay I'm going to ask her real quick what what is your costume today um it's um Elsa Elsa oh you make a wonderful Elsa and we got this nice long raid here love it and what about you um my name is Dylan and I'm name I and I'm Namar junor because I like Brazil cuz you like Brazil right and um are you all having a good time today yes yes are you going to go out on Halloween 2 in the same costumes awesome and have you too did you guys see any other costumes today that were really cool um well I like Dylan you like his the most this one is one of those like um you see outside of like a a car dealership or something yeah why so why did you choose these costumes um I chose it because I always like being blow up costumes okay what about you um I like it cuz um um it's so beautiful and what about you what did you choose I chose it because I like STC awesome all right let's say happy Halloween to the camera happy Halloween and you have a great time thank you very much do you all want to be on camera so why don't you three come on up look at the camera there tell us about tell us who you are and what your costume is today or you can start that way if you want Hello I'm Gabriel Cruz and I am a green lime green amongus all right what about you I I don't have my costume but um what's your name are you are you planning to have a costume later what are you going to dress at um I think it's like a wrestler um a infatable um like um a wrestler an inflatable wrestler I think it's wrestling Co and what about you hi my name is Ariana um the costume I wanted to be is this but like I wanted to be Dorothy from The Wizard of odds but you went with this yeah I went with this all right well let's all say happy Halloween to the camera you ready happy Halloween all right and you guys get lots of candy and enjoy oh wait come here you come up here I missed you I'm sorry tell us about yourself H I like this costume because skeletons are my favorite quas you are you a skeleton like pirate skeleton yeah because cuz I like skeletons and Pirates oh I love it and what would you like to say to the camera happy trick-or treat happy trick-or treat I love that Happy hallowe Chicken treat thank you so much enjoy your candy wow wow wow wow come over here got a long line so we'll go we'll uh start someone start here and then we'll pass it down line make a nice little line there and look at the camera there you go we got a big group here all right so ladies introduce yourselves tell us who you are and what your dress as today I'm Simone and I'm Princess Diaries I'm Maddie and I'm a cell phone I'm Eve and I'm a cell phone I'm Amelia and I'm a girl from the 50s I'm Martha Jane and I'm also a girl from the ' 50s well you all look fabulous are you having a great time yes awesome would you like to say happy Halloween to the camera there happy Halloween thank you so much you have fun bye you're welcome thank you who who do we got lined up here you want to talk about what you're what you're doing today so tell us your name and my name is Jason Hansen are you wearing a costume today no are you are you planning to for Halloween yeah okay tell us a little bit about what your plan is um I don't know what I'm going to wear okay and what about you my my plan is to steal everybody's candy I'm I'm I'm collecting all the candy I can get I have so much right now I don't think you need to Ste steal any if you got all that candy already I know but my name is Jace Jace it looks like you have a costume there did you take it off oh yeah um is it a say your YouTube channel my YouTube channel is J so hand so no spaces okay happy Halloween all right my friends what do we have here we got a group okay all right so why don't y'all lie line up and look at the camera hi would you like to tell us who you are what you're dressed as today I'm a zombie prom queen and Lucy is flounder and you are Ariel Luigi look over here Mario Mario oh Mario and Luigi can you look at the camera and wave while you all look so great and you having a good time yeah awesome are you going to get lots of candy yeah yeah we already have lots of candy I love the costume so you guys kind of match and you match and you're doing your own thing I love that let's all say happy Halloween ready 1 2 3 happy oh that was nice and loud I like that thank you so much look at much candy got hello you're welcome come on over would you guys like to go together all right so are you are you all friends yeah we're sisters sister oh your sisters even better all right why don't you tell me what your name is and what you're dressed as today my name is Karina and I'm dressed as Taylor Swift oh gotcha my name's SC and I'm dressed as a um skeleton skeleton I love it how did you guys come up with your costume ideas today um she's just my idol and I love dressing up as her yep and I just wanted to be someone scary so I did um I SC it awesome are you having a good time yeah all right well make sure you stop at a Bev cam get some candy if you haven't already and have a good night you too thank you happy Halloween I see somebody over here we're ready for you if you'd like to come up for an interview all right you too so why don't you tell the camera there what um what your name is and what your address has today you can take the mic there you go Dylan Wess um I don't know what address means I I don't know and what about you I'm Xavier pizen what is this uh costume today is it devil or the devil mask devil mask yeah nice what made you want to be a devil I don't know cuz I just kind of wanted to you just wanted to yeah are you doing are you getting a lot of candy yeah making out pretty good yep all right could you say uh Happy Halloween there to the camera happy Halloween happy Halloween a happy Halloween thank you so much have a good night thank you hello how are you hello you can line right up here just you for now right okay so why don't you tell the camera who you are uh what you're dressed as today uh I'm Abigail Harville fry and I'm dressed up as Perry the platapus from the iconic TV show fineas and Ferb M wonderful and uh what inspired you to dress up like that uh I was going to be a dock and then I saw a Perry the Platypus costume and I'm like I love F and furb and I was like I'm going to be CH I like that it's a little more specific than a duck a little more unique that's really cool and it looks comfy and warm too it is yeah it's not too warm is it uh I'm a bit sweaty a little bit sweaty and are you getting lots of candy today yeah have you been in a bcam have you tried our candy yet yes okay good wait have I no we got lot we got a whole uh uh barrel full of candy in there so we're doing pretty good would you like to say happy Halloween to the camera with me happy Halloween everybody thank you so much and you enjoy the rest of your day you too thank you oh we got with Thing One and Thing Two here oh well why don't you tell us a little bit about how you are and how you decided to to come up with these costumes here um it was last year last year we decided to be thing one thing two um for Halloween no was for school for school it was um diic Duos and we decided um to be thing one thing two for Halloween that's a good dynamic duo and so you just stuck with it cuz you like it yes I have the same I wore this last year for Halloween too so I hear you and are you having a good time very I'm having like a really fun time getting candy and meeting all my friends out here and it's fun seeing all the costumes right do any wild costumes or any interesting costumes that you saw today there was someone in among in Among Us oh that's cool yes it was really cool yeah there's definitely been some standouts for sure and would you like to say anything to the camera um hi want say let's say happy Halloween happy Halloween thank you so much all right you have fun thank you hi welcome so you can introduce yourself to the camera tell us a little bit about who you are and who you're dressed as today hi my name is Jason and I I was supposed to be ghost face but my mask snapped oh snapped it snapped oh no get your cards um hello my name's uh joy and jolia U my costume is uh Alien kidnapping me don't ask why I love it so um yeah and and I like the pajamas too like you were taken in the middle of the night subscribe to Crazy Bob car turns 2.0 oh is that your YouTube y I love that we've gotten a few YouTube uh channels hello and what is your name and who are you today my name is Mia and I'm Charizard oh from uh Pokemon yeah I love it and is it very comfortable I think a little too comfortable too is it like cuz it's a little warm today yeah it's not that cold you probably thought it was going to be a chilly day I was because um I was planning to stay for a long time yeah and it's going to get cold and what made you choose this costume today um well because I am really into Pokemon and my favorite character in the Pokemon series is Charizard oh well it's very cute I really like it would you like to say happy Halloween to the camera happy Halloween thank you so much and you have a great day who do we have here all right all right we got some good costumes here why don't you tell the camera who you're dressed as today I'm dressed as my dad in the 80s um I'm the snake from Beetlejuice the snake from Beetle okay I need to know what inspired these costumes um kind of just what I had laying around in my house like a wig a hat some shorts and a shirt kind of boredom boredom inspired it I love it is that really what your dad looked like in the 8S yeah except he wasn't Ginger he wasn't Ginger okay is the ginger that's a great wig it almost look look like it could be your real hair thank you you're welcome would you like to say happy Halloween Beverly yeah of course all right happy Halloween Beverly thank you so much you have a good Halloween oh my gosh look at you guys hello hi hi happy Halloween would you like to tell us about these costumes and what inspired them sure so me and my friend Ellie um we were minions yes we were we going to be minions together and I'm a Cookie Monster are you eating a cookie right now I really thought you were awesome and do you like the Minion movies is that what inspired it that's great and you guys look fantastic I like how you opted for like the skirt it's got a little bit of like a girly not and you got the eyeliner that's that's cute and what about you what inspired Cookie Monster I like cookies I like cookies too I feel like people should be giving you cookies for Halloween for your trick- or treat that would be appreciated well thank you so much would you like to say happy Halloween Beverly happy Halloween Beverly thank you very good Happy Halloween Hello come right up so we'll go right down the line you look at the camera there and why don't you tell the camera what your name is and who you're dressed as today I'm dressed as a dragon and my name is Sam and and wow that was a good ro oh gentle my name is Heath and I am dressed up as the Grim Reaper and this is Sam McCarthy like a good boy thank you so much and why don't you why don't you come forward a little so we can see you there you go my name is Sky and I a hot dog and you're a hot dog and where is this is a good old Heath and he's been very naughty today and who is this River what are you dressed as the plague doctor oh you look so good and you have a cool cane with a skull on it wow are you all having a good time yeah he's having a good time that's good popcorn bye happy Halloween wow Mandy I think it's past your bedtime it is past my bedtime so I think I'll take over for you is that all good I'm going to go tend the horses thank you so much all right who is next who is next um hi my name is Luna saido and I'm acting as a little cat you look wonderful I'd say you could be one of my familiars what made you want to be a little black cat I I love cats and this is perfect for Halloween yes perfect that's perfect I love cats too do you have a cat at home no well you do now I'm allergic to cats oh then how do you manage being yourself just be myself wonderful is there guys we got to is there anything you want to say to everyone at home like happy Halloween happy Halloween you want to give a really big meow perfect thank you so much perfect that was wonderful wonderful thank you so much thank you go get some candy and I believe we have our very last but certainly not least for the day hello would you like to introduce yourself I'm marshmallow and who are you today I'm marshmallow you're marshmallow head and what does marshmallow head do um he does YouTube and he makes um um beats he makes sick beats right do you can you give us any sick beats today okay all right well how about we try together okay are you ready boots boots boots boots CS that that was great that was great can you show us some moves we can do it together if you want no that's okay you don't have to anything you're really looking forward to for Halloween um going with my friends that sounds like it'll be a lot of fun what are you guys going to do we're probably going to get a lot of candy what's your favorite candy um nerds nerds that's one of my favorites too do you want to say happy Halloween to all of Beverly happy Halloween ol of Beverly thank you so much I hope you have a great night well I just heard that that was our last interview for today that is our last interview I got to go home and tend the pigs so and I also have to Magic away you know once the moon comes up I just like my Powers just kind of explode so I understand I but why don't we say good good night to everyone at home thank you so much for joining us here we've been live from bevcam downtown on cabitt Street our very first time very first time it's so exciting and we had some some great costumes coming through some great community members from Beverly oh what was your favorite costume oh gosh you put me on the spot there there were so many I like I really liked um I like my princesses I like the little princesses they're just so cute there's a little I think AR I think my favorite was Raven oh you liked Raven yes I think Raven was fantastic she really knew her magic you know I love a girl who knows her magic yeah yeah she was pretty great there were so many so many good one girl was like I'm my dad from the'80s which I thought was really funny had a wig and a back that's a great costume no one would guess no one would guess who who you were you would never know it's great the creativity wonderful event thank you so much for uh hosting with me and thank you for being our primary host today you did a lot of the work and I tell you seeing all of these different costumes here was amazing if you couldn't be here if you're watching live from home thank you so much and if you're not watching live from home and you're watching later uh you can always check this out bevcam on YouTube that's where most of our videos are including this one yep um make sure you guys come down to bevcam downtown we've got workshops that are happening now what else is going on Farmer Mandy I mean if you haven't been in a little while we we have a brand new podcast Studio podcast you can see that right from the window that is something that Contraption is you can talk about um I thought it was a torture machine no no that's that's in the basement oh that makes sense that's in the basement that makes sense you can talk about you know tending your chickens um you can talk about um all the ho Downs you've been to or uh you can talk about other stuff that would make a great podcast all of the ho Downs all the H Downs I've been to so many ho Downs we say good night good night good night good night thank you so much thank you so much bye take care [Music]

okay so we have a first from uh trusty minam we have a second from um trusty Corina loera do I have any public comment on item 401 uh no public comment do I have any truste comment on the entirety of the consent calendar seeing none let's take a vote all in favor of the entire consent Calendar please raise your hand uh so it's a five to zero vote um motion passes for the for the action of an incent calendar okay so we right now it's 6:39 and um I'm GNA give um uh yes can you on here so is kind of throwing me off so uh is uh 5.01 so announcement and public comments regarding items to be discussed in closed session uh any public comment Miss Sandra there we go good evening board I was just coming because in public comment I mean in close session I see that there is a new job description and a new position being offered in the district and area just has a few questions about that because of the fact that back in March of 24 we had a board resolution to have a hiring freeze here in the district and I understand that that hiring freeze went along with a number that said how many administrators we can and cannot have but right now our district is going through turmoil and everybody is on edge about whether or not their school's going to be closing their teachers are going to be here Etc you have not offered the teachers a raise which 1% is about 500,000 but we're going to be hiring a chief director which is a cabinet level position in your codes uh object code 55900 for the 2425 budget which is Communications it's over 21% increase in this year's budget from last year's budget and that's not going to include which is a $46,000 difference with a budget that's already $258,000 but that's not going to include this new person's salary have we thought outside the box and thought about off asking the County Office of Ed if there's somebody that they could lend us during this time of Crisis to see that if we can get this to go through before we show the community that we're going to offer a$2 to $300,000 a year position to one one person when you're not offering your teachers 1% for them to stay and are going to close nine schools thank you any more uh public comment seeing none uh right now it's 6:42 we will be back in an hour and a half is that enough time you guys feel you want an hour an hour okay so let's just say we'll be back at 8 okay if we're early we're early no on the way over there and he's also done the but also in the commun with thousands of people on the mic done a great job so I asked to invite you next month hopefully they're all available you give me the information so okay right thanks e e e here usually it's freezy no but it's good the [Music] back from po session at 7:58 and um Mr Sera can you please report out what have uh the decisions that were made in close session uh yes the uh Board of Trustees took action on the board director position with an approval of 5 to Z Bond director Bond director I'm sorry the bonds director took uh voted 5 Z for approval of the position so moving on to 301 um approve the job description of Chief director of community engagement um move to approve okay I have a motion from truste Corina loera second I have a second from trustee Andrea Flores Shelton um any any public comment on 301 see none um gonna go for the vote can I just introduce the item just give a little bit more context so so you have more information and you know the reason this is a position I just want to give a little context on uh uh the district does have a public relations and Community Development officer job description that was appr last approved in 2006 and so this position is now being updated uh to also fit the needs of our current situation uh you know we're we're going through the consolidation of schools process and closure of schools and so we do have a bond and it is going to take uh uh we need to improve the way we're communicating instead of Contracting out we are spending more than $200,000 in contracts in working on our Communications uh uh Outreach to the community to to to the schools and so we need to improve that and so what I'm recommending is that we approve a position and I do want to make a correction to the uh position uh job description uh the title instead of Chief director of community engagement what I want to change it to is chief of communications and Community engagement and what this position is going to do is it it's actually and I've visited almost all the sites um I need about four more school sites to go uh I've held uh Town Hall meetings I'm meeting with parents and a lot of the feedback that I'm getting is where are we with the communication where are we with the updates we're not getting the information that we're getting I had a a principal meeting today uh as well as the one-on ones and the the um the the one of the the feed or some of the feedback that I'm getting from them is that we're not get they're Notting getting the communication but they're also not getting the exposure that they need uh to promote some of their wonderful programs there are so many wonderful things happening in this district and we're not putting ourselves out there we're waiting for the Mercury or the spotlight to put information out that's not in our favor and so we're working on bringing in a position that will be working with the with us here in house to promote to also work through the consolid of schools process because if we're going to have vacant um uh schools or or property we need to inform our community uh we need to inform our our parents we need to inform uh our our faculty and staff parents about where we're at with the process so that they're consistently getting this information and so I believe that this position uh will do that and just one more I gotta ask you one question then you could follow up please um m superintendent said that earlier this year the board approved a resolution imposing a hiring fees uh if the board approves this job description and position would it still be allowed by the resolution if so and why and can you also answer how would it be funded yes uh and and it would go ahead sorry you after you and then him oh okay uh yes we are within the resolution and the freeze because uh the freeze actually or the resolution actually stated that we could not exceed in administrative supervisory positions 48 of those positions and in classified it would not exceed more than 49 this would keep us within the 49 and so but the other thing is it would also as far as like the funding this this position would not be funded 100% out of general fund it would be funded 50% from the bond and also 50% uh from general fund so it actually and there's also a salary savings because this position uh would begin as soon as we bring the person on board or when the person would begin which is not you're saving from July all the way to November there's a salary savings there as well trusty minan you know and thank you superintendent Serta for you know uh you know in the interest of public transparency uh what type of uh bonds related work would this position do correct and and and a lot of the work that's going to have to take place is well one we're going to have we're going to need a lot of communication on the school closure uh but also we're going we're going to have to utilize some of our F uh Bond monies or funds to now fix improve paint work on repairing some of the plumbing there's just so many issues going on with the sites that would remain open and so we would be utilizing those funds and so this position would work in tandem with with with you know with a bonds facility uh or bonds Chief bonds Department to ensure that we are communicating that we're putting this information out there and updating the community uh in our efforts to do so and improving our our facilities thank you and Madam president I may end with a comment uh you know part of this is you know I authored that resolution to uh cap the number of Administrators and this District given the given the situation as it occurred in March and you know uh as much as uh you know usually I am not a fan of expanding positions but my rationale on this one is that uh we do have we this District does have some Communications needs uh and I have one eye towards the future in in hopes that uh as as after we move through through the storm the hope is that in the recovery process we have the communications uh a good Communications person who can help us promote the district you know and the only you know my request to to to you Mr Serta you know later on in this school year is that uh you know as the board approves this position so you have this person under the team uh my request is to uh you know look for ways and present uh you know uh where else we can save in district office administration thank you we'll do trust vice president K yeah um given the circumstances that we're going through every Everything tells me don't don't support this uh further expansion just doesn't make any sense however um I think Alam rock is the world's best kept secret and we have a lot of stuff going on um a lot of amazing things and for a long time and the sad part is that we haven't been able to get it out there properly we at the moment are relying on a staff person whose responsibilities are completely outside of having to inform and they do this U because they're a great employee and they and they they do it um however it shouldn't be that way and so I think that if we're going to compete in in this hyper competitive education environment that's been created where we have competing with privately privately operated publicly funded schools um we're competing with our neighbors that are now uh reaching out directly to our kids in alen rock sending out flyers to get them to go to their dual immersion programs uh on the other side of the boundaries that they it's whether it's to the west of us or to the south of us they give it to the North uh they're sending in Flyers into our district and so with that being said I I completely understand that this looks awkward we're in the face of having to consolidate but if we're to turn this ship around we can't continue to do what we've been doing and then just expecting people to by chance find Alam Rock we need to proactively step it up and uh do so through good Communications and so um I I'll be supportive of this item because of that but I'm have every expectation that um the comments were very real that we are are uh expending a lot and so uh I expect to be brought back uh a plan that uh does some uh cuts to get us back into um to right sizee our our our budget situation so those are my comments trusty is next thank you um I know that we've been trying to get a Communications person or you know somebody focusing on that um for a while and um first of all I want to thank the staff that kind of have taken on these roles has been extra and they've been doing you know a great job considering um but we're definitely not at the point where we should be um and you know we definitely get to be leading the narrative about our story and who we are um so I'm excited that we're going to be finally be able to do that um and also moving forward um I know it's going to help bring folks um and keep families here uh you know when you don't know what's happen you don't know what you don't know so now that you know we're going to know we're going to get the stories as you know trustees we we hear we see everything that happens but unfortunately our community doesn't always get to see that so I'm excited to see um how how we're going to improve so much more somebody focused um and making sure that not just the communications piece but also that community engag engagement which for me is also a priority in making sure that our community feels a part of our district um and that you know they also have a voice here so I'm just excited to bring them on thank you okay um that's so in business the strategy is always you have to be advertising advertising advertising advertising because you want new clients so this is a uh easy for me because um you have to be growing because if you're not growing and others are uh taking uh your resources away um then what's going to happen uh what's going to happen is what's been happening so what we have to do is strategically put things in place not only is this position going to support the superintendent which he needs support because he can't be everywhere at all times um he stretched very thin and this is a way of supporting each school because this this person will be overseeing the community liaison so um I think it's a good move I think it's will bring in um a lot more benefits and the fact that we can do it right now at half the price because the bond money we can use that right now and and um think of the budget the whole time we're doing it we do need somebody there at the schools um just board members and trust trust going and the superintendent going that's great but we can't be there all the time this person will be there and he will focus on what the schools need and more importantly how to service the children better so to me this is for the children this is not just for a position for one person this is to strengthen the unity and the communication that we so desperately needed because if we're not telling people for who we are others are going to do the job for us so I guess I will now take the vote um when we are in close session we'll take the vote because we have to go this is the position to create the position so we're going to take the vote for the creation of the position all in favor of approving 301 job description of Chief director of community Chief Communications and chief excuse me this got changed at the last chief of communication and Community engagement what Mr s said all in favor raise your hand so it's 5 Z it passes unanimously so we will now be going back to close session at 511 we should be back excuse me I think I need a new pair of cheaters okay be we'll be coming back in 10 minutes so everybody can go home before 8:30 thank you e e e uh and Mr superintendent can you please report out okay uh yes the Board of Trustees I'll wait for you s uh the Board of Trustees uh voted in close session to approve the position of chief of communications and Community engagement with a vote of five to zero thank you yes 14 you want to say the do I have the name oh yes the person is Serio Travis uh Diaz Luna sorry what it's Sergio Diaz Luna so we'll see you back here in [Music] November I don't have the date on it but in November thank you very much good night thank you

for e e e [Music] n [Music] for [Music] a [Music] e [Music] e [Music] e what I pledge allegiance States thank you board member Mr Thompson is going to read our mission statement today the mission of the eam Township School District is to promote excellence in an environment that engages students in a meaningful learning experiences in partnership with the students dedicated staff families and Community the district provides provides a strong Educational Foundation that will Empower our students to achieve their unique potential Embrace self-directed lifelong learning develop the skills necessary for appropriate risk-taking and responsible decision making respect themselves and others problem solve individually and collaboratively become contributing members of a diverse Global Society thank you very much Mr Thompson I'll now hand the floor over to Dr Smith for our presentations tonight thank you Mr canthon and I'm going to ask our director of curriculum and instruction Daniel mulik and our curriculum supervisor Robin Collins to join me this is the annual state of the schools presentation looking back at tcore and other data from the prior year going to hand it off thank you okay um so a few different parts we're going to review tonight uh first just being generally when we talk about assessments it's never a moment in time assessment there's a variety assessments that we're always looking at so we'll kind of give some perspective on what those are uh there's certain requirements through Esa that's Federal funding that we receive so we report out on each of those different areas um we'd like to include some District assessments as well just to get again a little bit of an overall picture we're required by the state to report out on standardized testing so that's the state assessment and then most importantly is the part where we talk about so what do we do what are we looking at with kids what are our Focus areas where the places in terms of next steps so in terms of perspective we have districtwide assessments that we use and they're looking for a couple things number one most importantly growth kids come in at all different levels and we want to make sure no where no matter where they come in whether it's below level on level above level that we are teaching and challenging them and showing growth throughout the course of their their time here with us and then of course there's always achievement as well so a couple examples of those we do different benchmark assessments at different times so we might give one assessment in the fall give it again in the spring we do a midyear and an end year math assessment we have different standardized tests so it's not just based on achievement so it's not just the one njsla but there's an aptitude assessment that we give as well so that we can look at is there a disconnect between aptitude as well as achievement so it gives us a few different things to look at and we'll show those results tonight uh classroom performance so obviously everything that kids are doing on a daily basis in their classrooms with teachers is most important that they're every day they're there for you know six hours 24 minutes every day so like rubrics checklists portfolios anecdotal records quizzes tests all of those go into making student grades uh teacher observations and feedback very important report card grades um and then of course parents your observations and feedback is important to us as well in terms of Esa um so again this is connected to federal dollars so we receive that what's considered title one two three and four so the first one is title one we use that for at risk literacy achievement so in our district we deliver onetoone intervention for reading recovery um we were able to serve 93 of our lowest achieving first graders last year in our sixth elementary schools 60% of those students made accelerated progress were the national averages 41.6% uh we also deliver literacy lessons in grades 2 through five at our Title One schools and our Title One schools are beer jaggard and VanZant title two and title four are connected mostly to professional development and services so we use that for PD and Technology um just talked a little bit about what we have different teacher leaders in our building so math technology responsive classroom plc's um and these are individuals that we meet with at a district level and then they do different things at their school to help support School level goals districtwide goals and things like that uh we give a variety of different workshops we have a very robust professional development calendar uh last year we along with different building levels which aren't in that number we provid at 94 districtwide Workshop offerings uh different volunteers who come to those because we have sessions that are level one which would be like new teacher institutes things like that but then we also have just sessions that are voluntary that teachers come to after school um in terms of literacy math response classroom technology or some of the institutes and anywhere where we were um giving a rating scale four out of five on evaluations was the indicator title three is for multilanguage Learners um and basically if we're looking at last year again we had 102 kids in our program throughout the year there's in and out throughout the year but generally speaking that's what was the number for the year nine parent refusals they take an additional assessment access for L's um so you see one of the bullets down there two of the students moved um during the testing so we had 88 take that assessment and there was one was just an incomplete testing so they didn't get a score in terms of um number of students who exit through a different model that's another assessment that we can provide there are 10 so 58% of the students that tested in Access for the first time 94% of those students that took the test in a previous year actually increased their proficiency level so we're happy about that just a one more look at reading recovery real quick couple other indicators so as I said 93 students were serviced 78.5% made accelerated progress or progress so that's where that 60.2 and the 18.3 we did have the remaining either were recommended for additional service that was 4.3 and then 16.1 either had an incomplete program or they might have moved or something before the program ended we are reading recovery District so that means we actually train other districts who use this program and so we get Revenue in terms of they pay to have their teachers come here so a little less than $60,000 I don't oh one one back thank you and then this was just some numbers in terms of summer programs that we offer so we do have different summer programs we don't have something for all students it's really for students identified with a particular need so caps is incoming kindergarteners who might need a little bit more either connected to academics or social Readiness so we serviced about 50 students there uh literacy and math support we serviced 204 students those are students either who are identified as needing some additional Support over the summer and that's in kids k one two going into third grade as well learning academy is for the upper grades so they'd be incoming fourth through eighth graders metamorphosis 50 students um that is students either entering middle school so incoming six or they could be exiting their sixth grade year tier three is our gifted and talented program um so we offer an enrichment program for them in the summer and then extended school year you see there's two different version for preschool as well as K to8 and then we do some different tutoring as well that's more specialized clicker work I got okay so I'm going to elaborate a little bit more on some of the things that Danny had brought up already um so this chart indicates um the results of our Benchmark assessment this is an assessment that's given to all our first through fifth grade students um we administer it both in the fall and the spring we use it to determine um growth uh we also use it to identify areas of strength and need teachers use that information to form their guided reading groups to inform their instruction we also use that information um when kids are being considered for such things as um inrs child study team tier three things like that all right and this is another District assessment that we administer every year this is the end ofe math assessment um the results that you see here are are are typical of what we see the information that we glean from this uh assessment though teachers analyze it along with their uh math supervisor um to do things such as adjust the pacing guide um ensure that the test questions are reflective of what's being taught um and if you just notice up here I just want you to keep in mind that eighth grade scores are our general education e8th grade Stu excuse me it's our general math class it's not the students who are taking High School level math okay U Danny had mentioned this assess also this is our coat summary this is a cognitive ability test uh generally students cognitive abilities their aptitude doesn't uh change dramatically from year to year that is why we give this assessment every two years so you'll see it um for grades three grades five grade seven um it assesses verbal quantitative non-verbal and then a combination of that would be their composite uh the scores that we receive are um haven't changed dramatically over the years we are solidly in the average range we are generally in the the fifth and sixth stay nine the fifth is solidly average average and the sixth is like the higher end of average uh this information is used again for those same areas tier three CST inrs um and this is a a global view of what our um students are their aptitude is but more importantly teachers are trained in how to drill down into this data more individually so you can see exactly what students need by an individual profile so teachers are able to um not only see how their class or their building their aptitude is but individually more importantly all right so now we're going to look at um kind of a macro 30,000 foot view of um NJ SLA Ela scores um oh no clicker okay um so we're starting with Ela and we added these slides back coming out Co to still like kind of show that um longitudinal view of the year-to-year fluctuation etsd compared to New Jersey um looking at the spring 20124 scores exceeding or meeting our percentage was higher than the state in grades four and six um our percentage was lower than the state in grades 3 five seven and eight and then again now looking at the um these are the uh the raw scores themselves just a different way to look at it not translated to percentages um and these um fluctuations are consistent with what we saw on the percentages screen we were above in grade four equal in grade eight below in grades three five six and seven for math our percentages were higher than the state average across all grades as well when it comes to the raw scores those scores are out of um you can see there uh close to 800 total points um and we the way we do the graphs is you know since none of the scores are below 750 15 that's where we start at 7:15 and go up from there again all greater than the New Jersey scores then the last to round it out this is um just disaggregating for Algebra 1 so those are our eighth graders um if you're in Algebra 1 and geometry you only take the algebra 1 Test um that is uh the State graduation requirement as it happens which some students are taking grade um and as we saw in the past years um our averages here were far higher than the states for both percentage and raw score okay as I said in the beginning we do have certain requirements as it relates to the state test that um so there's a whole bunch of slides I'm not going to go through every single one individually they do recap what Dr Smith just said this is just a different way so just to kind of explain this one main one and then I'll talk about the first subgroup breakout and then certainly anyone who's interested this is going to be posted on our website as of the morning you're welcome to take a closer look if you have questions feel free to contact Rob and I are happy to talk about testing anytime um but on the far right that's the the New Jersey percentages next to that is ours so you see generally without third grade you see generally as it relates to language arts anywhere from that 51 to kind of 54 range and then what the rest of this is breaking apart is the different levels that you get with njsla so it's either level one where you're not meeting level two you're partially meeting level three you're approaching the expectations just not quite there yet four you're meeting and then five you're exceeding so again just a different breakout what we've done on this is so same information this is just grade eight though so when you look across the top there's just different information connected to Statewide underneath is the district and then everything underneath is a subgroup so we picked our biggest subgroup so you know obviously when we break out our general education students that number increases from 51.6% being proficient to 61.2% being proficient if we break out our special education subgroup um that percentage is a lot lower but think about that sometimes I might be in special education I might be a grade level below but it doesn't matter to the state we're still test getting tested on the same grade level content as their peers so that percentage is a little lower economically disadvantage is another subgroup that we have um so that one's 34.8 and then multilingual Learners is the ml at the bottom we don't have a giant percentage it has increased so there's certain numbers we're not allowed to report out on uh but you can see different percentages for the students who actually took that at those grade levels um and then if you do one more for me click so this is grade seven so same breakout you'll see it the same way on the on the slide so again state district gened being increased specialed economically disadvantaged and multi lingual Learners so we're going to do several clicks here to take you through so then there's a sixth grade A fifth grade a fourth grade a third grade and then we're going to talk about math so same layout as that General language arts one but for math so in math if we look at the two farthest on the right we see the state all the way on the right we see our what the district next to that above in all those different areas and then if we click to the next slide this one's a little trickier because again in grade eight this is algebra so it might look like oh my God what's going on the state's 39.5 and you know we are at 97.9 the difference there is this is our highest achieving math students so they should be 97.9 because we're pulling out our highest achieving students versus in the state that's a high school course they're taking in the state that's all kids taking that so again little variable there just to consider when you're looking at grade eight and same subgroups switch for me one more time so now this is just the grade eight assessment so again it might look differently the numbers are more um if you look 19.5 versus 25.6 different one more time would be seventh grade and now this is going to be back to all seventh graders and consistent with other seventh graders across the state um so again breakout state district and then those subgroups so if anyone has questions as you go through them again happy to talk through any particular grade level so we're going to go to six five four three and then science one more there we go all right so this is the results of our njsla um science it is a uh federally mandated assessment but it is only administered at grades five8 and then at 11 which is not our district um so you'll see the results that we have here um the bands that they are assessing the domains they do life science physical science um and Earth space science um the levels of proficiency differ slightly from njsla in njsla they have the five levels of proficiency um in science they have four levels of proficiency so the things are parsed out a little bit differently um in that way the assessment measures kids ability uh to understand the uh science standards and the practices um it's not a memorization test so they were given stimuli phenomenon and they are uh asked to use data and charts and the information given to to um demonstrate their proficiency towards that so they in this type of assessment they are given there's multiple choice questions Tech enhanced questions there's um uh open responses as well but they are it's not a memorization test it's based on information that they are given and they need to parse out the results from there uh and this is the results for eighth grade so we only take it in grades five and grade eight same idea and this is our D okay I can do this uh this is our l m assessment this is an alternate assessment to njsla it's administered to our most significantly cognitively delayed students um so each year at IEP meetings um criteria is reviewed to determine if it if this is an appropriate assessment um because students are given either njsla or the dlm so this is administered for language arts and math in our grades three through 8th uh just like njsla and grades five and eight for science just like njsla and this is the results of our um ml assessment this is our uh results for the ESL population they're um go back our students in the ESL program um they have entrance criteria and exit criteria um so kids are assessed to see if they um qualify for our ESL Services um and most of our kids enter into our program in the entering emerging those first two levels um and to see if they are prepared to exit uh they are given what's called an access for L that's the name of the assessment and they need to achieve a 4.5 um minimum on the access to be considered for exit plus you know other related criteria teacher input things like that um most of our kids enter into our program in the entering and emerging stages and while a student is a it's they're allowed to be in an ml program for the duration of their educational career they can be in the program for 12 years we typically have our kids in the program for about three years that's that's the the general length that our kids need before they can demonstrate proficiency and land in that expanding bridging area um this is just one other accountability measure that we do uh that the state asks us to do comparing so this actually goes back 1718 um 189 19 in the 1920 and 2021 year those were obviously covid years so there was no assessment there 2122 and then um is the last year that we have while we have individuals and we share the grade level data this is District data and we won't have the 23 24 last year's until this spring um so we did in this add 2223 um so you can see that's the overall Ela Proficiency in math so that 54.2 was up a little from the previous year the 46.1 was up a little from the previous year in math um the growth in terms of ela and math we're really looking at that 45 and 52 45 is typical growth and that's a different in terms of profession proficiency that actually is looking at growth over time based on a cohort of kids from two years data that they're compared to the one year coming off of covid growth was the only um indicator so it's a little bit higher in that 2122 year so looking in terms of that 4552 is is pretty typical growth uh from year to year and then one of the other accountability measures for us as a district is that English language proficiency that's the ml again um so that was up from the previous year to 56.5 and then one other indicator that the state looks at for us is chronic absenteeism um so that's basically up a little bit in terms of the percentage was higher which we want that percentage to be a little lower in that regard that's the number of students like an individual student who is um absent more consistently okay this was that last part of the presentation where we try to pull it all together and in in our opinion most important because this is what our Focus areas are these are what we we come up with these with our staff and then um so basically we get in terms of the data starts coming in anywhere from last spring like access for data to this summer and jsla data uh coats last spring so coming in at all different times important that our teachers are doing various different fall Baseline data so benchmarking DSi math Readiness um so that they're looking at assessment data that we have over time but also most current data which is important where they are when we start in September so we have District level data meetings where we talk to each building so the curriculum supervisors myself Dr Smith attended um and the principal's Elementary and Middle School where we talk about Trends things we're seeing strengths needs things like that um building level and then that goes right to teacher level so we just had our October inservice on the 14th um so again supervisors meet with different grade levels we do vertical articulation we look at Trends in the data we look at goal areas based on what they're seeing in their classrooms teachers develop what's called a PDP so that's a plan that there there's go goals that they're making um then schools develop from that there school level goals and then we have District level goals based on all of that um and then basically to help us as we move throughout the course of the Year teachers work on plc's to have a collaborative goal and where are they with that along the way they can make adjustments and we have those teacher leaders in every building that are helping along the way um and obviously curriculum supervisors and principles who are working as well so that all connected to goal setting and refining that so that we're ensuring again what I said in the beginning most importantly is growth it doesn't matter where you start the school year it's are you showing growth throughout the course of the school year and that's what we're looking for for every single child um and then we also in terms of PD and curriculum writing and planning we take any of that feedback Trends data things like that and then we try to every summer look at different implementation guides for math or uh revise a protocol for writing and different areas where we can always enhance because we're obviously always looking to do better every year so the focus areas for this year that we came up with uh we have them in a few different areas so first it's just everything doesn't matter whether it's related arts content that idea of strategic differentiation because again kids are come all levels and we want to make sure that we're meeting their needs and making sure there's growth the second is connected toal um so that idea of teaching kids how to persevere uh self-controls another big one the third one is connected to Clarity um so that idea of kids knowing what they're learning and why they're learning it and teachers articulating that so what's the relevance in making sure that kids want to learn the different items that they are um the next one is connected to scaffolding so we're appropriate reducing the scaffolding because if we always give you the scaffolding we don't ever pull it back you're not able to do it on your own so that idea of reducing strategically over time so that kids can demonstrate Independence the next one's connected to self-informed assessment so increasing the amount that we are doing that so we can inform instruction and then the last one is that idea of Technology tools and we want to use those authentically not just for the sake of Technology um but also integrate meaningful test prep as appropriate there so that kids are familiar when they take njsla next ring they know the test format the type the type of test questions that they have the next one is language arts so again some different galaries specific to language arts the first is text-based evidence to support reasoning both in reading and writing the next is connected to word study we revamped our word study with our revised language arts curriculum so implementing that with Fidelity across the grades and we really did try to do an increase in student accountability and then transferring the principles that they're learning about in word study which would would be spelling vocabulary and phonics into reading and writing the the next one is connected to just teacher language and that idea of strategy use and using it across text with increased Independence conferencing and the importance of that in both reading and writing the idea that we're focused on the learner and transferable strategies over time and then the last one is small group instruction and intentional planning connected to that math uh so you can see has some different Focus areas as well first one again being differentiation so that idea of Engagement incorporating Choice the next one connected to supporting content so that's geometry measurement things that come later in the school year we looked at opportunities to pull them forward uh the next one is connected to just math reasoning and the critiquing the reasoning of others in respectful ways both verbally and in written form the next one is connected to just being able to generalize and transfer knowledge into different situations and practices and then the last one in grades three to eight really an emphasis on how to sell problems electronically how do I attack a problem that I see electronically as opposed to um you know on paper almost done science uh so kind of three Focus areas there the first one shifting from that surface to deep understanding and the connections across the disciplines Robin had said there's the earth science there's life science there's physical science and the connection between them the second one is connected to both content and practices um again for that spiral spiraling across disciplines and then the last one is just really increase time and science there's never ask any teacher there is never enough time in your day um we alternate at elementary school science and social studies units and we want to make sure that we're teaching science with Fidelity and we're getting to science and it's not all social studies um different in Middle school where you have science as a separate subject and social studies and the last one Speaking of social studies uh that idea of focing on social studies practices um we want to consolidate the learning over time meaningful opportunities for that active citizenship um so we have service learning units in all of our grades and the last one the idea of considering and reflecting on varying perspectives and that in a nutshell is our state of the schools presentation thank you [Music] y thank you Miss mcul um any questions or comments from the board all right seeing none we'll move into open public comment the meeting will now be open to the public referencing agenda items only however if your questions or comments pertain to litigation student or Personnel items or negotiations we would ask that you see the superintendent after the meeting since we do not discuss these matters in public please limit your comments to three minutes per person is there anyone who would like to speak about any items of interest from the agenda today seeing none we will move forward we need a motion to approve the minutes for items 6.1 through 6.2 do we have a motion motion by Mr Brown seconded by Miss Lee any questions or comments from the board Mr Yates roll call please roll call on the approval of minutes Mr Bach yes Mr Brown yes Mr dear yes Mrs null abstain your exstension is noted Miss Lee yes Mr Thompson yes Mr conon yes the motion carries thank you Mr Yates moving mov to item number seven superintendent reports and administrative items we need a motion to approve item 7.1 through 7.8 do we have a motion motion by Mr tomson seconded by Mr Brown before we go to a vote I'll hand the floor over to Dr Smith thank you Mr canthon so October is a very full month in etsd I'd like to thank all of our staff students and families among other things for their participation in the many great events this week marking red webbon week which promotes a drug-free and healthy lifestyle and why it's important to stand together against drugs some common elements which I hope everyone's seen and been able to enjoy are theme days like crazy hair day or one day wearing red another day wearing the same color by grade all to emphasize teamwork against drugs and many other components food drives poster cont tests rib ribbon decorating and more and we continue to invite all our families to participate and partner with us in discussing this message at home October also marks visits all month from our IAM fire department if You' seen the fire truck outside with uh its fire inspector Bryce pigm I want to thank him for his great presentations for all the kids that's every elementary school every grade all month and since this is our first board meeting since our district received its formal approval of our preschool expansion application I'd like first to share that good news in this forum and thank our board for their support of that application which resulted in the largest amount awarded Statewide of all districts approved this fall 3.2 million I'd like to acknowledge the hard work and dedication over the last 3 weeks of rice principal Amanda fry assisted by curriculum supervisor Mindy Coffer and personal director Michael mongan as we've searched for the um important additional and excellent certified preschool teachers and preparation for that transition from half day to full day in January in only the 3 weeks since our application approval we've already identified and our recommend amending for approval tonight seven new Preschool teachers which is an incredible accomplishment when you consider that across the state over half of the districts are currently approved for this preschool expansion and also seeking preschool teachers so um and that ends my my comments Mr canthon thank you Dr Smith any questions or comments from the board S I was hoping Dr Smith that you can give us just a broad overview of 7.4 the district Improvement plan that's on the agenda I'd be glad to so 7.4 is the uh it's called The Dip which stands for district Improvement plan and basically what that is is um so all districts go through qac quality single accountability Continuum which is the NJ Doe's mechanism for um monitoring uh District progress across five areas um and the district needs to meet 80% in all five areas and any District that even Falls just short has to do an improvement plan for that one area so for us that was instruction and program we had 75% so just short of the 80 um and where that differential came into play was through um test course so we will um we develop a Improvement plan which um has been worked on through members of the curriculum department and teachers from the different schools which we'll implement this year um we are in uh a very large company of most districts Statewide that didn't pass for that same exact uh reason the test core data um and uh and actually right now the um a lot of those districts are working to provide recommendations to the state about how they can improve that process so yeah I I just wanted the public to know that you and curriculum are working towards and understand that there needs to be some improvement in that area and the plan lays that out so I want to thank you for your hard work on that thank you Mrs null any other questions or comments from the board seeing none Mr Yates roll call please on administrative items Mr Bach yes Mr Brown yes Mr Demar yes Mrs N yes Miss Lee yes Mr Thompson yes Mr conon yes that motion carries thank you Mr Yates moving to curriculum instruction items 8.1 through 8.8 do we have a motion motion by Mrs null seconded by Miss Lee any questions or comments from the board seeing none Mr Yates roll call please on curriculum and instruction Mr Bach yes Mr Brown yes Mr Demar yes Mrs N yes Miss Lee yes Mr Thompson yes Mr con yes that motion carries thank you we now need a motion to approve items 9.1 through 9.9 19 under finance and operations do we have a motion motion by Mr Thompson seconded by Mr dearcy any questions or comments from the board seeing none Mr Yates roll call please on finance and operations Mr Bach yes Mr Brown yes Mr demarcy yes Mrs null yes Miss Lee yes Mr Thompson yes Mr conon yes that motion carries thank you moving to item number 10 Personnel we need a motion to to approve items 10.1 through 10.10 do we have a motion motion by Miss Lee seconded by Mr Thompson any questions or comments from the board as it pertains to Personnel seeing none Mr Yates roll call please on Personnel Mr Bach yes Mr Brown yes Mr demarcy yes Mrs N yes Miss Lee yes Mr Thompson yes Mr con yes the motion carries thank you Mr Yates moving to item 11 policy of which we have no none moving to item 12 committee reports is there any committee chair who would like to share a report seeing none we will move forward to Old business of which we have none item number 14 new business we need a motion to approve the special education settlement that was discussed in executive executive session today do we have a motion motion by Mr Thompson seconded by Mr dearcy Mr Yates roll call please we had Thompson and demarcy yes thank you on new bu business item 14 special education settlement discuss in executive session Mr Bach yes Mr Brown yes Mr Demar yes Mrs NL yes Miss Lee yes Mr Thompson yes Mr compon yes that motion carries thank you Mr Yates moving to item 15 open public comment the meeting will now be open to the public referencing any items of Interest however if your questions or comments pertain to litigation student or personal items or negotiations we would ask that you see the superintendent after the meeting since we do not discuss these matters in public please let me your comments at 3 minutes per person is there anyone who would like to speak about any items of Interest seeing none we'll move past that section are there any board members who would like to share an announcement uh next month Veterans Day November 11th eam Township will be hosting a uh veteran ceremony 5:30 p.m. at the township building uh where they will present plaques to some veterans on the display on the veteran wall um so if you're able come out and support thank you Mr Brown Mr de Marcy um I believe it's this Friday is the ef's designer bag bengo um so if you have the chance to go and support that event go do that they do great work for the school district uh so yeah thank you Mr Marcy Mr Bach um early voting starts this Saturday get out and vote um Good Luck to all the people running for Board of Education and that's it just vote thank you Mr Bach any other board members like to share an announcement seeing none motion to adjourn motion by Mr Brown seconded by Mr dearcy all those in favor see you next month [Music]

[Applause] there our next senior escorted by his parents Susanna and tsano number 21 Victor Andrade [Applause] our next Sor accompanied by his parents Amanda and rerio number four Pedro bores [Applause] [Music] our next senior escorted by his parents Erica and Vinnie siblings Sam and Estella a captain number 11 Felipe de carvalo [Applause] our next senior accompanied by his parents tatiani and Andre Leno and stepdad G me and his brother Quan number 10 Andre Costa [Applause] our next senior accompanied by his parents Kim and Nate number six Jamie Draper [Applause] the next senior accompanied by his parents Kristen and Kevin and his girlfriend Lily number one Mikey [Applause] Flynn our next senior our company by his parents Jennifer and Dixon and sister Ella number eight Bailey Fong [Applause] our next senior accompanied by his parents Camille and Jerel number 17 kesan Graham [Applause] our next senior accompanied by his parents Kelly and Todd and brothers Trey and Miles our captain number 19 Hunter Megs [Applause] our next senior escorted by his parents Jamie and Oscar and sister Maya number 13 Tyler paa [Applause] our next senior accompanied by his parents Margie and Mike number 25 Jace ra [Applause] our next senior escorted by his parents Julie and Jeremy and brother Eli number nine Noah Ramsey [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] our next senior accompanied by his parents Uma and Madu number 12 lith s [Applause] our next senior accompanied by his parents Karen and Michael number 15 Joshua Steinberg [Applause] our next senior escorted by his father Paul and brother Colin and sisters Briana Britney and Heather number 22 Daniel Turner [Applause] our next senior accompanied by his parents Jennifer and Keith stepfather Derek sister Aaron number 14 Nathan wilick [Applause] our final senior accompanied by his mother Christina number 27 Lucas Velasquez [Applause] thank you seniors For The Memories the effort the commitment and the Legacy you leave behind you've made us all proud go clockers ladies and gentlemen another round of applause for the Ashlin boy soccer class of 20 [Music] 25 I don't know how we're going to do this but we're going to try and take a picture with everybody in it my to don't e e almost four give hce to I look great out there [Music] to we a whole that's so PR just C perect you I think I'm that's what I'm telling oh yeah I think it was because we were worried o00 orange and hears a white T-shirt I actually have a I'll I'll kind [Music] what yeah right right I'm G oh wow saw I saw the other a m like he's not here us than [Music] I don't know they [Music] oh really l try to good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Ashlin High School home of the clockers tonight's non- League boy soccer matchup features the visiting BVT beavers and your Ashlin clockers [Music] the Beavers ranked 12th and the latest Mia division 3 power rankings ENT tonight's contest at and2 Ashley meanwhile is ranked sixth in division three and has a 104 and2 overall record please keep in mind that all of these student athletes coaches and contest officials have worked diligently to prepare for tonight's competition please show your support by making sportsmanship and positive behavior a priority please note that any profanity or derogatory comments centered on Race ethnicity sexuality or religion will not be tolerated and will subject The Violator to ejection be loud be proud but be positive thank you now let's meet both teams first for the visiting beavers number three Camden Snow number five Jaden [Music] Kong number seven Matt drones number eight Miguel Machado number nine Jack Neely number 10 joal baroso number 12 Gabe Heeney number 13 Tim cpro number 15 Ki tku number 20 Aaron corpy and then goal number four Mason door and now let's meet the starters for your Ashlin clockers number six Jamie Draper [Applause] number eight Bailey [Applause] Fong number nine Noah [Music] Ramsey number 10 Andre [Applause] Costa number 13 Tyler [Applause] paa number 14 Nathan [Applause] wilick number 17 Kean [Music] Graham number 19 Captain Hunter Megs [Applause] number 21 Victor [Music] [Applause] Andrade number 27 Lucas Velasquez and in goal number one Mikey Flynn [Applause] [Music] [Applause] at this time we ask that if you're willing and able to please stand as we honor America with the pling of our national anthem e [Music] God [Music] good evening and welcome to waca TV here at the plateau my name is Daniel vety and besides me is Josh Abrams Josh it's senior night tonight at the plateau Ashlin boy Varsity soccer versus the Blackstone Valley Tech beavers beavers are 140 and2 on the other hand the clockers are 104 and two what do you expect the clock to do coming out of the gates right away hopefully they can establish some dominance early Daniel I mean both these teams based on their records based on the power rankings and MIAA division 3 I believe yep uh these are a couple heavyweights and uh yeah I think we got an exciting night here again to couple it with senior night we got a big crowd on hand again the boy docer team generally plays at the middle school great to have them here on the plateau and uh yeah looking forward to a great night yeah Blackstone Valley Tech beavers are 12th in the miia they're not in our division on the other hand the clockers are sixth total in mi a so going to be a really good close game yeah just for referencing they're we they are actually in the same division they're both division three uh different conferences different conferen yep no problem want to make sure our young listeners on the live stream are keeping up with us so I was counting it I was looking over these rosters again very deep very deep rosters very experienced right the clockers have 18 seniors five Juniors out of 25 on the roster and the BVT beavers 10 seniors 10 Juniors on a 24 person roster so again a lot of experience between these two teams beavers will kick off to start the game and we are underway at the plateau quick interception by bayy Fong trying to go up the field is Andre Costa playing it towards Noah Ramsey too big of a touch and out of bounds but you like the aggressiveness early here Daniel again I and this I apologize this is my first time seeing the boys soccer team All Season probably the latest in the season I've seen them play in a number of years and just already taken by how fast this game moves you know compared to the girl soccer compared to you know Youth Soccer that I've seen in the you know in the area this is going to be this is going to be a lot of fun yeah they just recently played their game against hollist it was back and forth game all game long you just see how quickly each team was moving in the end the clockers came away with a two nothing win dominating that very good Panthers team so of course coach Thiago Moda ninth year now with the program does a great job year in year out and I mean I feel like again with with these seniors I feel like I've been seeing them since they were freshman and even earlier with with ays so you as youth soccer so let's let's uh address the elephant in the room the blonde hair usually teams will do that once they make the playoffs now not the playoffs yet as here's a chance for great defensive play wow I mean even from up here you could see that uh that no was going to beat was going to get to that ball before the keeper dangerous play and only a smart heads up play by the defense the beaver defense thwarts an early clocker goal but yes I do see a lot of blonde hair on the on that Beaver team yeah so usually teams will come to together and say we we're making the playoffs we're going to do something it's usually about their hair for some reason mhm uh clockers thought about getting mullets but in the end I think they're also going to go with bleached hair okay you know I can tell you mullets take some time that takes some planning you got to you got to really plan that out ahead of time uh both these teams again we are very late in the season at this point clockers after tonight just have one more game Tuesday night here again on the plateau and uh Pete clay and I will have that one here all the play byplay on waca so I could see you know again you typically maybe they wait for the playoffs to do the whole blonde thing to bleach the hair but uh I mean both these teams have pretty much locked down playoff spots so why not why not attack early right yeah and mostly seems like they're both going to get home games depending on what the Beavers do in these last two games but clockers surely seem to look like they're getting a home game oh absolutely I mean what for soccer is top 32 top 33 32 uh it's going to be a tournament of 30 to top 16 get yeah get the home field yeah in the first round so you um Rob silver and I were doing the football game here last night and football's a little different football only the top 16 from each division goes so so many rules and so many things to keep track of just from sport to sport division to division so yeah um again clocker in the driver's seat right now looking forward to a a to open the playoffs with a home game but uh got still take care of business here no score we're deadlocked 36 and2 minutes to go in the first half it's been a very back and forth Affair so far although beavers I don't think have had a shot on gold just yet they're getting close they are getting close Machado trying to find somewhere to go with it ends up playing a very good pass yeah both these teams just the passing games are terrific they really are you know just fundamentally sound a lot of fun to watch clockers boot that one out of trouble but out of bounds it'll be a throw in here for the Beavers so Blackstone Valley it's not just one town correct it has multiple towns into it correct I mean it's a regional it's also a vocational technical school so you know not your typical public school and they generally play other vocational technical schools see what goes on here NOA in a foot race doesn't quite get there in time keeper coming way out to get to again th a potential clocker attack good leg on that guy look at that boot all the way down well into clocker territory here down the nearest side that Hunter mag's going to try and track this down a little bit of a screen for keeper Mikey Flynn turns it right back around and here come the clockers a nice kick up the field from Lucas Arona as Megs tries to settle with pressure put on him and Dan you had mentioned earlier right the this is a non-league game for the two teams and yet somehow uh I feel like I've announced multiple Sports this fall playing these beavers across again multiple Sports between I think football girls soccer now boys soccer as well but not a typical opponent opponent year in year out what's the outcome been so far that's a good question yeah like all these games kind of bleed into into each other and I generally don't keep track you I don't remember scores or finals once they've happened I get home tell my wife and kids about you know about the game and then it's it's on to the next one bill bich I think would be proud we're on to the next one Mason D the keeper for the Beavers he's a uh a senior from Grafton so Captain D and then Senior Mikey Flynn on the other side usually see sebr Fender playing but of course senior night Mikey Flynn will play at least the first half right yep felt like that Beaver back line was moving in unison just a straight line as they move back back back to get that ball yeah that's really important to do they try to keep the online the offsides line together at all times not one person go too far and lead someone running in behind to be on S sites it's a nice play right in front of us in Midfield it was uh Nathan weed wilick wilick excuse me thank you my apologies to the wilick family first game of the year for me for the boys soccer team but uh Nathan made a terrific heads up play really readit got there and again booted it down the field eventually turned in to an an out of bounds Beaver ball and uh starting to put together a little attack the clocker stop it turned the ball right back over near Midfield it was a good Step Up by Fong but he just couldn't hold possession after the pass from Noah Ramsey down on that top side of your screen fight for the ball Kong Graham wins it in a difficult position and it's played right back to him and Graham with Pace but the in the end the ball won by kyi toku okay played that really nicely here come the Beavers over Midfield attackers making sure they're staying on side ball out of bounds for Beaver throwing clock ticks downward under uh about 32 minutes to go here in the first half still no score between the rashin clockers and the BBT beavers that out of bounds we're going to get a timeout we get some substitutions Declan vento coming in for Nathan wilick qua Costa in for Tyler Peña and Arthur Souza in carajo gets fouled from behind Filipe missed game two games ago that was here we did this one it was me and Rob they rested him he's a captain senior getting him ready for the playoffs but of course a big game tonight so they want to play him that one did go out of bounds off a clocker so BBT throw in here so a big difference from this game compared to the last game a couple days ago against Holliston is just not going as back and forth as we saw that game that game was just High paced all all 80 minutes of the game and this one more possession based like we've seen them do in the past good play by Megs to get that ball up to Andre Costa and again just I mean from up here in the Press Box this looks fast I know on the field it's even faster yeah Costa plays for IFA really really talented player interesting we have two Costas on the team we have Andre number 10 and then his little brother KY who's number [Music] 20 here's a through ball played in behind but Flynn's able to step up and clear that one out of trouble right now at the moment it feels like BBT is just a step faster getting to the ball clockers had some early early control in possession but it feels like bbt's kind of turned it around a little bit again no score on you know on the board well things like that can change the score stays the same and then all of a sudden tactics change and then one teams dominating that you that wasn't in the early game we saw it earlier today actually elico Barcelona Real Madrid real was dominating first half then Barca came back and W four nothing ball play back to Mason door looking up the field a good turn by baroso Corp to tku a good dummy play I was wondering if that was intentional or not it went right right through the wickets yeah bbt's getting to this ball first in the corner bringing it out get it get a shot on maybe yes but no angle right in front and there's a [Applause] goal so early in the game on senior night clockers look a little bit shaky the goal is to Aaron corpy so the plateau zero noise coming from this clocker side that's not what you want to hear stunned into silence it's not what you want to hear on senior night no and that play just seemed to develop had an innocent start to it and then all of a sudden the the ball carrier just was able to keep going going going I thought he had no angle on the side of the net but he put it out there deflected off and boom in the net just like that 1 nil just under 29 minutes to go here in the first half so again tons of time here in the first half let alone the entire game BBT starting to turn on the Jets here on the near side centering pass block to side clockers recover Jaan vento Megs and Draper the two center backs both seniors second to last game of the regular season and then we have playoffs here's another good attack with some Pace on it oh got a little worried for Hunter there as his got leg kind of went out on him with trying to feel that ball Souza with a nice header and Felipe carvalo tried to Trella a pass in but didn't get to its Target ball back in possession with the clockers Souza with plenty Defenders around him nice scissors move t trying to get in and he does but it will be a clocker throw [Music] in I forgot sua having that move I I've seen that before first time this year wow great great uh ball handling capabilities yeah Souza tvl Allstar last year good chance he makes it again this year mhm Fong tried to thread that ball over the top got deflected and back into Beaver possession I mean any direction he was looking in there were beavers that there was nowhere to go with that one centering pass right to Hunter Ms good over the head pass and a high through ball will get headed Away by Jamie Draper and another one by Dean good play by vento and Souza to double team him get the ball away from him Draper to Arona now on that Far Side conrado playing that give and go game Ticky taka style football yeah clocker throwing just some really nice touch on these short passes clockers are not afraid to hold that ball deep in their own field a good play by Megs to get away from the pressure leave it to Dean vento as he's trying to go over here's Kean kesan has players behind him gives it up starting to punch up a little bit they got to spread out well sus is playing that nine position he's all the way back in there and a chip from or maybe a chipper just a miscommunication there I think he was going for a through ball over the top to Arthur Arthur didn't run in behind ended up in the hands of door okay about 25 and a half minutes to go in the first half clocker down 1 nil to the BBT beavers beavers with the ball this one over the top and Flynn with plenty of time to scoop that one up plenty of time plenty of space Megs playing up the middle of the field dangerous yeah he's got to clear that at least that first Defender with that pass it was Henny that intercepted that one over the top Arthur Souza running in behind Suza on that right foot could not get the shot off Saved by Mason door great effort by Souza as well I mean he had a kind of a a line drive header like Hing it I can't even describe but uh just a wonderful play there and was getting harassed by the defenseman all the way in was able to get a shot on but uh keeper was equal to it couldn't get that left foot on it cuz the defender was in his way Dean vento trying to go up the field toku with a good turn to take possession back little surprised there Bailey didn't push that right back into the offensive zone he K opted to kick it back off backwards Graham kept on sides now down that Baseline and just missed that dribble out of bounds for a goal kick we saw Graham score a goal a couple nights ago at Canadian field he wants to get back there again to score for two consecu games more subs on the field Victor Andrade on Souza will take a quick break this one pass half field off the goal kick off the chest of Felipe a good turn by bayy F but that one just roll too far past him and hulahan was just playing around with it some un necessary I was thinking the exact same thing go going with the dummy moves but there was no one there as great challenge Inside the Box Draper dangerous play but got all ball and then immediately just kicked it as hard as he could out of bounds just settle down settle the clockers down a little bit here under 23 minutes to go in the first half clockers down 1 nil so a throw in here for the beavers in clocker territory on the far side played quickly at the feet corpy switches the field Hey Dean stepping up up the field towards Andrade and he'll lay it off to Andre Costa great elb move Felipe triy to get it to Victor just not tall enough to get that head on it so clockers mostly playing in the Midfield have had a difficult time getting the ball up and finding shots on that the times I have gotten it up again dribbled out of bounds are lost possession close to the goal yeah I mean the Beavers are are playing very tight they you know they were for checking earlier and uh again the clockers having a lot of trouble be able to penetrate deep into the zone and be able to actually you know either have a set play or set piece right is that what you call it Daniel set okay set piece takes place on a dead play like a corner kick got free kick but interesting that they're seeing um they're seeing Blackstone they're not used to this team so it's a good check to see what it's going to be like in the playoffs both teams high up there in those ranks yeah again the the Beavers coming in tonight undefeated on the season but again not a lot of common opponents so it's it's kind of difficult to to gauge who's the stronger team despite the fact that the clockers do have the higher ranking in the power rankings they did play Norton recently they they uh tied one nothing on the other hand clockers beat nordon for nothing so that's the only game that you can really make anything of it before seeing this mhm carvalo playing possession Enrique back to carajo tried to go through ball to it was uh Victor Andrade too far in front of him yeah Jamie headed that right into a beaver but no danger right immediately at least the Beavers do control for a moment Oh I thought the clars are going to break down that Far Side Costa it just seems like every time they try to get something going on offense it's too clockers on about seven beavers I mean they are the beaver definitely playing back whenever the clockers try to mount an offensive attack Costa tried to find the ball to carvalo Out of Bounds so again senior night we want to say congratulations to all the seniors for the clocker side we have a lot just to list them out real quick Mikey Flynn Lucas Arona Pedro bores Jamie Draper bayy Fong Noah Ramsey re Costa Filipe de carvalo lith s Tyler Peña Victor Andrade Joshua Steinberg Kean Graham Hunter Megs Nathan wilick Daniel Turner jce raw and Lucas Velasquez hope you took a deep breath before you uh shared all those names with us and I can tell you it was uh one of the longer senior night celebrations pregame that I've seen in quite a long time here's hulahan taken away by vento play back to Megs just no one around the ball when we get it into that Midfield no one to pass to immediately so having to do these tough dribble moves that don't always play out threw ball up the field out of bounds though it was Kean Graham looking for victory Andrade okay just over 18 minutes to go now in the first half clocker down 1 nil beavers on the throw in as uh we get a handful of substitutions by the Beavers getting a gorgeous sunset up here on the plateau though the temperature is starting to drop in behind Draper gets a good body onto it to force that ball away from the attacking Matthew draws that's F you wi look I thought I was booting that one out of bounds but play continues big header there here's Graham with it hard pass towards bayy Fong but he controls it well so a lot of through balls over the top trying to find that number nine this time Andrade it's just difficult to get it to him when that as you said before defensive line for the Beavers moves in unison and their keeper Mason D very aggressive he you know he again anything close he is running right out there leaving the goal mouth not afraid to uh to make a play there keep the clockers from putting anything together that was uh wow that was an impressive whistle From The Far Side of the field that ref called it's a bad oh okay I thought he was going to it's going to be a turnover there was a bad throw and it just it was too fast so it's it's uh Matthew DRS getting a redo another Captain for this beavers team as a shot followed up took a deflection but an easy save for Mikey Flynn oh he made it he made it look easy there was there was a lot of traffic in front of him and very impressive for him to be able to track the ball through all those bodies play was a little more dangerous than it looked you know Mikey made Varsity sophomore year took junior year off to play football says helped him with his hands played receiver back playing soccer and controlling that box for the clocker so far besides that one unfortunate miscommunication [Music] yeah on that Beaver goal definitely looked like there was some kind of a defensive breakdown there there way too many bodies in front of the net when uh when that shot the Ricochet around and in one thing that could be in play as you said it's cold out that presentation was very long they didn't have much time to warm up after that long presentation so these seniors might be a little bit tight so far into this game is Andrade and carvalo trying to communicate who's going to take the ball in the end it's carvalo behind is Noah Ramsey on that Left Flank going to cut onto that right foot takes the shot on got blocked but Ramsey sticking with it slide tackle there's the call he got Ball but he just got in the way so an opportunity for a pretty long free kick so most likely looking for a ball towards the back post it's a great opportunity for the clockers let's see if they can if they can connect here here's Felipe taking it chips it up towards that back post the header was just missed by Hunter Megs good call on on where he was going with it though Daniel it's looking like you've seen a good amount of ashin soccer this year so go kick just more than halfway done with this first half one nothing beavers up putting pressure on this clocker team away from home and on their senior night interesting the crowd has not gotten involved as much as we would think yes they're down but we still want to see appreciation to towards these players see if that can ramp up and help flip the momentum well again you could be the cold weather is playing a factor here right you know fans are not are not moving around right now so the cold is starting to set in for them here's a throw in for the Beavers going to take a nice long running start foot was on the line surprised they didn't call that one back that one out of bounds that was by Noah Ramsey just trying to clear that one away from pressure Daniel what I was trying to look for was the back foot on the throwin right like we taking that much of a running start it's got to be so hard to be able to keep that back foot down as you throw toward the net and they are getting some good distance on those Thro inss especially on Turf it can kind of bounce up but I think the refs are pretty lenient with the turf different on grass where can just smoothly go through so here's campanero another captain of this team tried to bend it clocker able to knock it aside still loose in front good step but not out here come the clockers and with an opportunity here Filipe with some Pace too far he had a he had a teammate on the wing couldn't get it to him 12 minutes to go here in the first half clockers down 1 nil to the BBT beavers Dora with the large kick up the field clocker is not so aggressive going towards that ball off the first bounce like they normally are either that or they're just not reading it well so corner kick after that play vento had to get it out of pressure more substitutions for the Beavers taking place they are definitely rotating players in and out much more often than uh than the clockers so far [Music] okay so corner kick Dan taking a look here at the uh configuration uh what do you think what are we going to see here I think they're going to run in towards that back post he's going to try to curve it away from that goal instead plays it short towards that near post but able to get taken away Ramsey with it he can play that across the field he does beautifully here's Josh Josh Steinberg just took too big of a touch but M ends up being back in clock possession going through but door steps up and has a save I feel like we've seen that movie before yeah it's not just been door stepping up and making those saes been those through balls just being too far vento misses that header try to settle the ball and then Tangled Up and a foul will be given to the clockers they caught Aaron Corp with his hands on the Jersey of Dean vento almost a breaking opportunity but that's what the point I was trying to make earlier right is the clocker just not able to break through that back line strange today they seem to be going up the center well in Pas times they go towards that see off sides either way out of bounds he was not off sides so as I was saying they're going over the top more than they usually do they usually play it towards those outside Winger positions on those through balls but haven't done that as much tonight wonder if they you know they saw something in the tape on the Beavers that uh they're trying a different tactic four o clocker are going to be changed Pedro Borges Kean Graham Arthur Souza and Andre Costa back on vento Fong Steinberg actually there was five Felipe carajo and Victor Andrade out gr with the head on in the end was not challenging for door probably it was the end of that play a bit of an unnecessarily dramatic fall To The Ground by keeper Mora it was like he made the save the crowd reacted to it and then he went down to the ground well they're up with the lead just trying to take as much time off the clock as possible it's a Cheesy move but Keepers do it all over the world now great okay we got a timeout called by the Beavers interesting here with 821 one to go They're Up 1 n so D about you I mean so far this game's lived up to the billing right again in the pregame we felt like this a battle of a couple of heavyweights high ranking the Beavers coming in tonight undefeated and uh just a one-nil lead for them so far yeah I mean taking a look at the beaver schedule it looks like the clockers would defeat them on paper but then you take a look at the rankings and then it makes more sense seeing that they're just below the clockers and you can definitely see it on the field mhm so do want to take a moment here thank our crew tonight we've got uh Jeff Hall running things down below in the control room we got Luis Miranda running camera for us tonight up here on the deck appreciate those guys we can't do it without them and uh again I mean they do a great job they're here very early to get set up there's you know a lot of cables a lot of flashing lights I mean we're just the just the pretty people here on camera we're not not even on camera where the where the dlsa tones on your microphone bringing you all the play-by-play action so I'm Josh Abrams he's Daniel vet we're glad to have you with us here on a beautiful fall Saturday night in Ashland I think we're wrapping up this time out so know I think we got enough time for tonight's dad joke all right let's hear it you ready yep okay what time is it when a soccer team chases a baseball team not sure it's 11 after [Laughter] n yeah I know I know well anyways team's getting back on the field 8 minutes 21 seconds left in the half clocker is hoping to get one to tie it up or more before halftime Neely will throw it in it was Machado went over the head of him then found the pass towards the other field here he is again Cross Field pass yep beavers love to switch that field make make clockers look differently at every Play here's Ramsey trying to settle things down slow it down a little bit that's not going to do it Hunter Megs first touch clearance is just doesn't have the full foot on it and leaves an opportunity here luckily out of bounds Megs had the time to take another touch and play that short pass by the way do want to remind folks watching on the live stream we are monitoring the feed on YouTube if uh you want to go into chat give a shout out to your favorite player let us know where you're watching from if you're uh outside the Metro West Boston area always always like finding out where people are from I know the know the this team they've got plenty of relatives all over the country all over the world in fact so waca going coast to coast and around the world and on radio stations now correct thank you yes good call waa recently uh recently launched its internet radio so if you're if you are watching if you're listening on our inter radio station welcome aboard glad to have you with us talk a little bit more uh next time out about uh some of wca's recent uh technological advancements and uh enhancements a foul oh and then something after it Andre Costa is he going to get a yellow card for that he might and yep the ref looking towards that pocket yeah there it is a little too demonstrative in that reaction clock stops with 635 to go in the first half clocker down 1 nil beavers will have control and that's unfortunate cuz now Costa has to come out of the game for a little bit don't see that in the pros but in miia you have to come out of the game when you get a yellow card for just a couple minutes ball play it was cook trying to thread it over the top Flynn easily feel like Draper's getting turned around a little bit trying to track down that guess you can call it a shot Flynn seemed to call him off had the easier play facing the play so okay clocked to a throw in on the beaver side of the field this is Noah Ramsey he's going to Throw Down the Line tried to go over the top to soua soua just didn't want to run on that one here's Costa little Collis again on that left foot goes for the cross look like grwi is a step too late trying to get there in time step in front of the keeper yeah if that ball was played on his right foot and most likely on the other side it would have been played differently Souza a natural righty but good to see him using both both feet there here's cook another captain of this team Tak it away Souza and Ramsay together Souza a little extra called for a touch little extra contact there yeah he was calling for a touch talking with the referees about it but referees having none of it nope already booked Costa Souza had a yellow car the past or not past game the past home game MH that one against whale in another non- League game interesting how we're seeing so many non- League games okay under five minutes to go in the first half clocker down 1- nil beavers bringing the ball up field on the far side it's going to be interesting to see what coach Moda has to do with this team coming into that second half what dynamic changes they're going to take Ramsey missed the header on that one trying to go over the top of him and Costa uses his body but a foul called on him in the end so beavers with a free kick here on the near side close to Midfield to take the free kick is campan Arrow this one's played on the ground didn't get full air on that one yeah we just saw it right there again the clockers being hesitant no one really wants to step up and say I got it m ball went to Draper didn't want it at first as Draper the big touch somehow gets it out of pressure out of bounds for a clocker throw in stoppage of play Nathan WID to throw this one in how did that ball stay in thought that was easily going out of bounds play continues clock's under heavy pressure here at Midfield back pass keeping on the far side just having trouble holding on to that ball in the attacking half Mikey fln's going to come out far out of his net good assness there and Daniel that's a play where he is so far of his net he can't catch it right can't use his hands he has to kick right if you're outside of that 18 yard box it's yellow on the field you cannot use your hands if you will a red card straight away doesn't matter if it's unintentional Souza goes towards Ramsay can he run onto it this time again just too fast on these through balls [Music] and Daniel I almost have to wonder right I mean again the CL the clockers play most of their games at the middle school a totally different field and I have to wonder you know like different age different you know is the is this field at the high school faster than the one at the middle school in it might be but they should be pretty used to it with that game just a couple games ago mhm although again the factor of the cold I don't know if that play a difference with obviously the ball does feel harder on the foot but if it feels a difference with skipping with the turf okay it just seems like you know they're they're having some trouble with some fundamental things like just judging those long balls in the air you know those long kicks from the from the keeper yeah I know that we're hearing I know that we have headsets on but I still not hearing any talking with that clock side you can definitely hear it with the Beavers just not with the clockers sort of out of it for this first half under two minutes to go stoppage time and play Oh Flint going to let that one sail [Laughter] wide so clock on the scoreboard is now Frozen at two minutes they are keeping time on the field any uh extra time the refs deemed required here and we'll just have to listen for the whistle that'll let us know it's the end of the first half Flynn boots it away be her first one to have a head on it gorgeous his first minutes into the game hadn't seen the ball that was his first touch right there a good play here's CLA Costa had WID lick but decided to play it up the field and WID lick went up seemed like he decided to kick it right to a beaver Kean Graham with speed there he goes Graham a big [Applause] touch out of bounds for a corner kick so hopefully one last chance for something I think he just had one too many touches on that you know by the time he put the shot on goal he had taken himself out of a high percentage area yep Andor was up and in his face here goes the header brilliant unbelievable play off the set pie so well executed just like that 1 and now we hear the crowd and Daniel I got to tell you you give up a goal in the last minute or so of play that one hurts even more clockers will try to take advantage of this change in momentum suddenly we have a tie game here 1-1 deep in the first half hard to see with the numbers all the way over there but that was no Ramsey right I honestly don't know what happened so saw blonde [Laughter] hair there's the whistle to end the first half so the clockers get the equalizer in the final seconds of the first half to make it 1-1 as we go into halftime so this the end of the first half here waca TV I'm Daniel vet and Josh Abrams with me 1 one as Josh just said we'll be back in a couple minutes after this you're watching ashin High School varsity boys soccer on waca SC CH did yeah I know I get it think War char go straight I have it on low think [Music] sor but going [Music] you guys have a nice time GL had d [Music] Blackstone Valley beavers it is currently 1-1 a late goal from Jamie Draper tied it up for the clockers it's senior night here at the plateau I'm Daniel vetstein beside me is Josh Abrams a quick foul and the Beavers will get quick a quick free kick to start the second half off interesting we're going to see number 22 of the Beavers a a long ball over the top a onetime shot saved by Mikey Flynn interesting we just saw there Nathaniel cook number 22 for the Beavers he's one of the captains he was calling for a sub after very early in the second half Mikey Flynn with a good save ball is played to Lucas Velasquez taken away from him so pressure getting put on the clockers early in this second half so apologies uh we called Noah Ramsey with the goal is actually Jamie Draper so Draper ties it up one1 that one was was so much fun to watch so well executed corner kick header right in front of the net for the goal a deep throw in looking towards that box couldn't get a good shot off seems to be the beaver specialty on that play that long throw in right to the middle of the Box Velasquez plays it towards condr taken away and and a foul there on Josh Steinberg so it seems like everybody on the field wants to get this game over as quickly as possible we had an abbreviated halftime there as the uh temperatures continue to drop opportunity here off sides it was Matthew DRS number seven the senior and Captain just couldn't hold the line I felt my eyes go wide when I saw him behind all alone uncovered with a great opportunity but you know he was on he was uncovered cuz he was off sides or just went up the middle no one was there Beaver ball again here's Daniel Turner number 22 another senior and there's lias Som another senior again senior night here at the Plateau celebrating all the clocker seniors we have so many ball played out of bounds will be a beaver's throw in yeah Daniel you uh you announced 18 seniors for the clockers 18 seniors all in one breath yeah very impressive very impressive 18 seniors five Juniors two sophomores on this 25man roster yep two sophomores being qu Costa and Thiago Jacob qu has gotten some minutes but haven't seen Jacob yet tonight Velasquez touched it out of bounds for a throw in very deep in looking towards that box ah header no one can get on if Flynn jumps out onto that one okay it seems like most of this early action here in the second half has been centered in the clocker defensive end so let see if get get things turned around here put some more pressure on the on the Beavers so we mentioned before in the first half both teams play off bound the clock being the sixth ranked right now and then Blackstone Valley beavers are the 12th so early head-to-head match up for something we could see in the playoffs 1 one it's just shown everything that we want to see so far far in a game Turner trying to get a touch on that one couldn't but Steinberg's there and that one was tried to play to Turner it was Fong Turner was still in an offsides position so free kick given Mason door who played incredible that first half keeper for this beavers team yeah we expected a tight game and we've definitely got it tonight again tied up on the scoreboard the uh the good opportunities probably favor the beers just slightly but good close game plenty of action so far tonight you those of you watching whether you're on the live stream or catching this later on demand you are getting treated to some world class High School soccer yep substitutions lith Som Jace raw and Lucas Velasquez coming out back onto the field Noah Ramsey followed with others misplay there by the Beavers but has the wherewithal to gather and continue the play really good cross towards that other side of the field and a good tackle by F to get that one out carajo playing that Midfield position captain of this team plenty of space in front of him played to Turner Steinberg too big of a touch and taken swiftly away by this Beaver side although it is TI the clockers have had trouble in the Midfield and top holding possession we saw through balls couldn't get all the way over there just like that too far wondering if it's too cold and then something after the play but door able to hold on to that one yeah one of the things we've been seeing plaguing the clocker what you've been calling the the big touches right you know it come off the foot and comes off too far for them to make the play leads more often than not to turnovers yeah and that could be a factor of the cold with it's cold the ball feels harder on the feet kind of feels like a rock sometimes you don't want to kick it but if you're playing soccer you got to kick it so foul just about at the 45 yd line Jamie Draper goal scorer looking towards that Far Side it was Graham running onto that one but too far and again that another one of our common theme snip for the clocker too far yeah passes are too far the through balls are too far but again the cold could be a factor right the ball is harder it seems to come off the foot further you know on those big touches and on those through passes 32 and a half to go in regulation game is tied at one if you're joining us on internet radio here in the second half your clockers are going from left to right beavers from right to left clockers wearing the home blue jerseys and the beavers in bright white with purple accents and black shorts and you can see the captain's wearing those orangish armbands here's Kean Graham so much speed with him Daniel Turner's there with it Graham ends up winning it back you were right Graham had a burst of speed down that Far Side Kean Graham along with arthus Arthur Souza just have some incredible Pace that's otherworldly so I certainly remember Arthur from the past season or two of you know announcing these games but kesan Graham seems to be a new name to me Kean Graham has been playing soccer for high school for all four years interesting story freshman year started off on the freshman team by the end of the season he was on varsity and ever since that normal Varsity players so Graham really one of the stars for this team for the past four years most likely will be allar this year Morris seems to be doing a little gamesmanship there just ensuring that the clocker can't put a put a foot on that ball goes out of bounds right in the corner it be a throw in here for for the Beavers the far on the near side deep of their own end Beaver substitution here can't quite make out that number on the front is that number six benell so yep okay relli fresh into the game here and they'll throw it right at him Ramsey able to get his body in front good positioning there clocks are kind of pinned in here on the near sideline a good play by carajo the clockers work really hard on playing in small small spaces it's really what separates the great players from the good players mhm okay 30 minutes to go here one-1 tie Ashlin BVT the Blackstone Valley Tech some good quick crisp passes by the Beavers tried to go in behind but good Step Up by Hunter Megs ball gets kicked high up in the air controlled by Noah Ramsey Costa just controlling that play in the Midfield it's interesting kishan gram playing Midfield currently that kind of moves wherever he wants typically a Winger clockers are able to reverse field here it's on the far side now yeah it's Thiago Jacob who had the ball run in behind him reverse field now back to the near side is bores bores been on this varsity team for three years good step by bayy fog and plays it through to Daniel Turner but door brilliant play but Turner with some physical activity and now a foul called on him and the fans do not like that one well a bit of a shoulder you can't do that especially once the keeper oh keeper gets outside that box he's fair game right yeah mean maybe not to the degree of hockey I don't was he outside of the box when that first interaction happened cuz ball free kick is inside the Box gorgeous substitutions for both sides Arthur Souza coming in for Daniel Turner on the other side Captain Matthew dra's is going to take a quick break on the field is Ethan Heen So Daniel question coming in for you from uh from chat on on our YouTube feed with uh so many seniors graduating 18 of them and only five Juniors behind them and two sophomores what do you think the prospects are for next season look ahead right how's how's that depth going toh play out for next year it's going to be difficult and I think just looking at how the roster looks right now there's going to be a couple tough years for this clockers team but I feel like they will be able to bounce back in the end give it two or three seasons okay makes a lot of sense to me I think next year won't be as big of a problem as the year after that so I just you know admitted don't have a lot of knowledge about uh the JV team or how much talent how much you know how much ability is is happening down there you for me you know down on the farm right JV you know the feeder for Varsity so I know the uh the class down that's going to be graduating from the Middle School this uh this spring is Laden with athletic Talent so it' be interesting to see what happens great opportunity at a streaking was that uh I can't soua it was soua with the shot and Noah Ramsey tried to it was Ramsey at the other end okay so really good opportunity there for the clockers as we uh we got to focus on the present let let's focus on the future but our colleague Rob silver submitted that question on chat Rob glad to have you with us glad you're you're watching here on a Saturday night earning a nice bit of rest after last night's uh Ashlin hollon football game here on the plateau well if there's a lot of talent from coming in from the middle school then I'm not sure I mean I I don't know them personally sure I just you I don't think that middle school talent is going to be making an impact on Varsity for the next couple of years yeah well who knows he could be Andre costy it could be an Noah Ramsey Kean Graham get on the team first year but either way coach Moda going to put some work into them find the stars and Work Talent into them a stoppage a yellow card given for Noah Noah Ramsey did you see what happened I did not see what happened completely behind the play I didn't I didn't see any of it but Noah's heading for the silent he's he's shrugging his shoulders too he's not sure what what happened there but Souza's asking what happened maybe muttered something under the under his breath that the ref didn't like we saw Su get a yellow card last game already W for Costa this game and now another Noah Ramsey okay well end result here is beavers have a free kick in way up uh their their defensive Zone long pass ahead to The Far Side gathered in kicked away clockers have it on the far sideline still dribbling around trying to get it out so I got a question just one yep just well maybe there's a followup we'll we'll see how it goes so obviously this game's not a league game M with the who whichever team wins does that impact their niia rankings or is that just something on the score sheet yeah I mean I far as I know they all count I've still never really figured out how the how they calculate the rankings there's a lot of factors involved obviously wins losses uh in order to advance the playoffs not only you do you have to have that ranking you have a have to play a minimum number of games have a minimum number of wins um but strength of schedule plays into it League versus non-league um I I think that to an extent they all have an impact the conference you think the league games are Conference teams yeah I mean you know like again you know the clockers are playing in the tri valley league so you know to me that's their conference right that's their league um black I have to apologize I off the top of my head I don't know what league uh BBT plays in but again it's a complicated formula I never really you know understood it with how the NCAA does it at the college level I certainly can't figure it out with the m BBT is in the colonial leag thank you Colonial okay they're ranked 14 in Massachusetts you know the other side ashlin's ranked about ashlin's ranked 66th in Mass so really high rankings for BVT so those rankings you're referring to who's issuing those rankings we we've been talking about the power rankings within the division which is what determines the uh playoff seatings those are Massachusetts rankings but what what body in Massachusetts like the Commonwealth of massachus is not ranking soccer teams I'm not sure okay play continues here so I have to I have to Discount the you know these these rankings you're pulling off the internet without a source until we uh know better we got got to go with the Mia rankings for now they're on Max Preps here's Souza plays this one to kha Graham Graham brilliant save by [Applause] D it's an amazing save i d saved that with uh both hands and I think a bit of his space and the ball popped up in the air landed right in his hands best opportunity of the night for the clockers besid the uh the header off the corner kick toward the end of the first half that scored their lone goal so back to the beginning of all that we were talking about rankings my point was is that this game plays a pivotal part into what rank or to what seed the clockers will get in the playoffs determin if they get home field for two games just one game could be very pivotal mhm we just got word that non- League games do count so again very pivotal game from both sides to determine where they fall when it comes to the bracket absolutely I mean obviously they are both making the playoffs this deep into the season but still can't afford to be complacent you still need every win you can get you want to keep moving up those rankings as much as possible through Pass here good communication between Draper the defenseman Mikey Flynn and Mikey Flynn the keeper Jamie used his body to get the defend Defender away from the ball so Flynn had an opportunity to run and pick that one up and pushing and shoving gives clockers a ball yeah looked like clockers are getting a little bit out work there that's interesting their motto has never outworked on that particular exchange it did look like in a little bit worked and then they caught the break foul called against the Beavers it's going to be a retribution here foul called now against the clockers Jamie Draper so another question from waca colleague Rob silver on the chat he wants me to ask you what is the fastest land animal on Earth I mean I think I know the answer to that I'm not sure why he's asking there there's two options you could say Kean Graham or you could say a cheetah I was thinking cheetah yeah but you never quite know what's going on in the mind of Rob silver play continues here we're just about the 21 minute Mark 21 minutes to go and regulation got a tie game between again a couple of MIAA division 3 heavyweights the Ashlin clockers and the BBT beavers and are we getting a corner kick here for the clockers from the far end we are okay connected on the last one let's see what happens now scared with these questions I feel like Rob's putting me on am I smarter than a third grader hard enough that you're still you know you're high school senior got got all these classes and exams and now you're getting questions on the weekends here's the corner kick attempt it's high it's deep and it's in an olympico goal unbelievable from the corner [Laughter] kick clockers Take the Lead two to one both goals coming on Corner kicks that is otherworldly we rarely see olympico goals ever even in the pros so Danel really quick just explain what you mean by that term it's the term that's called when the ball is kick with a corner kick and it doesn't touch anyone the ball curves by itself into the [Music] net so unbelievable Andre Costa so if we were play if this game is being played on FIFA 25 right now right that's like FIFA sorry FIFA for 25 that's that's like expert level right it's Pro level kind of pretty much you can't even do that like system doesn't even allow you to really do that incredible play there I'm glad we got to see that so just over 20 minutes to go in regulation clocker now up two to one yeah the curve you have to put on that ball is just extraordinary amazing job from Andre Costa we can't express it enough that's a goal for the history books I'd be surprised if that was the first ever olympico goal for the clockers it felt like you know BBT was playing tight aggressive soccer before it it feels like they're just retching it up a notch they're down a goal and they you know they want to get back into this one interestingly enough we just found out that this is Andre Costa's second olympico goal he actually scored one last year in a playoff game unbelievable so we know we played for plays for IFA he's an incredible player but two olympico goals for Ashlin is unbelievable it's starting to get a little dangerous here the Bieber getting deeper and deeper in Ashlin territory still have control of the ball moving so quickly here's a shot in but wide short side and Daniel just to follow up before that incredible cost to goal you were asked a question about the fastest land animal on Earth it turns out you answered correctly it is the cheetah and for some reason Rob is pulling quotes now from airplane 2 classic film not as classic is the original airplane if you seen only seen the first one okay so there you go so very impressive you have some 80s movies 80s movie knowledge I'm not going to hold it against you I'm impressed that uh you've seen it how did you like airplane it was pretty good yeah okay I guess that so far uh Blackstone shows fish well played sir well played so obviously the Beavers never have a second cup of coffee at home 17 and more than a half minutes left to play so more time for the Beavers to come back but you can definitely tell the atmosphere that has changed so much now it's senior night OB in in the beginning of the game it was not a lot of noise the crowd was pretty pretty quiet the beaver scored that first goal early and it really took out of it definitely changes this one's sorry I just react any kind time there's like that kind of contact right in front of the N but Mikey Flynn comes up big there great Crossing attempt by the Beavers but Mikey Flynn stepped up made a crucial save to preserve a 2-1 clocker lead here in the second half it was almost like a hit stick tackle but Flynn was able to pick that one up and walk away from that very quickly Flynn very strong so by the way I think you feel like you're kind of an innocent bystander here I think Rob might be feeling a little you know I caught him he he didn't know I was doing pop movie question for him you know movie question recently and what I thought was a pretty straightforward one from Indiana Jones in the Last Crusade he did not come up with it so I think you know he's trying to pass the buck now and trying to stump you but High School senior yeah like CH I showed chase you know my son who's now a college freshman I showed airplane a couple years ago and he didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I did at his age so started wondering maybe airplane just didn't age well yeah maybe saw it at Camp so I got counselors put me on to that [Applause] one it's the kind of movie that people have just seen a hundred times and they just start doing all the lines and if you haven't seen it before it's kind of hard to follow because everybody's saying the lines but but back here in Ashlin on the plateau the clockers up 2 to one under 16 minutes to go in regulation clockers with the ball in their own end on a throw in on the far side intercepted and controlled momentarily at least by the Beavers Kyle Costa Subs back in for the clockers Kong Graham just drilling around unbelievable 360 and it stays with them somehow sort of like that Juliet Alvarez goal in the World Cup Costa chips it up soua unbelievable soua couldn't finish soua triel through or around three players including the keeper and again a stay-at-home defenseman is able to prevent another Ashlin go at least the second time tonight it's happened the clocker able to catch the keeper out of goal but not able to cash in and somehow out of all of that it's turned over to the Beavers that would have for sure put this one away now the clockers have to fight for another one to take make this Advantage a two goal game yeah obviously prefer having the lead in this situation but uh one goal lead is precarious at best in this one here's Costa trying to figure things out hopefully get a third plays it to his little brother and now Enrique with it and Thiago Jacob mouch that one the substitutions for this Beaver side one of them coming back on is baroso number 10 another captain of this team fight for the ball on the Midfield fipe carajo wins it in the end taken away from him so commentator's curse right there yes so Daniel I mean question to you I'm just curious right you know hold on see how this play plays out Flynn's able to step up and take that one good ass Serv Miss from him but yep as you were saying okay so clocker one goal lead under 15 minutes to go obviously you don't want to take too many risks offensively and you risk turning the ball over giving a great opportunity right back to the Beavers you want to preserve that lead so how do you play it do you try to you know if you're Thiago Modo the head coach do you say keep playing our game keep playing doing exactly what we've been doing the whole night or do you start playing a little more conservatively and start playing back and ensure you know trying to do whatever you can to play strong defense yeah the clockers usually play in a 433 position with three midfielders usually they're all standard line or sometimes can go up but I think what coach Moda should think about or if he hasn't done it already is put one of those defend one of those midfielders down into a holding position there is a player hurt on the field but able to get up on his own will it's good to see they putting one of those midfielders in a holding position in between the Midfield line defensive line controlling that field to play it's something that we've seen Costa do but maybe just further down into the field it seems like Enrique as right right now is doing exactly that is you can see Costa and the other Costa in one line and an enque benath as a shot on goal from Souza that was a bullet too he got a lot on it but uh keeper door bakes another excellent save he's been doing a great job in he's again feels like the beavers have had a few more good opportunities but uh keeper doing a great job in there for for the beavers tonight and not to take anything away from Mikey Flynn I mean only one goal so far as a long shot Flynn right on Q with a great save and again I mean I applaud both both keepers have done a great job coming out taking down angles and just taking taking good opportunities away from uh from each offense yeah both Keepers really have been super assertive in this game that's something you really want to see from The Keeper you're too timid ball could get too close to the net and an easy shot opportunity M but able to hold their lines pretty well and come up when they need to Megs and hulahan fighting with the ball it will be Beaver throwing good defensive play by Megs to get a foot on that get it out of bounds slow things down here against the Beavers not sure that header went where where it was intended right in front right you right in the middle pit play continues have a little bit of a collision here clocker is down back up y looks like it was Thiago Jacob but he yeah he's up clocker is chasing the ball here just a little bit that ball goes to the right side of the flag for a throw in the clockers right dangerously close to that flag it could have got either way under 10 and a half to go in regulation this Beaver taking the long run in here for the throw line drive locked aside but back out to that Beaver right in the corner going to get a shot on no angle out of bounds clocker ball got a whistle here getting some substitutions that's just one Bailey Fong back in as it looks clock continues to run here under 10 minutes to go in the in regulation clocker up 2 to one Flynn plays it short Draper up the field scored that first goal off that incredible header again both clocker goals tonight coming on Corner kicks Costa with plenty of speed coming on to that one now it is Kean GM's ball on that top side of your screen Arthur Souza try to thread it back to graah cler's just able to hold possession and a long shot trying to catch the keeper off guard right in the Bread Basket Thiago Jacob another step up from Costa and more speed with him bunch of beavers around him tries to go for the cross gets to reflected out of bounds and that that throw in you that that pass ahead one of the few mistakes I would say Mason D has made tonight the keeper just unnecessarily throwing it out there clocker is able to almost turn that into something Noah Ramsey back on the field Filipe carvalo takes a quick break so did did his penalty time and now back into the game off that yellow card has to be more careful now can't do any any fouls that should not be done Fong just holding possession this ball played right at the feet and stoppage of play Beaver is down the balloon pops he seems all right interesting usually when a play is stopped for an injury have to come out for a play then come back in seems like they're allowing him to stay on the field he got up quick enough okay so free kick here for the Beavers all the way up to Midfield Bailey fun well it's actually a drop kick since it was in clocker possession it was a injury on the play Suza Ramsey tried to keep it in while he while keeper is out of position unbelievable turn by Costa but door is able to pick that one up so back to the drop kick uh injury on the play it was in clocker possession so what they'll do to make it fair have the Beavers kick it back towards the clockers and let the clockers start over possession again oh okay appreciate the explanation that that that's like two 300 level soccer I didn't know that one and a foul called foul called by the back judge from the other side of the field gets a big cheer from the Ashlin faithful here in the stands yeah Machado was the one called with the foul ticking down to about seven minutes to go in regulation clock with a free kick here Andre Costa headed aside by the Beavers nicely played and now driven deep into clocker territory Flynn's deciding to come out what is he doing that started off looking like brilliant play thought he was out of bounds when he touched it it was very out of bounds toku able to somehow you can definitely hear the fs clocker scrambling here a little bit let's settle things down got the lead here's R couldn't beat the first Defender turned over in the end good play by Flynn he came out miscommunication the ball was being head back to him by Lucas Arona if Flynn touched the ball with his hands a red car would have been given to him but got his hands out of the way just in time some kind of a foul call there against the Beavers yeah we lot to tack right there but the clock continues to run here it's starting to become the clocker friend under six minutes to go in regulation free kick here for the clockers just on the beaver side of Midfield it's Arona a nice long kick heading in on the net F or here's Souza soua with that shot great save by door keeper stonewalled him Outlet pass back up top sus is that sus carrying on the side that is Thiago Jacob thank you or actually excuse me that is CLA Costa couple of great scoring opportunities here for the clockers you're starting to feel the uh momentum shift clockers up two to [Music] one five minutes to go in regulation well clockers they're doing a great job as you just said with the opportunities in their in the attacking end but then you got to be careful about the Counterattack opportunities how many Defenders are you keeping deep you got to be careful at that late G absolutely that's kind of what I was asking you about probably about seven minutes ago in game time like how do you play conservative do you you know you don't want to get too aggressive on offense but yes you'd love to get that third goal that insurance goal late in the game so the clock has stopped here on the scoreboard at 5 minutes time being kept on the field as this ball rolls out of bounds yeah it was intended for tku number 15 he just slipped and fell okay so this will be a clocker throwin following a Timeout on the field so Daniel again I mean this is the game we thought we we hoped we'd get we thought we'd get in pregame and it is proven true we are having a great time here tonight of course always feels good when you're when you're leading and the clockers do have that two to one lead late here in regulation yeah hopefully things stay the way they are and they move up the rankings and then one last game after after this another home game back here against hopkington you said that was Tuesday Tuesday night yeah we'll have it here on waca uh Pete clay coming in he's not really retired he helps us out every once in a while he's a good guy former president of the clocker club and uh just looking through my notes Here looks like game time 5:45 Tuesday night here on the plateau against hopkington finishing up the regular season and by the way speaking of the clocker club and current president Jer Jeremy Ramsey his son Noah senior here on the soccer team uh clocker Club is the official booster club of ashon high school sports in the past 12 years they've provided more than $100,000 to ashin Athletics their signature fundraising events include a golf tournament which was held at Shining Rock earlier in the fall and a pancake breakfast on Super Bowl Sunday you ever gone to that I have not actually great time great time good food it's not just pancakes by the way it's full breakfast Super Bowl Sunday is when that happens and if you'd like to get involved they meet here at the high school the first Wednesday of every month at 7:00 p.m.

to learn more about getting involved and or purchasing a membership be sure to check out clocker club.org so update Tuesday's game will actually be at the middle school so unfortunately it looks like not going to have commentating on that hopefully get it recorded but either way hopefully we'll see you back here for the playoffs I'm sure they would like to have the home game here at the high school okay our source on that uh correction is Jeff Hall the extraordinary director here at waca and I have to find out if uh if Jeff's checking arbiterlive.com the Arbiter website or if he's getting his information directly from athletic director Kevin Anderson okay well there you have it so we are getting the feed here in our headphones uh athletic director Kevin Anderson the source of the information the update game will be taking place in the middle school so yes unfortunately that means game will not be carried on waca local blackout rules apply this ball is cleared away from pressure Costa tried to get on to that one Machado that slipped and Arona to booted up field for the clock with Ramsey just won't get there in time door again aggressively coming out it's a right play it's a smart play ball getting headed it making its way down field toward the ashin net via headers Jacob tried to clear it didn't get his full foot on it and still an opportunity for the Beavers to equalize late in this game headed Away by Megs heon Graham can send he does towards the other side he was looking for Arthur Souza taken away by Machado or excuse me that was not Machado that was Camden Snow okay clockers content to back pass here big boot by Flynn controlled at least early by the clockers that's Fong okay clockers trying to eat a little bit of clock here and now we get a whistle off sides is the call wow that is a mental mistake you can't afford this late in the game so keeper coming all the way out here to the 35 to boot it downfield headed Away by the clockers well played Fong tries to find it back towards Costa fog just trying to hold it toku out of bounds good pressure by Arona there sorry that's um looked like aona to me but it was yeah it was aona I had a r this one going deep into some pressure the header cleared away get it out of the box oh Lucas Arona again woo take a breath clocker nation that was a little too close for comfort and now a long throw in coming up here deep in clocker territory by the Beavers right in on net Mikey Flyn got a hand on it knocked to the side here was another opportunity hard shot sails wide Longs side clockers avoid disaster looked like that was just going top Corner okay late substitution here by the clockers fipe carajo and for Andre Costa clockers clinging to a one goal lead late in regulation two to one keeper Mikey Flynn kicking away for the clockers need con's team just get up field Costa under heavy pressure but gets it away and Fong playing that through ball with a little touch from soua got numbers here's khaw Graham Graham to soua Souza with the shot saved by door incredible save by D holy cow just does a great job of coming out taking away the angle soua again firing High SA sails High over the crossbar so the clockers answer with a couple of great offensive opportunities themselves late here in regulation d The Keeper boots it away carajo to Souza soua trying to put more pressure on took a little bit too much time to develop anything there but Noah Ramsey uses his body and now Costa carrying it up the field a nice job there by Ramsey AA tried to switch it to Graham and Graham is able to keep it in here's carajo a man is on and taken away swiftly and there it is the fulltime whistle a sigh of relief for this clocker nation ladies gentl so the clockers hang on to win two to one they were trailing early 1 n and then a big corner kick even the score late very late in the first half the only goal in the second half another clocker corner kick so the final is two to one clockers as the Beavers suffer their first defeat of the Season yeah so beavers will go to 141 and two on the other hand the clockers go up to 11 4 and two so looking to see what that's going to look in the rankings in the next couple days we're over here sorry let see what that does in the next couple days with the rankings see how that changes with the seting towards that miia playoffs overall amazing game exactly what we thought we'd see from two Heavy Hitters absolutely so yeah just a great game you treated to a wonderful one here tonight two to one is your final so any final thoughts Daniel I don't want to cut you off any final thoughts and just do everything you can to do that exact same performance next time Tuesday at the middle school against Hopkin okay well for Daniel vetstein for Luis on camera for Jeff Hall Down Below in the control room I'm Josh Abrams saying thanks for watching Ashlin boy soccer on waca I

e e e the October 28 meeting um at this time FL to the flag United States of America to the repblic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible liy and justice for all please pause for a moment of silence for little things going on um on top of that some of our Bo members are going through certain situations thank you in accordance with the open public meetings act njsa uh 10 uh 4-6 adequate notification of this meeting has been provided by advertising in the record M Ste please uh call okay Mr Derek Mr Malo presid Mr folino F pres Mr Gaba president Miss Sanchez here Mr Ramos pres have for real quick please make sure you speaking to the mic they said there was the issue to hear on the the reporting so please try to speak into the mics for us thank you all right [Music] um sorry moment please um we're tabling the board minutes uh we have to have a few Corrections done so we're tbling a resolution 1 uh 3.1 and 3.2 uh motion to table those I make a motion a second all right second in by Miss Sanchez I heard that first Mr Mal made the motion yes yes I did I'll second that Miss Sanchez second okay okay um moving forward all in favor I moving forward um Dr TOMCO yes thank you Mr President good evening everyone thank you for coming those of you at home welcome again to our live stream event um I am I'm very excited and proud that this board has supported all of our initiatives uh since July 1st thank you very much um I know obviously prior to that too but some of the new stuff that you're all seeing some of the new programs all this excitement that we've had in the buildings is all um through their support so I wanted to make sure that uh I said that publicly and uh this live streaming event is their step more towards transparency um it's important that we get as many people involved in the schools as possible it's also important that you know we continue to acknowledge the great things are that are happening here in Garfield um that's why you see a lot of uh presentations that we'll be having now um within the next couple of minutes uh I'll talk about a few things um after these incredible um students and teachers get up here so without stealing their Thunder Mr President let's if you don't mind we'll go right to student of the month so uh Mr Moo I'm going to call you out for everything and allow you to good evening it's my pleasure to uh call up Mr Carlo social studies teacher at ghs makeer October student of good evening I'm here to introduce the ghs October student of the month Isabella conform sent out last month to ask for nominations Miss Jennifer Robin and I immediately messaged Issa on team to ask her for activity sheet because we both knew she needed to win this award she is one of the most deserving students and does so much for our school Community she is a three sport Varity Athlete on the cross country swimming and Spring Track teams she's in the early college program where she takes Bergen Bergen Community College classes and will graduate this spring not only with her high school diploma but with her associates degree as well she is the president of the Hispanic National Honor Society she's involved in TI the National Honor Society student government and helped organize our homecoming dance and pep rally she also volunteered her time over two summers to help uh when we had our summer arts program to health paint ceilings for Hackensack hospital so patients receiving different treatments have something comforting to look at while dealing with the scary time in their lives she is really just so special to our boiler maker family and she is one of the strongest people I know with the most heart out of every anyone I've ever coached I really cannot express how proud and honored I am to have been able to work with and get to know Issa over these last three years and miss Robin wanted to add something she couldn't be here tonight but she just wanted to add that she nominated Issa based on her kindness and the the fact that every single teacher knows who she is simply because she smiles and says good morning to everyone whether she knows you or not and she truly hopes you have a good morning and that's Issa I know she's going to be someone who would really make a difference in the world and we love you and congratulations Issa we are all Beyond proud of you [Applause] [Music] um I want to thank the board of U Miss B Miss Amo my teachers and my friends who are always here to support me this really means a lot to me I've worked really hard in Garfield High School I put a lot of passion in what I do and this really reflects it so um I'm going to use this as one more motivation to work harder and to give back to my community in my school thank you so much [Applause] if you can just one moment just one moment so this is something new that the board is starting so Issa Issa there more this is our challenge point this is uh thank you for representing our school district format that you do this is also okay so that you work on a regular basis and truly represent us as you represent yourself and your family and we appreciate everything that you're doing and we look forward to everything that you will do in the future and everything that we'll be able to be a part of mission thank [Applause] you congratulations uh excellent job uh now uh Student Government speakers or speaker I would like to introduce our um VI vice president sarahan good evening members of the board good evening everyone you met me and Frank last time um we just wanted to start off by um and by saying that we just we just held our October 25th elections and we are proud to say that we had excellent results and we now have three new representatives for Student Government we have a senior representative mag Delena we have a sophomore representative Elizabeth and a freshman representative so right now our upcoming events include hosting mental health awareness round table which we will be pairing up hopefully with c and another um outside project to bring into be the stigma around mental health we are also hoping to organize a Cod drive along with TI and then we also be hosting a dress drive to hopefully um ease the comfor of prom and make to make dress more accessible for students so that they can have a better and more fun promise period um we're also proud to say that we're going to have a club Fair which will be held during our school hours we want to have this so students can engage more in school and raise the school spirit and for them to be um able to join more clubs and activities and extracurriculars we also do want to plan an alumni night which will come more like into the year like um something like January and we do want to bring um uh prior alumni and from garford high school I've graduated have like you know done very good in their life to um kind of exemplify that you can come at GF high school and be gr and all that and have these examples absolutely we will also be hosting career n with which will either be during school hours or after school hours it will be in promotion of with the club Fair we will also be bringing a long night for that event to show that you can be out of guard to like create an excellent career path we're hoping that they long night can share their career path or educational setting and provide the students with any knowledge that they would like regarding their career field and hope to answer any questions that students might have regarding what they want to do in the future to help them set up for a better future after they come out of college thank you so much so much for your time excellent have any question for us no but I'd like them more so as representatives for each one of you guys you're going to be representing so these are pins that you can wear um wherever you guys are having your stuff of that nature so that you're representing RP when you're in regular clubes okay thank you thank you thank you guys for everything that you're do thank you so much have a great night and and uh just to uh reiterate um all those incredible things that you were all talking about career nights and alumni Gatherings and whatnot uh obviously you know you're you're going to work through your advisor then through Mr Mo um but we we I really want to stress and and again I'm I'm the new guy here but I want to stress that you know this board wants to support everything you're doing there and we we want to be able to offset whatever the building cannot do so please you know when you get to that make sure you include me and then I can include the board because this is such an active board that I know they probably have some alumni that can help out with career day or maybe some of them themselves so so please let us know that's the that's the way we're moving forward so you can also help out with the preparation that you guys are doing for the events and stuff of that the dress donation the suit donation and we will be we will be in contact we hope that in partnership with you guys we can create a better event for not only the C of blackfield but those that I to come so thank you again so much for help we truly do appreciate it and we hope that great events can come out of this partnership thank you so much than that's great I love how the student body is so active here I mean it's it's not every I know when you when you're from Garfield and maybe you you haven't been outside of Garfield too much and there's nothing wrong with that but I have to say I I've been I've been a few different places and and I'm I'm around the state a lot and there is so much activity here from our kid kids and our teachers our administrators I'm not just saying I don't have to say it really um but I'm very impressed um again been I've been here now 150 days and uh I I can't believe all the stuff that's happening here there's too many things to actually put down or you know I can't wait for this club Fair because I know I'm probably missing some stuff so uh so please so thank you again it's been excellent really has and then the segue into this now is an incredible thing um you know our njsla students uh and our teachers and administrators and how these students tonight we have 12 students who who have either scored perfect or near perfect scores on these standardized standardized tests I know places like here uh sometimes we you know we look at the aggregate scores right we take the entire District we say oh look at these scores they're in the low whatever percentiles and it's not about that because we we have families we have students we have you know just different things different hurdles that we go over uh that we go through uh you know in our in our city um but we need to look at our own the growth both of our own children right you have to worry about your own child right like I always say I have four children one of them is a great mathematician and one of them just isn't right but they could all grow right so that's what we have to look at but now to identify these students tonight that have perfect scores on these tests means that we're all definitely doing something your families are doing something uh and it's just an incredible thing so Miss Bellinger can you come up and please give uh um our board president the honor of uh introducing these individuals would you like to Jo me up your yeah we're getting we're getting the stuff if there any other principles that are here tonight that would like to come up and join me as well passing out yes all the principles please than welc to join [Music] so as Dr TCO said we have about a dozen students that scored a perfect score of 850 or a near perfect score of 850 on last Frank's New Jersey student learning assessment which measures Proficiency in math and Ela so anybody that I'm calling up today did just that either in math or Ela in their particular grade level last year scored quite high and I'm very excited to announce students the first student is nicool gallowitz who scored a perfect score of [Applause] [Music] 50 yeah let's line up next is aleandra M perfect score of [Applause] next we have Daria coal perfect score of 850 on the [Applause] ELA probably studying sure she get it thank you next we have Lis Flint perfect score of 850 grade seven Ela [Applause] next is Emily Su perfect score of [Applause] 850 next is Quia Ki perfect score of 850 on Ela [Applause] next we have sopia Reesa perfect score of 850 I'd like to ask Han zc perfect score of 850 Ela [Applause] P come on this side over here next is Emily khas score of 849a [Applause] next is Yolanda oras perfect your perfect score of [Applause] 846 next is Ashley Martinez 845 [Applause] and lastly perfect sport [Applause] 850 congratulations to all of you it's a combination of your hard work your teachers your parents [Applause] congratulations h h ladies come down come on to there chair [Music] [Applause] congratulations [Applause] everybody congrats I'm going to pass around two these coins that uh Mr Tom Co had U initiated and help design so everyone can see it so we're going start from the back bring it to the front nobody's walking out of here that doesn't deserve one so I'll pass it on once again uh I think that um that's a true Testament to what everybody does here every day for the kids uh in this city whether you're a parent making breakfast in the morning getting them here the bus driver driving someone to school the teacher making sure everything is in place administrator all the way up the central office that building Administrative Assistant the custodian everyone One Security I mean uh this just proves that you know every kid here can get to where he or she can achieve so again one more round of applause for these incredible young adults and their families excellent J so we have a few uh presentations right now that I think are really exciting um we added one a little later which I'm glad we got on today so it's a TI peer leaders presentation so come on up and so I would just like to introduce Miss paa Brown and Mr Christopher storms uh two guidance counselors and coaches at ghs and they are the advisers for both TI and Trend TI being the smaller Core group that's here they'll tell you more about and Trend which can involve basically the entire high school they never tell students they can't be a part of it so whether it's breakfast at 7:4 in the C in the uh gym and hanging out and doing activities that just bring kids together um or freshman orientation having people there around for meetings at night if I ever need students who are going to represent ghs in a phenomenal way I go to those two people who then bring everyone else on board so I'll let them explain what ti is going write all that down and hang in my office um so basically I've been a school counselor now for 18 years I've also been an advisor for the ti program for 18 years and I'm also proud of them I Garfield graduated in 2000 and I attended the uh lmti program back in high school in 1999 sounds like a few years ago uh I am also um an alumni of Harford High School I attended the program for years when I was in high school myself in 1997 and then in 1998 and when I came back to work uh at Garfield High School in 2008 um shortly after that Mr storms asked me to come on as advisor uh with him for this group and it was an honor because it changed my life when I was in high school and I wanted to be able to give back give that back to students um now um I want to recognize um this summer we were recognized as action group of the year for the state of New Jersey by the my so we Rec time to having a comprehensive plan um that cross different um areas and topics including drug and alcohol prevention um the students will talk a little bit more about our plan for this year but I wanted to recognize the students from our group last year so we have Maga is one of our students from last year annaya and Frank are all students that were part of our group last year and are now and back to the again this year um so and then we're going to bring up the rest of the ti students that can all stand up here uh while we talk a little bit about what we're going to be doing uh throughout the remainder of the school year so it's uh really these young people that make this group work it is peer-led so we are here to help guide them but it is them that do all the work so I'm going to turn it over to [Applause] magd hi everyone so we want to start off by saying a little bit about lmti so the mission of the Lindsay maritine Institute is to guide young people to realize their leip potential and encourage teens to create positive change without the use of drugs and alcohol a little bit about our Garfield tip leaders so we are selected through a nomination and application process upon being selected we attend the 3-day and 5-day lmti leadership conferences and this gets us ready for the school year ahead of us and and to create POS of change hi my name is jacn Ortega so every year we create an action plan to implement in ghs this year our goal was to create a positive change in our school Community by reversing negative stigma and building Garfield priz now you may be wondering how can we effectively create this or achieve this well we have created a plan to split our peer leaders up into communities called kmac kmac stands for knowled ation action change and Communications so let's hear a little bit more about them hi my name is Isel and I am honored to represent the lmti Garfield knowledge committee our mission is to raise awareness and provide essential information of some of the most critical issues te face today such as mental health and the risk of drug and alcohol abuse we are here to empower our peers offering the support and resources they can turn to when things get off one of our recent projects was a post on the ti Garfield um Instagram page called reasons to stay a message from us to our classmates reminding everyone that no matter how hard things can get there's always someone that cares and reasons to stay we also introduced the B am PL of nonviolence at our last CH meting through this pledge students committed to respect themselves and others to resolve conflicts peacefully and to stand up against boobie reinforcing a school environment where everyone feels safe and bed our goal as a knowledge committee is to help create a culture of care and connection thank you for attention and support and together let's get building a school Community where everyone every student feels seen supported and [Applause] safe hi my name is Lena sa and I'm one of The Proud members of the motivation committee our job as a motivation committee is to promote positivity and school spirit throughout ghs we want to make the students feel good so that they can do good hello Fridays happened the first Friday and last Friday of each month our TI leaders and anyone else who would like to join us arrive to school a little bit before 8:00 as students arrive to school we wish them all a cheerful good morning good morning let's make today a great day happy Friday we're giving our community at ghs a great start to their morning which we hope we still a great day as well our group also came up with another great idea to promote school spirit and most importantly Foster an environment for respect and kindness boiler bucks during respect week we provided every teacher with five boiler bcks if the student is doing a good deed has positive class participation or is simply just being a good student they receive a boiler book at our next Trend meeting in November everyone who received boiler books can put it into a raffle to win a prize our motivation committee has also planned a trip for TR Club to attend a haunted hay ride two weeks ago and we will plan more trips as a year goes on this is just the beginning of all the amazing things we're going to accomplish the school year since all of you are so kind and listen to my speech the board you each get a border book feel free free to pass it on to someone you catch in a random act of [Applause] kindness hello everyone my name is Rebecca and today I want to share the incredible work of the lindsy maritine institutes Garfield action committee a dedicated group of five peer leaders together we run Trend our school club focus on creating a safe and supportive environment for our peers CH meets once a month at our mission is to prevent drug and Al Al use among scenes through engaging activities and open conversations we understand that adolesence can be a challenging time and it's crucial to have a safe space where everyone feels valued and heard each month our committee collaborates design activities that not only educate but also Empower our fellow students from interactive workshops to fun team building games we aim to create connections and build confidence within our student body we want every student to know they're not alone in facing pressures and chall challenges our peer approach means we're not just talking to our friends we're engaging with them listening to their concerns and providing practical tools to make Positive Choices we believe that by sharing our own experiences and supporting one another can create a stronger healthier Community thank you for your support and let's make our school a place where everyone can Thrive again members of the board good evening as you know my name is Sarah my my name is Erica and together we represent the change committee the goal of the change committee is to a for a strong mindset that can help combat any negative influence or behavior with this we're aiming to create a positive change and a positive impact on every student of the garville community one of our first projects will be taking place throughout the course of this week us TI members will be going through elementary schools throughout the whole district and visiting s waers to talk about the importance of inclusion and acceptance we will be doing so through Halloween related activities because we're in October so we're going to get in the spirit and we will be also be doing presentations now we hope that as when as the progress goes on you hope to see it and we will hope to also create a sa space for open discussion the change comedy is also planning on presenting on to the fifth graders in order to make them feel more confident about going into middle school thank you our general goal is to help them have a strong and confident mindset that can combat any negativity through activities and presentations like this we'll create a chain reaction in which they will help other kids into becoming a better person for the future of Garfield and the world thank [Music] [Applause] you my name is Magna I'm Jackie and I'm friend and we're part of the communications committee so as members as the only members of the communic committee our job is to share everything that our kmac groups achieve with the world so we run an Instagram account as well as create both physical and digital Flyers to spread awareness about all events to the student body so we promote and we create we have also prepared our thank you letters to all of our board members and I will go distribute them right now we wanted to thank the board in our own very special CI way so T stands for the ti experience you provided us with h stands for how grateful we are a stands for the amazing time we had at Camp n stands for NE never giving into negative peer pressure K stands for kindness we are going to share y stands for youth we will inspire o stands for outstanding work we will do this year um and you some you stand for United together because we'll make great change thank [Applause] [Music] you Yankees thank you very much [Applause] okay okay now um we have a real incredible honor um to honor once again um the middle school for a purple star school recognition um I'm I'm very dedicated to the the cause of helping veterans or shuring that the message from veterans is is in the schools so so this is uh very important to me this group uh and I'm very excited that we have it here and I can't wait to get more involved in it so I'd like to call up Miss Marx and principal regoso come on up [Applause] here and then you can introduce your committee for your presentation of want introduce your committee good evening everyone thank you for having us and I just want to uh thank everyone here and Miss marrow has been with me from the beginning Miss dunker she couldn't be here but she um sends her her support I want to thank the veterans we have veterans from gville post 2867 that are here tonight they are great supporters of course I want to thank our Administration Mr the support of our program we're very proud of it and uh we really thank our veterans we want we're so supportive of our blue star children we're so proud of them so we have a little presentation for the history of the blue stars which is I think 12 years now that we doing this program 14 14 sorry 14 what oh okay the mission of blue star kids is to recognize students at Garfield Middle School who have immediate family members actively serving in any branch of the US Armed Forces we aim to support these students and their families by offering opportunities to connect with each other and local veterans for the past 12 years Garfield Middle School has proudly supported students with immediate family members on active duty through our blue star kids program this initiative began when students were reading a book set during World War II in class featuring many characters with family members serving in the military students related to the characters and began to talk about their family members serving our country the teachers decided to conduct an informal survey and were surprised to find 26 military students in the school uh our personal connections uh Miss Marx her husband served in the US Army for 4 years my brother Kevin Maro Jr uh he served in US Marines from January 2002 to February 202 3 and Donna duner's uh son served in the US Marine reserves from July 2015 to December 2023 the goal of our program is to ensure that military connected students have the resources and support they need to succeed academically and emotionally we aim to provide emotional academic and social support to students who may face unique challenges due to frequent relocations parental deployments and other aspects of military life this is one of our favorite trips uh we do this every year each year we team up with the Garfield BFW post 2867 to honor deceased veterans we spend the day placing black tipped American flags on their graves symbolizing mning and Remembrance for their service [Music] volunteering to place these flags on the gra Graves of deceased veterans on Memorial Day can teach several valuable lessons patriotism and gratitude community and civic responsibility and respect for sacrifice empathy and compassion humility and perspective and historical awareness this tradition is Meaningful and helps students connect in individuals to the Past promotes service and responsibility and fosters a sense of unity in honoring the legacy of those who served we've been fortunate enough to embark on a series of Unforgettable Journeys that have taken us through the heart of an of American history and Into The Cutting Edge of modern Innovation from historic military institutions to iconic landmarks and even into the world of entertainment and technology these experiences have left a lasting impression on these students uh the West Point Military Academy one of our most memorable trips uh stepping into its historic grounds gave students a chance to walk in the footsteps of American Heroes Ellis Island in the St Statue of Liberty uh these places are more than just tourist destinations they are powerful symbols of freedom and Hope uh this trip gave students A Renewed appreciation for the American immigrant [Music] experience McGuire Air Force Base visiting this base was a thrilling and humbling experience it gave students a new understanding of the dedication and expertise required to defend our nation uh High Park and the FDR Museum this trip gave students a chance to Dive Into The Life and Legacy of one of America's greatest presidents and offered an intimate look into FDR's presidency the Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum our trip to the USS in trepid was an amazing adventure the ship itself a veteran of multiple Wars tells the story of bravery and resilience 911 memorial seeing the memorial firsthand helped us understand the importance of resilience unity and Remembrance in the face of tragedy it was a powerful opportunity to honor the memory of those affected uh aside from our historical trips we do take some for fun uh at the Grammy Museum students immerse themselves in the world of music and pop culture the museum captured the energy and Artistry behind the world's greatest music including famous New Jersey M musicians the kids really like this one uh the LG experience students witness firsthand how Innovation shapes the way we live it was a fascinating glimpse into the future showing how technology will continue to transform our everyday lives in ways we never imagined each year our blue star students gather periodically to support one another and strengthen our sense of unity these gatherings are filled with fun and meaningful activities one of the highlights is making care packages and heartfelt cards for students deploy family members reminding them that they are in our thoughts these gatherings not only bring joy but also help us stay connected and uplifted during times when we need it most we are so proud of how much this program has grown over the years we have made lasting memories that will stick with everyone for a lifetime uh our blue star recognition letter from former First Lady Michelle Obama in 2024 Garfield Middle School received the purple star school designation from the Department of Education for providing outstanding support to military connected children making it one of the first schools to achieve this recognition program um the that we go on allows us to meet other people and you know have a connection and actually [Music] is [Music] we and get to see how our tell us about how it's such a great being our my name is j and I H love because we do many activities like we talk about what our what our family did and what it is to be a boost student and what responsibilities and responsibilities as and that's why I [Applause] we want to say thank you to all our sponsors of course the Garfield VW post 2867 let's give them a hand isn't here tonight but his son was actually one of our first blar students he's what really got us connected to the BFW so we thank him all veterans they support us they give us money for buses and things like that the Boys and Girls Club they've been a great supporter they paid for many of our trips mashos whatever we call him he answers the call and of course our Administration and I want to let everyone know that this year support of Mr M we're going to start it over at the high school and hopefully we can apply for the purle star designation for the high school and I hope one day every school in gardfield has his designation there's only 16 schools in the state there's only 16 schools in the entire state that have this and most of them are surround in McGuire Air Force Base so we're the only School up here in North Jersey so I really am proud of this and um I hope continues on after I'm done someone else takes over and does this because I think it's important for the kids and uh it's it's been a great experience for us I've gotten so much out of it so uh thank you to all the support that we've gotten through the years thank to everyone before we close out blue star I just want to recognize that Marie has been recognized through the state of running this program and the state has reached out to the city of Garfield and our school district next year is the 250 year anniversary anniversary of the Revolutionary War and the state has asked us to participate in that honor where now people are going to come to the city of Garfield to see what the city of Garfield was part of the Revolutionary War and a little history facts there is our namesake the city of Garfield well James Garfield's brother was one of the first people to sign up for the Revolutionary War One Two for the city of Garfield we have the Ford Monument on River Road and then three the Pake River when George Washington retreated right this is everything Marie does to the blue stars when George Washington retreated over the p River into the Clifton area the British were coming down the residents they were well Garfield wasn't called Garfield back then but the residents along the river the farmers made sure that the British didn't get over so they gave Washington enough time to escape and it was the city of Garfield and these are the things that people become to the city of Garfield this is what Marie's doing and the state has actually reached out for her to put a tour together for visitors to come to the city of Garfield so blue star is very important to the city Garfield to the school district and to everybody so thank you [Music] [Applause] Marie thank you very much it's incredible it really is I'm very excited so the board uh on behalf of your honor wanted to present your committee and the administration with this this uh this plaque we have one for each of you one for the for the building itself so says in recognition Garfield Middle School purplle star school 2024 to 2027 uh design the purple star schools program in New Jersey recognizes public and non-public schools that help military Children and Families Garfield Middle School has surpassed the purple star schools programs goals by helping military children transition to new schools developing programs that recognize military service and civic responsibility supporting the unique needs of military families and by providing resources for military connected students the Garo Board of Education recognizes the work of the blue star committee and the school administration for their dedication to the families in the city of Garfield courage strength sacrifice supporting military connected students congratulations thank [Applause] you now I gotta move back let's get this thing out of the way thank you [Applause] guys um briefly I see that we have a few of our veterans here um would you please stand okay so very quickly um this coin that we have is a challenge coin we have we got the idea from the military because we know that you guys have a tradition in which you guys exchange challenge coins I'm going to leave the details out and I would like to present each point of you with a challenge coin come up I'll come you you all got a thank you for your service thank you thank you for your service take a picture I go right ahead good evening everyone my name is David cast I'm the service officer at post 2867 on behalf of the post I would like to congratulate Miss Mar on the wonderful work that she does with us and the blar kids they forgot to mention that every year we do a Christmas giveaway for kids need kids that can't afford their parents can't afford toys and when you guys the community gives us donations we take it and we purchase toys and Miss Mars gets the blue star kids together and we set up a day where they all come down to the post and they start wrapping up these toyss for us and I want to thank him for that and also I don't know the day yet but we're going to have again this year Santa Claus and Miss Claus and we're going to be giving away toys last year we gave away over 800 toys and gifted 16 bites to unexpected children and they were very happy uh we also had the Grinch which left because this year we're going to have have uh the Avengers we're going to have Iron Man we're going to have Spider-Man and other characters so please everyone's welcome bring your children bring your neighbors children and have a great day again miss marks congratulations and thank [Applause] you thank you thank you thank you very much thank okay moving on we have our graduation pathway presentation um Mr back up thank you thank you okay this is definitely not going to be as good of a presentation as the ti presentation or the blue star presentation but a necessary one and um good information to to report um in order for students to graduate high school we obviously have to follow the guidelines that the New Jersey Department of Education has established for public schools um there it's not only the academic requirements or the attendance requirements um it's also the graduation the standardized testing requirement that's required for graduation so with that um every Junior um must take and pass a New Jersey graduation proficiency assessment during their junior year um that test is offered in March of their junior year for the class of 2024 actually took the assessment for the first time in March of 2023 students who then for whatever reason had to attend summer school also had the opportunity to take the assessment again in July and in the event that the student did not pass the exam one of those two times they had the opportunity again to take the exam last October um this also included students who may be moved to New Jersey from out of state out of the country or maybe were previously enrolled in a private or Parochial School and now had to meet the requirements of um public school and therefore had to take the assessment so students basically have three opportunities to take the New Jersey uh NJ GPA um if they pass it the first time that's great if not they have opportunities to take it again so the state knows that not every student learns the same way not every student is going to necessarily pass the NJ GPA the current cut scores or passing scores for uh the ELA and the math portion of the NJ GPA are 725 so that is the first way that students could meet their assessment requirement for graduation by achieving a 725 or more in both the math and the ELA portion of the NJ GPA if that doesn't happen students do have the um have alternate ways of meeting the testing requirement I'm not going to read through them but there's one column for ELA one column for Math and they can take any of those assessments and score that score higher and also meet their testing requirement for graduation at the high school we do offer students the uh PSAT we offer the PSAT to every sophomore and Junior and that again is through the support of the districts our students do not pay for the PSAT um that is paid through the District budget and we also offer the acup Placer to any student that might need to take it uh the third pathway for meeting this graduation requirement is something called a portfolio and that is an individualized approach uh where students do open-ended problems to show to demonstrate their Proficiency in both the ELA and the math portion so there's three Pathways to meet the graduation requirement based on this um what this chart shows is the pathway that our students took in order to meet their graduation testing requirements of about 327 students that graduated with the class of 20 of 2024 93 students passed both the English and math section of the um NJ GPA more students passed just the math or just the EA but this is showing which students passed both uh 230 students met their requirements by passing some sort of combination of um NJ GPA PSAT act acup Placer um and sat um portfolio appeals only six students um utilized the portfolio peel pathway in both math and Ela and then we had six students who utilized other modifications set forth in their IEPs um no student was denied graduation because they did not meet a test a testing requirement two students were denied graduation because they didn't meet another graduation requirement such as attendance or passing courses so again 325 students graduated with the class of 2024 and two students did not because they they um missed some other uh component of uh some other graduation requirement um once again we do offer the PSAT to all grade 10 and 11 students um this ensures that they have exposure to standardized uh assessments it helps them prepare for the SAT which they usually begin taking Junior and Senior year um the acup Placer is also offered to students as a form of a substitute competency and the acup ESL is a very good assessment for uh the students that we have who uh come to us from different countries and are English language Learners it allows them uh to learn a little bit of English and then to demonstrate what they've learned and it's um a much easier assessment for them than the uh NJ GPA again because of the length and the the content um and once again the additional support that we also provide is that students are placed in basic skills classes in junior senior year so they get extra practice in um both the NJ GTA skills as well as the acup Placer skills um looking ahead because we're always looking to um increase the number of students that pass by the NJ GPA and reduce the number of students who pass by portfolio um we this year we're beginning to use resources available through Renaissance for more individualized support uh students who have not currently met their testing requirement are scheduled for skill development classes either in the full semester or in the spring semester uh as far as RTI is concerned we um look at what students need individually uh teachers come to us counselors come to us um to bring up any areas of concern and then we make uh whatever adjustments are necessary to help the students sometimes that involves before school tutoring after school tutoring um we continually review data throughout the year to assess if we need to adjust anything we keep Communication open with parents and uh students as well we meet with students both in large group and small group depending on on what the topic is and once again we uh offer extended day classes once the school year uh gets going to all students and specifically to those students that might need extra support to pass the testing requirement um this is the conclusion of this uh Pathways presentation once again um I would like to acknowledge the work of the teachers and uh curriculum supervisors for continually revisiting what's going on and always looking to improve and as well as the District administration to um allow us to you know whenever we suggest new programs or we want to try something we're always greeted with absolutely how can we help so we are very thankful for that support always if there's any questions I'd be glad to address them thank you we have one more presentation from M Teo guys want to come up Dynamic Ma sorry for this I had had my stuff but I forgot okay so I'm going to talk about the D Dynamic learning math which is for 1% of our students uh students so the students that take the alternative assessment it provides instructionally relevant system that supports student learning the dlm measures what students with significant cognitive disabilities know and that they can do as opposed to the standardized test that the state gives which they are not capable of doing the DM is designed to give each student an individualized experience by presenting questions that are tailored to a students needs and their own abilities the dlm allows our students to receive instruction that's tailored to them in preparation for the test this informs IP teams of students strengths and their needs which allows for planning of the future classroom instruction it also enables the the schools to document and track the individual growth of these students the DM is designed to provide students with similar instructional and assessment experiences in order to prepare them for the exam it also helps teachers on the back end to make appropriate instructional decisions when working with these students the philosophy of the DM the creators created this test and they believe that students with significant cognitive disabilities are a highly diverse group who learn through multiple Pathways students with significant cognitive disabilities can learn at challenging levels that will prepare them for the future okay let's talk about how the uh dealon process begins it starts with the IP and the IP team uh and there are three questions that must be answered in order to have a student qualify for the dlm and they're very very strict we're looking at a percentage of our population at 1% um so the answers to these questions have to be uh quite particular the first question is does the student have a significant cognitive disability now how is that determined that's determined uh through the child study team evaluations primarily the uh school psychologist IQ evaluation we're looking for scores that are low in all the areas of the IQ a student who had a math score that was quite high or a score that was using spatial relationships that was high and a verbal score that was very very low would not necessarily be a candidate for the DM we're looking for all of the areas to be significantly lower so that it um shows a cognitive disability the second question is is the student being primarily instructed using the dlm Essential Elements as content standards the essential elements are goals and objectives but they're coming out of individualized tests so as I talk a little bit more I'll explain how the individual tests are decided but the essential elements are coming from there as goals and objectives and they are in the Imp so that would also have to be a yes question number three does the student require extensive direct individual instruction and substantial supports to achieve measurable gains in grade and age appropriate curriculum that's a lot of words but basically what that is saying there is that the student really needs specialized instruction in order to reach their goals uh specialized instruction beyond the IEP uh such as maybe um an ABA type classroom where there's a lot of trials for the skill or a life skills program that has extensive supports um and that uses those Essential Elements uh as standards to reach goals and objectives so those three questions must be yes and they must be an IEP team decision before a student is a qual a qualif fire excuse me for the DM okay okay the DM Administration so now we have our list of students who are eligible to take the DM and before we do anything we train the teachers uh the teachers need to have a certificate in order to administer the dlm the dlm is given on a onetoone basis so the teacher sits with the student and a device and they take their individualized testlets that are developed through these points here the first one is first surveys and that's a surve that the teacher develops by the prior work that has been done in the classroom and the PNP that's a personal profile IP is used case managers are used the files the um progress in the classroom and that all helps to determine students starting levels so that's how the testlets the dlm for each student is developed by those first surveys and pmps from there once the testlets are individual ized and they're delivered right to the students's device then there's practice that's what we're doing right now the teachers are all trained now they're doing their embedded practice that's taking place from now until December 20th so what's happening is the students are learning how to take the test they're learning the manipulatives that are offered they're learning how the format is given their learning their device very very important uh to know how to work the device we tend to think that students are wonderful with technology which they are but it's a specific technology that is need a specific skill a tested skill that's needed in order to give this test and this practice is imperative for students who have lower cognitive abilities especially in memory um then the second after we do that then there's a second practice session and that's scheduled in March we usually have the teachers spend about an hour with each student um so that they really are pretty strong in taking the test and then the testing window is open the actual dlm between early April to early June um students take the dlm tests in language arts math and science is given excuse me language arts and math is given to grades 3 through 8 and 11 and um the science is also added to the repertoire for grades of five 8 8 and 11 okay and then after we do all of that then the data is submitted for scoring okay the scoring is based on four categories one is emerging uh everything is going to a Target skill so the emerging are students who are working towards that Target skill um and um are uh showing some understanding of the of the content areas second area is a little bit um higher approaching student Knowledge and Skills are closer to the Target goal the third level is at Target students have reached their projected level of Mastery for the skill assessed and the last level is Advanced the students have exceeded the projected level of Mastery for the skills that were assessed uh in their individual battery okay our data because our sample size is so small meaning less than 10 students per grade level but in reality we may have grade three with three students grade five with two students maybe grade eight with six students um the data remains confidential um however all the results are sent home to the parents uh to review and they are discussed at the IP meetings with case managers and any questions are always um encouraged uh through the department to reach out to that or myself and just some strategies that we use intervention strategies for the teachers for professional days or staff meetings uh we have in the past that are doing it now generating a discussion with the teachers to just say how can we F uh further utilize the dlm in a classroom that's important because to go through all this mean we want it to use it as a tool not to just you know have a score on one of those four areas that I just discussed um second point we discussed with the teachers how to use the data in order to differentiate lessons and align them with the curriculum and the essential elements that we talked about before third Point encourage ongoing communication with teachers through the school year um we do this all the time uh have just small conferences um talk in the office do a zoom call those types of things to assure Fidelity of how the assessment is administered and the last Point uh reinforce the importance of practice sessions those practice sessions the one in the fall and the one in March are just imper imperative to prepare the students uh for Learning and some intervention strategies for the students um students should utilize all practice sessions available with the test administrator and they do we we do make sure of that um we want them to be familiar with all the manipulatives as said and how to use the um Tesla um information and the devices and the students need to um know all of this before the actual assessment takes place uh in April through June and then just lastly uh the students need to be in person to do this um during the pandemic this was a challenge uh some places did not have it um in person and what they found uh data in 2021 was that the in-person assessment was just imperative for this popul so teachers really need to be sensitive to the gaps uh for our most vulnerable population any questions thank you thank you again okay so I'm always teaching right it's a teachable moment so Mr Mr Raymond Mr Taylor as the board leadership vetted me for this position you know I think one of the questions I'll tell the story one of the questions was why do you want to come here right so it's a great question and I said why wouldn't I want to come here right a lot of great things happening here I hear from everyone you know around the state and every district has their issues but when these two gentlemen started talking about all the incredible things here rattling off the clubs the activities the facility all all these things the pride that was in both of them they were talking to me it was just an incredible thing The Pride that all of you should feel for your kids your City all of those things all these things we talked about tonight all these incredible things we don't talk about enough we don't we need to start doing that we need to change the dialogue here all right when someone talks about an aggregate score in Garfield they talk about oh look this you know that's that's a a black eye on everything that we just talked about tonight and those are only that's only a small piece of what happens in this city every day so this board's promise to this community is to make sure that every meeting and every chance we get we're going to Spotlight all these great things that everyone is doing but we need your help as well because the negativity not in not in just this this Township all over because of all the different polarizing things that have happened have really put a a stigma on education on our teachers nobody wants to go into the field anymore this is becoming a major issue so every chance you get to celebrate and I'm talking to the students now every chance you get to celebrate what we're doing here whether it's a win on an athletic field or a box competition a new club you're starting playing guitar whatever it is we want to be behind you 100% all right that's that's the new Garfield that's what we're doing here all right and and and that's a promise so what you saw tonight were some uh test results and things that people don't think you know anyone's doing anything here right I mean it's it's a it's a common it's common verbiage it's it's stuff I'm hearing so we need to change that we need to change that dialogue completely um so that's our promise to you and hopefully uh you definitely make the same promise uh to us moving forward so we're almost finished give me one second here sorry my computer it's like one of those bad timings right my computer just shut off it was like my dramatic my my mic dropped and didn't happen for me so but I'm very passionate about it again I I'm I'm the newest member here and and the pride that I feel already is is uh is contagious right but it's only contagious because of all of you so so let's continue to do the great things that we're doing uh I just want talk about a few more things these aren't presentations these are just things so it kind of goes along with the ti presentation uh cope cope is something that um that I I started many many years ago and and got a lot of Educators involved and I'm very excited to bring it here to Garfield with this board uh it's community outreach program in education and and it stems off of my 100 day uh uh entry plan trying to meet as many Community groups as possible nonprofit organizations uh VFW you know Boys and Girls Clubs etc etc the whole idea is is to grow a group of ambassadors here which I I tend to see we have already which is just an incredible feeling for me um that go out to these groups and assist them whenever they need it whether it's a 5K run and they're handing out you know um water or you know it's handing out flyers or it's serving pasta at a pasta night or it's helping to wrap presents and stuff like that so I think Garfield's almost there already uh to organize entire group of service organizations and and whatnot uh is something that's coming down the pike so I've met with oh excuse me I've met with Pastors in town uh I met with uh different types of activists uh so this is coming so I'm very excited to to have that welcome the first 100 days and you'll be hearing more about that but even more exciting that that that I learned tonight that we basically have an ambassador program already that hopefully uh this program can just kind of morph uh into uh and and with that my 100 day entry Plan update I will be having a formal evening out for all of our parents students faculty members to talk about my 100 days here and what I found and and just to highlight a lot of the great things a lot of the short-term goals I'll be recommending to the board and long-term goals I'll be recommending to the board that will roll into a new strategic plan uh I had the honor of helping the board do that five or six years ago now so I'm I'm glad I'll be able to help you guys do that again here as an intergate part of the of that strategy um but I did find um you know some immediate things that we needed to work on not not to blame anybody in the past or whatnot but you know policies and regulations regulations weren't even existing here you know how how are we a community or how are we a district that's forcing uh policies or trying to enforce policies and and no one even knows what those are uh some of them are outdated you'll see that today we we have some uh that we've updated we had some newer policies that we've changed because they they just really after I read them a few times didn't seem to make any sense for the city here um so I don't know if anybody wants to speak to that but uh I wasn't here for for some of those older policies but again um some of that is um you could see now if you go on to the regulations we made those public um there are regulations that didn't match with the things that we were doing and that's the board's responsibility is to basically you know make policy so that I can make sure we follow it and that goes along with regulations just so everyone's clear policy is a broad scope like you should have a dress code policy which we do you should wear this and that and this and then the regulation is more specific to Garfield and the needs of Garfield okay uh we had we have an issue with our grading policy our regulation didn't match what we've been doing now that's an issue for us here so so we're starting to do that so these are some of the things that we found in the 100 day plan just to make this place better for our kids for our kids because they deserve the best I always base things here on four years right four year spurts people some people argue with me on that but I say you know everybody has a great Elementary experience right you can always do fun things in elementary school but we need to get our kids our students everything they possibly need everything they possibly want in high school so that they're ready to leave here whether it's to join the military to open up a business to work in a trade or to go to college right it doesn't matter what you do as long as you are successful and we're we are the the U we're the the compass we have to get them there and we can't do that without communicating without talking without providing uh uh providing progress progress them so that's an important thing so I'll I'll be updating um uh the president and uh the community more on that probably I know that the the holiday is a little rough but uh I think I'll do it right around there when I get my uh my nice little presentation together we'll have some coffee and cake and uh we'll talk about all the great things that are happening here and how we can make it better 410 is District re-registration district reregistration is going to be happening in in Garfield um for the entire Community the entire Community from kindergarten all the way up to junior year right seniors obviously don't have to re-register um so anyone in those grade levels beginning in January we'll go through a re-registration process I will be rolling that out with with over the next few months but I wanted to announce it here publicly all right and what this does it does a few things number one it ensures that your taxpayer dollars are going to those individuals that live in the community right and I know it's very easy to say oh he doesn't live here she doesn't live here what's going on at the charter schools and well this is how we find out who's here and who's not I've been very successful with this in the past I've run it for different districts that I've actually worked for and worked with um and it's tedious work it could be done in-house for no extra cost it just takes the support of the parents and when you do get these requests from all of you to you know re-register your children please do that and don't think of it as tedious work think of it as something that's going to benefit all of the city all right so we'll be talking about this more um more often than uh in the next few months however my recommendation to this board is going to be to use a registration process sort of like how you get your driver's license different points right you could put this in for two points this in for you know column a column B um we're all used to doing that for our license so we can easily do that again um those students that are not re-registered correctly uh will be uh you know there will be their families will be contacted by the law by by the the letter of the law not the law but the letter of the law which would be like a uh first a letter and a certified letter then maybe a home visit uh and and we will ensure that by next year or at least by next December um we will have near 100% of our students will be uh garl residents so um just wanted to kind of put that out there um specifically tonight so that we are so I can start the process uh with the board being aware of all this as well uh just a few more things we also have uh an open public records request time and cost to the district section now it's 411 what this does is it lays out all the uh o requests or any public requests uh we're probably going to add another um section as well that discusses um Insurance fees that are not covered um this is something that I've done uh in my years as a lead administrator these requests um these filings and all these things that are absolute um the right of individuals to do that um are also your right as Citizens to understand that none of this is usually transparent and none of it is usually uh covered under insurance so these are fees coming right out of your pocket and a place like Garfield who has very limited to none I'm going to guess Mr D legal Reserve this is coming right out of your children's classrooms okay so you need to be understand that when we when we ask you for things now all right where these monies are going I'm also that type of superintendent that I don't like putting employee numbers down unless it's a violation of something okay if someone has a public record and it deserves their name on it you should need you should know their name as well so you'll start seeing that also um again in the within the letter of the law um those are important things because as you the public request this board to be transparent this Board needs to be transparent back and and that's that's exactly uh uh you need to be transparent back to this board that's that's that's the give and take uh I don't think there's anything wrong with that uh people can argue that all they want and that's great um but again these are all public records so request all you want um you know the insurance fees as well someone gets hurt on District property I don't think anyone in this room besides me and maybe a few other people understand how much that costs the board um if someone trips over a cracked sidewalk okay because we are a public entity and it's very easy to get an attorney no offense Mr gut Isler to get an attorney that's going to put a $12 lawsuit in U to try to get us to settle and that's what usually happens so it's time to be more transparent here uh also a few things on this agenda this board hopefully I'm looking for I'm recommending this board supports the security cameras I want to thank Mr kees and the committee for actually taking the time to walk around look at all these things there is nothing more important um than uh safety of our students I don't care what parent you are you are not dropping your child off in the morning hoping that they do really well in math today and not worry about their safety here okay and if you are that parent then we should have a conversation after all right um the math scores come and go but if your child is not safe um you know we have an issue this is probably one of the safest districts I've ever visited with the with our incredible security force or our guards um some of the other things I can talk about that are in place the uh I've had more meetings with the local police department and the SRO that I have I think in my entire career anywhere else so far um just the community outreach uh to make sure we're all on the same page even with uh the town government uh has been just uh just very welcoming to me but we can always do better right we can always do better we can always find things that are better and uh again I have to give Mr kees some credit for that um and you see uh the uh on here tonight for your approval are um are a bunch of security cameras um that that're very much needed and there's going to be another load of them coming as well we're looking for as much support as we can from Grants from safety grants or from other things that we can but uh but again uh this is a great start um to that I know that started before I got here in the summer so I just wanted to recognize it as well um and I believe that's it one more thing on here is um Power School power school is an incredible um CIS or student information system that hopefully with the board's blessing tonight we'll be starting to move over till to next year um we already have power school systems in place that you don't even recognize our power school here and some that we want to bring back like I would think of Naviance Etc um but even scheduler to help with the new high school schedule that we're possibly proposing to this board um you know new student information system Renaissance feeds into it U there your website the new website is power school so we already have a lot of the modules so tonight uh with the board's approval we're looking to move our Tire Cy and that system to the power school family uh just for you know just in my opinion incredible relationship um and and really great partnership with parents and teachers together um there's a lot of they have something called Power buddy which is not on for approval tonight but it's actually it's actually an app it's an incredible app and it actually tells a parent you know on your app you know your child didn't do their homework yet uh they need a 50 on this in order to get an A it's really an incredible tool and it's all comes through the student information system and it's all available and why shouldn't Garfield have it um that's the whole thing we're we're we're done with those days where ah it's okay don't worry about it no I want to be the first place to do things not the last place to talk about it um so that's all I really have to say right now progress thank you again for the opportunity appreciate it Mr President at this time you have any committee reports uh Mr President I have a question uh Mr Dr TOMCO do you have a timeline for the student re-registration I mean I'm not expecting right now but I know you're you may be formulating it but is yes we'll be uh sending out formal letters probably by the end of November to get everyone ready and we will start collecting January 1 great um so we'll start in the new year thank you Mr President thank you thank you m Dr TOMCO committee report yep good evening everyone I'm excited to discuss the following okay it's as good as it gets I'm excited to discuss the following facilities projects that have been completed since our last meeting I will give be giving a report once a month just to update the community the staff um and also the board about where we are please pause technical difficulties um just a few things uh Garfield High School the HVAC in the child study team the installation was completed very happy about that the field we spoke about security cameras the Vera cameras for the field 17 of them are installed the other 10 will be installed at the rest of the week the Middle School the induction fans were installed on the boilers this was a safety feature the fans create negative pressure which draws the flu gases out of the chamber and they ensure that they're safe and that it's safely expelled from the boiler system so that was a priority that is done and taken care of uh School number 10 we're working on repairing the wall in front of the building and districtwide we are up updating the security radios from analog to digital so the district can mirror the Garfield Police Department um safety as we just discussed it's a a number one priority for the district um and two last things were uh the district beautification the 107 trees have been planted districtwide at all the buildings please take your time go drive around to some of the other schools you'll notice it's it's really wonderful and the last thing we have scheduled right now are the water bottle filling stations they're scheduled for installation in the month of November that's it thank you very much Mr where are the uh water bottle filling stations being located all of the school buildings are getting them and they will be located primarily next to the cafeterias some of the larger scho SCH like the high school and the middle school it'll be cafeteria and then close so that this way you can bring from home your plastic water bottle fill it up with filtered water perfect and know that your child is always hydrated all day long perfect thank you Miss D I have a few questions if I may sure go ahead um we a lot of the things that we're getting I'm sorry A lot of the things that are um getting done around the district a lot of them need to be uh we need permits for we don't seem to be getting permits for any of the things that we're doing in the district uh we're not you know we're not exclusively we need to get those permits okay what permits are you speaking about specifically any kind of building that goes on that inside our schools that you know we we need to do it needs to be checked out by do you have a specific example that you'd like to give to me well the whole down stairs by the underneath the the Success Academy was not permitted were you were you on the board that time at that time when that was done so you were aware that it was not permitted I just found this out recently oh okay okay so that was before my time but I will look into that for you okay thank you for bringing that to my attention Okay is that's it for now Mr D apologize um all right at this time were there any committee uh meetings me okay uh motion to go into Personnel 6.1 through 6.23 motion uh can I just ask a question I'm sorry were there any committee meetings or there just no no reports and there were no committee meetings or I know there were no committee meetings um no committee meetings nothing that I was informed of no committee meetings thank you question if there was no committee meeting if there was no committee meetings how could there be changes in policies I don't understand that I mean we're we're we're supposed to be writing the policies not the superintendent and I understand with the he was saying with the um the different things that needed to be changed but this board should be doing the policies um I understand with the advisement of the superintendent of course but um right our board should be doing the policies do the chair can I answer that I I totally agree with you Mr D that's why we're doing it this way prior to me getting here was done incorrectly you were paying an attorney to help you write policy by yourself as the as the chair so how it really works is that's why there's two readings to policies there's a first reading and a second reading no changes to policies are supposed to be made in between until in between the first and second readings that's why you have the two readings so usually it's perfunctory tonight a first reading is just to get the board to kind of get the policies however just so you're aware the policy committee did receive the policies with some of the options in there that were easy options like for example how many board members do you have I mean I don't think we need an entire board to understand we have nine board members so that was something that was filled out now in between the first and second reading next month you have a policy meeting one meeting usually discuss those things and then the full Board gets the policies discussed after that's the the true protocol that you I don't think it's ever been filed here before but that's that's really how it goes so basically in between the first read the second reading the policy committee can then talk about it all they want now does it have to be done that way no there's no law but that's that's the really best practice that I've seen not one committee person going with an attorney and writing a policy and stuff like that which I think was happening here so so that's that's that's how I think we're moving forward so I answer the question uh yes okay thank else there once again motion to go into personel excuse me 61 motion by Mr Moo seconded by Mr Gaba sorry I uh any questions or comments I have one s uh yeah um I just want to let the public know because I don't know if the public um agenda has exactly what we have I'm not sure if the public agenda has the exact numbers of people's salaries that that are being hired or not I'm not sure that are you offering that to the public yes sir okay so all right I just wanted you to make clear that um because we do have a art teacher here that was U for $80,500 and um Mr Derek hold on one all right so I was just want to say if the public saw that the reasoning uh Mr TOMCO did explain that to me I just want the public to be clear that um paying an our teacher um 80,500 on step 14 um he had explained to me that there was no other alternative but to hire this individual uh for that price so if somebody sees that for $80,500 on step 14 there reasoning Mr TOMCO can you verify that well I I think the better way of saying it might be that you know this individual has the experience that's based on the gft salary guide so that's why they're being hired so to say if they're the best candidate yes that's that's the answer um this isn't back like in the 1980s where there were 4,000 people applying for a job and a board told the superintendent only step one only step one it's it's just not that way anymore uh however we're not just uh you know offering people uh money out of nowhere to have them come here that's not how I do that's not how I do business at least so these individuals are you know promoted to where you know they have experience Etc um but again we have to run the buildings these are you know we still have positions that are Miss Missing at the high school um you know we're still posting for positions so so I guess you're it's like being half right so what you said I clarifies it I think I just clarified it all right so the answer was that wasn't the only person that that was well it goes you have a process so there's there was a process set in place before I got here so there's a posting a committee you know I I I did change it a little bit now that the giving the principles a little bit moreal autonomy to make a decision in their buildings than just the superintendent picking someone which I don't even know how that was happening prior to me getting here um but that's really it but there is a process of how somebody you know gets gets hired um so that's what we followed okay anyone else all right do we have a call Mr D hi hi Mr hi Sanchez hi Mr Ramos I okay motion to go into Finance 8.1 through 8.15 so moved Mr President motion by Mr second I think Mr yes all right uh questions comments Mr D no if not uh roll call Mr D I'm going to abstain on the bush Law Group I and the rest I abstain on Bush Law Group I and arrest you're having technical difficulties here with these there's only one check number for Bush lawr 014 01 487 for $576 I abstain 8.1 8.2 I and arrest I okay motion uc1 I make a motion questions comments [Applause] hi I Mr I okay facilities 12.1 12.2 motion I [Music] second Mr hi Mr hi Mr hi Mr hi mche mr1 EXC excuse me Mr President I think there's a 15.1 Athletics no resolution thank you so [Music] moved I second um but these are the policies um yeah I'm going to obstain unhappy because um some of these were just changed I'm not sure about the regulations and I think that we do need copies of we should be receiving these copies I didn't receive a copy of um them and I can't log into board dos so I couldn't uh see them so I'm going to vote no on the policy Mr D no I Mr no Mr I this is the this is the poliy so I [Music] all right for those who wish to uh engage in public comment at this meeting guidelines regulations that we've set forth um that have been set forth at the previous meetings but we're just going to reiterate um while the Garfield Board of Education recognizes the value of public comment on an ed on educational issues and the importance of allowing members of the public to express themselves on school matters of community interest please be advised that the following guidelines shall apply members of the public who would like to address the board must State their name and address each member of the public will be limited to offering no more than five minutes of public comment no participant shall speak more than once as this is a public forum public comments may not in any way be disrespectful vulgar or threatening toward any member of the Board District faculty Administration or staff if any public comments violate these guidelines the speaker will be asked to refrain from offering any further public comment regardless of whether they have time remaining in addition the speaker may be interrupted and his or her privilege to comment terminated if the speaker comments are disruptive or otherwise violate these guidelines thank you in advance uh from the board for your anticipated Co cooperation and following these guidelines um and again it these guidelines are included in your packet so if you have any questions you could refer back to them public comment whoever wishes to speak is free to do so at this time all right um say ladies first where was uh signed up to speak go ahead there's no all right we normally sign up so that's why I said that will we ask for a show hands how many people want to speak okay it's Mar 67 more is that Garfield okay oh I don't like this did my time start can not start yet okay I can't see my notes okay the Oprah requests when you compute the amounts of costs please explain how you come up with the sum as in isn't the custodian of record responsible for this request as in part of the N 190,000 salary already made please explain to me how it cost the Board of Education $1,322 to tell a person that they cannot get cell phone records this only shows me that the either the custodian of record is incompetent or the attorney researching this took around 5 hours to find a way to deny this CR please I know you do this in Belleville but this is not Belleville this is showing the public that there are tons of people that care and want to know exactly what is going on in the Garfield Public School District good for them I would I would encourage more people to do op request to become more knowledgeable it shows that yes it cost a couple thousands for the taxpayers but that's nothing compared to the 2 million that it had been spent in the past 3 months on new job positions and new vendor contracts this is not including your Sal Mr super because on the updated budget the 2425 budget it still has the listing of Mr parado as a superintendent and his salary not yours then did it also CA the taxpayers a lot of money for your settlement with the previous register to be replaced with Mr creel's C through I get nervous as always I'm sorry through all the building and grounds approval I couldn't find your approval for Steve's B ERS to use your field during the Boys and Girls Club football game is this because they didn't have a permit or a health inspection and pretty much caus a lot of people to get food poisoning how much is this going to cost The taxpayers Who on the board of ed will be taking responsibility for this enormous mistake from previous events I can vouch the Health Inspectors and the boys and girls club are always on top of these things I would never believe it is their mistake this to me is a in my opinion is a perfect example of how the Board of Education favor their friends without proper protocol did the vendors get fines for illegally selling to Miners and their parents without a permit and a health inspection on school GRS um when will policy 3372 through 3374 be listed does policy 3374 mean that any teacher that is brought in let's say to the middle school which is underperforming will automatically be tenured will these jobs be listed or go directly to friends how is this building morale with the teachers that are already in the district working toward their way toward 10 um are you also now going to allow School District employees to receive gifts from vendors as policy 7231 has been abolished um doesn't this open the Board of Education to bribes or is this to cover past incidents let's say example you give a member of Meridia a job can they now work on your house at a discount isn't abolishing this against the New Jersey state law not allowing gets from vendors um this is like directly at the board members especially the ones running can I please have the schedule for when the athletic complex is open to the public for our use it's in your re-election Flyers you sent out and publish I couldn't find a schedule and love to play some tennis um does it really cost $23,000 to do bus routing for 2.3 square miles and last question was Mr Derek removed from the committee because of politics or because of his work ethic that's synopsis you going to give me more time you just hand me synopsis you could have my whole speech I don't have anyone else hi my name is luris I son I live at 27 Garden Court I just want to know if there's a policy in place for vendors at the athletic complex and who's responsible for um Contracting vendors uh authorizing applications and verifying their permits why was a food truck with no permits or inspection allowed to vend at multiple school events on school property thank you good evening my name is Alexandra Bru uh 70 cage Place Garfield I have the question because when the kids finished Middle School they sign up for the languages in high school some uh I don't know what the kind of the languages you have because my son he signed up for the Italian when he came to the high school like the Freshman he got the Spanish and he wasn't not happy he uh even know why he sign up for Spanish instead he signed up for the uh Italian I don't know you don't have the teachers or what's going on like the last year you want to fired 100 almost teachers we hear that I mean yeah uh but wherever I want to ask you like the kids sign up for something I don't know why he don't have like the classes with uh I'm Italian he got the classes with the Spanish teacher also this Spanish teacher when I went for the back to school night she even don't say one word in English I mean this is not okay I understand like she speaks Spanish in the classroom because she teach them Spanish but back to school night when the uh parents come she's supposed to speak English nobody was understand what she's saying thank good evening everyone Danielle Marcelo 66 crackout Street so first I would like to express that I was also a former teen in teen Institute um member for 2001 in 2002 and membership in that Institute built foundational skills in leadership in humanity for me that I still possess to this guy and I couldn't be more proud to see that it's still alive and well in high school for those of you who've heard me speak before Children's Health and well-being are of particular interest to me even more so emotional and mental health are any of you familiar with the Vego robot so this device is a telepresence robot that my children's hospital has successfully rolled out in the communities that we serve in a different area in New Jersey over 10 years ago hundreds of children have been fortunate enough to have direct benefits of something that is often overlooked this device allows children who are on homebound instruction for illness or injury to be able to have a presence in the classroom in the hallways with their friends where some of the best memories of school are made at assemblies prom and even walking across stage at graduation to collect their diploma illness and injury can be isolating and it can create lasting effects on a child's emotional and mental wellbeing I'm familiar with the budget process and how far in advance planning begins I would like to ask the board to please connect with me so that we can potentially look at integrating this technology for the children in our district this device can be a huge step forward for the children and providing an inclusive opportunity for those children who are not able to physically attend in school for a period of time I encourage you all to reach out more than happy to help integrate it into our school system and if you have any questions I'm happy to answer them thank better [Applause] good evening Kathy 85 chest M Street just a short and sweet a little update on the coordinating par committee um we I think Danielle last time had given you a little bit of an update but I just want to say that we have connected with quite a few of the principles who have given us um the dates for the HS meetings for uh the year not many have offered virtual as of yet however those who have unfortunately there was no parent turnout so I am a little bit disappointed that although parents have signed up and showed much interest we're not having that show up yet even virtually so we're going to be pushing we're hoping that um this is something that will improve for next month um also uh just quickly sharing that we have raised already $1,600 towards the hsas for all of the schools so we're trying to figure out how to evenly distribute that probably with supplies um but more to come [Applause] anyone [Music] else um my name is Aaron fski I live onund Columbus Avenue and I'm currently a junior at Garfield High School and I'm just curious as to I'm taking I'm currently enrolled in chemistry honors and we've had uh first month in the year we we were in a class with um one of the chemistry teachers we were sharing a teacher and it was very difficult and now we have a virtual teacher and I was wondering if that virtual teacher is a permanent solution to uh not having a chemistry teacher is there going to be a change later in the school year [Applause] is there anybody else time can I answer to the chair resp is it okay can I answer to the chair thank you thank you Mr President first I to say I'm very proud of our students for getting up it takes a lot of courage and I mean it's an incredible thing keep coming up here keep telling us what's going on and I'm glad you brought that up so uh let's start with the virtual teachers for chemistry um actually I want to thank the gft they're here tonight as well but um coming up with helping us come up with a plan possibly to to get more teachers involved in teaching uh some of the higher level um Sciences uh some of you may know I was on a task force with the governor to talk about teacher shortages and we made some recommendations that are hopefully coming to fruition but uh but they're not happening quick enough for cities like ours um this is a a temporary fix I know we're continuing to post we're contining to look for additional teachers uh I know we're looking to expand some more schedules if we can so so we are working on it so it's absolutely not optimal and it's something I hate every day coming here that you guys have to go through that but please know that we are working on it okay and thank you for bringing it up here it's uh it's very valion if you do that uh and miss deo's here so I mean I'm going to put her on the spot now too uh with the other uh the mother in the back um with regard to the uh um maybe you can contact that Mom and uh talk about the you know selection process but just talk about scheduling and of itself um you know the guidance department does an incredible job because I I looked at the core selection sheets um you know like I said four years right we want to get our students the best that we can in four years so we see what the students want some years it's this some years it's that um and now of course with um you know Staffing and and what not being the way it is uh sometimes we have to make some hard decisions and only offer certain electives and I think last year um one of those areas was um um Lang foreign language so that may have been how how your child was affected but we can kind of talk about that in private um there there wasn't a 100 teachers laid off though let's just be very clear about that I don't want that getting around so um you know we have we have some other issues moving forward with that that I'll be discussing at my entry plan stuff um okay let's talk about food trucks let's talk about food trucks because I know that's a Hot Topic here um unfortunately unfortunately tonight the board didn't have a majority vote with regard to passing this first um reading that we just talked about a little bit which would have helped us even talk more about the food trucks and and how we can get food uh to our facilities outside because there is no kitchen yet the board I think the board did an incredible job waiting on that um when they built the Athletic Facility because really would have been an expense that someone like me now can kind of uh tail her in a way that uh it wouldn't affect the taxpayer so did did they did a great job waiting for me to get here um but unfortunately now as part of the old policy we have to use food trucks it's one of the ways we can do it um and yes if this was a board event um that food truck probably would had their proper certifications this what we're talking about this unfortunate thing that happened was not a board event um your field here is can be utilized uh by any community group um I don't know why we've argued about that before I got here um there's very small limitation on that uh part of the board policy that group they can't use grills right now they can't do certain things because that's what the board policy committee wanted and that's fine um trying to look change that but one of the things they can do is bring a food truck so that's what that group was allowed to do so the the the um onus on that food truck falls on the group that um was sponsoring the activity that that day uh not the board the board just uh basically leased out the facility um probably didn't pay for the facility because it was a nonprofit organization but it definitely falls on the person who who got the truck so uh I'm not saying that we haven't now looked a little deeper into how we can make sure it doesn't happen again I'm very surprised that a local food truck didn't know to do that and how it's never been approved I I I still can't believe it's not approved I'm not sure I'm not saying it is or it isn't but that was not the responsibility of the board at all 0% um so I don't know why everybody's bringing that up except here we go again we're not educated enough in the policies and that's what my job is but yes the board is allowed to lend out or lease out a field following certain policies policy is you can get a food truck here and the the things that go along with that food truck what the menu is how much they they pay you has nothing to do with the board um the board is just that vessel to get something here that's how that goes so so again uh that that that conversation you would have would be at a different meeting um not here um number two and in saying all that um with regard to I think someone uh asked a question about about you know when is it going to go open up to the public last meeting we posted for a ranger once we get what we call a park ranger or thing called it Athletic Facility Ranger uh we'd be able to open up for public we're we're we're starting to um interview certain people that's not really a job that's prevalent um with regard to 100 people knocking down the door to do that for the you know the minimum wage it's going to be uh but once we do that the board uh I recommend to the board a schedule to open up to the public we can't open up to the public until we have someone there to help watch the facilities a bathroom available um you have uh you know someone who knows how to work in AED uh that's the important thing so there's nobody you know sidest stepping any of that it's just a process right now and if you remember last meeting was when the board gave us the opportunity to go out and find that individual or an or a few individuals to do that um let me just see if I can answer a couple more things here um oh the the the uh the public record request Oprah I don't I'm just curious why anybody would be against putting it on there if no one's doing anything wrong what's the big deal right so if someone's not trying to use Oprah to weaponize something here then who cares if your name's on there it's public record so I just never understood why people didn't want to put it on there we put everything else on here contracts um leaves of absence everything else is public record but when we talk about public record everybody thinks it's something to take a step back for I don't understand why I still don't really understand uh why people complain about that and it's not it's not a you someone mentioned Beville it's not a Beville thing it's a it's an administrative thing and I think uh you know I don't think I'm the only uh person that does it in the State uh I don't think it's a popular thing because I I think most places don't answer oah requests Believe It or Not uh we tend to be a place here that answers them better than I've ever seen before um you know when we get stuff that doesn't really require uh legal review uh I know the business office gets it out immediately including my contract that was opened as soon as I got here um you know so those things are are I I again if it's not if if people that complain about other people knowing about opras those people are definitely weaponizing the the law the the spirit of the law was put in there for people like me to hide things so we can't hide things that's why that law was put in place years ago people that complain about their name coming out on that law or or on those requests are those are the ones are those the people that weaponize that request so and that that's coming directly from me that's not anyone else but me so so I don't know if that answers that um and and the but you know scheduling a bus route or bus routes is is not as easy as you know it's really not that simple you have uh you know you have you have certain things you have to think about distance is one pickup stops certain stops can't be less than 100 feet away uh there so what a program does it allows us to make sure that probably the the the one of the most important things with student safety is is Vehicle Safety um so we make sure it's done correctly I don't really know of any District that doesn't use a software program to track students and keep records of students and and different things we have something called a dtrs that we have to fill out every year that's actually due I think in a couple weeks uh to make sure all of our numbers are correct um you know and and again uh so that's that's something that I don't really understand uh would be an issue either for this board um and any type of any type of policy that was on here to be abolished or whatnot probably was a mandatory policy policy that was told to come off through state regulations uh no no there's no superintendent or board member that would ever abolish a policy uh that was not recommended by some kind of legal uh legal firm or the lawyers Etc uh and anything that has to do with any type of vendor or vendor fees Etc all of us up here especially are um regulated by the ethics commission um which I said as a member on um so all those things are you know those are criminal things that you were talking about so you know I don't think anybody in their right mind would abolish a policy to then create a criminal act for themselves so again I I I take exception to that question but I know it has to be asked because again we're not educated in those areas so I appreciate that question as well and my promise is to continue to educate people in the community uh so that we we understand those things a little more but you know those days of maybe hiding and sneaking things and all those other things that Garfield used to do I don't think this board wants that anymore and uh that's one of the reasons why they brought me here and uh appreciate that so that's it thank you Mr President I would like to ask a few questions just make sure you speak all right um Mr TOMCO you said that there was no um with the food vendors here we had several home games which uh I don't want to mention the vendor's name because it's not fair to him but um they're supposed to be any food truck that comes into the stadium is supposed to be having a city health inspection and a city fire inspection and a signed contract this is not being done this is not how it was supposed to be set up to do I don't know why we're not following this um policy and the way it was supposed to be and was also there was a contracts that are supposed to be written up for these things and I do respect and I understand what you said about how um you know if it's a city event or some other event that it's not a school event but I disagree that the we had several home games and those food trucks were there and we also had a soccer match which was a disaster because there was people drinking there and it was a really terrible thing and uh we can't have drinking on the premises and when I did reach out to call you and I had mentioned that you said there's no policy against drinking and I I just don't you know I don't think that it's you know it's ridiculous that we we should have had a police officer there we had almost a thousand people that day it was 100° out there were uh people were hanging out they were drinking beer and uh we only had one security guard there and it really should have been a police officer at that point uh to deter that type of Behavior Uh on school grounds I don't uh I don't I don't really think that's appropriate for school grounds is that it rich yeah through the chair I just want to provide an answer because I I usually don't like going back and forth but I mean again Mr Derek it's I don't know I must be missing conversations I'm having with you so I apologize but I'm I mean I never said that drinking is not part of the policy or not I said what I what I think I said was that there are events that the board can wave any type of policy and allow drinking on them that's the conversation we had so I I I understand that maybe you didn't hear it that way but that's exactly what was said and and I think I think I think I need to talk about this event for a second because you just mentioned there's a thousand people there which is an incredible event for the community and to talk about one or two instances of you know I know you also brought up someone smoking some I mean that's that's a pretty not a bad thing for a thousand people um I don't care if you had a th people from another town here for a football game you're still going to get issues you're going to get unfortunate um altercations or people are going to drop ketchup on the it's just the way it goes I mean it's life it's the way it's the way it is so to have a thousand people here and have such a successful event I I really don't I don't see anything wrong with it especially since it's a community thing and I and I I completely disagree with you know especially as the policy shair at the time the other people's vendors are 100% not our responsibility if they're following the policy so if if the board wants to do that and make that change where now it is our responsibility to vet the vendors of other individual associations that are coming in and re renting our field that's a whole other set of overtime and everything to vet all that we have we have more stuff to worry about with our own people and our in our own events to worry then to worry about other people you are a a public entity you have a taxpayer funded field that the taxpayers are have the ability to rent out or lease out if they follow certain procedures Etc and what I did say to you with all those groups I did speak to the group you're were talking about was that we would talk to them about a warning if anything happens again they would not be able to use the field again and that's permitted so so I don't really understand you know it's a horrible thing whatever allegedly happen with this food truck I I mean I know it's out there I know people are talking about it but I did get a call about it uh there's no one to blame uh at all on it I don't think think anybody purposefully uh did any of this uh now again yeah was there a permit or not I don't know it's not in our purview it's in the purview who rented the field from us that's the meeting that you need to go to um so so again I I think we're we're we're moving in the right direction we're doing everything we possibly can but I mean that's that's just the reality of it I don't I don't really don't know what else to say again for a thousand people um you know if there was someone drinking there or not I don't know I didn't I didn't see what that individual was drinking I know there's people were taking pictures which is absurd here people take pictures of each other here and post them which I've never ever seen or heard of before it's that's something that really has to change here it's that's actually despicable in my opinion um and it's disrespectful but um you know and saying all that I I don't know what else except moving forward like I said we'll we will put other things uh in the new contracts we're already working on that um but it's a public field you know you're going to have some of these issues that's why I appreciate the the ranger coming out um if you guys know anyone who wants to make a little extra money and be a ranger which is not going to be a fun job trust me but uh you know we're we're ready to open up a little more to the public to have our individual taxpayers walk around the track and enjoy that you know I mean listen when you have open up a field to kids playing soccer on a field or kids playing baseball on the field they're kids it's going to happen right are they going to have a friend from another town sure there's going to be a friend from another town you can't stop these things that's not a Garfield thing that's a life thing you know so we do the best we can and and again it's it's going to work out we just you know some new uh you know just a little bit new growing pains with the new field and whatnot so comments uh Mr President um I was I was a member of the field oversight committee uh we're really concerned about the recouping the cost and oversight of future contracts and the policy to protect the field of you know we we've made a big investment in this field want we want to ensure that it's used the proper way and I really welcome the opportunity for you to reinstitute and I'll be more than happy to be part of that committee for the field oversight to make sure that it's used properly as well as uh protected for the longevity of the life of the field in the best interest of the public thank you any else comments okay I talk through the microphone please public com exception so you understand the public Poli the public comment comes during session which was already over I'm sorry I just have a question I need your name and your address I'm sorry Mar out 49 Samson Street I just have a question cuz I saw that the lady over there she came up she said a lot of things and I feel like some of those things will not addressed like she mentioned something about a bus truck it caus like 23,000 I feel like some other things were not mentioned you have to tell me what else yeah I know cuz I she gave him the speech and I just to see like the other things you know is that all you have yeah I it thank you um I believe he just missed portion of it but he addressed pretty much 90% of everything um he has a paper in front of him probably show you after all the things he did address if that's a continued concern thank you for coming up and asking for making your statement um at this time I'd like to spin the meeting back from the negativity that it's going towards I'd like to thank you guys for everything that you're doing the positivity that you're bringing to the school and the school district George they can't hear you George that you're bringing to the school and school district and the things that you guys are doing I'm hoping can expand and go through all the schools I know a lot of you students uh struggle with a lot of things and there's a lot of things you know whether it be from your home life to your school life to your to your uh friend life you know there's a lot of things and the fact that you guys are willing to step up and understand and see each other and actually be there for each other is commendable and it's something that you need to continue and and we all need to continue so that we can learn to be a better community Through the things we see in our youth we're always looking for our youth to become better adults and better people through us but a lot of the times and you know there's a lot of things going on right now especially in social media seeing something like this is is heartwarming and welcome we want you to continue we want you to express and have all those other kids understand that you know the things that aren't true don't Define we need you to to help them understand that the only way that they can further themselves in life is if they believe in themselves if they stop allowing the opinions and ideas of other people to affect the way they look at themselves and I thank you for everything that you guys are are are about to bring to to the to to the high school and I'm hoping we could bring it to the middle school and I'm hoping we could bring it to the grammar school because we want them to be Way Beyond this point by the time they get here we want them to have a better understanding and we know that you know your generation is a lot different than our generation and in your generation you guys are a lot more intelligent you guys are a lot quicker to receive and understand things and we're proud of everything that we see that you guys are doing and we look forward to seeing everything that you guys will be doing from this point forward and hopefully it can expand and go through the high school and you know like wildfire and you know do something positive finally for the community and continue to do something positive for the community and maybe through that you'll teach us a different way to look at things and you'll teach us the better way to approach life the things that we may have missed and the poor examples that we may be setting for you guys because of the things that you know people can't get out of their way so I thank you and I commend you guys for everything and I and I pray and Hope that you guys continue to move forward in this and everything and don't allow anything to be a hiccup in the process of everything you guys are doing we're here to support you as much as we can and we're hoping that we you know with um with everything that you know we can do our part to help you build something beautiful in this community so thank you um I'd like to thank everybody who was able to make the meeting I'd like to thank everybody for you know um I don't know if everybody knows Miss cutup in audience Miss cutup was my art teacher in high school so she actually helped me put together a portfolio when I was going to college and she made me Express all these things that I didn't think I was was possible for me to do so you know it's beautiful seeing her you know one of my favorite teachers one of the one of the reasons I kept coming to school even when I didn't want to come to school was the excitement of what she could possibly teach me that day and you know the ability to actually be able to to express you know the things that I have artistically in her class so welcome Miss cut thank you for being here um otherwise I I'd like to thank everybody for taking their time and I see taking part in our board meetings you know bringing your questions bringing your concerns we hope that this continues even you know Far and Beyond this is not a practice that was common before this is something you know the home in school the things that you guys are doing to try to get the parents together the ideas that you continually bring up here that we hope that we can find ways to bring to the children soon enough you know I I thank you guys for the change that's going on in the city whether people want to realize it or not you know it takes a community to move forward not a people you know we you we're really looking forward to all the ideas and the things that come out from the public so we can start moving these things in a positive direction and continue to move in a positive direction we'd like to continually focus on the positive things because as people we have a tendency to focus more on the negative things then we should so let's continue to build up our children build up our teachers and build up our schools so we can be the community and the people that we need to be for Garfield thank you guys for everything um I believe that this is where we do part we make a motion to close the meeting so I make a motion second all right so we have too many motions all in favor I hi U Mr made it she second in he second in Miss Mark you want I don't know I still get my for

e e good evening everyone Welcome to our school board meeting um for all those who are able if you wouldn't mind please standing for the Pledge of Allegiance Pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation God indivisible andice all okay we have six board members present tonight five are in the room and one is on Zoom Logan could you please identify yourself virtually Logan are you there he says he can't hear anything select there give us just a second try again testing testing testing testing it's not on our can you hear me there we go yes we can hear you can you hear me Logan I'm talking Logan can you hear us okay I think so hello says he can't hear hear you guys hello if you're communicating with him will let him know that we can hear him Jason thank you and if he can check his audio my audio is fully on and working on my laptop with other functions well let me just reset my headset one second I was going to say the other option is for somebody to zoom into him on like your phone can you hear me now and see if he can he I guess can talk and still not hear you how about now we may have to proceed without me and I will enjoy from YouTube with our audience how about now Logan any luck there check one two nope I can't hear anything okay I think unless you have any just from a phone we can try well see if he can hear if it's on his end it might not matter if you off quorum to could proceed with the budget then I I think it's okay if I just follow along with on YouTube I don't want to delay this [Music] okay okay I I think we also do have to have him on video in order for a v vote to count Mike if you if that recollection is correct should be fine can still be on the zoom it would just be the audio from the okay so can we see his video now we just aren't seeing it okay okay just wanted to verify you want to try a phone as one last option Nick is that what you're suggesting okay I'm gonna give that a minute because if it I I can hear I can hear you now I can hear you okay okay Logan my birthday is May 27th what is my birthday May 27 very good okay there I I'll show I'll prove it's me there you go there we go okay you persevere all right thank you for your patience everyone uh each meeting we'd like to share our vision mission and core beliefs just to remind us of why we we are here um bcs's vision is that bcse is the choice to learn work and play our mission is to develop expert Learners by partnering with our community to invest in people and our core beliefs are that we can all rise to the challenge of high expectations that learning is most effective when we have Choice flexibility and see relevance we Thrive when our physical social and psychological needs are met and our community and School District are stronger when we partner with one another we flourish because of the diversity in variability in our community and last but not least considering uh a big election coming next week our democracy and Democratic institutions are strengthened by civic-minded citizens thank you first presentation Dr hack good evening Mrs welon Dr Phillips and board thank you very much for letting us present about an amazing opportunity we had just a few nights ago so if you've been around me or been on my team before sometimes I say these words I have a great idea and sometimes they pan out and sometimes they don't but this is one that definitely has panned out over seven years so I'm excited to turn things over to some fabulous people who do amazing things inside our schools and for this very special night good evening and thank you uh for having us tonight this um is a fun thing and I'm going to take just briefly because I know we're on time the why of this from the C4 standpoint is is that we are challenged uh by the state and federal to help uh young women move into stem fields and this started uh about eight or nine years ago with just a camp we did and then it started what happens if we have girls and and it's led into that this could not happen without our volunteers this could not happen without Dita Harden and she's going to speak and tell you a little bit about it and then after that we're also going to let a couple of students that were students uh in fifth and sixth grade but also have come back and helped and uh just to let you know we had close to 60 high school student young ladies that wanted to help Friday night and stayed until 9:30 to help us on this so it gives us some of things so like to introduce Dita hello and thank you for having me this evening um superc excited about this opportunity I've had an opportunity to work with it for since 2017 and like Dr hack had mentioned um the why is for our fifth and sixth grade girls just to see themselves in a stem field being able to uh experience fields that they normally wouldn't have an opportunity to do um and so that partnership is there with the C4 program um we had average anywhere from 120 to 130 girls um there's usually over a 100 volunteers there I'm just like Dr hack said there was 60 high school girls there and um we have Community Partners there's the Columbus Robotics and then also cumins and then our bcse employees and then community members so it's a huge opportunity just to be able to have everyone in the community involved um the wind we normally have it the third Friday of every October they're at um Columbus North in the C4 Wing as I mentioned we have Community Partners each year cumins and Columbus robotics bring brings in their robots and just Hands-On experiences so when the girls first come in they register they can participate in these activities there and then they have dinner we bring them back into the cafeteria and we start off with a song just to pump them up and everything and then we um dismiss them to go into their actual sessions this year one of the really neat things was normally we offer eight sessions this year we were allow um able to offer nine actual sessions and so we break the girls down to where they can participate in three [Music] on Friday October 25th bartholomy Consolidated School Corporation thank you slides AR can I go ahead and move go forward or back forward oh okay I apologize okay this is where we we're talking about the community events so as you can see in the pictures from previous years the girls are there in the cafeteria they're experiencing the Hands-On things that are in the actual area uh one year Toyota was there with her VR and so the girls just they get pumped up before they ever go back to their sessions it's really just cool to fill the energy that happens in the room itself um these are the past events that we've had since 2007 and you can see the um the attendance of the participants that were there and usually we try to find a theme that just really resonates what's going on and how we can focus on getting those girls involved into the Sim events we have the yes we can I'm not going to read all of them them for you but each and every one of them this year we had she Rose of stem uh in front of you you see a poster from this year and we can just um this year's theme was just seeing how you yourself can be a hero in stem um regardless if you thought that you could um but we wanted to be able to give them that experience and I think through some of the feedback that we've already got from the parents the girls absolutely loved um the event and wish that they could have an opportunity to have it a week long um so yeah we have lots of Community Partners that are involved in our sessions and they are listed here bcsf Tony London cumins Toyota Project Lead the Way Heritage fund Columbus robotics Indiana University uh the Rotary Club and then uh Little Caesars and of course C4 and bcsc so through the community we receive monetary support we also receive um Partnerships to where we have volunteers um they um see4 prints are posters for us the bcsc Food Services is involved and then this year we went with hotbox pizza and they ended up giving us a discount for the pizza so the community itself is act very involved in the the program itself the process um the planning as I mentioned there the estimated cost is about $5,700 each year we do receive the grant funding and that comes mainly from uh cumins the Rotary Club and then um bcsf and the leadership is the C4 teachers and we do have an on-site nurse um the awareness we create a flyer and send that out to the parents and have a registration for that and then the uh volunteers receive a confirmation there's several opportunities for the parents to receive confirmation and just information about the event the logistics of the event and then always after the event we have surveys and then I would like to actually back up and share the video from Friday evening's event so that you can see the excitement that actually takes place on Friday October 25th Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation proudly presented girl up shos of stem an inspiring event designed for fifth and sixth grade girls to explore non-traditional roles in science technology engineering and math with more than 180 girls in attendance the evening kicked off with excitement as students gathered to meet mentors and role models from various stem Fields the event was filled with Hands-On stem activities led by passionate volunteers from cumins Columbus Robotics and the local community participants were able to dive into Fields like architecture biomed Sciences Culinary Arts Engineering fashion and textiles graphic design Veterinary and Welding through interactive sessions these young girls not only explored career paths but also discovered their potential to make a difference in fields traditionally filled by men the goal of gr up is to inspire Empower and equip the next generation of shirros to pursue their dreams regardless of gender Norms or barriers the event was made possible through collaboration with BCS C4 program the bartholomy Consolidated School Foundation Columbus robotics Columbus Sunrise Rotary Club cumins Toyota material and handling and the Tony London company special thanks to these organizations for supporting our community's youth girl up shos of stem where dreams meet opportunity and together we learn [Music] uh first off I would like to thank bcsc and Josh and his crew they always do a great job of highlighting successful activities inside of bcsc and do want to say thank you publicly to that we say it privately a lot at this time I'd like to bring up two young ladies and let them introduce themselves and tell them a little bit about their experiences with a girl up both as a fifth and sixth grader and as their high school years hello my name is Kaye Koy um I'm currently a junior at Columbus North I am in my third year of the C4 biomedical Sciences pathway I take medical interventions with Mrs Samantha Moro um medical terminology with Mrs Stacy horn and human anatomy and physiology with Mr lassos sarz After High School I plan to attend Purdue University to study either Radiology or Nuclear Pharmacy um hello my name is Danielle Ashton I'm a senior at Columbus East High School um I'm currently in my third year of precision Machining with my teacher Mr Foley and then I take a culinary arts class with chef krie and then I'm also in a cad cam class class which is an advanced manufacturing class with uh Mr Foley as well um my plans for after high school I'm stuck between two things right now uh I plan to either do something with manufacturing or something with zoology but I don't really know how to pick so I attended girl up when I was in the 5th grade in 2018 and that was the only year that I was able to go um I remember the construction and graphic design design sessions the most um in the construction session we built a playhouse uh we got to use power tools like drills and nail guns um through grow up I learned that I'm not quite cut out for construction um I'm no longer allowed near scaffolding um um I'm really passionate about stem and supporting future women in stem uh so when I was presented with this opportunity to um help with grow up this year I was I was beyond excited uh this is my first year helping um and volunteering at the event and I definitely want to do it again the biggest takeaway I got from this event was seeing that the work that we were doing was genuinely um impacting these young girls I feel that women in stem are very underrepresented um I want little girls to know that they can like the color pink and still be an engineer um grow up is such an amazing event um and it exposes young girls to careers in stem doing girl up in fifth grade inspired me to choose a stem career and now I'm on my way to a career in the medical field um I participated and grow up in 2017 or 2018 when I was in sixth grade uh something like an activity that stuck along the way with me that I did when I was in grup was we got to use like actual welders and like weld a little unicorn onto a little stand and I'm pretty sure they did that this year as well um another thing that we also got to do when I was attending it uh we got to code our own little uh ladybug game on I think it was called scratch and we got to put it on a little USB drive and take it home with us so then we could play on it if we had a little computer at home um I love being able to show people people new things so when I was introduced with this I was pretty excited uh I've helped with girlup for three years now uh I think this program is really amazing for young girls because it really puts them out there and shows them everything that they can truly learn and just gives them so many different opportunities that they can see for the future that maybe they didn't know they already had any questions questions do you [Laughter] have any questions comments Logan do you have anything you're okay okay yeah I just I would just like to say thank you for taking the time to help help some of the younger kids uh fifth and sixth graders largely don't have any idea what they want to be when they grow up and so the two of you and all the other kids that help them kind of take those blinders and close them up a little bit and find some direction uh it's it's better that you help them than most of us adults because they don't want to really listen to another adult tell them what to do but when they see that uh kids that especially kids that might have gone to the same elementary school or middle school than them you know there's a lot of trust that they put in you so I appreciate the work that you and all the other volunteers did to help them understand that they can do just about anything they want to do if they pick the right path and and picking a college is hard so the best thing I can tell both of you is to take your time and uh really take a good look at all the schools that you can to really understand where you're going to get the best value thank you both for your presentations my my daughter wanted to um volunteer and it was all filled up for her area like every girl I think wanted to help these young these young kids learn it was it was pretty amazing to see and um I thank you Josh for making sure a not so flattering video of me made it into that cut I really appreciate that I was there on Friday it was a really good event and what was nice is there were a couple of girls that came in very unsure you know you could see like some Tears in their eyes and by the end they had a fantastic time and were very excited about what they learned and like there was just this spark that you got to see and some kids that got to try something new for the first time and it's like those things matter to kids for sure so the role you all played to Jason's point is a really big one and I think just continuing to grow this I mean your growth in this program is really pretty phenomenal so very well done for a very low budget I mean you just do a really great job thank you thank you and we we mentioned it briefly but it wouldn't be possible without our teachers because both the stem teachers at the elementary and then the C4 teachers and just working and making those connections and supporting the young ladies and the uh young girls to be able to reach their potential so thank you to everybody boiler up by the way okay next we have Schoolboard member reports um Mr Schultz I'll start with you do you have anything nothing nothing from my committee uh I believe ccic meets uh next week thank you Mr nellan I I have a couple um the high ability strategic plan and met for the first time this year and for the first time with our new leader Amy Ellsbury um and it it the high ability so far at this point this year we have 1,36 students involved um I think K through 12 um and I believe it includes kindergarten also um and I will add one of the creative things sometimes um in school systems people are required to be creative um Amy through this program has money for for professional development but there aren't Subs available so she's working the professional development into the the four professional development days as much as they can so um so she hasn't given up on professional development she found a way to repackage it okay oh and my other one sorry um the council for Youth Development met on October 2nd um two I'll highlight two things from that meeting one is this was we met soon after um spark Spirit Week um and so the high school through this through the council for Youth Development there are they develop High School leaders which are called youth ambassadors and the youth ambassadors went to the middle schools um Northside Central andh Houser and um worked with 706 students at those School schools with different events during the week and um and had sessions with them about how important it was to find what the spark was in their life to inspire them so it's another case where it's older students working with younger students which is great uh couple quick items of note from the school Foundation the school Foundation just met with uh its new executive director deepy last Tuesday um the the school Foundation is currently working on a new grant program to go out to teachers um that will replace uh donors choose as was used in the past and that will certainly be the first priority after the uh Wizards game so the goal of the foundation is to have those Grant applications out to teachers uh soon after semester two starts and then lastly uh the Harlem Wizards um nove Sunday November 10th at Columbus East 2:00 to 4:00 plenty of tickets uh still available bcsf stars.org and uh many thanks to those that have sponsored and donated things to the game so far and and certainly still space for more uh donors and don't forget to get your tickets Sunday November 10th 2 to 4 at East thank you um the county Redevelopment commission meets in November so I don't have anything to report today Mr Stenner not tonight thank you Mr major so the first one I have is the Health Trust Health Trust met uh I'll just give one or two really big highlights I know there's a presentation later on so uh enrollment was about 1% up or less so it's pretty flat it looks like uh uh you know claims were up slightly and thees slightly and I guess the biggest thing is uh for all of you out there please take advantage of Dr Klein and using the clinic uh for for all teachers and families of teachers and um administrators janitors cafeteria uh bus drivers so uh the other one is the Columbus Redevelopment commission they had an amazing three hour meeting uh most of their meetings are usually less than an hour so it was uh very long lots of Engagement about the downtown entrance Plaza uh there was also some uh talk about the downtown 2030 plan there was a significant conversation around the housing study uh there was some more discussion around some mixed use development that will be over near where Joe Willies was off Washington Street and 11th Street uh then some more discussion about public works and and then there there's always a list of things that uh they like to just highlight but that's those are the big ones right there that took up about two and a half hours of the three hours of conversation so thank you all right we'll move on to Cabinet reports good evening thank you for your time and attention Dr stal Bal and I will uh present our portion of this presentation from our seats we'll have some guests come up to the podium here soon so um every year annually we give the board and the public an update on the operating referendum um are we saying are we doing what we said we're going to do what are the financials are the targets being met Etc so that's the purpose of tonight's presentation uh between Dr stalam and I and our guests here in a bit um as you recall back in 2020 61% of the voters approved a property tax referendum that uh was capped at uh 0.156 per $100 of assess value I'll mention that that's um actually collect less than that because that um that is capped legislatively as assessed value climbs so we actually captured a little bit less than that um each of the each of the years that has been approved as assess value continues to to uh to increase the primary purpose is to retain and recruit staff in bcse and and we'll go through some data points with that and and add some narratives here to bit and invest in student um and staff Safety and Security and then as you recall in the fall of 22 we dedicated 50% of the cost of Elementary stem teachers were added to to the referendum when we went to the public several years ago uh we were very open and honest about uh the our efforts to be transparent with these funds and if you go to our website uh there's a tab at the top it says referendum 2020 and all the data there is maintained on an annual basis at least um all of our financials uh there's a couple of screenshots there at the bottom um is a very detailed explanation of what revenue is brought in and how it's spent and then the the larger graphic there is a representation of our metrics and uh what we said we're going to do with the funds and what our targets are that we'll go through in some detail so again that is all available updated on the website if you go to uh BSC schools.org and look to the top right hand side there's a button that's clearly labeled for referendum 2020 this time I'll turn this over to Dr stalam Who will lead us on thank you Dr vosman through quarter three the operating referendum has contributed an additional $4.7 million to increased classified and certified employee salaries this year without the operating referendum bcsc would be required to reduce our existing staff costs by 5.2% as this graph demonstrates bcsc continues to outpace the state of Indiana for our average teacher salary with the support of the operating operating referendum without the operating referendum bcsc has demonstrated a below average salary in 2223 and just slightly above the average salary in 23 the 2324 school year in the subsequent slides the vice president of the Columbus Educators Association Mandy Keel will facilitate sharing the metrics and testimonials from our operating referendum goals as displayed on the screen we will display these metrics again at the conclusion of the presentation and answer questions about the presentation at that time so at this time uh we appreciate Mandy's support and expertise and she will continue with the presentation thank you and the rest of you can go ahead and come on up here as well and join me thank you thank you Dr stalam and Dr Boseman and thank you to the board for for having us here this evening in looking at teacher retention first here when we link certified teachers from the 2223 school year to the 2324 school year bcsc's retention percentage was 92% when we link staff from the 2324 school year to the 2425 school year we have increased by a percentage Point as we are now at a 93% retention rate for this current school year as Dr stalam stated earlier without the operating referendum our bcsc average teacher salary would not outpace the average teacher salary in the state of Indiana which would threaten our ability to retain teachers with us this evening are teachers Allison and Brett White who collectively have over 50 years of invaluable teaching experience here in bcsc and we are so so lucky especially as the high school basketball season is ramping up that we have both of them here with us this evening so we'll start with Brett first 50 years um uh thanks uh thanks for allowing me to speak tonight uh my name is Brett White um I'm currently in my 28th year of teaching overall uh my 26th year at Columbus North High School in the math department uh I was just going to speak very briefly about the importance of teacher retention within our department um you know having that consistency in our department allows us uh from year to year to look at our methods and our activities uh that we do in our classes um and see what improvements that we can make as we go from year to year um that is much more difficult to do when you start the year with you know two three four new teachers um so having that consistency allows us to uh carry things over from year to year without uh in some way starting fresh um another thing that I view as a positive um with a consistency a lot of times I have freshman sophomore classes um and developing that relationship with those kids as freshman and sophomores uh the fact that the teachers are still there when they're juniors and when they're seniors uh they come back to you um and so having that relationship and and having those veteran teachers that they can lean on is uh something that's very important um having that referendum money uh that we currently have has allowed us to uh to create more competitive salaries uh to encourage people to stick around in bcsc um and so for our math department that's allowed us to um stay more consistent the last few years uh which has been a very uh large positive for us um so that stability has really been pivotal for us to to look at our programs and uh make the the improvements that we need to make good evening I'm Allison white um I've been teaching in bcse for 26 years this is my 26th year here um both of my parents were also bcse teachers my dad had um taught at Central for 39 years and my mom taught at Taylorville for a number of years before I was born um Brett and I have a couple of daughters that have both graduated from Columbus North High School recently um um and our oldest Madison who graduated in 2021 um is currently a senior and pursuing her education degree as well um so this is something that's pretty near and dear to our hearts um I'm going to speak just from a personal standpoint in a family aspect um of how the referendum has helped our family um not only just with the day-to-day um expenses that you might have um but it's also helped us to contribute to our daughter's College um experience and pay um and help contribute to that a little bit um also just for our planning for retirement in the future as well um the referendum goes um you know and helps with all of that as well um it's no secret that in the last decade or so we've seen an a huge decline in the amount of people and students going into public education um and so I think um not only is it important for bcsc to um maintain and um keep the teachers that we have but also to entice um new new graduates who are going into the education field as well um as our daughter um you know to be competitive and to maintain a high standard for those people thank you Brett and Allison moving on to safety and training our udl framework focuses on understanding developmental assets and wellness strategies for all teachers receive professional development through various opportunities such as our udl summer Institute our book studies and our corporation-wide professional development days even as every staff member receives professional development 45% of teachers have received intentional training in developmental assets and wellness strategies as the needs of our students change this may be one metric to assess for changes in the future the mental health provider metric represents the number of contracted Services through external Partnerships such as those with Centerstone and Family Service due to Temporary Sr funding we were able to Triple our annual Target during the 2021 through the 2024 school years with the referendum funds we are able to maintain partner services at Double our Target with 21 during the 24 25 school year we know mental health is crucial for our students and their families and Sergeant Julie Q Smith one of our bcsc school resource officers helps provide and connect our families with these wraparound services and after attending a session with her during our last professional develop day I was personally reminded about how important SRO like Sergeant Smith are to our bcsc staff members as well that was fun time um so as school resource officers we spend most of our time serving three major functions in accordance with the national school resource Officers Association standard and that Triad is of course law enforcement officer we have public safety educator and informal counselor I do think it would be a surprise to most people to know that of those three as school resource officers we spend most of our time right there in that informal counselor role while we take the informal part of that pretty seriously uh we because there are moments where we have to refer out uh we do spend a lot of time engaging our students building relationships that hallway time that we get with them in the mornings and at in the cafeteria time that we get with them during the day it's invaluable to what we do and here's the major reason why is that when we're building these relationships we're also building trust and when you build trust you have a safer School community so while on the surface you might see us in the hallways and you know what are they doing it it's much deeper than what you're seeing right there uh something else that is happening also on a regular basis is that we communicate with Patrol Division of the Sheriff's Office and the Columbus Police Department that collaboration that's happening all the time also allows for us to keep our kids safe in that when we don't have them in school like on the weekends and when they come home from school and if there's any kind of interaction that occurs with law enforce ment we regularly communicate with uh our Patrol Division to make sure that we're supporting our students when they've been involved in traumatic incidents outside of school or if there's just something that we can support them on our other officers in this community are looking out for our kids in that way and they're reaching out to us and that collaboration I would say is unique to bcsc and unique to Columbus Indiana for what is going right for our kids thank you Sergeant Smith reliable transportation is important for students to engage in every instructional minute at our schools so bus safety and routing are critical components of our District's infrastructure for students the bus metrics demonstrate that we currently have zero buses that are greater than 12 years old and bcsc has 0% of driver routes unfilled our bus drivers are the first and last interaction for our students each day and we thank them for their service to our Corporation community and students i f first met Larry Mazy when he drove drove a bus for our Bartholomew County History tour field trip several years ago and I have since requested him as our driver for that particular trip as he also brings a wealth of knowledge about our community and its history so I welcome Larry my name is Larry Moy as it said and I have been a BCC bus driver for 10 years and uh very proud of it I love our kids and and really I think that's a solid theme with bus drivers and monitors we're here to support the school system uh as we've said by transporting our kids safely to and from school the referendum and I went through that process uh as a leader in the uh with the bus driver Association was very important uh primarily uh we saw out of it a bump in our wage per hour we got $2 uh uh increase per hour uh as drivers and monitors got a dollar and that was very important because we were tracking behind local communities uh in wage and we had uh folks leaving us so now what we have is the ability to go and and it has been done as the numbers indicate to uh recruit and uh uh hire uh and then retain drivers uh what that gives us are drivers assigned to permanent routes and as you all know uh a driver has a relationship with all those students that they haul and it's an important relationship that not only uh is there as a another counselor but also somebody that adds control to that trip to and from the the uh uh their homes and school the other major area that the drivers have benefited in our students and that is our equipment buses were old we didn't have seat belts all our new buses have seat belts this gives uh students uh an opportunity to be safe as well as uh driver control when a student is in their seat not bouncing around the bus the other piece that we have and there are several that the buses uh have had are cameras and the external cameras on the buses are important because they allow uh you to look at that 10-- foot danger zone all around the bus for loading and unloading so those are just a couple of ways that uh the referendum has positively impacted our students for their safety and um also additional relationship and uh the schools themselves thank thank you so much thank you Larry as this metric States bcse is proud to share that 100% of our elementary stem labs are staffed with certified teachers to provide all students with weekly Hands-On stem activities Lucy Hummer is a former Southside Mustang who who is going to share how these Elementary stem experiences have personally impacted her hello everyone my name is Lucy Hummer like she said um I'm currently a seventh grader at Central Middle School who joined in-person bcse in fourth grade um during my time in Southside Elementary stem was an important part of my week the stem program taught me to build plan and code while leveling the curriculum difficulty accordingly based off of our competency with engineering and coding skills which our competency kind of changed grade per grade I remember in fourth grade we definitely were not just as a class really super ready for in like incredibly difficult coding but we definitely got there by the end of 6 grade we had a really great curriculum with my teacher Miss Caitlyn yansy she was really um a great teacher and she taught us very well how to code and plan and make models while in the elementary stem classes I learned two coding languages scratch and Java and many important coding skills because of my positive experience with stem in general in sixth grade I decided to join Southside Vex robotics team when I joined it was the team's first official year and I had the roles of competition strategist robot robot driver documenter and robot builder it was during this robotic season that I began to experiment with more professional and advanced version of engineering from my first year in the Vex program I was also exposed to much more um like indepth versions of what we had learned before as my role in documenter I was overall exposed to every part of the competitions as like coding and building and driving which were all very important to my growth in engineering this inspired me to keep going with robotics and it also um helped me go in a middle school sorry I got a little lost there um my experiences with engineering and Robotics through the stem and Vex program have by pushing my engineering skills even inspired me to have possible robotics career in the future especially considering our relations with engineering type businesses in our community such as cumins and lhp I think that these opportunities for children in bcsc are incredibly important the next generation of the workforce should be exposed to Career paths that are of interest to them finally skills taught and valued in engineering and Robotics such as trial and error Drafting and planning and precision can be translated into almost any profession thereby prep preparing those involved in stem for future experiences and occupations thank [Laughter] you thank you Lucy she also happens to be a former student of mine so I'm super proud of her as we review the goals again of the operating referendum I could have easily filled this room with bcsc staff and students to speak about the positive impact that any number of these has had and continues to have on them directly or indirectly Additionally the referendum has allowed bcsc to recruit and retain quality staff members who bring a wealth of experience to our corporation which ultimately benefits both our students and our community as a whole and I'll finish with a focus on that word community I believe one of our CA members said it best when she shared that when our community voted in favor of the referendum in 2020 it made her feel that we are valued and appreciated for what we do every single day and I would also add that we and bcsc are forever grateful for that Community Support of our operating referendum thank you happy to answer questions you may have okay um I have one question the the one item on that list I don't know if I understand to the right level of detail is the trained in Wellness strategies can you say a little bit more about what the content of that training is just so I understand that correctly yeah we're gonna invite Dr Laura hack up to the podium okay it's like she knew that was her question Aon she was moving before you even that her name we were so appreciative of the PD days that have been offered within bcsc and So within the those PD days we do offer Wellness strategies and sessions for our teachers to go to so for example Brian dinks last year spoke to everyone about wellness and so we did um have that opportunity for him to do a keynote where he talked about Wellness strategies but then teachers could actually go into different groups different classrooms and learn more if they so choose to do that um we've also had book studies around the science of happiness and so that's been a very popular course um for our teachers to take we've had opportunities for wellness Specialists to learn from others within the corporation uh that have might have wisdom and knowledge around Wellness strategies we've had opportunities for um continued udl strategies inside the udl Institute where we focus on Wellness there for our teachers to attend and then also teachers may just take advantage on their own to go to a seminar semar go to a conference just on their own accord so we have many people um who have Wellness at the Forefront of their mind when we're thinking about teachers and students and then how do we continue to engage with them so that they're developed okay thank you and I'm just going to add to that on the second and third line there both Mental Health Providers and wellness strategies those are the areas we worked really hard putting this together together in 2019 thinking you know these are going to be the areas that we need to invest money for in resources in the long term um but those are really the two areas that are the needs of our students and staff have changed since 2019 obviously through the pandemic and then coming out of the pandemic so those are two areas that we are um we're actively working on those measurements and the metrics for those to to possibly come to you in the next 6 to 12 months with some changes to those as the needs of our kids have changed so I have a question but I have a couple comments first um so you mentioned the teacher shortage I guess just to underline how important that was at the risk of getting involved in in age I I actually hired Brett White and back then when you hired teachers you Math teachers there were always fewer than other disciplines but but we would get 10 or 12 applicants and you pick the best one and we got the best one there um but in more recent years particularly in math and some other tough subjects you're excited if you get one certified applicant to apply so the fact that we're retaining teachers is is huge um and and I in terms of retaining bus drivers I don't know the data but I hear about other districts around that have a huge problem keep being bus routes covered and even looking at there are districts that have gone to staggered starts of Elementary because they can't get enough bus drivers um but the other piece of that I'm glad it was mentioned that the relationship that bus drivers have I that's near and dear to my heart because my connection with education was my mother was a bus driver um and and by having the same bus driver even Beyond one year the kids really do develop great relationships it's part of their school day my question and and I should probably know the answer to this but um reading the the the fund policies we got to read through before this meeting um it prompted this reminder in me it mentioned CPR required CPR training at one time teachers had to pay for that is that still the case did teachers pay for their own CPR training they do that's right so my question is that we might consider since that that's certainly a safety thing I wonder if it's possible to use referendum funding to pay for teachers CPR training I'll just throw that out there could that not become a PD day well it's a pretty long and it's quite a few hours I don't I don't know how that would fit in and I don't know the details I know there's cost to hiring people but it would be one more way to take a burden off teachers that you know we require this of them but by the way you have to pay for it well I will uh preface my question and my comment by saying um I will do my absolute best knowing that I only have this meeting and two more uh to temper my uh comments um but the one slide on uh teacher average salary um I'll save my editorializing for my comment but I've never been a real big fan I understand the average or the the necessity of using that as a statistic but I think an even more telling statistic might be the salary range for teachers in bcsc pre-referendum to now and would any of you know of ballpark um salary range pre-referendum as compared to current I do ballpark would have been uh 38,000 to 72,000 that's s about right Mandy and then um post referendum now we're at 50 950 50,9 at the uh starting salary um and that does not include refer that assumes you have no experience whatsoever and then up to I'm going to is it 96 around 96,000 at the top of the scale that does include the maximum of a $50,000 $155,000 increase for experience through the operating reford thank you Dr Phillips um because I always think you know as a new teacher you know where am I going to start as compared to where I would start at other corporations and if I stay in this Corporation what could I potentially earn by the end of my career and so that's you know 38 to 72 51 to 96 is a substantial gain thanks to the referendum as well and and the last thing that I'll say is the board's legislative um Lea on for the last couple of years um you know I know that there are already proposals uh um already drafted um ready to move in the state legislature um for to divert even more funding from public schools to help support private parochial um tuition support and so you know and each day that I look at the daily news from the school boards Association there's another corporation that is looking at a referendum and um you know I just can't help but think how many of these you know there's an absolute relationship there I would say it's causal um between um you know the the current state legislature and where the funding is continuing to go um you know making such R referendums absolutely um necessary and more and more corporations across the state I could go on I I will stop thank you as we finish out this side of the table Logan did you have did you have anything you wanted to chime in on yeah I had a couple of comments can you hear me yes uh the one question I had was is the referendum in uh jog my memory here is it still not assisting teachers with under five years of experience that's correct the so the model is that teachers with bcse experience earn one point for every year of bcse experience and after their fifth point the following year they receive a $5,000 increase after 10 points it's 10,000 and after 15 points it's 15,000 that's up to a maximum so it's not to exceed that 96 maximum so the referendum pay can be decreased to reach the maximum for anyone without out of District experience we give one point for every three years and so if you had 15 years of experience in another District you would have those five points and receive the um $5,000 increase so I guess my concern here is and I know I've met with Mandy I've talked with a few other teachers about this is at least from my understanding of how the system works because a lot of the other districts also tend to um not honor one to one on years of experience actually I think it's an industry standard not to um the that the lowest uh experienced population is the highest risk of R retention loss and so I guess I'm still interested to see why the referendum dollars were not used there given that um we're trying to attract to me I know uh Miss White I think just mentioned about her daughter coming out and right is you're trying to attract new college students that are coming into the profession um those are the ones that are most likely at your flight risk as they have not earned a sufficient number of years of experience within the Corp to where you know it may be worth their while to transfer to another District based on um some minor pay changes within the band so I guess that's just feedback as we look to leverage this referendum uh going forward and then I do have a question unless you have a comment on that Chad no it's go ahead so I I was actually talking to a couple constituents uh a couple days ago um and they brought me some stats and I did confirm them and I really do appreciate uh the transparency being posted I think that's honestly uh a benchmark of how we operate our finances and um I I holistically agree with everything that was said here by the Whites by um Larry by the by Julie about making sure that our SRO our stems bus drivers teachers t i don't think we're included but ta as well um to be fully funded the the question that was brought up is uh from 2021 to 2023 according to those records about 21.6 million was paid out to those specific categories however the cash reserves across all these same funds grew by about 14.6 million so the I'm asking it really on behalf of them they were concerned as in reality 67% could have been covered by education fund operations fund under Reserve funds in the referendum rather than adding on to those Reserve funds so I guess from my concern here is just a as a matter of managing this budget is how are we looking to leverage that rather than build up reserves um going forward Logan can you say that last part of of 14 you said 14 so yeah here yeah 21.6 million was paid out to teachers Sr stem bus drivers and Tas right and across that same time period 21 to 23 the cash reserves grew by 14.6 across those respective funds so if we look at like for example right we you and I both know we transfer about $8 million out of the education fund which is the teachers budget into the operations fund both are growing reserves right now so from a tax standpoint right is all these reserves are growing across all these funds but we've stacked a referendum and essentially the constituent was asking me you know is it necessary and I holistically agree with everything that was said here like we want to make sure our teachers are paid and paid at the state highest and making sure that we can retain them keep them same with bus drivers like what Larry says same with making sure we have the state-ofthe-art technology but the question is when the reserves are growing at two-thirds the rate of what we're paying I guess the question from them was is it all necessary or is it essentially to build reserves thanks that's really a valid question to ask and I understand why someone would look at it and ask that um I'll say two items yes we could have um well I'll answer your question first yes I believe it was necessary um and continues to be necessary but essentially what we could have done is done about two-thirds then of what we have done over the last four years and run all of our cash balances to zero in all of our funds the I only just so you know I only showed the increase in the cash funds so it wouldn't have been to zero it just been to 2021 levels thank you which which I'm assuming the if you've got them to those levels we may have had um about one more year of referendum money that could have been paid with cash balance instead so at the end of next year or so somewhere around that time frame we would have run all of our all of our uh balances to zero the other thing that I do want to point out with the cash balances that um we've been talking about for the better part of uh better part of three at least three years for in recognition that they have grown in an unexpected manner that um part of that is due to conservative budgeting but part of it is also due um over the last two years to just interest rates being much higher than what we expected and adding um a couple of million dollars to those to those balances the other thing I do want to point out not that it's directly directly related to the the the question that you asked but Larry mentioned before the um the safety apparatuses on our buses and one of the things that this board did a couple of years ago was unanimously and very easily say we need to put those stop arm cameras on our buses in addition to all of the other safety equipment we have and we couldn't make a decision that quickly and um you know with that much agility for an organization of our size if we didn't have cash balances um at least of some substance like we do now because that's what we essentially ate into that year was saying let's use some of that cash balance and do an additional appropriation to make those um you know at least as safe as we possible possibly can to stop arms on the buses so that's only tangentially related to your question Logan but I hope that helps at least some yeah I think the only the only thing I would say is as we look forward right is and this constituent shared similar feelings to me right we want everything that was just shown here like no one wants teachers um not to be retained no one wants to make sure that we're leading the market and pay that we'd have buses that are unsafe and that we don't have agility I I think the concern was is are we doing it to build cash reserves and I don't think we are intentionally I think we benefited and Chad I think you alluded to it we benefited from um property assessments going up and really kind of getting an un unanticipated windfall of property tax revenues I which is really I think what drove I think we discussed at two or three meetings ago what drove the operations fund reserves to increase exponentially um I just think at this point it's it's we I think we have an ability to look into these goals further and challenge ourselves now that we have this referendum funds that with a additional windfalls from other funds how do we leverage it to even better further the corporation um I think you know one thing that I've heard as a little bit of fear both ways but like I'm not fearful of like trying to see how do we go after that zero to five teacher population I think that's the highest risk that I call or you know how do we go further into SRO and safety just given all the um the threats and risk that we've uh heard of in the last you know six months especially around the nation um so I guess that's what saying is like it feels like we're kind of being a little conservative um but that's um that's okay to some degree but I think it may be when you're hitting 35ish million on reserves on a I think it's like 168 million budget that's that's where I was trying to see is like I think going away from this and being creative with those funds to deliver even further on these goals as necessary thank you thank you thanks can you come back to me um so kind of to um dovetail off of Logan's first question about the 0 to five year teachers or 0 to four years I I see that as a concern myself too but I think um some interesting data so we see the overall retention rate but I think it might be good for us to look at um pre-referendum and post- referendum what is the retention maybe lump them as zero to four teachers or maybe 0 to two and three and four or something but but to look at did it specifically impact those teachers knowing that it's out there even though they're not benefiting at that time and it may or may not we don't know what the data will say but it' be worth looking at I'll just say anecdotally sorry Mandy um we we've had this debate since 2020 um there were some board members that felt strongly we should invest some of that money and in year the first contract we had after the referendum we did um give a stien with those dollars but um to zero through through fouryear teachers the the one thing that I continue to revisit is that if you spend the money on people before they stay and they leave that money is ineffective and I'm going to use bad data practice here and use anecdotal information and Dr stal bom can correct me if I'm completely off Bas but our youngest teachers who leave tend to leave for reasons other than money they leave because they're going back to their Hometown where a job opened up that they they didn't there wasn't a job there when they took the job here uh they leave because a spouse gets relocated um they usually stay in the profession um unless it's just a completely bad fit but um the the area that we really want to reward people for staying is when you start to hit that fiveyear point is when once we get people to stay for a few years past that they tend to stay in bcse and col for the rest of their career there's very few of them that tend to leave after that unless things are horrible from a financial situation and they can go get a lot more money somewhere else and so that's kind of the reason that we've used in the past and we can certainly continue to revisit that and we do through bargaining with CA which that's what I was going to say that this is all subject to collective bargaining which we would do again next year and so that could be certainly part of the conversation I would also say that during our last bargaining session a year ago we really targeted that starting salary in bcsc to try to make that competitive and I believe we are at almost 51,000 so that is some that is certainly a way that we've targeted those early starting teachers is by having that competitive starting salary too but again all of this would be subject to collective bargaining when we do that again next year good discussion M Mr Shar did you have anything you ask sure um great information appreciate the presentation um especially Miss Hummer's contributions on stem experiences um in some of the information that we've seen I'd love to know how we're doing I I keep asking myself in the back of my head how are we doing compared to peers so U you know we've we've gone from 80 some percent retention into the low 90s now H how does that compareed to other school corporations in the same geography as us or how does it compared to school corporations that are about as big as us I I like to think that um you know the the money has really helped us uh and the way we've spent it has been strategic and has helped bump those retention numbers but without knowing how other corporations are doing it takes a little bit away from it so and that date is probably out there I was wondering the same thing too about U uh um age of buses uh bus driver openings I I remember at one point we were losing bus drivers I think to uh Jackson County corporations that were able to pay more and I wonder if we've stopped that or has that been reversed things like that thank you Mr major yeah similar to everybody else I want to thank all the speakers tonight that are still standing you can probably all take a seat if you want um unless you're tired from sitting all day um but I am a little disappointed that uh Lucy left because I wanted her to hear that uh that was probably one of the best student speakers I've heard uh very poised very composed didn't even need to look at her notes much so I I appreciate that and uh I wish she would have stayed uh just a few more minutes to hear that but um hopefully somebody watching or or that knows her might convey that message to her and I'm assuming that was her dad I will make sure to pass along to her that she needs to go back and watch the Youtube video yeah it's 7:43 p.m.

Thank you everyone and welcome to tonight's regular business meeting held here on October 28th, 2024. We'll get started. Uh Mr. Smith will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of silence. Everyone can please rise. Thank you. You may all be seated. 2.01 uh to suspend this regular meeting and open the public hearing regarding additional appropriation. If I can get a motion to suspend the current meeting. Motion by Ms. Babchak. So I'm sorry. Ms. Bazan, seconded Mr. Vasser.

e good evening everyone Sidetrack with that like to call the meeting to order with Pledge of Allegiance we have with our tradition we have a special guest to lead us in the pledge who do we have there he is all right you'll join this young man in the Pledge of Allegiance Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all very good good job who do we have here you'll get to meet him here in a minute all right meet here just a second very good all right welcome everyone to the October regular board meeting we have called the meeting to order do we have any adjustments to the agenda yep there are no adjustments to the agenda very good we have recognitions to even make it come all the way back up well good evening um I have the honor of recognizing ridpath student of the month this is Kingston um and he was recognized by his first grade teacher uh Mrs cron Kingston is not a quitter he perseveres through challenging tasks in the classroom and always tries no matter how hard something might seem he will try on his own and then will ask for help when needed we love watching him as he figures something out and love seeing the look and smile on his face when he succeeds so way to go Kingston thanks for [Applause] persevering and I'll add that he says a heck of a pledge of believe he did a nice job good job buddy all right I have the honor of uh recognizing Paxton tonight um Paxton is such a joy to have he gives the best hugs every morning it's one of the highlights of my day and so um he was nominated because he's a delight to have a class he is always smiling and has a calm personality he never gives up even when the work is hard we've watched him um try ma problems over and over again until he gets them correct and we're amazed at his effort and his determination he asks for help when he doesn't understand something and he doesn't get frustrated he is a marvelous example of P of perseverance so we are really proud of you in the hard work that you do so our TZ perseverance student of the month is UAH tro and I'm going to turn it over to Mrs Dicky his teacher to talk about why so I nominated Uriah um when Uriah came to me the first week of of school he was very overwhelmed with fifth grade fifth grade was very hard he was very frustrated we had a lot of Tears even I showed some tears and so we had to have some long talks about what it meant to ask for help um when you're struggling and you know helping yourself when you need to reach out to others to to help you get by and I have to say that Uriah has worked so incredibly hard he's completely independent now and not only that he made a roll this n [Applause] we so he is just such a great example to everyone in our class of what it means to work hard even when the going gets tough so I'm so proud of him he's gonna do great things so watch out for this young man [Applause] all right I have elen Cooper neither one of us are good with spotlights of any kind so she's like do I have to go up I was like if I do you do we got to do this together so elen was nominated by the entire seventh grade each one nominated something about her so I'm going to read these off elen can have some complication from health issue but she never complains no matter how bad she might be feeling she always does what is asked of her and completes her work elen's a great student she understands the importance of listening and following directions each and every day her wonderful dis uh disposition is evident daily she is a real trooper and a joy to have in class elen is such a hardworking student she is a leader in the classroom and chooses to do the right thing every day elen works hard each day she has come overcome obstacles that most students do not even know about she never gives up on herself and perseveres and is determined to overcome these obstacles elen always has a smile and brings out the best in elen is a wonderful student to have in class she always works hard and never complains she starts and her ends her day with a smile we are very proud of you so this is Mr C for the high school my name is Logan cun and both Miss Barry and I on uh nominated Colleen bosik to be the student of the month Colleen demonstrates perseverance because she knows how to fail uh as a runner Colleen knows that success is found through small incremental gains over the long term with lots of failures in between while some students stare blankly had a problem and ultimately just end up asking for help Colleen tries something she tries something it might not be correct but she always makes an attempt when she fails she doesn't take it personally but asks for help while some students fear the appearance of looking stupid uh by asking for help Colleen knows that by asking for help sooner leads to success C has come in during Zer hour to ask questions or retake quizes on multiple in order to reach success and while some students give after a few give up after a few attempts colen keeps failing and keep getting help until she succeeds because Colleen knows success is a marathon and not a Sprint and so she perseveres [Applause] congratulations and then Mr K before leave we have one more recognition on your behalf we have a couple of extra students who are recognizing this yep and then we have the background set I would also like to recognize uh Tai isawa come on up Tai isikawa has been n has been uh recognized as a National Merit uh semi-finalist correct um uh Tai is uh I just wrote a recommendation for him and and I called him an audite poth uh a scholarly uh person who knows a plethora about numerous subjects um he can speak eloquently on any number of subjects um in math he's one of perhaps a dozen students who have ever scored a perfect on any one of my uh calculus exams um because the exams are just incredibly difficult and he did it twice um he's currently working on a uh a project uh where he's uh I'm sorry a computational chemistry project where he's analyzing DNA and um trying trying to determine how two Benzene rings when stacked um how they affect uh the structure of DNA um the best part of it is for him it's play he enjoys it and it's play and he is a phenomenal student and I greatly look forward to uh seeing where where the future takes thank you I'd also like to add to that if you guys don't know what it takes to be a semi-finalist for National Merit he scored in the top one % of all of the individuals in the United States that have taken the PSAT so that is tremendous time good job really [Applause] Inc I'm gonna announce a few other achievements for some of our students um Addison Fowler and Landon if you guys want to come on up and Penny is not here I believe I don't believe so penel Cummings and Landon Miller they've earned recognition from college board's big future National program through their hard work in the classroom and culminating PSAT scores to achieve this Landon and Penny had to score within the top 10% of all Rural and small town students in the state of Indiana on the PSAT or they could score three plus on two or more AP exams while also holding a 3.3 GPA or higher Penny and Landon have been exemplary student athletes just this year he w a sectional with our soccer team um Landon is a state qualifier just this weekend in in Cross Country good luck [Applause] Landon they have many other accolades in previous years as well participating in multiple extracurricular activities in achieving academic Allstate honors in both of their fall season Sports congratulations to you and Penny and great job Addison Fowler has been named a lily endowment scholarship finalist for butam County the endowment believes that education at all levels is important to the personal Civic and economic well-being of Indiana's residents and communities this program aims to Aims to encourage many of Indiana's most talented residents to attend one of the state's higher education institutions and ultimately pursue careers in Indiana the scholarship Awards full tuition required fees and book stien for four years and recipients May attend any public or private Indiana four-year college or university Addison has a tremendous academic record has been an amazing student athlete involved in extracurriculars such as band Deca and the ink pot and volunteered in and outside of school throughout her time at Green Castle High School we are absolutely thrilled for her and proud of what she's already been able to accomplish we will await the announcement hoping for the best we'll wait as patiently as we possibly can great job Addie these are outstanding achievements by three of our high school students thank you yes we have the backdrop set up for pictures obviously a lot of outstanding accomplishments yeah congratulations to all our awesome that is fantastic good all right moving on to public comments I don't have anything on the sheet for public comments am I missing anyone once twice and it's gone okay all right moving on to the approval of the consent agenda which consists of meeting minutes of the executive session meeting minutes September 12th 2024 regular board meeting minutes September 23rd 2024 which are Clos on door allowance and claims financial report and Personnel reports part one and two Mrs Roman yes hello everyone um first in your packet we've got two regular payrolls for the month of September the first one uh 455,000 retirement that comes along with the payroll for that 9113 payroll it was 127 21990 and then we had a second regular payroll dated September 27th that total payroll was 22365 and along with those taxes and retirement you had the 13, 69160 as you reviewed the regular payrolls did anyone have any questions about those no okay we're going to go ahead and move on to aista prepays which was quite lengthy for the month of September um we had some pretty big ticket items we had a bus uh relase payment you saw on there for about 271,000 we also had a partial payment for construction works that came out of the newest bond for 470,000 and then we just had a a list of regular prepays as you glance through them did anyone have any questions about anything on those no okay total prepays then for the month of September was 1, 28911 1543 and then next in your package you're going to have have a list of claims dated today October 28th as you had a chance to uh take a look at the claims regular claims was there anything that jumped out at you that you have a question about no no okay um the total for claims data today October 28th um was uh or is 54321 and then we're going to go ahead and move on to the financial report you'll see in your packet a fund report a balance and all funds a couple things I did want to bring to your attention because they are some negatives and I think it's probably worth our while to explain why some of these funds are in the negative um we actually apply for Grants one of the big ones is Title One and last two three years is um becoming a habit of the state not to approve it till very late into the year so U but in the meantime we need to continue to pay folks so you're going to see a couple things here on um title one it's about 55,000 in the negative you probably noticed and then the same thing um well just to explain this to you special ed that's basically how much our expenditures are every single month that come out in special education so that's why you're seeing a negative 53,000 on there but I think that's worthwhile for you to take a look at and in the future if you have any questions about those negative balances don't hesitate to ask about those so at the end of September uh dated 9:30 2024 balance and all funds was 10,986 91610 and then next in your packet you're going to see a depository statement Bank to fund balance as you'll see we are balanced um with the banks in all funds if we were not we would not see those zeros at the end there so that's good that's where we want to be we want to be balanced every single month with the bank and then we've got a fund transfer which looks kind of extensive this month but again those are just really me needing to transfer from one to another to cover expenses and if you go back to those big expenses of 470,000 271 all those okay those are all paid with hard copy checks and paid out of a certain bank so um I needed to to transfer from one bank to another to cover those checks so total transfers um for the month of September 1,723 4774 and then you're going to have a list here of our bond expenditures we did not have anything in September for um Bond or go 2024 you'll see that list next month um but we did have some expenditures um for Bond 2021 total to date um as of 831 is 32 mil 749 26240 and then there were no expenditures in bond 2022 so we're still at at total expenditures of 4,327 to10 12 and I think that's the end of my list so pending any questions I'd like to submit for approval need a discussion on that hearing none can I get a motion to approve motion I a motion in a second all those in favor I any opposed motion carried okay going move move on to reports do I have the gcta here today I heard from them they do not have anything okay very good M MC yes so as Kelly mentioned our elementary schools receive Title One funding um which is through the United States Department of Ed in the Indiana State um they have changed some of the requirements for our PA of professionals that would create a burden to our staff members and part of that includ um PA Professionals in Indiana districts and schools receiving Title One funds um they have adopted the PA Pro assessment developed by the educational testing service where they're requiring PA professionals to take this assessment um which is expensive and lengthy as well as requiring um IAS have um no less than two years of college so this is quite a burden on our IAS um not only on trying to retain our staff but then you know asking them to go back to school so to respond to this IDE has um created this Ed Flex waiver application where schools can apply to basically have a waiver of these two requirements as long as they have training available for their pair of professionals um so as a requirement to apply for that Ed Flex waiver which is what I would like to do um I just needed to explain this publicly we're also going to have information on our website under our title page um anyone can view some information about it um but the training that we are looking at um as you remember we receiv received a care professional Grant in the spring so we're going to use some of those dollars um to pay for modules through our iepa Center some OG training we've already had some of our IAS OG trained and um some are already lined up to have in December um as well as some par educator training that Mrs solivan is going to do in January so all of that will be in included in the application but I just wanted to share that with you um and if you had any questions about that okay um I also want to share um our arts and Innovation Expo that the Green Green Castle High School is going to be sponsoring and hosting on November 23rd so uh this was the brainstorm of our tiger cuup Collective team which is Mrs jidel Mrs Frank and Mr hail or Dr hail um this will take place Saturday November 23rd from 9:00 a.m.

e e e thank you Pastor Marlo uh I'll go ahead and call the meeting to order and under item A4 ask for Mr wall here Mrs Heim here all right moving on to item A5 Mr trout are there any revisions to the agenda this evening we do not have any revisions this evening Mr Ro if anyone would like to come forward there's a purple sheet here that I'll bring over there but there is one person signed up right now Briana bford and if Banna would like to come to the mic and if it's not on with the green uh please push that so that it can get picked up in the live stream okay good evening um I'm just coming representing wintergard um Winter Guard is starting back up and they are lacking transportation and storage this is a group that works in the off seon and helps with marching band as well they have kids from Crest viw riverv viiew and the high school and they need the ability to get to competitions their fundraising they have been doing for years in attempts to so cure a trailer so I'm asking for support from the board um I know that they've reached out to you guys just if that could get pushed along a little quicker or further so that they can get to the places that they need to be um they have large tarps and they cannot perform without doing so it is a considered a club and not a sport but they have given up their trailer to or they share with the winter percussion and so they've sacrificed and I was hoping that the board could take into consideration that they've sacrificed and now they need a little bit of help so that's all I'm here for thank you thank you uh would anyone like anyone else like to speak uh during the public comment section of the meeting go ahead you're fine I think most of you might know who I am but just in case you don't my name is Jackie cancellor and I am a teacher here at the high school and I teach American Sign Language so I want to do a public comment on a couple things but the first thing I want to actually say to all of you right here is how much I appreciate you you guys have no idea like the appreciation is not for just the what you do upfront but what you guys do behind the scenes so your support your professionalism remarkable and I really appreciate that I really appreciate the open door policy that you have for people that want to come with ideas and concerns I can tell you two weeks ago it was great because Mr triout Mr bberry came to the high school where all the teachers and staff are more than welcome to to come in and ask anything we want to ask we can go over any concern we throw stuff out on the table um and just have a really good conversation I do wish more teachers would take advantage of it though um maybe we can kind of get that out there a little bit more but and I and I want to thank you for acknowledging that teachers have the right to conscience on all matters and boy do I want to thank you for that American Sign Language curriculum so uh this is I think our seventh year in Sign Language it's a phenomenal program that's been built um over the years I had 351 students request sign language last year and I begged for this new curriculum and I want to thank all of you for passing the funding for me to able to have it so and I couldn't I couldn't be remiss about thanking you for the jotc program and the fact that archery is now up under it I love archery I love the competition of archery I think it really helps our students be able to set up a time for them to build confidence be part of a team last year we have two students now shooting and in collegate archery they got $117,000 scholarships to be able to compete so I just I want to thank you for that and I also want to thank you for being the type of administration that illustrates the willingness to acknowledge that our country and our state and our school is founded on biblical principles and the importance of standing on what is true and this is very evident because our board opened with prayer and we said plance the pledge of allegiance to the flag unreal I don't know if a lot of schools do that and I just want to publicly thank you for that I will tell you though I have a second purpose for addressing you tonight I'm this is just very very near and dear to my heart and I want to thank you for the taking the time to listen to me because I know I'm not on the agenda for a long period of time and I promise not to take a long period of time but the purpose of me addressing the board tonight is actually twofold one is the Hat of a teacher and one is a hat of we the people in the state of Indiana and I think both are super super important so I'm going to be taking on those two hats as a teacher of Huntington County Community Schools I am humbled and I consider it a privilege to teach in this school system the programs we offer surpass so many around us and the evidence is very true and that our enrollment has increased and that to me says a lot for what you guys are doing you guys are behind the scenes and you're just putting out the programs for students to come and be able to take and I want to thank you for that um there are a ton of advantages to that and I'm very humbled about how open you are when it comes to listening to the concerns of students parents and staff again remarkable it's your willingness to have ears to hear and eyes to see that I feel comfortable coming to you right now with a serious with an attention into a serious issue that I think we need to look at so I come to you as a teacher and as one of the people of the state of Indiana and I want to let you know that I want to that I can share with you that the people myself and several others throughout this state and the nation have been Consulting for our common good and studying the fundamentals of law in the Indiana Constitution as well as the maxims of law my colleagues and I are concerned about a policy in the employee handbook under the section called called report child abuse in my studies I have realized that this particular policy is based upon an unconstitutional code this code infringes upon the rights of parents their rights to the liberty interest of their child is being abrogated along with not following constitutional due process the Indiana Constitution guarantees that all people have the inherent right to life to Liberty property and the pursuit of happiness in fact according to the law Miranda versus Arizona 1966 it says where rights secured by the Constitution are involved there can be no rulemaking or legislation which would abrogate them and abrogate means to not go against the Constitution the Indiana Constitution Article 1 Section one says we declare that all people are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights that among these rights are life liberty the pursuit of happiness that all powers in in the people and that all free governments are and right ought to be founded on their Authority instituted for their peace their safety their well-being for the advancement of these ends the people have at all times an indivisible right to alter and reform their government and this is what I'm doing now assembling and asking for a policy to be reformed or altered that is unconstitutional it is my duty as one of the people to inform and instruct our servants that's all of you regarding the Indiana Constitution and help preserve the blessings of liberty there's a maximum of law 51p the main object of government is the protection and preservation of personal rights private property public Liberties and upholding the law of God one of the rights in our Bill of Rights sorry one of the rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights is the right to Liberty do you even really know what the meaning of Liberty is many of us do not but I can tell you that it's defined in Black laws dictionary fourth edition Liberty can be defined as the power of the will to follow the dictates of its unrestricted choice to direct the external acts of the individual without restraint coercion or control from other persons it Embraces freedom from duress freedom from governmental interference and exercise of intellect and the formation of opinions the expression of them and the action and inaction dictated by judgment the word Liberty includes and comprehends all personal rights and their enjoyment so the right of Liberty encompasses every area of our life and the situation that I'm adding directly goes at DCS Department of Child uh services this agency takes kids away from their parents without the consent of the parent and with without constitutional due process of law every parent has the right to the Liberty interests of their children in the case Troxel versus Granville and I quote the liberty interest at the issue in this case the interest of parents in the care custody and control of their children is perhaps the oldest fundamental liberty interest recognized by this court and in prince versus massachusett 1944 again confirmed that there is a constitutional demention to the right of appearance to direct the upbringing of their children it is Cardinal with us that the custody care and nurture of the child reside first in the parents whose primary function Freedom include preparation for obligations to the not to the state nor can they Supply nor hinder the right of the parent and there's one other law I want to tell you about and that is the Social Security Act of 1935 11016 D and is actually called the CPS creation law and and I hope you guys are ready for this because it's not what you think it's not what we've been doing but it says in there nothing in this act shall be construed as authorizing any federal agent Federal Officer or representative and carrying out any of the provisions in this act to take charge of any child over the objection of either parent or such child CPS creation of law was created for the sole purpose to protect protect children who are truly abused and I think everybody in this room wants to protect every child that is truly abused however I can say without a shadow of a doubt government is using this administrative agency CPS for financial gain and I would be more than willing to show you how this is accomplished at a future date child trafficking this is a connection to this agency and that's where my heart that's my heart is just telling you it is a true connection to this agency Child Protective Services have become the number one trafficking system and according to the ncmec report 88% of children found in trafficking come from the the DCS and Foster Care please do your best to imagine what this means you have 100 children and they are found to be either missing or something else has been going on maybe in the foster care home out of those 100 children 88 of them come from DCS or foster care and those were the ones that were found think of all the ones that weren't found we need to ask ourselves how does this happen why why and or what is the connection how are children taken from their parents how are the rights of parents infringed upon I can tell you you it is the lack of due process there is a common law 77f that says no free man shall be be deprived of life liberty property but by lawful Judgment of his peers or by the law of the land that is the common law also known as the Constitution I am sure this is the first time many of you if not all of you have heard this information for the very first time in saying that I would like to ask you this question can you show me in the Constitution where it is written that Authority has been granted to you any agency or government official to infringe upon the parents right to the liberty interest of their children without due process of law many of you are sitting here right now asking yourselves how does this relate to Huntington County Community Schools in the hccs handbook when teachers and staff are required to call an agency which has not been given lawful authority to investigate or to remove children from a home teachers in turn become an agent an extended arm of DCs so I want you to think about this if you were given information about a family that you reported to DCS and realized that the alleged abuse was false and the child no longer is with that family be it in foster care or lost in the DCS system how would it make you feel take it one step further how would you make how would it make you feel if that child was one of that 88% trafficked do we as a school want to have any connection to an unconstitutional code which has a direct connection to an agency who has a direct connection to child trafficking which has a direct connection to infringing upon the parents rights to the liberty interest of their children as the board Administration do you want to become an agent for such an agency me and my colleagues are being told we must be an agent or an extension to CPS by doing so we are participating in the infringement of parental rights to the liberty interest of their children and their lack of due process of law do we as Huntington County Community School Corp want to continue participating in this and please remember no code no statute no case law no policy can infringe upon or abgate the rights of parents so in conclusion it is the people's wish that you as school board members and administrator reconsider the language of the written policies seen in an employee handbook under report child abuse on page four and look at various options to assign the responsibility of reporting alleged child abuse to the proper lawful Authority and that this reporting fall upon the administrative staff of Huntington County Community School Court the people look forward to continuing open dialogue to resolve this matter in Peace and Love Of Christ I have envelopes for you and inside the envelope is documentation of everything that I just told you um there's also a notice in there that has been recently given to the Arizona Supreme Court that is also been distributed Nationwide and in that you will find major nuggets of wisdom and knowledge there are links that you can click on that will bring up Supreme Court Justices Pretty much telling you everything that I just told you for me I love this school system I want to retire from this school system I want our students to know that they are safe I want them to be in safe homes I am 100% on board with that I'm not 100% Bor on parents losing the Liberty to their children based off of maybe hearsay and I think that anything that is Criminal needs to actually be reported to the authorities that have been granted granted permission granted by us we the people to look into that and that would be our law enforcement that would be our sheriff in this County because we're a county school so having all said all that I just want to leave you with this Psalm 1273 says lo children are the heritage of the Lord and the fruit of the womb is his reward may the Lord bless thee and keep thee may the Lord make his face shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee may the Lord Lord lift up his continence unto thee and give you peace thank you for your time signing the purple sheet just so there's a record that you address the board we'd appreciate that uh now move on to item C1 special presentation Community Gardens project hello hi I am Aaron didan I'm the executive director at United with love um and I'm here tonight to talk to you about our community gardens project but real quick before I do that I would be remiss if I did not touch on something Mrs cancer said um I literally just three hours ago came back from I flew back from the Citadel uh Military College in South Carolina where my son is a freshman and he is a freshman down there because of the four years he spent in jotc um last year he was a battalion commander and learned how to be a leader and he is growing those skills so I just want to thank you for that program it is amazing but enough about that Community Gardens yay um we are this year starting we're bringing back the community garden we have five locations around the city Elward Park Lori Park eie Park the boys and girls club and New Life Church um you guys are familiar with this community those are all on the south end of town and we would love to bring one up to the north end of town um I am unfortunately my partner in crime Christy kette could not be here tonight she has been working with with um Chief Blair and we've identified and got his okay to um put use some of the land over at Craig bomb field close to the Learning Center um to put in a community garden we've talked to Mr mlin he has signed off on it thinks it's a great idea uh Not only would that bring you know fresh fruit produce to this into town for individuals who may need it but everything we do we're about meeting those material needs but beyond that building Community it's so important and we feel Community Gardens are a great opportunity to do that and just look at you know what this the school corporation has done the last few years with the football field Friday nights that's Community what you guys had going on in the parking lot this weekend with the Trunk or Treat that's Community what these amazing people at the Family Care Center are going to share that's community community garden more community so I'm here tonight to ask if we could use some of that land um I have received funding for the six Gardens so there would be no cost to the school communicate to the school corporation we would be able to have a shed if that would be okay to installed um with gutters rain barrels so um we wouldn't need any kind of rain or any kind of water use or anything like that the plants will all be provided for um and then of course we would have uh volunteers who would be under United with love running the garden um and they would fall under our volunteers so all liability we would have uh covered under our own insurance so so School Board what I'm looking for this evening is your approval of this relationship that we would have um with the Huntington uh County Gardens project like uh she said she's uh worked with GRTC with Mr McGloin I believe that all uh all we need this evening is your approval and we're going to be ready to move forward then absolutely all right thank you well would anyone like to make a motion regarding the proposed arrangements with Huntington Community Gardens project I'd make a motion to approve the Huntington Community Gardens project on the CRA cbom Field property is there a second second any questions comments or discussion how much room um you know I'm a big believer in under promise and overd deliver so I'm kind of let's start small I'm thinking you know 15 by 30 and we'll see how that goes um and I'm also kind of thinking let's the first year is hard you know it's going to be getting people involved feel like the second year will be really great and that's when we'll be able to say this is what we're doing this is what it's going to look like um but yeah we're thinking about 15 by 30 maybe a 20 by 40 plot because we there previously was a community garden yes and the softball field is yes it was in it was incredibly popular up here it was well utilized we do have a lot of room up there yes any other questions or comments um so where I mean I know on the property close to the Learning Center but I'm where by the Learning Center um and then if something happened and we did expand the Learning Center Center I mean will this disrupt it uh or we just move the garden further out well what we would do if if in the near future if we're going to expand the Learning Center what we would do is we would work with you and we would have to move the garden because that would obviously the Learning Center would take precedent over everything else that we're doing there um what we're hoping for is in conjunction that's why I made sure that Mr McGloin and jrtc were firmly on board with this because in the future we may have to move it somewhat uh around in Craig bomb on that near that end down there i' call it the um the East End uh there just so we make sure we have ample space for our parties involved but when I was out there the other day um we have a lot of options out there currently um I think it's pretty crystal clear that the Learning Center would take precedent jrct takes precedent um I hope we have a problem where the gardens are growing and we have to come back to all of you and say hey we have to make some adjustments along the way but until that I think we're we're okay um we're talking predominantly if you go out the South End Of The Learning Center there off that parking lot out in that general area there it's much larger than what you think when until you get out there um that's where we would begin at that point in time okay I think I'm saying that correctly when you work absolutely and the crew so thank you um couple questions first of all I think that this is a wonderful idea and a great use of that property um is will this be like a yearly contract that we will do yeah I think that what we'll have to look at is if we're going to expand we have to come back here I think every intention is for it to expand um each time we do expand um we'll come back to you and say um you now see where it's at we're going to have to grow by X number of feet each Direction um I hope that's a problem I really do um if you remember when I was over here on Viking Lane um it was great um it was a great Community uh event to have that and I think this will be also but again just like with Matt's question if we have to adjust we'll adjust I mean um and and I'm anticipating that we'll have to quite frankly okay um and then my second question does this will the ground be affected At All by the removal of the track like is that soil yeah I mean yes because we're trying to be we're trying to be very mindful of where that's at okay we're trying to be uh incredibly mindful of that's what just two years plus in the making so far um I just want to make sure that it's G to actually grow yeah well yes and and I think that's why she was been out there with jotc and with Mr McGlothlin because if you look at the oval shape out there you have to be mindful of where that's all it's all at just when I first came I think this even happened when I was the interim business manager here is that if you remember we um adjusted how much of that track we actually took out we took out more than initially planned um Pat I I don't know or Chuck I don't know what the hands gestures are I I think there were three tracks down as it kept going yes so that's correct so what happened was we thought when we first started in there that we were only going to take the track out what we didn't realize is that there were three layers of track there so there was the original track back in who knows what years was there and then there was another layer on top of that and then the layer that our community saw off of Jefferson was the third layer so when they went in there um and they started u they brought me over there and said John there's two other layers underneath here because we did soil borings and we didn't know in certain aspects of that track there were actually three layers and so all that to say yes we have to be very mindful of where that's all at so that people are not upset when they go out there to plant their garden and it wouldn't happen to grow like they wanted it to so yes and then my question would be who's overseeing this all summer long so um we do have we do have school buses parked there and school equipment parked there right absolutely so United with love would oversee the general project um we have one employee who this is 50% of his job is this community garden project he's overseeing all the leads all the volunteers making sure that you know everything it looks like a great community space things are being done and it's being utilized well okay thank you uh the only other thing I would say is if we do have a shed put up there that we work with the city to get a shed permit so we don't go a foul with our city Brethren yes um no good deed goes unpunished as I say um we'll have to make sure we're following all the ordinances um I'm sure that United with love will go through all those processes too um and that's just part of everything we would have to do here because I think there's going to be easements with the fence line over there there's going to be a variety of things we have to take into account when we're putting this together so all right any other questions or comments all right hearing none we'll vote on the motion to approve all right motion passes 6-0 and happy gardening thank you so much I hope you all come out and get a tomato next summer okay okay good all right we now move on to C2 special presentation Indiana Care Center hello uh my name is Pastor Ashlin kippert and I am one of the pastors at The Awakening Church um alongside of my husband Chad and um and then we also have Indiana Family Care Center which many of you know as downtown we were formerly Indiana Dream Center and we uh in the last couple of years have transitioned to Indiana Family Care Center as we started to see needs shift in the community to more family needs as many other organizations were taking care of people with life controlling issues so well um we started to see gaps and so that's what we have started to fill um many of you have seen over the last 14 to 15 years that we have done an event um it started out calling steps for Success um it was a Back toschool event where we provided new tennis shoes to students um we started that in a very small location so if you know where um Teresa kaylor's building and property is uh where her office is it is a tiny little um lot parking lot on the south end of town and um we served about 35 students and it was amazing and then we moved it over um to drover park and that was amazing as well um but what we found was that there were so many different families that needed so many things and so we started to add Partnerships within that and we started to have other organizations as well as other um churches get involved in providing back to school items well this has continued to grow um as inflation continues to grow so does the needs of families continue to grow and uh many of us probably know that and understand that even in our own pocketbooks and so um as we look at these different things we really shifted our our thought process to having an event for this community where we would kick off school in such a positive manner uh where we would kick off school and both families would come that would be excited just to start school and and they would have bounce houses and food trucks and it would be awesome but we would also serve the needs of those that um that are in need what we found over at drover Park was that there were actually actually families um unfortunately that uh would would sleep on the pavement would sleep on the sidewalk um just to get a new pair of tennis shoes and um we ended up serving breakfast those sorts of things and so having said all of that um we really started to see just such a great need and we started having conversations with the families instead of just serving them um and just going through a line because we believe in serving people with dignity and um and not everybody is a number people want to be known as a name regardless of the situation that we're in and that's how we serve people and so moving on to where we are today we've had the back to school bash thank you so much um to all of you because we've been able to have the back to school bash for year two here on um this campus and it has been quite amazing this past year we had over 65 vendors um including some from Indianapolis and so we've got vendors coming in from every everywhere not just our community we served over 900 students and there were over 3,000 people total that were served that day um and in a very short amount of time quite frankly um this was a CommunityWide event both for those in need like I said and those that just wanted to have an amazing Kickstart to an event uh we we really want to break the stigma of saying well you're in need and you're not um and it was an amazing thing to be able to see students just as they would on a playground at the school um they were out together families were out together and there was not a stigma where um families that were in need were embarrassed to have to come um so it was an amazing thing the amount of needs continue though year round and so we've been serving students and families through our thrift store for quite some time working with the counselors already with Huntington school corporation that is actively happening um and has continued to happen in our community we have many um teachers nurses and counselors that we've heard from and we continue to hear from their needs we continue to hear that um many of them are seeing needs within their classrooms or in the hallways and they're often filling those needs out of their own pocketbook um when we continued to hear that we were like okay we love our teachers we love our Administration and that's not something that they should have to do on a regular basis we can come alongside as both the church as well as the um the Indiana Family Care Center alongside of places like United with love we are in partnership with them um and other different organizations to really look at these needs and be able to provide them for the students the needs are even greater um as we continue to see families continue to say um I'm I'm able to to meet these things I'm able to pay rent and those sorts of things but I didn't really adjust to my child growing four to five inches I got everything and my child grew if you have children you know that you don't really anticipate those things you just have to prepare and then they um they continue to grow so um Here Comes Beyond The Bash so why did we do this uh because the back to school bash has been amazing but there are needs Beyond The Bash um and that is what we have called this project is beyond the bash you can flip to the next one if you don't mind the purpose of this is to address the physical needs of students year round um it's to create a Community Partnership opportunity as well the goals and objectives are really to work with all of you guys alongside of our teachers counselors all of our Administration to identify the needs of the students um and then to provide a dignified shopping experience for the students during the school day um that has been that's something that's very very critical to us is to make sure that these students do not feel like um they are less than because they they have holes in their shoes or their jeans don't fit or their clothing doesn't fit um that is embarrassing um and these are pivotal years and so it also um there's so many different things and I didn't bring all of that today tonight but um there's so many different things in studies where it's been shown even out in California where they have been doing community projects like this in school corporations and even test scores are going up because students feel better about themselves um because there is a confidence issue because I if I am not confident I can't focus um and that is something that is so key and so important to us so the community is coming together to meet these needs we have talked to several different you're going to hear about that here in just a second we really want to provide this not only to our students but also to relieve the burdens somewhat from our teachers and our Administration and our counselors that are putting money out of their own Pockets um to fulfill these needs you can go thank you we are excited because we've shared with this uh we've shared this presentation with several different people and some of you have seen that I know Mr bomberry Mr Peters Mr trout um we were able to knock off many of those things and so we are so excited uh the project scope the interior is completely done the trailer is outfitted um it is here tonight so um they were able to there was a few that were able to go and look at that which was amazing um the climate control is still in the works and so we will get that before winter comes and make sure that there's heat in there because we know that that's going to be something that's going to be critical and now it's going to be time to stock the trailer so um you can go on to the next one thank you so how is this going to work within the school corporation we want to make this as easy as possible we do not want to add one more thing to our teachers our counselors um and we understand that these this process needs to be as simple as possible so number one the students needs going to be identified very simply um so whether it is clothing whether it is shoes whether it is hygiene products whatever that may look like um that student need is going to be identified depending on how the school um that particular school is going to work uh right now this process is actually in process with salamony schools and they actually have um what would be in our trailer they have a store downstairs in their location um that Warren all the churches in Warren come together and they meet those needs um and so it's going to be very similar it's just ours is on Wheels and so we can take it from school to school uh which makes it a lot simpler for um all of the school corporation so as these students needs are identified what happens is the teacher at salamony what happens is the teacher identifies the needs they get sent to the counselor the counselor contacts um the the people with u all the Warren churches those needs are fulfilled if they don't have them downstairs and then the student is able to come and Shop um it is a very dignified process um if you've never been downstairs at salamony it's beautiful it's amazing they have fitting rooms it is an amazing thing um number two once the students need is identify that request get submitted to us um on a portal and you're going to see that here in just a second it's very simple it is an online portal where the counselors will be trained to literally just fill out a very quick Google form within that form it gets sent to us we then fulfill that need and so the request is received and filled the items are loaded onto the the trailer we will have a scheduled time with every school working with every school administrator um to ensure that that works for them that time frame works for them and then the big give which is going to be amazing um to have these students be able to come and receive their items you can this is the portal so again it's very simple um this form is very very simple that I think that there's two different um slides on that so you can kind of see that perfect yep so very simp simple form um we don't have to get overly complicated anything like that um so it's we just want to meet basic needs to ensure that our students um have what they need and it relieves burdens of teachers it also relieves burdens of families um that are really struggling so okay this is the progress so this is how it started um there on the left and you can see on the right uh what that looks like there are shelving units within that uh within those shelving units will be things like hygiene kits will be things like female hygiene kits which is a huge need um and there's if you go into the next one perfect uh right there he built a um a little bench so we can try on shoes all those sorts of things um so it's just going to be um an incredible thing the there's been so many different people that have been a part of this um Bendix is the one that was able to give us the the trailer um so we're super grateful for them um there's been different people such as Duke Energy Layman floring um that have offered and and provided funding for us to be able to do what we've done so far um and then other organizations that have come alongside of us such as United with love and providing so many different things such as Central Christian College Park church Faith Community Church The Awakening Church um and many many more we're still having conversations with churches and businesses alike to continue to uh fill those trailers what we're doing is we're asking them to find the one thing that they want to give really well and uh right now we have a three-year commitment from four different churches um to continue uh this and it's just going to be amazing so what's next what's next is we're ready to fill the trailer which is so exciting uh the trailer will be accepting donations starting now from churches and businesses in the community so we can start fulfilling the needs um we are entering in a time of giving Which is perfect um so we're excited about that we're excited about taking the trailer around the community in places that are going to allow us and then literally filling this trailer one thing that I want to make sure that everybody understands is within this trailer we want to make sure that everything is new this is not a thrift store this is not donated items these will be tagged new items um there's so many different places that we can go as nonprofits and even receive pallets of clothing and things like that for um a lump sum of money and so there's so many different resources out there that that we're going to tap into from that per perspective as well um but new clothing people that like to uh shop the clearance racks and all of that that's what we're encouraging them to do um so that we can fill this grant funding is continuing to come in for the HVAC and the purchase of new items that are being donated the second thing that needs to happen is training so training our counselors our administrators to make sure that they understand the portal that they understand the ins and outs of the process so it can be very very clear to everybody and it's very simple the schedule will also need to be created within the School Corp and so we want to make sure that it works and aligns with their time frame that they would want us to come out the goal is that we would be in every school we would be at every school every week now if there's not a need at that particular school we wouldn't go there that week um and so it would be based upon needs um it's not like we're just going to show up um it would be based upon needs as that happens and so I just want to say thank you for the support that we've had so far thank you for allowing us to um to do what we're doing thank you for um continuing to serve our families and we just want to walk alongside of you you know this doesn't happen without you um you've been very humble uh within this but I just want to say publicly thank you um it's this is probably the third or so much time and energy into this and um to do this at our schools means the world uh to all of us uh setting up here that you would do this this and to show the love for these kids and it just means it means everything to us but um um your passion for this is the driver and um that's that's quite evident uh every time I have seen you with this and I am grateful for our partnership with you so thank you I and I mean that thank you very much thank you any questions from the board I don't really think this takes any formal um approval or anything it's just something that Jay Chuck and I wanted to share with with you um this thing is coming together uh quickly and so we just wanted to make you aware of it and see if you had any questions with that but both to both of you I say thank you it's been incredible partnership thank you than you all right we'll now thank you for that presentation we'll now move on to the consent agenda items D1 through six yes I'm going to highlight for you the request to accept donations in a total of $ 4,860 uh Flint Springs is requesting permission to accept two donations the first is 90 reings of paper valued at approximately $360 from Jim and Cindy Emily uh to be used by the staff for school Printing and projects the second donation is nine boxes of molding clay valued appr proximately $1,000 from the Kellogg family to be using the art department for future art projects uh cresview Middle School is requesting permission to accept a donation of $500 from gal to be used for the robotics program and then Riverview is a accept is requesting to accept permission uh for a donation of around $3,000 R views of learning again to be used for the robotics program and so I'm asking for your approval of consent agenda D1 through6 for this evening all right thank you Mr trout would anyone like to make a motion regarding the consent agenda make a motion or approve the consent agenda uh items D1 through D6 is there a second second all right any questions comments or discussion would anyone like to pull a particular numbered item out and vote on it separate from the rest all right hearing none we will vote on the motion to approve the consent agenda motion passes six to zero we'll now go to E1 Financial reports good evening president members of the board um Mr trout uh we bring to you this evening the September financials we're getting caught up from after um our software conversion so wanted to make sure that um we brought these to you this evening excuse my I think it was a little Frozen earlier but my voice it's thawing out first we have this evening the education fund and um for September and you'll see the information here reminder on the Le hand side is the budget the certified budget of the revenues and expenditures in the middle um with the yellow highlight is the um current month amounts for revenue and expenditures and then the second uh yellowed highlight is the year-to date for both the revenues and expenditures and you'll see here um we have the graphs on the right hand side that support the data on the left and then right down at the bottom you'll see that little um Square uh rectangle for uh right underneath the graphs that talk about um it shows the percent of the budget year expended which were approximately 75% into the year and then um you'll see the percent of Revenue that we received um a little over um 72% so right under 73 and then um percent of the budget expended 63% so look looking at this and comparing to um last year at this time we're right on schedule um as designed and as um projected for the education funds budget with a um fund balance of a little over $14 million and that has been um customary this time of year so we're right on cheack next we have our next fund that we um go through is it called our debt service fund and um also with The Debt Service fund you'll see no um activity for the month of September and that is a normal for this fund as this fund has two months out of the Year where it has the majority of the activity for revenues and expenditures and that is June and December and that is because this is a property taxed fund for our revenue and um as we receive that Revenue in then we have our amortization schedules that we um do uh and we pay those two times a year and that would be um reflected under our expenditures so you'll see some of the year to date there and that is from our June uh settlement for our property taxes and other taxes and then our expenditures that were spent in June so this uh cash balance is a little over 1.7 million and is just um as projected for this time of year and then next we have our other major fund which is our operations fund our two um major funds our education fund and our operations fund and this follows the same format that we were talking about with the other two it has our budget and then our um month and then our year-to date and you'll see there with our uh expended uh part of the year in our Revenue you'll see uh 54% of our Revenue received and a little over um 55% expended and that is common this time of year uh mostly because of this being also a property tax fund so our Revenue comes um mainly June and December so you'll see the expenditures going up a little bit for the months of September October November and then you'll see the revenue that supports that um that will balance everything out in December so we're right on track for this fund also just a question because I think I'm reading it right but I want you to correct me if I'm not uh I see the revised fund balance of a negative number but that's only because of some incumbrances we don't actually have a negative absolutely thank you for that clarification that is true and that's what you'll see um going on for the next couple months until that Revenue comes in so thank you for that clarification and then um next you'll see our rainy day fund and you'll see uh a little bit of uh action in this fund for the month of September and that was from our um previous uh obligations from our budget order of 1.5 million for our main office renovation so this too um shows that we have approximately um $700,000 left of um appropriation that we plan on continuing with those expenditures for the remaining of this calendar year we did not budget anything in this fund next for next year no we did not budget for anything in this fund the project won't be over until next year so we will We encumber those funds out of this year's funds so we don't exactly so we um what we do uh is we we have the actual appropriation that was approved in 2024 and then um anything at the end of 2025 for that appropriation rolls into next year so you would not need additional appropriation you'll use the appropriation that was set for 2024 so we're right on target for for this fund also and then we have um two more funds for you this evening and that is the Food Service fund and wanted to make a note that um with the software conversion and also to go in line with what the state has for this fund this is actually a fiscal year fund so you'll see in your board financials that um we switched that over to be a fiscal year Fund in your financials and a fiscal year fund instead of the other um being like the other funds that are January through December this one is July 1st to June 30th to goes in line with what is required with the state so we want wanted to make sure that this went in line with whatever reports you might see on the state sites because all the information on the state um websites for this fund are all fiscal year so then that um they would go in conjunction together so you'll see here where um we've revised the 2024 fiscal year-to-date uh amounts on there for you along with uh the fund balance and such so this is Right On Target and meets the requirements of maintaining the the cash balance and not having um too much in the cash balance as we have in the past that were right on um target with being able to um have the cash balance that we have on hand and meet our uh expenditures and with our Revenue coming in so we're able to balance those out in this fund and then last but not least is the curricular materials fund and um this fund also is um very solvent for the cash balance that's in this fund and a reminder that in 2025 this fund will roll over into our education fund according to um requirements of the law that changed so um we will make sure that those revenues are identified and um able to be split out for reporting purposes and also the expenditures that will be able to um set aside those those dollars so it doesn't get absorbed with other EXP expenditures by accident so we will make sure that that is identified and we starting in 2025 we'll have that separated out also in our board financials for the board as such I would be happy to answer any questions the board may have at this time regarding the September financial statements as presented does anyone have a motion they'd like to make regarding the financial reports for September 2024 make a motion to approve the financial reports as presented is there a second second any questions or comments all right hearing none we'll vote on the motion to approve and thank you for moving through those with some brevity there Jay why they're voting on that uh any updates for the board for social studies and science because she went through the curricular uh materials one just this might be a great time to give an update on that yes thank thank you for asking um social studies is still on hold we do not have the titles from the doe but we do have uh vendor titles uh and vendors that will be um having materials for science so we're in the process of making sure that we've got our committee together working with hcta uh that we've got our science adoption committee together and we'll be looking uh at those vendors and selecting some of those vendors that we can get supplies get their materials and resources so we can begin that adoption process at least with science uh right now like I said social studies we don't have those titles out there yet those vendors so that is on hold but we're going to proceed um I've talked with Sydney mckenny um at Region 8 um almost once a week um and so we're going to start that process with science so great question all right motion passes 60 so so now we'll move to E2 uh additional appropriation for debt Services sure uh this this action item or hearing and then action item has to do with our current Year's Debt Service fund so uh during the budget process the board uh approved a tax rate for our debt service fund so this appropriation is just to increase that budget to be able to pay all of our amortization schedules that we currently have that does not increase the tax rate that does not increase the um tax property taxes it allows us to spend uh our portion of our cash balance and any tax taxes that we currently uh have approved and have been certified from the state so this is just allowing us to pay the rest of the amortization schedules for this year for um 2024 and be able to have the budgets to support that like I said in addition to um being able to pay those expenditures and those amortization schedules it does not raise the tax rate or um receive additional tax dollars from this additional appropriation that we're asking for this evening so then we would go to A3 and that is the so first for a for this second one uh the board would need to open the public Hearing in case anyone want to talk about this and then um we would close that public hearing and then we would go on to approving the resolution for that thank you for that reminder so we'll go ahead and uh suspend this current meeting and then open up a hearing for comment on the proposed additional Appropriations so anyone who has uh question or comment from the public that would like to address the board on that please go to the microphone and there is a sheet there for you to sign and it looks like no one is coming forward to address the board so I'll close the hearing and then reopen the regular board meeting and move on to E3 uh the proposed resolution thank you as required by law after um we hold a public hearing for that additional appropriation it does require us to have the board adopt the resolution that supports that um so in your board packet you'll see the the resolution for additional appropriation in the amount of $179 and um 179,180 um for the board's approval this evening as presented all right thank you Mrs Smith would anyone like to make a motion regarding the proposed U resolution make a motion that we approve the additional appropriation out of the debt service for $1 179,180 is there a second second any questions comments or discussion and again just saying it again this is coming from cash balance out of there absolutely yeah so there's no there's no raising of the tax rate there's no additional increase to property taxes I know we're repeating ourselves but I just want to make sure that's Crystal Clear there that is correct okay thank you all right hearing nothing further we'll vote on the motion to approve the resolution all right that motion passes six to zero so I believe I will again suspend the regular meeting of the board and now open a meeting of the board regarding project and additional appropriation hearings so the next item on the agenda is for the board to hold a project hearing and additional appropriation hearing on a proposed construction project if you are interested in speaking at the hearing please make sure you have signed the signin sheet which should include your name and address after a presentation by the administration and it advisers there will be an opportunity for the public to make comments about the project at this specific hearing we will ask that each person limit their comments to three minutes and that the topic be limited to the proposed project under consideration the notices of this hearing were published as legally required and at this time I will ask Mr John trout to explain the purpose of this hearing okay uh pursuant to Indiana code 20-26 d73 7 before um a school corporation may spend more than a million dollars to build repair or alter a school building that would be financed by a lease or bonds it must hold a public hearing at which explanations of the potential value of this project uh to the school corporation and Community are given uh similarly uh pursuant to Indiana code before a school corporation can appropriate any dollars it directly receives as Bond proceeds it must conduct a hearing uh on these proceeds for the additional appropriation of these funds uh this public these public hearings and consideration of resolutions establish the financial terms for the proposed project all right thank you Mr trout we will now hear from you further about the process of determining and communicating the project to the community and the need for the project Okay so we've had uh multiple conversations through the last couple of years if you uh go back uh when we started doing our initial uh facility audits with Mr thornsberry um you will know that we laid out a series of projects that we would like to complete uh depending upon the resources that we have available to us and so tonight what we're doing is going through this hearing as it pertains to the uh uh as we're remodeling um the bathrooms the restrooms here at Huntington North high school so Terry here in a couple of minutes we'll remind you of all those details of what we're going to do here uh within that but that's the purpose for tonight's hearing then all right thank you Mr trout as you said we'll now hear from Terry thornsbury about how the proposed project meets the needs as described by superintendent trout thank you Mr trouton and uh thank you board for the opportunity so um having spent four years of my life in this building back in the 80s I'm fully aware that most of the restrooms still have the original Plumbing fixtures in them um so they're definitely a need of replacement so primary focus of this project will be to uh renovate the eight main student restrooms six staff restrooms and nurse's office restrooms um two new single use restrooms would be added onto the building and then we' refresh the two Auditorium in Arena restrooms um the restrooms would be made ADA Compliant if we can do that and Our intention is to definitely do that to the eight main student restrooms the two new Standalone restrooms and any others that we can rearrange and and make that work uh the new fixtures will use less water than the original fixtures from three gallons per flush to about a gallon or half a gallon per flush depending on the fixtures we pick we will update all the finishes we'll update all the lighting we'll update all the ceilings try to make the restrooms more attractive definitely and more durable at the same time uh scheduled uh for the project would be to start construction in early 2025 and be complete by the end of 2025 all right thank you Mr thornsbury uh we're going to now hear from Tyler leol of Baker Tilly uh Tyler is our Municipal advisor and he's going to explain how the proposed project will be financed and provide information about the effect on the typical property taxpayer good evening thank you for having me as Mr Roth said I'm Tyler lff Holtz with Baker till Municipal advisers and I'll be walking through the financial implications of the proposed project uh I'll start by just showing you what your current outstanding debt uh looks like uh in this chart you can see that you've got three bonds currently outstanding your 20 23 bonds will be paid off in 2026 your 2018 bonds will be paid off in 2037 and your 2022 bonds would be paid off in 2041 and you do see that in 2026 you do have a drop in total annual payments for your outstanding debt on the next slide I will show the calculation of your general obligation bonding capacity so that calculation is 2% of one3 of your net assessed value um so you your limit is 15, 385,000 and after subtracting what you currently have outstanding in general obligation bonds Your Capacity is 10, 645,000 so anything under that can be issued as Geo bonds so what we've done is we have structured a $1.75 million Geo bond to be paid off in just over a year uh using conservative interest rates we are estimating an interest expense over the life of the bonds to be about 7400 ,000 and I will show this on the next page but we do anticipate that this will not increase the tax rate for 2025 here's how the new bonds would look alongside of the outstanding bonds that darker bar there in 2025 is the one year of repayment that you will have on these bonds uh now although your total payments would be increasing um a combination of your net assess value increasing for 2025 and your maximum operating balance will be lower in 2025 because you're allowed to carry 15% of the following Year's payments as balance and since your payments are decreasing in 2026 your max balance will be decreasing as well so you'll be spending down some balance and your assessed value growth uh will help you issue these bonds without increasing your debt service tax rate and that black dotted line there is your estimated Debt Service tax rate you can see that we're estimating that it will uh remain level for 2025 and that is all I have but I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has anyone have any questions all right thank you uh we will now open the public hearing portion of this meeting remember if you would like to speak please sign in on the sheet which is located on the podium as I mentioned earlier we ask that you state your name and address and please try to limit your comments to the proposed project and financing and try to keep any comments to 3 minutes uh if possible and I think the signup sheet is already over at the podium and so if anyone would like to speak during this portion of the meeting uh please go to the podium and sign in and then you can ask questions all right no one having come forward uh we will go ahead and I'll thank all those who have participated thus far in the hearing and I'm going to close that hearing and reopen our regular board meeting just go right down so we're now on E5 the 2024 go project resolution great thank you thank you very much as part of the requirements after um holding a hearing the board must uh adopt a resolution and this is the project resolution which is required um when we're planning to spend more than a million dollars per building it contains the estimated hard and soft construction cost and the cost of issuance and establishes the total project cost and it also um contains the estimated tax impact we would ask the board to approve this resolution as presented all right would anyone like to make a motion regarding the proposed 2024 go resolution motion to approve the 2024 go additional appropriation resolution exhibit B as presented no a oh sorry I was on the wrong one everything's correct except for the a yes exhibit a yes exhibit a all right would anyone like to second that motion I'll second I think Gary beat you to it kind of like the Yankees are probably gonna get beat tonight um any questions or comments before we vote back ke Tyler there's somebody in the in the in the community may be asking if we have $10 million threshold you know why why are we doing a million 7 okay so that that question has been asking me as of this past weekend I think it'd be important for one of you just to address that because it might be on somebody's mind absolutely as we're um looking at strategic planning and um controlling our tax rate as we um have met Administration the superintendent and the board has met and um has uh expressed that they do not want the tax rate to be raised so that is the main reason to be able to uh issue this issuance of the $ 1.75 million without raising the tax taxes and um be able to do more of the things that were on our facility study in a short amount of time and then coming back and re um relooking at the next strategy on as the tax rate uh does other uh issuance have come off over the next couple years then it gives the board the opportunity to see if they want to go out for another General obligation Bond or a larger lease or anything in that effect it gives time to be able to do that and address other priorities that are listed on the facility study perfect thank you yeah and before we vote uh just personally I want to thank Mrs Smith Mr trout um Tyler and all those in admin who identified I think Tyler spoke to one of the reasons we're able to do this is our increase and assessed value and um that's something that came you know up pretty quickly and we were able to jump on this opportunity to improve the facilities here and the restrooms have been something I I know anyone who has a child here at Huntington North and I've got two right now uh it's it's a need it's a major need and um it's great that we're going to be able to address that need in a short amount of time and we also could have um paid for this borrowing over a lengthy period of time uh but there was discussion about uh doing it in one year paying in one year and I think that was a real wise decision that we had some guidance from all of you on and so thank you for that we'll go ahead then and vote on the motion to approve this resolution all right motion passes 60 and so I will now suspend the regular meeting again and I will open the project resolution I believe I'm sorry the additional appropriation appropriation under E6 my apologies and um Mrs Smith would you please summarize the project resolution or am I no I'm I'm off one that's okay first the hearing and then after you close it then I go and summarize your resolution for you yep so now I am asking if anyone would again like to address the board during the hearing on the additional appropriation that is part of the 2024 General obligation Bond correct if you would please come forward to the microphone and there will be a separate sheet for you to sign to address the board this evening confus yeah that's okay and no one having come forward I will now close the additional appropriation hearing and we'll go to E7 uh the go additional appropriation appropriation resolution exhibit B thank you very much in your board packet you will see the exhibit B the additional appropriation here um resolution and for this resolution the reason that we um need the board to adopt this resolution is because the board just previously um finish the adoption of the 2025 budget so to be able to add this to the budget that you've already adopted then this creates um an additional appropriation that can be added when they do certify our budget at the end of this calendar year for 2025 so this will in conjunction with what you already approved this goes and it's added to that one there um the Department of local government certifies our budgets for 2025 thank you um So based upon that presentation I'll entertain a motion regarding the exhibit B additional appropriation resolution I make a motion to recommend the approval of the 2024 GB additional appropriation resolution exhibit B as presented is there a second second any questions or discussion clarifications yes because I think we all if we didn't have a script we'd be a I just want to make sure we're doing it so this is additional money going into the debt Services fund correct from the gos that we're going to issue correct from other ones that were falling off and to remain um the tax rate to remain stable without that's the part I want to make sure or tax dollars so we're borrowing money but everything's going to stay the same that money is going well actually that 1.75 won't go into The Debt Service it go into a separate fund but the money to pay this off will come out of debt service exactly think I close any other questions and don't forget it's because we've already certified the budget is why why we're doing this yeah even though we knew it was done we didn't have the money yet so we had to do it in this now this is just in sequence to make sure okay yeah this is fun and I thought I knew okay all right all right hearing nothing further we'll vote on the motion to approve exhibit B the go additional appropriation resolution motion passes 60 so we now go to E E8 the 2024 go final Bond resolution labeled Exhibit C thank you last but not least the um third and final resolution that needs to be um board approved and adopted and this final Bond resolution contains the project cost maximum interest rates and other financial terms such as first interest payment date and maturity dates of the bonds and we would ask the board to approve this resolution Exhibit C as presented all right would anyone like to make make a motion regarding the proposed resolution Exhibit C I'll make a motion to approve the 2024 Gob final Bond resolution Exhibit C as present thank you Mr Allen is there a second second any questions comments or discussion how will we track the the spinning of this funds will we see a separate um entry into our finances or how would we see the money as it gets spent when we do um either General obligation bonds or lease projects we have a separate uh budget that we keep track of that that has the revenue and the expenses in there okay and we would be happy to share those with the board okay we'll we'll discuss that later sure thank you Mr wall any other questions but the turnaround on this is so quick because it's in a year yeah I know but I I think I think it's maybe something that we as a board want to talk about is tracking these Bonds in some point so I'm just starting to starting to lay the ground work okay all right thank you all right anything else all right hearing nothing further we'll vote on the motion to approve Exhibit C uh Mr Smith Tyler thank you um I appreciate all your guidance and support through all this and all the questions that I asked throughout this process from the two of you um I am absolutely grateful for that Becky as we're doing this do you want to talk about what we're doing tomorrow uh with that the board may find out of Interest with the rating call um what we're doing tomorrow too which is part of this process sure as part of a a general obligation Bond or a lease process uh we actually sell those bonds and to do that we do um a financial uh Q&A type thing with standard and pores who then give us our credit rating which makes us um marketable when we sell those um bonds so that is um where we get to tout about our wonderful district and give all the um everything from statistics to uh financial information Financial sovereignty transparency all those good things that we present to standard and pores and then they close that and then give us our credit rating to be able to sell those those bonds so Becky and Tyler and I will all be back together again tomorrow morning uh going through that process too then all right thank you and the motion passes six to zero so thank you very much uh we'll now move on to item F1 salamony HVAC bid all right uh board here tonight to present to you uh bids for the s HVAC replacement project we received two bids on Monday October 14th um one bid from current mechanical and one bid from shinkle construction current Mechanicals bid came in at $5 million for the base bid and we also recommend this evening um add alternate five which would be the replacement of the HVAC on the gymnasium of salamony school the existing HVAC for the gymnasium is original to the building like most of the HVAC but it's enclosed in a mezzanine inside the building that you cannot get to except for a little ladder that goes up and you can't get the equipment in or out it was installed and the building was built around it so this alternate five would put new rooftop equipment on top of the gym HVAC for heating and cooling so it would be easier to get to easier to work on easier to replace in the future um this project would address the majority of the HVAC for the entire building there are a few areas that uh the hvc will not be addressed and that would be the natatorium which is no longer used that would include the locker rooms that were added on on the parking lot side of the building on the back and also the classroom addition that was added on at some point that currently admin uses um those spaces that HVAC still works um and the intent would be to leave that in place and replace everything else uh and if you're familiar with that building it does have a penthouse on top of it similar to this building this building has two that one has one there's 13 pieces of equipment in there and all 13 pieces of that equipment would be replaced as part of this project so tonight my recommendation is to accept current Mechanicals bid base bid of $5 million and also add alternate five in the amount of $410,000 for a total bid of $ 5,410 th000 all right thank you Terry would anyone like to make a motion regarding the recommendation for the salamony bids I make a motion to award the salamony HVAC bid as presented is there a with alternate with alternate five added all right is there a second any questions comments or discussion is that where you thought the bid come in high L we right there um we had a total budget for the overall project um Gary and yes it current mechanical was very aggressive with their bid um they just wrapped up the various Mechanicals projects with us a few months ago which was six different buildings they did a great job so we're happy to see them on board and and back at it it's the same group that uh did that project thank you for the alternate five um what happens to the equipment that we are abandoning that has one ladder going to it unfortunately it stays there okay we're going to everything off and just leave it mball it and leave it there got it schedule schedule timeline schedule we're planning to start construction on this one beginning of uh 2025 um hope we're shooting for December it's all going to be about timing of the equipment right now lead times are much better than they used to be um so we're optimistic we're going to get everything we'll see if not it might trickle over into uh 26 once and and right now the way this is set up is um multiple phases and multiple areas of the building can be addressed at different times based on occupancy so it won't have to all be done during the suar summer similar to this building because there's portions of it uh once admin renovation is finished they could move out and then that portion of the building could be addressed as far as hbac since that part will be vacant any other questions or comments question for Becky this is being paid for out of the geob bond we issued last year s money yes three okay so last year yeah no that's right that I just3 okay this has a longer repayment schedule again I think we as a board and you need to come up a way of tracking this as well at some point I don't G leave it in your hands because you probably already have a way to do it our plan is is come back with you with all these balances in the very near future um because right now it it can be difficult to track it can be difficult to keep track of but what we're doing is with the balances we currently have in in place it would be my intention over the next few months that we would come back to you with all these balances show you where we're at because we've actually closed out even two a couple so it's time for us to get that back out in front of you again as a board so sorry I have one more question can you talk about the price like why it is so why it is so much because i' I've I've been asked that from the people from the community why is it $5 million to replace the HVAC in one building right so I've had this discussion with a lot of school boards over the years um and the best opportunity would be for you to come with me and we go look at the equipment either in this building or that building and the difference is at your house that unit is a little bigger than that chair and in the case of this building or the other buildings it can be half the size of this room for one unit there's 13 pieces of equipment up on top of the building so we have to take the penthouse apart take that equipment out with a crane put all the new equipment in and tie everything back together and in the case of salamony unlike this just through that wall here is the main um mechanical room for this building and the renovation for this building we're not addressing much over there at all in the case of salamony it's completely coming out and everything's being replaced in that except for a few things um and at salamony there's also a lot of asbest and things that has to be dealt with so the students have to be out that has to be done in a safe environment so it all just adds up and um and a lot of it has to do with size more than anything just the just the air conditioner part that sits out like outside your house uh the one for Salon is the size of a school bus and just that unit alone is around $350,000 just that I was going to say when I was really en enjoyed watching the equipment that was in the parking lot here before they put it up there I was surprised at how big it was because I swear it's bigger than my vehicle right and two as just a reminder to we're switching the heating from Steam to something that's not steam too correct correct yeah hot water so I think it's worth I think it's worth mentioning that the other bid was almost 7 million it was yeah I I didn't mention it but it was considerably higher the difference here is Kurt mechanical is a mechanical contractor um and majority of the work will be mechanical in the case of shinkle construction they're a general contractor which they added their cost on top of mechanical so that's why their bid was higher I'm still not sure why they were as high as they were but I talk to current mechanical they are confident in their bid they are comfortable with their number they have no issues whatsoever we're really excited for this to happen any further questions or comments uh I just want to say thank you again for all the work you've done for the community I don't I don't I know it was said in the prior conversation but you're the best hire we've had in a long time so I appreciate you appreciate it appreciate it all right hearing nothing further we'll vote on the motion to accept this bid from current mechanical and thank you Mr trout for putting in your in the flyer that we're investing in salamony school all right motion passes 60 move on to G1 items of discussion by board members Monday night I know it's too late to register but I bet we can figure out a way to make it happen but we have the fall uh isba banquet up in Fort Wayne come usually it's good good food and you get to see me be leading it for the first time at least to start so I've got some bad jokes already set up so more than welome welcome to come and and see all right anything further come to the home football game Friday let's have a good crowd for that game two of sectional so uh hearing nothing further we'll go to H1 I'll entertain a motion to adjourn so moved is there a second all those in favor say I I opposed the eyes have it we are adjourned thank you