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Kinnick just said waiting until the next board meeting isn't going to make a difference so I move that we table it a second motion made by Christine Pritchard second by John Densmore is cast your votes motion carries next item is action discussion item 4 recommendation to approve the employee Syre increase in salary placement schedules for the 2019 2020 school year dr.
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kaylis thank you madam president members of the board of members of cabinet this item is based on the information that was provided during the information agenda item and is presented to the board with a recommendation to approve so this is the list that you're referring to then right Madam President members of the board that's correct those are the people that do not qualify under the definition but there that we are including what's the toast of DEA I mean I know I know the DEA president but what's Tosa DEA president do we have a special teacher on special assignment the DEA president is a teacher on special assignment I'm serving as a teacher and in the role of okay so that's our current okay that's yes okay and so is it still it's still accurate though that since our M&O budget because I think a long time ago we didn't always cover it was funded differently right and now that position and it's it's been a whole many years ago but that because now that that comes out of part of the M&O budget or it's funded differently that person actually is available to all employees not just de8 staff correct madam president that is correct so any employee whether or not they pay their DEA membership they get the same benefit they have ability to seek advice and support from them and they are supported in any grievance actions so they are required to participate in support in any grievance or formal complaints for the district and then they're available for advice in regards to others which questions regardless of DEA membership whether they're a member of DEA or not however they don't provide the same level of service for any for some issues that aren't formal complaints or grievances otherwise there's no benefit to paying dues into an association any questions or comments from the board in China motion I move that the governing board approve salary for certified licensed classified and administrative employees and the 2019 2020 salary placement schedules as presented second motion made by Tracy sourcing Phil a second and by Kristine Pritchard please cast your votes [Applause] motion carries next action discussion item five review and possible action regarding the ASB a 2019 political agenda adoption of the top five priorities and two additional issues for ASB a legislative committee consideration for the 2020 political agenda dr. Calais thank you madam president members of the board of members of cabinet as the board is very aware this is an annual opportunity for Arizona School Boards Association to receive input from the various member governing boards regarding the next year's legislative session and to identify priorities the Arizona School Boards Association would advocate for in order to facilitate the discussion I'm going to present the board with some conversation starters perhaps as administration has identified five potential priorities with two alternates for the board to consider certainly the board can identify other items but this is something that might help facilitate your conversation it is the the task at hand in this item is to identify five items with two additional and then those would be presented to Arizona School Boards Association it's been the same thing that's been on that first well I do appreciate that you put opposed ii essays up there thank you very much i know in their past there's been a reason for why we don't and i think it's maybe because we feel there's so many other areas where this is also addressed but remind me again eliminating unfunded mandates and administrative burdens i know lots of times we school district art school districts are burdened with funding programs and things that there's just no money for and but we're still obligated to do it which i obviously puts us in a bind or staff and students in a bind but i know when that's come up in the past there's been some pretty sound reason as to why we don't necessarily feel we need to list that can you write think well I remember at least for me is it's so broad that I mean I feel like if they were gonna do anything it would have to be very specific because if you just list it out there as how it's written I mean it could there's just so much wiggle room and I don't know or not mention over him for anything so I think that's why I feel like I have it's just because it's not specific does anyone have any I have a question so I I appreciate the the five points provided by the district you know but in looking at all of the ASB relations I don't necessarily agree with every single one and that's okay but are we as board members agreeing with every single point and there are many points on here or are we just saying in general we agree with the majority of their goals madam presidents Densmore it is the process of Arizona School Boards Association to receive input from all member governing boards and you can imagine that each board is going to have a different list of five right and so they will take basically the top five of all districts okay and do a tally and those would presumably be the ones that they advocate for it granted and I believe it's August September there's going to be a big meeting where they actually vote to approve the five that are recommended our board will be asked close to that time to send a delegate to that assembly to vote on the five that the Arizona School Boards Association ultimately identifies as their top that's usually a rigorous conversation as boards advocate for advocate for their top priorities over others but yes there are likely a hundred different options to choose from and while they all may be valid areas to to consider what are the top once you can't focus on everything so let's pick five and you're right dr.
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Kellis yes the meeting will be in September the second Saturday in September and our own board president will be on part of that legislative committee yes she will be part of that discussion on what will definitely be the priorities for ASB a so yeah they start their meeting in June any other comments is anybody want to make a motion are we good with the administrative recommendations the motion would be for all you just list them the five and then there's the two additional I can go ahead and make that I moved the governing board adopt refer on top five priorities of fully fund full-day kindergarten to accelerate the full restoration of district and charter additional assistance which is capital number three fully funds special education number four fully fund a fourth year of cted Ted and five financial and academic transparency for all publicly funded schools and two additional items for consideration one oppose ESA s and to support local board authority for student suspensions and open enrollment motion made by Jennifer Tanner seconded by Christine Pritchard she carries next item is action discussion six continuing in-service training and development for governing board members dr.
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Callas Madam President members of the board this item is an annual item it is in reference to the board's professional development fund that has been allocated in years past it's recommended that the allocation remain the same again for the next academic year this allows the board to pay for travel and other expenses related to board development any questions or comments from the board I move to approve travel conference registration and reimbursable travel fees for individual board members to attend training and conferences that may include but are not limited to Arizona's School Boards Association and National School Board Association events for each board member for the 2019 2020 school year an approved amount of $4,000 is that designated plus any monies remaining in an individual board members travel allowance for the 2018 2019 school year that will be carried over and added to that individuals travel budget for the 2019 2020 school year if an individual board member exceeds the allocated travel and conference allocation the board member would need to bring the travel request to the whole board for consideration and action as a part of the action discussion agenda second second motion made by Christine Pritchard seconded by Teresa service info please cast your votes motion carries actual discussion seven discussion impossible action a schedule of workshop study session for governing board's self-assessment dr.
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Callas thank you madam president members of the board and members of cabinet mr. janitor dr. Jan drous has traditionally been a consultant for the board and each year provides the governing board with a study session a facilitated session to review its performance over the previous period and he has recommended according to his schedule August 14th August 14th is a current board date dr. James's as it says here I would like to have a workshop or a study session prior to the regular scheduled board meeting and its proposed that the board accept this date for its self-assessment most times I have a hard time being here before 6 o'clock what time was he what time are you proposing I know self-assess oh that's right okay I wouldn't be able to make it at least probably 5:15 and present miss Tanner the other option is that we consult with dr.
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Jay Andres on a non Board meeting Wednesday to see if he could come at a different date but this was the day that he was available for the other option would be I suppose to do it after the board meeting but I don't know what his flight range was hired to leave all right just come in late okay can we see what other desi has I'd have to lead have to I haven't struggled to be here a lot earlier than six o'clock unless he wants to do it let me check my count what about the day before like Tuesday at six Tuesday's I Tuesday's it would be easier Wednesdays I'd be coming from downtown Phoenix and no likelihood of me being here by five o'clock when I don't leave until 4:30 is probably so why is the 13th of possibilites he come in on the 13th madam president something would have to check with him on he gave the 14th as his availability but we can check with him and see if he's available on the 13th and just carry do we cover his expenses cost to fly out here yes yeah if we could just get some dates that might be more convenient for the board okay does that work for everybody else you know okay then I move the board table the item until we can get more dates from dr.
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ján disregarding his availability okay oh she made by Christine Pritchard second and by Jennifer Tanner please cast your votes well she carries next action discussion item 8 June 26 2008 teen governing board regular meeting dr. Callas Thank You Madame president members of the board this is a request from a board member to cancel the June 26 2009 teen governing board meeting just for the board's information Ken Hicks will explain some implications of this of this meeting change Madam President members of the board thank you for allowing me to speak that concern is that that was scheduled to be when we adopt our budget so it's a two-step process that we propose it and then we have to wait at least 10 days business days and then to adopt it and so with the elimination of 26 we would still need the requirement to have a meeting to adopt it and that could be any time after the 26 but before June July 14th and that could be done telephonically nothing will change between the proposed and the adopted so whatever is per the proposing on June 12th it'll be the exact same with nothing change so when's our does anybody know that our meeting date for July madam president would be the second regularly scheduled what means would be that well in that timeframe no it would be after that I'm the one that brought this forward only because when we approved the calendar we eliminated it for the next school year and I wasn't even thinking it wasn't it's the next school year so it was the same rationale for canceling this meeting I happen to also not I'm not going to be in the state that week but if it's gonna cause a hardship to the district then obviously I don't oppose it I just thought we don't we only have one meeting in June typically and this was a two meeting a June month month so madam president members aboard I know dr.
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Keller said hey let's propose earlier we don't expect to get the forms until May 25th is what we found out today so we won't have the forms in time to move it to the May 22nd board meeting but we can do it telephonically can do telephonically yes so board members can we could call a special meeting not the 26th something else and just have it all telephonically that can also be done because that's the only thing we're gonna be doing that's the only reason why we'd need to have a meeting yes I would paid a big assumption there without boss I know that's why I would be there but there may be other reasons I'll leave that for dr. calles Madam President would clear the calendar for that board meeting to make sure that there was only one item and it would be facilitated for mr.
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Hicks benefit well and just FYI I will be gone on that date as well and I'll be in the Grand Canyon so I will not have telephone access yeah possibly move forward with cancelling that and you could administration could just schedule another meeting prior to that where we could attend by phone or something with that I move to cancel the June 26 2009 teen governing board meeting okay where's the made by Christine Prichard second by Jennifer tanner okay next we move to request for future agenda items anyone we move to agenda item al executive session yeah a call for executive session pursuant to ARS three eight four three one point zero three a one for the purpose of discussing or considering of employee grievance I move at this time that we adjourn for executive session second motion made by Christine Pritchard seconded by Tracy sourcing Phil motion carries we're adjourned for executive session you you really Luisa okay at this time we'll reconvene the regular meeting and I will make a motion to deny the appeal of an employee grievance second motion made by Christine Pritchard second and by Tracie source Inc Bell cast your votes yes yes yes my we're testing it it didn't change no I mean the wording it just said approve or deny idea but did you change that the window the popped up just said approver did enough did you change it yeah to approve or deny and then went on my vote motion carries and next we move to adjournment I'm okay that we attended meeting maybe Christine Pritchard seconded by Jennifer tanner please cast your votes vote yes [Music]
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May 13th 2000 kilometers compensation Commission is called to order I will call the roll commissioner Harwood commissioner Hewitt your Commissioner of Arad Commissioner press'll Commissioner Weinert yeah we have four which is a quorum first item of business is the election of a chair for this session any victim how many volunteers is renewal possible for you [Laughter] well that's funny because I was gonna I guess I'd be happy to do so sure thank you you have a second all in favor aye all opposed it's best okay is the chair not for what you wish for you have the agenda in this binder to have one first item is approval of the agenda if you have any questions I will try to answer them you can also amend at any time if it becomes necessary port am i taking over at this point all right any discussion if not all in favor of approving the agenda as presented signify by saying aye opposed motion carries wandah public comment we allow up to three minutes per speaker is there anyone from the public who would like to address this body okay thank you seeing no one will call the public comment period closed on to approval of minutes this would be the minutes of our October 11th 2017 meeting and it's at one of the tabs tab to attempt to come pretty well as long as the green circle is green that red you should be good okay someone willing to move approval of the minutes as presented October 11 2017 Thank You support so so let me just say that I wasn't able to access some of this oh that's fine so take a minute to look through it yep good thank you okay motion and support any discussion if not all in favor of the minutes as presented for Wednesday October 11th 2017 please signify by saying aye aye post and one abstain one abstention thank you minutes are approved on to Commission business we have a resolution to determine salaries of the mayor and city council members as part of this 2019 session Christopher do you want to walk us through what we have here just for a second this is based on hourglass the one that was done last time where it was an average of the CPI change and the non-union compensation changed last time we did it or would have been 2016 and 2017 2017 we only had information through August as of that year so we cut it off there this time we only have information through April and we do not have the non-union compensation for this year because that typically would tell me after the budget is approved so I've set it up as just before the basically the 2018 here CPI and non-union compensation change I've looked at the CPI data through April it looks like it's averaging about 1.7 percent compared to the 1.9 for year before so it's not going to make that much of a difference I do not know what the non-union compensation change will be if any so it's there tab we should be looking at right now yep so 3 is the resolution if you go to tab 5 that is the Bureau of Labor Statistics telling you that it was 1.9 percent year over year ending December 2018 and then if you go to tab 6 you will the Union and non-union compensation changes if you look at the far right hand side 2018 you see 3% at the bottom for non-union and for 2019 TBD and that was what was used last time you know I'm struggling with something here which is that and and maybe this is the time to say this was when I was overlooking the minutes but it was my understanding that our resolution wasn't just to set the next couple of years of salary but it was actually a certain default procedure where this was going to be for the future the standard unless I will look back I believe there I know there was I recollect that there was discussion that it was gonna be a good idea to have that default procedure I don't know if it was that is something that I remember us discussing and I want to I want to be sure about that because if the the council is always going to be the last word on the subject and they are they can say no it just as easily as they can say yes and as we know in past history they've often done so however if what we have is a consistent standing resolution that by default this is going to be the number we probably need to be reminded of it yeah and as I'm thinking back it may have been that we discussed that and the body can't bind the future body's hands that way so it may be it was just that we're gonna set this precedent sort of and continue to do it kind of impossible I think that's what was discussed at the possession it does seem logical it does that you can't set a default going forward and buying future and nor do I particularly want to just because just by way of saying something that I have been thinking about and this has been a theme with us actually since I first sat on this board in 2015 is there there is a significant disparity between what the mayor gets paid and what the councilmembers get paid and especially now that I have started to see more closely how much work the councilmembers pour into what they do I definitely would want to be able to address increasing their compensation without regard to you know what these numbers are that numbers suggest because as these percentages increase the disparity between the mayor's compensation and the City Council members compensation you know it may be perfectly fine but it does increase there was was trying to do a bit more specific on the amount of time the job requires and then the over and above you know making sure you're having regular contact as you I have some thoughts yeah yeah would you please so the first time I said on this board was in 2015 and that was when we met like at the very tail end of the year and so we were really yeah we were really in a corner on that one and many of us were new and we had really no idea what relationship the compensation of City Council members bought to the amount of effort that they put into it and your predecessor Mary fields had assembled a significant amount of information about what other cities do how much they pay and all this stuff and it wasn't I think maybe some people found it helpful I found it not helpful because I don't know what they do and it kind of doesn't matter anyhow but we actually asked Mary to contact the City Council members and you know have them gives us some feedback about what it is that they do and that was done in haste and responded to not in haste and some people didn't respond at all and some people were kind of you know respond to verbally some people responded in writing but the overall impression was number one varies from council member to council member and two they pay no attention to this anyhow because they're not doing it for the money for which we should all be profoundly grateful but we were all recognizing that even if you added another five thousand dollars a year to their salary that might not be the tipping point for somebody else to decide yo I want to be honest do this job we are also cognizant of the fact that for the relatively meager amount that they get paid for what they do you know probably they have other financial resources so we were conscious of that well not really having the very clear idea of how much time each individual council members spent but certainly I think I've concluded they spent a lot of time a lot of time because council meetings themselves or I think they averaged five hours maybe I think it's quite that and there's the prep time that goes into that several of them have coffee hours during which they're available to their constituents and other people as well they've recently started up the caucus which is different I think from what the caucus used to be like but for two hours every Sunday night in for City Council meeting five of them are there to talk about anything that's on the agenda with a significant number of people show up for it including myself it is absolutely the most useful way of getting information and that doesn't count all the time that they spend on other commissions and each one of them is I think three on three or four other commissions for which they have to prepare it's a staggering amount of work so I've really been thinking about the fact that I would like to see them get paid more and in a year where it seems like everybody's wish list can conceivably be met at least before the economy goes downhill again I kind of like for us to consider it raising their pay even if in the end they they say thank you but no thank you you might have a point of clarity if we put forward a proposal for mayor and council compensation that gets rejected is that just it for the year there is zero increase for that year the next two years for the next two years so we don't get a do-over if we come in too high and and the council says ah this is we can't we can't accept this we would have lost it the opportunity for two years yeah I wish that wasn't so because I appreciate what you're saying but I also realized that at some point you would cross a line where politically it becomes difficult for them to support you know pay increase for themselves yeah I appreciate that I guess what I'm also saying though is that I would upon reviewing the figures I would like for our recommendations city council - I mean we could probably say this but not if this than that and maybe we could throw it that way but I would kind of like to see the increases not necessarily being lockstep with the mayor's because I think he's well-paid and I would think he would probably free the councilmembers do just a phenomenal amount of work and they don't get paid as well are those two numbers voted on as a whole termination is whatever it is did you go on the side and their name up or down so they can't up or down council pay and mayor is separate thinks it's one I do not believe so it's structured that way I could be right think they vote on the mayor separately from City Council but I'm not positive about that but it is an up or down vote you either accept what we recommend or it stays where it is and and please understand I'm also saying that you know we I'm not saying we shouldn't give the mayor and increase I'm saying that I think that the increase for City Council members could be on a different calculation but I also think that I mean I don't want to see people lock themselves into an up-or-down vote on everything and so it's possible that we could come up with a resolution that says you know how's this for size and if you don't like this what about that I don't believe correctly but I don't believe we have that option under the state law yeah under the law is we put forth a recommendation is void it up and down up or down by City Council there's no picking B or C or go back and try again under state law no I'm not the lawyer so yeah it'll fir here but that was my cousin my understand the way it's written it's in terms of a determination or a determination and now council doesn't have to do anything on it if they do nothing it becomes effective but if they introduce a resolution to reject then there would be a vote on that and that's what happened last year that the resolution was introduced and the resolution to reject failed I mean I said I agree with you in that I would like the ability to serve as a counselor the question of whether or not that has made people decide to run or not run I don't have an answer to would be an interesting question to ask but I I I do want to recognize that the work is important it takes time yeah I guess expand on that idea I would agree that the amount of work that's involved in this with paid compensation essentially lose to to a very small pool of people who can be council people but somewhat in with a demanding full time job and/or family you know just isn't going to have that kind of time and I looked in the City Council and I'm just comparing some of the numbers and we're simply on the low end here we're a very righteous weekend I'm there's City Council from both around Michigan and several around the country and then mayor and actually the mayor it's even farther out of whack if you look at some of our comparables here um sorry to interrupt they are being told to have folks speak into the microphones a little bit more City Council meetings - so the question again becomes how much do you increase to attract a larger pool on the one hand and on the other hand at what point does City Council say you know this is politically undesirable for us to approve it and I think unfortunately I don't think we have answers to either one of those questions well I don't think it's necessarily up to us to find the sweet spot that they can in good conscience approve you know I think we could probably do the modest increase thing but I'm just concerned that the modest increase we continue to under I don't want to say undervalue exactly but it doesn't represent a fair assessment of the amount of effort that it takes and again I don't know what the tipping point would be for somebody else another $3,000 another $5,000 by the time the IRS takes its cause $3,500 its I don't wanna say it's chump change but it's not so I just did a quick living wage and living wage for at Washtenaw County no obviously Ann Arbor is different but Washington County for 20 hours a week is 13,200 so that's 20 hours I think we're talking this prolly takes ish that but a nervous got to be higher than that because that's all Washington County so well let me throw something out just strictly as a talking point and this is strictly I not even know so they're proposing that's just so yes what if we looked at say a $2,500 a year increase for each of the two years where it would be in effect and made me do the same or a little more for the mayor or you know in that vicinity and I don't say I'm just throwing something out so we have something to start talking about you're saying like lumps a solid number as opposed to percentage yes why because I think if you look at percentage the only thing you can base the percentage on is some sort of consumer price index or Union and so you're inevitably tied to a pretty low number when you're talking about sixteen thousand dollars a year that if you start to talk about a percentage amount you know even a 10% raise is only what sixteen hundred dollars which I don't think really tips anything very far so that's why I sort of wanted to get away from percentages because oh you're giving a 10% raise that's outrageous you're giving them sixteen hundred dollars and saw well geez that's not much it does address the concern that I have that as we deal with it percentages the gap increases yeah I wrestle marginally but still yeah yeah exactly if some of the mayor's making roughly three times at what City Council is his raise is gonna be about three times as much now whether it should or shouldn't that's another whole nother discussion but yes it looks when you do percentages it looks like he's getting a big raise and the council isn't well it's the idea that that would sort of so help bring it up to be more comparable and then you could conceivably do percentage another time or just yeah although I think you know given the particularly the local economy it there's so much variation it's hard to say that oh this is a fair amount and we'll just keep CPI because things change dramatically if you you know you just have to look around our city that the average income in our city is going up considerably faster than the Consumer Price Index so if you you know if you get tied to a Consumer Price Index you're not really going to be behind given the the economic growth in the area and the attractiveness of the city I would add to that some of the discussion about the budget of late has been a recognition that although we do need to remind ourselves that you know the fat years don't last and the lean years come around again and so we do need to hold on to some of our pennies so that we can face lean years in the future that right now we are well set and it does seem to me that if we don't address what I consider to be an income disparity here now when we can we certainly won't be able to in future years and I do like what you're proposing because it doesn't tie it to a percent and as we know lean yes you said lean years are going to come and that it looks you know it's impossible to do something like that because it looks like you're you know right being unfair to the rest of the city workforce right and that was indeed the history heard close to ten years oh yeah wrote it down one increase after another yes they don't receive any other benefits no there was some discussion recently of creating a budgeting some funds for miscellaneous expenses office supplies papers and things like that but I think it was a matter of a few hundred dollars per councilmember yeah that was for reimbursement of expenses my understanding is elected officials are prohibited from getting benefits English understand and that actually is almost more of an inhibiting factor than right and salary right because it guarantees that you have to be able to get your coverage through employment or through some retirement plan or through a spouse again significantly limits what was that just looking at like we're if if you look at the the chart comparative of you know across city councils throughout the country you know we're on we're on par with westerns which has a significantly smaller population but you know in terms of budgets and availability that sort of thing but I was I was struck by the fact that there are you know type Arizona insurance availability that kind of thing was a benefit provided and it was still hard time so if you think about it in terms of that extra cost of you know it's not being provided so if you are doing this charge you're also paying for health care yeah I appreciate what's being said but as I look at the data and this may be a little bit dated with a few exceptions including you know up full-time councils and some few out of state larger communities were maybe close to I'd say an average on compensation and and I appreciate I do appreciate what's being said here and if I had my druthers I would be more than happy to post paying at it on my own pocketbook could it be more than happy to step up and say yes these people deserve this I guess I'm looking at it more practically in terms of you know kind of what the what the data is showing relative to other communities and what council member would reasonably allow to move forward to increase compensation that leads me there kind of back to where we started with a more incremental percentage approach the only variation on the theme that I'd be willing to talk about a bit more would be to to do it as you suggested on a choose an appropriate dollar increase for both so that from a relative perspective council would be getting a little closer to the mayor and kind of that base compensation that makes some sense to me but if we did that I would like to do it based on you know something other than just picking it number $2,500 and saying yeah that seems like a good number let's increase it by 2,500 and and I don't notice anyone have a sense of what could be a reasonable standard by which to to select a dollar amount as opposed to a percentage percentages are nice because it's linked to an index of some kind one of them I wish we had on this data and City Council is what Grand Rapids is if you look at most of the Michigan ones most of them suburban community yes there are very few that have an urban core Grand Rapids certainly would although much larger is certainly with a more comparable type of city then say Farmington Hills would be or selfie right we can try to get that for next time yeah and if you would get for instance Lansing which would be somewhat comparable there at twenty-five thousand so and you know something out of state have insurance packages with them so they're right right they're not comparable so it's a little hard to find what I would view is a really good comparable mm-hmm you know Kalamazoo possibly certainly Lansing Grand Rapids I would think would be perhaps the best comparable well I think with that if we're looking and you're right like going forward you know this two-year window would it be reasonable in terms iam I realize would be work and so I don't want to create work if it's not going to be useful but trying to get a sense of what is that time commitment and work of City Council in terms like what's the average number of meetings they're attending that's on here you know what and obviously people can change that depending on who they are like how many coffee hours they have and how much they're emailing with constituents but I wonder if it's something we can talk about like getting a better sense of what their work is for the like two years from now so we have that information to help inform this commission in the future I think actually it's a good way of if we if we found out average hours per week for instance then you could say well this job is worth so many dollars per hour and you're putting this in and you at least would have some you know rational basis whether the me just picking a number out of the air right now getting the information yeah that's probably gonna be a little more yeah was difficult what does that look like if we were to request something like that is that us doing the work is that city staff I mean I guess you could ask staff to do it be hesitant to talk with questions you want to probably suggest that you come up with the questions you want to ask if you're gonna be asking the council members what they want or what they spend per week so that we're not coloring the process in any way and then because it is your process as this body so okay so again I think the challenge is the timing Shawn because as I said when we did this in 2015 we were really up against the deadline and the varieties of response were they ranged from okay more work but I'll answer it because you asked - oh yeah I remember getting that email what did you want again it's because they're busy yeah well and I think of it like you know I just didn't in your review quick self-evaluation for work and I think that that I had to go to my calendar week by week in Reverse to figure out what kind of stuff I had worked on that I needed to know and I think that if we were to say hey council we're gonna want this information in a year or so here the questions we're gonna ask when we ask it again it's a reminder and even if they're not keeping track though oh yeah we should have been giving but I think that that would help to inform a more realistic I feel like I would still come more comfortable making a dollar amount commitment you what the hours were understand that it varies from person to person of course as it a yeah well if we were just asking one simple question um you know what's the average number of hours a week or a month put in the City Council I'd say a month because the weeks vary it sure is and see if we could get an answer back in a couple of weeks and it certainly will probably won't get everybody but if we got at least some at least have something to start basing a you know a rational judgment on rather than just well what does someone else make or what sounds like a good number and I want to say that's really pretty much what we did back then yeah partly expedience and partly because yeah I mean the more complicated you make it the less interest anybody hasn't answering it but I want to say that our overall impression was that it was 15 plus hours a week and that's average thing everything thinks out because you burn up that much time in any given City Council meeting week yeah I was trying to see if that number had been gathered by a so city or something of like what so that was um we have 45 days between now and next so here's a question if we were to say the City Council give us give us your average number a month or whatever number of hours then is if if five people respond is that enough information for us to make a decision is if everyone responds can we make a decision if no one responds can we make a decision I would say if no one responds we have left with less of a basis but I would say if five people respond they're 11 people on council 10 if you disregard the mayor not that I want to but just saying I would say that five responses that's pretty representative I would guess and if we are just taking an average of what those are I mean say it comes up to 15 okay that may not be perfectly accurate but at least it gives us a basis and it's it's not five and it's not 25 right so what would that how would that help inform our recommendations so it turns out to be 17 hours per week on average what do we do with that I would take that and say okay times 50 some weeks a year how many hours is that mm-hmm how much should someone be paid per hour for a job like this if you put it in right you know I see you kind of come up with an hourly I wish yeah and and certainly we will be guessing at that but at least you know you know the minimum wage is 945 an hour and I can tell you what starting wages are in the restaurant industry which is considerably more than the minimum wage so we would I think then pick a number that we feel like is a reasonable number for the amount of for an hourly wage well I mean I just did something okay with 15 hours a week at 780 hours I just picked $50 you know this is a leadership that's 39 thousand dollars a year yeah 15 $15 an hour minimum wage you know go at 20 its 15,000 so like they're not far off of what is that right now yeah yeah we give us some basis and at least we could say and this was our rationale there you know well thinking on how we came up with this number do you happen to know Christopher what the living wages for the city the city has its own calculation to and it yet 12 by 13 somewhere in that range 12 or 13 yeah so we're using what multiplier 17 hours a week 20 but and and you came up with the living wage the what was your source but yeah I imagine Ann Arbor I know Ann Arbor would be more and I haven't found that one yet so so at least is it a methodology yes involved is what you think yes alter methodology but at least we had a methodology right and yeah so we're not saying we picked this number because it sounded good right or we thought it was fair yes which was certainly allowed to do but it's nice to have and this is how we came up so the the current city living wage for the living wage ordinance is in 13 22 if you have health benefits 1475 if no benefits okay so that might be a basis and that's based on a single person which we can on the other hand you know there are some single people on council and we might want to have a few others and just to be clear the city's living wage is just it's not dependent on family size right that is just the wage per hour yeah that there's no there's no indication of that and I don't honestly know how it's calculated yeah it does it just it every every year I believe I think it's it's fit yeah it's per hour for employer employee so it's not making everything else to do it that's just the employee gotcha I'm also thinking of our accountability to the public I like the fact that this would be based on a least an assessment of effort and what seems like a reasonable wage but I also wonder if the pushback from the public might be you got these you know from the hip averages from five council members who may or may not be padding their numbers for whatever reason it's not really based on fact it's based on their imagination of or their sense of what their time is is this a fair way to represent compensation for an individual well I would say that again this is my recent exposure to city practices but when they send out a survey oftentimes they don't include everybody they might target I don't know 2,000 people and accept 1000 response as representative I would say that if we got responses from five City Council members that's 50% of the total that's a pretty high response rate and again it isn't our decision ultimately if they feel that we've yeah screwed it up they can always say oh this is not politically fortunate right but I do have the impression that as as you say we march on to a one-two-three disparity there is a sense that maybe it's time to try and narrow again just a little bit is there short of going through the minutes of every single is there any kind of tracking of how many meetings to official not that data is not collected in that way you'd have to put it together but we can certainly give you a list of who's appointed to what obviously different Commission's assignments have vastly different workloads sure so that would help though actually because that's an official rec I mean you know they say yeah typically people under an overestimate X you're talking about I think if we had oh and that kind of makes sense with this number of commissions or that seems mm-hm and again that's just official it doesn't take into account all the desk work we're trying to do this in some manner that seems appropriate that's certainly some data if it's and we can look at if we look at what every official Commission and how often that board meets at least we have some numbers or not but at least provided one additional metric to go we could certainly get the list how often they meet you know most of them are monthly somewhere every two weeks some are every other month some are ad hoc so that's gonna be a little tricky and it may vary depending on me so if you could just note that you know of the twenty Commission's our boards here's what we know of them in general they meet monthly in general they meet quarterly or whatever the so at least we can see what the metric is it's a frequency if their public meetings and they also have the work sessions yep and yes by the way going back to what I said earlier about the City Council meeting was running until 2:00 in the morning to me those overruns more than compensate for the fact that maybe you occasionally have a three our city constantly Moloi don't know that I've heard of it um this this approach seems to me to get at at least as another way of evaluating council compensation does this address the disparity between the mayor and council or would we be looking at the mayor in this same way from a compensation perspective or is this strictly a way to look at council compensation I think we should get them the same information about the mayor's we get about council and including if we're asking how many hours ask how many hours at some point we're going to get you know we'll have whatever data we have and we're gonna have to mix it together and say okay this seems reasonable based on the data we have so let's get as much easily correctable data as we can recognizing that some meetings last five hours and some last half an hour so if we have 45 days from today that's actually a fair amount of time if we ask people I mean I'm assuming it would be the point person right yep okay and we're not asking complicated questions asking people to respond within two weeks doesn't seem like a bad idea and then sending out a reminder to those who don't respond the first time around yep give me the language you want so that I'm not miss stating anything so I'm the throw sentence feel free to edit over the course of one year approximately how many hours per month is dedicated to your work on city council as a city as a city council member including meetings task force assisting constituents etc so just one big number and then is it easier for you if we ask them the question of how many things do you serve on please list know I have that information how about is a friendly amendment per week a month gets a little harder day yeah week sphere I mean I know they do vary yeah I kind of like me how many per month hours per month just because there are some meetings that some weeks that are off weeks off weeks and then you have weeks you're piled up with them right most of the meetings are monthly or every other week or twice a month you take it in times four right in the council meetings are twice a month so if there are five there are five Mondays in a month so yeah I guess my preference for me to keep it is did you have a catch-all kind of at the end that you know that wasn't explicitly noted or and other related tasks associated with your work on city council or something like that and similarly for the mayor except we're substituting that language we listen to the recording just got the gist do we need to be explicit and clarify like there are nonprofits that you know search for city council people to be on their boards just as kind of that I I think that's separate I think that's like the above and beyond it's usually I think yeah in your city council duty I think as long as it is clear and I assume that it is but duties extend to things that as you say assisting kids to constituents respond and communicating with constituents and everybody does it a little bit differently but yes we want to about anything that is discretionary with regard to their private activities yes or to pull political activities and if we need to be explicit about that in campaigning yeah yeah attending fundraisers or I think saying City Council duties yes Judy's doing that it's not a duty to attend to function well yeah this does not include campaign related yes would not include campaign to include that and perhaps we could say please include any time spent regularly in communicating with your constituents or other city residents okay so if we gather that information so you're staying within the next two weeks if we plan to meet in the next in three weeks that's twenty-one days that's splitting the difference with our 45 days I would also want to pull committee ask force information yeah I actually have that list all done at once in December they assign all the council members as far as the boards and commissions that they serve on yeah I can I can speak generally about some of them but you can also look on the city's boards and commission website like I say the meetings vary but they have all of their their schedule regular meetings are posted either believe they're posted on the web but they're definitely posted downstairs in the case as well so that should be relatively easy to collect at least for the bulk of them okay so you're prepared to do that before the meeting started to fill in any gaps that might be but mine will be sort of a general here's generally what they do but if you have any questions if not any gaps as you could do that yourself so my proposal in terms of time table would be send out the email ask for response within two weeks if you haven't heard from people within two weeks send out a reminder give them an additional week so that would take it out for three weeks and you would want to maybe pull something together but you would have done most of the pulling together by that time so I thought we meet you know that would be the the 10th of June Monday the 10th okay but if that looks at least preliminarily on noon on the 10th and verify it works for the four of us and Christopher for you I will make it work we also do a poll thank you okay this is good thank you people for you is there any other room is there any other data you'd like me to get you're asking guy here at Grand Rapids at her Kelly oh yes Grand Rapids would be nice too you might put midland in there it's doing fairly well no it's a company town and these just answer your question these these are current this information is current unless otherwise noted there's a few that were left over from the last one and those are starred and I believe these comparables were they were a result of some other I think it was hiring or no it was the salary there's a compensation survey the HR did last year they identified these cities as as comparables for that survey so that's why they were used but I can certainly ask about these three comparable huge I don't think needs to be done now but in the future the annual budgets for some of these cities and it is it just hiding here so on the second to last page in a very small fine yes there's a little bit of that and I think this is from this might be from the Michigan Municipal League that has some of that in fact yeah so I didn't collect this so I'm not sure exactly how to read it but Kalamazoo is in there which tab is it it's tab 7 but it was a second from the last page it does have a budget the budget revenues and budget expenses can that column there but if you want I can ask them to follow up with that question as well don't know how much of an answer though before we make that work happen would people find that useful there's a smaller budget sometimes more work yeah I mean the only question I have is is that budget all their expenses people have eight different way to put different things in their budget and different things in different funds and sometimes one city versus in other cities budget numbers are really comparable depending on if we knew if that was clearly the overall all city expenditures mm-hmm that could be useful I know and some some cities you know will run a utility or something that's a whole different then don't worry about it I would say if it's easily achieved like yeah I was actually astounded to find out how big our budget is so that does make a difference it's just you're right you're looking at numbers yeah so the HR does this because they're used to doing that and they send out and they get responses sometimes sometimes not sometimes they follow up usually these are not hard questions but it's just a matter of getting someone to pay attention okay I also wonder if it would be helpful to pull I'm assuming out of the city charter a listing of the duties the formal duties in the Charter for the mayor and for councilor just so we can see what how inclusive each of those lists are in terms of responsibilities I have a vague recollection this may have been done at some point in the past so I'll try to dig that up yeah I can quickly okay it's just in one place and that's a very good point and again we kind of I hesitate to use the word lump long because actually we do very well for a group of people that meet every two years maybe twice but this is good information for us to have mm-hmm and if you think of anything else you can just email me and if it's something that we can do I can just do it you don't have to anything else with for this agenda item if not any communications oh one other point on this you mentioned that trying to explain to Council if you want and this wasn't done last year but you could include a little explanatory where as clause or memo uh-huh when you do this to say here here's why we're raising or proposing a raise it's to encourage this that the other thing so at least your reasoning would be there there on the record things that would be important to do so somebody wouldn't get it right that really appreciate your volunteering decision that will that be me but I'm having to take a look at it but just some if somebody needed some homework to draft something for next time you might consider apportioning that in some way would someone be willing to take at least a preliminary cut at that it's a my oh yes I can can I email it to everybody or do it over the meetings you can email it but tell you what why don't you email it to me and I'll forward it to everyone and blind copy everyone just so that there's no discussion about it but people can then look at it in advance of the next meeting and bring their comments and it could just be bullet points you know I can do it hope if you don't so just to clarify you're saying that that is not going to be the preamble for this email but it might be for future emails I just I'm saying if if if you end up passing a resolution that recommends an increase as you're discussing and you want some rationale there for that to chew on something to include that you would adopt at the time and you're saying that could take the form of whereas clauses in the resolution or a separate cover memo that yes out are thinking yes okay thank you and thanks for sure Sean okay Communications any - no I think we've covered it Oh anything else for the good of the order if not we stand adjourned is it exactly one o'clock in case you need a motion to adjourn oh if we attorney yes support support all in favor aye aye meetings adjourned and thank you for doing this yeah yes you
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The Valls School District's vision is to empower students to be globally competitive and innovative thinkers who contribute to the sustainability of their community. For the past several years, we have been preparing our students for success in the next grade, as well as in college and their careers. In the spring of 2015, your child took the new standardized test, where Mary, for the first time, replaced the James test in reading, writing, and math. She only meets the rigorous standards of a college-ready lane, which is college and career readiness. The Valls School District uses several instruments in addition to the average to determine if students are at or above grade level. As you first begin to receive your child's standardized test results for the spring of 2015, you will likely have questions about how the score and proficiency level were determined. We would like to help clarify that information to help you better understand the report.
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when I grow up I want to be a police officer when I grow up I want to be a teacher and I too want to play basketball and football teacher and a mom like Miss Catherine you know success starts early here in the vault School District and as you can see so many of our kids have such high and wonderful dreams for themselves and and we're excited by their dreams and their aspirations and help them fulfill those dreams and aspirations here in vaults in the vault School District kindergarten is first and foremost focused on making sure that learning is fun that means that every learning experience while absolutely aligned to the college and career-ready standards is an experience that is challenging engaging and fun learning is joyful you have a lot of portunities to interact we learn in the different ways not just just sitting down they actually interact with each other and they experiment in activities that they're hands-on rich learning experiences are designed and facilitated by the best teachers in the state of Arizona each teacher is committed to not only knowing your student academically but also emotionally and socially our teachers make a difference and our teachers will meet the needs of your child in Vault School District teachers are committed to not only the entire goals for their entire class but also for the goals for your student where is your student academically socially emotionally and that type of instruction means whole group class instruction small group instruction and of course one-on-one instruction in mathematics we are focused on not only students understanding and doing math but truly being mathematicians being problem solvers wondering about how numbers work together how objects come together this type of learning is also focused when we talk about our early learners experiencing science early science learning is fun it is about what kindergarteners are already naturally able to do of course having a well-rounded curriculum involves music experiencing music expressing musically their abilities art library and physical education a student needs to be well-rounded and to develop in each of those areas beyond reading writing and mathematics the technology isn't a standalone concept technology is part of learning and learning is enhanced and improved with the use of technology so we're adopting the computer science curriculum for k-8 next year and we feel like that's important for elementary school because not only will that help them prepare for a possible career path in the future but it also directly aligns with content standards for all grade levels and particularly for kindergarten math standards it directly aligns with things like sequencing analyzing shapes patterns understanding numbers it helps children to pay attention to detail and it really helps it provides an engaging environment for them to learn how to persevere and solve problems which is a life skill that will help them hopefully for their entire school career and beyond I feel that both district is very committed to the community around the school and that they're very welcoming as well and they're they show us apparent the importance of getting involved in our kids education we encourage all of our families with kindergarten children to choose balls this is the place to be this is a place where you can have a healthy start to your life to your educational career and you can get a really good trajectory towards high school college and career and so we welcome all families and all kindergarten students into our programs [Music]
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Falls school districts vision is to empower students to be globally competitive and innovative thinkers that contribute to their communities sustainability for the past few years we have been preparing our students to be successful in the next grade as well as in college and career in spring 2015 your child took the new a Z merit assessment for the first time a Z merit took the place of aims in reading writing and math AZ merit is aligned to the rigorous Arizona college and career-ready standards ball School District uses many tools in addition to AZ merit to determine if students are in target for their grade level and beyond as you begin receiving your child's first ever AZ merit family's score reports for the test taking in spring 2015 you may have questions about how scoring and proficiency levels were determined we would like to help clarify some of that information to help you better understand this report there are four performance levels determined by the AZ merit assessments highly proficient which indicates an advanced understanding of the content subject area proficient which indicates a strong understanding partially proficient which indicates a partial understanding and the possible need for additional support minimally proficient which indicates a minimal understanding and probable need for additional supports many proficiency rates are low across the states which can be distressing since we are more familiar with the aims meets and exceeds rates it is important to remember that a Z merit is not at all comparable teams AZ merit measures different skills and knowledge then aims assessments did AZ merit and aims results will look different because they are two entirely different tests in addition expectations and standards changed dramatically which is a good thing your child will now be more prepared than ever to come to compete with students from other districts in other states for college and career placements AZ merit was our first assessment aligned to the Arizona college and career-ready standards the lesson to learn from the results is not the scores are down but that expectations are rising every student who took the AZ merit assessment will receive a family report for ela or English language arts and math you and your child may have questions about the proficiency levels he or she achieved your child's teacher is a great resource for further information you can better understand your child's strengths and weaknesses by reviewing scoring categories on the back of the report you received the most important thing you can do is make sure the lines of communications are open between your child and your child's teacher set shared goals for what your child needs to know and check in often on your child's progress you can also bring learning opportunities into everyday life such as mixing math into shopping or asking your child to express their opinions with justification of their views remember what's important is that your child is on track to be better prepared for the next grade level and ultimately college and career as a community we will continue to prepare our students with these high standards and we are confident that we will see the AZ merit scores rise year after year
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hello my name is dr. Jeff Smith Superintendent of the bald school district and these are my comments for this month our first community meeting for input into the design of Tillman middle school took place on Tuesday April 2nd at 6:30 p.m. in the Tillman library we were making plans now for a next meeting to be posted hosted to the public to be held at Crockett elementary school on Monday April 29th at 6 p.m. we have been working to communicate in a more effective manner with board members and staff and the public about the various projects we are working on to meet the needs of our students staff and community in an effort to keep all stakeholders current our senior leadership team will now be posting a report each month as a podcast these updates will be included and will include information about projects that are underway and projects that are planned for the future I encourage you to go to our website to learn more about what is happening in the bald school district you can find the link in under department menu in the district website district teacher mentor Kathleen Paulsen was highlighted recently in an article in The Arizona Republic that explains how a bald school district is helping to support our first and second year teachers check out this video that features Kathleen and some of our wonderful teachers before the most recent governing board meeting we held our annual future chefs competition eight students representing all schools submitted recipes with a healthy Mexican food theme students prepared the food and our judges selected the top three recipes all the future chefs received a certificate metal cookbook and other culinary themed prizes the top winners recipe will be featured in next year's schools school menu for all of our students and that individual student will also be entered into a contest regional contest with Sodexo congratulations to all of our future chefs this week marks the final week of Arizona Merit testing for all of our students I want to thank all of our hard-working teachers and students for putting forth their very best effort for this important measure of performance in observance of national ball tear month I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the many volunteers we have here in the vault School District we have so many people who give their time and energy and effort to our schools to benefit our students also on behalf of the bald school district we we would like to thank our dedicated governing board members who selflessly give their time and energy in the spirit of volunteerism to the Balts community and our recent meeting each of our board members received a special card with student artwork on the front as well as a personal piece of artwork from our students recently I wanted to share an update on services for one of our beloved employees who recently passed Keyshia Award her services will be held on Saturday April 13th at 11:00 a.m.
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good morning big hallo today is May 14th 2019 is the 160 first day of school this is WPA key news I'm Gianna I am miranda safer lunch there will be victim hasta Joey's tossed salad sliced red pepper fruit salad add buttermilk tomorrow for breakfast there will be cinnamon roll fresh apple says that juice and milk we have some friends celebrating birthdays not so home celebrating birthdays this summer Ashlyn knew Laura Bella Jensen Nico and and Lincoln s please go to the office to pick out a birthday book yesterday's funk that question was Kiana is the main character in what 2009 Disney movie the answer is princess in the frog the winner is Gabby from Team pasta come to the office to pick out your birthday book your prize today's fun fact question is Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of what remember to write your answer neatly and include your name of class and now we will observe a brief period of silence reflecting the anticipated activities of today please stand for the pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all have a totally awesome tuesday and remember it kind of counts every day everywhere thanks for watching bye
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[Music] good morning today we are here to celebrate four special student athletes here at Dartmouth high school was surrounded by family and friends in the audience to announce that where they will be attending college next year as students but not only students but also as athletes from left to right we have Chloe Martinez where we go into Johnson & Wales University to play soccer we have Sophia Souza will be going to Fitchburg State University to play field hockey and softball we have long Coelho attending Assumption to play volleyball and we also have been Rio will be running over at Bryant University in the fall we're thankful for we also have some administration and mr. Tebow is here to be here with the kids as well and we have Doug McCullough from Dartmouth week who will be here to moderate the questions and answer with some of our student athletes so on behalf of the high school we want to thank you for everything you've done over the last four years here's the school certainly is a better place for having you have been here both the students and those athletes thank you alright like you said congratulations everyone just to start off we're probably just gonna I'm gonna start with Chloe just ask a few questions and then just move on to the next person that's okay yeah all right so just to start off can you just tell us a little bit about your background in varsity sports here at Dartmouth high school yeah so freshman year I played on JV and then eventually I got moved up to varsity sophomore year was coached by Mark Poirier and then had the privilege to be coached by Scott Boreanaz past year who's a close friend of ours so by far the senior year was definitely the best especially being coached by such a close friend and then definitely you know the team had such a good record this year and it was just a very enjoyable experience over the past four years can you talk a little bit about the you know the coaching differences there I know that you know mark was a big big name in the community when know he was a big name in the community can you talk a little bit about the difference between the yeah I mean I think that like Mark being there like over so many years like you know and Scott being the JV coach I think that they both kind of had some similarities but being coached by both I got to see you know the differences and I think that Scott definitely pushed us a little bit more and challenged each of us individually and that really worked to make us work together a lot more what do you think what did you think your teammates there at your time on the program I think that they were such a big help especially this year you know the younger girls were a huge part of our team and we wouldn't have been even close to where we were you know this season without them any favorite memories any particular moment that stands out to you that you'll remember for the rest of your life probably our last game which is kind of odd but it was just such a cool feeling to like look around the field and you know see everyone smiling crying and just hugging it out for like the last time and the bus ride back it was just you know our last time being together it was very memorable I mean what does the future look what do you afford to for the with your future you know going forward in that in college um it's gonna be crazy yeah I'm very excited I've talked to the coach for you know couple months now and I've met the girls and it's just something that I'm looking forward to doing and getting to play and just continue to learn more about the sport really all right thank you so much next we have Sophia Souza just start off talking again pretty much the same questions you just start off talking you just talked a little bit about your background here at Dartmouth high school so I started off freshman year by playing freshmen for field hockey and JV for softball and then ever since I moved up to varsity and I've been coached by Beth arguin for both sports ya know the you know softball especially really powerful team for the past few years can you talk a little bit about you know how that was working with both you know Beth and your teammates well most of my team has been together for seven to eight years so we have a lot of chemistry together and it's always fun being on the field with my friends even in field hockey we have some players that play both sports and it's been an honor to be coached by Beth we're also close friends so is there a particular accomplishment anything that really stands out to you in your varsity career it was really proud of well probably beating BR after eight years our sophomore year we're in the same league as them so beating them is a really good accomplishment what were you feeling when you won that game you just passed you know what the emotion was like on the field wicked excited we are all super excited knowing that we'd be a very good team for over decades and it's just a great accomplishment for everyone on the field anything you're gonna miss probably playing with all my friends and being in Dartmouth seeing people I've known for forever hey what's the future look like for you in college what are you most excited about to start your college athletics career I'm probably same thing is going to continue playing and learning more about the game and making new friends I don't have over the four years I'll be there we met any of the teammates any other coaches yeah yeah I've I'm actually wicked close to the field hockey coach and I talked to both them and stayed overnight and met the girls done clinics and they're all super nice and super welcoming and I'm wicked excited anybody be studying I'm criminal justice I want to be a crime scene investigator all right thank you next we have Lauren who's just again saying pretty much the same questions can you talk a little bit about your high school career yes so for a freshman and sophomore year I was on JV coached by Jessica lassie and then my junior and senior year I was on varsity coach by Rachel Ozzie and they have both built me up as a volleyball player and they had built up my character so I really appreciate both of them what was it like starting off versus when you finished your senior year so I tell pretty much everyone this when I walked in my freshman year I was a string pole bean pole I had absolutely no skill I just walked in pretty much knowing nothing and then I fell in love with the sport my sophomore year and I have transformed since then what do you think is who was your biggest strength that you worked on developing throughout your career my biggest strength is probably my motivation maybe in my determination like my passion for the game so yeah that's probably it Sarah what's your proudest moment on the team you know looking back my proudest moment if you remember probably beating undefeated New Bedford this year that was like a huge victory and then beating hang on my junior year we were a much lower seed than them and so it was like amazing that we beat them and we moved on to the next round anything you're gonna miss your high school probably just my team I've grown such a strong relationship with each and every one of them and I met my best friends through that so that is probably what I'll miss the most you try and stay in touch with people or yeah for sure alright and what does the future look like for you Freeman so I hope to play four years of volleyball at assumption and then I hope to apply for the PA program and become a PA so I'll probably major and pre-med or bio for the first four years and then we'll see from there thank you thank you and then we have been just talking again pretty much the same questions just talk a little bit about your high school career so my freshman year I started off running cross-country and I made varsity my freshman year and and ended up really liking it and realized it was the right fit for me so I ended up doing winter and spring track and again I really enjoyed those seasons as well so I I've done running all 12 seasons of high school look I'm really interested in trying out for the team for the first time if you always been interested in it or um I started out my freshman year that was like my first year running I trained a little bit over the summer but I never really got in the running until my freshman year I did a basketball in middle school mostly was that transition like um it was it was a lot more um you know like physical workouts it was a lot more physically demanding I thought it was a good transition for me it definitely was a sport that worked better for me and I was a lot more successful at it so well and is there any moment you're especially proud of throughout your time here at Dartmouth I I think breaking seventeen this 17 minute 5k this past fall was really big that was my goal all summer that break that and I was working really hard over the summer and earlier into the fall and we're thinking what made it even better is I had a really bad start to that race and then I came back the second half and got the time I wanted what did you do to you know you said you were working on with a lot in the summer what did you do different way to really get that goal um definitely the increased mileage that's huge the core workouts you know just every you know little things like that can make a big difference and and cross country just you know you want to get an advantage you know against the other competitors so everything counts anything you're gonna miss from your high school career I'm gonna miss my teammates I'm gonna miss my coaches I've come really close with my teammates and coaches and I'm gonna miss not seeing them next year can you talk about what your future looks like you know when you're into Brian yeah I'm really excited about running at Brian it's gonna be there's gonna be more expected I mean I'm gonna be doing more mileage I'm gonna be doing harder workouts but I'm excited for that high level of competition and I'm excited to see how far I'm gonna go with the extra training I think I still have a lot a lot of improvement to do you made with the teams and coaches yet yeah I really like the coaches I really like the team my teammates we have a really young team and I think that team's gonna keep on getting better throughout the years so I'm excited to be a part of that what are you studying I'm gonna be studying economics and minoring in finance all right [Music] alright well that wraps up the the press-conference part of things what we're going to do now is are going to have the the student-athletes where they'll be signing their official letters that they'll be sending to the schools will have an opportunity for photos by family and friends and again last but certainly not least we want to congratulate the four of you you all did a great job we know this is not easy to sit in front of the cameras and answer these questions with the lights on but you did a great job and we want to thank once again thank that the parents the friends the coaches who also came for attending today's event so congratulations and thank you all for coming [Music]
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There are four performance levels determined by the standardized tests. t which indicates an advanced understanding of the subject matter content; t which indicates a solid understanding; partially t which indicates a partial understanding and the possibility of additional support; and minimally t which indicates a minimal understanding and probably the need for additional help. Many of the proficiency indices in the state are low, which can be troubling since we are more familiar with the James indices where the indices are met and exceeded. It is important to remember that Solve is not comparable in any way to James. The reason is that it measures different skills and knowledge than those who took the James exam. The results of both exams look different because they are two completely different exams. Even the expectations and standards have changed dramatically, which is good. Your child will now be better prepared than ever to compete with students from other districts and other states for college or career placement.
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at faith builders church we know that Keyshia worked hard on multiple campuses and had a large impact on all of our students and community and so we'd like to pass along our condolences to everyone who knew Keyshia we are pleased to host a Fulbright Scholars in our district this last semester at our recent board meeting these scholars who represent and come from countries all around our world including Finland New Zealand Brazil Taiwan and India these wonderful educators who spent this semester in our classrooms were brought to us through a program with Arizona State University I'd like to thank our scholars and our host teachers for bringing these wonderful people into our classroom to share their experiences with our students thank you to ASU and our full bite Brite scholars Thank You this concludes my remarks for this month
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Sometimes, after our first exam aligned with the standards of Persona College in Carburar, the lesson learned from the results is not that the score has dropped, but that expectations have grown. Every student who took the James exam will receive a report for the Regarding the English art and math scores, you and your child may have questions about the proficiency levels your child's teacher achieved. This is a great resource to receive more information. You will be able to better understand your child's strengths and weaknesses by reviewing the scoring categories located on the back of the report card. The most important thing you can do is ensure that the lines of communication are open between your child and their teacher. Set shared goals regarding what your child needs to learn and frequently review their progress. You can also introduce everyday learning opportunities such as mixing math with shopping at the store or asking your child to express their opinions with a justification for their observations.
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