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now therefore be it resolved that the Board of Education will go into Clos session for the following reasons as outlined in njsa 104 12 items 2.2 through 2.4 do we have a motion to go into Clos session motion by Mr Brown seconded by Miss Lee Mr y's roll call please on Executive session Mr Bach yes Mr Brown yes Miss Fox yes Mrs null yes Miss Lee yes Mr FIS Caro yes Mr conon yes that motion carries thankes we'll see you back at approximately 7:30 p.m.

4% which is typical at this time of year the um budget is tracking very well and as I sit here tonight I don't have any specific concerns about any of the line items in the budget we did speak last month about a very high medical benefits claim month in um October the you know I'm going to jump right over to medical benefits and say that in November our medical benefit claims were a mil 148,000 So Below the $1.18 million expected uh and that enabled the Reserve balance to actually increase by 94,6 23 so the uh Medical Reserve ended November at 1.48 million that's 1.24 months worth of claims however that is going to be booed off by two things one I did talk about last month the high claims that we've had we know that we're receiving $250,000 in stoploss reimbursement so that will increase that 1.48 million and also we received notice just last week that we'll be receiving another roughly $200,000 in prescription rebate so that will bring our Reserve fund balance to about 1.9 million certainly healthier than um it is currently leaves us in in reasonably good shape I think that the only you know going back to to the budget as we go forward if medical claims you know continue to Trend you know along the lines of where we are in November we won't have any impact on the operating budget if claims Trend worse we want to make sure that we have some room in our operating budget to fund additional uh monies into our Reserve fund again I don't I don't see the need to do that at this point so our budget is holding and we'll keep watching medical benefit claims and that's really the long and short of the finance report there are no questions I will introduce the next item Mr G um uh you're next you were going to move on to the presentation yes okay uh so yeah so my um I just like to say that um it's nice to see that at least we have at least one month relief on the medical benefits and that's before uh stop loss yes yes that's before 200 50,000 uh which you know will be booked soon but I don't enter it on the report till I know it's booked and uh just like to comment uh looking at the the uh the budget detail and seeing uh very little shuffling between accounts is I don't think something we've seen in quite a while so um good news so far it it looks good and obviously we'll we'll make more of the moves as we get later into the year but right now everything's you know looking quite good so we hope that continues thank you all yours okay the next item I'm I'm going to um just introduce it and I will ask Emily Taylor our assistant chief operating officer and Erica bietti our director of Food Services to make a presentation on this topic but in June of 2024 at a fiscal year end meeting the board did discuss a recommendation to increase our meal prices for student meals for this uh fiscal year that we're in the board decided not to increase prices but rather you know look again at our meal prices as we entered the new school year so tonight's update um from Erica and um Emily will be about where we are with meal prices where we are with our revenues and a preliminary recommendation so with that Emily Taylor our assistant Co yeah thanks everyone um good evening so you have two things in your board packet you have a PowerPoint presentation I'd say that's the cliff notes and then you have a memo which is the more meaty version with all the all the bits and pieces you might want to look at for the uh preliminary recommendation for an increase to school meal prices last spring I believe you all discussed potentially increasing the school meal price and that conversation was ultimately deferred to this fall so here is the conversation uh but I want to give you some background so last last year when you all were having this discussion chesher Public Schools requested a waiver for an exemption to uh have their meal prices at the CSD Target price which was 385 last year um that our district weighted average was 375 and ultimately we received a waiver so that we did not have to increase our meal prices to that 385 number and last year was the first year where we did not have free meals in the 23 24 school year free breakfast was still provided and the year before that was when there was free breakfast and lunch for all students so ultimately the meal prices didn't have that much of an impact in those years because students were getting those meals for free so um and one thing you should note about I'm on the background slide is the district weighted average as you can see our weighted average and meal price is going down year after year there is a lag there so if you're looking at the 23 24 school year uh our district weighted average is actually the data from October and that's always our October data is used to determine our district weighted average how great job okay so if we're moving on to our next slide which just has some history of meal price increases uh you have going back to 2122 school year 2122 but I will say prior to school year 21 and 22 the last increase to school meal prices was in the school year 1819 with some it was either 10cent or 25 cent increases and before that the last increase to school lunch prices was in 1415 and School breakfast was 056 so as you can see starting in 2122 there was an increase to High School breakfast and K8 lunch and a 15c increase to high school lunch there were free meals for all so again the impact to students was pretty negligible because they were getting free meals the rate of inflation that year was 6% and the minimum wage uh was $13 and what you're going to see over the course of a few years is the minimum wage starting January 1st of 2025 is going to be 1635 so there's been a pretty significant increase to the minimum wage and we'll talk about Erica will talk about that in a minute um and the impact that it has on our school uh meal programs so in school year 2223 there was a 25 cent increase to lunch only uh breakfast price remained the same again that was a free meals for all so there was not really an impact to families and then going into school year 23 24 is when there was free breakfast for all but school lunch prices went back to the free reduced in paid model and we are currently in school year 2425 there was no change to meal prices um so that we could have the conversation that we're having now and again uh you can see that the minimum wage is going up this January did I forget anything that's great cool I'm going to pass it off to Erica in a minute and this is a brief presentation so that we have time for your questions but we are requesting that starting next school year uh that we increase the meal price by 25 cents which will increase the average meal price by 78 7.8% across breakfast and lunch we're not proposing an increase to the 8 O milk option and you can see in the table and the preliminary recommendation which is slide four gives you the increased prices at all the grade levels um but again increasing it by 25 cents making it a little bit easier um for families we haven't increased um in a few years and one thing that's really important here is that we are not guaranteed that waiver that I talked about the beginning the slide that allowed us to not increase our prices so we might be subject to an increase anyways and so we want to share the information with you really proactively BEC because come spring when the waiver is either available or not we might need to move our prices upwards anyway so we want to just share the information and provide you some information but Shar uh Erica you want to talk about some factors yeah can I ask a quick question first before you leave of course yeah I'm still up here but um it's is isn't it true though that this year we don't have that um that division between paying reduced and free that it's either the threshold is either free lunch or paying for lunch um no so yes and no um free lunch is reimbursed federally the state of Connecticut has a um they have funded with arpa funds the covering of the 30 cents and 40 cents that parents would have to pay for the reduced so that's being covered through the state of Conneticut through funding that they have from arpa I believe it's still arpa it it might have changed um pots as the money has as what it is so it's not funding there is still reduced families still qualify for reduce the state is the one picking up the 30 and the 40 cents that would have hit those families directly um so that 70 cents a day is covered in in that facet and is that going to continue with the state or that is not determined so the legislative session opens uh in January and I know that the school nutrition Association across the state is fighting for funding for the reduced meals as well as meals for all and uh various other um important factors that face the nutrition industry the school nutrition industry I apologize thank you for reminding me no problem Oh yes so our factors um so there's many things that um bring us to get to the school lunch price and making sure that there it is being that integral part of the school day and they have the fun um the best meal in front of them so the minimum wage for us and the Staffing in the Staffing structures that we're facing right now that is a very large increase we want to make sure that our wages are are competitive in the school nutrition Market especially with our neighbors around us and that we're offering our people um a competitive wage and that it brings in excellent staff that we have who care very much about our students and work um very hard to make sure they have nutritious meals and the other major part is seeing all of the food increasing and all of the food cost prices rising uh I know the bird flu has been all over with eggs it's been crazy we do have eggs it's fine um so we choose to have products that are like for our chicken example it's whole muscle chicken we prefer to get an item that is more expensive but it is a better quality item and it's better for our students where there might be alternative items that are available but we would prefer to have the quality of the local produce that were're able to get all the fresh vegetables fruits everything that gives the students a wide variety of options um and the so the paid lunch Equity waiver it was the first year that it was ever offered was last Year and that is due to the excess funds that could be available in the accounts and the state made it a grant for that one year that's why we're unclear if they're even going to have it be an option um it's kind of like the funding for the reduced meals they're not sure what's going to be available or what's going to be there so it might not be available and we wouldn't want to have that for our families and rely on that waiver oh and also so the 25 cents um increase when we took a look at our meal sales from last year it would give us about a little over 100,000 in Revenue um based on the meal sales from last year so 25 cents to the families would then be able to give us revenue of a little bit over 100,000 which would help us combat these increasing costs and keep the program self- sustaining which was part of the next slide sorry no you're fine you jumped ahead so uh the last SL here so our conclusion what is the impact to our families when we do an increase of 25 cents per meal um and you can look if you look on this last side it'll say at the elementary middle school and high school what the current cost annual cost is if a student ate breakfast and lunch every day at school and the annual increase to a student that eats breakfast and lunch every day at school is $90 if we do a 25c increase so that is a the individual impact to our families and like we said we are currently self- sustaining the operative word there is currently and so we would like to continue to stay self- sustaining and we of course want excellent and nutritious meals for our students so I'm going to open it up for questions but like I said the next time we'll probably talk about this is when we know if we have the waiver option available um in the spring but we want to prepare you for that conversation early so I'll open it up to the board if I can add just one point and I the the paid if we get the waiver the implication though is that the the difference between the cost of meals and the price we're charging is made up by the Food Service Department's reserves so I just wanted to be clear that if they give us a waiver it's not because the state is going to make up the cost difference that's correct it's because we have a Reserve balance that that we're using and we use those excess funds for um kitchen enhancements equipment repairs equipment rep placements um staff professional development training any of the above um to improve their environment and for the students new equipment very nice uh speeds of the serving line gives better presentation to all the food items makes it much more um attractive and a desirable Choice thank you questions Mr Grio um uh firstly I'd like to say um I've had the opportunity to work with your staff and have uh done several events uh with your staff and the quality of food is excellent and the staff are fantastic and professional um and so I and so that's I guess besides the point I just want to say you run a great operation um so the the 100,000 in Revenue that you're talking about is that so you hope to generate an additional 100,000 in Revenue but does that then allow you is that just allow you to break even if the waiver goes through or or is that are do you have like a certain amount of um I don't know profit isn't the right word but no we are a nonprofit so our goal is to be able we like to in the sense Break Even we do need Reserve funds so that we're able to replace the equipment if anything breaks um that's not always accounted for and put into it it sometimes is in capital depending on the volume of the work um but if you know the milk cooler breaks and we need a new one or the freezer goes down and it needs repairs um so we need to keep those reserves in there it does work to deplete the account just because the waiver was available to not increase would mean that food services would be offsetting the price so we would essentially be serving meals that costed us more and we'd be offsetting that cost price and um what is the status of your reserves right now is it near zero or is it so the reserves are currently being used so we are in a mid project so the reserves are being used right now to replace the we've replaced half of the serving L the serving lines have been replaced at chesher high school as well as flooring and um new equipment and uh Panini presses and now we have the second half of the project that's going to begin and that is where there's Plumbing Electrical uh new ovens new ranges new walk-ins we did the walk-in fridge and freezer at the high school so they are very large projects so it is difficult to say the exact amount that would be left in the reserves once we complete that project which saying that once the high school is complete then we would move on to Highland which that school is the next one that would need a redo in the servery especially with the enrollment at the numbers that it is it needs a better layout so that they're better able to serve the students and give them most of the equipment there was original from maybe 30 years ago I'm not sure it was before me that's all I know and the the increase that you're proposing is it up two 25 cents per meal or is it that's that's your proposed so increase that's the proposal is is flat increase 25 cents by every meal okay breakfast and lunch we don't prefer to operate in dimes and nickels it makes giving any change back to students even that much more difficult and if you moving to increase a flat 25 cents is easiest for us in the actual service industry and for parents and given that would put us above hopefully that would put us above the recommended price so that we wouldn't have to do this year-over-year um we were very grateful that we were able to do this during covid when it had no impact to families and that has gotten us even closer to this Mark so we haven't had to impact or re like increase it a dollar family like no one wants to see a dollar like that's too much so small incremental amounts of the 25 cents make it much more palatable and easier on families who we know are always um plenty of people are always struggling and any help that we can give is always better beneficial thank you wait sorry thank you uh yes I'm not sure if I missed it or not but I'm curious is any is any of our funding Federal yes and I'm wondering do you have a number do you know what the number is annually and if you don't that's fine no it would I don't have an exact figure of what would be separated federal and state um I could figure it out no no that's fine my so this is more of a rhetorical question I guess is to figure out how much money is at risk right now we have a new president Trump will be taking office and I've seen the headlines about cutting quite a bit uh including I'm thinking where it might intersect with school lunches snap I don't know exactly what what we get or it that's not the point the point is is just to be aware of what could be coming because I'm under the impression some of the stuff could just happen administratively and then it's cut off in January and so if we go spending reserves and we don't have that I'm being totally like this is these are the articles that I'm reading I don't know how it would work but it could happen and I just want to be prepared for that and then um one other point oh uh do we do you so Vin Emily Erica whoever knows the last couple years we have had unpaid balances that we've tried to chase on because uh it hasn't necessarily been people who are unable to pay but maybe there's a few families that were unwilling to pay uh because we didn't enforce I'm just curious how how big a number is that right now and just how and and if it's if it's a small number that's a it's not intended to make this to discussion but the concern and how that would play into this sure increase right now so I the the balance as of November the unpaid meal balance as of November is about 3,000 which is about where it was at this time last year U I'm sure the board remembers that at the end of the year it was about $118,000 that the board's operating budget had to cover to repay the Food Service program that's a requirement under state law uh and we'll continue to try and work that balance and collect as much of that as we can like we did last year in the most respectful way that we possibly can um so we do follow-ups by text uh by letter and by phone call as well we do so so I mean I'm happy to support this I just wanted to make sure that those two particular risks are incorporated into your thought process and how you roll this stuff out yes including the U reserves um the state of Connecticut has very strict parameters around negative balance um and our ability to interact with students and family so we do the best that we can given the structure that fits with it within that and um we do constantly try to work with families there was new guidelines um October 1 that increase some snap uh threshold amounts where families could qualify for snap but they wouldn't qualify on a traditional application and we're always working with our families if they do need it and how we could better help them um it is hard to say who can and cannot we do not try to dis discern that all we do is is State the facts of what is there what meals were charged and what's on the accounts and then we go from there thank you thank you J yeah thank you for the presentation um something that you said that I really want to commend you for is this idea of maybe spending a little bit more but getting the high quality products in our meals for our children so please continue to do that because um from my perspective that's really important and then I'm hoping this is a quick question that can be answered very surfacy because I I don't mean to go into a big long talk on breakfast but is there any benefit to just putting a bowl of fruit out for our students for you know the whole thing a whole Apple a whole orange a whole banana sure I mean it seems like that would be way more nutritious than whatever packets of sugar contained breakfast surprisingly a lot of our items are sugar reduced compared to the actual same product name in the store um we do put out whole fruit um especially if it's farm fresh apples oranges you could put them out whole they will all go in the garbage you will just fish them out for the rest of the day if fruit is in its whole form students are less likely to eat it depending on the consistency of it I I just we have checked garbage cans we do scans we get very upset when food goes in there we work really hard that it doesn't um breakfast in the classroom does make it more difficult to give an array of options because we want to ensure that the classroom stays and it's nice and clean and neat form and that items are not spilling they're not messy they're not sticky you don't have kids coming up with like hands full of anything um but we do try to offset it those sunbites um that are on the tray those are a breakfast offering that we feature at the high school um that we would love to expand to all schools they are very labor intensive for us to make but they are deliv ious they are delicious I had one earlier I was like thank you but they are sticky they're they're a little sticky and I hadn't thought of that um but we we do try to give as many options to students in the variety of forms thank you no problem Mr gripple uh this a procedural question are we supposed to take action on this I don't see a motion or anything are you are you just telling us that you're going to do this is that is that is that what we're not telling you we're going to do this what we're saying is we're prepping you for the conversation that we're going to have in the spring that we might need to that may so there's no motion tonight we don't want to Tak unilateral PR oh okay gotta the preliminary part okay prary the motion are too difficult families okay thank you yes they are um I just had a couple questions um just for clarification first off isn't there an adult price if I were a staff member it's on there $7 it might be worth it tasty $7 proposed at$ 725 preliminary proposal gotcha uh the adult meal price is set by the state of Connecticut based off of the meal price of the highest paid student we did not come up with that $7 we did not decide that it is set for the state of Connecticut I have answered that question for teachers very often okay um the other question I had was you talked about equipment I thought that was in our capital budget though uh for the most part the replacement equipment for Food Service you know other than cafeteria Renovations that is carried by food service department budget oh okay yeah so we we do have a couple of items in our capital budget that like the Highland cafeteria the chesher high school you know cafeteria Renovations that's renovation not just purchase of refrigerators those types of things things typically then wouldn't the income that's made could help to offset the unpaid balances versus having to take it out of our operating budget no the state law specifically yeah indicates that unpaid meal balances have to be paid to the food service operation by the board's budget it was three different committees that each put the spin one said that it that it has to get paid the other one then said that we cannot collect it in any other way or discriminate a child um and then the another piece of legislation said that it has to come from the Board of Ed budget I don't know if they all talked to each other or they did a phone game but the three of them put it together to be a perfect storm of um that would be a legislative conversation it is okay it it is and speaking of legislative conversation you know one thing that the board uh lobbied for last year was to increase the thresholds for free and reduce price lunches because they're set federally and they're not indexed and they need to be indexed you know certainly in the Northeast and here in Connecticut so I do anticipate that we will ask the board to add that to its lobbying list again I think I think it's important that we do that and and see if we can find a better way to provide you know funding for families who need it the threshold this year is um before taxes 57,000 for a family of four so you a four income four household of four no matter how many people have the income you have to have less than 57,000 before taxes to qualify for reduced that's not even free that's just the reduced price insane not realistic um sorry I just want to ask a question I was just looking at your chart um there are two different lunches at the high school a $4 and a $5 is that like a deluxe lunch or something or yes oh have you seen the Panini presses they're very fancy oh okay we do offer there is two tiers we have a market that has Express meals that are grab and go as well as um made to order Deli line that offers uh fresh sliced deli meat salad quinoa salad and then we've got um a better and a bowl line now you guys just get the whole food Spiel um which offers like fresh made salad bowls uh pasta bowls um local baked potato bowls anything is offered there so we do have the tiered pricing so that we can even bring in some other elevated it uh that fit into that the you can ask they have a Chick-fil-A sandwich we do it every other Friday it is a very big hit it is a great chicken breast I would it's whole grain and everything and it's delicious so that's it yeah but it's actually after meals sorry it was going back to Vin before we leave the financial report oh okay um thank you ladies um I do just ask if we can kind of come back back to this conversation so that again for communication purposes for our families and so forth that we make a decision earlier or sooner rather than later yes thank you we'll be back either April or May you know with a final recommendation if that's your question okay yeah yes we will okay so Mr way has a question for thank you yeah I may have missed this if so feel free to just have us move along performance contract uh bids have been exended to January 9th bid due date so they did a walk through and the due date is January 9th correct got it and you have nothing else going on in January so you're good yes I'm kidding I'm being sarcastic there there's we have other help working on that project as well but yeah Big you know we got requests from a couple of the interested proposers that the the date that we had in December they weren't going to be ready so we didn't want to miss the opportunity to get everyone's proposal so we extended to January 9th so we'll have the proposals then and how many how many BS did the walk through five five okay do is which is which is fine I mean we've got you know the big names that we would want to say okay great thank you you're welcome any other thoughts okay so that concludes the finance report or finance committee report um then we're going to move on to the policy committee Mr E is not present um so I'm going to forward this to Dr heran again if you can give us the policy committee report sure so the policy committee met on December 2nd 2024 and um first we had a presentation by the director of Technology um Mike Papa who is always enthusiastic about talking about the state of technology in Chester Public Schools uh he he's very proud of what we provide in chesher public schools and he explained the Safety Management program Gaggle that monitors all student drives and talked to us about keywords and how things come up and it was very thorough um another product of Gaggle is a program called speak up which is essentially a digital tip line that encourages K through 12 students to share their concerns anonymously so that was um that was a very very good conversation um we're happy to have Michael come talk to us every once in a while um um then we reviewed policies for a possible first reading including um 0521 non-discrimination policy and notice which was scheduled for a third reading but we're bringing it back to a first reading because on the advice of our attorneys uh it was recommended that we dovetail this policy with a sexual harassment and Title 9 policy um so another first reading is for 400.1 42.1 44 which is all the sexual harassment Title 9 and regulation so those were the first readings I just have a question on that can we expedite that after so I know you said you were foreing it to the attorney to review last time oh it was it's already been reviewed it's all set but um I mean the board policy requires uh three readings but yeah um it could be accelerated I thought when I was there at the meeting I thought we were forwarding that one again or we were waiting on we were waiting on uh attorney gold that that's all set now I mean that's that's what this reflects and her advisement was to couple it with the uh sexual harassment policy because they're complimentary policies they interface with one another okay thank you um so we're not doing a motion for first reading um then we had uh some policies up for a second reading including 42125 security check and fingerprinting criminal justice 4118 .51 rights responsibilities duties social networking 6148 FAFSA completion program and 6172 alternative education program and uh those are up for a second reading and then for a third reading um we have 5114 suspension and expulsion due process and 0523 equity and diversity um we have had and those will be coming up for a for approval by the board with the third reading um so we had a policy for discussion 51 3181 uh electronic devices and we'll continue with that one in future policy meetings um I know our student rep had said that they were surveyed any yeah the the surveys have gone out and we're going to discuss all the results at the next policy meeting we surveyed parents staff and students so uh January 6th is the next meeting so then we have two policies it looks like that we're going to need to do um a motion for approval first one is policy number 0523 the equity and diversity um policy so somebody can please make a motion on that one so let me just give you a brief overview too um so Dr Solen reported that our uh attorney Goldberg reviewed our draft policy made changes to update the language in this policy um we deleted things like some definitions that are social constructs and not legal definitions and um so this has gone on under review for actually many months now and um has gone through lawyers and c and um all sorts of scrutiny we've had um people come to policy meetings and and talk to us about concerns and um I think we've addressed as much as we can uh with this policy so I would move that the policy um that the where is my motion sorry move that the Board of Education give a third and final reading to policy 0523 equity and diversity and direct the superintendent to put said policy into immediate effect is there a second on the motion Miss Cullen and um discussion on the motion Mr gerbo thank you um so we've been uh I guess revising this policy for the better part of six months or so uh when we first uh had this policy it was full of uh aggressive and divisive language in my opinion um and uh as the months have progressed uh through the um a work of myself Mr perini and um our attorney who I guess sort of had the final revisions Who removed almost all of the inflammatory language except for my opinion the actual word Equity um uh it it it is no longer I I question why we're even approving this policy I I don't even know what what purpose it serves or the intentions that we mean to to put in as as part of our policy it it's not exactly clear as to um what what it does um almost all of the language can be found in our uh uh affirmative action policies are um uh part of the non-discrimination policy that we'll be reviewing again uh Title 9 language uh all of the uh any of the other uh title federal language that we go by um and so I again I I question uh why this this Board needs this policy on the books at all um it's as I as Dr Solen and I had our uh I guess final discussion at our last uh policy meeting um we both agreed that this is not required by state law this is something that this board is I guess choosing to do um and I certainly uh have voted against it at every Cho uh chance that I've had and I will continue to do so thank you any other comments Mr White thanks uh question for the superintendent I was I watched one of the one of the meetings that I watched on YouTube [Music] um you think you were asked about problems that are um problems that would be addressed by this policy and my recollection was you said that there weren't any problems that would relate to this policy you address them as they come up something along those lines are there any problems in your opinion that would be addressed by this policy does this solve a problem yes is kind what you're asking I don't know that it solves a problem as much as it makes a declarative statement yeah okay so no I understand it being I understand it being symbolic um but so um here one second so I in general I do support the concept um for example um Equity we have foreign language Learners here in town kids who are displaced from war who have come here to chesher and I wholeheartedly uh support legal immigration the last thing I want to do is have my son get shipped off to a foreign war they come here and I do view it as a responsibility of the town of the board to support those kids who are displaced and give them extra support learning English is a basic one um to assimilate I think that's important that we do that um so I I support the I support the goal I do think there are definitely times when uh we can do something but paraphrasing the paraphrasing the superintendent I feel like it's a u solution in search of a problem it's it's unnecessary and so I won't support this tonight thank you any other comments from members of the board yeah so um I agree with Dr Solen that this uh is a strong statement um but I don't agree that it's it's symbolic I believe there's a real purpose for having a policy on equity and diversity um Dei at its core is really simply stating to our vulnerable populations um English language Learners is just one it's not just the students it's it's the families it goes much broader than than um just who's in the schools um but it's other vulnerable populations that we have um our entire lgbtq plus families um are vulnerable in a lot of ways and I think a strong statement um saying that we value um all backgrounds that we value everybody's um where all of our students are coming from and we want to get all of our students the uh best education that we can offer to them and the only way that we can do that is by being I believe that um Miss Baker who spoke earlier on during the audience participation said you have to be intentional about um including all voices and Val and showing that we value where everyone is coming from and I think that this policy does that it it really shows what we are committed to here at chesher public schools and I think it is necessary to have and uh we've been working long and hard to make it um really pretty brief and um concise and it's um it's an expression of uh what we value here at chesher public schools and it it it's it's important it's important to those families um when they're looking to send their kids to school they want their kids to feel safe and to feel valued and they want um parents want to feel um as part of the community as valued members of our community so I I am definitely supp in this Miss col so Dr Solen I don't want to put you on the spot but I heard somehow your name mentioned in um giving some information on why we're doing a Dei policy so maybe you can elaborate on that a little bit because I'm a bit confused over at this time and I think this has been about 6 months that it's been rolling around and again we're at the point to vote vot on it and there seems to be still some confusion as to what Dei means and why it's needed and maybe you could clarify some things well I think the the value like I said in terms of the declarative statement uh the value in having this policy is just that that um you know I know that every educator who works in the chure public schools and I I believe that every person on this deis believes that every student who walks through their building through our our doors regardless of background is valued um and that we will do whatever we need to do to provide them opportunities to be successful and um there are uh there's you know deep history uh that indicates that not all students have that same level of access to success and this outlines the steps that we will take as a school system to ensure that uh that happens I think we certainly try and do that now to the greatest extent that we can um but the policy you know really codifies that and uh sends a message to every member of our community about our commitment to to do so and maintain that commit thank you doctor for that clarification and that's exactly why I guess I'm so confused here because I'm not understanding why we wouldn't as a board of education and obviously my background is in education so I'm a little passionate about this why we wouldn't want every child who walks through our doors and every family who's behind that child and the community as a whole to know that we as a treasure Board of Education believe um in accepting every child that walks through our door regardless of wherever they've came from where their families come from Etc and that we believe in a diverse culture and how healthy that is for all students to have exposure to other peoples and religions and Etc and Etc and um Equity is something that stands for something different from being equal Equity is that we make sure sure the playing field is equal for every child right I mean and I I could go through a lot of examples of that especially with my special ed background and inclusion is exactly that I mean we saw that right in front of us today right we saw that with the children from Highland and the children from um chesher High School where they value each other as equal members of the school population whether they're a child with a disability whether they're in gen Ed whether they're purple pink white green whatever they all stood up here right in front of us holding that right that they were awarded because they know how to understand diversity understand inclusion and they all grew from that everyone grows from that exposure we have a general Ed population that can become passionate about students with disabilities and later on in life people that they're working with who may come in to a company or wherever with a disability they have that empathy build into them because what we have given them in the Treasure Public Schools so I will vote for the the um whatever I'm voting for but I'm voting for ity policy um yeah I I just want to say uh and Maria I agree with everything you just said uh and I I also believe that a uh a declarative statement like this isn't necessary because this school system has demonstrated through action that uh we believe in these things and I also uh believe that again this this policy is not needed because we already do these things and it's perhaps um you those who support this it maybe it makes you feel better that we have it but not needed it's not necessary and I I think uh you know the original um uh version of this was incredibly divisive um and would have would have passed probably the first meeting if uh I hadn't spoken up and if Mr perini hadn't done some research and uh spoken with cab and and asked their opinion on things um and and you know we've just gone through a very divisive election um and and and I think that that um you know we should have a more statements about perhaps uh reconciliation and about understanding each other and not about trying to um enact uh uh language that perhaps can be divisive instead of uh bringing people together because um the the final version of this even after it passed the uh the lawyers uh purview there was still language in there about applying an equity lens to everything that we do and no one could uh um Define for me what that meant and to have that language in a in a school policy that that essentially would override everything else that we do um I thought was unacceptable and luckily uh I saw it and and we got rid of it but again um that's to have even a a framework work on the books that can continue to be tweaked uh I think is dangerous um the actions that we take the laws that we follow make this one of the best school systems in the state of Connecticut and I don't think that uh having a layer on top of it like this is necessary I'm sorry but I respectfully disagree with you I can't sit here and justify one of your comments about saying that the actions that we take prove that we believe in um um diversity and equity and inclusion just because of what we do in our schools I don't know about you but I don't know what happens in every school in every classroom in every child's lunch table Andor on the bus or at the bus stop Etc that happens to him or her during the day I can't sit here as a board of member and say I know that all the actions that we take protect all of our children protect our families and we accept everyone so I again have to respectfully disagree with you that this says that we are expecting that to happen in our schools that that's what we believe is happening but this in writing it says it has to happen because that's what we believe I mean we are the guardians of what happens in those schools so you know I I mean I think we could just respectfully disagree and move on but you know I am passionate about this and have to disagree with you so should I just leave my button on because you know I'm going to come right back at you so fair enough um and I again respectfully disagree with you because what you're saying is is that we've been operating without any guard rails up until this very moment which is absolutely not true we have up hundreds of pages of policies and laws and and uh administrative directives again that has made this one of the best school systems in the state and this policy is not necessary it is not needed because we do all those things already just because we have a declarative statement even because we have a declarative statement doesn't make even this U uh change anything it changes nothing so just because we have it it changes nothing well again and and this is my last statement on it because I I think we just disagree but I can't say how many students are in our schools 42 4200 okay I can't say that every single one of those children when they walk through that door get off the bus and walk through the door and go into their classroom that they feel that they're included I know that not all of them do and you know it too so I don't think I know what you're going to say well this just because the words are written down means it's going to happen you're right it's not going to happen we can't say that those words are going to make every 4,200 kids feel a certain way but you know I'd rather go down saying this is what we believe in in chure that every child should feel that way and that we believe as a board of ed that kids are diverse people are diverse our families are diverse our community is diverse they need to be included and there needs to be equity and I I you know I fully agree with you Amry um this is this is very aspirational this language and um there's I don't think there's anything wrong with having aspirational um language because we do want to stand behind this as a board in my opinion um and you you know if if the argument that we don't need policies because we're doing it anyway then we probably don't need most of the policies that we have because we are following We are following policies We are following rules and we are following the law in chesher public schools um yeah I'll be supporting this policy I to than thank you to the policy committee I understand the length of time that it took to kind of navigate the legal Le of it all and the um board attorney for assisting with this um and I just want to just you know this policy acknowledges the things that we are doing and and I feel like it should underscore that you know this is a safe space this is an inclusive environment and we are being proactive and like an said you know there's nothing wrong with being proactive we don't always have to wait for the state to tell us what to do uh and we've we push on the superintendent to be Innovative this is one way to be Innovative to get ahead to to be really Progressive so again I I understand the work that went into this and I appreciate it and I I feel that we can move forward um I feel comfortable with what you guys have finally established within the Lang language so thank you for all your work Adam Tony wherever you are um and I will be supporting this so that being said there is a motion still on the table um if Miss heran can you read the motion again I think I can find it somewhere here that the board of chesher Board of Education give a third and final reading to policy 0523 equity and diversity and direct the superintendent to put said policy in to immediate effect all those in favor of the motion that is on the table three in favor all those who oppose the motion that is on to oppose motion passes next policy there is um needs to call for a motion yes uh the other policy for third reading and vote is 5114 suspension and EXP expulsion due process um this policy was reviewed and it's regulation containing statutory changes uh we did have Connecticut Association of boards of Ed c um they originally combined two other policies uh for easier reference the policy contains language that reduces the maximum number of consecutive days for in school susp suspensions for preschool to grade two and shortens the maximum out of school suspension from these for these grades from 10 days to 5 days um we have also been looking at this for several months and it has gone through all the readings and reviews and um I'm comfortable with this policy but let's see how this one goes you read the motion so I would move that the chesher Board of Education give a third and final reading to policy 5114 suspension and expulsion due process and direct the superintendent to put set policy into immediate effect is there a second Mr gripple second is there any discussion on policy number 5114 the motion that's on the table Mr gero um I just want to say I uh Dr herrian I I'm not sure if you said this already but uh this policy is very long um and what was written I guess through years or months or whatever of legislative committee where they've gotten down to a lot of minutia on how to handle ex uh expulsion cases um Dr Sol we we discuss this at length as well so um there wasn't a whole lot of changes to me made um there wasn't aspirational page that I think we kept in right so it was essentially untouched at the end of the day right I don't think we changed much of anything basically we had to combine two policies and um integrate the legal updates like the ones that um Dr herrian mentioned there the around the changes really things that honestly don't impact us ever we we don't suspend a lot of preschoolers right but we still want this policy yeah we still have to adopt it by law any other discussion on the motion okay so we have the motion to um approve policy number 5114 those in favor of the motion that is on the table unanimous thank you motion passes um next item if there are any other committees that need to be reported on nope okay we're going to move to um the approval of minutes for November excuse me November 21st I do need a motion if somebody could Mr Gro can you move that the Board of Education approved the minutes from meetings uh from meetings held on November 21st 2024 is there a second on that Mr White second um do we have any additions or corre CS that need to be made at this moment in time no okay um those who approve the minutes the motion on the minutes of November 21st 2024 all in favor unanimous motion passes thank you [Music] all uh next item Mr secretary are there any corresponden to be read sir um I am not in possession of any and I don't see digital any in my packet um I recall an email that we received I don't have let me see hold on Mr ziny no it was oh GE I forget the topic it was written by um let me see if it comes up here I don't know if it was oh uh Mr bester was that that was was that meant to be read or not yes it was okay I do have that you have it okay yeah I have it um uh to the members of the Board of Education and District administration I must admit I was disheart by some of the audience discourse at the last Boe meeting that called for book Banning in our school libraries I remain a firm firm believer that understanding others through Reading is a uh crucial Pathway to compassion and empathy that will allow us as a society to move forward in acceptance of and solidary with who may with I can barely read this evening um who may think and believe differently by giving in the fear we threat threat to relegate anyone who dares to live or Express themselves differently to a world of rejection and hate this is not a s sentiment uh that is shared by any moral spiritual or Humane standard that I know is particularly unnerving at a time in our history that is dominated by Relentless myth and disinformation the presence of many online groups that are organized to promote promote minority viewpoints as if all all of us agree with with their thinking I just want to to caution you that those who are not as passionate about such views should not be ignored just because we choose not to attend or listen in on public meetings please continue to respect and honor those of us who want our children and grandchildren exposed to a wide variety of multi-ethic viewpoints and cultural experiences I hope we can all agree on this that the daunting task before Educators is to prepare the upcoming generation for the time in which they will live I can only trust that you will not fall prey to the anxieties and fears of those who are too frightened to face the realities of an increasingly complex and mostly unknowable future John bester and that concludes correspondence thank you sir you're in the middle of chewing so but we are on to the superintendent report sorry I'll at school lunch talk and not having dinner catching up with me but anyway um we were oh thank you um this evening we're going to be um providing an overview of the pupil attit attitudes uh to self in school survey it was something that we had adopted last year and and really I'm really excited about this new frontier that we're engaging on I mean the for the school system we have been focused on uh social emotional learning as a goal for uh N9 years now and never really had a way to gauge what sort of progress we were making uh in that regard and this represents a tremendous opportunity for us to uh gain some understanding about how our students do perceive themselves and in their school environment um and it also allows us as buildings to focus on how do we best support our students to make sure that they are feeling uh positive about their school uh in experience because that only helps them be personally and academically more successful so you know what we're going to talk about tonight and what you'll see in our data is that um a lot like our academic data uh we do really well we do exceptionally well really across the board um we didn't become the eighth best school system in Connecticut per the district performance index by not reviewing our data and even though we're doing well identifying places where we think we could do better and that's a real Testament to every teacher par educator um an administrator who works in the school system as well as our our students and families so Marlene is going to uh take you through this uh overview of the past um and uh I I want to just uh add a few sentiments at the end some some thoughts that we've kind of distilled down after going through this process with our principles and um our staff over the course of this you know basically first semester Mary everybody still awake so you recall that um back a couple of years ago we had the presentation on this survey and we were very excited about it because we'd been working on social emotional learning for so long and we really didn't have a way of gauging whether our efforts were panning out out and we felt that we needed some way to determine how our how our kids were doing you know how did they feel what were their attitudes about school what were their attitudes about their teachers um because we're really focused on removing barriers to Student Success that's really what's at the heart of this so um you can see that there in that first page or second page that the success of how our students their our students experience is is really determined by their attitudes and the attitudes that they bring to learning and this assessment is got multiple ways of measuring students attitude to school to their learning and to their success and so we're using this this measure to look at it from the district from a really high level overview which you'll get tonight and then each of our schools looks at their own individual School data and then we look at that even further to the individual student so the way that this pass assessment is set up it's looking at nine what are called attitudinal factors so feelings about school how a student feels about their own learning capability their self-regard as a learner if they feel that they are what their behaviors and attitudes and learning situations are their attitudes towards their teachers their General work ethic how confident they are in their learning and their attitudes towards attendant attendance and their whether or not they feel that they're prepared to respond to the curriculum demands the way this assessment is set up it it sort of groups some of those factors into three buckets connectedness do they feel connected to school do they feel a part of things do they feel included and then their self-efficacy do they think that they can do it how confident are they do they feel prepared and then there's these General motivational factors about how much you know what their attitude is towards their work ethic and if they feel like they're putting in their best so on page five you can see that there are some color codes that go with the results and so the lowest level of satisfaction is we're talking about students or cohorts in the lowest 5% and then that green band is really pretty pretty wide it's the 31st to the 100th percentile uh if you'll skip to um the graphs so if you go past page eight and you can see this page we're out of order this first cohort is our grade K through 2 students so when you look at the overall percentages of students who who answered these questions their feelings about school in the percentage was really very high 94.6% preparedness for learning all of those are are high but if you look at the national um standardized measures below you could see that that's also still green but there's some variability there if you look at the next page you could see it broken down by school for that same for those same factors again that's a that's a healthy look there's some variability there and that's why the schools will be looking at their own individual School data and their individual student data if you turn to the next page this is a look at our grades three four and five so [Music] again you could see that self-regard as a learner their percent there was a little lower when compared that again that's that's just looking at the kids within those schools if you look down below in the green that tells you what how they measure up against other kids in the nation if you turn to the next page you could see that broken down by school so what stands out to us the yellow the yellow at Chapman School tells us that we need to look at what is what is this telling us about feelings about school because that's a lower a lower score when we look into that we see that it doesn't mean that it's the whole school doesn't even mean that it's the the a whole grade but you can kind of get to what that means so that would that is an area of focus at that school if you continue on to the next page that is our grades 6 through 12 so you're looking at secondary DOD and the high school the national percentages percentiles rather are at the bottom and you can see that there are some areas for Focus if you flip to the next page that gives all of the information 6 through 12 by school so each of our teachers I'm sorry well our teachers but each of our schools is looking at those and then they're coming up with some goals for themselves so if you look back on page six there is a goal statement there that this school is working on enhancing social emotional learning by addressing areas identified through the past survey data and they're looking at improving students attitudes towards attendance their feelings about school and self-regulation and that is aligned with our district Focus area and they talk about how they're going to analyze data what strategies they're going to be working on they're going to be engaging in professional development about integrating those seal practices into their daily routines and academic instruction and how they're going to engage families to supportal initiatives at home if you flip to the next page this is a middle school example the strategies and activities are certainly more um more um more detailed but by utilizing a responsive teaming approach and analyzing the past data and taking their knowledge of theal components they're going to work to support and enhance students social emotional learning and they're looking at improving their self-concept and fostering a positive School climate so one example of doing that is they've developed a loft a lunch Loft in the cafeteria they took some feedback from students about how loud it was in the cafeteria they made some changes to the amount of students who will be in there and they gave Alternatives such as the lunch Loft to help out they've also engaged in um professional development about an engagement rubric and how they went over that with the students during advisory about gauging their own level of Engagement in in the work because the work can be challenging and so that's something that I've heard many of our middle School teachers talking about as something that they were excited about doing this in this time before winter break and just two examples of some of the um some of the action steps that principles and teachers are taking to improve to to remove those barriers to learning that were identified in those in those past results com thank you thank you for this Marlene I'm curious I I may have missed it we're comparing ourselves to the nation here yes typically we're comparing ourselves to the state and other metrics I'm just curious yeah there's no um we this is a an assessment that's not required of all districts it's not required of all other towns so the the the metrics that are behind it are really for national standards and um sorry n it's um you know National standing and we don't have any they didn't give us a data set for the state no okay that makes sense um and also I appreciate this and I've seen in action in our own home what's happening at Norton and it seems to me like it's a good thing action steps being taken in the classroom so thank you for that we we've been focused on strategies by building so is is Marlene shared a couple of different um versions of building goals uh and as you know I said sharing some thoughts at the end um in the fall uh between meeting with principles and going in buildings and seeing the PD a lot of the PD that we had in November at least at all the elementary schools was coaching teachers in how to read this data um and we can drill down to the student level so you can see in your classroom uh where kids are uh and tailoring skills coaching to support that um and so when we were talking about do we look at districtwide goals we could establish districtwide goals um the building goals have been really powerful uh that we've seen because it's really focused to that cohort of students yeah as long as stuff is anonymized it's it's not going to be nearly as helpful as when the teachers have the right the individual information and it's I I feel like it could be really powerful and thus far it's been it's been surprisingly good uh and when I say surprisingly I'm speaking on more on behalf of a fifth grader so anyway thank you so I want you to think about this sort of from an srbi model so so most of what's Happening Here is to strengthen that tier one instruction that happens every day in the classroom and that's what we're doing some professional development around and that's what that engagement rubric was targeted to but then we also have that tier two and tier three where school counselors might pull kids who you know need an extra boost or different they might counselors might help teachers with navigating some leadership opportunities for students who might not necessarily navigate to that but who need that in their life and in their school life so um we have training focused for talking about training Focus for our school counselors for our school psychologists so it's really that tiered levels of support to remove those barriers and we've done a fair amount of training for our admin team too uh going through not just how to access the data but that second step how how does that um data turn into an action plan and that's what they ultimately engaged in with their their teaching staff so that um you know like I said it's it's turning the information into action that supports the students and and that's why it's so exciting because like I said we we were focused on strategies in the past but the strategies were um disconnected from data to tell us how that was going um it was all good stuff uh and I you know I know that when we initiated that many years ago we were at the Forefront um but didn't really have data to tell us exactly how we were doing and how to support students at that individual level we have school climate data but uh that is anonymized uh and that is valuable uh but it doesn't support individual student growth the way that this does which is has really been rewarding yeah I mean this in my mind what this does is at a high level it'll you to move resources around move people around and take action where it's most beneficial most needed and most beneficial so anyway thank you for doing this it seems to me like it's working really well and there are you know sheets of data here I mean you're looking at a lot of data points uh the nine indicators uh in various buildings and stuff like I said at the outset there's only one area in all that data where yellow shows up this this is green yellow and red in the reporting um you're not going to see red I the data overall is solid however you know we are always looking to find places to to evolve and to grow and that's where we're focused um with the buildings and supporting that you like a little snapshot of everything if I brought the actual reports they would be lengthy thank you Mr um Marlene can you just explain the difference between the mean percentage and the percentile score because it doesn't seem to well in my mind reconcile all that well because it's like I see one it's like U the mean percentage for feelings about school on on one of these was 87% but then it says the percentile score is 41.6 which would seem to be very low if from the way I understand a a percentile score normally so what what am I missing yeah you're you're not alone Adam we we we we had the um we spent some time with this and we had to revisit it a few times so the best way and Jee you can help me out here the best way I could explain it is these are all the percentages of kids who responded let's say affirmatively and this is that information compared against the National Standard so or or the or the or all the other kids in the country this is just our school this is against all the kids in the country right but then that would mean that it's like a pie in the sky standard because wouldn't this then um sort of allude to that the the percentile is like near 100% yes on everything which does not seem to be realistic at all I would think our results are pretty good but compared to this percentile that doesn't seem to make any sense yeah we've had those same conversations and the the data you know is normed and you know we we've gone back to the um the uh you know the rep who's been awesome by the way and helping us and you know we've had other conversations internally about do we do we kind of reshape the norms for our own local expectations a little um so you know this is really new um we've had two administrations and we're still you know kind of getting our feet underneath us as it relates to that but uh I I we we appreciate the question we have the same question okay I I definitely agree with you Adam I think you know feedback to the company would be that they need to adjust the bands the bands are way too the sticker shock of it all is like it's we're in the green if we're at the 31% which is not comforting to see at all and I know we dig a Little Deeper but if there's any way to align it we've done some of our other sorry so we've done that with some of our other assessments knowing the students that we have here and how they come to us and we've made adjustments to the band levels and so Jee and I have talked about doing that after we get through this second year because we we could also you know look at sort of like cut scores like we're not going to consider anything below this number truly as a green you know I mean there's such variability there that you know let's get through this year let's look at how these goals shake out for those individual schools and then maybe we look at if you have anything under you know 75% this is where your focus should be's one more question so does that mean that there's like one or two questions in each of the question sets that's heavily weighted and those are the questions that are throwing everything off is that kind of like what you're thinking because it seems like maybe there's a uh let's say the question set is like 20 questions and 18 of them are affirmative but there's two that are really the ones that they're looking at and those are the ones that are off or you know are are not what they were expecting yeah I don't know if that is exactly it I mean on the K2 there are 27 questions on the 3 through 12 there are 32 or sorry 50 questions so it is yeah it is it is different and certainly right okay I I can't expl fair question and that's we have the same question on some of that but um you know we do think that it's it's an entry point right and it's uh a place for us it's really uh ignited a lot of really good conversations and efforts uh around coaching these skills which before it was um it was definitely something that we were focused on obviously but it wasn't it wasn't always tied to how students are perceiving it and this is has really helped us to to establish goals and to really focus on these things with these strategies and we're going to monitor to see how those strategies influence results sorry just one last question so is this like 99th percentile is good and one percentile is bad or is it like you know if you're in that one percentile you're the best you know how is it reverse or how are we supposed to look at it the average if if you look at um the with the colors on it I believe it tells you what the average is and so but again that average is a pretty a pretty wide band yeah it's too wide it's too wide that's all it is again though when schools are making their goals they're not making them based on being in the red and the orange and the yellow they're making them based on looking at the green and picking the two or three areas where they're the lowest in the green to improve upon them so regardless of the color we're not going to get too hung up on that we're still going to look to in the low areas the relative weak areas to improve those and I I think from what I remember from uh seeing this information curriculum there's just a lot of information to be able to dig into to get to really get at what it what we need to improve upon yeah for example if when you look at the individual student reports um anything that that has not no green in it you're able to know who that student is and then follow up so any other comments questions thank you Marlene um Dr Solen yes um there are several other items uh that I want just quickly uh shoot through uh I did make an announcement to the community yesterday that uh treasure High School principal Dr Gad was intending on retiring at the end of the year um but kind of found uh what was more of a dream job for her but that starts on February 3D um so she made the difficult decision to um move on in the middle of the year and uh we have appointed our K through 8 curriculum coordinator Kevin Handlin uh who's with us tonight um to be the interim principal well we were already engaging in a search process um I roped in a number of students and staff to help create a recruiting video which we sent out um to all people who hold the administrative certification and uh the video has had over 900 views on our YouTube channel um so the position will be posted in January for people to be able to apply uh and um it's already available internally and we'll have an external post and work through the process our plan is to appoint that person for a July 1 start date but um you know if they happen to be available sooner that'd be great but uh not necessarily part of the plan or a requirement uh wanted to report that we had 25 visitors from uh China last week it was really a unique experience uh I want to thank all of our students who speak Mandarin and cantones at at the high school for helping facilitate that um they were here to uh the the visitors were here they're all Educators from from China at various levels and they were interested in um how to infuse more fun into education uh I tried to convince Vin to dress up as Tin Man again but um I guess we weren't that fun um so that didn't work out but uh they did learn a few things and uh it was a great experience to have lunch with them and our kids to have lunch with them it was it was fun um we celebrated our groundbreaking on our two brand new schools this week uh Monday uh just again want to thank the community and you know the countless people who uh have played a significant role in getting us to this place where we are uh improving our community and improving our school system improving opportunities for kids uh through the construction of these allowing us to um best meet their needs not just you know academically but you know with the community needs and Recreation I gave everybody a packet that is the itinerary for the groundbreaking and the uh acknowledgments on the back but I also in that packet have included a couple of items that I'm assuming the um the nextg school building committee uh um approved this evening uh they had been reviewed by the Town Council um these are notifications that are going to people who live in the neighborhood around the two schools uh that include a uh timeline of construction it includes uh in one case the uh on the Norton uh drawing it's got uh it shows where the fence will be for the construction zone and things like that so it's pretty informative uh and I just wanted you to have this in case you do get questions from Neighbors uh or have questions yourselves uh about uh construction there are contacts here uh that can help their their onsite to be able to guide people through any questions that they may have so it's a great resource that resource is also available on our Chester Public Schools website under school modernization you can check that out uh lower leftand corner School modernization and and those resources are there um in there the documents you you will see that uh we held the gr groundbreaking this Monday but the actual construction itself won't begin until January 10th at both sites so we're really excited about that you know that that it's the day is is really pretty close to here um of course the closer we get to that that point of opening our buildings uh the closer we are to red districting our schools uh to uh best me our our needs and balance our our uh buildings so that will uh be initiated this spring and when I say initiated I mean starting to work with uh vendor on um pulling together the the enrollment data uh so that we can start this process so that by next Fall by the time that we're engaging in the budget process we have a sense of how many people do we expect at each building and making sure that um working into that next year that subsequent Year's budget that we're all in a place to be able to make good decisions about uh what sort of resources are necessary in those places so uh that's the plan with our our school construction stuff uh finally I want to just acknowledge um one of our members of the audience this evening suu Yang uh Mr Yang has been been visiting us from gangan do province and um South Korea all semester when I tell you this man is um the consumate professional uh he's just such an impressive educator uh his character and his commitment are incredible uh he has a massive fan club at Highland School and will be desperately Miss uh when he returns home uh for the holidays uh this will conclude his program here in uh United States and we just want I just want to say thank you so much for uh everything you've done for our kids and our community uh not just academically but the cultural component has been awesome so thank you very much suo thank you uh and finally uh I'm I'm assuming I'm not entirely sure why our other student rep Malachi baa wasn't here today but my guess is he's resting his face because uh two days ago he found out that he was accepted to MIT and I haven't seen him stop like grinning ever since that an incredible accomplishment so um just want to give a shout out and congratulate Malachi I'm sure we'll have the opportunity to do so next month but I wanted to share that great news with you that concludes my report thank you any questions comments for the superintendent Mr Gribble uh just a question on the uh po the student population study the redistricting redistricting study yeah um I know um most of us were I think all of us we're we at the uh the reception uh over at Byron's uh what was that couple was that last night couple night last night yeah last night and it's certainly a topic of discussion was all the new development going on in town uh good or bad depending on who you talk to but um is there I'm assuming all of that development had been sort of taken into account when we we calculated the size of these schools because when I drive by the North End and I'm like gee those are some big condos over there like that can hold a lot of people like so was that sort of like already taken into account when we when we sized everything or sure great question yeah so we worked with de demographers pretty closely in that process when we initially designed the schools if you remember but then um you know that was a couple of years ago right and so things have been approved since then and things have evolved a little bit but one of the elements that we built into the design at each building was a space to make additions if necessary and that could still be integrated into um the build if necessary so I think we'll be paying very close attention to that the the great news is that we've gone through a lot of the bidding process at both building so far and we're um pretty well under the budget at this point um and so there is room to be nimble to a degree uh if that need need is is um you know comes up through this process uh so I know that this updated review will include everything that's not not only stuff that's that's built but also approved um because there are calculations for you know how many uh occupants you can expect at certain size dwellings and stuff like that that you know we'll spend I'm sure Vin and I will spend a lot of time with the demographers and our planner and other relevant Town officials to make sure that we are capturing everything that's you know available to us all the everything that we possibly can when we do the redistricting but it'll also like you know I said inform the build if necessary thank you Dr Solen I just have one question do we have kind of a process for the uh princi ipal search as far as in phases uh how many interview cycles and so on before it gets to the board um we don't yet I mean generally speaking um we plan on uh like I said kind of casting a a wide net uh there's been good interest so far uh we will U try and what we try and do is bring in as many candidates as we possibly can for an initial screening uh just to make sure that the resume and the individual kind of aign uh are they articulate uh do they um we've already engaged in some solicitation of of feedback from the stakeholders at the high school level about the things that they're looking for in a new principal uh from parents staff uh students and we've actually been interviewing um staff so uh that we'll kind of gauge these people against that criteria and then we'll um engage broader stakeholders after we weed out folks that clearly don't meet that criteria but it was difficult to tell on paper um so that that'll probably be uh toward the end of February uh we kind of knew that the budget season in January would be pretty consuming so that's really when people will be applying at the end of that we'll start screening so I we'll get through that process and then move to stakeholders including the board right thank you I know haven't gone through the Norton process it was yeah pretty rigorous um so thank you um there is no old business so we move on to new business um I do have a few items just to kind of reiterate um already with what the superintendent had already said the first is the the I have groundbreaking news on the groundbreaking so anyway um for those at home and those who weren't able to join us on Monday we laid the foundation for our children's future with two incredible new schools so for me I felt like it was really an inspiring month for our school district and um celebrating the groundbreaking of the new North school and Norton Elementary Schools um and I truly believe like these events are a testament to the our collaborative spirit and our dedication to the community so um I just want to extend you know our thanks to everyone who played a role as the superintendent stated um our current and former Board of Education members Our Town leaders and just overall the supportive community so and and thank you again for investing in the future of of Education in Cheshire in addition to that um again the school naming process for the North End School has officially begun I believe um there was I think the solicitation of naming proposals was published in the paper already V not yet okay so but I encourage the public to participate share the recommendations based on the criteria that is uh or will be outlined um because I feel as though it's a unique opportunity to leave a lasting mark on our district so um your input is invaluable so thank you for your continued support as we embark on the these transformative projects um the next item I do want to address is um recent events such as the tragic school shooting in Madison Wisconsin um I feel that it reminds us of the critical importance of maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students and staff and I want to assure our community that the safety of our schools remains our highest priority um I do want to thank um take a moment thank Dr Solen our school administration and local law enforcement for their ongoing efforts to keep our schools safe um in their proactive measures in planning and and the dedication provided providing us a sense of security um that allows our kids to learn and grow um lastly as we approach the holiday season and the end of the year i' take a moment to extend my warmest wishes to our community this time of year reminds us to reflect on the progress we made the challenges we face and the strength of our Collective efforts so I hope everyone enjoyed is a restful and joyful holiday season filled with family and friends and the like so I look forward to all that we um achieve next year together in the new year so let us continue to work together for the betterment of our students families and community and that concludes my report so thank you everybody happy holidays thank you to the four that are here with us and the next item is adjournment we will yes sir I hear you I I just wanted to ask a question before um move to tournament um I'll say I'll ask this very delicately of Dr Solen has the Staffing challenges that we had at the beginning of the year um are they on schedule to be um uh reestablished by January if that riddle makes any sense to you you know I'm pretty fatigued um I don't want to draw the eye of uh others not not sitting here know what you're talking about yes so um I I would say uh halfway yeah I think yeah we're we're getting there we're we're getting there yeah that's uh still being resolved um all right contractually or or just contractually okay yeah got got you all right thank you thank you Mr gr before we adjourn I do want to acknowledge the upcoming meetings that we have um so on Monday January 6 7 pm.

to learn more about getting involved and or purchasing a membership be sure to check out clocker club.org yeah and I know you've had some personal experience with that golf tournament absolutely I mean I think you know clocker Club does some wonderful things they you know doing a lot of great fundraising and I think they're actually in the midst of selling off some of the old stadium chairs you know the ones you can see the ones here on the floor that say Ashlin on them these are fresh Replacements courtesy of the clocker club selling off some of the old ones if you need a some Ashlin memorability you don't have to visit the uh the Ashlin Ale House you can get your personal piece right so check us out check it out on on clocker club.org you learn all about it there all right marar trting out a bit of a a taller lineup with Roy Oglesby and I think yeah that's gathers out there so clockers are going to match with rudicil Rossy and shriber so again Rossy with three fouls staying out there and he's now at the bottom of that two three The Freshman Kimble once again running the point he'll find Roy gathers can't handle that pass and oglesby's going to save it from going out of bounds 15 seconds on the shot clock Oglesby working on shriber push off I'm going to call an offensive foul there Oglesby extended his arm a little bit you know either an offensive foul or it's going to be traveling you know pick pick your poison so we're waiting for him to put that up on the screen but I think that's going to be yep the fourth one on Mason Oglesby so you've been waiting for those fouls to start to cost marro he just took one step closer one a little bit too aggressive step I should say so a little bit of a scoring drought here in the game for both teams we're stuck here clocker still down by 3 3936 now 645 to go say it's been a a minute 15 since this quarter started so not the longest scoring drought ever Steinberg's going to go into the lane make the pass dber in the corner that one's no good off the backboard and wood collects like too much adrenaline there for seberg excuse me for shriber maybe just a little too strong on that triple would finally gets one to fall I've got that as his first points of the day it is we've been talking about the high volume of shots that he's been attempting well that's the one that finally Falls so credit to Ryan wood for continue to stick with it and finally get a field goal into the hoop and that maror lead is up to six now biggest lead of the day for the Panthers Rossy back out to Steinberg that one rims out Rossy fighting for the offensive board he's going to get shoved by Roy who collects his fourth foul of the game and this is an unofficial St but I believe all four of those fouls on Roy were committed against huko Rossi and three of them were this half that one I can tell you the Panthers have 10 players on the roster two of them have four fouls two others have three Rossy a three-pointer from the corner back rim can't get it to go shriber kicks it back out to him it's a big rebound by shriber he's got shriber on the corner won't go to him he finds K Sandra instead Russo barely handling that pass that was a Bullet Pass he's working on his Defender finds sabadini back out to shriber pump fic to kandra Rossy in the second triple of the game and the lead is down to three for Marboro clockers look like they're in a 13-1 with Rossy at the point they've been doing that it's I continue to be surprised that rossy's not in the pain as Kimble misses misfires on that layup attempt and Rossy will go the other way loses it for a second but kandra kers finally get out of that corner rtis will just barely saved himself from walking finally get out of that corner rudisel just barely saved himself from walking extra pass out to shriber on the wing can't get that three-pointer to goer still fighting for the hits the deck there's going to be no call there and the layup is good was that Kimble or no that was aloba thank you aloba the hot hand of the second half and Rossy loses it and suddenly Kimble is all alone shriber trailing and it's just out of his outstretched arms hand in the second half and Rossy loses it and suddenly Kimble is all alone shriber trailing and it's just out of his outstretched arms and it's going to be a timeout for Coach Norman rosley struggling to get up we'll hope he's okay five fouls that's what we're at the score they're holding up they're holding up five well they called a foul but there was a layup there for marbro so rossy's walking the line to shoot free throws I think that it would be the fifth on Roy yeah it is so that's that's five fouls on on Jake Roy so he's out of the game the layup on the board for Marboro Rossy knocks down his first free throw he's in double figures for the first time today good on the second so 4640 your score 433 to go in the game and it will be clocker ball the bench from the side rossie credit to Rossy for a stick staying in the game to shoot those free throws he looks like he's in some pain inbound goes to kandra calls the play out over to Ariel on the wing Ariel driving into the paint sabadini over to shriber in the corner shriber pumpy gets his Defender up looking for somewhere to go kandra the floater it's good Ronin K Sandra coming to life a little bit now he's got eight points and the lead is down to four and all of ronin's points here in the second half eight points second half for Ronin 403 to go in the game w doubl at the point of attack and the clockers take it away they're going to say he stepped out of bounds that was Christian Fernandez stepping on the Baseline and the clockers once again have it on the on offense Mason ogles and his four fouls check back into the game as Maddox gathers heads to the bench and we'll see for how long Maro deciding they want their best five out there so Oglesby even with those four fouls is going to be out there for predictably as much time as he can be oh boy pass will go to sabadini who beats the double team passes over to Ariel back to shriber who barely collects back to Ariel in the corner he knocks it down he's on the board 4645 with under four minutes to go seven different clockers in the book tonight for scoring one-point game clocker down 4645 three and a half to go in the game rudo pressuring from way out he knocks it away and it's out of bounds 19 seconds on the shot clock as Hugo Rossi checks back in for the clockers inbound goes to Ryan wood most likely run on the point here pass is over Boxed In by sabadini pass goes to Kimble baseball pass to Kimble it was dangerous over pretty much everybody on the court Kimbell tries to dribble through the entire ashin defense and gets it knocked away ball on the ground k and Fernandez fight for it there's a whistle we'll see if they call it a jump or a reach and it's going to be clocker ball so Ashlin forces the turnover and now have a chance to tie or take the lead and just a reminder fans stay tuned for the final game of the clocker holiday classic here on waa presented commercial free and announcer free here on waa Tech and ASA coming your way next all right kandra came up limping after that last play but he's staying in the game so definitely something to watch out for rudil trailing and he steals it away but just can't keep it in bounds so really nice play to knock it away without fouling but it goes off bounds out of bounds off of him so maror stays with possession Panthers head number on the head numbers on the break and rud made a night nice defensive play to knock it knock it aside break it up but yeah Panthers ball and now the Panthers call timeout still up by one they'll be inbounding under their basket when play resumes it's back and forth huh it's been Topsy turby I don't know what else to say so it hasn't been the cleanest basketball we've ever seen but it has certainly been a close game I don't think either team is led by more than six points at any point this afternoon let me tell you it's it's very different from the game Rob and I called the Norwood game earlier for those who didn't get to catch that one clockers were without Hugo Rossi normally their starting center and Norwood just happen to have a kid who by all guesses was probably 68 so the Norwood strategy that game was to just pass it to him in the paint and then he would just keep shooting until he made it cuz every Jake Jacob pull had the unfortunate match up in that one y nothing he could do well just a quick reset checking in on your ashin clockers boys basketball team they are o for on the season but uh trying to pick up their first win here this afternoon they will head to Holliston this Friday and then Hopkinson on Tuesday before returning home here on January 10th against Norton all three games start at 6:30 and chase you and Rob silver we'll have the call here on waca for that game against Norton always excited for it you and Rob seem to have a lot of fun together oh yeah back to the action at hand Panthers inbounding under the clocker basket see what play they run here only up by one wood gets it in finds Fernandez over to aloba ref kind of screening my view right now wood long pass to Kimble dangerous Kimbell around the corner right-handed FL layup is short gets his own rebound he's going to try to put it back up puts it on the floor instead wood goes up with it and finally Rossy gets a defensive board oh that's a dangerous pass Seine he had Ariel for a second throws it too late and it's intercepted by Fernandez took way too long to realize he had men down Court easy hoop for Kimble so the clockers make a nice defensive play there finally get the rebound and then just get a little bit too ahead of themselves sabadini goes to rudicil game tying triple is good 4848 207 to go I have that as rudel's first point of the second half is that right I think you are wow so the Panthers have really been able to contain him here in the second half until just now and yes we're back to a tie game at 48 with under 2 minutes to go yeah Russel did not miss a field goal in the first half missed four in the second half and finally gets that one to fall sabadini takes that one away clockers have numbers rudicil drives stops pops and gets it hard off the glass but he puts it in clockers regain the lead I have him with 19 yes I do too minute 30 to go now Panthers with the ball [Applause] aloba thought about it he's got Kimble in the corner and wood at the top of the key he'll go to Wood extra pass aloba from mid-range he's going to knock it down they've got to put a body on him he is by far the leading score for the Panthers today you can leave him open for a shot like that Jay aloba continuing his second half dominance here in the fourth quarter there's now a minute to go 25 seconds on the shot clock we're tied it 50 and the clockers have the ball Hugo Rossi will hand off to rudil rudil driving into the paint right-handed layup too strong off the glass and Rossy can't get the offensive board Rossy came really close to committing that fifth foul there were there were two Marboro players who had their hands on the ball Rossy went for it anyway make it fourth F my my apologies no worries Ryan wood bringing the ball up for Marboro now 35 seconds to go tie game you got to think aloba is the one they want having the ball on this shot they'll give it to him deep Wing triple and it's no good Rossy skying for the rebound can't get it uing floater won't go either sabadini collects and Coach Norman calls timeout the clockers will have a Shot For the Win 21.4 remain in this one and we are all tied up at 50 okay let's let's call you noer Damas Chase what's the play call here 21.4 seconds to go last shot what do you do your coach Mike Norman go oh oh my goodness yeah really put me in a tough spot here I don't think it's that hard you got to think rudicil is the guy that you want shooting but you got to think Marboro knows that so my thought process I want to see Robbie rudil drive into the paint kick it out and I want to see eigor sabadini from three okay you're going to go with sabatini I'm going to say I'm going to stick with rudicil okay last second he's going to drive the lane get fouled and win it with a free throw and it's going to be the fifth foul on some Marboro player well the only one right now with four I think is Mason Oglesby right Jake royy already fouled out I got Kimble with three he's played the entire second half with three fouls so good for him for being able to get it under control well he sat for about half the third quarter but yes the entire fourth quarter and and a decent chunk of a third how about again I mean he's really turned it around I mean what do he got he's got eight points in the second half and no fouls I mean they they haven't been pressing as much I will say that he was he was pretty a pretty big part of their their full core press and once they backed out of that I think that they took his fouls out of the equation a little bit well just keep in mind again Kimbell is a freshman the lone freshman on this team playing varsity starting for the marro varsity and he looks more than comfortable out there he's been maybe the most complete player on this maror team today okay 21.4 seconds on the clock Steinberg inbounding for the clockers he goes to sabadini who will pass up to Rossy it's going to be rossy's choice for what to do with it he gets it over for midcourt 13 seconds remaining Rossi goes to sabadini over to kandra 8 seconds now clockers can't find anywhere to go with it sabadini 2 seconds on the clock finds Rossy he'll hoist up a three and it's going to be off to the left and no good so the clockers can't draw up the right play to get it and at the end of regulation we're still tied up at 50 and is that is there going to be an overtime because this is the tournament oh yeah this is what we signed up for folks buckle your seat belts we're headed for overtime at least we hope so we had to no they're still they're still on the Huddle they're still on the Huddle so we think yeah I don't want to I don't want to get people excited and then the ref to walk out and be like all right thanks for coming right okay so quick game recap Again by quarter at the end of one it was a tie game at 99 at the at the half it was a 2418 lead for the clockers a six-point lead at the end of the third quarter it had turned the other way a three-point lead for Marboro at 3936 and at the end of regulation much like the first quarter and the start of the game we are tied 5050 what's going to happen in OT and again that underlying story that foul trouble from the Panthers in case we haven't said it enough right it's been one of the the keys to today's game every game we talk about hey this one's been pretty close so far can't wait to see how it goes and then you know it'll go one way or the other well this one has been locked in from beginning to end we've got four minutes to go it'll be clocker ball at midcourt or let's see if they give it to The Possession favors is marbro oh it's going to be a tip off seven clockers have scored here today for for the clockers so good for them um your lineup reset what do we got rudicil steinber that's your that's your five to start overtime meanwhile for Marboro Oglesby wood Alcoa Fernandez and Kimble probably a combined 25 fouls out well I guess it wouldn't be 25 fouls but you understand my point Kimble gets that one knocked away I think that one off his leg and out of bounds Panthers won the tip they regain possession on the uh they're they're going to say it was off of clocker I didn't have the best angle I won't I won't say shock clocked down 23 for the Panthers as they inbound under the clocker basket Ryan wood for the Panthers wood goes into Oglesby oglesby's got to step on Rossy and can't convert the layup Rossy gets the defensive board and Steinberg will bring it up for the clockers he gets over to rudil from the corner it's good Robbie rudil with ice in his veins gets his second triple of the first half of the second half excuse me really nice jot by there to like take the step back back settle get his body set and then fire the three nothing but Nets Rossy pokes that one away diving on the ground to take it away and Kimble comes up with it Fernandez can't handle the pass baseball pass to keep it in bounds and Wood's going to resettle his team clockers up 5350 13 seconds remain on the shot clock aloba is in the corner he'll give it back to wood from the wing he ties the [Applause] game marbar refusing to go away and this game is TI back up at 53 what has made two three-pointers that's his totality of made baskets today and they've both been in huge moments quick timeout from coach Norman there clocker possession was going nowhere fast but he's still got all attitude after he hit that second three it's like dude so we're back tied 5353 at the teams exchange long distance threes to open overtime just keeps going back and forth back and forth who is going to win this one I got to ask I mean I'm not polished on the on the overtime rules here but what happens if we're still tied I think eventually they go to penalty shots Chase no I'm kidding you can't tie in the consolation match we're going to go to another overtime maybe it they'll start pulling players off it'll be like hockey one on one start playing four on four for a while three on three for the next overtime oh boy wouldn't foul shots to win it yeah it' be great that would be so exciting let me tell you one-on-one I got robud against anybody on this court so just a quick programming note uh our next game here on waa will be girls basketball against Holliston this Friday here on waa Rob and hiy silver will have the call for that one hie does a great I don't know if you seen it h does a really great job on uh on wac wac she does a weekly kind of like video news update very nice yeah impressive that she's like living in Florida right now she's you know she's recording that yeah she's doing a good job with it and Rob the stalard as always we'll go to pet sandre who swings it to Maguire Maguire the bounce pass back to kandra in the corner Ruto barely handles that deep pass he's going to have two Defenders on him the second he gets near that three-point line stops and Pops from mid-range and it goes ril's got 24 in an outstanding effort tonight he has five in the second half five and OT 220 and counting to go the running one hander for Oglesby it's his first points of the of the second half really in overtime and just like that he's almost matched his foul total in the second half HBY with the left hand on that last one we're tied back up at 55 both teams each with a three and a field goal here in overtime we're still tied under two minutes to go almost a turnover rudol in trouble gets it out to Maguire Standalone three just short Off the Mark Ball is lo loose follow is still loose and Steinberg brings down the rebound clockers can reset here if they want to rudil comes back outside take a bre take a breath Rossy for three Off the Mark mire crashing fantastic rebound Rudell thought about it thought about it again pass into to Rossy out to Steinberg on the corner very dangerous pass to rudil he'll hoist a triple and it's once again no good Rossy fights for a board again they're going to call a foul on him you said that'll probably be his fourth I have it as his fourth we'll see how they put it up on the board almost Came Out Swinging on that one Ryan would you know like a little sh they're calling it on Andrew Maguire his first thought that was thought that was Maguire's thirdd but okay if that's the call the clockers will be happy to hear it okay well we've got a Timeout on the floor with 128 to go in over time 5555 you're watching Ashlin boy varsity basketball on waca well it's been the clockers somewhat controlling the pace so far in overtime they've taken the lead forced marro to to re to to catch up well now marbro will have possession out of the break and they're going to have the chance to take their first lead in quite a while one thing to keep an eye on we have had a number of jump balls all afternoon Chase and right now the possession arrow favors the clockers it's a good call right there it's definitely something to keep an eye on when it comes down to it that's going to be a big moment and uh one final shout out out and thank you to today's sponsors Townhouse Pizza and roast beef and Marathon Deli both great options for you here in ashin you can check out their menus at townhouse pizz roast beef.com and at Marathon deli.com two longtime local familyowned businesses here in Ashland all right the players will retake the court Ashland will retake the court so again with the foul on the clockers where will marro inbound from are they going to inbound from it should be from under their own basket I would I would have to assume okay don't look like clockers are going to be dialing up any extra pressure here on defense and I don't blame him no need in giving up an easy bucket here okay and the early sign here from the clocker D is the 131 with Rossy at the top they've had success with it all afternoon I say stick with it my best guess is they're using rossy's height to try to you know block you know cut down on The View on the angles that uh that the guards can can get there at the top of the key I have I've understood it a little bit more as the game's gone on he's got incredibly quick hands for a big man wood bounce pass over to alova gets it back to wood working on Rossy Kimble on the wing back to Wood Kimble thought about it he'll look to reset over to Kimble driving Baseline stepping into the pain Oglesby the floater is going to be way short and sabadini gets it then it's knocked away from Rossy Oglesby keeping it in bounds trying to get it to Kimble and K sandre hustles back to prevent the easy bucket 55.8 seconds on the game clock 32 seconds on the shot clock and Marboro once again has it on the offensive end terrific pressure play there by maror to force the turnover now they're inbounding under the clocker basket clockers only have one timeout left Marboro has two they're going to need to use them smartly as the game goes on left-handed leay just gets it to go over Rossi Oglesby gives the Panthers their first lead of overtime it's the second time that running oneand underhanded as work forby that left delay it's just it's so pretty yet sandre working on his Defender he's pressured he'll have to get it to sabadini 8sec separating shot in game clock Steinberg will hoist a triple and it's good Josh Steinberg gives the clockers the lead again his first basket his first three-pointer of the second half in overtime couldn't come at a better time clockers by one shot clock turned off 16 seconds remain on the game clock Panther will look to play for final shot here no they'll hoist a floater already can't get it to go aloba gets the offensive rebound goes back to Wood his three-pointer won't go again and rudil collects no choice but to foul him right immediately rudil should be going to the line here no wow I can't believe the Panthers don't the clock I think it resets I think it resets at overtime that's got to be it it's the only reason so 3.3 seconds left the fourth foul what the fourth foul for Fernandez though okay they just need to get this in get this in hold on and wait for them to foul you just hold on to it there you go okay good call ke SRA one of the guys you probably do want at the Line clocker is now in the bonus W deep breath woo that's the fourth foul on Kimble by the way so now three players three Panthers with unbelievable that they've had one foul out Roy's lonely over there I think they yeah I think Panthers need to supply some folks for the lane here for the foul shot so many players with four fouls all right all eyes on Ronin kandra as he attempts his first of two he gets the roll he get three bounces first I think every single play every single person in this in this gymnasium was following that ball with their eyes and their body kind of moving as look like Dangerfield like using his body his body to physically get that ball to fall need to see a Carlton Fisk like wave it wave it in so clockers by two with two and a half to go and that one is no good clock running out there's a whistle there's probably I'm guessing I think they're going to put about 1 and 1/2 seconds back on this clock there was a fight for the board there it's 5957 clockers so we get a Time a second back on the a second back on the clock so maror will have time they will get to put up another shot all right coach draw up your best play it's going to go deep into the back of the playbook for this one oh I know I mean where are they going to be inbounding from also a good question I would guess somewhere near midcourt I don't think it's going to be under under their own basket okay really important here the clockers Do Not foul contest the pass do not foul just quick I mean I don't know with how with how maro's been shooting free throws today that's true maybe maybe not the worst thing I kid I kid do not foul please okay so assuming the Ashlin is done scoring for the afternoon Robbie rudil with 24 Hugo Rossy with 10 yep kit sandre with nine yep Josh Steinberg with six Igor abbadini with five and Ariel Ariel with that one three-pointer was a clutch and Lambert with two so again seven clockers in the book tonight terrific team play by the clockers probably the best we've seen them play all season it's the best game I've seen in a while hey Panthers will will be inbounding under their own basket with 1 second on the clock all right clocker straight up and down he got a second to catch turn and fire Steinberg is your deep man on defense he's your he's your free safety Y no one gets by him Rossy guarding the inbounds pass trying to again use that height pass get in the wood and who calls a timeout so that will move the ball up court so good move there however that took 6 seconds off the clock so they've got point four to work with and you got toase you got to wonder if if you're going to have time Hey listen if if Tyrese Maxi can do it Tyrese Maxi is the fastest player in the greatest basketball league on the planet tyus Maxi dropped that ball caught it then put it up and in in less than 8 seconds so do the Panthers have a Max moment left you may want to rethink that that phrase point4 on the clock 5957 final timeout hopefully of the afternoon we're I'm in the consolation game of the clocker holiday classic here on waca Josh Abrams Chase Abrams with you glad to have you with us here on a on a baly late December afternoon here in Clock Town inbound is going to be from right here I'll be playing playing defense you going to help out you want stand up put your arms up Panthers late coming off the [Applause] whistle looks like oal jogging over to take the inbounds pass for the Panthers he'll be guarded Again by Rossy rudus still under the basket this could go to any of three players I don't see it going to Fernandez they just matched up man-to-man coverage Oglesby looking for an opening trying to get in he does block stuffed by kandra who celebrates in the face of his opponent so your final today in the consolation game the clockers pull off a two-point win their first win of the Season as they defeat the Maro Panthers just a great game beginning to end rudis still your player of the game but just stand up performances from Hugo Rossi Ronin K Sandra Josh Steinberg had the game winner so you're going to give the Silver Star to rudil I got to I got to 24 points it's it's tough to ignore 24 of his teams 50 plus so okay I mean he disappeared for a long stretch there in the second half he did but he showed up when it mattered showed up when it mattered absolutely any final thoughts I think I think that just about covers it 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like you finally getting audio from us not sure if that's going to be Improvement on today's game the clockers are down 11: to9 I'm Josh Abrams joined by current URI freshman Chase Abrams Chase good to have you back it's good to be back never really aaca Alum you a lifetime member yeah simply simply took a break for a little bit right good to have you back on uh on your winter break from U I'm glad they could free you up for us here today and welcome to game Sorry to day two of the clocker holiday classic here on waca clocker down 11 to9 here early in the second quarter 9 to9 at the end of the first quarter so tight game so far evenly matched teams Chase yeah glad we could get some audio going for this one it's shaping up to be a good one it's been a physical game so far with lots of players hitting the deck already in the early going here cler's got out to a lead early on but it's just been a stifling marbor defense since then the Panthers have really locked things up on that end of the floor clockers have not been able to get anything going in a decent amount of minutes well rudil is going to have the ball and look to change that fortune here clocker still looking for their first win of the Season as rudil drains from distance rudil the clocker primary scoring threat this season and he has been for two or three years now one of only three players on this clocker roster with significant Varsity experience along with Rossy and kandre Robbie has eight of the clocker 11 points so far today good defensive play there knocking it out of bounds I don't have a 32 on my roster Chase how about you for the clockers neither do I we saw or that's that's Michael shriber wearing a different number than we have listed for him okay maybe just a uniform in the wash or something okay 559 to go here in the first half clockers up by one 1211 marbo brings back the full court press Rossy tries draw the foul referee disagrees we'll have to ask our technical director Jeff Hall to update the score bug at the bottom of your screen it is actually 12 to 11 now clocker in the lead I think he missed that last rudil basket deep triple from the center on marro that was Jake Roy short on the long attempt layup for Rossi no good but he's fouled and he'll go to the line to shoot too nice no look passed by rudil on The Fast Break to hit Rossy he just couldn't convert as he got fouled he'll head to the line yeah well executed with the numbers Advantage they had the two-on one he found his teammate and they'll get a chance to get points out of it so first foul for Jake Roy team's fifth everything but the bucket on that free throw attempt from Hugo Rossi okay shriber out gathers in for the [Applause] clockers I'm busy mixing my rosters aside so let me correct Ariel has come in for the shooters touch on that last free throw from Rossy gets it to fall after the bounce so he's up to three points on the afternoon e need the other basket for the clockers wward pass from wood it's going to go off the clockers and out of bounds so marble will stay with possession here game called the consolation match in the clocker holiday classic here cler's coming off a 71- 57 loss against amsa yesterday well maror narrowly beat ke at least as we have it in the scorebook 50 to 48 this one's been close so far we're looking for it to stay that way down the stretch wood they're going to say stepped out of bounds he's calling for a push off to no avail so it'll be clocker ball going the other way and it will be a double header here today on waca so stay tuned following today's game between maror and Ashland for the final game of the holiday classic here on waca it'll be ASA versus ke Tech presented commercial free and announcer free here on waa as Chase and I are not booked for for that second game we just get natural sounds but uh you will get the the live feed from Ashlin High School yeah sorry to disappoint there want to take a moment to thank today's sponsors Townhouse Pizza and roast beef as well as Marathon Deli townhouse also providing the food for the crew for today really greatly appreciate that you can learn more about them or in order at townhouse pizzeros beef.com Marathon Deli our other sponsor and some of the best wraps I've SE I've had here in town clocker showcasing a swarming zone defense so far marble able able to just fend them off finally get a shot to fall there that Mason ogles be his first field goal today in a few attempts after about five maror rebounds yes yes so just to wrap up on uh Marathon Deli uh you can certainly you know check out their full menu in order for them at marathon.com sabadini beats his man on the wing Ball's going to be tipped in midair they're going to say they hit his arm so it'll be a foul against Maro fouls on Ryan wood his second thank you sabadini knocks down the first and he's got the second he's up to four points after a nice floater earlier in this game Kimbell checks back in for marbo and alova will take a seat okay clock is up 1513 as the clock taks down under four minutes to go in the first half Kimble the wood in the corner back to Kimble bounce pass to Oglesby Kimble in the center of everything on this offensive possession off to the right on that three-point attempt and the clockers secure the defensive rebound kandra up to Ariel we're going to say he stepped out of bounds just in front of us here at the announcer stud at the announcer station I should say from the waca broadcast Center exactly at ashin high school marro will inbound from just next to us cler sticking with a zone defense but Rossi is at the top of it not often you see see that usually the clocker big man you'd expect him to be in the paint but he's standing right at the top of the key pass from wood nearly Wayward but collected he'll go back to Kimble behind the wing passing on the paint contested layup is off glass and good that's number 23 Maddox gathers getting his name in scoring colum for the first time [Music] tonight R so quickly doubled at the top of the key we've seen that happen many times this season already he sandre collects however yeah sandre got away with one there he grabbed that loose ball and had a had a toe on the line physical jump step into the lane there for rudil gets tied up and rude yeah that was a bruising Journey Down the Lane for rutus he'll go to the line to shoot too we got a tie game here showing off the physicality but you're going to see him take on a lot of double and sometimes even triple teams in today's contest [Applause] get the first one to fall yeah rudil the trifa free throw field goal three-pointer oh yeah Steinberg and Maguire check back in for sabadini and kandra and ril's in double figures today 10 of the clocker 17 points in the game 30 B2 overall Kimbell kicks it back out to Wood couple extra steps maybe there pass back to Kimble Twan game with Wood Drives Baseline Kimble Wing triple back rim no good Rossy fights for the rebound they're going to say it went off of marbro and out of bounds despite the Panther's own protests so McGuire lbound here for the clockers and uh looks like we're going to see a full court press here from the Panthers they've been they've been doing it all game to mixed results but now the clockers have their backup guard duo in Steinberg especially and Maguire have both struggled with it so far Steinberg will beat it and get over midcourt this time however although just barely and then he's immediately doubled before a beautiful bounce pass to Maguire coach may be regretting that decision as he took away what was looking to be maybe a highlight re play there from the clockers after that pass from Steinberg to Maguire but it will be a clocker timeout nonetheless 1715 your score with 222 to go in the first half yeah coach Mike Norman must have thought he is that Maguire was in trouble there called the quick timeout and immediately regreted you could see him take responsibility for ped his own chest there sure but uh you clocker the narrow two-point lead here 222 to go again uh again it was 99 at the end of the first quarter so uh been tight all day yeah absolutely ril getting that shot to fall forcing his way to the cup is always going to be a key for this glocker team this season they're still looking for that first win so definitely hoping they can get that done today in front of the home crowd during the clocker H holiday classic sure and you again maror just collected their first win of the season last night here at the clocker Holiday classic over Keith Tech so uh here we go by the way while we have the timeout a quick thank you to tonight's crew Jeff Hall Justin O'Brien Luis Miranda Mackie MAAC kotab and Brady mono I just saw him enter the building moments ago yes by the way folks again now that we are finally got our audio straightened out Chase and I are monitoring the chat here on YouTube so if uh you want to do a shout out or wish happy holidays to anybody check in uh let us know where you're viewing from always good to see uh clocker Nation coast to coast and around the world inbound for Maguire chased down by Steinberg tow that mid Court line a little bit there Steinberg having trouble handling that pass draws a couple Defenders Ariel in the corner looks for somewhere to go with it high arcing pass rudil fights for it he's got Ariel on his right finds him contested layup no good Rossy getting the offensive rebound too aggressive by Rossy he's got to get over the back for that one definitely a common theme with his style of play these last couple years but the clockers did miss his presence missed a few games early in the year due to non-basketball related reasons hey Ryan wood bring the ball up here to the Panthers under two minutes to go here in the first half good double team pressure in the corner there the Panthers able to break out reset at the top of the cage this maror offense has run through wood and Kimble Oglesby attempting a layup there and it's going to be a blocking foul on Steinberg so we should go to the charity strike yeah clock's had some success early on drawing at least one charging foul down there under the basket but not this time as Steinberg gets called for the foul and uh Malachi Lambert about to check in here for the clockers so make Mason op Oglesby knocks down the first his third point today and no good on the second off that back rim Lambert fighting for that defensive rebound but he's going to knock it out of bounds so marble will stay with the offensive possession so Jake Roy and Jay Alcoa checking back in here for the Panthers they were uh they they started the game for the Panthers and Roy actually one of the two co- captains on this team minute 40 to go here in the first half San inbound under the clocker Bas finding Ogle in the corner looking for Roy and the paint it's knocked Away by Rossy rudil and Lambert a two on two three-pointer balls for rudicil rattles in and home for rudicil his third three of the afternoon I know the transition triple is not exactly your favorite shot but when it falls it's a of beauty that was the right choice there clocker SPS a turnover here a minute 17 to go clocker suddenly up 20 to 16 and Robbie rudil with 13 points today Lambert bringing the ball over half court for Ashley quickly doubled looking to force a jump ball but they're going to call a reach in against Kimble there it looks like oh he really caught a break there this has been a very quick and aggressive marbor team kind of just forcing Ashen to match their speed and physicality so far K's going to head to the bench with his third foul already today was surprising I didn't realize he' already drawn that many fouls well marvell's been trying to force those jump balls all afternoon this time Kimble paid the price Ruto working on his Defender he's going to attempt another triple this one around the rim and no good kick out to Steinberg open three-point attempt that one falls seberg on the board with a three after great rebound by Rossy under a minute to go here in the first half would maybe took an extra step there finds the ball again he's on the wing pass into the corner for Oglesby quickly doubled back to Wood going into the paint bounce pass and it's interrupted by rudicil trying to go with it and Marboro stays with the possession before it's knocked away again by Steinberg and out of bounce so Panthers retain possession here a shot clock down to 11 game clock down to 29.2 seconds to go in the first half ball never switched possession and it never hit the rim so marro like you said with 11 seconds to work with on the shot clock here okay Rossy is head headed to the bench surprising Move May figured you'd want your best rim protector out there with the clock running out Jacob guo into the game now for the clockers long pass to Roy clock running out on Marboro right now Oglesby crosses into the lane right-handed floater off to the left no good and Roy tips it back in good job by Roy following that shot and the clock is of 12 seconds to work with Steinberg goes up to rudol pump fakes driving Baseline bounce pass over to Maguire Steinberg on the wing over to rudil in the corner thought about it drives Baseline again his right-handed floaters no good but they hit him on the arm in the ACT brutos is going to go to the line to shoot two more with two and a half seconds left on the game clock foul caught on Christian Fernandez of the Panthers rud is still heading to the line two and a half seconds to go here in the first half just short on the first [Applause] attempt Jacob padulla checks in here for the clockers final 2 and 1/2 seconds rudil hits the second of two going to roll the ball up clocker make him pick it up Wood's going to try to get no does not get a shot off nearly in time that one goes long past the buzzer so after one half of play 24 to 18 is your score with the clockers on top okay Chase again a really close first half until the very and the clock are suddenly with their biggest lead of the afternoon it was 99 at the end of 1 2418 here at halftime what do you think we'll see in the second half again the Panthers with some foul trouble yeah I think we're going to look for the Panthers to maybe stick with that full court press I think they're willing to trade a couple fouls for the amount of turnovers that it caused in that first half I think it maybe was less effective in the second quarter but I expect them to stick with it it's had enough success so far and I look to see them having that same success in the second half okay so that'll do it for us for now here at halftime of the clocker holiday classic stay tuned for word from our sponsors Townhouse Pizza and Rose beef and Marathon Deli we'll see you back here in just a little while for second half action you're watching Ashlin boy varsity basketball on waca tonight's game is brought to you in part by townhouse pizza subs roast beef and more be sure to fill up with the buffalo chicken cow Zone that's been called one of the best in the area located at 300 Elliot Street in Ashlin give them a call at 508 881-3010 or find them on the web at townhouse pizz Roast [Music] be.com today's game is brought to you in part by Marathon Deli Marathon Deli offers a full range of lunch and dinner items for dining or catering find coold Cuts cheeses and meats also available in addition to Specialty wraps such as the m flower wrap as well as the honey bee wrap they'll be sure to get your mouth watering serving Metro West for over 24 years give them a call at 508 2311 1859 or find them on the web at Marathon deli.com yeah I mean if I'm not friends with them then I can't see it YouTu [Music] you want it a little higher so I guess that was it was the cable huh morning oh what for for for wa e [Applause] out e all right guys roll [Applause] BL I know and [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we'll do and welcome back to the clocker holiday CL classic here on waca second half action Chase Abrams Josh Abrams part of a uh a thre straight game streak for waca announcers it's the uh it's family style you had Brian and Sammy S yesterday for the clocker holiday classic Chase and I now and and our next game will be Rob and haly silver on not our next game well wca's next game Robin H will be announcing following uh later this week that's good I was waiting to see if you were going to remember that behind the back pass from Rossy in an attempt to save that one from going out of bounds good idea but the clockers are just barely going to stick with it offensively pass to shriber makes the extra pass to kandre in the corner who drains a Triple C sandre in the scoring column for the first time tonight and the clockers of a 27 to8 [Applause] lead nice job making the extra pass [Applause] 's laid up and in was that Fernandez let's give it to him okay candre doubles at the top of the key finds shriber on the wing dribbling into the paint he gets knocked down no foul on the play and marble will play on wood makes the pass up to Fernandez this time he definitely is him laying it in past the outstretch reach of rudil so for has back toback field goals in response to the kandra triple and it's a five score it's a five-point game shriber all the way into the lane draws the foul so Mason ove draws his second foul of the day again this is going to be a recurring story throughout the second half we'll be keeping an eye on this you again um marbro had several fouls in the first half so it should be a little bit of trouble for them here in the second if Mar is going to continue to try to be this physical Ashen might need to lean into it if they're going to be reaching into into passing lanes and fouling then the clocker should go with it keep trying to force their way to the basket Force Maro to foul you and they're going to start losing some valuable players along the way kick out to Wood right-handed floater at the foul line is no good sabadini had the rebound for a second before it's taken away are they're going to call marro for a foul there looks like that's going to be the first on J aloba so again for a team that's as physical as marrow that's one they can't afford right they're already playing so physical around the basket at either end yeah it's it's not a necessarily meaningful play in any way it's a foul about 50 ft from the basket so it's going to be one that maybe Marell looks back on like you said M as being one that they regret in the future aloba trying to go all the way doesn't get it to go but he's fouled by [Applause] kandra so alop at the line to shoot two 604 to go in the third quarter clocker up by five front rim back rim and no good on the first first free throw attempt Russell checks back in for Maguire rimmed out yeah 0 for two from the line there from Alcoa makes the extra pass out to Fernandez and then over to Oglesby wood Wing triple off to the left no good and Rossy gets the board for the clockers it's going make the long pass up to sabadini who does not have numbers collected by shriber kandra might be feeling it that one is no good on the three foul on the floor it's going to go against say that was against Marboro I guess so this the second of game on Roy y didn't totally see what happened there I just saw Rossy go flying and he's like the biggest guy on the floor so beautiful feed from shriber there in Rosy who then draws a consecutive foul and he'll go to the line to shoot two so that's the third now on Roy and this is what we talked about yep they have two players now each with three fouls the other is Taiwan Kimble who I believe is spending some time on the bench now to be joined by Roy coming in from marbor number 23 Maddox Gathers so Rossy hit them both yep maror has shown that they're willing to be physical and with that comes some fouling and if they foul as much as they have they're going to have to rest some of their better players so these minutes without Kimble and without Roy are some that the clockers are going to want to take advantage of as alova hoists a triple it's no good before that layup attempt by Oglesby is blocked by kandra three-point from wood is yet again Off the Mark and finally the clockers get a defensive rebound rudil crossing over still got to get it over mid Court good screen there by Rossy wood hits the deck trying to draw the foul no good pass to K sandre in the corner his three-pointer off to the right rutus still gets it back misses the layup Rossy misses the subsequent one and finally maros driving they've got numbers Alcoa goes right at sabadini and draws the contact still a lot going on on that last possession hey sabadini got caught deciding whether he wanted to go for the block or take the charge caught in the middle yeah yeah he got really caught in the middle and uh you were talking about Ryan wood hitting the deck he got ping ponged he ran never saw Ross he ran right into was a beautiful screen by Rossy very was completely legal completely but he ran into Rossy and then bounced off his own teammate Korea and then he hit the floor that's why I was I was wondering cuz it it looked like a completely legal screen to me I didn't see him run into his own teammate now Steinberg will check in for shriber here for that kind of uh that kind of ping pong action you usually have to see be watching a Looney Tunes cartoon that one going to hit every part of the rim before going in for aloba he's got six points tonight and it'll force a Marboro timeout so aloba has now hit the uh the Robbie rudil trifect as well a free throw a field goal and a three-pointer again thank you for joining us here on waca glad to have you with us here at the clocker Holiday classic day two the consolation game clocker up 2923 with just under five minutes to go in the third quarter yeah if you're just joining us it's been a great game so far six points separate these two teams with five minutes remaining in the third quarter and we're looking forward to seeing how this one ends clockers really hung with amsa yesterday before kind of falling apart a little bit in the fourth quarter we'll see if they're able to learn from their mistakes in their previous game today and of course course our thanks to waca colleagues Brian and Sammy S for providing play byplay and color commentary on that game part of the waca family always thankful to Brian s want to also again take a moment to thank today's sponsors Townhouse Pizza and roast beef as well as Marathon Deli townhouse of course providing food for uh for the crew as as is their custom home of the best roast beef sandwiches in town just once I'd love for them to provide roast beef sandwiches instead of pizza but hey look beggar can't be choosers we certainly appreciate the food and of course to Marathon Deli uh did a great job at the waca open house earlier in the fall and uh again townhouse the best roast beef in town I would say Marathon Deli the best wraps in town okay so interesting wrinkle here as Rossy hoists the triple that goes off the back rim his Marboro was sticking with that full-court press but they back off as soon as he gets near half court as W yet a again missing on a field goal attempt he has just not been able to get it to fall so far today Fernandez goes out to Wood mid-range attempts from the corner once again does not fall before the layup by gathers does obviously we're not tracking shooting percentage here at the broadcast table but uh not good for the Panthers on the other hand they are ping the rebounding stats absolutely on both sets of glass I would guess that wood leads both teams in field goal attempts by quite a wide margin but he is still yet to enter the scoring column another fast break for Marboro gets rudicil in the air with the pump fake and alova knocks it another field goal he's up to eight points today Rossy on the other end with his right hand off the weak side action is going Coast to Coast end to end very quickly both teams in transition is there's a three ball for Alcoa who suddenly has six second half points after five in the first half teams just trading buckets there clockers maybe lucky with the reachin call by the ref who was adaman in his whistle second on aloba I say the teams are trading buckets marro just a little bit ahead of the clockers if they they've knocked it down to a one-point game 31 to 30 things are getting interesting and again the foul trouble we talked about earlier has now reared its head as the clockers are in the bonus and they'll to the line and they will be for the remainder of the quarter I believe so this a sabad shooting two I thought I thought Ronin was the one who got fouled saini's first shot rims out kandre will check out Maguire is in and sabadini knocks down the second he's got five points this afternoon Kimble bring the ball up for marro he's back in the game with three and a half to go in the third quarter and three fouls yep definitely a something to monitor for this clocker team as Oglesby gets it at the top of the key he looks for somewhere to go and he'll find Kimble working on two Defenders with Rossy and Steinberg pestering him from about 35 ft from the basket goes over to aloba who's going to not save it in time yeah good defensive play there from our my my co- commentator we got up close and personal you on TV it was very apologetic very respectful so no more uh full core pressure from the Panthers clockers bring it up unac costed the clockers excuse me I think that Kimble would be part of that full core pressure and they just can't afford for him to pick up any more fouls at this point in time Russel is going to dribble out of a triple team to get behind the arc he's getting pass suit from 30 plus feet Maguire will hoist a triple and that one is short and won't go pass one to a couple maror players Kimbo collects he goes to his right hand and it is Off the Mark once again is going to push in transition they've got a two-on one with rudil he's going to take it himself off to the weak side and can't get it to go there will be a whistle on the play however it'll go against marbro and rudil will go to the line to shoot nope that one yeah it will be should it should be rudil should be Rossy he took shot yeah well no I think it was I thought he fouled rudil on the on the putback there will be Rossy my mistake game has been chaotic yeah that six-point clocker lead down to two but Rossy at the line here to shoot two 228 to go in the third quarter you're watching ashin boy varsity basketball on waca Rossy gets the first to go so and Chase what I wanted to comment on right is part of the strategy for marrow about you know being physical and and a lot of fouls right is the clocks are actually making them pay they are hitting a lot of free throws this after afternoon and you cannot say the same for this marbor team oh I mean marbor is struggling from the field and from the line it's interesting cuz it feels like they're running good offensive possessions and then they're just not ending up with points they're getting open looks just the shots are not falling well they're getting open looks and a lot of rebounds that is true so maybe on a different day maror makes this clocker team pay for all the mistakes but right now they're not as another charge drawn by this clocker team did padulla draw the charge I believe so got the crowd on its feet with that one so Mason SV becomes the third M of the Panthers with three fouls with 213 to go in the third quarter and it feels like the three players whose names we've said the most in Roy Oglesby and Kimble Jacob guo into the game now for the clockers he'll inbound under his own basket he'll find K sandre is facing two Defenders gets it up to Maguire over midcourt Maguire doubled off to the side it's going to go out of bounds off of him ogles be adamant in whose ball that was it just Instinct McGuire reached for that that loose ball as it was going out of bounds yeah and once again credit to this Maro defense just swarming him the second they find an opportunity M forcing the turnover K will work on rudil [Music] sry just out of the outstretch reached of Maguire Oglesby kicks it out to aloba his three-pointer is good J Alcoa making his mark on this second half he's up to 14 points gyo still got to get it over midcourt he's triple teamed and marbo takes it away up to aloba with the layup and just like that marbo have the lead rudil is going to bring it up himself now he's got three players around him trying to dribble out of it falls on the ball quick timeout called by coach Norman but the damage is done maro's energy is reclaimed as they've got a one-point lead with 124 to go in the third quarter yeah definitely starting to see uh the uh the lack of depth on this clocker bench right most of the Stars to come out R was still in there but again they're bringing in some subs just to give some guys some rest and the Panthers pounce right so that that high pressure is leading to turnovers instead of fouls so again the it's a double-edged short with that strategy and right now it's working for the Panthers I think what you got to tell this clocker team and it's it's always tough in the moment is to just slow things down the Panthers want to play at this pace and it's been working out for them well if they're going to be sprinting the clockers need to be jogging and that's that's it's tough to tell a team that's playing at full speed but they keep running into these these mistakes these turnovers and the best way to do that is to take a deep breath slow down and trust your coaching and your talent so the Panthers had 18 points in the first half 35 now and most of them quick math dad uh it's too much math that's 17 in the third quarter alone so 17 and Alcoa has 11 of them according according to our unofficial stats here 16 overall that's the yeah unofficial this is this is what you got okay our numbers match that's good to hear that is good to hear that's that's somewhat rare so I'm I'm happy to hear that the inbound will be from guerro to kandra kandra not getting guarded from that distance is a PR looks like Marboro is sticking inside that three-point line which is not something we've seen so far though Kimble will go out to contest rudicil who you have to imagine is going to be trying to look for his own shot in this in this second half he has been absent from the scoring column so far as that one nearly taken away stays with it and then it is knocked away marbro finally takes away from rudil and now Kimble's moving up the floor that one's going to go off his own knee and guyo steals it and now up to rudil who's got no defenders in front of him hustling back and he's going to be denied by the rim but he's fouled in the process by Fernandez and we've said it if we've said it before we'll say it again Fernandez now the fourth player with three fouls on this Marboro team oh I missed one wow he's a three now as well how about that so ril trying to tie the score here with a free throw he will not do so okay here comes Rossy and Lambert back into the game as padulla and MCU take a rest Ruto with another chance to tie the game and once again he will not be successful all right 12 points separating shot clock and game clock Kimble works his way in the lane looking for a two for one cannot get it to go but he is fouled well pick a player there was a triple team he went up against so we'll see who the foul is actually on by the clockers go against Guero clocker probably happy to see that just his first so far today Kimble gets the first one to go it's his first point of the second half no he's barely played right that's true that's true he had uh he had six in the first half second free throw coming up for him I will say if it's one thing this maror team is doing well it's Distributing the fouls four players with three it's it's a lot better than lane violation two players with six I guess and I'll go against Mar you know the game that Rob and I called there were three lane violations in a row on Norwood rudil had not missed a free throw he missed two but they weren't official they didn't count because of the lane violations and then he made the Third Go pass goes up to Rossy and then to kandra beautiful way to beat the Press kandra stops short finds rudo in the corner thinks about it fires the three no good Rossi another offensive rebound 30 seconds on the clock rudil tries from the same spot once again won't fall and once again Rossy collects ril on the wing passes into Lambert gets his defender in the air and lays it in and honestly should have drawn the foul there as well just great basketball there from the clockers sticking with it and for ing their way into the cup so 10 seconds now on the game clock Kimble will hold for final shot he's got Rossy at the top of the key guarding him from way out there he's going to fire from distance and it's good Kimble beats the buzzer to give Marboro a three-point lead from a way out 3936 your score after three quarters of play and just a back breaker from Kwan Kimble from about 28 feet out a kid does not lack for confidence took his time waited until there were about 5 seconds left and just heaved it so 3936 here at the end of the third quarter we'll take a quick break you get a word from our sponsors Townhouse Pizza and roast beef as well as Marathon Deli you're watching Ashlin boy varsity basketball on waca tonight's game is brought to you in part by townhouse pizza subs roast beef and War be sure to fill up with the buffalo chicken cow Zone that's been called one of the best in the area located at 300 Elliot Street in Ashlin give them a call at 508 881 3010 or find them on the web at townhouse pizz Roast be.com today's game is brought to you in par by Marathon Deli Marathon Deli offers a full range of lunch and dinner items for dining or catering fine Co Cuts cheeses and meats also available in addition to Specialty wraps such as the Mayflower wrap as well as the honey be wrap they'll be sure to get your mouth watering serving Metro West for over 24 years give them a call at 508 231859 Patrick havin getting his first minutes of the afternoon out there for marbro not often you see that Steinberg wide open from three no it's going to go off the backboard and won't fall rudil gets the offensive rebound fighting to stay with it and it's going to be a jump ball forced by Marboro and they'll take over possession great play there by Oglesby so Topsy Turvy game so far today chase at the end of one we had a tie game clocker up by six at the half now down by three as we start the fourth quarter cler's fourth quarter demons came to haunt them in yesterday's game they're hoping to flip the script this afternoon pass to in the corner gets doubled and it's taken away by kandra pass up to Rossy he stays with it looking for Lambert and it's tipped out of bounds Rossy narrowly avoided traveling right in front of us looks like he shuffled his feed a little bit but no whistle on the plane the Cluckers have it under that Marboro basket I think that was a rule to gather step Chase yeah you've been waiting to say that I sure have your favorite rule in basketball Easy Pass to rudo but he can't get the layup to fall that is not a friendly iron over there wasn't friendly on the free throws either fouls going to go against I believe Rossy yep that's his third so something to keep an eye on for the clockers just a about a minute gone by here in the fourth quarter clocker down by three as the Panthers bring the ball up Court we got a Timeout on the floor Panthers calling time out it's a quick move there interesting no scoring only about 56 seconds taking off the clock you know rudil is going to want that one back only his second Miss today hm or a second Miss from inside the 3point arc I should say excuse me fourth Miss overall so while we have the time out let's do a 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e e e all right well we're back uh back at the regular meeting the special meeting at 108m so with that we'll Co roll call I'm here Amanda can here Maria Oar Maria okara here here I'm here all right we're all here so let's see Anita can you lead us in the pledge ready begin I pledge aliance 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 all right I need to read this here said a good evening it'll be good afternoon everyone and thank you for being here before we get started I'd like to say that the board appreciates and supports educational Partners I don't think we have anybody for the public so go ahead Cesar's our only so we'll go down the line here anybody has any comments we'll start with any comments welcome the board thank you I'm really excited to be here and thank you all for your help and support and getting me uh acclimated and ready for this position I'm extremely excited about it um couple of things I uh want to wish um Karen Sabers happy birthday are um certificated uh um teacher president of Auda and then I heard some sad news and I wanted to extend condolences to the family and friends of Frank Leno when I went to school uh here Frank Leno was ASB uh director at Apple Valley high school and I had heard that he had passed recently so I extend my condolences to his family and friends and I wish everybody a really wonderful good near good a wonderful New Year and a really good start to the second semester of school um yes I just want to welcome everyone back from our break I hope you all had a great time uh with family and uh with adventures and that we're all coming back refreshed and ready to start 2025 strong um I'd like to uh start with the uh challenge that was presented to me by then president Dr oara um choosing a word of the year um I've never done that before so challenge accepted um I've never done this before either so looks like I'm making a collection um my word for 2025 um is Inspire um I gave got a lot of thought um as in joining the board I become part of a group of wonderful individuals um that have been doing lots of great work here um so I become part of a team and with the word inspire I want to think of uh things outside myself so what I choose to do with my life and how it impacts those around me um and then inspires them to in turn do the same so with that I welcome 2025 and I'm excited for where we're headed I'm inspired you thank you well welcome back to uh the last leg of the school year uh 2025 and we're hoping that it will be an exciting uh school year with lots of new ideas coming up um in this school year and um working together as a team um and because there's no I in team I really look forward to that team teamwork that makes a Dream Work welcome back from your holidays and I hope you all enjoy time with family and I have toyed with my work for the year and uh for now I'm going to settle with listening um I try to um I'm hoping that I'll listen more and respond less um but welcome back to the new year thank you Maria Amanda all right I'll Echo the welcome back and I wanted to say um how nice it is to be like it's our first meeting with all five um of our our board that we'll have for the next two years hopefully longer um and and I just wanted to say thank you so much to not just the cabinet but I'm sure there was many many staff people involved in putting together everything for today um and it was it was just really nice to so far get through because we've been here since 8:30 this morning um but get through all the information and then everything that's going to come up on Open session so thank you thank you Vanda and I just like to Echo what everybody else has said here um obviously I appreciate the support on uh becoming the president for the 25 school year rest of the year and I look forward to um working with everyone and I as you are well aware from what we discussed earlier this morning we have a full plate on our table for the rest of this year we have a lot of work and some of it will be um complicated and not easy but I think uh we'll get through it and it'll be um a successful year so with that so J um it was a wonderful break I actually loved coming back in on Friday last week uh I'm not sure the guys I I kind of hit them up and said would you guys meet me I think Matt was the one scheduled for Friday work but um we decided it was important to come together and um be fully prepared for today and I appreciate the board taking the time time to um spend the entire day with us um I think it's probably the best way we can Orient um a new board coming together three of you have been through most of this but adding two means um you're all on the same page been able to ask questions and so I appreciate that um my word is presence and I say that as a parent and as that was the flash from the fire alarm that just caught my eye sorry um hopefully it won't go off um as a parent and as a um employee being present with people and hearing what they have to say and um putting devices down and spending some time difficult sometimes in the role that I'm in and I have been committed that's my 2025 um word Miss oara challenged me a few years ago on this and so I've done it annually and I think it really does help and so I can't wait to be inspired tired I can't wait for some listening and um you hold me accountable to being present so um appreciate that um as far as Frank lento Frank lento and I had um a working relationship years ago I knew that he was not doing well but I'm I did not know he had passed um I was a brand new principal and he used to call me hey kid come here and he'd tell me what to do and I always did what he told me to do because he kept me in ly um and so I am sorry for his loss and for his family and um everybody that's impacted and um wishing Karen a birthday happy birthday as well I'm glad to know that today's her birthday and she's a January baby we are um starting in on second semester which will be Mar marathon pace because um as you know each month we get that much closer to um our first graduation as a um board um up cheering on our students so um I know they're feeling it I know the staff is feeling it and it and the second semester does feel longer than the first semester so hold tight and I appreciate the work ahead thank you training okay item five is closed session reports and I don't believe clerk you have anything to read out for the closed session moving right along adoption of the agenda the board May approve the agenda as is or add or pull items from the consent calendar for discussion or action so I would need a motion to approve the adoption of the agenda I'm sorry who was that that did that Anita Anita I second it and the second from Maria all right all in favor I I I any opposed hearing no none motion passes unanimous uh item D recognition presentations none at this meeting moving on to item e discussion information and item first item up will be TR and that is review of the alpha Valley Unified School District government governance handbook hey Caesar can you grab me some water back there is there a bottle of water or a cup of water I'm sorry that's fine water thank you sir I know it's not in your job description but it is thanks brother all right first that's the issue first says last the rest of haveed and yeah [Music] s look at how often I stand at this Podium never to start except when we are doing presentations with people and honoring them so the history of the governance handbook I think is important for us to re um review for a minute for um new board members the Board of Trustees worked with California school boards Association back in 2021 to establish a governance handbook prior to that we don't find a governance handbook any place so historically this was the first one is what we believe um occurred so kudos to those who were on the board in 2021 for um seeing some need to have a governance handbook it was adopted at the June 10th 2021 board meeting that was after doing some virtual sessions with California school boards Association making some decisions looking at drafts and moving forward and then there was an initial appr um agreement that we would review this annually there's some some history to that as well so we agreed that in December it would come to the board which didn't really make sense in an election year because that meant a previous board might be reviewing a governance handbook and a new board member might never have the opportunity to do that and we decided that it probably couldn't be done in one session so taking this kind of like we do with our board policies it's probably important um annually to bring it forward as an information discussion item and then bringing it back at a later date for any edits or recommendations so today if people have recommendations Kylie's ready to take notes about that and then we can bring back some um draft language and um get it in front of the board for at least a first read and then um a potential adoption at a following board reading again there's no on this it just helps us to identify um the effective governance standards um for interacting so I talked a little bit about the history um from a governance stand um standpoint taking a Unity of purpose the roles the Norms the agreements and Protocols of how we operate together and creating a formal structure for those is really what the outcome of this governance handbook is um there is a slide in here where I'll ask some questions but it's really intended to just be thoughtful around um what your needs as board members are um for future meetings in to utilize the governance handbook and in the end it's the best benefits of the children of Apple Valley Unified School District that's our purpose um is what are we doing in in the best interest of students so when we did a review the last time one of the questions I asked is how do we make this relevant how do we utilize it um in a more succinct way that um is useful to the board to the governance team is it a pre a printed copy that sits at your um seat with your name on it so that if you want to jot down or look through during a board meeting is that what you'd like is it a printed copy as well for at home for a reference point or a set of the board bylaws or name it what else could make it relevant these are just some um thoughts that we talked about many years ago 2021 seems like way in the rearview mirror um but we've never had a statement of what we will do with it other than um utilize it as a guiding purpose so um these are just thoughts if anybody would like to have that um please speak up and we'll make sure that we have them available um maybe with your names on them so that if you make notes you have one right now you could turn it in until we do any amendments next steps so really it's just that um you review the different sections you had it as one of the posted items for this board workshop and then um if there are areas within the um governance handbook that you feel like need to be amended in particular we looked at um some language last time that had to do with newly elected board members and their attendance at California school boards Association and it worked out wonderfully um California school boards Association doesn't do a good job of of timing this they know that elections H sorry I love the California school boards Association but if I had was the queen of everything I would ask them to delay this um California school boards Association to January or February so that we could get new board members in um sworn in and be really part of a governance team before they attend I get it as newly elected you have the opportunity to be there and learn about it but not every District can based on policy and so it's always been a little bit of an obstacle so we now have it in the government's handbook we have a way to work around it and if there's um other things within the government's handbook that need to be amended or updated um just based on the times then we need to look at the language annually so like I mentioned before we take things so that people have the opportunity to see them then review them and then make recommendations or leave as is with board policies we do two reads that's what's required there's a first read that is typically language that's provided to us by the law um if there's been a change in law we come back bring it to the board as a first read with the amend M Ms already made strikethroughs bolded anything that is being removed from the policy is stricken anything that is new to the policy is bold um and italicized and that way board members can see what it used to look like what we're proposing it to look like and then it comes back a second time for a final read an adoption and if there's things that are maybe not something that people believe should be in there um we have to do a little bit of background to understand whether it's contrary to law because if it's contrary to law we don't get to dictate what the the language is so um my recommendation with the government's handbook would be something similar whereas you have the time today to receive the information you we could have it agendized for the next board meeting so that we could receive more feedback as to what you'd like to see in it or leave it the same and then um bring it as a final read at the February board meeting and then I've listed out the others just so that you can see them administrative regulations are a one read prior to adoption so you will typically only see those on a board agenda a single time um exhibits are a one read prior to adoption as well ex exhibits typically are forms things that we would utilize internally but that way you as board members if they are going to be board adopted have access not every form in the district is an exhibit it depends on what the the process by which it was developed and the need for it having to do with policy and then board bylaws are obviously the 9000s and um board bylaw 9310 actually points you back to and there's a I I don't know what happened with this I think I'm using an old an old um uh it did like it didn't save I was in a room down the hall um but it really does point you back to the governance handbook and how the governance of the board should happen and so um it's a great bylaw 310 points us back to um governance as a team any questions any recommendations is there any areas that people have already read through and thought maybe should be um amended it seems to me that re is going through there's a lot in this I there's a lot of some of it looks a little redundant but I mean probably wouldn't be something that we would need to go and remove but it is pretty comprehensive yeah any place where it talks about board bylaw it has just removed the board bylaw language and put it in here so we we've those those areas while they're in here at the time historically the board had made the decision that they wanted the language to be embedded into the governance handbook as a qu quick reference if if those of you you Rick you were there Maria you were there um Amanda you were there for review last year but you weren't there with the original um so um anything that you guys decide is redundant we are more than willing to look at and um amend as you ask I mean there I saw a couple here that there was you know onage and it's not a big deal I just noticed that it said it twice in same same page but I'd have to go through it a little bit more detail okay and because it's a public session um uh presentation you are more than welcome to send me an email or um anything just with with the edits that you see fit and I can bring those to the whole board as a um in an update just hear some recommendations from other board numbers um we can work to do some of those edits and then we can bring it back can I speak Mr President excuse me I speak Mr President oh yes you may um of course um I would like to have almost like a a laminated copy put on our desk for each board meeting on what our roles and responsibilities are okay so that we can have a focus on it at all times to see what our job is and what it is not so so we can see this five of them that you have here to just have it printed and posted on our desk or taped down on our desk so that we can see that it's on page three it rolls to page four as well but we probably can structure it to a one page um is is that agreeable by the rest of the board can we do that is sure anything else is there any other questions uh for turn comments not that I can't think of thank you TR all right so item two is going to be Mr sler pup personal student discipline procedures it's the topic we deal with a lot right yes you do thank you um so we'll go through this will be just some background there's a couple of um there's the slides I've printed because there are references to board policy and education code in the slide deck that you may want to have um of course at any time we're happy to answer questions so you feel free to you know Reach Out directly to us uh in these cases but here's an overview of student discipline and the kind of the process and really that's from an incident at a school into a board action and so that is completely governed by uh board policy and administrative regulation 5144 point1 and point2 and the only difference in point two is it it's it is a section entirely focused on students with disabilities but they mirror each other with some additional requirements and the Ed code sections that govern this are are listed there and they're lengthy and detailed um so I've included here references to those that are most important for you because as you can imagine a lot of them apply to what must happen at a school site okay so we're going to focus today on the role of the board and how those um steps are to be taken so first we have to kind of make sure and clarify what is expulsion even families sometimes when we have a meeting with them to talk about this they think expulsion means I'm gone forever and that isn't what that term means really it's your authority to exclude a child from our school system for up to calendar year depending on the Ed code violation and that's the longest it can be unless they don't meet their terms and conditions we must during that time however provide another opportunity for them to attend school because school is mandatory in California and so typically if it's not within our system it will be in the county system or some other placement but we do provide schools students still must attend during that time of expulsion we also must set the term and the conditions for return and then they have a you might imagine do process rights all along the way in order for their side to be heard and for them make sure that we are carefully considering appropriate evidence that reasonable people are used to making used to using uh used to use to make serious decisions we have the burden of proof and we must follow the law and so I've included document uh one and two let me um please forgive my course numbering system it was the best I could do on short notice I am ill skilled in the Adobe Acrobat so um you will have this every time this is simply a list of the education codes we include this in the background that we provide to you that includes the student discipline specifics and so it's a two-sided it lists simply all of the current educational codes for which a student may be suspended and or expelled you will only see them if they are being recommended for expulsion P can I ask you a question with that does that is that a um a moving Target does that document change yearly like you know like new laws are enacted do we see much change in that we see some change we have seen some Chang for example if you look at 48900 K so in K it explicitly lists now a bunch of subsections telling us upon whom this section cannot be used because K is the disrupted school activities one and so um it now indicates that for example in Stu for students in grade K or one through eight inclusive they shall not be suspended for any acts enumerated in this subdivision so we know we have to pay attention upon whom it applies some of them have age or grade level specifications like the sexual harassment C code they don't change a lot but they do change and we have to watch luckily that's those are education or those are uh Law changes that everyone's intenna are up for and we get good um analysis be ahead of time and if that does come we'll make sure I advise you and then uh the second page or my cleverly numbered number two is a California Department of Education three column chart that's actually fairly handy and what that does is enumerate for you three categories of offense there's the must recommend expulsion offenses the 48915 C's and those are um offenses for which school sites have no discretion they must recommend and you can see them listed there there are five and on the back it continues and it's just sort of the the reference on the back the middle column are the other 48915 offenses they are the May um be recommended or they must unless the School site believes another means of of uh remediation might work and so those are listed there and then finally the May recommend and that's all of the 48 900s and I'm going to draw you to the back side of handout two for the 48900 at the third column it starts with p sold prescription drug soma a Ed code by the way for which none of us I think has ever commit a suspension or expulsion I think was a law that was written for a particular time in uh California history that um we have lots of other things we see on campuses but s is not one and then it reads down and I want to draw you to number one and two where it says the recommendation for expulsion shall be based on one or both of the following this is something called secondary findings and they are required for this column other means of Correction are not feasible or have repeatedly failed to bring about poer conduct which requires us to there's a burden of proof to show that both attempted them and that they didn't work or and or number two due to the nature of the act the presence of the pupil causes a continuing danger to the physical safety of the pupil or others and so I just point those two because those are um thresholds we must meet for 48900 offenses so they can't simply for example get in a single fight that's a 48900 now if there's if it is a situation that rises to the 48915 level then an expulsion does not require secondary findings but if it does not there's no great bodily injury or so on then we have to have secondary findings meaning we have to have attempted to either remediate the the behavior or it has to be due to the nature of this particular we have to show cause that this student cannot be on campus I'll pause there for questions any questions for I have one okay going back to the one that you mentioned sold prescription drug soma Som so that one falls under May recommend but if we look under must recommend um wouldn't that be item three it would and we think of sales that way s it goes or yeah and and in fact I'll point out two things thank you for that question it's going to help me fix an error on the back side you'll see that um those same secondary findings are listed under column two and yet we believe in this District that um due to the nature of the ACT is Satisfied by sales and and I think the board can understand that it's a whole different thing to have um items in your possession for personal use versus bringing them for distribution and sale on a campus now those facts of the case may vary and we would always bring those out in the hearing process but that's been our look at that I think what um Miss panan is talking about is under column one it talks about the unlawful under the health colum code yes under the health and safety code there is a difference between Som yes Soma is not listed in section 11053 well it's also of course well yeah be quiet it s is listed in that in that particular section but it does not qualify for number three perscription it's not there there's a list of chemical components listed in section 11053 and that particular compound does not qualify I got it thankfully like I said we don't see that at the moment but we are careful to consider whether or not like we actually have to use um our officers as drug um identification agents because sometimes we cannot necessarily determine the chemical compound great questions thank you um my question is on other means of Correction you way you look at the other means of Correction um when you look under column three it says due to the nature of the act the presence of the pupil causes a continuing danger to the physical safety of of the people or others when you site that are you citing it specifically for that School site or are you citing it specifically for being in the presence of other people or others because this particular language did not say to that school it just says other people or others and so if that is the case should we be um expelling a student to another school where he is going to become a a danger to other pups certainly an understandable consideration I think that there are times when we've realized that there might be a situation where it is a particular situation between student groups or a particular student and another and so in that case it could be that the hearing chairperson and the panel believe that it would be reasonable to put a student at another site especially if that site has much greater supervision but it could be that they believe if in a secondary finding that the student cannot be in our schools at all and so that will be the board's decision to make thank you okay doing good so I've also included uh document three kind of a flowchart and timeline there are very strict legal timelines that we must follow I know and even worse I'm going to cop to the fact that I simply lined out the old list of board members at the top because I did not have access to current letterhead last night belly up that's my theory and so this timeline and in fact a much more detailed timeline in and flowchart is shared with families this is for you to kind of see that we have a series of questions we ask oursel if this then that or if not then we have a different path to travel we meet and we carefully adjudge these things our child welfare and attendance coordinator Renee Castillo is well versed in these and we work with the sites to make sure they're following the steps what's more interesting I think is on the back of this number three and it's kind of a two-step process that shows the timeline and you may have to take that apart it shows the timeline for regular education and then also for a stipulated expulsion which we'll cover in a moment and you'll notice that there are some things that must happen by day five of suspension 10 calendar days before the hearing the parent must be notified and these things happen typically both by telephone and um by um uh certified mail a student could be out for up to 40 days before you take action that's the legal maximum we try to go faster than that in every case but sometimes it comes to the point where um the family really feels like that's a long time and we know this happened and so we'll talk about what happens in those cases I'll insert that um kind of the school site principal is immediately involved they're the ones who make the recommendation to the hearing chairperson and really officially to tr Nelson as a superintendent of recommendation for expulsion which sets in motion a set of processes the principal must also talk to the parent first then we take over from there at the district office child welfare and attendance coordinator makes contact with the family to extend the suspension we gather information we share all evidence with the family because that is their due process right we then call an administrative hearing panel together and the panel is comprised by board policy of three certificated members who do not work at the school where the child attends um they're typically site administrators from other school sites it's very helpful for them to be in those rooms because they are also presenters from time to time and then they listen to the evidence weigh the facts then then based on the elements of each law they to come up with a finding a fact and write it up and then that's is what is presented to you along with all evidence now what isn't presented to you is the transcript of the case so you don't necessarily know exactly how the evidence was presented at hearing you know what the evidence packet that was provided to the family is we leave you out of that because you are not finders of fact you are decision makers unless the family requests their um hearing to be in front of you and so I'll pause there I have a question Mr President yes um I know that you have a 40 school days after the first day of suspension um I'm going to give you a scenario okay a student um violates one of those Ed code or the discipline policy um but the student is is being is in lock up MH and he's there for 40 days or 41 days yeah what does that do with that case here's how we typically handle those they do happen from time to time if the incident occurs on campus and in some for some reason our police or the sheriff's department is involved and they decide that a penal code violation has taken place and the student is removed from our taken custody of and and removed we are unable usually to complete our investigation at that time so we do not suspend correct we wait until the child is returned to us to make sure that we have given the child an opportunity to give a statement and that is when day one of suspension occurs after they are released although that can extend the time that they're away from school it means that we don't miss any legally required timelines okay I I asked that because sometimes we have suspended the student and this is suspension started let's say on a Monday and after school on Monday the police goes to the home and arrest the child and now the child now has 40 days but your suspension has already kicked in from that day one absolutely correct so now what do we do because now your clock has started ticking you're right and two two problems occur then one we will never have extended that suspension so technically the child could go straight back to school correct if that were to occur and if we' missed the timeline the only way to extend it would be by parent permission and they would have the right to say no so in the case that we for some reason decided to suspend and then they were incarcerated for some period of time that caused us to miss those deadlines we would be out of deadline out of timeline and unable to proceed thank you okay doing great thank you so in the case where the family says yes we understand this happened we aren't here to um disagree with that or plead differently the potential to return to school quickly is allowed by board policy where the parent would simply wave their right to a hearing they wave some of their due process rights and we would stipulate that the event occurred the student is a danger and we're going to move them to another location and that location could be at the county school placement or it could be at another School site via a method called suspended enforcement which I'll get get to in a moment that still comes to you here's the difference it doesn't come in in the case where if a stipulated agreement comes to you and you choose not to approve it you really can't amend that because one of the agreements they're stipulating is they're agreeing to what they're signing they're not agreeing to some other thing so if we say no to the stipulated agreement then their timeline starts that day again and so then they have rights to a hearing because they have waved their rights based on what they signed that day and so if you choose not to approve a stipulated agreement then we simply proceed to hearing which is completely fine so just a note on stipulated agreements and then um we've kind of talked about this already uh document four is worth looking at though and uh just briefly it's the 4896 this was revelatory for me and helpful I think for us I'm going to add this I'm going to ask that this be added to what is included in each board packet um I've kind of highlighted some areas of importance it does Describe the term that other than 48915 c which is the five on that left First Column of the CDE document document two that the term shall be the set a date not later than the last day of the semester following the semester in which the EXP expulsion occurred when the pupil shall be reviewed for readmission essentially that limits the term for a 4915a or 48900 offense to semester plus one the semester expulsion occurred the legal definition is that is when you take action only you can expel so if an offense occurs in December and you take action in January then semester plus one is this semester spring and The Following fall semester now you can always go shorter you are allowed to have a shorter term of time thank you Anna but you cannot Auto opt for a longer term in this L the Ed code violation is a 4915 c those five listed on the far left column that we showed you earlier and I will make sure that that's known both to the hearing panel and to you finally uh it does make reference to the readmission process and I'll just a quick note about that I think I go forward here no not yet and I'll note that there are students who come to us from other districts who are expelled they attempt to enter our district with a new address they are expelled students they do not get an automatic admission they go through an admission hearing we consider the evidence we look at see if the original terms and conditions are met and if they are not we continue them as an expelled student at whatever placement they replaced at or a new placement if their address change requires it I'll pause there I know it's a lot promise that you are uh one will become more familiar and two you have our assistance at any time I made reference to something called a suspended enforcement all that is is us saying yes you're an expelled student but we're going to place you at a different or even possibly the same School site if the school site believes that that's appropriate so maybe the violation is such that they feel like this student um although should be it should have an expulsion on their record we believe we can remediate this student and but we still want the kind of um Force potential force of an expulsion hanging over the student so that they know that if a single violation occurs they will go immediately to a different placement and so you will see sometimes a recommendation from the hearing panel of a suspended enforcement and again that's allowed for an ed code and board policy sometimes it's too most often to another school site board action you can discuss these in closed session action taken in open family may come to plea and you will be acting upon the hearing chairperson's recommendation or amending such recommendation County the U families if they do not like your decision they are allowed to appeal within 30 days of your decision to the county at the county um we will attend on your behalf and represent the district and the county simply uh they do not rehear the case they do not rehear evidence but they they have um they listen to the parent and they listen to The District and then they decide their options are essentially have another hearing and do a better job for example include the evidence that they feel was omitted or they can say that's uh EXP the expulsion they can say that's not an expellable offense or something was handled improperly return the student to school or they can uphold the action of the local board we have had an appeal in the last five years maybe one and the county did uphold our local board action readmission is mentioned in 48 916 and essentially that's for our director of child welfare and attendance to reach out to families and say your term is ending I like to and see that you've not only met the time but the conditions that were laid out that might have been counseling get good grades attend school regularly and do all the things we asked you to do please come sit with me and let's review that data bring proof that you have completed those things and if you have done so then you will be recommended for readmission we gladly welcome you back to the district and those come to you as a report monthly as well typically they come at the end of each semester because I've mentioned before the terms are semester driven and we do try to get students back in if they've met those terms and conditions we reach out affirmatively to them many districts wait for students to kind of remember to reach out we um we reach out to every student who's expelled when their term expires you can readmit or deny readmission I'm sorry my question was on the um ex stipulation of the expulsion by the um by the hearing board um is it is there any way that they can just state that they are recommending expulsion for one semester or two semesters but without a date because that is that's always a confusion when they say the student will return on at you know for fall two the board has not made a decision yet so the board makes that decision based on the date after we have heard the case or have we've met as a board is when we have met as a board that we will tell you if it is for the next semester or the following because my what I see is that the the exposion um the hearing uh officers when they're hearing it they may have heard it in October but because of a timeline or they may have heard it in November timeline wise we the board we don't get it till end of December but they announc saying that the students will be expelled for the fall semester and the spring but we're hearing it after the fall semester is is done so we need to be able to to have that window to say yes we agree that the student will be expelled for two semesters or one semester beginning at this date and ending here um and it is all based on the when we went to csba conference and there were some vague statements by school districts that we at at some point those school districts found themselves in a difficult situation because the information was vague it didn't have exact timeline so you know I'm just hoping that the the panel when they hear it will say yes based on this case it should is entire it should get a semester or even two weeks whatever it is that you're giving but let the board make that date decision because it is based on our date that that happens it's not based on their hearing board date yeah I understand that and I think there's two separate steps here one um a stipulated agreement would never be heard by a hearing chairperson because they've waved their you're not talking stipulated expulsion okay um so if it goes to a hearing chairperson I think this becomes most important around December and May so that we are thoughtful about making sure that we understand which board meeting it will be presented and so yes we can if there's a question as to what when the board might hear this and they really want it to be two semesters but we don't know if this action will be taken in December or January for example then we should be thoughtful about leaving that in that way stipulated agreement we wouldn't be able to do that okay I understand the question thank you um last one is expungement uh this is allowed by law that um families can ask after their term and conditions are met we typically ask them to wait at least one full year after they are readmitted but they can request an expungement of that particular incident and so we bring those to you for consideration if we believe the child has not only met their terms and conditions but also had then another good year because we do want them to be able to apply for the kinds of things in postsecondary world for which this offense might keep them out especially if they have made a change and they've learned a new Behavior so that's really the nuts and bolts and discipline I'll pause there one more time for questions Pat you mentioned uh secondary so if if a student is expelled and it stays on it her his or her record what does that um due to Future employment are there certain types of jobs certain types of like going into the military or anything like that does that affect that it does there are uh jobs like the military police department that if there's certain offenses on the record that are not expunged that will keep them out and so we do have from time to time either someone doing a background check or a recruiter call us and say hey can you tell me about you know the students said that they had a clean record can you confirm and if the students an adult and gives us permission then we can uh give that record and either confirm or say NOP clean record yeah even if it's not a crime basically it's yes even if it's only an ed code violation y sometimes they ask which one and they're less concerned about Ed code violations of one type versus another yeah good question any other questions for for Pat don't go too far might need a I hate being stuck behind here I so want to walk be up and down in front of you but I know we're streaming this and if I don't talk into here it won't be heard so um this is a preview of some data that will be presented in um I'll have to I'll say up at the outset it will the presentation on the 8th we think will be an awful lot more entertaining one because I won't be the only presenter will be the full team and two because we've got all kinds of cool student videos and other things that will be particip along with it and so that will be um uh at the Sing center for the s at 10 a.m.

e e e the um up Unified School District so with that I'll do roll call uh Rick Ry I'm here Amanda banan here Maria okara Maria okara I here Renee longshaw here and Anita Tucker I'm here all right we're all here so if you could join me with the to the pledge please stand I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the repu for it stands one nation under God indivisible liy and justice for all thank you all right Kylie any public comments pertaining to Clos session uh we do not okay great so we have no um public comments so we'll we have items one through eight and I'll read those off so item one for closed session is superintendent evaluation item two conference litigation government code section 495 6.9 a current litigation 11 cases cvds 201111 183 Civ SB 1303 222 0303 221 8676 231 4073 two two correction two lots of twos today 23221 171 241 2359 2412 687 and 23211 161 and 2 [Music] 4404 government code section 5495 4.5 subsection C and 54956.9 subsection D and two and E1 anticipated litigation one case 2501 item three Public Employee discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer Rel title certificated and classified employees item four public employees appointment regation retirement reduction title certificated in classified employees item five conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator Jeremiah Harrison B employee organization Alpha Valley Unified Teachers Association item six conference with labor negotiator agency correction a agency negotiator Christen Dupri B employee organization California school employ Association number seven conference with real property negotiator government code 56.8 a negotiation parties Matthew schulenberg Alpha Valley Unified School District and finally number eight security matters government code section 54957 constellation consultation with Alpha Valley Unified School District chief of police with that I'll ask a motion to go into close session so move we have a motion Oar second by Buchanan all in favor I I I any oppose uh that'll be the order so we will go into close session and we will come back no earlier than 12:30 p.m.

and 6:00 p.m on the 8th please come if you can there'll be student singers and projects and performances and samples of things that they've done and of course the presentation will be Lively and a whole lot more interesting but I know that for you what I don't want to have happen is for this data to be for the first time you see it be on Wednesday so this is a chance for you to preview that information and there's actually more here than we will be presenting to the full audience at the town on Wednesday and so we'll be kind of going through this with them we always begin with our mission statement so they understand its power and importance um you'll see that the general organization of this um is through our um board goals which are now our lcap goals which are our evaluation system for almost everyone we have such alignment in our system and it's given us an incredible focus and Clarity of Target and that really is Direction you've given us and we're I can't tell you how many people say constantly how thankful they are for the clarity that this provides so um those those are the items that we'll be talking through today some basic statistics about the school um you know all this and that first goal really comes down to um those measurements of those items there and so uh this a rough number I picked a number I know that the number of classrooms varies well do you mean classrooms I sometimes I use one maybe I have two classrooms because I have a laboratory in another space it's about 575 um but we've conducted almost three times as many classroom visits as that number that's not been done in this district for um any time since I've been here and it's just wonderful for situational awareness and what we've been doing as we visit is confirming those expectations are they posted and as of that 1474 visit it was 80% of the classrooms really did have those of course they might not be there in a kindergarten classroom or might be there in another way but immediately apparent 80% ratio of positive to corrective interactions we're seeing a high positive ratio there we love to see that right three to one positive to corrective interactions how many students are engaged in a given moment in a classroom and we're seeing at as of this moment about 86% and I got to tell you as a person who presents in good siiz rooms that's a good number right hitting 86% of any group is really good to see and then of course other metrics metrics like are we um using District adopted curriculum attendance is another measure we're carefully focused on I borrowed this slide from Matt schulenberg and his um presentation a few weeks back and this kind of shows attendance and it's a really good look I thought of attendance as it used to be in 2009 and then 19 like 10 years later we're still right around 95 in fact that year a little better and then from 2022 when we actually started to take attendance again in in a more official way climbing back toward that 9495 and so we're not presenting this as a budget item to the community we're presenting this as remember regular School attendance is important and it makes a difference because students who attend do better and so we're excited to see it growing and yet we know it needs to continue to improve the flip side of attendance is absenteeism so we'll take a look at that just briefly from the point of view of the dashboard they measure chronic absenteeism which is 10% of the days you're enrolled how many how many students have missed 10% and you can see at the height of oddly 2021 had a uh low you see there's no 2020 there because that year they weren't here but 2021 a little bit low because we had kind of an alternate attendance measure it was it was a conglom conglomerate of other data and student attendance didn't necessarily mean they were here but when they were really back in 22 incredibly High chronic absenteeism it is on the decline and yet still high it's trending in the right direction and we want to continue to see that level of improvement um and I've added the county and the state to this so you can kind of see how we stack up against them the dashboard however doesn't give you charts it gives you this dial and I've included these two because these are unique dials these two the more you decline the better you are you follow the less absenteeism the fewer suspensions and so that did we have declined both in chronic absenteeism and suspension rate although in suspension rate we didn't decline much um we did decline enough to get us into the yellow so that's great to see I'll pause there the entire dashboard is made up of of dials like these except for the science measure which has cell phone bars dials to come we also take surveys and we use the youth truth survey we find it to be useful and we get good good um comparative data and so we saw um over 9,000 students we only give it to grades three through 12 so that's just about every eligible student 1581 families um you know that's over 10% but still we would love that to be higher and so we're always looking for ways to include that or increase that and just over a thousand staff member from our staff who are really we don't add this for those substitutes it's mostly just staff who are eligible and have an email on campus we saw very encouraging Trends and more on that in a little bit most notably perceptions of safety generally so you take all the questions that had anything to do with safety um this is the student responses elementary middle and high school students all felt safer at school was really encouraging to see that you know we meet with these students um Mrs Nelson and I and we ask them questions about how they're feeling at school what would make them feel safer and you know they've come up with some really good ideas and we've been able to implement those or they have at their sites with their principal and you know what it's yielding impact and we're so glad to see that um staff perceptions of safety way up so encouraging again to hear because you know we've all been concerned about this as a as an area and so we see a great growth in the K8 and high school K8 and k6 staff are surveyed together and then High School staff separately because they have slightly different questions and then families too also feeling that school is safer this year and so um we just saw a universal increase in the sense of safety from students staff and parents and it was just great to see goal two is all wrapped up in student achievement and we use as our template to build our metrics the county Cradle to Career Road map uh this board has been uh in the Vanguard of those kind of making sure that we tie those metrics to a larger format and the county road map is what we've chosen to use and so um for example well I'll pause there and just say that third grade reading U sixth grade math graduation rate College and Career Readiness and and so on those are all important metrics um I do need to stop and just make sure you see the entire dashboard for just a moment this is our current dashboard for Apple Valley Unified School District we are we have no red which is wonderful one of the few districts in the area to have no areas in the red um and we've got a couple in the green which is nice to see also in the locally determined areas those five we have met standard in all five areas back to third grade um I've included three years worth of data here we are not seeing a lot of movement in meeting standard in ela but we are seeing students moving out of the standard not met category we know this is critical to our work and that um making sure that students have one access to a viable curriculum and two the the focused um meeting of their needs as individuals is critical now again this was last year's third grade current fourth graders but when you look at um reducing that group that's critically important and we you know continue to focus on that as of the beginning of this year um it was at 47% is really at month one it's actually just a little later than that but our first window we've already seen in the current third graders few are in that bottom group and we know that with a Year's worth of instruction that that number will continue to go down so we're very hopeful that this third grade reading measure will get better over time but we are seeing progress and again I've I've stood here for gosh a number of years giving this report with difficult things to show and it although there's no celebration in the fact that we have students who aren't meeting grade level there is celebration that the movement's in the right direction looking at our aggregate of scores third through 8th and 11th it's an awful lot of scores all Blended together when you look look at just sort of uh the students meeting standard in ela again not a lot of change just a slight increase in those exceeding standard um and a slight decrease in the standard not met and mathematic a little more um oh sorry this is a regional comparison for the language arts very similar to Hisperia um and not as good as uh the state and some other districts I only included K12 districts because um when you start looking at only Elementary or only High School Districts their range of students tested is quite different with our uh 3rd through eth plus 11th cohort mathematics um some decline in that standard not metet group some increase in the standard exceeded and uh and yet also more much more progress to be made in mathematics and regionally very similar very similar to the language arts what has to be focused on though is the distance from standard change and what that is is essentially if you take the aggregate score and if the standard score is 100 and if student scores 50 they're 50 points from standard well the question then becomes how much gain towards standard are they making making as a group and I've just put some of the main groups that we serve in Apple Valley so if you look at um you know kind of our uh different subgroups we see African-American students actually made the most gain uh in moving toward standard and um you know some other groups all making Positive Growth the direction is good we haven't had a plus in these columns for a while so we're seeing every student group move closer to standard but the student groups that are furthest away moving the fastest I'll pause there okay graduation rate one of the other metrics on the Cradle to Career road map um again over time we saw last year a slight decline we knew that was coming um but there's a nice rebound for 2024 over that 92% marker we love to see that um better than the county better than the state encouraging to see and that's for all students in the district College preparation however we do not stack up as well compared to the county or the state and so you can see that number hovering in that 38% looking regionally however um you know that 38 Stacks up well for all students I put some local districts I did put Victor in green I couldn't help it it was a thing and then um I did pull a couple of student groups out African-American students and Hispanic students is for comparison as well ather G completion we know is a component of many things right this is about course selection it's about how important is it to retake a course if you've gotten a grade of D or F it's about not just graduation but graduating with Readiness and so we've met with counselors they've got some great ideas we are using the UC Compass transcript evaluation system so that we know which students are close which students are you know kind of in a second tier and which students are we're going to really need to focus on graduation with them and so we've got some great data and they are bringing that data to uh meetings with the superintendent College of career Readiness on the dashboard however is not a through G it's really interesting the dashboard doesn't have an A through G measure at all you can't find it there it won't be there now you can dig into Data Quest and find it what's on the dashboard is college and Care Readiness more generally and you can meet that a number of ways students can meet that by for example taking a career P technical education pathway and one Community College articulated or dual enrollment class and so there's lots of different ways to be considered prepared for Life After High School Co it's it's College and Career and so um that measure uh is increasing that looks good it's a little bit higher than our a3g because a3g alone won't do it and um just uh move it in the right direction professional learning I want to just point out a couple of things uh we had 80 sessions this summer well attended we've had 134 different things since August till December that includes full day sessions here or afternoon sessions here or at uh some school sites we've used our par educator Academy has had over 180 participants it's been an overwhelming success for them to get some training on Wednesday afternoons um and of course lots of new staff trained as part of these to make sure that they're brought on board there's a culture here of professional learning and a sense of growth it comes out in the survey look at this um our district under the general I have access to meaningful professional development question if you kind of add those strongly agree and agree 28 and 38% respectively you're looking at you know 66% of the staff who say they have meaningful professional development compared to the average of California schools it's much better your average California teacher isn't getting what they get in Apple Valley and we're proud of that when you look at these teachers by years of service um those numbers kind of hold up the the baby teachers feel well supported the 5 to nine and even the more than 20 there's a little dip in that 10 to 20 years at high school um my colleagues were quick to point out that those were people I hired at Apple Valley high school so I have to take some ownership of that 38 I should have hired better but um you know it's like one of those things that that uh just we had a chuckle about but then we quickly snapped back and said well TR was in HR then so she okayed it and so that's just good to see even uh part of both attendance getting them to come to school and also just performance we know is important things like visual Performing Arts I'll just remind the board that this in 2013 Apple Valley as a community said if we have local control bring back music so we did that we added music little did we know that soon thereafter would come targeted State grant that said bring back music but there was a caveat which was you can you can't use this money to supplant anything you're already doing so it has to be in addition to so now we've got prop 28 funds sitting on top of our lcap funds and then of course in the TK through sixth grade programs you've been hearing students talk about other visual Performing Arts activities they're engaged in that are even in addition to those two here's how we know we've got an awful lot of Arts and Music although I know you go to are the performances and you hear them for they're just wonderful when we have instrument cleaning in the summer hundreds of instruments come back for repair which is a lovely thing right to have it means they're being used and so it's just it's just a delight it's over a thousand students involved all right back to the survey data um this the way to read this is to look at um the this is kind of by percentile Rank and so um it's it's got a percentage change which is our where we're most interested and so the percentile rank is kind of where they land as far as as compared to other schools in California students family and staff for fourth through sixth grade and so we see relationships increasing for students big increase in culture academic challenge uh belonging the school safety component is in culture for these kids that's why you don't see school safety there it says na uh belongings down that's an area of concern so we'll bring that up with students on Thursday when we meet them um we're super happy to see uh increase with the family data as we mentioned and the staff increases are notable so we're seeing good movement there Middle grades we only have students because parents are either Elementary or High School staff are either Elementary or high school so for um middle grade students we see increase except for engagement so again an area that we'll bring up with them and then finally High School just blew it out of the water incredible increases families staff look at the culture for staff 19 Point increase being in the blue means you're in the one of the top uh you're in that upper above 50th percentile you're doing better than most of the state and our high school Families Our High School staff and our high school students for the most part they just feel like things are going well and I'll pause there to think back to something that really hit me when we were at csba and that was Dr Lorie Santos's presentation about happiness and what struck me there was this idea that you really have to do that first you know we have a tendency to say I'll be happy when I reach that thing that's on the other side of the goal post but I really appreciate the board's um allowance of us to really work on this first understanding that if students feel safe and comfortable and feel like they have belonging and relationships that the um rest of the data points will come and it's moving and we're so I mean it gives me goosebumps to be up here to finally say this it really feels good um the English language progress indicator so so this is a measure of the students who are considered English Learners and are they making progress satisfactory progress or maintaining already good scores it says we're in the yellow which really irritates me because we maintained what was already a good score and we're better than the state this is the only time I put the state data next to it because I was just slightly irritated because we're better than the state the state's orange we're yellow and I still think we should be green we were green last year we should be green we actually it says maintain but 1.7 without a negative means we actually grew but we didn't grow two points which is what we needed so we're talking two students difference M on Torres is super motivated so um watch out goal three family and comedi engagement um we have had more parents both here and at school sites than we have ever before it's been lovely to see this is just a quick snap of paint night um the buckets were because they needed water in order to sort of you know wash their brushes and paints I was afraid the whole night that someone was going to slip because there was a drip they were on it they were did such a good job but it was just a lovely night um the family survey I mentioned those responses we selected earlier this year prior to the survey going out some key questions that we thought if we could move these those would be good indicators of of growth and we selected my school creates a friendly environment and I feel valued and we saw increases in both chunks of parents for both questions so that was good to see high school's up Elementary is up and they're already pretty high but we really want to see that increasing we feel like that's something that's reachable and important of course our family centers will talk more about that as we do staff presentations but um our food pantry here every Friday that school is in session somewhere between 150 and 200 families getting a box of food Operation School Bell with clothes supplies often from the Assistance League Sparks of love some of you came for that it's just a huge success and then we do have five fully functioning Regional family centers once here but then across the district where three or four schools kind of share a family center and they are used for all kinds of things and we'll talk more about that later so what's coming up um you'll hear more about Community Schools from in another presentation oh we're right on time we're GNA make it um during the presentation at the Town Matt will talk more about the uh TK classroom projects and other things that are going on um the enrollment for the class actually that's uh class of 2037 that's coming in we our open enrollment for um intras and intra requests is starts today and enrollment was queed up for that and ready to go because we know we get a lot of those of course graduations always seems like it's just around the corner and then our summer programs will take off after that so I'll pause there uh for questions Andor thoughts about how to proceed um like I said this data will be interspersed with student videos and all kinds of other things on Wednesday we believe we have much to celebrate here because we are trending in such a positive direction any questions for for uh for p good job it looks good looks good feels good to to share good news moving yet okay I think I'm up next staff reports do anybody need a two-minute break anybody okay we'll take uh we'll come back in five minutes Pat yeah five five minutes yeah for e e e uh super tiny I apologize these are just samples they're going to be up on the screen a little bit more readable format and and you will have these each month and so we thought it would be useful for us to kind of tell you what these various data points are so it'll be Pat just um for reference these are all screenshots from the November board meeting with the exception of one that we had to go back another board meeting because it was not listed as one of them so these are all replicable you can find we just wanted to have slides absolutely yes and so you will see these these are just taken from the last board meeting they're public facing and so um there's nothing confidential here and uh you will have the ability to look at them but I just want to answer any questions about what data this they contain and so the first one is a CWA report it includes the list of schools and then their columns across the top there's the number of foster students um which is a continually updating total and that again as of uh the November board meeting which and this particular report says as of October 2023 that should or October 23rd sorry 2024 um number of homeless students and again homeless by definition right which means they're underhouse they might be doubled up they might be in uh kinship foster and that number at 830 quite a bit higher than it has been in years past um number of students suspend ed class suspension and so on the only one I'll point out is that a board approved expulsion cases at that particular point it says uh that there were three um that is a a continuously updating total as well but that then meeting in November and December there were more so that that was just as of that November prior to board action that night and then one last thing is the student well check that is not a continuing ly updating number that is just that month's total so there's about one of those a day but often you're done two or three on a a Thursday or Friday and on the bottom our care soless indicators those are have to do with a care conier service we used it's a warm handoff or a process by which St families can Avail themselves of mental health care and so either by self- referral or staff referral getting students or to be honest staff members or families anyone connected to Apple Valley UniFi can use care soless the dashboard sits as a link on our website and you can go right in and so this kind of just keeps a running tally on the far right of the totals for this school year our family center report and thankfully Marana is here if you have direct questions about this that I can't answer but it's a pretty self-explanatory system they work with families as and as you might imagine a family who comes into a family center may have kids at multiple schools so there might be some data that maybe shows a high school at a small number but they might be um you know getting services at us for example at Sandia school and they have children at Sandia and Apple Valley but they might report no I have a child here at Sandia and so you know we we know that there's um you know some some Nuance in the data there but this is the kind of services they're getting at the family centers for the month there's a running total of food pantry data down on the bottom left that's always really awesome to see and thousands of individuals served by this point in the year and again this was the um November board report and then Operation School Bell totals there as well sometimes you'll see other additional items there of particular interest like um Thanksgiving Sparks of love and the other things I mentioned earlier and I'll turn it over to Dustin yes thank you uh one staff report that comes out of uh one of our departments here is uh produced by Chief and his team and that's the Patrol statistics uh over the course of the month that are reflected there uh this report is actually kind of broken into two areas you've got a image here of like the summary sheet the the overview of everything and then behind it generally there's a detail that'll break down uh what types of infractions or investigations that you know they they responded to but you just kind of look it really is a good gauge to me when I look at this um I I kind of look at how involved they are with the community it really speaks and I think that a lot of those top numbers especially when compared to like the misdemeanor and felony arrest to see that you know there are hundreds and hundreds of interactions that happen throughout you know a course of a month uh to be followed up with two or three or four maybe you know misdemeanor or felony type of arrests um you know those are the ones I always you often probably are being updated throughout the course of the month too when when stuff is going south but good report to dive into um I know at times a lot of the language will look synonymous as you look at the detail page so if you ever have questions like I don't understand why it says you know um like um traffic Patrol and then traffic stop or you know but then there you find out well that's because this many officers this many school days there are hundred of arrival and dismissal patrols but not necessarily traffic stops you know as the rout circulating and monitoring so happy to always uh seek the answers for clarity if any of those reports you know flag a felony or or any information that you're like hey what is what is this about just ask we should have the answer questions on that thank you and um I'll call your attention the next slide is uh this is a cover sheet for an ASB report uh in the staff report section this is this particular report is for gron Hills High School uh again as as Dustin mentioned the uh the report he was speaking of there's a lot of detail behind that there is a lot of detail behind each one of these ASB reports um you'll see this reflects the uh just a straight Financial activity um and the ASB as a whole but the detail will break down it uh break down the ASB Financial activity by Club account School uh class um all the different different uh uh entities that operate within the associated student body at our schools our uh high schools and our k8s run What's called the organized ASB so you'll see those reports a little more often we do have some of our elementary schools our k6s that um run um a little more of an informal ASB you'll see a summary report or toward the end of the year for those schools and these are student dollars yes these these are all student student dollars in suppor of Student Activities ities and last but not least I think this is the last slide is it okay um this again is uh one of the staff reports this is our attendance report this particular report is actually the final month one ending of this particular school year so this is as of August 30th 2024 after adjustments and um attendance audits to make sure all the attendance is input correctly uh you'll see the schools down the column on the left are case six is our k8s our high schools our high desert Premier Academy and of course our Apple Valley Virtual Academy um their Ada this is month one um enrollment month one cume Ada is the same as month one because it only one month um and the cumulative enrollment you'll see our the expected Ada yield on the far right we're expecting a 96% all at our elementary schools um at our k6s sorry and 95 at our k8s and 94 at our high schools um you'll see the cume Ada yield is really the number we pay attention to that is the second column from the right all the way down at the bottom District total 94.3% that's where we want to see it we started out this year in great shape unfortunately the last few months we've uh We've slid a little bit but not as much as um in past years and we're hoping to climb back up here here in the in the spring with the great weather we're having hopefully nobody gets sick and everybody can come to school any questions on if there ever is please we'd love to talk about these reports this is you know we think important stuff and good news so we'd be happy give us one more chance to change over to our final presentation come off the screen I can get this I got it I'm doing great thank you so much okay while they're getting set up I'll just do a brief introduction we're so excited for for this um uh presentation looking forward to discussion and questions this is a presentation um all about our journey toward the process of not just applying for the Community Schools Grant but really redeveloping the way we serve families you saw in the Family Center data you heard the discussions you saw the data in the family surveys like all those are all indicators of the kinds of services we're attempting to provide this um whole child approach this wrapping our arms around the family and community is kind of built into the DNA of kind of how we do business we're so excited to be able to write about that and have some funds to be even do uh more for families and so with that I'll um introduce Marana Torres director of equity and access and um Nelson Lopez Campos who he she's brought on board as our uh teacher on assignment kind of task tasked with working in this realm and they're just doing a wonderful job so come on up welcome yeah well actually my job is very easy today I just get to introduce our wonderful teacher on assignment who has been working on this project and I'm here because I sort of started the process of exploration and have been the support lead for this project but other than that uh we are actually part of a really great team across our district and he has more information that he's going to talk to you guys about okay sorry it's my first time here um thank you Miss Torres and I want to thank the board as well for the opportunity to discuss about Community Schools Community Schools Foster each child's comprehensive development in a safe environment that meets their social emotional as well as their physical needs and academic success all the while while stren strengthening the community ties through family and Community engagement at the center of Community Schools is the whole child through this approach we can address the following areas the students health and safety social and emotional support engagement and connection as well as those Partnerships with the families in order to provide that academic success this might look familiar to you Community Schools model is perfectly aligned with our district goals and the way that we do business here in avusd but you're probably asking yourselves what are Community Schools Community Schools are a collaboration model that brings together certificated as well as classified Personnel families students and community members in in order to identify challenges that our students are facing they also integrate academic as well as health and sa and Social Services they partner with local organizations and what's important about Community Schools is that they are unique they are unique to the community it serves has well it is a place where every voice matters this slide is important because this is not what community schools are not Community Schools are not a separate school they're not a one-sized fits all model they're not just simply adding programs in order to fix things or one person or one entity making all the decisions and it's definitely not operating in isolation from the school district we're all working for the same goal this is a little timeline of where we began and where we are going if you notice on point number one avusd applied for the applic for the planning Grant this allowed our district to develop a comprehensive plan about how we're going to implement Community Schools here in our district this opened the opportunity to be part of CI which is that Community engagement initiative which is a Statewide program that aims to improve Community engagement and what it looks like at schools as well as in other districts and this was our starting point here at abusd and we started with four sites the four sites that we started with were Granite Hills High Desert Premiere Academy Phoenix Academy has well well as yakoma and also both of our unions abuda and CSEA what we ended up noticing is that through many discussions with both unions it was brought to our attention that ourc CEI team was Major represented by adamant and it lacked that adequate representation as a result of their efforts I was appointed as their t as a teacher on assignment for Community Schools and what that ended up happening is that we started building Flyers we started pushing out information about Community Schools what they are what they can look like and why they are so important and we sent out surveys to our to all of our educational partners and as of today we have a total of 4,000 responses as well because of our ongoing process about Community Schools we started with four sites we ended up adding four more sites and on December 9th we held our first Community School Gathering and also when we when we started talking with our unions as well it was highlighted that our CI team was to admin oriented and that brought us to create a shared leadership committee and with the help of Anaheim School District it was recommended for us to build a shared leadership team that will consist of 15 members three members from each site in order for us to truly have a shared leadership in our in our district and with everything there are deadlines by January 21st each each eight sites are going to turn in their they're going to complete a site plan and by February 7th the district will submit an that they will submit the grant now there are four pillars of Community Schools those pillars are integrated student supports family and Community engagement collaborative leadership and practices as well as Extended Learning Time and opportunities these four four pillars are vital in addressing the whole child model and it's another key element of the Community Schools initiative what this means is this when we Implement these four pillars Community Schools will create a nurturing environment that supports all aspects of a child's development in order for in order to improve education out outcomes the first pillar integrated student supports basically what it is is identifying identifying supports to overcome those learning barriers and they can be things such as counseling or Behavioral Services we also have family and Community engagement this is basically empowering our families in order for them to be active in their children's education and continuing to build and maintain those relationships ships this could be done through things such as home visits family centers or the different community events that we're already currently doing expanded learning time and opportunities is providing our students those additional learning supports that they may need such as tutoring or internships or field trips last but not least you have collaborative leadership and practice the importance of teamwork through a shared leadership model because at the end of the day what we want we want to make sure that there's trust and that we maintain those Partnerships for the long run going back to that timeline on December 9th we did host our first ever Community School gathering with all of our eight sites this was a very wonderful opportunity where we saw teamwork and learning took place each site as you can see by those pictures they reviewed data that is ongoing data happening at their schools and they discussed how they can improve the Community Schools effort at their sites by utilizing those four pillars of community schools and then what ended up happening is that we ended up doing a gallery walk and through that gallery walk each site got to see the different initiatives those different programs those different things that are happening at their site and through this information they got to see that there are they are already doing community SC schools but what they actually learned and got out of was that hey there is areas of growth that need to take place and how are we going to do that so they ended up walking out with ideas and brainstorming different strategies in order to help them write that implementation Grant now the grant itself you have the RFA the RFA is a request for application that's the entire Grant itself but included in the grant will be eight different implementation plans those are those individualized site plans as well as their artifacts this is important because there is an assumption out there that the district is going to be turning in eight different different grants that's not the case it's only one Grant with eight implementation plans with their artifacts which are basically those evidences and you already know this with each Grant there's a rubric and it's worth 100 points the first component is 50 points is going to be CDE the California Department of Education to identify that these different sites actually have a demonstrated needs then each site will complete an implementation plan along with those artifacts and those evidences the district will then actually complete a questionnaire a pro program abstract which basically tells why are we looking looking into Community Schools why do we want it and also do a budget worksheet eligibility and criteria what the state is looking for is 50% or more of of those unduplicated pupil count what does that mean it means that it means that total number of students enrolled that qualify in one of those categories whether it is social socially economically disadvantaged English Learners Foster or homeless and because of this Baseline minimum California is going to be prioritizing the funding allocations of schools that have at least 80% of those unduplicated pupil count as well as turning in those site plans and artifacts and again it's only one Grant and eight PL with their evidences the grand amounts the CDE will prioritize funding allocations to planning grantees and that is great news for us because if you notice on the timeline in Step number one avusd has already applied for the grant so we are already part of that planning grantee and we have priority when it comes to this Grant and the grant itself is going to be awarded based on student population but step number three is very important each grantee must have a local match of one3 that means 33% and all funds must be expended by June 30th 2030 and this is just an image of what that Grant will look like for these eight different schools when this grant comes into play we want to let you know that this is not a new fiscal impact we we want to let everybody know that even though this grant must have a local match of oneir which is that 33% it doesn't necessarily need to be in a form of cash it can be through services or resources of that comparable value because those are things that we are currently doing already doing as a district what this grant gives us is that opportunity to expand what we are already doing and making making them bigger making them better and instead of just supplanting what we currently have the 33% is very important is very important because those are local match contributions that it could be be done through the by the district or the community or a little bit of both and you're going to notice in there are different examples of the district match as well as the community match this funding will not represent new money has highlighted in our district goals Community Schools are vital to our mission in fact our district was P pioneering these efforts before the community school initiative actually started and as a district we are already providing many services Associated to Community Schools and I'm going to give you one example as a district we have invested in five family centers this is just one example of a district match and this existing service is an example of that 33% match from our district this grant again presents us with an opportunity to expand or provide more services without introducing any additional expenses in-kind Services those are those non-cash contributions such as Monet with that have a monetary value these These are services and resources we currently provide as a district these and initiatives will not incur additional expenses or new budgetary expenditures instead the grant presents us with the opportunity to expand and address the barriers impacting the needs for all of our students and like we mentioned before the services we currently provide will count as our 33% match for the grants these are just what's allowed and what is not allowed you're going to notice that ke key phrase and bold so plan existing services and funds funding may be used for any of the above so planting basically means using the grant to pay for resources or services that already exist that's not what the grant is for our Focus will be on enhancing and expanding our current efforts in order to support new initiatives or enhance existing ones when it comes to Community Schools accountability is very important where is this where is this grant going to be what is this grant going to be spent on CDE California Department of Education has made the following guidelines there has to be an annual projected expenditure report there has to be updates on those plans there has to be progress reports there has to be an a sustainability plan because the grant it's only for five years so we need to make sure that there is a sustainability plan in there in play in order to maintain what we're currently and already doing timelines are very important we already started a new year and these deadlines are coming up site plans and artifacts are due by January 21st then we're going to be submitting that one Grant by February 7th then our application will be scored from February all the way to April and we are hoping that our names get announced as proposed grantees for this grant and then last but not least we are hoping that by June and July we receive that letter that we have success received that Community Schools Grant and I truly appreciate the opportunity for being here and thank you for everything that you do and if you have any questions I'm I'm here to I will do my best has has the uh Grant been uh put together and written and ready to go not yet so the grant itself those that abstract and the rest of the things they're in progress but those eight S plans each of the schools are already working on them and does the um the food bank um would that be considered as part of the 33% U that we can use that as showing match I'll give you a few examples and you're going to be amazed with the information that I'm going to give you when when I when we were looking at these different implementation grants you know some of the fundings that these districts are applying for are one to create a food pantry to create family centers to have coordinators to have mental health therapists to have counselors those are all the things that we're already doing right and there is so much more that we are capable of doing as well because at the end of the day we want to make sure that the services that we already have in play and the additional service the additional services and supports that we can have are all for the benefit of our families and the students that we serve but before all of this is done I'm going to make sure that each one of you receives the copy of that of that draft alongside of those eight site plans those budget reports and all of those things anything that that you need you will have available for you okay good presentation is there any more questions for uh yeah yes Amanda so what is the full amount of the grant that we're applying for it depends so for example we have eight different sites the grant that the sites are going to be receiving depends on those on those populations so it could be I I think I did the math we're looking at possibly $10 million or it could be a little bit more than that it all depends on those student populations from each one of those and and who receives it but I can have an exact number for you and you know afterwards yeah and I can answer that partially because it they can choose to award not all eight sites so we might so let's say we apply for 10.1 million or something like that they may say seven of the eight we're going to fund and so they might not come back with the full amount okay and then if we say get 10 million and we're on the hook for 33% how do we I guess what I'm struggling with is how do we know that it's not going to come out of our budget that we're not spending extra to come up with that money if we don't know how much we're necessarily going to be awarded yeah how can we say it's not gonna we we are let me answer that by giving some other examples we have lots of grants that already operate this way so all of the CTE grants require match all of the California partnership Academy grants require match they are they we are so overmatched so we can already meet the maximum award 33% amount and almost double we have un we have lots of Grant capacity because of the amount we already expend in a in a five-year time period how much we are expend for all of those services including for example counselors and therapists it adds up so quickly that we are um it's odd to say it's a good thing we are overmatched and come out of what is already the um supplemental and concentration dollars so it doesn't change unless our DAC changed the process and decided those weren't the priorities um these have been top priorities of the district advisory committee for years okay so my next question if we're already doing all of these things what's going to change of these schools to make them Community Schools how look different yeah so the question really is what what did the schools come up with as ideas and and and they're again they're meeting they met all this week they're working hard on what else would we do and so what are some examples of some things you've seen I'll give you an example we have a total of 14 schools in Apple Valley but yet we only have five family centers our our staff is overworked you know our people can't be at all 14 Schools at each time so our goal is that again Community Schools is unique to the community it serves so for example if a school decid hey we would like a a community schools family liaison then they can use a budget for that or any other little things does there's eight schools that are applying MH how many of those eight already have the family center and some of the schools already have have the family center so that won't change so it won't change it might not change the actual building but they may be able to add capacity to that Family Center great more therapists more um Community therapy support um there's a lot of of options um they want to add tutoring in some cases because for that Extended Learning at the high school level um they don't have elop at the grade 7 through 12 so there's a lot of look at that kind of thing with the understanding that anything we do add needs a sustainability plan and we may not be able to continue after 2030 unless the state finds a way to continue to fund it or if at that point the district says that's so important that we're willing to trade that for something else but they have all uniquely come up with different things they want to do with their particular site allocation think of um hdpa no family center there yet lots of need and so they really want to have their own and so that's one of the ideas they up with but they're a tiny school so they would be getting the smaller amount well and and I think also to answer your question it's not necessarily just one thing the whole idea behind the needs assessment that was done by students by parents by staff uh by the community it's looking at the specific needs and and making sure that the different barriers that we might not be aware of or the different things that we might need to supplement uh we can bring to the table it could be additional tutoring it could be a mentoring program it could be at some sites because for example the family centers that you guys have been talking about um even though we only have five sides we actually serve all 14 Schools which means that people cannot be at two places at one time so it could be that it one individual could come in for an additional amount of time or they could have a resource uh desk everybody wants to make sure that these additional funds would be applied in a way in which we would be able to expand the support that we have for our students and our families and it with the whole child effort we are looking Beyond sh what happens during the school day we are very blessed in the fact that we actually have a district nurse who is assigned to our community schools efforts and she has been uh reaching out to the community we're looking forward to doing Vision Community Days we are looking forward to expanding other services as well so what this does is really look at every single one of the different things that a student can potentially or a family could potentially need to make sure that they can get to school healthy to make sure that they have what they need and that they feel supported when they get to the school including with the staff so sorry if if I if I took over but I want to make sure that I assure you that everything that we look at in this grant it's a really wonderful opportunity for us to provide without having to continue you to be the only ones that are paying for it basically yeah good way to put it so um is there any other questions or anything because I don't want to steal any more of your time well we're looking forward to some good news thank you for the presentation me too he did amazing great job Nelson you did great thank [Applause] you all right that brings us to public comments Kylie you any public comments uh we do not have any okay uh board comments anybody else have anything we'll go down the line real quick Anita I just want to say thank you very much to everyone who worked hard uh on the presentations and the data and the information it was great to hear so many wonderful things are happening and I look for forward to continuing hearing the successes of Apple Valley Unified School District for the rest of the Year great thank you Renee um just thank you for the time and effort you put into that presentation it's very evident and I appreciate it great Amanda um yes uh thank you definitely for bringing information because I know I had first asked for it like over a year ago because um the district I work in has been really pushing for Community Schools and I know a little bit of what like their definition is what they're doing but um I didn't really understand exactly what was changing here because it sounds like we had a lot of it in place already um so I I appreciate the clarification great thank you well it's been a good meeting it was uh a lot of information for the very beginning of the year and and uh I think staff did a great job bringing uh everybody back on board on what our expectations are what we do here um you it was uh very worthwhile so thank you TR I apologize to Nelson and to Marana but especially Nelson who just kept plugging along as I was up and back and forth and it goes back to your classroom teaching experience and the fact that you can just pretty much do anything without um the disruption excellent presentation we are thrilled about the opportunity coming and I have to say after being at California school boards Association and one of the first districts to receive the um Grant was hupi unified which is where I got my start as a teacher I sat through the presentation and I thought yeah we do that yeah we do that and everything they presented I thought Apple Valley is already doing it it just means we have this opportunity to expand and um support the entire Community um that has need so um really glad that um we have Nelson as a teacher on special assignment um in marana's Department sitting next to Wendy who's our um communitybased nurse um having to do with the um um program as we move forward with Community Schools so um thank you to the board for the extended time today I know what an impact it is to be with us all day long it feels like you worked with us today and um literally on the first day back from um winter break and and we appreciate the the commitment that you made to do this and I think Miss Oar will be just fine great okay so item G H I J and K we have nothing uh to at this meeting we have no need for a second uh closed session and um so we'll move on to uh future items do any members have any future items for any agenda items like no okay and um do we have any signing of documents Kylie um there's a few things in here oh okay well we can uh just hang around real quick after this and with that I'll ask for a motion to adjourn so moved all right all in favor I all right hearing not nobody opposed we'll be adjourned for

e e e all right well we're back uh back at the regular meeting the special meeting at 108m so with that we'll Co roll call I'm here Amanda can here Maria Oar Maria okara here here I'm here all right we're all here so let's see Anita can you lead us in the pledge ready begin I pledge aliance 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 all right I need to read this here said a good evening it'll be good afternoon everyone and thank you for being here before we get started I'd like to say that the board appreciates and supports educational Partners I don't think we have anybody for the public so go ahead Cesar's our only so we'll go down the line here anybody has any comments we'll start with any comments welcome the board thank you I'm really excited to be here and thank you all for your help and support and getting me uh acclimated and ready for this position I'm extremely excited about it um couple of things I uh want to wish um Karen Sabers happy birthday are um certificated uh um teacher president of Auda and then I heard some sad news and I wanted to extend condolences to the family and friends of Frank Leno when I went to school uh here Frank Leno was ASB uh director at Apple Valley high school and I had heard that he had passed recently so I extend my condolences to his family and friends and I wish everybody a really wonderful good near good a wonderful New Year and a really good start to the second semester of school um yes I just want to welcome everyone back from our break I hope you all had a great time uh with family and uh with adventures and that we're all coming back refreshed and ready to start 2025 strong um I'd like to uh start with the uh challenge that was presented to me by then president Dr oara um choosing a word of the year um I've never done that before so challenge accepted um I've never done this before either so looks like I'm making a collection um my word for 2025 um is Inspire um I gave got a lot of thought um as in joining the board I become part of a group of wonderful individuals um that have been doing lots of great work here um so I become part of a team and with the word inspire I want to think of uh things outside myself so what I choose to do with my life and how it impacts those around me um and then inspires them to in turn do the same so with that I welcome 2025 and I'm excited for where we're headed I'm inspired you thank you well welcome back to uh the last leg of the school year uh 2025 and we're hoping that it will be an exciting uh school year with lots of new ideas coming up um in this school year and um working together as a team um and because there's no I in team I really look forward to that team teamwork that makes a Dream Work welcome back from your holidays and I hope you all enjoy time with family and I have toyed with my work for the year and uh for now I'm going to settle with listening um I try to um I'm hoping that I'll listen more and respond less um but welcome back to the new year thank you Maria Amanda all right I'll Echo the welcome back and I wanted to say um how nice it is to be like it's our first meeting with all five um of our our board that we'll have for the next two years hopefully longer um and and I just wanted to say thank you so much to not just the cabinet but I'm sure there was many many staff people involved in putting together everything for today um and it was it was just really nice to so far get through because we've been here since 8:30 this morning um but get through all the information and then everything that's going to come up on Open session so thank you thank you Vanda and I just like to Echo what everybody else has said here um obviously I appreciate the support on uh becoming the president for the 25 school year rest of the year and I look forward to um working with everyone and I as you are well aware from what we discussed earlier this morning we have a full plate on our table for the rest of this year we have a lot of work and some of it will be um complicated and not easy but I think uh we'll get through it and it'll be um a successful year so with that so J um it was a wonderful break I actually loved coming back in on Friday last week uh I'm not sure the guys I I kind of hit them up and said would you guys meet me I think Matt was the one scheduled for Friday work but um we decided it was important to come together and um be fully prepared for today and I appreciate the board taking the time time to um spend the entire day with us um I think it's probably the best way we can Orient um a new board coming together three of you have been through most of this but adding two means um you're all on the same page been able to ask questions and so I appreciate that um my word is presence and I say that as a parent and as that was the flash from the fire alarm that just caught my eye sorry um hopefully it won't go off um as a parent and as a um employee being present with people and hearing what they have to say and um putting devices down and spending some time difficult sometimes in the role that I'm in and I have been committed that's my 2025 um word Miss oara challenged me a few years ago on this and so I've done it annually and I think it really does help and so I can't wait to be inspired tired I can't wait for some listening and um you hold me accountable to being present so um appreciate that um as far as Frank lento Frank lento and I had um a working relationship years ago I knew that he was not doing well but I'm I did not know he had passed um I was a brand new principal and he used to call me hey kid come here and he'd tell me what to do and I always did what he told me to do because he kept me in ly um and so I am sorry for his loss and for his family and um everybody that's impacted and um wishing Karen a birthday happy birthday as well I'm glad to know that today's her birthday and she's a January baby we are um starting in on second semester which will be Mar marathon pace because um as you know each month we get that much closer to um our first graduation as a um board um up cheering on our students so um I know they're feeling it I know the staff is feeling it and it and the second semester does feel longer than the first semester so hold tight and I appreciate the work ahead thank you training okay item five is closed session reports and I don't believe clerk you have anything to read out for the closed session moving right along adoption of the agenda the board May approve the agenda as is or add or pull items from the consent calendar for discussion or action so I would need a motion to approve the adoption of the agenda I'm sorry who was that that did that Anita Anita I second it and the second from Maria all right all in favor I I I any opposed hearing no none motion passes unanimous uh item D recognition presentations none at this meeting moving on to item e discussion information and item first item up will be TR and that is review of the alpha Valley Unified School District government governance handbook hey Caesar can you grab me some water back there is there a bottle of water or a cup of water I'm sorry that's fine water thank you sir I know it's not in your job description but it is thanks brother all right first that's the issue first says last the rest of haveed and yeah [Music] s look at how often I stand at this Podium never to start except when we are doing presentations with people and honoring them so the history of the governance handbook I think is important for us to re um review for a minute for um new board members the Board of Trustees worked with California school boards Association back in 2021 to establish a governance handbook prior to that we don't find a governance handbook any place so historically this was the first one is what we believe um occurred so kudos to those who were on the board in 2021 for um seeing some need to have a governance handbook it was adopted at the June 10th 2021 board meeting that was after doing some virtual sessions with California school boards Association making some decisions looking at drafts and moving forward and then there was an initial appr um agreement that we would review this annually there's some some history to that as well so we agreed that in December it would come to the board which didn't really make sense in an election year because that meant a previous board might be reviewing a governance handbook and a new board member might never have the opportunity to do that and we decided that it probably couldn't be done in one session so taking this kind of like we do with our board policies it's probably important um annually to bring it forward as an information discussion item and then bringing it back at a later date for any edits or recommendations so today if people have recommendations Kylie's ready to take notes about that and then we can bring back some um draft language and um get it in front of the board for at least a first read and then um a potential adoption at a following board reading again there's no on this it just helps us to identify um the effective governance standards um for interacting so I talked a little bit about the history um from a governance stand um standpoint taking a Unity of purpose the roles the Norms the agreements and Protocols of how we operate together and creating a formal structure for those is really what the outcome of this governance handbook is um there is a slide in here where I'll ask some questions but it's really intended to just be thoughtful around um what your needs as board members are um for future meetings in to utilize the governance handbook and in the end it's the best benefits of the children of Apple Valley Unified School District that's our purpose um is what are we doing in in the best interest of students so when we did a review the last time one of the questions I asked is how do we make this relevant how do we utilize it um in a more succinct way that um is useful to the board to the governance team is it a pre a printed copy that sits at your um seat with your name on it so that if you want to jot down or look through during a board meeting is that what you'd like is it a printed copy as well for at home for a reference point or a set of the board bylaws or name it what else could make it relevant these are just some um thoughts that we talked about many years ago 2021 seems like way in the rearview mirror um but we've never had a statement of what we will do with it other than um utilize it as a guiding purpose so um these are just thoughts if anybody would like to have that um please speak up and we'll make sure that we have them available um maybe with your names on them so that if you make notes you have one right now you could turn it in until we do any amendments next steps so really it's just that um you review the different sections you had it as one of the posted items for this board workshop and then um if there are areas within the um governance handbook that you feel like need to be amended in particular we looked at um some language last time that had to do with newly elected board members and their attendance at California school boards Association and it worked out wonderfully um California school boards Association doesn't do a good job of of timing this they know that elections H sorry I love the California school boards Association but if I had was the queen of everything I would ask them to delay this um California school boards Association to January or February so that we could get new board members in um sworn in and be really part of a governance team before they attend I get it as newly elected you have the opportunity to be there and learn about it but not every District can based on policy and so it's always been a little bit of an obstacle so we now have it in the government's handbook we have a way to work around it and if there's um other things within the government's handbook that need to be amended or updated um just based on the times then we need to look at the language annually so like I mentioned before we take things so that people have the opportunity to see them then review them and then make recommendations or leave as is with board policies we do two reads that's what's required there's a first read that is typically language that's provided to us by the law um if there's been a change in law we come back bring it to the board as a first read with the amend M Ms already made strikethroughs bolded anything that is being removed from the policy is stricken anything that is new to the policy is bold um and italicized and that way board members can see what it used to look like what we're proposing it to look like and then it comes back a second time for a final read an adoption and if there's things that are maybe not something that people believe should be in there um we have to do a little bit of background to understand whether it's contrary to law because if it's contrary to law we don't get to dictate what the the language is so um my recommendation with the government's handbook would be something similar whereas you have the time today to receive the information you we could have it agendized for the next board meeting so that we could receive more feedback as to what you'd like to see in it or leave it the same and then um bring it as a final read at the February board meeting and then I've listed out the others just so that you can see them administrative regulations are a one read prior to adoption so you will typically only see those on a board agenda a single time um exhibits are a one read prior to adoption as well ex exhibits typically are forms things that we would utilize internally but that way you as board members if they are going to be board adopted have access not every form in the district is an exhibit it depends on what the the process by which it was developed and the need for it having to do with policy and then board bylaws are obviously the 9000s and um board bylaw 9310 actually points you back to and there's a I I don't know what happened with this I think I'm using an old an old um uh it did like it didn't save I was in a room down the hall um but it really does point you back to the governance handbook and how the governance of the board should happen and so um it's a great bylaw 310 points us back to um governance as a team any questions any recommendations is there any areas that people have already read through and thought maybe should be um amended it seems to me that re is going through there's a lot in this I there's a lot of some of it looks a little redundant but I mean probably wouldn't be something that we would need to go and remove but it is pretty comprehensive yeah any place where it talks about board bylaw it has just removed the board bylaw language and put it in here so we we've those those areas while they're in here at the time historically the board had made the decision that they wanted the language to be embedded into the governance handbook as a qu quick reference if if those of you you Rick you were there Maria you were there um Amanda you were there for review last year but you weren't there with the original um so um anything that you guys decide is redundant we are more than willing to look at and um amend as you ask I mean there I saw a couple here that there was you know onage and it's not a big deal I just noticed that it said it twice in same same page but I'd have to go through it a little bit more detail okay and because it's a public session um uh presentation you are more than welcome to send me an email or um anything just with with the edits that you see fit and I can bring those to the whole board as a um in an update just hear some recommendations from other board numbers um we can work to do some of those edits and then we can bring it back can I speak Mr President excuse me I speak Mr President oh yes you may um of course um I would like to have almost like a a laminated copy put on our desk for each board meeting on what our roles and responsibilities are okay so that we can have a focus on it at all times to see what our job is and what it is not so so we can see this five of them that you have here to just have it printed and posted on our desk or taped down on our desk so that we can see that it's on page three it rolls to page four as well but we probably can structure it to a one page um is is that agreeable by the rest of the board can we do that is sure anything else is there any other questions uh for turn comments not that I can't think of thank you TR all right so item two is going to be Mr sler pup personal student discipline procedures it's the topic we deal with a lot right yes you do thank you um so we'll go through this will be just some background there's a couple of um there's the slides I've printed because there are references to board policy and education code in the slide deck that you may want to have um of course at any time we're happy to answer questions so you feel free to you know Reach Out directly to us uh in these cases but here's an overview of student discipline and the kind of the process and really that's from an incident at a school into a board action and so that is completely governed by uh board policy and administrative regulation 5144 point1 and point2 and the only difference in point two is it it's it is a section entirely focused on students with disabilities but they mirror each other with some additional requirements and the Ed code sections that govern this are are listed there and they're lengthy and detailed um so I've included here references to those that are most important for you because as you can imagine a lot of them apply to what must happen at a school site okay so we're going to focus today on the role of the board and how those um steps are to be taken so first we have to kind of make sure and clarify what is expulsion even families sometimes when we have a meeting with them to talk about this they think expulsion means I'm gone forever and that isn't what that term means really it's your authority to exclude a child from our school system for up to calendar year depending on the Ed code violation and that's the longest it can be unless they don't meet their terms and conditions we must during that time however provide another opportunity for them to attend school because school is mandatory in California and so typically if it's not within our system it will be in the county system or some other placement but we do provide schools students still must attend during that time of expulsion we also must set the term and the conditions for return and then they have a you might imagine do process rights all along the way in order for their side to be heard and for them make sure that we are carefully considering appropriate evidence that reasonable people are used to making used to using uh used to use to make serious decisions we have the burden of proof and we must follow the law and so I've included document uh one and two let me um please forgive my course numbering system it was the best I could do on short notice I am ill skilled in the Adobe Acrobat so um you will have this every time this is simply a list of the education codes we include this in the background that we provide to you that includes the student discipline specifics and so it's a two-sided it lists simply all of the current educational codes for which a student may be suspended and or expelled you will only see them if they are being recommended for expulsion P can I ask you a question with that does that is that a um a moving Target does that document change yearly like you know like new laws are enacted do we see much change in that we see some change we have seen some Chang for example if you look at 48900 K so in K it explicitly lists now a bunch of subsections telling us upon whom this section cannot be used because K is the disrupted school activities one and so um it now indicates that for example in Stu for students in grade K or one through eight inclusive they shall not be suspended for any acts enumerated in this subdivision so we know we have to pay attention upon whom it applies some of them have age or grade level specifications like the sexual harassment C code they don't change a lot but they do change and we have to watch luckily that's those are education or those are uh Law changes that everyone's intenna are up for and we get good um analysis be ahead of time and if that does come we'll make sure I advise you and then uh the second page or my cleverly numbered number two is a California Department of Education three column chart that's actually fairly handy and what that does is enumerate for you three categories of offense there's the must recommend expulsion offenses the 48915 C's and those are um offenses for which school sites have no discretion they must recommend and you can see them listed there there are five and on the back it continues and it's just sort of the the reference on the back the middle column are the other 48915 offenses they are the May um be recommended or they must unless the School site believes another means of of uh remediation might work and so those are listed there and then finally the May recommend and that's all of the 48 900s and I'm going to draw you to the back side of handout two for the 48900 at the third column it starts with p sold prescription drug soma a Ed code by the way for which none of us I think has ever commit a suspension or expulsion I think was a law that was written for a particular time in uh California history that um we have lots of other things we see on campuses but s is not one and then it reads down and I want to draw you to number one and two where it says the recommendation for expulsion shall be based on one or both of the following this is something called secondary findings and they are required for this column other means of Correction are not feasible or have repeatedly failed to bring about poer conduct which requires us to there's a burden of proof to show that both attempted them and that they didn't work or and or number two due to the nature of the act the presence of the pupil causes a continuing danger to the physical safety of the pupil or others and so I just point those two because those are um thresholds we must meet for 48900 offenses so they can't simply for example get in a single fight that's a 48900 now if there's if it is a situation that rises to the 48915 level then an expulsion does not require secondary findings but if it does not there's no great bodily injury or so on then we have to have secondary findings meaning we have to have attempted to either remediate the the behavior or it has to be due to the nature of this particular we have to show cause that this student cannot be on campus I'll pause there for questions any questions for I have one okay going back to the one that you mentioned sold prescription drug soma Som so that one falls under May recommend but if we look under must recommend um wouldn't that be item three it would and we think of sales that way s it goes or yeah and and in fact I'll point out two things thank you for that question it's going to help me fix an error on the back side you'll see that um those same secondary findings are listed under column two and yet we believe in this District that um due to the nature of the ACT is Satisfied by sales and and I think the board can understand that it's a whole different thing to have um items in your possession for personal use versus bringing them for distribution and sale on a campus now those facts of the case may vary and we would always bring those out in the hearing process but that's been our look at that I think what um Miss panan is talking about is under column one it talks about the unlawful under the health colum code yes under the health and safety code there is a difference between Som yes Soma is not listed in section 11053 well it's also of course well yeah be quiet it s is listed in that in that particular section but it does not qualify for number three perscription it's not there there's a list of chemical components listed in section 11053 and that particular compound does not qualify I got it thankfully like I said we don't see that at the moment but we are careful to consider whether or not like we actually have to use um our officers as drug um identification agents because sometimes we cannot necessarily determine the chemical compound great questions thank you um my question is on other means of Correction you way you look at the other means of Correction um when you look under column three it says due to the nature of the act the presence of the pupil causes a continuing danger to the physical safety of of the people or others when you site that are you citing it specifically for that School site or are you citing it specifically for being in the presence of other people or others because this particular language did not say to that school it just says other people or others and so if that is the case should we be um expelling a student to another school where he is going to become a a danger to other pups certainly an understandable consideration I think that there are times when we've realized that there might be a situation where it is a particular situation between student groups or a particular student and another and so in that case it could be that the hearing chairperson and the panel believe that it would be reasonable to put a student at another site especially if that site has much greater supervision but it could be that they believe if in a secondary finding that the student cannot be in our schools at all and so that will be the board's decision to make thank you okay doing good so I've also included uh document three kind of a flowchart and timeline there are very strict legal timelines that we must follow I know and even worse I'm going to cop to the fact that I simply lined out the old list of board members at the top because I did not have access to current letterhead last night belly up that's my theory and so this timeline and in fact a much more detailed timeline in and flowchart is shared with families this is for you to kind of see that we have a series of questions we ask oursel if this then that or if not then we have a different path to travel we meet and we carefully adjudge these things our child welfare and attendance coordinator Renee Castillo is well versed in these and we work with the sites to make sure they're following the steps what's more interesting I think is on the back of this number three and it's kind of a two-step process that shows the timeline and you may have to take that apart it shows the timeline for regular education and then also for a stipulated expulsion which we'll cover in a moment and you'll notice that there are some things that must happen by day five of suspension 10 calendar days before the hearing the parent must be notified and these things happen typically both by telephone and um by um uh certified mail a student could be out for up to 40 days before you take action that's the legal maximum we try to go faster than that in every case but sometimes it comes to the point where um the family really feels like that's a long time and we know this happened and so we'll talk about what happens in those cases I'll insert that um kind of the school site principal is immediately involved they're the ones who make the recommendation to the hearing chairperson and really officially to tr Nelson as a superintendent of recommendation for expulsion which sets in motion a set of processes the principal must also talk to the parent first then we take over from there at the district office child welfare and attendance coordinator makes contact with the family to extend the suspension we gather information we share all evidence with the family because that is their due process right we then call an administrative hearing panel together and the panel is comprised by board policy of three certificated members who do not work at the school where the child attends um they're typically site administrators from other school sites it's very helpful for them to be in those rooms because they are also presenters from time to time and then they listen to the evidence weigh the facts then then based on the elements of each law they to come up with a finding a fact and write it up and then that's is what is presented to you along with all evidence now what isn't presented to you is the transcript of the case so you don't necessarily know exactly how the evidence was presented at hearing you know what the evidence packet that was provided to the family is we leave you out of that because you are not finders of fact you are decision makers unless the family requests their um hearing to be in front of you and so I'll pause there I have a question Mr President yes um I know that you have a 40 school days after the first day of suspension um I'm going to give you a scenario okay a student um violates one of those Ed code or the discipline policy um but the student is is being is in lock up MH and he's there for 40 days or 41 days yeah what does that do with that case here's how we typically handle those they do happen from time to time if the incident occurs on campus and in some for some reason our police or the sheriff's department is involved and they decide that a penal code violation has taken place and the student is removed from our taken custody of and and removed we are unable usually to complete our investigation at that time so we do not suspend correct we wait until the child is returned to us to make sure that we have given the child an opportunity to give a statement and that is when day one of suspension occurs after they are released although that can extend the time that they're away from school it means that we don't miss any legally required timelines okay I I asked that because sometimes we have suspended the student and this is suspension started let's say on a Monday and after school on Monday the police goes to the home and arrest the child and now the child now has 40 days but your suspension has already kicked in from that day one absolutely correct so now what do we do because now your clock has started ticking you're right and two two problems occur then one we will never have extended that suspension so technically the child could go straight back to school correct if that were to occur and if we' missed the timeline the only way to extend it would be by parent permission and they would have the right to say no so in the case that we for some reason decided to suspend and then they were incarcerated for some period of time that caused us to miss those deadlines we would be out of deadline out of timeline and unable to proceed thank you okay doing great thank you so in the case where the family says yes we understand this happened we aren't here to um disagree with that or plead differently the potential to return to school quickly is allowed by board policy where the parent would simply wave their right to a hearing they wave some of their due process rights and we would stipulate that the event occurred the student is a danger and we're going to move them to another location and that location could be at the county school placement or it could be at another School site via a method called suspended enforcement which I'll get get to in a moment that still comes to you here's the difference it doesn't come in in the case where if a stipulated agreement comes to you and you choose not to approve it you really can't amend that because one of the agreements they're stipulating is they're agreeing to what they're signing they're not agreeing to some other thing so if we say no to the stipulated agreement then their timeline starts that day again and so then they have rights to a hearing because they have waved their rights based on what they signed that day and so if you choose not to approve a stipulated agreement then we simply proceed to hearing which is completely fine so just a note on stipulated agreements and then um we've kind of talked about this already uh document four is worth looking at though and uh just briefly it's the 4896 this was revelatory for me and helpful I think for us I'm going to add this I'm going to ask that this be added to what is included in each board packet um I've kind of highlighted some areas of importance it does Describe the term that other than 48915 c which is the five on that left First Column of the CDE document document two that the term shall be the set a date not later than the last day of the semester following the semester in which the EXP expulsion occurred when the pupil shall be reviewed for readmission essentially that limits the term for a 4915a or 48900 offense to semester plus one the semester expulsion occurred the legal definition is that is when you take action only you can expel so if an offense occurs in December and you take action in January then semester plus one is this semester spring and The Following fall semester now you can always go shorter you are allowed to have a shorter term of time thank you Anna but you cannot Auto opt for a longer term in this L the Ed code violation is a 4915 c those five listed on the far left column that we showed you earlier and I will make sure that that's known both to the hearing panel and to you finally uh it does make reference to the readmission process and I'll just a quick note about that I think I go forward here no not yet and I'll note that there are students who come to us from other districts who are expelled they attempt to enter our district with a new address they are expelled students they do not get an automatic admission they go through an admission hearing we consider the evidence we look at see if the original terms and conditions are met and if they are not we continue them as an expelled student at whatever placement they replaced at or a new placement if their address change requires it I'll pause there I know it's a lot promise that you are uh one will become more familiar and two you have our assistance at any time I made reference to something called a suspended enforcement all that is is us saying yes you're an expelled student but we're going to place you at a different or even possibly the same School site if the school site believes that that's appropriate so maybe the violation is such that they feel like this student um although should be it should have an expulsion on their record we believe we can remediate this student and but we still want the kind of um Force potential force of an expulsion hanging over the student so that they know that if a single violation occurs they will go immediately to a different placement and so you will see sometimes a recommendation from the hearing panel of a suspended enforcement and again that's allowed for an ed code and board policy sometimes it's too most often to another school site board action you can discuss these in closed session action taken in open family may come to plea and you will be acting upon the hearing chairperson's recommendation or amending such recommendation County the U families if they do not like your decision they are allowed to appeal within 30 days of your decision to the county at the county um we will attend on your behalf and represent the district and the county simply uh they do not rehear the case they do not rehear evidence but they they have um they listen to the parent and they listen to The District and then they decide their options are essentially have another hearing and do a better job for example include the evidence that they feel was omitted or they can say that's uh EXP the expulsion they can say that's not an expellable offense or something was handled improperly return the student to school or they can uphold the action of the local board we have had an appeal in the last five years maybe one and the county did uphold our local board action readmission is mentioned in 48 916 and essentially that's for our director of child welfare and attendance to reach out to families and say your term is ending I like to and see that you've not only met the time but the conditions that were laid out that might have been counseling get good grades attend school regularly and do all the things we asked you to do please come sit with me and let's review that data bring proof that you have completed those things and if you have done so then you will be recommended for readmission we gladly welcome you back to the district and those come to you as a report monthly as well typically they come at the end of each semester because I've mentioned before the terms are semester driven and we do try to get students back in if they've met those terms and conditions we reach out affirmatively to them many districts wait for students to kind of remember to reach out we um we reach out to every student who's expelled when their term expires you can readmit or deny readmission I'm sorry my question was on the um ex stipulation of the expulsion by the um by the hearing board um is it is there any way that they can just state that they are recommending expulsion for one semester or two semesters but without a date because that is that's always a confusion when they say the student will return on at you know for fall two the board has not made a decision yet so the board makes that decision based on the date after we have heard the case or have we've met as a board is when we have met as a board that we will tell you if it is for the next semester or the following because my what I see is that the the exposion um the hearing uh officers when they're hearing it they may have heard it in October but because of a timeline or they may have heard it in November timeline wise we the board we don't get it till end of December but they announc saying that the students will be expelled for the fall semester and the spring but we're hearing it after the fall semester is is done so we need to be able to to have that window to say yes we agree that the student will be expelled for two semesters or one semester beginning at this date and ending here um and it is all based on the when we went to csba conference and there were some vague statements by school districts that we at at some point those school districts found themselves in a difficult situation because the information was vague it didn't have exact timeline so you know I'm just hoping that the the panel when they hear it will say yes based on this case it should is entire it should get a semester or even two weeks whatever it is that you're giving but let the board make that date decision because it is based on our date that that happens it's not based on their hearing board date yeah I understand that and I think there's two separate steps here one um a stipulated agreement would never be heard by a hearing chairperson because they've waved their you're not talking stipulated expulsion okay um so if it goes to a hearing chairperson I think this becomes most important around December and May so that we are thoughtful about making sure that we understand which board meeting it will be presented and so yes we can if there's a question as to what when the board might hear this and they really want it to be two semesters but we don't know if this action will be taken in December or January for example then we should be thoughtful about leaving that in that way stipulated agreement we wouldn't be able to do that okay I understand the question thank you um last one is expungement uh this is allowed by law that um families can ask after their term and conditions are met we typically ask them to wait at least one full year after they are readmitted but they can request an expungement of that particular incident and so we bring those to you for consideration if we believe the child has not only met their terms and conditions but also had then another good year because we do want them to be able to apply for the kinds of things in postsecondary world for which this offense might keep them out especially if they have made a change and they've learned a new Behavior so that's really the nuts and bolts and discipline I'll pause there one more time for questions Pat you mentioned uh secondary so if if a student is expelled and it stays on it her his or her record what does that um due to Future employment are there certain types of jobs certain types of like going into the military or anything like that does that affect that it does there are uh jobs like the military police department that if there's certain offenses on the record that are not expunged that will keep them out and so we do have from time to time either someone doing a background check or a recruiter call us and say hey can you tell me about you know the students said that they had a clean record can you confirm and if the students an adult and gives us permission then we can uh give that record and either confirm or say NOP clean record yeah even if it's not a crime basically it's yes even if it's only an ed code violation y sometimes they ask which one and they're less concerned about Ed code violations of one type versus another yeah good question any other questions for for Pat don't go too far might need a I hate being stuck behind here I so want to walk be up and down in front of you but I know we're streaming this and if I don't talk into here it won't be heard so um this is a preview of some data that will be presented in um I'll have to I'll say up at the outset it will the presentation on the 8th we think will be an awful lot more entertaining one because I won't be the only presenter will be the full team and two because we've got all kinds of cool student videos and other things that will be particip along with it and so that will be um uh at the Sing center for the s at 10 a.m.

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so yeah I mean there is a degree of discretion and judgment it's placed I mean things like um you know prohibited from using their District title or affiliation that's very cut and dry as it relates to the content it's a bit more subjective so go um well I think the phrase that sticks out to me because it it it sort of implies a a a stepped process is that in the uh last paragraph um it says if the board or superintendent believes that a staff member's activity on any social networking site violates the district's policies the board of superintendent May request that the employee SE such activity so it's it's almost like you're asked to stop instead of being subject to uh penalty automatically is but if you look at the next line though depending on the severity of the incident the staff member may be subject to disciplinary action so if that this is the intersection so it's a kind of confli though what you're talking about and that those two sentences are the intersection of free speech rates and um our policy the Desire by public entities to maintain a certain standard in decorum right so um I you know the first thing when that situation happened was take it down first like talk to the person get them to take it down um because we can make such a request if the if if an individual said to us at that point no that's my free speech they could have a real good argument there when um those posts create a uh make it create an environment that make it impossible to operate in the course of business that's where you start to get into the severity of the incident um and easier for a disciplinary process to take place um and it's not cut and dry it's subject to the interpretation of the courts is usually what it boils down to somebody's going to make that determination because if we fire somebody and they say That's My Free Speech right I I wasn't representing the cheser public schools I was speaking on a topic of public interest things that are gerine to the law they could have an argument um is I mean can we speak about this the situation oh well how about this the what if we uh can we set a level of severity such as incitement of violence because there's you know like you were saying 98% of you know that incident was free speech right it was a the part about violence some people could argue 100% And I think that's that's the tricky part and that's why this is vague you know because it's necessarily vague and and Floyd reviewed this intentionally to be left up to the lawyers after the fact then yeah and that's why Floyd we had Floyd review it after the fact to see if things like that would be helpful you know okay let profanity is that appropriate or not I would argue it's probably not a great idea for our staff members to be posting profanity least tiroides on the internet regardless of content it's but I can't say to our staff that you can't do that because that'd be a violation of their free speech rights however however if it got to a place where it made the course of business kind of impossible to conduct then I probably could you know given this sub you know that last severity of the incident but it's it's not black and white and it makes it a lot more difficult to manage if there was something that said if you're inciting violence and that would still be subjective there were different people who had different perspec perspectives on that in our recent history so it's it's um it's not as black and white is it makes it much more difficult to officiate when the rules aren't crystal clear and this is where this is Floyd's uh our attorney's recommendation of of how to navigate this policy yeah but a positive spin on that is that ows the discretion to treat each and every instant as as its own separate yeah case which really you want to do you don't want these blanket rules that say you have to do this if this happens because you're going to catch people it makes it a lot harder when it shouldn't happen yeah makes it a lot harder but I I understand it from talking to and living it and talking to our attorney about it yeah number nine yeah that's where I thought that uh Adam was originally going oh that's where I'm going have we made any attempt or have our lawyers made any comments about gender neutral language in this case changing his slash her to their um no that was not I would that's never been discussed not not in this I mean we would have to go through thousands of pages of policy manuals to do that I mean at some point maybe that's that's not been brought up here well I've I've brought it up so if we ever get to I can certainly ask about uh recommendations on that on that front I'm not saying that I want us to take this on at this saying you know this may be an issue yeah I'm sure it will be an issue trust me let's not be theocr next you know the Title Nine is changed know twice in the last few years and I wouldn't be shocked if it changes again so this may change again anyway any other questions on these I can ask about that the um going back to the uh the situation the Tinker standard do that have any carryover to faculty as far as being disrupted to the educational process you know um the the famous quote from that Tinker versus de Mo case is you know you don't leave um your right to free speech at the schoolhouse gate yeah um from the uh Supreme Court ruling on that people can teachers can express to a degree their free speech rights um and Tom Mooney has written quite a bit about this uh as it relates to teacher freedom speech I'm happy to try and pull some of that to I was just curious yeah because technically a little bit off the rails but it was political and that was the the Nexus of yeah if she were saying those things in school oh that's different yeah Crystal Clear yeah right but you have the right to say and do things outside of school that a much different threshold than school so like if I wanted to wear a cross or David or something um you know around my neck that's that's one thing um if I said to everybody well today I'm going to lead lead us in prayer during class that's a totally different you know so you do have a right to free speech but there are certainly significant limits to those Free Speech rights as a teacher uh as an employee uh in a public setting yep yeah this it's kind of fascinating like all these issues and some of the challenges that come up that hopefully we don't have to deal with again for a long time but yeah um BS of completion that was just a change in date they change see if we have that highlight think that was [Music] see 25 it went to 27 that what all it is so the graduating class at 27 has to have a completed faf spot um so we've got a couple years to worry about that why is that um I'm sure it has something to do with Federal uh aid but this has been ad done but if you're not getting federal aid or not even no I mean like at the state level um I'm sure that some of the federal money that flows through Connecticut um has to do with for example do you and you may remember Adam when uh the state started requiring us to like build to Medicaid uh for special education services so we still have to do that uh if students release to the state we can build through Medicaid uh the state then gets Federal money for the services that we provide and we get a trickle down of that minuscule amount but the state it's Pennies on the dollar kind of thing but the state saw it as an opportunity everybody in the state is doing it that's a lot of pennies and we don't get much for it um but the state gets a fair amount for it it's kind of like that is the way I believe that the rationale for pushing everybody to complete a F Well personally I think completing the fasta is burdensome and I don't think people should be required have to do it just because the state wants some money but we don't have any say in that is that correct this is a St State yeah maybe we have some fodder for our meeting with the politicians and what do you mean by that when the state wants money is that because they can use statistics to apply for well that's what yeah I'll look into that to confirm that but like with the Medicaid thing that's Federal money gets funneled through the state um to us me we get pittance of that money uh for the services we provide but all those is that how they determine the pittance yeah so this is I'm wondering you know if this is the same rationale um yeah because remember it just sort of appeared what a year or a couple years ago and so you know we haven't ever had to do it because it keep pushing the date back um so I haven't invested a lot of time to fully understand it to be honest with you yeah that sounds like a good one for our yeah legislative meeting 22 is the original adoption so we can ask about this at the legislative one and I can even try and give my heads up so maybe they can get some information on so that they might understand it before they come yeah put them on the spot yeah uh the alternative education program this was um the chainer it's not really relevant to us per we um we farm that out but this is the credit uh recovery program as part of their alternative school program uh we do offer a credit recovery program through the wng for public schools um credit recovery program is a separate entity is like uh you basically students are have access to these packets or whatever it's not um they they get tutoring and access to these packets they complete the P packets and you get a separate degree it's not like a traditional chure Public Schools diploma um but here we do we have intensive intervention supports for high schoolers who are not making uh progress toward graduation and we provide a lot of academic support um and sometimes it's you know through an alternative program like available at hon sometimes it's just um tutoring but we provide a lot of support uh for for students to that's why we have a um graduation rate that hovers around 99% so and what this red says is that so you don't have to actually change your where you're going to school right you don't have to go to huming to get access to that support because I'm assuming somebody somewhere in Connecticut was forcing kids out of the if you weren't on track because that I've seen that in other school systems where yeah if you're not on track they bounce you to another place kind of thin in the herd um creates a really tough situation some of those in a public school yeah really also counts against your graduation yeah yeah so they put him into an alternative school so your graduation rate looks a lot different that alternative school doesn't have a graduation rate like right the regular school has kind of published differently which kind of moving the Coconuts on the table you know wasn't really above board so I'm sure that had something to do with this policy but again this is not really something that's germine to our stuff but it's a state law so required update so that's that and now we have you know the the excitement of our survey for parents and staff and students that I'll walk you through um can I ask you a question about the third reading when this comes to the full board will be Thursday no no next business Mee next business meeting um do we vote on all those at once it's not they're not separated one by one they don't have to they typically aren't but I guess they could be if we I mean we could potentially choose that now right we could yeah I mean these are pretty b i I don't see any reason to I just just wondering yeah I mean I know um like the calendar you know last time around you know split those up but diversity split So Adam could vote Yes for one of them and not for the other right right right right that's what it was you know much appreciated if there's any objection here but like I said these are all kind of statutory and um the RS responsibilities and social networking I guess is not but the others are pretty they're all pretty vanilla really unless you wanted to split them up no I wasn't asking I wanted to split them I was asking just to be sure how this sure the process um this is just an overview I put together for you there's a lot of information here um and so the first page uh in the stapled packet is the existing expectations at each grade level these are the rules basically if you will it's not the policy if you recall the PO policy talks a lot about beepers and pagers um it's a little bit dated um like you can't bring a cell phone to school our policy per se that's just not reality though u in 2025 so the next page is of this summary piece is just feedback that I Consolidated and pulled through this is um percent of teachers who feel current self phone practic is working well and um its most 35% agree uh 25% strongly agree for a total of 60% it gets to 70% when plus when you add in the neutrals the disagree 60 a third of the those came from or twoth thirds came from chesher high school with it working well because they cited issues with um colleagues not having consistent enforcement of the policies um in some cases it was we really want them locked up the the cell phones locked up they would um so it was either consistent enfor or we just don't want them at all on campus was most of the the um well have we changed that yet or are we going to change that I mean teacher should be consistent yeah and so we work on it um with a hundred people it's it's harder to get consistency almost 100 teachers at jure high across the board so you try and get consistency um with everything but uh it's easier said than done sometimes but we do reinforce we have a we have a rule yeah well as as ches high school has a rule on school rule on electronics and we try and reinforce that with teachers and for a m of reasons you know some deviate from that even if it's only sometimes uh all the time they deviate but there is some deviation um but we can re I mean we can create a policy well that yeah that reinforces that or or we can just let ad admin should be we have a we have a rule so Administration can they should be addressing it with yeah absolutely Y is there aware of it and just for clarity um this issue was not brought up during the negotiations no right there was no you know like an anticipation so the what I'm just wondering is is the the disagree or the the agree the disagree because uh there's a a faction of teachers that feel perhaps they should not have to enforce a rule like that not necessarily or is it that's not that's like is it like a a rebellion type situation or is it you know not my job force that that wasn't the sentiment expressed in the in the survey responses that was not at all so I I wasn't I just wanted to ask the question yeah yeah yeah it really wasn't the Senate okay well that's good and in the sense that it's not working well you know it was predominantly the like I said the concerns about colleagues not reinforcing it um is was the lon share of the I mean that's like time and Memorial kind of stuff right if it wasn't a cell phone it was you know back in the day it was something else right yeah or it's hall passes or it's dress code or it's you know it's um kind of a Timeless challenge yeah uh from our elementary parent responses we 450 Elementary parents respond percent who believe current practice is working well um on the agree and strongly agree that's 56% the neutral who are basically a lot of folks who my kid doesn't have a cell phone per the comment so I don't know I'm not really aware is 31% so you if you lump those together at 90% roughly at that point and so it sounds like you know there's 8% disagree 5% strongly disagree that it's not working well so it's pretty limited um by comparison at the middle school of our 312 parents who responded um the what's thaten that's a good amount so yeah about uh half students represented there I guess about half um the parents who agree in strongly agree again 60% you lump in neutral it's over 80% well over 80% so um again pretty good um not something that and I think one thing that I've learned from reading the feedback and looking at the data is that there it's almost like a bell curve and you see that here with the 23% in neutral even at the middle school it's like a bell curve there are people with really strong feelings on either end um who feel like cell phones should never be allowed inside of a school ever then there are people on the other end who are like yeah everybody should be able to carry a cell phone what's the big deal um I will never let my child go to school without a cell phone on their person um usually it's a security concern that the person has um and the vast majority of people fall inside of those Tails right and here what we see in the survey data is it's not really a true bell curve because there's a lot more people who agree than disagree but there are there are definitely details on both ends I have real strong feelings about always and never and would you would you agree that the middle school is probably the the most strict uh in regards to a school that is probably more applicable yeah than let's say because like you can do a strict at elementary school but most kids don't have lot of kids don't have a fun but we in middle school it's yeah but we start to see it in fourth grade you know fifth grade fourth fifth grade now kids getting phones um which again I would make a plug for if you're going to do that because maybe you got a family circumstance that I'm not talking about kids who have devices because of monitoring diabetes or something I'm talking about you're purchasing a cell phone for your child I would strongly encourage you purchase a phone that doesn't have social media accounts on to tied to it you can buy phones we've publicized different brands that have just phone technology and text technology and you know um I don't know the one that I use with my family life 360 where you know where the person is but it's not like a social media app so um you're right Adam it's the middle school is where the rubber eats the road where almost everybody in that population has a device um and so it becomes so so I guess the the question sort of a leading question I gu so if the middle schoolers are more are used to a stricter policy should that then be uh graduated into the high school as the students who have been used to it age through the system and then now every my my response to that would be no because in my that's my opinion but we're here to decide we could always change my opinion would be no because developmentally there's huge difference between a 13-year-old and 181 19 year old and so I think you know we're trying to prepare those 181 19 year olds to go to you know maybe a college campus or a workplace or the military um and use those cell phones responsibly U and so I think there's a balance I I think it makes a lot of sense to be really stringent in the middle school and strict about those policies I think it it makes you know sense as well at the high school to have a little bit more latitude with some of these policies as we're teaching kids about appropriate use um so middle school students mind you um I found it really fasc this is where you start to see the bell curve kind of kick in again uh the you know 42% % of middle school kids are neutral on the topic of whether or not their cell phone policy is working well 12% strongly disagree that it's working well 20% uh disagree that it's working well so about a third of kids um don't like the restrictions um more than a thir kids are neutral and slightly less than a third of kids think it's going fine this is this year's data right this Falls and this is so the rules put into practice just this year keep yeah that's a great point and because keep in mind that the eighth grade class it was much more LAX they didn't have those so restrictions about 50% of these kids are used to I wouldn't say no holds bar but it was much more LAX so I think to your point that's where we're seeing a little bit more hey I don't like this um in this this data that we have at the high school level I promise you I'm not going through the entire packet just this level of kind of interesting stuff but it is it's it's kind of interesting we knew it was going to be kind of interesting High School parents we had 149 responses that obviously it's participation it's going to be a little bit different uh to what degree do you agree with the statement again that cell phone expectations exist in my child to are working well 10% strongly disagree again so you're less than a third strongly disagree or uh disagree a a little less than a third um are neutral and almost you know 45% almost 50% are um supportive the and these are the 149 parents that responded students again this is very Bell curvish 45% are neutral at the high school like that's astonishing to me that's almost the same as the middle school yeah it's astonishing to me you would think you would think that you know any sort of restriction on a cell phone your hypothesis might be that any restriction on a cell phone kids are are going to viant push back against that but that's not the case they might not know the restrictions they don't like I you know I think from reading a lot of the comments they just they get it you know the the kids who are frustrated by it say things like you know I'm a a good I'm an 18-year-old with good um with good grades responsible person why do we have any restrictions I'm not doing this anyway it's it's almost like they feel offended that there is a like but it's but it's not mean you need it for some boo ISM for you yeah you need it for some Bozo who doesn't get you know isn't responsible and takes their phone out during class you know but at the same time we've discussed how social media can be addictive yeah and sometimes if you're addicted to something you may not be truthful about it yeah right or you may not even realize that you have a problem right right sounds like You' heard me talking to my teenage one of them dude what are you enough with the they me too so yeah enough for the Instagram dad so anyway that that's that's that's pretty uh it's isn't it really interesting so supplementing all of this information is school by school data I thought that you might be interested in this this is reflective of all the questions so on the chat and one just alphabetically elementary through High School uh parent cell phone survey elementary students should not be accessing 82% strongly agree another 11 a half% agree like nobody thinks elementary kids should be accessing cell phones then you see the Middle School it goes to 67% strongly agree they shouldn't be using cell phones during the day and then at the high school 40% strongly age so what you see is that maturation piece I think Adam that we were just talking about like super restrictive at the Elementary grades little less restrictive at the middle school um you most flexible at the high school and that's the what that's what our current practices reflect so um do little parents you know kind of feel the same way you see that Trend throughout right like super restrictive element Tre little less restrictive in midle U most flexible at the high school um then we have the do parent ones which is interesting yeah I think that's really interesting yeah when you look at how the parents elementary students um should not access cell phones only 22% all the elementary parents feel like no way should they be accessing once you get the dot it's whatever let's pass that now it's just kind of interesting to look at some of the data but I mean this at the middle school where almost a third of parents strongly disagree that they should not be accessing cell phones during the school day I found kind of interesting something that that sticks out to me also though is the K through six um It also says on buses doesn't it yeah yeah or on the buses is that yeah because we don't want to you know what that though it's hard it's hard to enforce behavioral expectations on bus with because our you know you've probably seen Elementary buses in town are pretty pack like that's a Full House bus that's not the SCH bus so the Full House bus um with one driver uh is hard to enforce but because we have less students that have phones in jail grades because they're you know our parents are pretty good about that and if there's an incident that happens then you can say right should have had your phone anyway yeah it's a more it's a more of a disciplinary issue for the student so then we have that we have the High School parent and student is it is it only buses at the elementary level it doesn't say that in dog yeah Middle School doesn't we don't call that out at the middle in high school yeah okay but we do have guidelines while you should be filming other people without their knowledge and things like that we have cameras in every bus I'm sorry do we have cameras in everys not every bus no no I think we it's evolved incredibly since my days of being an assistant principal where you literally have an old school VHS but I'm not positive that we have the mon every single bus I think we're close but I I would think I know some of the ones like that we have Chester public school but not dco Chester public school buses that are more like special transport runs and stuff I'm pretty sure we don't have them on most of those but we also have several adults on most of those right for students with you know different then you have a a CPS cell phone service I broke out um in the overview on the you know at the beginning of this packet teachers this includes teachers par Educators and other staff in the building so like secretaries other folks that don't have have direct instructional responsibility so I thought that that might kind of skew the data to a degree um and wanted to just break out the the teacher perspective which is at the beginning of the packet so I mean that brings up an interesting thing even at the elementary level in my mind is um like the playground monitors and lunchroom monitors I mean they shouldn't be on their cell phones either yeah not during U not when they're working and that's that that's the other well it shouldn't be like posting or anything like that um but even electronic that's not the electronic Dev it's the social media one yeah but even as um modeling behavior when they're around kids they shouldn't have their phones out yeah I wonder how they feel about I think most it's generally the expectation around students that you're not doing that yeah but it's funny how many kids will say to me if they see me start to take a picture as a super Trasher that always has the most engagement when kids are like Oh Let's do let's do a selfie here you know get on Super Treasure it's funny yeah they like that at to high school anyway I don't do it any place else with kids but U anyway so this is just information for your digestion today and um if you guys want you know we'll we'll come back next time I'll put together a draft policy that reflects the and we can discuss it or not like for a first reading see we want with it but you have the data there I didn't see anything in the data that makes me think wow this our practices are way off base here like like I said there are going to be a fair number of people on either end of the tail who don't like it for one reason or another but generally speaking it's certainly more contemporary than the policy we have it makes more sense are we taking this data to the full board yeah I made extra copies to get to the board members yeah great so that's all I had we just need a motion thir do we have to move the other ones forward or the third is for the full board yeah um I'll move like to make a motion to move um policy 0521 nondiscrimination and policy uh 4000.1 42001 SL 51444 sexual harassment SL tile 9 uh for a second reading second all in favor the thir you can do it I'll second it all right and we'll um leave them all together yes yeah yes yeah um move that uh policy [Music] 42125 security uh Security check fingerprinting criminal justice 4118 51 rights responsibilities duties social networking uh policy 6 48 FAFSA completion program and uh policy 6172 alternative education program uh be moved uh to the board uh for a third reading third and final reading is that third and five third reading and then the board one is the board motion is approval in um waiting in the approval okay great second any discussion all in favor move to a Jour move to aour yes to a Jour all in favor we are a Jour all right

your e l e e e one happy New Year the January 6th reorganization meeting of the Garfield board of education has been posted and announced in accordance with the open public meetings act an adequate notice has been provided as required by the law please rise for the flag salute and remain standing for a moment or silence I pledge allegiance to the plag of the United States of America to the [Music] stands please take a moment thank you please be seated okay I'm now going to read the official results as certified by the Bergen County Clerk for the annual School Board election that was held on November 5th 20124 the three-year term George L Ramos 2431 Daniel a Taylor Jr 2,281 Julio a KES 283 Richard Derek 2013 Adrien Diaz 2002 Lissa ilon 1,986 Carmen V rante 1,877 Abdul kader Sardina 1,831 Nancy C cutup 1,263 Aldo a m Munos 1,965 Janette Casiano 1,832 William aotto 1,643 we will now administer the oath of office to the newly elected members of the Garfield Board of Education can Mr Aldo Munos please come to the podium with your invited guests yes Mr Munos will be sworn in by honorable Thomas Dutch Bergen County administer place your left hand on the Bible raise your right hand and repeat after me I state your name I aldam Munos do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the con Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and to the governments established in the United States and to the governments established in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people I I your name Al doino do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of member of a board of education for the office of member of Board of Education and that I am not disqualified as a voter and that I am not disqualified as a voter pursuant to rs19 colon 4-1 pursuant to rs9 colon 4-1 nor disqualified due to conviction of a crime nor disqualify due to conviction of a crime or offense or offense listed in njsa 18a col 12-1 listed in njsa 18a 12-1 and that I will Faithfully that I will faithfully impartially impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties perform all the duties of the office of member of the Board of Education of the office of member of Board of Education according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God congratulations all the best welcome thank you congratulations here just very quickly if I can happy New Year to all thank you very much for allowing me the honor of swearing in the new youngest member of the school board uh it was 45 years ago that I was elected to Mayor here um I looked a lot like him hope hopefully you age better um but congratulations all the best thank you thank [Applause] you Mr M Mr Munos you can please take a seat up on the dis there's an empty chair for you congratulations can Mr Julio Angel kis please come to the podium with your invited guests [Applause] okay Mr keis will be sworn in by honorable mayor of faake Hector C Laura [Music] your left hand raise your right hand please repeat after me I state your name I Julio Angel KES do solemnly swear do somly swear that I will support that I will support the Constitution the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the Constitution and the constitution of the state of New Jersey of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and I will bear true faith and Allegiance and allegiance to the same to the same and to the governments established and to the government established in the united states in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people so help me God so help me God I I state name Julio Angel KES do solemnly affirm do solemnly affirm that I possess that I possess the qualifications prescribed the qualification prescribed by the law by the law for the office for the office of member of of member of a board of education a board of education and that I am not disqualified and I am not disqualified as a voter as a voter pursuing to presing to RS RS 19 colon 19 colon 4-1 4-1 nor disqualify nor disqualified due to conviction of a crime due to conviction of a crime or offense listed or offense listed an njs an njs 18a 18a colon colon 12-1 12-1 and that I will I will faithfully and I will faithfully impartially impartially and justly and justly perform all of the duties perform all of the duties of that office of the office according to the best of my abilities according to the best of my abilities so help me God so help me God ladies and gentlemen you new thank you everybody upon me as a proud father of a US Marine I want to take this opportunity to thank you for your 22 years of service in the military I know that your brothers from the BFW are here present in the community is proud on this Three Kings Day to see a Latino represent the community but more importantly someone who truly cares about this nation and the education of our children to the superintendent the board president all of the members of the board of administration thank you for the opportunity to participate in this ceremony God bless you thank Youk thank you thank you Mr KES congratulations can Mr George Ramos please come to the podium with your invited guests Mr Ramos will be sworn in by honorable Thomas Dutch Bergen County Administrator oh repeat after me I state your name I George Ramos do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and I will bear true faith and allegiance to the and to the governments established in the United States and to the governments established in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people I I ge do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I possess the qualifications that I possess the qualifications subscribed by law subscribed by law for the office of member of a board of education for the office of member of the Board of Education and that I am not disqualified and that I am not disqualified as a voter as a voter pursuant to pursuant to rs19 colon 4-1 rs19 4-1 nor disqualified nor disqualified due to conviction of a crime due to conviction of a crime or offense or offense listed in listed in njs njs 18a 12 12-1 and that I will faithfully and that I will Faithfully impartially impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties perform all the duties of the office of Board of Education member of the office of Board of Education member according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God con [Applause] [Music] congratulations Mr Ramos [Applause] can Mr Dan Taylor please come to the podium with his invited guest Mr [Applause] Taylor Mr Taylor will be sworn in by Miss Aaron Delaney Garfield city manager and City Clerk I state your name I Daniel a Taylor Jr do Solly swear you solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and that I will bear true faith and Allegiance and allegiance to the same to the same and to the governments established and to the governments established in the united states in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people I state your name I Daniel a Taylor Jr do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I possess the qualifications that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law prescribed by law for the office of member for the office of member of a board of education of a board of education and that I am not disqualified and that I am not disqualified as a voter as a voter pursuant to pursuant to RS RS 19 colon 19 colon 4-1 4-1 nor disqualified nor disqualified due to the conviction of a crime due to the conviction of a crime or offense or offense listed in njs listed in njs 18a 18a 12-1 12-1 and then I will faithfully and that I will faithfully impartially impartially and justly perform and justly perform all the duties all the duties of that office of that office according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God congratulations come here kiss love you love you thank you boys and Mom congratulations Mr Taylor I will now be turning the meeting over to the board attorney who will take nomination of president of the Garfield Board of Education Mr Brent Madam Secretary I'd like to make a motion to go on close session I mean the the meeting hasn't Tech we been called to order yet um they're they're frankly the members were just sworn in um I think we should get a chance to know each other privately there there is no statutory prohibition on a motion to move to Executive at this at this point um so it would be a motion that would be over open to the board to consider and vote upon well there is I'll second the motion okay so there is a second so we need a a a roll call of the members uh who have all been sworn in Mr folino hi Mr Gaba hi Mr Malo hi Mr Munos hi hi Dr pivor hi Mr KES hi Mr Ramos yes Miss Miss Sanchez Mr Taylor I okay the motion carries um I would um recommend um based on best practices under open public meetings act that we um advise the public how long uh the board intends on being in this initial executive session and I recommend that we place a period of time on it so that the bo so the public will know when the board will return 10 minutes to regular to regular session 10 minutes or let's say 15 so that the public is is confident it is 6:40 uh members of the public this board will reconvene for public session at 6 no later than 6:55 p.m.

um sit down please take advantage of the beverages enjoy kids especially um all right our now that the meeting the members have been sworn in the meeting has been called back to order and the first item on agenda for the organization is for the election of the position of president of the Garfield Board of Education um Miss uh secretary uh with would you like to take nominations for the position of president of the Board of Education I'll nominate George Ramos I second that motion I second that are there any other nominations for the position of president of the Board of Education of Garfield there being none um Miss secretary uh pursuant to the board's bylaws we do have to have a roll call A roll call is appropriate um take the roll the roll call Mr folino hi Mr Gaba hi Mr Malo hi Mr mun hi Dr pivor hi Mr KES hi Mr Ramos can Miss Sanchez hi Mr Taylor I proud motion Carri motion carries uh so sir now that you've obviously been re reappointed or elected to your position of president of the Garfield Board of Education the meeting is yours and the next step is for the election of the vice president um time I would like to take nomination for vice president I make a motion to recommend Mr kis as vice president for the Board of Education I second that okay motion by Mr Malo seconded by Miss Sanchez roll call please Mr ferino I Mr Gaba obain Mr Malo I Mr MOS hi Dr pivar hi Mr KES hi Mr Ramos hi M Sanchez hi Mr Taylor hi motion canel all right uh Miss D can you please have an official roll call Mr ferino present Mr Gaba present Mr Malo present Mr minus present Dr pek present Mr KES present Mr Ramos present Miss Sanchez here Mr Taylor pres okay I'd like a motion to go into resolution 10.1 through 10.2 so move Mr President motion Mr folino second by Mr Taylor okay uh roll call Mr Minos Mr miners hi Mr KES hi Dr pek hi Mr Meo hi Mr folino hi Mr Gaba hi Miss Sanchez hi Mr Taylor I Mr Ramos hi okay at this time I would like to open up the mic to public comment um we do have a little bit of uh explanation before public comments are made the g board of education recognizes the value of public comment on educational issues and importance of allowing members of the public to express themselves on school matters of the 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 5 minutes of public comments no participants shall speak more than once as this is a public forum public comments may not in any way be disrespectful vulgar or threatening towards 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 privileges May uh to comment ter ated if the speaker comments are disruptive or otherwise violate the guidelines on behalf of Board of Education we'd like to thank you in in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter so anybody who would like to say something please step up to the mic okay um at this time I would like to open up the floor for board comments anybody would like to make a comment yes Mr President through you I just would like to make a comment uh uh good evening everyone and thank you for coming out tonight to witness our saring in I would like to take this moment to thank my beautiful wife Patria my two kids Angel and Gabriel for their unwavering support to my supporters thank you for believing in me we did it l hos I would also like to congratulate Mr Ros Mr Taylor and Mr mun on their WIS as well tonight makes a historic moment tonight former mayor who was uh became the youngest mayor in 1980 in the city of Garfield who's now the county uh board councel for the uh Mr Tedesco and the youngest and and we have the youngest uh trustee just elected Mr Alo Munos I say this simply because because no matter how young you are volunteer volunteerism Civic Duties are essential in our community continue to inspire Garfield has chosen hope and Aldo Munos the youngest elected official in history will carry that hope that belief forward congratulations Aldo [Applause] uh I'd like to say a few words Angel thanks for that uh I want to thank my team uh for helping me you know get to this point you know a year ago I didn't think uh Board of Ed was even in the realm of possibility and I'm sitting here today I want to thank my mom for coming out and supporting me helping sweare me in Mr D Mr uh Mr Dutch that's right and um yeah I'm can't wait to get to work and uh continue to move this District forward thank you everybody [Applause] just want to say thank you uh to those who voted everybody who ran thank you for running even if you didn't make it uh I know firsthand what it takes out of you and what it takes to to put a campaign together thank you to my family who's here I'm not even going to [Applause] say not really going to say friends cuz if we're friends you're family so you're here for me thank you you're my family I truly appreciate it especially those two little boys um congratulations to Mr killes congratulations again to Mr [Applause] Ramos I know Mr KES brings a wealth of experience and I think Mr Ramos has done uh if I must say so a hell of a job as our president and I know he'll continue to do so and I know we'll all work together for what everyone is here for and that's for the kids the teachers and then the uh the students you know this the the taxpayers I'm sorry but it's really the kids and the teachers that come first and that's why we're all up here that's why we give the time we do and that's why we uh we care so thank you very much and I appreciate it so they're a little scattered and all over the place but I'd like to thank my family for their continued support my beautiful wife my 2-year-old my oldest son my daughter Alexa my other daughter is not here today they see the ins and outs and the struggles and things that I go to go through on a daily basis and the fact that they're there to support me and to Stand By Me and to understand you know that this isn't an easy task you know on a daily basis we're attacked for the things that we try to do and the things that we do in with the community in mind everybody thinks that there's always some backward thought to something or some scheme or some plot when all we're trying to do is the right for our children as God is my witness I have been placed here in his honor to represent him so rather than just represent the community I res represent the King of Kings so and I take that as an honor as a privilege and that's where I go to first so I represent him in everything that I do so understand the Integrity behind that understand that yes maybe there you know there's certain things that I can't speak of here but understand that my faith leads me in all of my actions regardless of how they're taken and regardless of those that come against me for it I want to thank those in the community that came to support us in all of this I want to thank Mr Dutch for swearing me in I want to thank the delanis for coming to swearing Mr Taylor they've always been supportive regardless of anything and everything I want to thank the Hispanic Alliance for their representation I want to thank Mr Hector Laura me and him go back years you know to the method Church in Pake Miss Deo Miss Bellinger in the back who actually you know held the position up here and stood and sat by my side and help me through you know a tough time on the board as well I want the community to understand that we move forward and we work tirelessly to try to do the right thing for this community to try to get the right things done we're not trying to Simply Be a board we're trying to be a new board and a new board means new ways and not old ways and it's about moving away from the old ways the things that people thought were okay to do the things that people used to to move themselves forward so this board I hope that we can work together in every way possible in order to move the city forward our education system forward and do everything that our children need from us and our teachers need from us the support that goes unspoken and is barely talked about we support those that take care of our children on a daily basis and we support our children to to become the best that they can become in this world I thank you all and in Jesus name I say Amen sorry thank you everyone all right at this time I guess we would take a motion to close the meeting one second one second one second before we close the meeting there is somebody in the audience that is being honored on um Thursday so I'd like to congratulate you on that I I sure we'll be there for that um I know we the next meeting we have is not till the end of the month so congratulations on your honor re through the Boys and Girls Club Mr Mo thank you so much for all you do thank you and the VFW all the all the veterans that are here you did not thank them thank you guys guys Happy New Year happy three King Day thank you for coming I thought I did Mr President uh I'd like to make a motion to close the meeting have all right that was fast all right all right so we got a motion we got a second all right all in favor I I all right that's it