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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
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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
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and as always you can watch it on our doou high I believe media YouTube channel um whenever you would like uh at this time please silence all cell phones and um just a reminder that we have allotted 10 minutes for anyone wishing to speak on any of tonight's agenda items so if you would like to approach uh the microphone we need ask you to keep your comments brief uh but we have a lot of 10 minutes for anyone wishing to speak on any of tonight's agenda items did I miss anything I feel a little off since we went into executive session first I think you got it I think you got it perfect thank you very much uh seeing no one approaching the mic we will move on chair will entertain a motion to approve the regular session minutes of November 4th 20124 so moved second a motion by Mrs Amaral a second by Miss Bess on the motion any other discussion Jay hering none all in favor I I opposed abstentions motion carries unanimously thank you at this time we're going to turn it over to our student rep for the school committee to give us an update on all the happenings around the school I want to thank you for having me so we are coming back from an amazing winter break and ready for the new year and we hope that everyone had a great winter break the end of the term is quickly approaching and we have some exciting things at Dartmouth High School Potter Elementary School visited Dartmouth High School before winter break for our holiday performance and it was a great way for our chorus band and Orchestra to Showcase their talents and bring the community together our Helping Hands committee provided support for over 20 families this holiday season and we just want to send out a thank you to the Dartmouth High School staff and Community Support that made this possible the winter sports have also been going well on December 21st Jackson Hart said the boys school record with the 55 meter dash and currently the girls varsity basketball team has won all their scheduled games and they are ranked 10th in Massachusetts the Dartmouth High School theater company will be putting on High School Musical for the spring show and tickets are on sale now for the show debuting May 1st through May 3rd our after prom committee is currently planning and looking for donations to help this year this year's after prom make to be another great success and if you are interested in donating they are in need of concession items items for gift cards and prizes monetary donations and paint or construction materials so these are just a few of the exciting things going on at DHS over the past couple weeks and we're looking forward to see what the new year brings and thank you for taking the time to recognize us this evening thank you so much for your report questions from anyone comments no thank you so much you are welcome to stick along uh stay with us and uh attend the rest of the meeting but if you have other things to do homework or any anything else you're more than welcome to leave as well so the option is all yours thank you and next up we're going to have a presentation overview of the Dartmouth Public Schools Food Service program I'm going to turn it over to Dr sabba Maguire and I'm going to promptly turn it over to Mr Kylie who's then going to promptly turn it over to Mr Sheridan everyone's going to get in on the action so tonight I have the pleasure of uh introducing Jean Sheridan our director of school nutrition um Jean uh has done an amazing job over the last seven years really elevating our food service operation from what I would describe as a a very institutional program um to one that's customer focused um and really an integral part of the daily experience of kids here so um tonight Gan has a presentation sharing some information recent developments and some plans for the future of our food service operation so thanks Jean Mr and I'm sorry Mr Nunes is not here so much of this is stuff we talk about so regularly so please hopefully he'll be watching he said he would be watching it on TV no worries there you go um you know a year in review what is you know food service is the same as everything else it's our staff it's our menu it's sustainability infrastructure and participation and I'm going to talk briefly on all of these first part of our life is our staff we have five members who have been here 25 years or more which is a tribute and three of those are managers so they kind of come they stay um when I came on board we had 26 staff members we now have 38 so you're going to see the effect of school free School meals on everybody and the things that we've been able to do with our program our menus are all um analyzed through a program called healthy Pro we have very strong USDA requirements um our mobile app allows parents to review both the nutritions there's pictures of every item we serve all the nutrition all the allergens so if you want to filter out egg items parents can do that from their phone um and the USDA really does restrict the amounts of fat sugar and salt in all items served so when you know you say we're serving Honey Cheerios at school those Honey Cheerios are not the Honey Cheerios you buy in the grocery store they're very much whole grain they're reduced sugar so they're not apples for apples much as um people want you to believe they are they're not um and we know as things go on we're looking for a lot more scratch cooking and in our world these are just some of the items you know that are served regularly if you look um hold on you know we promote we do and I lost my train of thought um you know goal is always to buy local last year we had $221,000 in Grants just to purchase local products um you know we really want to get rid of the highly processed foods but there's always the challenge with kids you know we can make meatloaf which is highly labor intensive but if we can't get anybody to eat it so it's glow it's going into the introduction of those items slowly with items that kids are much more familiar with we just started a partnership this week with Coastal food shed they're going to supply both um Massachusetts grown lettuce and tomatoes to us so we're working on it we've had um Red's best which is fish coming right off the boat of New Bedford we've done they've actually made fish sticks for us we do baked hattic with them meat Works um you know locally grown Westport beef um which I don't think we even tell the kids it's Westport you know they don't know that it's Westport beef um but as importantly it's training how do you take your staff and and bring them to the items that we want to be serving Mr Oliver you know where it is could you go back a slide for a minute or oh thank you how often are we sourcing uh foods from these uh vendors locally is it like once in a while or is it on a regular basis it's on an absolute regular basis there are certain items and because of the way we purchase produce we use our our general produce vendors but they're supplying like Lenny Orchard does all of our apples they produce the apples that are the sliced apples that the kids get with their lunch so you know they're not the farm down the street but local in my world is within 100 miles of Boston so I would tell you on a daily basis there's exposure to local product great thank you um so back to training you know how do we get the kids to start eating the things we want them to eat and it starts with training our staff we've been very lucky to work with John stalker Institute and starting this Wednesday and on each of the next four release days they are going to bring a chef in and we're going to have our managers our cooks and key people come to the high school our first lesson on Wednesday will be Asian Fusion and the the follow up on the Asian fusion training with the staff is then they provide somebody to Comm in and do taste testings with the kids and the following week those items are menu with a chef on the line cooking them so we're excited about it we've wanted to try it and we were finally able to make the dates work for us for this um this spring so come Wednesday Asian cooking the other thing that's been a major Focus um we all hate styrofoam trays I I we hate the word of Styrofoam trays they take up a lot of space they're the bane of my existence um we've been trying to get away from styrofoam trays right now we have the dish machines operating at Dartmouth middle school and at Potter um John told me today that we're going to have dellos very quickly they finish some of the electrical work we will then go on to Quinn um to make that work the option these days rather than plastic trays because if you think about a melamine tray it's still putting plastic in conjunction with the food are these lovely prison issue stainless steel trays um we were very lucky to get a $20,000 Grant last spring so we have enough stainless steel trays to service at least four of the schools and again they've been at no cost to us so we're working on it is it slow yes is it slower than I'd like absolutely but we've got two going and are going to continue to go further with that um infrastructure our building you don't need to hear it from me our buildings are old our kitchen are old um they need a lot of work we like to play whacka with the guy in the picture but he has been absolutely great to us he's in a um milk chest at that point um doing something with a spring in um the last since 19 from the last Jonathan there you go um in the last two years we've invested back into our program over a million um if um in we have new walk-ins and refrigerators at poto Dello Quinn and DMS we've put additional Refrigeration at all schools kettles brand new 60 Alon kettles think institutional kitchens at Potter and Dello Quinn got all new ovens and ex um kettles and um the M the high school has got a steamer and a new oven which is going to work with us on the um cooking there another way that we've been able to play with okay now this is the one we're going to is these I'm going to talk through but we've been able to spend some money on infrastructure this happens to be Quinn and Audra was in absolutely instrumental we have a graphic designer who comes in and does everything start to finish so we've gone from White institutional to both kitchens looking like like that it works with the kids um and we like it so next you're going you're going to get a short video of all of them Dello was my favorite of all the projects Liz this is Joey Joey got reimagined in terms of a logo but watch watch the difference with Jo with with Joey again the windows got washed everything got clean um Mr Kylie recently as probably as recently as today we're going to be able to put all new tables into um Dello and Potter for all of these fold Downs so you know we're investing in our program for sure each principal worked with the graphic artist so the schools were designed specifically but as you look at these look at the white joists up on the ceiling because we're going to show you but one of the how old is how old are Potter and Dello 1955 okay so I can almost guarantee that 19 um 2024 was the first time that we washed the joists the joists were scraped the joists were cleaned there you go this is the kind of stuff as we look at what we can put back into our schools and do these things that just they're they're amazing I love the transparency there you go um same deal we had the we did um murals at the middle school also in the big cafeteria you know in in my world it always gets down to the bottom line it just it's how my brain works so what's happened um right now free meal you Massachusetts is one of eight states that will continue with free meals forever it's in the budget and I don't see it changing but in conjunction with with that because our free and reduced population is now over 35% um we are a c District which means no more applications um which makes it easier and more difficult but if you watch participation in 2019 42% of our kiddos ate lunch we're now at 69% of our kids are eating lunch every day so there's value in that um breakfast 5% participation in 19 this year to date we're at 22% so God bless the whole grain breakfast ratings AKA we don't serve Donuts we serve whole grain breakfast Rings just think if you wanted to know um Revenue again has gone consistently with the um increase in production if you look you know in 2019 we did a million five this year last year we did a million 2 million3 and it'll be up from that so the resolve of that is we have more money to put back in the program we have more money to pay our staff we have been able to increase staff because food you know I firmly believe food service is one of the most difficult jobs in the district I mean it's every day it's hot it's work people are calling in sick and our staff is absolutely Stellar in what they do what's next you know cafeteria is as training labs to introduce students to all different kinds of things we're starting it again at the high school as early as next week hoping to bring that into all of the schools scratch cooking we talked about you know I keep that the farm that's on Bakers I got to find them because that's the kind of stuff they're so close but we don't have a relationship with them but if we can figure out the transport and that's always the issue how you get it there um I'd like to do that you know we need to do a better job of communicating who we are and what we do um I I'm getting personally away from social media but I understand the value of it and how we you know we tell people what we're doing um this is for Mr noones who's someplace doing something wonderful I'm sure is to implement a preventive maintenance plan for all the kitchens you know because we've never had that how do we really start looking at you know where we've replaced walk-ins you saw the ceilings continuing with that um you know Implement and emplore sustainability and then as many grants as available we like to apply for them so that's my story I would love to have any questions you might have to this is you know our program we're proud of it we've got a great staff I can't you know are we perfect no but nobody's perfect you know so we are always moving forward and eting kids thank you very much for your presentation I'll uh Stack Down at that end of the table for any comments or questions I just a comment your your spirit uh and your presentation were wonderful um I I just can't see I can't foresee anything but wonderful things growth and getting better all the time um but this was wonderful I I loved seeing the transformation of the the the actual SP Wen they great they were just incredible um so much fun and comfortable and I'm sure that it was fun right it was fun going through [Music] that um so thank you for bringing this to us and the community that's watching um because we do often hear from folks who talk about uh the um the health of the foods and those conversations do happen on social media um I too have stepped away but there are lots of different perspectives so to hear it and to see see it um and to talk through some of those examples of the toasty ring wheat Rings or whatever they are um is is is you know I'm just grateful to hear that from from you and for for um all the great work that your staff's doing yeah ditto of what Kathleen said and I I thank you for making it fun because it could be just easy to focus on churning out the food but making it fun for the students I think is really important just one quick question about how do you identify grants and who does the application in the grant reports is that all you um to a large extent um for those who know what is the name of the program from the state now that's very difficult gems j a lot of fun so it was the first time I was using it usually you can just write a little letter and you tell your story and this was I waited till the last minute of course it was a Friday afternoon and all of the sudden I had to get permissions I had to get approvals you know we're on the phone um so it's primarily me at this point I would love some help but it's my it's well good for you it's hard it's hard work to this was a it was a lot of work for a little bit of money we got to choose where we're going down that road exactly um great food is so important important for learning absolutely and if we can make food interesting and introduce the students to food might not get it home all the better um so in terms of Revenue you're going after grants but was it a million in Revenue approximately two million um that comes mostly from the state towards the free lunch program those reimb those right now um probably 5 years ago about 60% of our Revenue was reimbursement it's now well into the '90s oh wow so we are we are getting both Federal money and State money so it's and they figure that out by increasing by how many plates you serve or how many pounds you serve by meals terrific um I'm like thrilled to see how many students are using the fre lunches are eating in our dining Halls um I'm also thrilled that we have two schools up and running with um reusable trays and I love the metal trays over the old trays we had when I was in school um is there possibility of grants for the silverware and plates or silverware is so challenging because it's almost a 25% replacement every month for some reason we can hold the tra we can keep the trades trades don't in the trash you know they have magnetic handles to catch them um and they're not expensive in a fork is probably 15 20 cents for a metal one but the replacement is huge so could we go to um metal silverware absolutely is it the most cost effective probably not I we can further discuss it I've just always been of the impression you can't keep up with the silverware because it just all vanishes just you know disappears so the trash not a consideration that had occurred to me yeah no no no no no I mean it's it I flp with it I flirt with it all the time and I just know from experience it just yeah it it seems like a place that we could improve but maybe not um the other question I have and it's kind of twofold um do we do anything with composting with the town because I know Dartmouth doeses now have a food compost program do we work with them on that we have had one school come forward and ask for us to get more involved with compost um generally my answer and we've worked a little bit with Mr Kylie is there's got to be a champion on site there's got to be somebody who's going to own this it's not realistic to say fifth graders are going to sort trays clean trays separated who's picking it up how much does it cost to get picked up yeah so what should be a simple wonderful thing to do is complicated I don't know where we went with the last conversation with Potter right we began to explore with the Potter School and and um thinking about doing that on a trial basis because they have someone who is would certainly Champion it at um at the potter school and we are interested in moving forward with that they um this was pre holidays um and we were in the process of um contacting the folks who manage it currently for the town and to see what because our volume's a little different than than than the normal home um and how that would work and um you know obviously with compost Inc comes concerns like rodents um which are problematic which we currently you know have to um you know we have a we have Pest Control um regularly in our schools to protect our uh our inventories um so that is a concern and then and as as uh mardan uh mentioned it it has to be something that people are willing to do extra work for because this is not um it's not going to happen by itself we don't have the staff to do it from a from a food service perspective it really has to be something that the school wants to do and incorporate into um the curriculum and so we're um we're working on that all right well we've got some model we've got some models we're looking at other districts who have done it but they're a little bit bigger than we are and a little bit more resources so well thank you for your good work and your staff's good work um the food looks delicious thank you I just uh I commend the job you're doing Jean I think you're over the past several years you've turned the program around um it's clearly viable not only through the numbers but also all the the programs and the art on the walls and the schools and uh so uh kudos to you and your staff as well because you can't do it it's all the St it's all the St you certainly can't do it by yourself you can't turn out all those meals uh by yourself I do have a question one of the things that comes up we we obviously hear from uh community members or parents specifically or students around the meals how how are the menus actually uh planned out like the rotations of the of the meal choices we are on a five-week cycle at the elementary schools and at the middle school which allows us to run a full month before it's repeated um we then in that program that we talked about earlier healthy Pro it's got a component where it identifies items that are selling items that are not selling what needs to change so we do a lot of work with that at the high school we run three separate menus in terms of Hot Grill cold Grill and then just the entree of the day so me okay the answer is the answer is I do the the answer is I do the menus based on what cells and what we know the kids will eat and you know we got we and we have requirements we have to have a dark green vegetable every about every week we have to have a lagum we have to have a you know so it's all wor it's a lot moving Parts yeah no uh that's great uh thank you for your presentation it was really informative and I know we've been asking uh or someone's been asking for a little while to uh have the Food Service presentation okay thank you as I said our goal is more St Lis getting more two more dish machines up by the end of the spring so no it's great to see the the turnover and the equipment and replacing replacing the equipment in the kitchens okay thank you thank you thank you Jean that was great uh next up uh resolution 25-01 I'm going to make a safe assumption that I can turn this right over to uh Mr Kylie it's very s thank you so much Mr Oliver so um resolution number 25-1 is a resolution awarding a contract for design service for the Dello and Potter fire alarm and detection system replacement project whereas request for proposal for Design Services for the Dello and Potter fire alarm and detection system replacement project were duly ad advertised and proposals received were opened at 3 p.m.
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Friday November 8th 2024 and whereas ggd Consulting Engineers Inc 375 font Conor Road Sweet D Dartmouth Massachusetts as presented was selected by the designer selection committee as the most responsive responsible and advantageous proposal therefore be it resolved that a contract for Design Services for the Dello and Potter fire alarm and detection system rep M project for the Dartmouth Public School District be awarded to ggd Consulting Engineers Inc at a negotiated fee of $488,000 so I'd like you to consider um this resolution um we did have four um applicants four designers that applied um strong pool and um we feel confident that we've selected a designer who's who's certainly going to meet our needs um this project the design portion of this project is um we currently have the funding for from a capital Improvement article that was voted at a prior town meeting the construction um portion of this project uh is on our Capital Improvement plan that we're going to talk about in a few minutes questions regarding this resolution I do have one Mr Kylie okay um in the uh design process one of the things I would would just ask and I I would assume that you already do it is be uh mindful of uh proprietary Hardware going into the buildings and as such just one vendor would be able to service it I know you know what I mean as far as a Simplex system and just Johnson Controls specifically um so yep no it's it's certainly something we've faced in uh you know through the years with situation so now we we are aware of that and we'll consider that figured you were thank you anything else chair will entertain a motion so moved would you like it read or are we good since you've read it you you could make a motion to um to award the contract as presented i' make a motion to award the contract as presented by Mr Kylie second a motion by pass a second by uh Miss Beckwith on the motion any other discussion all in favor I I opposed motion carries unanimously thank you Mr Kylie thank you uh next up under old business uh continue discussion of the FY 26 budget so um again I I did warn Mr Kylie that he was going to be very busy talking speaking this evening um but I just want to say that we have been and he in particular has been hard at work on developing this budget and it's been an ongoing process really uh I think we all recognize that never really ends and we're not as much as we we are preparing the FY 26 budget we're thinking ahead and I can't tell you um really how important it has been to have that District strategic plan in place because it is helping to shape our thinking in terms of where we need to ensure and bring forward um to the committee and to the community where we're going to need funding to be able to implement the plan that that we have that you have approved and so Mr Kylie I think you have a couple of things that you wanted to yes thank you Dr s Maguire so um We are continuing our budget process at the moment we're um going to be having some meetings with our administrators um in the month of January we also will be um reaching out to the budget subcommittee members following those meetings and a little more work ahead to set up a budget subcommittee meeting so we'll um look at some dates obviously tonight you're going to take a look at your school committee dates so we'll we'll factor that in uh with the hopes that we would present a budget in February for your consideration and to start that process off great have we heard um anything from the town side as to uh numbers I I had met I've met twice um with um the town director budget and finance good meetings um productive meetings uh we talked this morning about it um and plan to meet again um they're still working on their side of the equation um so we don't have any there's no set number at this point which is fine right um but the encouraging thing is that I you know I think that they are open to dialogue so okay I look forward to those meetings anyone else Mrs Amaral I'm just curious um I haven't haven't really been paying too too much attention but have there been any sort of um is any guidance or any um thoughts relative to any potential changes on the federal level with um with talks about you know Department of Ed no se and such yeah so I mean it we're all very interested in this obviously um to see what the impact is on us um particularly for us um the primary impact that I'd be most concerned about is grant funding from the federal you know from the federal grants um which make up a fairly significant amount of money um and you know I I think uh that with us receiving almost $2 million in federal grants um I mean we we can't operate without that um I don't expect that those grants are tied to laws that exist I'm not thinking that those laws are going to be repealed um they are primarily to support lowincome um and needy students as well as special needs um students so I I feel like those have to happen but who knows don't really where we're going with it in a recent um presentation that I attended at a conference there were a couple of folks out of Washington DC who were saying exactly what Mr Kylie is saying it's that that funding that Federal funding is so closely tied to statute that it will it would be really hard just to come in and make a blank as we know it's not just a blanket statement that we're not going to provide Federal funding um to the level that we did in the past and it just happens that's just not our understanding of of the way this will work and we're hopeful that that won't be the case got my fingers and my toes thank you Mrs amiral anyone else M Coughlin be with all right thank you Mr Kylie for that update you're welcome under new business FY 26 through FY 35 Capital Improvement plan Mr Kylie okay you have I didn't know if you were sick of I was distracted for um so uh you have before you the FY 26 through 35 uh draft Capital Improvement plan so this is a draft for your consideration certainly looking for feedback um from everyone um and it's not uh a requirement that this get gets approved tonight by the way um so this is the first time um that we've developed a 10-year Capital Improvement plan um so it's a little different and for casting out 10 years when you're dealing with 70 80 year old buildings is challenging so um I'm sure over the life of this plan uh as we you know will be updated and require um you know require some changes and things that we haven't anticipated but we attempted to to anticipate um what we you know can reasonably expect um so your packet incl a few things it includes a a memorandum summarizing the year one requests um the following three pages um include requests by year for the next 10 years and then the final six pages of of the 10 uh include a brief description of each of those requests so I'm I'm going to start and walk you through year one of the requests since those would be um up for consideration through the capital Improvement planning process that we're currently going to be involved in and um hopefully at the June uh the June annual town meeting as well as still uh able to be considered at the fall town meeting so that's the usual cycle we we present now you will approve at some point and then uh we'll move through the capital Improvement planning process with a Target towards June and and then the fall town meeting for things that haven't previously been approved at June so the first thing on our list is technology Hardware replacement so um you know for we were involved in some discussions regarding uh technology Hardware um in the budget planning process um previously where it was cut out of the capital Improvement plan um by uh by the town Administration and um that has since if you recall at the last town meeting um been reinstated so we feel pretty confident that we're going to receive support to move forward um so we have built in a $250,000 request for technology Hardware replacement uh it's absolutely critical that that we um receive funding to maintain our technology levels um to be able to do what we do and um you know continue our support of kids on a onetoone basis and and and all of our instructional technology in the classrooms our SE and feel free to stop me anywhere along the way but um our second request is $550,000 for the fire alarm and detection system replacement at the development part of school you just awarded the design for this um so that is to actually complete the construction our hope is um to I mean I'm going to call them tomorrow and say get to work um hopefully we are are awarded uh at the June toown meeting These funds and then we can construct over the summer it's a super tight timeline to get that done um but we'll bid out in anticip IP ation of receiving those funds at the June toown meeting as long as we have a reasonable expectation that we may receive those funds so that's our plan we built in uh $285,000 for security upgrades so um we we've been fortunate that um we are collaborating with the Dartmouth Police Department um and have begun doing some security assessments of our buildings um we are hoping that we'll receive funding from the town to address some of the recommendations um things that um you know without getting too specific um things to improve security at the entrances of the buildings um primarily um as well as some internal improvements to the to the to the different schools so our hope is that we'll uh be able to begin that process with um with those funds we built in a $567,000 request for the high school track that's the outdoor track um this request was one that didn't get funded if you recall from um from last year it it definitely does need to be I mean we've we patched it again and it it's just eventually going to not work that way you know that we're not going to be able to continue um the use of it so we do have to do it we can continue to patch it short term but it really does need to be done um we built in a $6 million request for the Dartmouth High School roof replacement so um you know this you can you only need to look up and see the the stains on the ceiling um this would replace the roof system on this building our next step would be to submit a statement of interest to the mass School building authority for their accelerated repair program Dr Sabre Maguire has already alerted the mass School building authority that we are interested in submitting a statement of interest and they'll be contacting us regarding um setting us up to be able to do so that will require votes of the school committee and the select board uh so and it's a fairly tight process process um with with those being due in April um the all of the all of the votes by the boards um so we'll we'll keep you posted on that um as as that that process is going to just be opening up at msba um in January they'll pay about 50% of the cost of that project if if we're awarded um the project we have a request for 200,000 to continue flooring replacement of a those containing materials we did a number of classrooms about a dozen classrooms last year um and some other spaces um we need to continue to do this it's we have old buildings that are deteriorating and they have asbestos in them needs to be removed um we built in a $300,000 uh request for ongoing hbac equipment repairs and Replacements again old buildings we need to continue this work we've done a lot of work and some really good work in terms of updating controls on some of the buildings so we're digitizing controls in some cases um like we we still have pneumatics I don't know how familiar you are with pneumatics but it's air that runs through little tubes from the thermostat and it tells the heating system what to do when that stuff gets to be 70 plus years old it doesn't work well and it's a nightmare to fix so um so we're hoping to continue that process and we work closely with um the town's energy manager Kathy Stanley who is a contractor um who works uh very closely with us on on these projects and we get all the grants that we possibly can um and utility incentives we have a request for 250 ,000 to continue to monitor uh modernize our school playgrounds we have some funds now we're actually working on um updating one of the playgrounds at the Quinn school and this will help us continue at at some of the other schools um so hopefully we receive funding for that we have a a bus that we use it was parked if you walked in the front door it was one of the buses that was parked out outside earlier um it's uh it's 2017 it's got a lot of miles on it it's beginning to get to the point where our um the folks who maintain the bus for us are saying okay you need you know be aware you need to you need to think about um replacement of that bus so we built in funds to uh to you know hopefully do that and the last item on our list for this year um is the stadium renovation so this has been continued to be on the list and and I don't want to take it off the list because it w it has to be done eventually and um you know we started this this project in 2018 um yes we did there had been previous discussions about lots of different things relating to athletic fields and PRI where prior to that I mean I've been living this for a long time um but anyway in 2018 we started actually renovating the stadium in 2019 we started using the current field which is a fantastic Improvement that has has been so important for for students here um but um the infrastructure around that field is poor crumbling it's poor yeah it's poor well in some cases literally crumbling agree to the point that it yeah was a safety concern so um so we want to maintain it there's a lot of value in the structure there there's um you know it's people um people who um you know experience the stadium recognize that it it is a pretty special place there's not a lot of stadiums like that locally um so our hope is that we can maintain it um but if we let it go forever we won't be able to so those are our current year requests um um but we have other things on this list that are pretty important so we built in a request for a new or renovated School in fiscal year 27 that's the second year of this plan um we think it's important to move forward with this we have uh Dr sa Maguire and I have a along with John Bernard our facilities manager have a meeting with the msba tomorrow morning to um in anticipation of them uh coming down at some point and um and taking a look at our facilities um so we're hopeful that we can encourage them to do so um I'm sure they will and uh really you know similar to um the high school roof this would be a process that we would submit a statement of Interest saying we would like to partner with msba on a building project and we would not um necessarily have to at that point um indicate exactly the details of the project they don't want that they want to have discussions with us about it so at some point hopefully in the next not this January but in the following January we're in a position where we feel like we can have an agreement with um with the select board um and hopefully obviously with your support um we would we would push that forward and and have that discussion it ties very closely into our long-term capital planning process that we're working on with the town we have a meeting with them on Wednesday um and they're interested that group at least is very interested in addressing the long-term needs needs of the infrastructure in the town so hopefully there'll be momentum um and we can move forward with that request can I ask a question in regards to building a renovation project because I'm I actually had it here number four um because we we've had we've kicked this can down the road for for quite a while I I personally for one am thrilled that you brought this up and it's as early as FY 27 cuz I think it's long over do and I think a lot of people in the town uh feel that way and I know that we this committee has had this conversation around what would make the most sense as far as maybe and this was just speculation making this the middle school and building a high school but at the end of the day I've been doing some research and I correct me if I'm wrong uh Dr St Maguire Mr Kylie that it's really comes down to what the appetite of the msba has for building a school in the community of Dartmouth cuz uh having conversations with other school committee members in other districts I don't know if it was East Bridgewater or West Bridgewater but one of the Bridgewaters they're actually building a new Elementary School in which msba said you need to close and consolidate three elementary schools they are much smaller than the elementary schools here in Dartmouth and we're going to just give you we'll a you the funds for just one Elementary School and we're going to consolidate those three into one so um is it safe to assume that really msba and based on what you had just said that you're going to entering just having some preliminary conversations with them that that is the case in which we we do kind of have to take our Direction a little bit from them Ms I at least what we hope to is going to happen and we what we believe is going to happen is msba is going to assess all six buildings um and then at that point um we'll they'll have more information to have that conversation with us clearly we have a building that was built in 1922 that's still in operation and I would imagine that part of the part of any discussion with the msba will be that the use of that building long term is probably not you know not in the short cards so as to how that all happens um there are different there's different ways to you know to to move on from you know assuming that that is a um is a sort of recommendation of msba but but yeah I think you're right I think it's this step will hopefully lead us as we move forward into the statement of Interest process and and and provide them with more information in which they can be logical offer recommendations but yeah I'm thrilled yep yeah me too I think it's a really good place for us to be when I think about coming in here last year as a new superintendent um one of the things that we immediately started to talk about was building recognizing the fact that we needed to build a new school building and I know that wasn't because I had just started here I know those conversations had been ongoing but I was so excited to start to have what we were hoping was going to lead to real next steps on how that was going to happen and so to be able to have this conversation again get back to that and know that we're going to be able to put a planning I mean there are there are a lot of different steps that need to happen but it's really an exciting place to be to think about putting a plan into place that really is going to lead Dartmouth into the next when you think about it really The Next Century um and and it's definitely much needed here great it's fun good stuff so I I think you know there are lots of other things on this Capital Improvement plan obviously uh more flooring more HVAC more playg ground improvements Energy Efficiency improvements bathroom Renovations um lots of other projects that'll be needed over the next 10 years to maintain the Integrity of use of these facilities um one one thing that I think is important to note is that we also built in a second new building at the at the end of this um because this town is cannot be in the position where they don't move forward with multiple construction projects in the next you know 20 years I mean it has to it it has to happen or else what's going to happen is they're going to end up doing three projects at the same time um you know and that would be unfortunate and and shortsighted the the other thing to remember is the longer we wait to do these projects the more it's going to cost yeah um both in on a couple ways so yeah right in ongoing maintenance yeah there's a lot of requests on this list that are going to happen unless we do something but also the construction escalation um you know the interest rates for borrowing are low construction escalation cost is high so if construction ES escalation is somewhere between 5 and 6% and our interest rate is 2 and a half I don't know what we're waiting for because it's just costing us more money right and um so anyway so we're going to try and push it and and hopefully you know over the course certainly move forward and hopefully work with msba and get one project done I'm not we're not trying to get ahead of ourselves but we have to think about it for the future so so that really is um you know what we have in this uh Capital Improvement plan questions for Mr Kylie no but I I love the long Vision yeah yeah I think that's great to put it on paper and have a plan whether it changes or not over time that's fine right to have a plan right huge uh just a couple of questions Mr Kylie uh security upgrades for $285,000 is that something uh maybe next time we go into executive session you can just discuss in detail a little further under the security Clause my my point of being vague is that is as you probably guessed is that it is typically an executive session topic when we're talking about security upgrades and I yes I'd be happy to share some more specifics about that that would be wonderful and then the high school roof for 6 million um have we confirmed and I know you're working on that have we confirmed that this roof would be eligible age-wise we believe it would be okay it was installed on the so it obviously you can't begin to do the inside of the building until there's a roof right so in terms of installation of the actual roof on this building it will meet the 25y year requirement um by the time it's considered so yeah we believe that I only asked that because we're fighting the same exact thing in the district I work in for our Middle School that was built the same year yeah so it's it's a little tricky and the reality is that over the the last couple of Cycles with the msba so they they they took a year off of The Accelerated repair program um the the previous approval Cycles have been that they've had a lot more applicants than they've been able to award so I don't know what it's going to look like right now um but I mean it we may not get approval we won't be the oldest roof applying um for sure you know so we'll have to see okay um but we can only try and um you know make our best case and I think we have a good case so we'll do our best thank you Mr Kylie you're welcome uh let's see next up uh school committee policies section B school committee in governance operations and school committee policy section A ADF wellness policy first reading like to save or yeah well I said Mr Kylie was going to be busy tonight give him credit for um I mean really recognize the work he's done on taking the lead on this and I know it's been quite a while since the district has done this level of detail and looking at its policies so um and I know we had a as far as the wellness policy is concerned we had a number of people in the district that were involved in certain parts of it right so um yeah I'd like to thank everybody internally who's who's uh you know participated in the policy review process it is a lot of work and I'd also like to to thank our our uh fine uh policy subcommittee members from the school committee who've who've been integral in this process and and to get to our second section to a vote at school committee I think is a big deal because it is quite a bit of work so um I'll walk you through and um I I guess I'll leave it up to you as to how much detail DET but I I have kind of a summary I can I can get through here I think fairly quickly um so the policy subcommittee reviewed policies in section B which is school committee and government operations as well as one policy from section A the wellness policy policy ADF so I provided you with a summary sheet of all um the policies in section B with their recommended actions so that that's in your packet there there's um 12 policies with recommended revisions um on those you'll note that there's uh deletions of language are struck through and that additions of language are highlighted and red just to so that they'll stick out um we recommended one new policy for your consideration so bib um was is a policy uh is an masc recommended policy for school committee conferences conventions and workshops you might remember that there was a little discussion amongst the school committee about this previously um earlier this year so uh we thought that as a policy subcommittee we we thought that it might be worthwhile incorporating that seems like a pretty thoughtful policy we also recommended uh revocation of two policies so bdfa E2 and bdf3 which are not masc policies and are already covered in bdfa and bdfa um were recommended for revocation this was a lot of fun doing this right so um if you'd like I could just go briefly through each of the recommended actions and why we're why we're requesting I'm not going to read the policies I hope um but I can just go through and and let you know that BBA is school committee p uh powers and Duty so we Chang language regarding um the school committee employing a from what was the school committee employing a staff to the school committee selecting and terminating the superintendent That's the Law so we changed that bbaa school Committee Member Authority we changed it to the masc model policy um so what we did was we changed his and her to their and he and she to they are bbbbbb um School Committee Member qualifications and oath of office we changed that to the masc policy which really involved changing his and her to their he and she to um he and she is to they are and it added ethics online training language which is a requirement section BCA school Committee Member ethics uh we changed that to the masc model policy so his and her to there he and she is to they are and him her to them BDA uh school committee organizational meeting we changed clerk to secretary of the school committee which is what we have here um bdb school committee officers uh we changed that to the masc policy so his her to their he she to they are and him her to them bdd school committee superintendent relations we changed the masc model policy so his and her to their he and she to they are and him her to them we also changed language that indicated that the superintendent will I I love this old language will have the privilege of asking the school committee um to language stating that the superintendent may see which is a little more you know I mean I don't know it is a privilege I'm not saying this isn't a privilege but you know bdfa E2 submission and approval of school Improvement plan so we propos the revocation of this it isn't an masc model policy it's already in it's already in bdfa so I don't know why we even had it there but we had it um similarly bdf3 conduct of school council business this we proposed revocation again not an masc policy already covered in bdfa so um we propose revoking that bdg school attorney we changed the masc model policy so he or she to they and him her to them BG school committee policy development we changed the masc policy which um corrected references uh to um from the old language to the board of Elementary and secondary education which is what actually exists now bhc school committee staff Communications we proposed revision to remove uh the liaison language which is not currently a practice bhe use of electronic messaging by school committee uh that one was pretty dated um and it was I when you get a chance read the old one it's kind of funny um changes to the masc model policy so we addressed email archiving instead of some system where you all send emails to somebody and they keep them it's like I don't know anyway bib um school committee conferences conventions and workshops we proposed as I mentioned proposed a new policy this is the masc model policy uh and then ADF there's quite a few revisions in there um that have been developed by The District Health advisory committee so I know this is a first read I encourage you to just you know read through that that that policy has the most revisions um but it was you know some thoughtful uh thoughtful revisions reflecting how we do um what we do in in the uh in the district now um so that's sort of the summary of all of the changes um again this is a first read I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have um after this next step will be a second read and a proposed vote hopefully at uh hopefully at the next school committee meeting so be open to any uh comments questions that you might have I will just start off by saying thank you Mr Kylie members of the subcommittee and anyone else uh that joined you in this endeavor I know uh certainly was a lot of work uh so uh the committee certainly appreciates it thank you questions for the first read now I reiterate thanks for doing this overdue thank you uh I do have a question and I'll keep it brief uh bbbbbbb uh School Committee Member qualifications oath of office I think this got up this got brought up once in the past and I'm not sure if um legally wise uh ality wise uh we're able to do it um but I think if all of our um employees of the uh Dartmouth Public Schools is required to uh take in pass a Corey uh that I would love to see some kind of language uh in the policy that reflects that uh school committee members uh should have to pass a Corey I don't know uh if that'll be challenged uh in you know uh through legal how however I I just think that if everyone else in the public school system should have to take and pass a Cory that uh school committee members should also I don't know just for what it's worth I don't know how the committee feels about that um but I and I don't know if that's IL legal from a political standpoint okay so if if the committee is interested in um you know in looking at a possible change there we'll certainly U look into it and Report back but yeah yeah that's so I think in the fairness if we're asking everybody else to do it yes we should do it but I also think the idea of Corey is um that that is for people who will have one-on-one contact with our students with not another adult um whereas I don't think that anybody on this committee ever does so is it just an unnecessary an additional expense um just so that we're correct or would it serve um a purpose I mean I'm have no problem with it I I I feel like visually it would look good if we all did it I I guess personally I just feel if someone's going to be throw it out there running for office for a uh and I don't want to be political right now but if we're running for an office for a public school system to oversee a public school system that I I don't know I I'm just I could go either way but I'm just I want to put it out there I think it's important you know we're supposed to be representatives of the dmouth public school system yeah I think it's worth checking out with legal council yep we can check it out and report back I don't know if any other districts do it but I just threw it out there ask around sounds good uh let's see going back what else do we have here proposed meeting dates January 25th through June 25th uh June January 2025 through June 2025 uh everyone should have received uh the dates no yes yep yep there we go comments questions around these proposed dates I'm good with them I'm fine with them I'm fine with them we'll be very busy from now until the end of the year because they're almost every agenda is already sort of prepopulated and there's a lot um really to bring before the Committee in the next 6 months uh oh wow so Monday January 27th is already we're looking at the proposed date for the great idea school choice hearing okay yeah I just was noting that that I appreciate that it just um seems to be quite an effort to get ahead of things I think we were sort of I think we have to do it by a certain day but by doing it at this time I think aligns with allowing people to make a more meaningful decision about who where they want to go and and and applying to be part of our community um makes a lot of sense in terms of getting ahead of it so thank you whoever decided to propose this earlier date we've been getting phone calls Kate has been receiving phone calls inquiries already I I to have been receiving from the community what's that I've been receiving inquiries from the community as well so that's a good sign y great sign certainly is and I do have a question around school choice but I'll save it to the chairperson report so we're good with this calendar yes perfect all right next up we have the school calendar proposed 2025 2026 Dr Sab Maguire yep so we decided to present you with two options you can see um if we can just start with looking at option one where uh we would come back our staff would come back the 25th our students would start school uh the first day of school would be the 27th I think what's probably the most significant difference though is I'll just go down to um December because of the way the holiday falls and so with option one our students would um be in school on both December 22nd and December 23rd and that would allow for an earlier last day of school which would bring us to June 11th uh that's without snow days with snow cancellation days that would bring us to the 18th uh one of the positives with that calendar too is is that the 19th is a holiday and so that would allow us to finish up the school year on a Thursday and not go in to the following week so that's option one oh oh and let me just go back for a minute with option one we would um come back from that December break on January 5th so January 2nd would be a a day off this year we came back the Thursday Friday because that made sense to get kids back in school um we think that was a great decision uh going into next year though it would really be bringing kids back for one day so if we go to option two again the major difference is that we would not be in school on the 22nd and 23rd those would be days off and we also that we would also uh not be in school for that January 2 so in in effect we'd have an entire two weeks off um so the I guess you know something to consider there is again getting into June that brings you to your last day of school being a Monday June 15th that's without snow days um and then if there were snow days that would bring us until June 22nd which would mean again coming in in that following Monday with the June 19th being the holiday so those are things that we're asking that you consider and to make a decision and I'll just let you know um I did talk to Mr noons he prefers option one um and one of the considerations that he asked to bring forward was that the 23rd be a half day so if we were to be in school on December 22nd and 23rd the 22nd would be a full day and the 23rd would be a half day so the big difference is do we come to school the Monday Tuesday or take an entire two weeks off thoughts comments questions you want to go um did my own little research on this I don't really have a hard I I can see you know just having a family that kind of a kiddo that sort of relies on routine I can see some negatives of having a longer time off but um the community that I've heard from has spoken and over arching and look at that table I've heard in all caps I'm in my head I say that's like all caps two weeks so I I'm feeling like the community has an appetite for two weeks weeks off um irregardless of how I feel about that um but I don't really have a strong feeling either way you wanted to share my research Miss Beck I would say exactly the same thing so it it really to me it's no no different but I have also heard from some community members um that they would prefer the full two weeks small sample no small sample um small sample par um I know that many of our families do travel for that holiday and being in school on the 24th would be a hardship 23rd 23rd 23rd um and I wonder how our teachers feel about a week and a half versus two weeks not in terms of time off for them but um the lack of routine and how much harder it is after two weeks is it easier after a week and a half or does it not make a difference um but I I lean on the two weeks um but am not firm certainly a good good point Miss coflin so I've actually over the years and I just haven't brought it up in past years but I'll bring it up because we're having some good conversation here one of the things that I've also heard from parents is the um bir I don't want to say burden but the parent teacher conferences in December um that they're not f a lot of te a lot of um parents are just not fans of the parent teacher conferences in December um it just seems as though we're especially we look at the calendar here and we look at the 17th the week before Christmas that it's it's just very difficult to um try to get in whether I don't know if we're still doing them on Zoom or not um or if they're in person no they're in person but trying to do that so that's just one thing well that's definitely something we can take a look at we've actually had some internal conversation about outdates for parent conferences and some um possibility to make some changes I just and and that's you know certainly your purview Dr s but I know it's on the it's on the calendar it shows up on the calendar so I figured I'd just throw my two cents into it thank you for that but yeah whatever whatever we can do and as far as the uh option one versus option two I personally don't don't have one way the other um other than um two weeks certainly I think for the for the community might be nice do we know the dates of Hanukkah for next year um up yep I would just um and again I don't personally I don't have a preference but I I would say to you that from talking to some of the area superintendent some of my colleagues um there is more of an appetite to be in school the 22nd and 23rd um so and in some of the school calendars that have already been set maybe not local school calendars but uh Kate did some homework and pulled some calendars where communities have already set their calendar for uh next year most districts are in school on the 22nd and the 23rd just for your information certainly appreciate that that research so Hanukkah does end Monday December 22nd for next year it ends it begins on the 14th and ends on the 22nd do are you looking for a vote this evening I mean if you're prepared to make one okay so what do we know what the rationale of the superintendent is for liking being in school the 22nd 2 I think that um two things that you've already brought up one is that uh consistency and that being away from school for two entire weeks can really be disruptive to families and to kids in particular and I think it it can do the very that Mrs Amaral brought up and I think that is disconnect students from the routines that I think are really healthy for them um the other thing is uh maybe you didn't bring it up but I think it's important is you know we can't predict the weather and sometimes it's not just snow days sometimes there are other factors where you may have to call off school and if you get too deep into the month of June what happens is you run out of room and you could I mean you conceivably you could end up with not having enough days to complete the 180 days um I don't think that that's necessarily true in Dartmouth because we do start before Labor Day uh but I would still say that that's a worry for people and then the other thing that I think people have to consider is that when you go later into June as much as that two- week break for the holiday break is nice it means your summer break is shorter and so somewhere there is um there whether it's DEC the two weeks in December or going later in June you're um you're going to lose some vacation time and I guess the the other thing and this is obviously the educator in me is that I think you know instructional time is really important and instructional time in December might look really different than later in June in buildings that can be really hot um and I think that has impact so again I don't have a preference but those are just things for you to consider um I will say I like Mr nun's idea if we go with the first schedule of having a half day on the 23rd is a brilliant suggestion Mrs Amal I just wonder if we if if it's timely if we were to would there be an opp would it be would yeah I wonder the benefit of waiting for Mr noon's just in case we get into a situation where we're tied here and we realize we wasted 25 minutes of our precious time to come to a tie I don't know if if we're able to do that I think we at least right now tonight we we know instead of kicking that I know you would just kick that can down the road uh that's what we get paid the big bucks for right uh to make these decision decisions um so I think we know where Mr nud stands um so if there was a tie uh we could certainly wait at that point and bring it back at the following meeting is that a third option then Mr no's option that would be a third op oh yeah and you know there are some parents who'd want their kids in school on Monday and Tuesday for reasons and it could be a little bit selfish I can see both might be busy I can see that I can see both sides I can see both sides here yeah that that would be me but I do know that the voices of lots of folks did say a small sampling of lots of folks is that is that a that a real statement but I I I did hear overwhelmingly request for two we seems nice yeah does anyone want to make a motion weighty decision it is it wey decision we can if if we really want to think about it I guess there is no harm in taking it back there isn't we're here in a what two weeks anyway right all right so everybody call your school Committee Member your favorite school Committee Member in the next two weeks all right so is that the committee's pleasure that we'll you want you want to digest this a little bit and think about it yes I do okay committee has spoken we're going to uh take this back up and kick it down the road to the next meeting I'm going to take a poll at the supermarket do a straw poll make sure you go at different times of the day thank you though honestly I have to save aguire for uh the insight and your thoughts uh next up superintendent update okay this is all of most of the fun stuff some of it anyway um but obviously we have had a lot to catch up on tonight so we'll go right into our update I'll start off with just talking quickly about the mcast because at a future meeting I am going to have um Dr t-bolt talk about what this means means in ter in in a very detailed way but what I think it's important for people to know is that although the mcast is no longer a factor as a graduation requirement as a competency determination we still are we are still giving the mcast tests students are still taking the mcast test it is still a requirement in fact it's a legal requirement of a school schol District to administer uh Statewide test and that is tied to something that we talked about earlier and that is federal dollars and so we're required to give the test um what I'm excited about with Dartmouth as much as you know there's some confusion and I do think the state still has some details to work out and and we still have some things to work through darmouth has done a really good job you as a committee you as a school district and setting graduation local graduation requirements that are completely aligned with state and federal requirements and so I think that overall we're in really in a really good place and that what we need to do is we need to just be really clear with the public and with our students and with our families about what the course of studies now means here in Dartmouth and how it's all you've always had to complete and passion your course of studies here at darmouth high school in order to earn a high school diploma you always have had to do that that hasn't changed what has changed now is that that is now also at the committee once we will bring it to the committee because you will have to take a vote on it it becomes the competency determination which was formerly the mcast so um the other thing I would just say to you is in in Dartmouth really right now Dr tbolt took a look at the high that's some of our high school students who right now may be impacted by some of these changes we we really are looking at seven students that we're going to be working really closely with to make sure that we're supporting them them in the way that we need to to make sure that they're able to meet the graduation requirements here at dmouth high school but more to come on that um so but what I think is the most important takeaway is we all we're all still giving and taking the mcast it is still a requirement and I really have confidence that the kids when they take these kind of assessments are going to give it an honest effort I think I don't think just because it's no longer the 10th grade graduation requirements that kids are just going to throw their hands up and say this isn't important because what we're instilling in our students is a sense of importance in being able to assess for helping us and helping them to assess their own learning because after all that's actually what the assessment is about is it safe to say that John and Abigail's scholarship will still it is absolutely safe to say that there will still be a John and Abigail Adams scholarship yes yes I ask a question um something for Ross's presentation um that or L uh maybe Miss denisio would have um a response to this I would just be curious of of those seven um on the other spe end of the spectrum if any of those students were meeting those graduation competency requirements now are not held or Bound by the threshold of the mcast and and is their acceptance of their diploma going to impact those critical potential necessary um transition to 22 require no okay well I I think that there there's there is one student in uh who May yeah yeah who I think it's going to benefit oh well that's good sorry okay so there are other you know there are lots of different I think ways that this is impacting individual students but overall I think we're in really good shape here um so I also wanted to update you on where we are with the Playbook initiative we should be so proud of the work that we're doing here in Dartmouth not every community in the state is part of the Playbook initiative as you've heard Dr t-bolt talk about it is a competitive process they've made some changes this year and and this year what they I guess they're going back to some of their roots in that in the past you've been partnered with a district and this year we are partnered with old Rochester um so what that means is that we're going to have a couple of opportunities where our St where students from Rochester actually come to Dartmouth and work with our students then we go to Old Rochester and do the same and we're talking about up to 30 middle schoolers from each of the districts and then our own School our own internal first of all our staff who are the leaders but our student leaders who are the ones who are really truly in leadership of working with the the younger students so that's really exciting um we are um working with I just want to mention um yeah I've already mentioned Dr TBO but I also want to mention that Senora Chamberlain has uh is also one of our leaders at the high school level and that's been really wonderful so our middle schoolers will plan a day of action and that will happen in the spring and I'm sure we'll be back here to talk to you about it next we have in math I have to mention um and our high school math department has worked really hard this year with a new curriculum uh we just met with them right before the holiday break to hear some of the concerns that they have about with any new resource the challenges that you can be that you need to overcome both as a teacher and a student we are responding to that we are working very closely with the Carnegie Representatives who are going to uh I think they've put an action plan in place where they're going to come in and more directly support our teachers uh Fall River is a community that's actually using this resource and they're using it well and having a lot of success so we're we are working with Fall River and with Dartmouth to arrange some opportunities for our teachers to go into visit the Fall River Fall River dery High School am I saying that right dery High School um to uh work with their teachers and to learn from them and to hear about some of the challenges that they probably also had when they adopted this resource and at the same time I want to say it's really important that we recognize our teachers voice when we select a curriculum and we'll be sure that we're true to that and a good example of that is the work that Mrs poo has been doing with literacy across the district and I'm going to ask her to come up and to share some really exciting news because I think this is a great example of what we can do when we do it in collaboration with our teachers whose voices are incredibly important happy New Year everybody um you've been I feel like you've been on this journey a little bit with us you know it has been and a journey is a good word for it because it hasn't been a short process um this has been a year and a half in the making where we started last year by just vetting uh we had five different publishing companies come in and share their product with us we narrowed it down to two um and we did a halfe pilot we did a um 8we pilot with elel education and then uh a similar length pilot with CK and right before the break our Ela team came together did some work we will share a full um kind of the data with you um but we wanted to share that CK is the program that overwhelmingly is the one that our teachers who and K I will say and our students the the best part for me was going in and listening to students um I had a I had a I went into one of the classrooms I feel like I know the the kids and it's really it's done a lot of good for a lot of things to be back in classrooms and to to interact with kids on a on a regular basis and one of the kids said to me you're the lady from the Middle Ages right and I said well I am and don't I look so good for being from the Middle Ages um but the the kids and and I'm talking to the teachers um they had a lot to say about it at parent teacher conferences they're excited about it so CK stands for um core knowledge language arts and the premise of both programs is that they are knowledge-based programs so our students are being immersed in things that they may not otherwise have um chosen El use that word um I had a fifth grader who said to me I never would have chosen to read about ancient civilizations but I'm so glad that I did because it's cool and now I know about it and um I had a second grade teacher who told me that at during parent teaching conferences her her uh parent shared that their family they had done a Greek mythology unit right in second grade but that their family did this whole sort of uh investigation into Greek gods and goddesses and the conversation that the kids are having about it so it's really um in-depth Rich learning the process is one as Dr Sab McGuire said that our teachers were super involved in all the way across they could and I will ask them to come speak to you because I think you've heard me talk at nauseum about it um but you should hear from them sort of the process of how we got from um just really doing a revision of our or review of our current curriculum in knowing that we needed to go somewhere and saying so so what now what and kind of taking those next steps um but you will hear a lot about CK going forward and I'm excited to you know share any information we welcome you to come in and see some of the lessons because they are very fun um and it's good stuff thanks thank you thank you great thank you so we're excited and again we'll have a future presentation that really takes you through what that process looked like it's not quite the same process uh that we're using here at the high school but what is what is the same is that teacher voice is important in this process it's different here because we're all on into one roof what we're doing at the elementary level is bringing together people from across the district and multiple grade levels I ask a yes um in in terms of like the math and and the going through the um uh the um utilizing the curriculum um have some of the like the feedback from the teachers have some of the feedback related to uh I'm just thinking in the high school level like grades grades are always important but um are student grades affected in a way that is noticeable is has that been a potential impact I'm curious as to how that's is and has student voice been part of that process I think that that's a great question and I can't answer it off the top of my head but we have talked about that okay and we hadn't quite if when we we had just met right before the holiday break with the math department and what one of the teachers said was we're you know we're 40% through the school year well we're 40% through the school year we have a lot of school left right and so breaking down how grades have been impacted I think at this point we would be able to make some comparisons um and we could do that so that is a wonderful I'm glad that you brought that up it's something that we've talked about and we'll be able to provide that information and student voice does also have we we we also have to consider student voice it's a little different with selecting a curriculum right um so we I meet with students so I listen when I meet with them with the superintendent advisory I have had a couple of students talk to me about the new math resource I intentionally ask them how things are going for them in their math classes and since the beginning of the year to now I've heard that they're feeling better and better about it um but at the same time we know that there are some concerns and so what we're working to do is put the appropriate supports in place for our teachers so that they feel more comfortable and confident and have less doubts because right now it's coming from a good place for our teachers they have some some doubt that the resource that they're using is having the intended impact on students and so we need to do that work with them thank you and so I'm going to move on on to uh some of the things going on under budget Capital Improvement HR starting with HR uh I I think I might have mentioned this at the last meeting but I can't remember but we do have an elll teacher did I I did mention that um her name is Maddie Carrera apparently she was our student representative a number of years ago name sounds familiar yes so she is now working uh as an eell teacher in the school district and she's sharing responsibilities between the high school and the middle school we are still seeking a stepup teacher for the high school um that has been really difficult I don't think that and that's not about Dartmouth and even us being able to identify uh somebody to come in and take over that ell Ro that has been difficult and that is a state wide problem and it's probably a national problem but it's certainly something that I'm hearing from my colleagues across the state now I'm really pleased about Staffing levels here in darmouth I really truly am because I hear from some of my other colleagues that there are multiple positions in both mostly special education and English English language learner um teachers where they're just not able to find somebody to fill those roles so I continue to be pleased to see that people are attracted to coming to Dartmouth working here staying here and really making the commitment um at the kushman school uh you know that we had been interviewing for a new director we had many qualified candidates for the position uh the interview process I thank Mrs denisio for for leading that and making sure that it was an inclusive process there were many voices that were consider considered and making that selection and Jim and I just recently met with the finalists that the selection committee uh put forward and we're pleased to announce that Stephanie ricardi who's a longtime New Bedford educator will be assuming the role she was absolutely a resounding Choice by all the folks that were involved in the entire process again we're in a really good place because we had a very qualified applicant pool and this person Rose to the top both Jim and I were so pleased when we met her we really have a lot of confidence that she is going to come in and be able to hit the ground running and make a real difference at the kushman school she'll be starting in February uh she's in New Bedford now and wants to see out um her responsibilities there and transition her duties to whoever it is that will be uh replacing her but in the meantime how lucky are we that we have Mrs Brooks and we have Karen McCarthy who are splitting the responsibilities there and that the feedback that we're getting is that that's been a really nice bridge for for the kushman school Community uh you also know that we advertise both the Quinn and Potter School principal ships and obviously uh highly qualified applicants so we should be excited about that uh people want to come here they want to lead here they want to work here that's what we want to say what we want to see Mrs poo is leading that process very similarly to what Mrs denisio did at the kushman school this will be an inclusive process there will be a a SC there'll be a committee a screening interview committee made up of of teachers made up of esps made up of the all important school administrative assistant because we know that that person works so closely with school leadership um also uh we're we're going to be reaching out if Mrs poo hasn't already to uh ask School Committee Member to sit on on that team and then when we uh when when that team makes uh a recommendation just like we just did with the kushman director position uh the person will meet with uh with Mr Kylie and myself and so that we're all part of that selection process I just want to thank you for thank you for moving forward and Miss p as well for uh for putting these uh in Mrs dionio as well for having an inclusive process I think it's so important think it is too it's important that the community can see that their voices are important and those are important positions and we want to make sure that we're we're doing it right as best as we can um I'm you know I'm going to have to say that we're always looking for monitors substitute teachers even esps custodians Food Service workers so you know the application Pro that process is just always ongoing it's just never a finite process uh so with that I'm going to ask Jim to update you although he did a lot of talking today I don't know if there's anything else that he missed no in terms of uh no I think we've said it all in terms of budget Capital Improvements all that stuff I think you got it all in I think we did I think he did all right so he's off the hook for that this part um are safe and supportive schools these are the things that I think are just really critical to our school communities and I'm excited about um this opportunity that the high school and middle school partnered on I can't thank Mr Shay enough I can't thank Mr Christa Foy uh Mr Rossy the middle school high school everybody involved but what we did was we had the middle the high school sports captains cheer um they actually traveled to the middle school and met with our eighth graders to talk to them about their experiences and the opportunities that they were able to uh enjoy benefit from here at Dartmouth High School and that was very intentionally done and it was done in response to student voice where at one of our superintendent advisories uh one or more of our students shared with us that well you know we think that maybe at the middle school level it seems like we hear a lot about other opportunities but not necessarily about what we have right here at Dartmouth High School and that could have maybe impacted some of the decisions that some of my classmates made to go elsewhere and so our team here jumped right into action and put something together and I was able to to see it in action and I have to say what a benefit it was for both the seniors at the high school and for the eighth graders um you know both of those groups of students really got a lot out of that one one of the students the seniors who was speaking to a group of students she was so nervous at the beginning and then by the end she was just really beaming that she had had that opportunity to engage in that kind of interaction with younger students and then the eighth graders were invited here to Dartmouth High School to participate in or to be sort of like onlookers at the pep rally and we do believe that those kind of experiences can make a difference for students who are making really important decisions and families who are making really important decisions about where they're going to attend high school so that was done very intentionally I know that there's a spring there's another visit being planned for the spring and so we'll continue to do those kind of things really because we want to keep our Dartmouth kids in Dartmouth right uh I just want to mention because it was so long ago um but it seems so long ago but really it couldn't have been that long ago um but the unified basketball and the gmur we had a group of traveling Educators from belgaria here did I already talk about this I might have mentioned it in my Friday update Friday email yeah yeah so but they came to Dart they were so incredibly impressed by that jeree and how um multiple communities came here to Dartmouth High School to participate in that and again can't give the special ed office and the folks here at the school who are so committed to that work um um Mr bro Mr Capello I mean really just amazing leadership to really put Dartmouth on the map but for the very re for the only reason is to do what's right for kids and to give them experiences that are incredibly inclusive experiences um and as a matter of fact our teachers now have been invited to Bulgaria so they are actually traveling when are they going in July I think yeah so they will be no we're not paying for it but that's how impressed this group of Educators were with what they saw Dartmouth the Dartmouth High School Educators doing here with their stud with the students here so that was really exciting um I do want to mention our dhsv media students since they're working right now somewhere behind closed doors um they were able to with Mr parate travel to New York City for a fantastic trip I think it was December 27th they were able to visit the Museum of moving image in austoria they went on an NBC Studio Tour they visited 30 Rockefeller Center 30 Rock and then they had a nice dinner in New York City apparently they were on a beautiful coach bus um they really enjoyed it and part of this is um in part of this we we have we should be grateful to it's Devin Rob robitel robitel um at Mass hire of Greater New Bedford who has helped get us funding for this trip so really exciting and to get the students from here where we have a beautiful TV studio here at this High School out to New York City to be able to see you know what the bigger world has and what opportunities they may have if that's of interest to them so I thank Mr parate for that and I share those things because under safe and supportive schools because the correlation between being safe feeling safe and supported in school is connected to a sense of belonging and what a wonderful opportunity for students to be together as a group I think there are about 20 students um and five adults to be together as a group from Dartmouth and to have that experience together and that really is what leads to a sense of belonging um and finally we want to be intentional about how we engage our families in the community and in our schools since our last school committee meeting um we have uh I've continued to go out to PTO meetings to talk to our pto's about our district strategic plan I have I I think two PTO meetings that I'll be attending this week and in case you've missed it uh the what's cooking in Dartmouth um that was apparently now on the front page of Dartmouth week so yep so but I can't thank um M mag Magnolia mcomish enough because I mean that's her her creativity right and her commitment to doing that for the community gave me an opportunity as a superintendent to talk about something that's really important not only the baked mac and cheese but the district strategic plan even more importantly um and she was you know I just think that's such a wonderful thing for the town but for us it's a way for us to get our story out there in a way that may engage the public in a different way and I'm pretty sure Mr gashaw is scheduled I think he's going to make it Chile if I'm not yeah I think so and so um you know maybe one of you might be interested in appearing on what's cooking in Dartmouth cuz could be really fun it was not as intimidating as it seemed once you once you get into the routine it just kind of flows and Magnolia is a wonderful host so she does a good job leading you through it I just also finally want to mention that um Bridgewater State University continues to be a really promising partner for us you've seen we've got you know a leadership course that we have offered to our Educators we have course that a cohort course in for a masters and reading that we'll be offering to our Dartmouth Educators that's coming up sometime this month and those meetings are happen joint meetings those professional development meetings are happening on a monthly basis with our district leadership team and with leadership from Bridgewater State so lots of great things happening and thank you that's I there's more but we only have so much time comment questions thoughts thank you no thank you for your report you're welcome lots of great stuff Happening Here uh I will keep my comments brief I just want to take this opportunity I don't think I did at the last meeting while it was cancelled um uh to thank the principles I had an opportunity I scheduled some time to go visit all of our schools with the exception of D Melo school I I was supposed to get there but um I ran out of time and I got to get back there but um thank you to Audra and all the rest of the uh principles had a great time it's great to get in the schools and see what's going on in the classrooms it's been a while since I've been there and just listen to you know what's specific to those buildings uh but certainly uh I encourage you if you haven't done it in a while to try to get uh boots back in there on the ground and uh see what's happening in the schools so thank you to all the principles uh that was certainly a lot of fun um just a couple of other things one being you might have noticed that uh you had received an email from Kate gner regarding uh being added to the district email list I had asked uh for the school committee just to be part of the district emails that go out I think it certainly helps with collaboration as well as just seeing the communication coming out of the district office and we are charged with uh evaluating the superintendent of schools and communication is certainly one of those things so it's just helpful to see some of the things the postings that are going out um so I thank you for that Dr s Maguire and um yeah no I think uh just just to be able to yeah thank you Kate as well um just to see what the The Happening that's going on at least at the district level for sure um and then just circling back we had talked about when we were uh discussing the uh public hearing for school choice I'm just going to throw this out there that um for to for our next meeting for the which is the public hearing on school choice uh I would love to hear the district's the administrative administration's thoughts on the possibility of opening some school choice slots at the middle school level um I'm curious uh just to see if one we had space at the middle school level if there was a desire um if we could accommodate them because I feel as though with school Choice uh we certainly it's helped out significantly uh being able to maintain our course offerings at the high school and if we were to maybe open it up to seventh or eighth graders uh those are students that would be certainly interested in coming to dmouth high school so I would just love to hear the administration's uh perspective on that and you know if if it's feasible and if it's not that's fine too um but uh I just think that maybe just thinking outside of the box um okay we can make that put something together for yeah I know it's shot notice it's only two weeks I'm sure we can put I didn't realize that this public hearing was in two weeks so that's all I have okay great my fellow committee members no all right uh let me pull up the when's the next meeting 2 what did we say the 27th you so at this time uh the next regularly scheduled meeting of the dma school committee would be a Monday January 27th at this time chair will entertain a motion to adjourn so moved second we have a motion in a second on the motion any further discussion all in favor I I I opposed motion carries unanimously have a good night everyone good night [Music] for
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e e [Laughter] all right we're going to go ahead and get started I want to welcome everybody uh to the first board meeting of 2025 extend our gratitude to those that are here in person and uh are thanks to everyone that's watching online or will watch online we're going to start this meeting uh with a call to order and we will have our roll call by Miss Wilson Mr Chad Thompson here Mrs Shane meray here miss uh Dr Blake Robinson here miss Jill Humphrey here Mr Jesse Brainard here Mr Thompson all board members are present you have a quorum thank you very much tonight it we have two board meetings tonight the first one is our special organizational meeting followed by a brief board M business meeting uh but we will start with uh selecting our board president and our board clerk for the 2 for uh and what I want to do first is start by uh we'll start with board president uh but I'll first start by reviewing the duties of the president so I'm just going to read this the duties of the president of the board shall be as follows preside over all meetings and conduct meetings in accordance with Arizona law and policies of the district consult with the superintendent and on behalf of the governing board as a whole approve items to be placed on the agenda for each meeting encourage and maintain orderly and Democratic participation keep all discussions factual and on the subject at hand allow for full and complete exploration of each item of business in the absence of the president of the board the clerk shall preside over the meeting temporarily and perform the functions of the president in the absence of the president and Clerk the superintendent will recommend the board members select a temporary president so the way that this works is that I will call for nominations for the board president three times and so uh we will start with the first call uh is there a call for a nomination for board president I'd like to nominate Chad Thompson for board president I think Chad's done a great job as clerk during the past year and and stepping up as as need as well the past several months thank you Mr Robinson I will call a second time uh are there any nominations for board president all right since there are none I don't think we need to call for a third you need to you do need to say a third time okay I will call for a third time for any nominations for board president okay thank you very much uh and now we will I think for uh official sake I think we'll vote Yes for uh the board president so all those in favor of nominating Chad Thompson as board president say I I any opposed thank you very much and now we will move on with board Clerk and before we ask for nominations I will read the uh the duties of the clerk the duties of the clerk of the board shall be as follows the clerk of the governing board shall perform the following duties unless the board delegates delegates them to an employee keep a record of the proceedings of the board in accordance with Arizona law and policies of the district review and itemized account of the receipts and expenditures of school Monies also known as vouchers discharge other duties as prescribed by the board I will now call three times for nominations for the board Clerk and I'll do the first one now any nominations for board clerk Mr Thompson um I nominate Jill humph for board clerk thank you Mr Brainard I'll call a second time for nominations for board clerk I'd like to nominate Blake Robinson for board clerk thank you very much Miss Murray and I'll call a third time for nominations for board clerk okay then we've got two nominations we'll take them in order and I'll call for a vote uh all those in favor of Miss Jill humph serving as board clerk for 2025 say I I I all those oppose say nay nay and that does not pass and so I will call for a vote uh for our second nomination Blake Robinson as board clerk for 2025 all those in favor say I I all those opposed say Nay Nay Nay thank you very much a vote of 3-2 uh Mr Blake Robinson will be our board clerk for 2025 all right thank you for thank you for that we're going to move on to agenda item number three uh the times 3.01 the times of meetings uh I will turn this over to uh Dr McCord to give us an intro of what we've been doing and possibilities for 2025 thank you Mr President and governing board members uh the generally the times that we meet are at 6:00 pm.
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and I don't know and e e e lucky number 13 Jillian [Applause] Steven number three k b number 10 Saina m [Applause] in number one Kenna [Applause] Marino our great country has persevered because of the men women that serve our country in the armed forces we invite both veterans and current military personnel to please stand we thank you for the service to our country we now invite everyone to stand as we honor America with the pl of our national land got [Music] God [Applause] are we good well Steve it's reason 101 East small Meadows getting a new school or sound system doesn't even work so well we'll try to do what we can here tonight to get things off to a good start after a little bit of a rocky beginning good to be back with you here again tonight Jeff maybe some home cooking will be what the Spartans have been looking for after the tough last few games hopefully a better turnout than uh the last two games somehow had a rough time on the road losing to West Springfield in agam hopefully they can turn it around tonight against visiting chicke so let's see we're just about ready to tip it off Julian Stevens takes the tip and wins the tip to em Goslin goes right into for a b that's a very good start more of that see if they can press up press turn Jill defends outside ball goes out to morera inside looks like it's out of bounds off the Pacers not too familiar with most of these chickabee girls I was going to say the same thing not a lot of familiar faces from so we'll see I guess the same could go for Esa me true enough true enough ball moves around the perimeter gosin takes it inside looks to have B basket rebounded by Joe Stevens outside to Sabina for an open look just barely back WIS it beak almost comes up with the steal B goes over to Francis operates on the outside she's stopped there by Sabina Jill defends inside drop step ball goes back to morera goes in for the wild layup can't get it rebounded by gosin looks to press she's got Jill goes up and it goes on transition that's why I like to see do more pushing transition we doing that last El game exactly right and that'll be off chicke metal ball there we go yeah certainly nice to see that those transition baskets I agree Jeff it's a good good good formula for this squad be good if we get to to press down a little bit cause some turnovers hit some fast breaks get some easy buckets hopefully Spartans look to move the ball around the perimeter cin finds a SE takes it block gets rebound up steps out of bounds as she tries to achieve the rebound coach Gary signals for full-court pressure trapping pressure there ball gets to midcourt Marino comes up with the steel from behind never gave up on that press came up from behind even after they had gotten it over mid Court unlucky on that distribution no worries Spartans will look to extend their pressure once again Pacers look to inbound it look like a carry there maybe no such call shot goes long and two on two let's see what the Spartans can do here mcki pulls up for the pull-up just off the iron beak plays tough defense there chick brings it over midcourt rero looks to operate ball goes out to pyel who takes it to the basket where she's fouled by Marino kind of helps her [Music] up I believe I think I saw moro's leading scorer on their team I believe not quite sure think she's a freshman good work you did research than I did this is very impressive I could have been wrong good work just making it up as I go I could be wrong two shots for chick I think what we need to do today is we definitely need to get more rebounds that we have in the past I think the last time we were together that was one of the things that we liked about the game against Westside here was we had a monster rebounding game that has not been the case the last couple of games Mor looks to shoot the second and it's good 4-1 Spartans with 5 minutes and 40 seconds remaining in the first quarter pass on barrera's got a chance waits for pressure to run by her misses the layup rebounded there by Marino she looks long she's got Jill and Caitlyn beak K marito threading that pass through to citon beak Call's going to go against the sletto is he going to get Jill for that one one three y for a reach in on that one Spartans will extend the pressure once again giving it slightly different look they tra the ball in the near side he's got a chance to get back good hands by Stevens [Music] [Applause] [Music] inside battle rebound is battled for k out Marino push it kid all the way oh tie it up oh should be a chicken ball y yeah heads up play just to throw it off the defender there she was stuck and she didn't have any other [Music] options B almost a stop from the outside ball goes around to Francis as she operates along the perimeter Francis goes back to morero who's covered tightly by beak be gives no angle in ball gets thrown to the middle for by gos pushes up to Marino to Jill oh shoot that swing it oh goes inside to Emma fouled on her way to the basket that's why that we haven't been doing either quick passes Marino gets the ball quickly throws it in gosin goes up for layup gets followed the other difference in our games goson went to the line what 14 16 times last home game yep I think she hasn't gone to line 10 times last two games combined first substitution of the game for slow uh Grace blaz comes on for Caitlyn be gosin converts one of the two free throws for a 5 to one East Long medal lead good pressure looks to trap there Francis does a nice cross over to dribble out of the double team that's car for the back down branes again isolated on the outside gives the ball to morera morera gets frozen tries to take on four Defenders and she does Smooth Move by morero drive there we go and with a nice Lane to the baset it up and in very good so like we can get the [Music] we can get these girls to come out of that little zone defense we can split the defense at the open man nice screen up top ball is loose Kenna's got it one coming behind waits for numbers and wisely pulls it back out oh I thought she had Emma there transition they find morera on the outside pel looking for her didn't happen R goes back out to Francis Francis goes back to Herrera to the outside for pyel ball runs long and we'll have the Pacers inbounding on the far side inbounding on the far side Pacers run a modified stack pel goes out to get it throws an errant pass picked off by grace BL Blaze wastes no time B dra in contact on a blocking foul once again Grace Blaze using that uh quick one one quick one quick step to blow by the girl forcing the girl to block her [Music] exactly and it doesn't look doesn't look like the Pacers go very deep on this bench so if you could get some starters in foul trouble that would be that would be helpful yeah it's always a good thing right Yi tries to find the seam tries to find a way around barera got a hand check follow called there may you can get number 31 and Mar out of the game that could y cause some trouble for for chicke I would agree not sure that's exactly where Kenna wanted it but it all worked out they drew that play up it all worked out it's the old hidden ball trick it's another carry it's a carry when ball bounces over your head for the people at home it's typically a carry not tonight no by head official Ron Cutler that's the kind of inside information we get here at e meow I voted for him so uh checking into game uh andar for chick High School Jill Stevens with a hand on [Applause] it you saw looking a little quicker on defense tonight better better anticipation better First Step yep Grace blaz knocks it away and The Spar look to [Music] push the now slows things down at the beest of Coach Gary looks to swing it o got be a little something on that that's that kind of contact is need you need some kind of call both girls stay on their feet though remarkably don't worry in about 10 seconds they'll have a little hand check F yeah on the 35 ft from the basket so that right Kendall Reed checks in for Emma Goslin looks like chabe will inbound on the near side under the basket here running uh across the foul line inbound play ball goes to pitel hits the three and just like that it's a onep possession game Spartans nine Pacers six minute and 50 left here in the first quarter nice pass by to get Stevens board that stays [Music] Spartan apply pressure tra there at Mid Court yep chicke will inbound at midcourt Spartans apply denial pressure there Tech will peel off in case anyone gets loose and goes to the basket wisely defended Francis looks to find [Applause] a pel up top wases inside oops and where the ball's rebounded by kcki back to Francis nothing doing I off the grace Blaze comes up with the ball with an errant pass there looking for oh deflected by chickp hey [Applause] [Music] theine turn ball gets s swi to The Far Side partially blocked there Blaze picks up the quick foul there [Music] Spartans will back off their pressure and wait under a minute left in a 9-6 game ball swings around the perimeter pel looks to take it and she does 98 38 seconds remaining coach Gary calls the play out there mney runs the top finds Blaze fou by number 11 gonna have to call a couple of these little hand check FS on it get a lot of reach in him yeah exactly three Spartan substitutions for the last 28 seconds here Maya noes Caitlyn beak back in take that shot there we go oh there we go Kendall Reed grabs the board goes back up with it there go kend re good strong grabs her offensive rebound puts it back up for the two they had Kendall on the inbounds pass coach Gary was sad that they missed her there she was open on that opposite side so oops ball gets deflected seconds that's a foul can I have a a chance of a shot n maybe foul no no such call after one quarter at East lumo High School uh it's your home to Spartans 11 and the chickp Pacers eight so that was there was there was some up some up and down moments there were some good things some tough things but we'll take the take the 11 points in the three-point lead going into e come [Applause] through beig pressures on the outside now Maya NES provides some pressure Top chicken looks to work inside nothing there Francis flashes y Emma with a good rebound Kenna with a pass to noes doesn't quite get there way to get on the ground for that Maya jump ball he saw metal ball unless coach Garrett know didn't get his timeout the referees are going to consult on this about whether or not the timeout was called there's some discussion as to whether or not possession had been secured and whether or not it would be the time will be granted they run the SC they run the same play they just ran get the ball to Kendall right she was open last time on that play yep she was run the same thing same girls are out there Emma this time same spot yep oh should have been and one yep and Goslin goes back to fight for the rebound Spartans will drop back and pick up mid Court extended two three here or one two two maybe ball looks to move again got a box out got a box out Jill Stevens to be in the K of the game Ken Marino kend re Kendall [Music] re good job by the Freshman Kendall Reed gra the offensive Bardon put two on the on the board for Esa meal yep chick will run a near side stack on the inbounds play Francis tries to find that's Force pass yeah that's what we need that's good defense good defense that's a case where you have an inbounder who knows where the play is supposed to go but you got to recognize if it's not there you got to go somewhere else oh so there's a second option on every outside to nolles nolles goes to beak beak looks to move it across the court Gosa with the ball fake takes it to the basket good drive by Emma whistled for a travel but a good take nonetheless SL extend pressure this that looked like a travel right there there we go turnab his fair play as the ball is given right back over on the traveling turnover coach Gary yelling out the play to the team he looks the inbound finds mney he's got it off the front rim and that ball will go to [Applause] chicke that's one of those plays you grab that ball and you think you're a little bit too far take that step forward and get the three nevertheless they still get the shot off correct good defense get him get chicken be to call a timeout call Quick timeout uh at the 640 five Mark in the second quarter it remains 11 to8 East Long all right we're back from the the timeout 6:45 to go in the game let's see if e extends the pressure full court once again they do looks like chick wanted to drop oh coach now bra back it off and we'll play half court defense that's what I love I love when the other team calls a timeout thinking that we're going to break yeah get back don't show what we're going to do good hands danger in the first row yeah Juju with a nice head ball chy looks to move the ball around the perimeter tries difficult time tied up by m excellent defense turnover East Low ball at some point our shots are going to start dropping I hope that would be nice nice inside interior pass that's a foul that's a foul that's off chicke better there good job by noes to get in there and get the ball knock off the chick be Defender looks to inbound and there's a held ball there goes right back to chck [Applause] [Music] so out the manto Man full court price looks to bring it up gives it to morera morera looks to go outside to pel defended good fronting by Jill on that nice goes right to speeda gives it to Jill well done good ball work like that three girls quickly touch the ball on half flight ball's dead May almost with tell finds the seam and again goes with four Defenders and there go push all the with a Chance all the way there we go an takes down two girls Whiley players one over the [Music] other look who just made their way in oh we have celebrities of All Sorts here long metal tonight Emma does not quite complete the three-point play but almost gets her own rebound now was a double dribble oh good hustle to get all the way back it's funny some of these games they'll call the carrying the double dribbles and today it just seems not at all the ball's over the head and oh tried for fancy off the back play didn't work R nice help good help defense excellent good job by be strong on the ball it's another follow on price for the reach in I think this is the the little run we need to do to be able to get uh some points up on the board East lto works the perimeter swing it yep one more one more yeah there it is Mays with a good there go just off the rim way to scramble for it there you go Jill Stevens Jill on the floor for the ball reset the offense nice inside pass good job Jill there we go grab your rebound Jill deserved that one she worked hard good job by yep good work by bu very very good work that's I believe that's a third foul on number 11 uh price if I'm not mistaken that's at least that's two on the last two possessions and I thought she had one before that that's all that they have for yeah for height really I believe right rotating out for Sanchez look to try to come down the right hand side and give it to her a time down go all the way out yep okay got her take a look nice shot 178 e lto four and a half minutes remaining of the quarter oh oh oh looking at sliding Joel's got it look up here we go there we go peeps got it swings it to M long on the shot Francis rebounds pushes up for herself frantic action that's a tough call that's what I'm that's one of the soft little hand checks that's a tough call two girls go bumping into each other and then they call a little hand check well you know what if you're gonna call them good start call them both ways yep fine with them ten Marino checks in from M up up over and back [Music] that's one I'm not too sure about your control so you can tip the ball back and run over Court I I'm not quite aware of that one I I guess it's if you haven't made I mean but that certainly looked like that wasn't a tipped ball it was a goes off of her hand with a nice oh two that looked like it was out of the gym nice by Marino put that up finds beep to the middle takes it to the basket there we go all right well done and chicke looks for a timeout there absolutely good work by es 21 to8 spart 3 minutes and 51 seconds remaining in in the first e e doing double digits in at least 10 years yeah for the first five games and she she's been and she's showing no signs of slowing [Music] down okay well soft it certainly looked like a soft call chick will inbound under the basket Francis looks to break it goes out theel can't find the handle good hand by there gives it to gosin tough call chck gets the ball it's going to get interesting the rest of the way I think yep aggressive extended defense [Music] [Applause] beat Marino looks to inbound be takes the ball without pressure see what R Marino with a good path to the basket takes it in nice take just a little strong and there's go gos again back 23 to8 East lto just over 3 minutes remaining in the first half be playing great defense on him backing the ball away Jill with good help at Mid Court beak rotates over Francis operates there tries to find a lane in she doesn't by by Emma has a clear path nope cut off there finds the [Music] to be one more Yep there it is yep and Kenna just off the iron but that'll stay good very good well done just a little bit little bit Strong by Marino off the back iron good shot good look Ken Kenna looks to inbound under the basket Spartans look to go outside to gosin Pops the ball out to beak back to Marino for a three off the rim off the backboard rather Jill Stevens with the rebound back to gosin gosin operates as a point forward momentarily travel that's an unfortunate call blazs into the game for [Music] nolles Te into the game for be good work by the two freshman the last couple minutes yeah exactly doing great job on the offensive side Caitlyn doing a great job getting a couple picks absolutely Marino mcky chill up in the air on that one blaz rebound they've got Jill running if they've got her nice pass for Marino out to mcki inside out oh just there we go nice shot by K that's like three passes game that kev's thrown it down the court threading it through a bunch of the girls with the NFL season just concluded seeing some of the weak quarterback play in the league be some people interested in finding Ken Maro to get behind Center and run their offense back rims the first one tendle Reed in for Emma gosin Mareno looks at her second shot and it's up good don't say too much about our lead because the last time we were at home against Springfield they uh came back ten Marino two for three at the line extending the East oops lead momentarily morero looks to penetrate finds nothing there slips the screen by pitel momentarily gets a look the ball inside balls off chck turn over on possession to East [Applause] hey coach Gary calls out the play mcki goes to Marino over to Reed Reed goes out to sa finds Grace Blaze takes the ball right the basket for two where to go Baseline Grace Blaze yep find it find it find it [Applause] good find that defense Francis looks to to shoot nothing doing Joe Stevens lets it run out of bounds he so metal [Music] ball and M will bring the ball up chicke falls into their two3 Zone Blaze looks to operate from the elbow extended tries to find Reed inside can't do it and it jumps on the ball nolles back in for Blaze Caitlyn be oh sorry you're right my fault sleep at the switch over here be as held as she tries to P that screen y good still open Kendall Reed for the two four points on the night for the Freshman yep [Music] a hand check foul a hand check foul the last time and this time a jump ball those are two two hard luck calls against mcky he went over the top rope on [Music] it BLS defends on the perimeter switch out to Stevens Francis looks nothing there shot clock will go off should play for the final shot with 27 seconds left in the game it should but bunch of times this year we should have the last shot but we somehow end up taking a shot with 14 seconds to go so we'll see that's a tough was to give that ball up but that's and gets back and has a good block that's good Hustle has the turn over but get back yep exactly doesn't put her head down gets down there and blocks it out of bounds okay you look for a cutter here coming to the basket outside back to Francis there there we go six and a half seconds remaining chick be inbound on the near sideline right in front of the eow bench [Applause] good that's E Metal Ball by m 4.2 you should be able to get a shot off here CH could be not pressing him [Applause] [Music] on what a right have a oh just short just short it was right on Juju with the knce that's the qu throws a bullet down the sideline to Grace BLS so as we go to halftime uh the Spartans 29 and the Pacers eight e e e welcome back to Spartan basketball easto up 29 to8 after halftime uh East Low's first Chuck a duck winner goes to Paul Goslin who generously donated a thousand dollar back to the Spartan Nation booster CL those were some expensive Ducks yeah they were well they one you know it was so $2,000 for that's great very nice of him I would have kept the money but he like I said donated $1,000 we'll check that number later for you do you think that's off I have me a couple of dollars here or there who knows all right looks like the Spartans will return to the same lineup that started the game probably try to drop the hammer in the first few minutes here and see if they can really open things up hand check foul against beak two seconds into the half can't blame her for being aggressive no no we'll take that Maro forces the ball [Applause] back beep tracks pel all the way back pel goes out to morero that might have been the best B was up high again pel tries to take it in nice drive pisses it off the glass that's the first that's the first time that chicke has scored since the first quarter yeah been a long time playing a great job on the second half defense K looks to operate on the far side of the court goes outside there to gosin if she can turn the corner she'll go to the basket oh unlucky bounce off the rim there and did a nice job to get all the way to the rim CH could be coming out aggressive Yep pel looks to operate there runs the cross screen there for morrera goes inside to Francis oh no sorry Francis there that was 31 Kai sorry arrow pointing up that is an R oh good okay car we got it oh for price yes okay we got it now I got that that's good Goa looks to take the ball to the middle nice drive by Amma bounce off the top the Spartans look to knock the lid off and get their first points of the second half here Mara operates up top they swing the double to her she gets it over to p goes over there for the double good heads up play by Kenna to get over there seen the girl I like that quickly Sprint over get double it up Emma with a quick breather Kendall Reed checks in for Emma [Applause] [Music] Goslin be with a hard time getting it in Mar overplays it almost gets the steel goes inside there you go good defense shik forces the turnover hard to see what happened here but they're able to win possession back ball goes all the way back to Francis Frances through the leg dribbling morero up Topo looks to oh no screen from pel Francis pulls the ball all the way back to midc court nicely defended by Sabina kind of a wild shot but it almost goes in look up goodbye Jill I don't think Jill had a good Vision or she could have seen sa but she couldn't quite find it ball gets bounced over to beak pel kind of got CAU between two players there gosin checks back into the game for Reed Marino looks to inbound goes over to Goslin nice take yep oh goes inside to Jill there we go and one unselfish basketball starts driving in Jill's there and his little there you go have it underand shovel beautiful [Music] Stevens with one shot back rim ball rebound is fought for Ste yes everybody on the ground that's good hustle Jill Works to get all the way back beautifully done close it there we go turn her over just as coach just as they got out of trouble he granted the timeout so a quick East lowow timeout 31 to1 Spartans five and a half minutes left in the third e okay here we oh back out of the timeout be Spartan ball at the far end of the floor looks like chick's going to extend some pressure Spartans will come out to help Emma and Jill both come back Jill's got room gets it to Kenna Kenna Marino swings to mcky oh nice pass from Sabina good look for there go well done nice trap oh good work by chabe yep they did a nice job that time chab did a good job beating the pr no pressure here Tech has plenty of room to operate brings it all the way up has a good look just front rims it Francis the rebound goes to pel to bring it up pel looks to take advantage on the drive gets to the rim does not finish good hands by by Maro up to beak chance to finish does good job byit be for the layup nice pass by K Marino to push it up Court referee did not want that fires it off oh nice steal by gosin oh you got to beid I don't know about that not even close Maya noes and Grace Blaze check in for mne and Caitlyn beak I like when somebody tried to take a charge but I don't think she didn't have enough time to get herself set there I think that's a 35 to2 call I think that's what that is I think if we were on the other side of that I think that might have G call might have gone the other way pel looks to operate at the top on the far side outside to Francis continues tries to use the head fake on Blaze doesn't get any space travel or a hand check hand check it's like the fifth one that he likes to [Applause] call fine with it if you're pushing a girl out of bounds if the hand's not doing anything it's an odd right K you're going to contrast that with a call we had earlier in the first half Emma was taking the ball to the basket and I believe it may have been the same girl who drew the charge here there was huge contact between the two of them there's no call of a block or a charge either way yeah yeah but a hand check on the outside so gets hand check right there she gets it around the throat you have to call that here if you're going to call the hand check at the other end you have to call that hand check here you have to make that call here if you're going to make it at the other [Applause] end pressure applied by morera there nice screens offered by Jill Saina gets around the pressure goes out to Marino Kenna's shot looks good there we go by Ken excellent that's the way to beat that pressure that's the way to beat that pressure Spartans 38 Pacers 12 that's an offensive foul that's a p that should be a push off I I would agree with that I would agree with that that's terrific defense if anything that was an offensive should be a push off I bet you get that's a moving screen yeah travel good job by may get in there and the Spartans look to take it this going be a foul that should be a intentional foul yep intentional foul saw that one coming from a mile away good work by Marino to take it to the hoop knowing you're going to get crushed and took it strong anyway well I don't think I've ever seen K Marino back down from anyone any situation no not at all in and out on the first free throw for Marino chick looks to make a rare substitution uh Sanchez replacing Francis chicke coach smartly takes out the player knowing that she's a little aggravated kind of makes the back end of that uh two shot free throw attempt 3912 East l r applies pressure pel gets around it goes outside to morera nicely defended outside by noes she locked in over there oh there we go unlucky good heads up play by Maya noes gets the girl goes to throw it off of her away and sto it y get on the floor for it that'll be on the alternating possession that'll be East low on the tie up very rarely do you see a jump ball when somebody's sitting crisscross I would say the other way of sitting but I don't think I can say that anymore got Goslin and Marino checking out I think uh Reed beat maybe checking in yes Jill with the long three off the front rim two minutes remaining in the third quarter 3912 Spartans marera with the long three doesn't draw anything long rebound goes to price merera has a nice ball fake goes to the rim no finish de with the steal push it up Court kid it's all right there go good on the floor for it well done good Hustle [Music] [Applause] fall on Kendall Reed good I have three freshman out there together they done a nice job tonight yeah that's your oh and they're out there yeah all three three out [Applause] [Music] there Jill Stevens and Caitlyn beak out and Grace blade and Emma Goslin back in look to push Blaze to the B nicely blocked by Price get back get back nice recovery by please oh what a block bite that was all ball maybe a little body look like a lot of ball what do I know what I I'm just announcing sure when I look at it back I'm go yeah that was a right call yeah look all right maybe right now it looked like a uh you jump and I'm gonna stuff everything regardless it's a good good fall not let her get the shot off agreed make them earn it not as much as the TKO on Kenna but no that was that was in a class by itself no no such thing as a one-onone here anymore ladies us got two of them jumping [Music] y makes the second of two 3915 one more yep big pass oh thought we had it there hey looks for Reed finds her there Kendall Reed oh two must have been a toe on the line six points for Reed on here [Music] now good pressure on the ball that's that's a elbow on that screen but no worries they haven't called in screen yet today no TI up there you [Applause] go chick will inbound with about 45 seconds remaining the far Corner looking at get the ball inside they're unable to oh rebound goes to nolles she finds Reed Reed to blaze takes it to the basket there you go nice by good take Grace what a good call by Mr Cutler Grace makes the first of [Applause] two back rims the second pel looks to go Coast to Coast can't finish the rebound takes three people with her got a little T after the facta metal once again hopefully we should be waiting for the last shot I let you say it this time so I didn't and we [Applause] [Music] don't sa wisely lets it go no need for a foul there just a bit short third quarter wraps up Spartans 42 uh Pacers 17 e and we're back for the last quarter of action we got Juliana gardette Emerson boo Eve Butler Briel Clark in test and all out there yeah New Look lineup for the Spartans here and we're just waiting to reset the fouls on the scoreboard to zero fouls for the quarter okay and looks like we'll be good to go Spartans ready themselves to put this one away in the final eight minutes pel looks like man-to-man defense from the Spartans coming out [Music] ball goes inside to price for two godet will run the point 4219 screen comes off of godet there okay a little nervous to start no worries we'll wait and see if we can knock some of the rust out [Music] here slow continues to find their marks on defense and helps out with a long pass there Returns the favor gives it back got that runs the point once again SLO runs what looks to be a 131 on offense here and we're going to keep FR pressure B Clark goes for three just short Spartans hustle back on defense pel takes it in and is fouled on the layup attempt falls on Briel Clark pel go oh is it pel I can't tell with her hair hang by the number I think it is yep misses the first of the two not happy with herself there shakeing the head readies himself for the offensive run nice nice rebound push the ball up the court there [Music] [Applause] yes tough calls yeah definitely not getting anything no you're not going to get no you're not going to get any help with those calls good help side defense 42-21 Spartans are going to run something here hopefully getting a basket producing a basket out of this run for three yes is the bottom nice shot by morera behind her back nothing doing try for the Post interior pass nothing inside there'll be no pressure from chapi here godet should have a clear look coming up the floor [Applause] denal goes to vieno voo dribbles got that outside goes to Eve Butler Butler at the take defended there Tes fought for inside stupid foul by sorry um foul from 0 90 feet away from the 22 a little over aggressive on that one probably no danger that she's going to score from there but it's in the kids d to get her money's worth out of her foul that's you got four you got four more hey right that's what I always tell them you got five fouls use them all Baseline called for a push as I say that they they could be shooting free throws with five minutes to go for this Bas off right we're gonna have to be a little bit more careful you don't want to extend the you don't want to extend the game defend inside Paul go is in 4523 ball goes outside to Butler Clark goes around the corner left hand shot shot shot Larry Bird style wonderfully done goes up with the right and throws it with the left nice wonderfully done 4723 Spartans look to tighten things up on defense goes back outside to morera morera goes to got a box out B having a friendly conversation Senator Senator voo she's going to filibuster for her case over there price makes the first and the first of the [Music] two no rush no rush 472 five Spartan lead take it up there we go goes up oh grabs a rebound jump ball e but yep that'll stay here Spartan ball I we have to say this is this is a game that East Meadows had more shots than think we have which is good right up nice look yes and one good job by youo for the and one and one that was a good look at the inbounds it was a well-run play so good job by test yep test being patient waiting for everybody to run around the play to develop we'll see how upset Emerson really was at the last call will she try to shoot the free throw or will she take the ball and fire it at the official front rim grab your rebound and get another two pad those Mass live stats oh it's just the three-point play Robert Parry style I like that is that D is that double twos or double Zer on that number up there oh 50 to 25 Spartans have doubled up the Pacers this evening nice inside interior defense fir out it now it's a travel not called fought for and rebounded inside to that's out of bounds and it's a scrum inside test Al com away with it godet looks to reset Juju push Francis looks to push it loses the handle goes out of bounds I think that was last touched by I guess four and a half minutes remaining 50 to 25 I think 22 is going to look for a little revenge on that on the uh tenna Could Happen breakway could happen I think that's why 10 pulled up Maya noes Kendall Reed Caitlyn Beacon for Emerson Vino Eve Butler and testin all good job so now you have all freshman sophomores out there so this would be your uh Team of the future years y nice take by Blaze not going to get that call especially from that one official nope ball goes through Blaze looks up on her back nice Finish blaz Well Done good job by Blaze [Music] morera timeout from the chick coach 3 minutes 44 seconds remaining 5225 Spartans e we're back for the final three minutes and 44 seconds of the game Spartans leading the Pacers 52 to 25 and a good opportunity tonight everyone's got a chance to get in that was not well defended good thing he didn't see that because if he had five in five out that would not that might have been the end for this unit that we we've seen it before Oh My NOS all deep free just off the [Music] rim that might be the first time chick had four unanswered the entire game yeah some slow smartly slows the pace down y there's the hand check on that yep nice screen from beak be goes to find noes she does overstepped it that's out of bounds that'll be Spartan ball goet to inbound Meo sets up a box [Music] goes oops off 31 yeah okay very good [Music] yep there is and she's fed I don't think I don't think you call the first one I think call the second [Applause] second and like Grace got fouled inside again no such call and the ball will go to chick on the alternating possession is 0 for three under the endline plays three good opportunities though in and out for chickabee off the front rim grece BL ends up with the ball [Music] jump ball 5229 testin all Eve Butler Briel Clark Emerson V looks like a JB Squad I watched one time yeah all last year right off the front of the rim oops fought four one by pulls it out Shabina looks to run the point she's double team somebody help her B goes there Bri Tribbles through traffic oh find her underneath got to look underneath there we go nice look nice look nice nice passing around E Butler well done good pass by Tess all yep after we Eve had been open on that post for a couple of passes and it was nice to see the rotation get down to her there go back outside to Francis looks for three from the top more of those would have would have helpful for the Pacers tonight 432 oops Butler with the screen nope not watch it's not a fou3 you see how we do that kind of a lot of times in girls basketball instead of setting the screen and letting the girl come to the screen they they kind of like lean into yeah I think that's what Eve did she just kind of leaned her body into it and again you're going to get no you're going to get no favorable calls on any on any 50-50 calls with a 20po lead [Applause] [Music] correct well that puts Isam over the limit for the quarter I hope no one has anything to do for the minute 28 could be a little extended here just misses the first end of the one and one Grace blaz in for Briel Clark one shot ball will be live ball goes to blaze goes to there to Sabina and she's bodied out of bounds nice take by Blaze right up for denal test for the rebound good job by Tess well done grab the rebound put it up for the two 5633 Spartans going to a two3 defense no [Music] penetration stay home and wait good done just under a minute Clark in forne 19 seconds remaining on the shot clock should could be having a hard time finding what they wanted inside still can't get in 10 seconds remaining on the shot clock no box got a rebound and oops two two fre lto easy helper helper [Music] helper y real zooming in and out of everybody E Butler in a little bit of trouble finds the way throws it off the girl o what's the call that's bad call that's our ball that's our ball we gotta go that's a Miss call it was good play by Eve Butler to throw the ball off I'm pretty sure if we went to the truck in Bristol we would uh bounc two times after You' hit her on the leg it did but such as it goes with 26 seconds left and a blowout that's I've been complaining all game why am I gon to end now and no that's right we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna see it all the way through get it in yep [Applause] now we get [Music] it last inbound play of the game potentially the ball goes to Butler Butler to hold Butler to hold oh that up a good and much needed win for the Spartans 56- 33 tonight against chick B High School East medow is now 2 and0 at home hopefully we continue our next game is against on Friday right yes okay take it easy I'll see you again take care bye
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on the 2nd and 4th tu Tuesday of the month uh but depending on where holidays fall during months those could change our schedule is uh put out there and I believe Gabby gave it to you guys through June um but again uh traditionally they've been on Tuesday nights starting at 6 o' and um if you guys want to continue that time that'd be great uh but that's for you guys to discuss all right let's I'll go ahead and open it up for discussion well I think we need a motion first about and then we can discuss after motion uh is there a motion to discuss the times of our meetings for the upcoming year I move that we meet at 6 o'cl on when convened for our business and work study so you're making a motion that we that we keep the meeting time so then we can discuss it and then we can amend a motion if we want to okay got you thank you uh is there a second second thank you Miss Murray all right and we can go ahead and discuss the meeting times well the question I have is with three new board members does that time at 6 o' work for everyone um or do we um previously our meeting time started at 7 so if we need to move it back to 7 to make that more convenient for someone that's certainly okay 6 p.m.
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works for me well only ISS I would have is is being here earlier than that if if we had executive session like a 4:00 meeting time would be would be hard to make okay um but but 6 o'cl is no problem so sometimes we do have executive session about 5:30 or 5:00 is that uh difficulty so 5 o' is probably doable but before that would not be what about the other board members um 6 p.m. I can make work as well and I can do executive Session 5 or 5:30 okay usually that should be fine that's the same with me um I can do 6:00 and then yeah 5 or 5:30 okay so Dr McCord if we keep it at 6 with uh knowing that we could have executive session starting as as early as 5 if we needed to have an executive session that starts earlier than that can we move back the start time of just that board meeting for that night or is that too much too many moving parts to do on yeah you can move that and depending on what the executive session is generally we hold all of our executive sessions before a meeting starts uh but there are times when you could hold them at the end of the meeting if need be just depending on what it is generally when we're appointing a principal or a director we have them beforehand um but again if if time's an issue sometimes we can split them up uh one meeting or the next meeting and we can can even do that before a work study meeting as well so if we need to would it be better a 6:30 time might that be better um well I think if there's an exec session um and we have to have it longer again the board can choose to to move the time back we always put notices out to the community letting them know what time the board meeting will be so and I think I like the flexibility of having the executive session after a board meeting if if that's an option yeah generally like I said if it's if it's not about Personnel in terms of appointing somebody doing it before because then we can present them to the public at that meeting with people here um but if it's not then we can go at the end so it sounds like six will work for everyone and if they're if if on a rare occasion that that we have a an executive session that needs to happened before for some reason before 5:00 so that we can make note of it during our meeting we can push that meeting back correct and I would give you advanced notice on that just so everybody be on the same page for that evening is there any other discussion before we before I call for a vote okay then I'll go ahead and call for a vote all those in favor of uh our meeting times continuing to be uh the 2 and fourth Tuesday of each month at 6 pm.
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barring any uh exceptions for holidays uh or any other uh need to change say I I I any opposed all right then that passes 5 to zero thank you very much moving on to uh agenda item 3.02 review and approval of Rules of Order Dr McCord oh um sorry we need to go back to policy meeting we need to talk about policy meeting before we go to rules of order so let's keep let's stick to 3.01 times of meetings and let's talk about uh yeah policy meeting time and I'd also like to just say for the month of January currently we have a meeting scheduled on the 28th and I think I mentioned this at our last board meeting moving that back to the 21st um for the mere fact that we have to do a presentation related to the Acer is that correct and Miss bets will be out of town uh something that she'd had scheduled so we'd like to move that meeting just to the 21st if that's okay with everybody um and then for policy meeting generally they're during uh the day on a Tuesday usually it's the one of the Tuesdays between board meeting meetings and it's at 11:30 um and before members uh became actual board members but uh I had talked to some of them and and that time is difficult for a few people and I totally understand that and so if we left it on uh I I think it's important for you guys to discuss what day would work and what time uh afternoons I think might work better for some people at our policy meetings we generally have representations from uh as principles from the elementary junior highs and high schools and we have um other members that will attend depending on what policy it is um and We've ran them during the day because uh those administrators that come to those um they all have night activities as well so we try not to impose on them so they can continue their their job that they have uh uh that they signed up for as as administrators and so uh if we can stay out of the evenings that would be great but an afternoon would probably work our policy meetings rarely run over an hour um and um there's also the ability to zoom in if you're not able to come or call in um so um and we have policy meetings as committee of the holes for the mere fact that um we think it's important that policies get discussed and constructed not during a board meeting uh because that could take up an enormous amount of time and um so what we do is in a policy committee is we'll bring something for a first read have a discussion make any uh changes within that committee then bring those changes here for a first read uh and have any discussion here at the board and then we take it back to the policy committee uh for a second read if there's any changes or anything uh needs to be tweaked that happens during the policy meeting we bring him back for the second read for approval and so that seems to keep policies moving in the right direction and we we take care of them very well that way so um maybe you guys would like to open up and have a discussion about certain times that you would like to do that yeah I'll make a motion uh or I'll ask for a motion to uh for the policy meetings to be held at 11:30 and then we can discuss is there a motion to have our policy meetings um Tuesdays at 11:30 when necessary um I'll amend that motion to to to make a motion that we hold it um the It's usually the third Tuesday is that correct Dr McCord yeah it just depends like um depends on if there are holidays during that month that will dictate another day but well um I was going to suggest the time if we're talking about an afternoon time at 4:00 on T on the Tuesday of policy meeting so you'd like to make a motion that I'm making a motion that policy meeting be at 4:00 on the on that day Tuesday policy meeting the third Tuesdays which usually the third Tuesday okay at 4 o' at 4:00 okay is and then we can discuss somebody can second that and then we can discuss that is there a second second thank you Mr brard and okay let's go ahead yeah let's go ahead and discuss that um I know that I don't want to speak for anybody but I think a couple people said that meeting before 5 o' would be tough but um well I'll let them speak for themselves if there are people that have a better suggestion please suggest a time that works for you and let's see if we can work it out for everyone else too yeah I'm not sure if it's a better suggestion but what would work for me is I could do the third Wednesday before 11:30 works for me Wednesday morning or Mondays work for me so I could make anytime on a Monday work um before 5:00 P p.m.
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on other days I I wouldn't be able to make so you said Wednesdays before 11:30 so we'd have to be done by 11:30 done by 11:30 okay so we'd probably need to start 9:30 10 I I would say I would say I then let me amend my motion and see if this works better for everybody let's do 8:00 on a third Wednesday is does that work better um I wouldn't be able to make those times CU I'm on contract as a teacher from 7:45 to 3:45 um I could do earlier but that's not always appealing just saying any early birds here um after that though I could zoom in uh 3:30ish on Mondays or Wednesdays um I could do later as well on Mondays or Wednesdays as well sometime around anywhere between 4 and 5 o'clock would work for me I think for uh for me I can I think either early in the morning works for me or like a 4:00 time um Dr m a question what is there a better day either Monday Wednesday um that works for staff to like prepare for the meeting it it doesn't necessarily matter Wednesdays um are are PLC days for our campuses and so um sometimes those run longer at our campuses and that might hinder some of the uh attendees being here on time um so I mean I mean I think Mondays would probably be better but we're okay either way with whatever you decide so does someone want to amend the motion to to give another try um I could amend the motion to do I don't did we say Thursdays could be a potential as well we did not talk about it okay I know I know I'm just sorry um I can I I'll amend the motion to make it Thursday at 4:30 for policy meetings okay is that does that work for you Thursday would be five would be the earliest for me but Mondays Mondays would work so yeah either Wednesday morning or or after 5 another day or anytime on Monday Friday afternoon's a popular meeting time as well do later on Friday afternoon right oh yeah no even five o'clock on Friday so what about um what about Monday at 4 o'l and I the only reason I hesitate to do that is I would hate for it to be a standard practice for you to have to join us um Miss Murray for you to have to join us uh remotely for all of our policy meetings um but it I don't know how does Monday at Monday at 4 oh does that not work for you either Mr Robinson did you say Monday Monday works oh oh that's right Wednesday it had to be in the morning um yeah so what about Mur does Monday at 400 PM or does 4:30 work like or Thursday is better than Mondays I guess um for me Thursdays are better than Mondays however if I need to make a change to my schedule at work on Mondays I can probably make I can probably make that work so I'll leave that I can be flexible depending on what the rest of the board decides Mr brener does that work for you what what works best for you I think you know Mondays at 4 works the best but I think um ultimately either in the morning or at like 4:00 would be the best for my schedule I would also like to say we will schedule them out on a monthly basis but if we don't policies we usually heavy on those in the fall uh more than we are this spring and so if we don't have anything that can't wait we'll cancel that meeting just so you guys know so we'll make sure you know in advance but is Monday at 4:30 too far into the evening for staff and administration that have obligations for in the evenings I I couldn't speak for them but I mean if if that's what works for you guys we will accommodate it I'm just trying trying to think of a way that we could all be here in person time that we could all be here in person I I think the board being all here in person is very important I think that I would like to see staff but if there's a certain principle that maybe that that doesn't work for their schedule we could ask you know Dr McCord could ask a different person to be on the committee at least for that month or something so if I'll make a I'll amend the motion whatever motion we have on the floor that we meet at 4:30 the third Monday of the month usually for policy meeting okay is there a second second thank you Mr brard would that give you would 4:30 give you time to be here yes yeah I can do 4:30 okay so it sounds like Monday at 4:30 the third Tuesday unless it Monday third Monday thank you unless it needs to be changed for some reason in which case we'll have ample notice okay I'll go ahead and call for a vote all those in favor of our board policy meetings taking place the 3 Monday of each month at 4:30 p.m.
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say I I any opposed all right thank you very much that was that was an exercise right there and that was fantastic fantastic thank you all for plan Retreat for sharing and for making helping us figure that out and and can I say one thing if this if we find that this doesn't work for someone we can come back and redo the schedule with if someone if if it comes up to be a conflict we can come back we don't have to wait the entire year if for some reason it's not working please talk to Dr mcord and let's put it back on the agenda and discuss it should we need to change it again thank you Miss humph uh are there any other meeting times that need to be discussed with the board not off the top of my head okay thank you now we will move on to 3.02 review and approval of Rules of Order Dr McCord thank you Mr President governing board members this is uh for policy 1-31 and I'll just read it to you and read it for everybody else it says the board shall abide by the following Rules of Order one every item that requires action by the board shall require a motion made by any member of the board including the president two a motion must receive a second from another board member of the board which may include the president prior to consideration by the board if a motion does not receive a second the board will not consider the motion three motions of the board may include but are not limited to the following a a motion for Action by the board b a motion to adjourn the board president May recess or adjourn a meeting without a motion to adjourn if required to maintain order c a motion to table an item d a motion to amend a pending motion e a motion to refer to committee or f a motion to refer to the superintendent four Once a motion receives a a second the board may consider the motion and discuss the motion five a motion may be amended at any time by any board member amending a pending motion requires a motion and a second and six to pass a motion requires an affirmative vote of a majority of the board members in attendance and voting an abstention does not count as a vote for the purposes of determining whether a motion passes notwithstanding the above the board May suspect bend the rules of order by a majority of vote by majority vote of the board's members in attendance and voting thank you for reading that so are we are we voting to we're not voting to approve this yes I think you are we're voting to approve this as this board correct yes okay and is there a motion to approve the rules of order as uh as documented in 1-31 so moved thank you Miss humph is there a second second thank you Mr Robinson is there any discussion regarding the rules of order as they're uh outlined in this uh 1 d301 it makes sense to everybody clear as mud okay all right then I will call for a vote all those in favor of uh of approving the rules of order as outlined in 1-31 say I I I any opposed and that passes 5 to zero thank you very much moving on to 3.03 board appointment to the formal employee benefit trust as trustee and to the other various committees Dr McCord thank you Mr President governing board members yes um this is the time of the year when you choose and discuss what committees you'd like to be on um I will list those committees so you know and I think there's a copy of it in your agenda first one is the policy committee which is committee of the whole the second one is enrollment management committee which is also a committee of the whole three is legislative representative and we need an alternative representative for that so that will require two people town of Gilbert liaison city of Mesa liaison the Gilbert Education Foundation liaison the employee benefit trust board member and a member for the audit committee Miss Wilson do you have a list I don't see those in our um in our printed agenda do you have a list of those that you can display on the screen we'll pull it up on the screen I thought you guys had a copy my apology no that's fine you couldn't remember all that no I did just for the benefit of the other board members so while we're waiting for that I'll just make a motion that we discuss and appoint board members this is not something we need to vote on but we can discuss and then choose um where we want to serve thank you how we do that thank you m humre is there a second second thank you Mr Robinson all right so policy committee committee of the whole enrollment management committee committee of the whole legis so legislative representative is where we would start uh is there any board member that would uh that would like to serve as our primary legislative representative um I I wouldn't mind taking that role it's been a while since I've done that so I'd be happy to take that role great thank you Miss humph and alternative is there anybody that would like to serve as the alternative representative and my recommendation for this is that we don't call it alternative representative we call it asba liaison that's what it was previously called and that person would then uh be the one that would give our vote during the three times that is required at asba events that would be the county meeting the delegate assembly and the annual meeting and that's that's my recommendation it that's been its previous title just that um we've changed you know titles have been changed depending on board members preferences I I would probably prefer that it Remains the legislative representative because it's more I think that's more encompassing um I think the asba language would um limits the uh limits the range of the uh of this uh see how to say this limits the the uh the representation uh of this legislative representative I'd like to keep it the reason I suggest that is that um Mr Brainard working for the legislature that's a conflict of interest for him and if he would be interested in being the asba representative for those votes that's not a conflict of interest with the legislature if if he's interested but I also think that it is for all legislative purposes so I I you know what I mean I I understand what you're saying I totally get that but I I think then it pigeon holds anybody that wants to be that legislative representative alternate so I don't know you guys can discuss that that was better better stated than well was because you eloquently said it right the first time so I was just restating thank you all right is there any other is there any other discussion on the uh on the alternative legislative representative and is there a volunteer I would volunteer as an alternate but I would want to keep the verbiage the same as just alternate representative because I wouldn't want to just do the asba uh meetings okay okay can I interrupt real quick too one one more time I apologize after we're done with this and and once somebody is approved or once somebody has volunteered for the employee benefit trust when we there is a motion on the floor but that needs to be approved by a motion for that that specific position because when we created this that was created by the board at the time and it so in order to be that person on that trust you have to be approved by the board okay so I I do have a question about that one Dr mord uh because we uh Mrs ug jetti was serving both on the the board of the trust but she was also serving on our I don't know what I don't know what it's called the fiscal board that oversees the trust mhm um so this is just the one that is um attends the I think their monthly meetings or is this the fiscal so there's actually two two positions that we need to fill so the um the board created the formal employee benefit trust we were what they call a Viba trust prior to three years ago so it does require a very formal action to appoint a new trustee to the EBT trust board um the uh the committee the employee benefit trust committee does not require a board member and so this agenda item was intended for the trustee the formal trustee correct and so we don't need a board member on the other trust committee correct right that was in intended for employees um to provide input regarding their own benefits okay I I guess that that has changed because I've served on that committee prior to when Mrs ug jetti came on the board so I guess we've changed that it was it but when it was a Viba trust it was the whole committee as a whole which involved the board as well but now that it's a formal employee benefit trust it is a separate entity that has the very clear fiduciary responsibilities all right thank you for clarifying that then do each of these uh do each of these committees the legislative town of Gilbert Mesa and so forth do the do the representatives need to be approved by a vote or are we just deciding no we don't need to approve it we just need to decide that one except for the employee except for the formal employee benefit trust and we can just make that a separate motion okay perfect okay so uh so miss Humphries as the legislative representative and Miss Murray as the alternative legislative representative is everybody is anybody does anybody want to challenge that no okay perfect congratulations uh next the town of Gilbert uh liaison is there anybody that would like to serve as the town of Gilbert liaison and for those of you that are new to us tonight let me help you out with that that's not necessarily a formal meeting that's where the city of Mesa has liaison to Gilbert public schools and so does the town of Gilbert so we make sure you get connected and you connect however you guys would like okay I'd be happy to do that one okay thank you Mr Robinson is there anybody else that would like to that wanted to serve as the Gilbert leison and okay congratulations Mr Robinson uh the city of Mesa liaison is so I guess there's three of us left is there anybody either of you would either of you like to serve as the city of Mesa liaison I'd like to serve as the city of Mesa liaison okay thank you Miss Murray is that okay with everybody is there okay all right congratulations uh the Gilbert Education Foundation Lis on those meetings are held on a monthly basis usually in the after afternoon or evenings um and yeah it's Teresa Dudson is the uh executive director of the Gilbert Education Foundation so you would be connected with her and uh those meetings are usually either held in her office uh which is next to M junior high or she also provides a zoom link so thank you uh is there anybody that would like to serve as the liaison for the Gilbert education found I'd be interested okay great thank you Mr brard is there anybody else that wanted that okay congratulations Mr Brainard so the employee benefit trust board member uh and we can do so I just want to make sure that I understand this right so this is is different than the formal employee benefit trust as trustee is that correct it's the same thing this is the same thing right okay so we have the employee benefit trust left as well as the audit committee got it okay um I I would be happy to serve as the employee as the formal employee benefit trust as trustee unless there's anybody else that that I was interested also in serving on that in that capacity then then I think you should do it okay I think you should do it then you can take the audit committee I would be happy to take the audit committee I I love a good audit I mean it's just it's my favorite well I I have done it for a year or two I think I've done it two years so I I do um I would highly recommend that each of us as board members that we take a turn on each of these committees and that we rotate each year the reason for these committees is so that we get a a better look at what's going on in our district and the the um different ways that we can support it and the different ways that it's um a benefit to our Comm community so I just highly recommend that we all take a turn each year at a different at a different part of this work I think that's a great idea Miss humph so my understanding is that we do need to call for a vote to approve Miss Humphries as the formal employee benefit trust as trustee is there is there a motion to approve Miss Jill Humphries as formal employee benefit trust as trustee so moved thank you Mr Rob sorry just by Rule of Order we probably need to finaly the audit committee which is I guess you yep and I I made a motion that we would discuss it and we probably need to take a vote that we all approve these positions and then make a separate motion for the trust okay that's fine so is that the motion for yes approving these positions yes approving these positions and then you can go over who's doing which comme all right uh is there a second second thank you Mr Brainard so now I'll call for a vote all those in favor of uh Miss humph no no this um we need to complete the motion of the various committees that we were discussing and then open a motion for the trust that was her original motion to open up discussion yeah so my my mind was that we should discuss and then take the assignments but we need to in order to close the motion we just need to vote that we're all accepting these assignments okay so then we're calling for a vote to accept these assignments as we've discussed this evening yes all right all those in favor say I I any opposed perfect thank you very much and now is there a motion to approve Miss humph as the formal employee benefit trust as trustee yeah have to Mr Robinson is there a second second thank you Miss Murray and I'll call for a vote all those in favor of approving Miss Jill humph as the formal employee benefit trust as truste say I I any opposed and that's it congratulations everybody and I I agree I think I think changing up annually or if there's unless there's some comp compelling reason to uh to do otherwise I think that's a good idea so uh Mr Thompson just um I I did want to bring up one point here when we're talking about the Committees which has to do with our agenda and I gave you prior notice of this and that is um as our agenda has currently been done for the last probably six or seven years um at the very end of the board meeting it says board committee reports um prior to that it just said board reports and my suggestion is that we move the we make it board reports so that we as board members can talk about things Beyond just the committee work that we've done and that we move that earlier in the agenda to right after the superintendent report I've seen it done that way in other districts and so if a board member has something that they want to report on for example Mr Thompson I saw you came to the mosquite High football game and if you wanted to share um what you did you know enjoying that game or something that you did then you could do that if we said board reports rather than board committee reports I feel like when we constrain ourselves just to talking about our committee work we're not not really communicating with our constituents about all the various things we do as board members there's many many things Beyond just this one committee I think if if you do something on your committee and if something with the Gilbert Education Foundation is coming up I think you definitely should report on that but I think that moving the language back to what it was previously where it was board reports and then putting it earlier in the meeting where we have more of an audience we don't usually have much of an audience by the time we get to the end and we've done policy and all of those things um so that is my recommendation I thought this would be the appropriate time to bring it up because we're talking about board committees I I appreciate you bringing that up I I I've I've given this a little thought um and I'll address this as two separate issues do we need to make a motion to discuss this or can we just discuss well I I think we probably need a motion to discuss um okay why don't you go ahead and make a motion I'll make a motion to uh that instead of having board committee reports at the end of the meeting we move it to after the superintendent report and we just call it board report is there a second second thank you thank you Mr brard uh and now we can discuss so in regards so my thoughts in regards to changing the name I I don't I don't have any issue with that my concern however uh is that there are some board members that have a lot of time to go and participate in District activities outside of the Committees and there are some board members that have very little time to do that and my concern is um is being considerate of those that don't have a lot of time um feeling like they're not uh being an effective board member because they don't have more than their committee to report on so like I said I'm I'm fine calling a board reports I just and I'm fine um and I'm fine broadening the the report to beyond our committees I just think that if we do that we we need to be very sensitive to the fact that maybe maybe more often than not more a number of our board members will have not had time to go out and participate in any other District activities and I don't want them to feel like they are not being effective or not not fulfilling their duties um as a board member those are my thoughts I I think those reports if someone excuse me chooses to report should be very brief and very positive and that would be um all of it but I think when we limit it to board committee reports if there's nothing to report um I think that is a a kind of not showing the the community all the work that we do I think every one of us can have a thought or a um something we've learned about education during the last month I mean it's only once a month so it's I I just think it it could be and if we need to address it again obviously we can do that we don't have to wait for a whole year we can bring it up anytime that someone feels they need to address it is there any other discussion on this topic certainly would like are we are addressing both things both the title and the timing no right now just the title just the the from committee I think my motion was for both that um I would have to go back to that it was for both to change the title and move it to after superintendent report okay then okay any other Mr Robinson did you have have something about either one of those uh yeah I mean I like changing the name I don't know if that's actually like necessary to to be able to to talk about those things but it is necessary I think there's ways to address that I'm saying also not in a formal board meeting there's other avenues to address the public on things you're doing so it doesn't necessarily need to be an a formal board meeting um but I'm I'm okay with that I guess for me more with the timing and I mean I do anticipate my board reports will be highly entertaining and something to be anticipated but but I I would as a member of a public when I attended the meeting it was never for uh a memb board report and so I I just think that out of respect for people who come to the meeting they're usually coming for one of the business items or to address a certain thing so I I would rather keep the board reports at the end of the meeting um just for that reason any other comments or discussion um I'm okay with making the change I think especially if it was previously like that you know I think um you know might as well um I don't really you know I I I see Mr robson's point on the time um but I think it would be nice you know even something simple talking about the recent football game or a concert or play that happened and it isn't again uh like Mrs Humphrey said not taking you know too much time but being concise and you know quick about do you have any input um I I'm I'm okay with the change but I I after attending many board meetings and also watching them online I also agree with kind of the conciseness of sticking to the agenda items and putting it at the end just because there are they they the meetings can already tend to get pretty lengthy and um I mean changing the title is great sure if we want to report on that stuff and let people know what we're up to and all the great things we SE in the district I love that um but also being conscious of the time as well um considering and and this is this is a part of the board meeting listening to what everyone has said um let me amend my motion that we change the title to board reports and then we leave it at the end of the agenda thank you Miss humph is there a second or do we need a second for yes we have to I'm amending it so someone has to second that okay thank you so is there a second second thank you Miss Murray is there any further discussion on this topic okay uh then I'll call for a vote all those in favor of changing the title from board committee reports to board reports and keeping uh that section or that uh agenda item at the end end of our uh uh board meetings say I I any opposed thank you very much thank you Miss humph for bringing that up that was a good discussion thank you thank you all right uh I will go ahead and we will um adjourn our special organizational meeting and we will roll into our brief board business meeting I'll call the brief board M business meeting to order and once again ask Miss Wilson for uh roll call Mr Chad Thompson here Mrs Shane and marray here Dr Blake Robinson here miss Jill humph here Mr Jesse Brainard here Mr President all B members are present you have a quorum thank you very much Miss Wilson we have a it is a very brief board is this meeeting tonight uh just the consent agenda item is there a motion to approve the consent consent agenda items as outlined on tonight's agenda so moved thank you Mr Brainard is there a second second thank you Mr Robinson all those uh in favor of approving the consent agenda items as outlined on tonight's agenda say I I any opposed and those pass 5 to zero and Mr President can I interrupt you before you adjourn yeah absolutely please do real quick I just want to acknowledge a couple people in our audience we the only two people in our audience uh this is Melanie Vos from uh padel Ray and Nate Borman from Campo verie high they are part of our Aspire program and part of their requirement in the program is to attend board meetings and congratulations your requirements fulfilled but these are two Dynamic individuals so we want to just acknowledge you and thank you for being here tonight perfect thank you welcome and I hope this has been more than just you've experienced more than just checking this off your list you may want to beat the crowd out I'm not sure I don't this may become a habit these board me the board meetings are are riveting so all right uh thank you uh all the to the entire board and uh uh all of those in attendance tonight uh for attending uh is there a motion to adjourn tonight's meeting I move to adjourn thank you Miss humph is there a second second thank you Mr Robinson all those in favor of adjourning say I I any opposed and we are adjourned thank you
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well we're just going to assign her to a whole bunch of stuff and say sorry about your bad luck you're on every [Laughter] committee don't you go texting I'm gonna tell her right now just scare her we are live we're live so because we technically don't have a president at this point I'm going to call the meeting to order um we're calling meeting to order at 7 o'clock before we get started with the pledge and all that stuff we're going to go ahead and do our um those for our new for our current board members are new board members so I'm going to hand these out just so you guys can read along with me but I have to administer it it'll be easier than you guys trying to figure out what I'm saying you guys want to stand and raise your right hand okay um I am state your name I I have to read it's just easy for you to repeat do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of New Jersey do solemnly swear United States and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Saint will true Faith Andi to and to the governments established in the United States and the state and to the government establish the United States and the St under the authority of the people under the authority of the people so help me God I and state your name I do solemnly swear or affirm that I possess the qualifications do orir that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of member of a board of education prescribed by Law Office of Education and that I am not qualified as a voter as a pursuant to um rs1 1941 nor disqualified due to conviction of a crime or offense listed in njsa 18a 12-1 121 and that I will faithfully and partially and justly perform all duties of that office according to the best of my ability and perform all du office according to the best of my ability all right congratulations and welcome I just need everybody to sign off on that and then me before you guys leave um and Welcome to our new board member Mr Phillips welcome welcome all right let's stand again for the Pledge of Allegiance please pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all all right Mr Davis here Mrs Reed here Mrs Helma here Mrs Allen here I knew that it says an abent right there Mr Phillips here Mr Golden here Mr Juliana here Mr Jones here Mrs oriente here all right Perfect all right since we don't have a president I will go ahead and um I need a motion and a second to approve um officer and delegant nominations we're starting with just IA um can I have a motion and a second then to nominate for school board president I nominate Scott second a motion and a second so anybody can yeah any other nominations for president I I nominate Keith I nominate Brian okay so Brian Davis I need a second to nominate nominate Mr Jones okay and then we have Lisa Hoff nominated Mr Davis do I have a second on that I'll second all right so now we're just going to do a roll call vote so the way this is works is that when I call your name you have to tell me who you're going to vote for our nominations are Mr Golden Mr Jones and Mr Davis so bear with me he doesn't want it no the way he looks on his face just kind at all so Mr Jones is going to remove himself from that nomination I thought you were heart attack so when I when I do the roll call then you'll just say whether you vote for Mr Golden or Mr D okay um not here let's go with Mr Jones you get to vote first you get to vote first for Mr Golden or Mr Davis Mr um Mr Phillips I know you don't really know anybody but you have to pick someone um Mr Golden Mrs Reed Mr Golden Mrs Helma Brian Davis Mrs [Music] Juliana Mr Davis Mrs William Mrs oriente Mr Davis and Mr Davis myself and Mr Golden so I would vote for myself and now we're in a tie so how does that get solved not I'm gonna tou show real fast is we live when we said we didn't need them we have a question that's what you get see that's what we get we had this with vice president before for but not president that I remember because I know the vice president didn't this you were part of that weren't you right Jeff or something you had to like get interviewed by the school board like it was really weird oh I do remember that yeah yeah I do remember that school board had to do it school board H the county office office to call you office decided correct yes that's right yeah that's what happened we didn't have another member though wasn't it possibly yes correct we didn't have another you're right it was probably when we had a vacancy correct yeah so we didn't have anybody else to vote right we're going to table this and we'll just move forward until we I'll just run I'll continue to run the meeting if you're okay with that so we can wait to see what Joe says is that okay um that was maybe we should have left Keith in serious all right so let's just I'm just going to move forward I'm going to wait to hear from Joe if I don't hear from him I'm going to excuse myself and give him a call um just so we can figure out but I do remember us having to reach out to the county office and the county office made that decision uh that determination for us we're going to move forward to item number B is I need a motion and a second to nominate someone for a school board vice president nominate second any other nominations okay do you accept Mrs re all right so then we're going to do a motion in a second to approve um Kimberly Reid as our school board vice president I'm going to do a roll call Mr Golden you you yeah you can just say yes because we're already nomin she's she's our only she's our only one Mr Davis yes Mr Jones yes Mr Phillips yes Mrs Reed yes um Mrs HMA yes Miss Juliana yes Miss Dente yes you want to take the meeting or you want me to do it oh you can continue to do it all right um do such a great job oh thank you thank you so if any if nobody had any objections I was going to keep everybody kind of where they were as to what you were assigned if anyone has an objection when I get there just let me know we'll go ahead to sign someone else you're going to fill a vacancy so I'll let you know what your duties are when we get to you as well thank you they're not really they don't require a tremendous amount of time um most of them are like quarterly meetings all right so we're going to do one big roll call for IBC through IBK and then I'll kind of go through with the um appointment so can I have a motion a second to approve those nominations and then we'll go ahead and motion second all right so C is to approve to appoint we're going to appoint um Lisa hmof since that's currently what hers is um as a delegate to the New Jersey School Board Association again that's uh quarterly um you have any objections to that okay perfect uh D was to appoint we will appoint um Mr Phillips to the alternate delegate to the school boards Association that's the New Jersey chapter again they do virtual meetings or quarterly they're not mandatory um but if someone can can go that's fine they haven't had as many as they used have in the past so do you have any objections to that perfect perfect all right a to appoint um Brian Davis as our delegate to the Camden County School boards Association so go with that again quarter quarterly obligation um f is to appoint um Miss Juliano to the AL as the alternate delegate to the Camy County School boards Association good we're going to keep Michelle oriente as our representative to Camy County Edge Services Commission if that's still works we're going to appoint um Kim Reed as our representative to uh Pine Hill Board of Education if that's still no one has objections to that all right and then our current uh negotiations committee for the Berlin Township Education Association we currently have Mr Jones we have Mr Golden and Mr Davis we don't have any negotiations going on this year until um probably February of 2026 do you guys are so good to serve on that committee or absolutely else wanted all right so we'll keep that as and then for our um principal and supervisor Association we had Mr Davis Mrs Reed and Mrs hm um and that's again as our principal and supervisor Association we won't be doing that also I think until the following year I believe right we did we did it last year so oh so we have a couple years yeah um so unless something comes up we won't really have a need for that but we're build it I think you were five all right so no one objects to and there's still no conflicts with regards to anybody sitting have less conflict perfect and then we have um finance committee we currently only have Rebecca and Stacy but I would love to have a third member so speak now all right Perfect all right Mr Phillips you are it we actually just meet before the board meeting um usually about a half an hour 40 minutes or four you'll review bills we'll go over any Financial items that should be considered any hot topics or miscellaneous things I usually give a briefing at the board meeting anyway so it's pretty much the same um but it's good to have those smaller committees so we can have some more in depth conversations all right so that'll be Miss Allen Miss Juliano and um Mr Phils perfect let me just see all right we'll just move along and then I'll go ahead and I'll call joil before we close out item oh I need to do a roll call on that my apologies let's do a roll call on all of those appointments please for the officer and delegate nominations Mr Golden yes Mr Davis yes Mr Jones yes Mr Phillips yes Mrs Reed yes Mrs Helma yes Mrs Juliano yes Mrs orente yes Item B is to um establish the time and date of our regular regularly scheduled meetings as the fourth Thursday of each month unless otherwise noted can I have a motion in a second motion any conflicts or questions or concerns it'll start at 7 p.m now right that's correct thank you for that clarification yeah we're going to start at 7 o'clock instead of 7:30 no June no July meeting and no July meeting we did one last year but we had started to cut those out um if we have an emergency or we have some emergency hiring we can always certainly try to do a special meeting but U Mr Lee has that authority to kind of okay um hire them and then get approval afterwards anyway so if we don't have any questions then we'll go ahead and do a roll call Mr Golden yes Mr Davis yes Mr Jones yes Mr Phillips yes Mrs Reed yes Mrs HMA yes and Mrs orian yes right perfect um discussion to approve the motion a second to approve the revised District calendar for the 2425 school year this had to be adjusted because of our snow day and we are optimistic that we will have no board security one and done it's not you know it hasn't really been super cold so no no we're done Spring right corner so can I have a motion a second for that motion second did anyone have any questions on on the calendar all right uh Mr Golden yes Mr Davis yes Mr Jones yes Mr Phillips yes Mrs Reed yes Mrs Helma yes Mrs Juliano yes and Mrs Ori yes I do have a question I'm sorry yeah um being that the last day of school is June 19th that's juneth obviously so if we were to go have another snow day would you then start taking away from Spring break or would you then be adding it and then adding that day off add the second day we would add the second day and then if we go on on to the make it Monday because the teachers right now are coming back on Monday okay and the state of New Jersey celebrates juneth on that third thir third Friday Friday of the month so they don't celebrate on the 19 cele different they do so yes so we're so we're we're in school on Thursday District closed on Friday teachers come back on Monday and then that's it we have more SN days we would add one more to the end after that we would have to have a conversation about what to do so one more to the end would be Monday that would be Monday for students stud and then teachers would be choose to yes okay I just wanted to but that's not it's not it's not happen good T yep he's just double cheing but he's pretty sure it's the county superintendent so we'll probably have to table that anyway and see um he's just check so any other questions on the calendar all right we'll do um public comments motion a second to open the meeting to the public for discussion of agenda items only can I have a motion a second motion second happy New Year happy New Year happy New Year thanks for supporting piece oh yeah B oh yeah we already had that we already went down that rabbit hole I'm I'm sorry the school has the same bank the oh I'm sorry at least your personal stuff isn't coming to school uh all right so hearing nothing from the public can I have a motion a second then to um close the meeting to the public motion second all those in favor opposed or obain right let me just see um I guess we'll just time for one second just to make sure that that is definitely the case and then we can adjourn because it's going to have to go to um it's going to have to go to we don't have an executive session so I think your fate is in the hands of the execu count superintendent I don't know how fast they'll they'll turn it around but we do have president can run the meetings or I can run the meetings in the absence of of one being [Laughter] appointed I'm gonna go call real fast just hold everybody up could we have another vote at if everyone is here at the next meeting since there'll be an odd number of people I don't think so that's because I asked him that I table till the 23 he said the ex count look what I started I love fancy that's what I was like New Year New Year cute she the stat people on our legal team I'm like wa what call it he said got go to the executive County Superintendent he is gonna confirm but he's well then to make sure there's not an issue I'll just change my vote to Brian then you don't want to do that man no it's fine no you will I just don't want us to get dragged through this thing that who's who knows how long it's going to take so would you like to have a revote yes please Perfect vote for you now don't you dare I guess we'll come down to who's the first to vote all right give me a give me a minute guys let me just write my next I mean we could have a vote on paper and then nobody knows who you're not allowed to I thought you were we're not allowed to no we yeah we should have always we did do a straw vote before but um a couple years ago I think when we had the vice president one Joe was like it has to all be out in the public um all right so we're going to Revo um and our choices for um board president are Mr Golden or Mr Davis so Mr Jones oh God so if Mr Golden is gonna vote for Mr Davis anyway why don't we just say Brian we officially because I we need to have just have him as a nominee correct yeah instead of Scott and we don't even unless so name out of Nom we don't have problem due to withdrawal and we still have to vote we'll still V to just appoint him then due to withdrawal of Mr Golden the nomination wants to all right so now we are going to um vote to approve Mr Davis as our school board president Mr Goldman yes Mr Davis yes Mr Jones yes Mr Phillips yes Mrs Reed yes Mrs hmof yes Miss Juliano yes and Miss sente yes all right perfect so then Mr Davis you are now our school board president and um we'll have you all moved around and everything else like that Center Mr Gold's coming over I have one question Scott you used to do the what I do for the uh camon County Ed boards would you like to the Service Commission would you like to do that again or no I mean I'm looking at what we've got right now I see Mr Phillips is on two things I can take over for the finance committee if that's all right and that way want to come on finance whatever you want to do I don't want to force you out of it if if it's something you really want to do be transparent I'm learning as I go so I'll take any direction I can be given to help myself further you want yeah I would like to do the finance committee something I haven't done before I think it would be like I said I usually say all that could four do it and then because it's not a quorum right I just can't have five yeah so you could put both them on I mean how many times does everybody yeah right and then sometimes yeah that's I'm fine with that I'm fine with having four people on there that kind of gives and then do give a little flexibility if someone can't make it and we're not then throwing the bills out for everybody else everybody will have some time to do thing about that you guys have to do anymore all right so just to just to clarify this the board finance committee will now be Miss Allen Miss Juliano Mr Phillips and Mr Golden um that gives us a little bit more flexibility all right um does anybody have any other business or am I good to close can I have a motion a second to adjourn the meeting motion second my ears I know Scott and I said it at the same time you might have heard all right 724 all those in favor opposed or abstain all right perfect um I need your oath sign whoever didn't sign I'm G to come and grab those and our next meeting is the 23rd and I'll call Mr Bley let know that we resolved the issue doesn't need to go to county office that help me up
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e e e everyone good evening we'd like to welcome you to tonight's board meeting we'd like to welcome our new board members Lisa horn and Missy Valenzuela and our returning board member Jason welcome um I'll take a motion to adopt the agenda okay I I move to approve the meeting agenda as presented all right I have a first a second and a second all in favor I I all right would you please um we stand and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the for stand One Nation God indivisible all right that brings us to approval of the more of the board meeting minutes for the regular board meeting December 2024 so I move that the board governing board should approve the December 11th 2024 regular board regular meeting minutes is presented all second second first and a second all in favor I I all right okay next um 4.2 approval of minutes for the executive session on December 11 2024 I move the recommend that the governing board approve the December 11th 2024 executive meeting minutes as presented I second that motion all right I have a first and a second all in favor I I I all right that takes us to our superintendent report and celebrations and recognition recog thank you Mr President uh coming back from school second day so uh a little quiet on this report uh our uh athletes up at CHS continue to have success the soccer team the boy soccer team uh was uh the champion tournament champions for the Battle of Ironwood and Logan PL Feller was named player the uh uh player of the tournament and then Senior golfer Alexis Vella was named to the Arizona Republic all Arizona team for the second consecutive year she was one of I think there was eight girls named across the state um uh to the All To That All Republic team so that's a real big honor for her our baz jazz band senior Mike Michael lzy rera got outstanding performance in alstate jazz auditions for uh Bas and one of the four top players in the state qualify for round two of auditions uh on January 11th so that'll be coming up it's the second year in a row he's he's qualified fight uh first year that he gets to travel to round two uh we also did secure uh we've had funding from the um state for several years for SRO at the high school but pcso has not had enough U uh individuals uh to fund it and uh at the tail end of uh right before the end of the semester we got uh communication from uh pcso that they did have an officer and so Deputy msow will be the first school resource officer at the high school um we're still uh he started on Monday um and we're excited to have him on board uh we do have a grant for an additional officer uh and at this at this point we're looking to see if we can um secure that it wouldn't be at the high school it be at at our middle school and alterntive school no guarantees uh we're just kind of working through it but so that's been a positive uh for us as we move forward um the HR department had started a 75-day holiday challenge so starting coming out of uh basically in October with Halloween uh trying to increase phys physical activity over the course of 75 days and Dr Middleton was uh wanted to report that we had uh 41 employees that uh worked on their own personal fitness goals and the reported mileage which is not for all 41 employees but for the ones that reported we're over 10,000 miles of activity completed so just a positive way to to get people up and moving Simington closed out uh 24 with a number of different events the band showcase holiday singal had gingi the gingerbread woman join the Grinch and Cindy L who to make an appearance um and they finished strong with their District assessments and their uh quarter grades uh at the uh professional development day uh on Monday uh we have many grants we gave out uh uh many grants to teachers based on funding from the Coles Education Foundation they were ,000 up to $1,000 for minig Grants and we ordered we awarded 13 minig Grant classrooms uh to teachers those winners included Renee baldenegro Jinger gon Heidi Bush Madison Gonzalez Nisha tahani Brenda scepter Joey beffy Heidi Fardo Santos Bagnal Lil Lil Guzman Sonia Bak chandani pea Elwood and Heather dad and that was basically what we tried to do with those Awards we had had a significant increase in the number of people that that applied for an award this year and we were able to basically uh honor teachers across the district at all of our schools as well as across uh multiple disciplines so it wasn't just core subjects uh Rene's a uh PE teacher as an example a couple special ed teachers Heidi Bush and and Maddie are are special education so it was a nice way to start the year put some pictures out on social media of them uh with their uh uh with their winnings uh all the uh equipment or most of it was ordered and so they were able to receive the accolades and then most of the stuff will be delivered to them this week if it's not already been delivered so that was real positive that started off our professional learning day and we had mark on us on us check from uh Solutions tree present putting it together and connecting high impact strategies for teaching and learning along with other breakout sessions and overall very high ratings I know that CIA will probably report on it in the next couple months but just initial uh looks that we got especially on Mark's presentation that they were very very positive so it's been a a very good start uh to the year so that's the superintendent report this month in terms of school staff recognition I'll take the first one what we normally do for those in the audience is we try to recognize um different individuals that work within our uh school system and we base it on uh those events that happen during that month so it may be a substitute day or or teacher week or something like that in um January what it is is uh School Board day and so we want to take a moment just to thank uh our school board we have two new members coming on we'll have a full board uh at our next meeting uh a person had to step down at the last section and so there were some interviews today for two candidates and uh it's done by the county school superintendent and we'll she'll name the fifth board member and they'll be here for the next meeting uh but these individuals the pay is phenomenal zero but they do dedicated us a tremendous amount of time uh to help your children have a positive experience in our school system uh and it is a a job that is very fulfilling but at the same time there's a lot of information um some people will say well that's just a school board um but if you're not aware we're a $30 million corporation that has 600 employees has a fleet of 15 vehicles that goes all over the area every single day we have uh just short of 4,000 students if you throw a parents in you're going to run another 10,000 people so it's not a small operation and for them to dedicate time and energy to understand how the system works and to be supportive of everything that's happening within our system truly we appreciate that so I'd ask you to give a hand and for the school board and I would now ask Dr ghouls me to come up to talk about col Center for Success good evening board president Ray members of the board and welcome new members Dr Wyman Miss snger and audience members I'm here as the proud principal of the com Center for success and believe it or not um we have now existed for five years and it's been a journey um since we started up right around the time of covid and it's been fun to continue to have our school grow and get a chance to share some of the great things that are happening on our campus um we serve three purposes in the district for those of you who are not amiliar we have two alternative schools a middle school and a high school and we also represent the online program for the entire district and so we have students that come to us who want to accelerate their learning and move ahead we have students who come to catch up on their learning and we have students who join us because they want a new start or a new school to go we are definitely a small school option and we serve grades 7 through 12 um this year we've had a lot of exciting things that have happened to our campus um we went through the accreditation process last year um with cognia and that involved having people visit our campus study the way that we work on our campus make suggestions for us and give us an accreditation so that we could stand alone and start handing out our own diplomas as a school and this summer we received our official accreditation last year we had over a hundred seniors come through our program and graduate and join the Colmes High School seniors as graduates from this District which is the most important mission that we meet and do um CCS was recently recognized I went down to Tucson because we have participated in a three-year project about developing schools of Distinction and what does it take for an alternative school to have exemp practices and this year we were recognized down in Tucson and I went down and received our award down there it was fun and that's a picture of me down there um com Center for success is now Title One school and we recently received a $50,000 Grant because we applied for a competitive Grant as a ninth grade success Grant which is designed to keep our kids grade level to get them back on track for graduation to improve our course completion rate rates and to increase graduation rates from ccshs and C OSS and it's important to note because we talk a lot about credit recovery at our school but we also have between five and 10 students a year that accelerate and graduate early so they're graduating as Juniors and we actually have two sophomores this year that are going to be awful close to finishing their graduation requirements and our kids go to evit our kids participate at in other programs besides ours and they are lucky enough that they also participate in athletics or other activities at comes high school so we truly are a family here in this District that meets the needs of our students um uh we are um a small staff and we continue to be a small a small staff we always will be and um I have um a blessing of having a staff that comes in there and each of them brings something to our students and Paramount at what we do with school is we build relationships with kids and we talk to kids about why it's important to graduate so I wanted to share one highlight that we recently had and I'm gonna invite two of my students up here so come on up Kiren and Ayana um we recently piloted a class that we called it get a job but but the class is geared towards workplace Readiness and career planning and our students worked in uity with the career planning classes but they also did a live Hands-On class where they had to do micro credentials and they had to practice interviewing skills they need to project budgets for themselves and what it's going to cost for them to live as a young adult they um did I call it speed dating they speed dated in interviewed each other to practice and some of the students that I brought here with me tonight um two of them in particular um they helped in the class because Kiren has a job already so she helped you know the other students in class and Ayana um is another student that I have in the class and although she wasn't old enough to get a job at this point in time she was instrumental in working with the kids in class and they're going to share a little bit about their story because it's an amazing thing so Kirsten come on up and Kiren is one of my juniors who is on track to graduate this year come on and I'm ask you just tell tell them about so Kirsten's gonna tell you a little bit about the class what she liked and what she learned go ahead um I learned that um I love that how Dr CH made us like feel confident about like interviews and we got to like know what we're supposed to say in interviews and be prepared when we get a job even though I already have a job it makes me feel more prepared for other interviews after I graduate high school because I am graduating this year as a junior okay what was what was an experience that you did in the class that you really liked doing like that you learned did you about the budgeting like for example um I like like giving my like giving advice on for the other students who because I do have a job I love giving advice to the other students of what to do and how to keep your job and what to do in an interview and make sure they feel confident in the interview and then how your paycheck look and you talked about all the taxes that come out of your paycheck and what does it really take to have your own you know your own independence so wanted you step up what was your experience in the class and what did you enjoy doing um um I think that what I liked about doing in class was being able to see what I can do for the my future on how to budget my money how to apply for jobs and what I need to look for in my future for a job and what are some of the things you had I had to make a res I had to make resume I had to well make a making a resume was hard like I don't have a resume right now but I can only put on things I volunteer for right now and I can I can see what I have to do to build a resume and understand what I need to put on there and how I it helps for like getting a job and everything else what my career I explored was nursing and nursing was one um etiquette was another one and then I think it was somewhere something software I don't know okay so um I'll let I'll let you ask them any questions but during the class they actually finished an Ingenuity course they finished their major Clarity which is their College and Career Readiness and in that they everybody chose and earned three micro credentials and during our class we beta tested it with the first group because we wanted to see how it would go and this aligns directly with the state requirements for workplace Readiness and career Readiness and um I IA won't say it but one of her experiences is that she volunteers next door at comes Traditional Academy where they love her and she works in the classes with um kindergarteners and she does an amazing job and Kirsten was my right hand um in the class because we brought in students that have jobs to talk to kids about what it takes to get a job and how they balance school and my third speaker who was going to be here I was gonna call him for you so he could talk to you unfortunately he's working right now so so but um we are going to offer the get a job class again in the spring going into the summer so that hopefully we can get um more students working because the work experience credit is a credit that students can earn in high school towards graduation so that's just something that we're really excited about on our campus thank you also at this time I am allowed to um share with you a little bit about my staff and to recognize some of my staff members who make our school unique but who also meet our students needs every day in special ways and I don't know if Miguel has Miguel gotten here yet he's coming okay um maybe I'll save him for last so I'd like to ask um Mr Joe rker if he could come up and join [Applause] me Mr reichart is my social studies teacher at the com Center for success and he has worked with our students for the past two years on working with them and he's also one of my senior Mentor teachers our students um when I talk to them about what teacher has made an impact on your life I got several quotes from students who wanted to share one of them was from Matthew who's not here right now but Matthew said that the reason why Mr rard has the most influence on him is because he cares about the students he cares about their learning he has individual conver Sation with them and asks them questions and never makes them feel stupid for asking a question and he also shares with them about real life and gives them real life stories and challenges about how are you going to handle that as an adult and for that and SE several of our other students wrote to say that his class is fun he shares with the students a love of Music he's absolutely wild about football and so he has that gift he's also the only male teacher that we have on campus so he is you know our our safety chief on campus he works with our seniors and over the past years you know he's always told me I'm always going to be the person that you can count on to build relationships with kids he's tough and fair and the kids know that he cares and that's why Mr reker is a teacher that I would like to recogn recogniz as one of our employees of the month thank you [Applause] I already have one on my desk that I've been trying to keep alive since August she's now be another one to try to keep [Applause] Al my second teacher that I'd like to call up is Mrs guest please join me Michelle guest is our science teacher at com Center for success and a lot of the kids know her because for years she substituted in the district while she raised her girls and actually one of her daughters was also a teacher at comes High School um where she taught mathematics and Michelle was also a teacher at Holmes high school before I begged and convinced her to join us she is a teacher that I recognize because of her Innovation she is tenacious about kids learning lab reports and about kids learning the material and she brings science to life in our classroom that's why we have chickens on our campus and the kids candle the eggs and we have gardening beds that we've gotten from Colmes high school and we grow things and her current um thing is that all of our seventh and eighth graders do Hands-On experiments in her class because she wants them to be prepared for high school Michelle is a member of my leadership team she has been with us and has continued to shape what we do at comes high school and I'm very very grateful for her being on our staff at com Center for success [Applause] thank you Melle [Applause] I'm hoping that Miguel will get here but Miguel Ibara he's coming is is our evening plant manager and he takes care of our building and our facility at com Center for success and also at CTA and I want to tell you that um he is a consumate professional he will help any teacher on our campus do anything and when he comes in in the afternoon if the kids are looking for something he will help out whenever we do activities he's always right there and the teachers are like oh I'm sorry I you know there's art supplies out or whatever but he steps up and does that and he talks with us um all the time and he comes by because a lot of times because of our school I'll be there at 7 8:00 at night working with kids that are testing and he will always come by to say to me it's time to go home now Dr gby so he has been amazing since he's come in to work with us and it takes every member on your school campus to give your kids the best place to go to and having a professional that works on our campus that cares about what he does that is kind and shows up every day to do the best job that he can is the reason why I wanted to say thank you to Miguel and thank you for being at com Center for success and for at being at CTA thank you [Applause] than [Applause] you and I'll invite right uh Mr Pierce up to do Harmon normally we have one school we have this month Mr President members of the board Mr or Mr Wyman or Dr Wyman and Miss Winger appreciate the opportunity to share some celebrations at Harmon Elementary I have a ton of things that I could share I'm going to kind of narrow it down for you tonight um this year we started a new intervention reading program at Harmon and we call it walk to intervention um we kind of made a decided effort as a team that we needed to take a deeper look into why our students were struggling with foundational reading skills and so we put this program together we're going to show you a brief video that's an overview and then I'm going to ask our reading specialist batina nuny to come up and share some additional information with you entes walk to intervention the bell rings at 8:45 each day to Signal 400 students that walk to intervention is beginning all students transition to specific reading groups at that time for 30 minutes this happens 5 days a week we started our schoolwide walk to Intervention Program when our data indicated a serious deficiency in foundational reading skills especially related to phonics our struggling readers were screened using a phonic screening inventory then we begin building groups based on student need this has allowed us to facilitate 11 skill specific groups in Reading to help students close gaps and increase overall fluency groups are small and specialized so that teachers can intensely focus on quality instruction not only does walk to intervention provide needed support for our struggling readers it also gives our on grade level students an opportunity to experience extension activities in reading some students are participating in book studies research projects gaming and more teachers get an opportunity to infuse the learning with fun engaging activities that students really enjoy 81 students receive intense intervention and 76 students increased in their overall skill scores tier one students get extension opportunities and teachers get increased creativity with opportunities to provide enrichment overall it's off to a great start come watch us sore at Harmon Elementary kids to move simultaneously to different locations throughout the room so we couldn't make it happen without the help of Mrs nunki so I'm going to ask her to come up and share some information with you I'll speak to these two right here it'll make me comfortable all right hi my name is Bina nki I am the reading specialist over at Harmon um and I've kind of facilitated our tier three aspect of the walked intervention um we actually the video said 11 we are now to 12 specialty groups um within our thing um So based off fast bridge at the beginning of the year we kind of just looked at where are our high-risk kids from first grade all the way to sixth grade uh when it came to like phonics and their deficiency and then those kids were given phonic screeners to then place them into areas where they needed that that part some just needed one little piece and others needed to you know start and kind of go back um after that was done we were able to then I was able to meet with the teachers that were going to take on these tier three groups and give them the training for the 95% group that we have gotten through the district um most of the teachers with the exception of me at our campus have never used 95% so I had to make sure that they understood the materials um and kind of became experts with it with their little groups that they're going to be getting um and then from there they get their groups our groups are usually around no more than seven kids for those specialty groups which gives those kids really good direct instruction into those skills where they need to be uh and then I also facilitate with those teachers about weekly uh we have a spreadsheet that they'll enter their progress monitoring data in each week um and then I kind of look at some datas and Trends and kind of talk with them do we need to shift some kids are we okay here and going through and then uh what's been nice too it's kind of left some pull some off of those teachers plates instead of giving them more so um this is a huge undertaking and for some it's like oh it's more that's on the teachers plate actually I do most of it for the tier three so it takes some of that off of the teachers plate for them um and gives them that opportunity to really focus in on the skill for those kids and I think that's good I think we're actually up to more kids that have moved from that video because that video is what September October so we do have some more growth than that I'm not exactly sure on the exact number uh but reworking that right now we definitely have more so don't let this lady kid you the amount of time and effort that she puts into this is absolutely astonishing she puts together all of the materials for the teachers so that they do not have to do that themselves so every booklet that a kid reads every fluency page that they go through Betina is the one that puts that stuff together because we did want to take something off of teachers plates and we also wanted to do something that was going to fuel into our EMP TSS system so that we could better find out what kids needs are so that if they do need to move towards an evaluation for special education we had data and things ready to go for that so 95% of what happens with this program happens because of Mrs nuny but we could talk to you about it all day long but we brought some kids to talk to you about it because I think it's important for you to hear how they feel about walk to intervention so I'm going to first ask uh David Patterson to come up and share with us [Applause] hi I'm David Patterson and I'm going to talk about walk turn event this is my first year at Harmon and it's my first time having something like walkter intervention it gets to like you get to know about more in depth of what you're learning and what you need because you could go higher or lower where you need to go but I wasn't with the sixth grade teachers for the first semester and in the first quarter we read articles about famous artists and at the end of the quarter we created paintings and in the second quarter we got to do a play and I was Pirates the musical and I was brown beard but it gets to go like more you get to get more more text and like more realization about what you're learning that's [Applause] it we also have a couple of twins here to present we have have a Mala and Milani that will come up and share [Applause] also hi my name is Milani and what I do in walk intervention is we read a passage and we track how fast we are are reading my favorite part of was doing a spelling be when we did vocabulary we would go in partners with partner and we would move around the library to work the fun part was using the DI the dictionaries and we would find the definition to words then on Fridays if we got all the work done for the passage we would get a candy I think walk through intervention is good because we get to learn new things the things I learned is how to use the dictionary then we get to experience more things and we get to [Applause] hi my name is Malia and what I do in walk to intervention is when I was in a small group I did a lot of reading and spelling words we read stories with partners and then we talked about vocabulary words and when I moved I was in a bigger group we did a play called Pirates musical and I had so much fun and I think walk to intervention is good thing a good thing we do at school one of my everything was playing a giant game of Uno it was fun and it was good to learn new things and get to meet new people we don't [Applause] know so overall we were really nervous about implementing this program to be honest with you because when we first started talking about it teachers were like no way we don't want to do it it's going to be a lot of work it's going to be too hard and I just said just give us a couple of months we decided we would meet after a couple of months and if it wasn't working out we would change it and we would do something different but within that first week the response from the kids was just so overwhelmingly positive like these kids were so excited to go to walk to intervention and they were coming back to class and they were talking about the things that they were doing and then once teachers got in a week or two and they started getting more comfortable with the skill groups they were leading and the tier one groups they were leading overall everybody was like why didn't we start doing this a long time ago so we are going to continue to refine walk to intervention but our hope is honestly moving into next year is to do the exact same thing with math and we're already seeing a transference of what we're doing um and the data that we're receiving so we're feeling really positive about it so that's just one of the one of the great celebration that we have to share with you about [Applause] Harmon we are also going to take an opportunity to celebrate staff members this month so I would like to ask Carrie Forest to come up [Applause] please so when you think about a Workhorse that is this lady she is the first person in the parking lot in the morning and she is the last person to leave not even kidding I have left at like 6:30 7:00 at night and I'll think nobody's going to be there and she is still there she just works tirelessly to make sure that she is prepared that she is meeting students needs and that she's also communicating effectively with parents she just does such an amazing job of connecting with parents all the time to so that they know how their kids are doing she's just really a mentor in her building and we're super lucky to have so thank you Carri [Applause] Erica Rodriguez if you could come up so you've probably all worked with that person that like never says no that is this lady she literally never says no she's never anytime I've asked her to do anything she'll do it she is our register or she's our register our attendance clerk she's our itm specialist she is our sound system specialist um she just she can set up a buffet like nobody's business like she literally can do it all she does everything um Harman has had a lot of success this year with itm which is fantastic but it is largely in part due to Erica's diligence and making sure every single week that that information gets put into Synergy and that um she is checking in with teachers like she's just such an incredibly valuable person on our campus we are so lucky to have her so thank you Erica [Applause] Antonia Thompson just stand up right on up here she said earlier I'm getting a blue Apple I said I I don't know are you so many of you might know Tanya she is quite a force in our community um T and I spend a lot of time together she is our social worker at Harmon and she just brings in so many resources into our building like you I'm astonished uh she helps families during the holidays um she has gotten us donation after donation after donation um she just works endlessly to make sure that our families students and staff have things that they need um you're going to hear her later tonight talk about uh project Bridge which is a resource part of a resource room that is not only for Harmon families but for families across our district and the items that are in that room are largely due um in part to her work that she has done to reach out to community members she's kind of my right-hand gal like when I um have kiddos that are struggling she's is the lady that I go to um if I just need an ear to bend she's my person so we love her and appreciate her and she's just an amazing person so thank you Tanya [Applause] and our final recognition tonight is our volunteer recognition for Christina Moran so Christina come on up so Christina is the treasurer of our ptso um and we did go through a period of time where Christina was the only member of our ptso so Christina would come to meetings every single month even though she knew it was just going to be her and I sitting at a table looking at each other and talking but she just is always available anything that I need um any questions that I have if I need support if I need her to come in and help out she will take time off from work she just always is present um and I just think especially over the last two years like I I would have had a really hard time doing the things that I needed to do to support our kids and families um with activities I couldn't have done it without her so we so appreciate every single second that you spend helping us at Harmon [Applause] thank you so much we'll have Dr Fountain now with students of the month uh Dr Middleton had a family situation had to deal with so Dr uh Fountain is going to take over we're like the NFL you know next man up so happy to do it um and as one of my former colleagues would say this is the best part of the day is getting to uh to recognize kids so um this is one of the best pieces we get to do our first winner this evening is sent to us from Colmes high school and his name is Bo Steinbach is Bo with us tonight all right looks like Bo could not make it but we'll tell you a little bit about Bo he is the senior class treasure and he recently went to a promotional event at Legacy School advertising Colmes High School counseling department complimented him on representing the school well and um Mr Smith said that he feels like this is indicative of both personality and his overall school spirit so they wanted to recognize Bo as their student of the [Applause] month I feel like you've heard this name tonight and I'm not sure if he has yet made it because Matthew SoDo was part of the com Center for Success presentation and I don't know that Matthew ever made it but is Matthew here he's still at work so that probably tells us all we need to know about Matthew that he's dedicated um but let's hear a little bit about Matthew um and he was um nominated this month from com Center for success and this is for work ethic and the nominee said that a strong work ethic is invaluable for high school students helping them stay focused organized and motivated to achieve their academic and extracurricular goals at CCS Matthew has shown these qualities demonstrating remarkable ownership of his learning and growth as a student as a senior Matthew has become focused and driven balancing his coursework with the demands of a job outside of school case in point all right um since joining CCs in 2023 he's pursued his goal of returning to CHS and earning his diploma there as Matthew prepares to head back to CHS his presence will be greatly missed by all of us at CCS congratulations Matthew all right how about from Colmes Middle School Olivia Garcia Gonzalez I got really quiet so I'm assuming that Olivia is not here all right um so a little bit about Olivia Olivia is an amazing student she always gives her best when something seems challenging she tries to be positive and work through the problem or challenge she's also willing to help others when she can I am so proud of what she's accomplished this year another person said Olivia is a very kind and helpful individual I love having her in weight training she always tries her best every day and never complains whenever we have a new student she jumps right in to help guide them in the right direction another teacher said Olivia is an excellent student in the math classroom she always perseveres through the material that is challenging for her and asks questions to make sure she understands what is being taught she always comes into class with the biggest smile and I greatly admire how hard she tries every day Olivia never gives up and has been a joy to have in math for the past two years and finally Olivia has been giving in all giving it her all in science class she seeks help when needed and she has been turning in quality work so even though you could not be here congratulations [Applause] Olivia all right I know this one's here because I got to chat with her earlier Elanor suich come on up Elanor was practicing with me we're going to turn and face smile and wave that works too all right so Elanor shows her work ethic every day in class through her ability to stay focused on the task or assignment she's responsible for getting her work done in a timely manner and always turns in her homework I can count on Elanor to help others and to have a great attitude doing it Elanor is a great role model and an asset to the class congratulations Elanor her mom said I could congratulate her as Ellie Belly but she told me not to all right next up from Ellsworth Elementary Brooklyn Maloney is Brooklyn with [Applause] us all right Brooklyn is a teacher dream she's one of the hardest working students that I have had the pleasure of teaching she knows what she needs to to do to complete all the assigned tasks and very rarely is she not busy Brooklyn knows what it takes to succeed and fulfills the expectations of the teacher tenfold not only does she work hard she is also one of the kindest students I have ever met she follows the rise code every day and exemplifies what it means to be a student and a future leader congratulations [Applause] Brooklyn all right next up from Harmon Elementary we have we have Juliet Esparza [Applause] Guzman Julia's teacher says that Juliet is a bright and determined third grader known for her strong work ethic whether tackling math problems or crafting creative stories she always puts in her best effort and never shies away from a challenge her teachers admire her focus and dedication while her classmates are inspired by her willingness to help others and share what she's learned Juliet's positive attitude and perseverance set her apart making her a role model in her school Community it's a pleasure to nominate Juliet for student of the month congratulations [Applause] Juliet next up from Ranch Elementary we have Oriana [Applause] bear Oriana is a student who shines in class not just because she does well in her schoolwork but because she works hard and never gives up Oriana is always ready with her backpack packed and her homework neatly done that might be a thanks Mom I feel like there might be a little bit there too um she always pays attention in class asks questions when she needs help and shares her ideas when we talk as a group when Oriana faces something tricky like a math problem or a big project she doesn't get upset instead she tries her best takes her time and keeps working until she figures it out if she makes a mistake she learns from it and tries again knowing that practice makes her better her friends and teachers notice that Oriana's hard work is contagious when a classmate needs help she lends a hand or explains things in a kind way so they can understand Oriana's attitude shows everyone that working hard being patient and believing in yourself are what help you succeed congratulations Oriana and from simonon elementary we have Michaela [Applause] bahi Michaela always does whatever is asked of her and tries her best on all of her assignments and the tasks she has given she is motivated to improve and works towards Mastery of her goals she keeps trying her best even through challenging tasks and never complains congratulations Michaela [Applause] and again these students were all nominated by their teachers um for work ethic um which is a component of our portrait of a graduate and one of the skills that we're trying to instill in our students so congratulations to you all for all of your hard work we will take about three minutes to five minutes to transition if you want to get a picture with a teacher or some like that and then we'll go on with the rest of our meeting of course you don't have to stay if you don't want to e e e alrighty that brings us to 5.5 is there anything from any any of the governing board members I do um in December the comes high school student council held the winter formal also known as winfo and as the vice president of their parent booster club I was able to work with them um as they decorated planned and did everything that they needed to do to make it a success and so I just wanted to share a few of the success bullet points that Mr Smith shared with me um stuco students went above and beyond to petition for our first ever winfo dance they hired non-stop entertainment a professional DJ company that they used for homecoming they received great reviews from all who attended they partnered with CHS band to run concessions they sold popcorn candy and soda and band left very happy because they also left making uh money through that as a fundraiser so it was a great way to bring together different groups within the school as well um there were a total of 250 students in attendance for their first ever CHS winfo so it was a great success awesome thanks anything else all right that takes us to 6.1 any public comments no all right that takes us to um item seven which is the action item um the consent agenda and we can take those individual or I can take that in in whole are there any questions about that section all right there are no questions I'll take a motion I move that it is recommended that the bo governing board approve the consent agenda as presented a second have a first and second all in favor I I motion passes 40 that brings us to hold on let me get down there 8.1 discussion and consideration of to approve 25 26 new courses my apologies speaking NOA bar for dinner caught me um so part of our ongoing process every year excuse me is to update the course guide um very few changes for this year um at the middle school we are we adding to the course guide um an option for a robotics 2 not 100% sure yet that that course will fully make um but it's been a popular option so just sorry was coding to I said robotics coding to um and so we're trying to give an option for students to have a little bit more of an in-depth course on that as we expand those offerings and then at the high school um we have a couple of additional pieces on there um unfortunately one of them is for CTE and and Mr scrogum couldn't be here tonight John told me not to call him out for not being here tonight I just did so sorry John um so we're adding a a course um that's done in partnership with an outside entity at the the community college level um and then we're adding I think a new PE uh combined PE class so just a couple of minor adjustments on there um and I'm happy to answer any questions but it's pretty minimal so the hope with the college composition is that it's going to be that dual enrollment situation correct um one of our goals in the next couple of years is to increase the dual enrollment options the caveat to that is always that it's very teacher Centric right we have to have teachers who have the qualifications to do that um so we started with the English piece because we do have some teachers who have the appropriate credential to be able to do that you have to have a master's in that content area um it's something we would love to expand beyond that but again it tends to be um directed by by the teacher component um but again what we're trying to do in the course guide is to start to build some of these courses in I always Des but is kind of like being a menu at the restaurant you know sometimes they're out of the dish you want or sometimes they're not serving it that night but it's still on the menu so we're putting these pieces on the menu so that if we do have the appropriately certified teacher we can offer that to students and and try to get them some of those college credits so um that's a a goal of of the high school moving forward is to build a few more of those in all right any questions okay there's no questions I'll take a motion and I apologize again for having my mouth full I motion to approve the new courses for CHS ccshs ccsms and CMS in school year 2025 2026 as presented I'll second have a first and second all in favor all I motion passes for o all right and that brings us to 9.1 permiss of possible Capital bond election as an introduction uh what we're doing at this point in time uh this very first presentation uh Mike's Mike Lali from stea will be here to to go over the details the very first question we had and we have any time to say are we going to do a bond or an override the very first question you ask yourself is what's the tax implication for our residents and so that's what Steve will uh calculates and so we asked uh steel and and Mike uh to run some numbers to see what it means for us um just so you're aware there's no cost to this the cost is absorbed um if the bond passes uh if you decide to go out for the bond so the first step is to say what's the tax rate had we had a different number we might not have come out with this uh but based on the information that that Mike shared with us it was something we felt we needed to bring to you guys uh there are other steps to it Mike will talk a little bit about those steps they're they're they're uh consistent with what we're doing and so but the detail of of the tax rate is beyond my pay grade so we'll turn it over to Mike and Mike can go ahead and explain and answer any questions that you have so Mike thank you for coming we appreciate it very very much thank you Dr Wyman Mr President members of the board it's a pleasure to be before you by way of background my name is Mike lavali I'm with steel been working with your District since it was an elementary school district in the late 90s so I've helped with all the bond elections any override discussions um our firm also helps with school the school facilities board funding now school facilities oversight board they change their name every 10 years or so um but we help we've helped out the district with advice as it relates to that as well so we're really we've really partnered with your district for gosh 25 plus years on anything related to school capital building schools buying buses building this admin facility anything related to financing so we're please be back to you this evening I also work all around the state I work with the largest districts in the valley to the smallest rural District districts out in Arizona I love driving the state so I'm a native of Arizona and that's my introduction so thanks for having me um so this evening uh before I talk about tax impact related to a bond or an override I want to touch on a few slides that uh help us get to how you calculate tax rates and so the very first one is your assessed valuation all tax rates are based off of your assessed valuation and the this is a 10-year history graph there's a blue bar and a red bar there uh the blue bar is what we call your net full cash assess value that is not what we base your tax rates on anymore used to be a long time ago uh but now it's uh just a number that's closely aligned with what's happening in terms of your economy it is tax value related it's not your Market values of all your homes it's your for starting tax value if you will but you can see how your district has grown uh considerably over the past 10 years um it is how we determine the bonding capacity of the district and so I have a calculation later on that will that will show you how we calculate your bonding capacity your ability to borrow and it's based on this blue bar the red bar is what drives your your tax rates uh both your primary and your secondary rates so primary rate is your general fund tax rate funds your maintenance and operations um and anything related to teacher salaries and everything else else operating the schools um and then your secondary tax rate is anything voter authorized so that would include your bonds or overwrites if you have if you have one or either you have to have an election for any of those um and then you can see over the past 10 years I have some um uh tenure averages if you will up top and and to the far right there I added a placeholder 2526 that's not yet that's next fiscal year but we're going to know that value is in February every February you get an estimate of next year's values so we're plugging that in right now as a placeholder and so for the Blue Bar we're estimating 10% if you look at the previous year blue bars you grew at 26 49% 14 so you've had some historically amazing uh growth in that bar uh over the last two or three four years we're just putting in 10% in hopes to be conservative you'll probably outperform that we're going to know what that is in February ahead of any election in November of 25 and then likewise for the red bar we just plugged in 9 and a.
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e e e good evening everyone it is Wednesday January 8th at 6:30 I call this meeting to order Lisa can you please call the role Robert Downey present Patty coutre present Carolyn Lopez present Ben Owens present Shante Roth present thank you we now move on to one C Pledge of Allegiance and the aor do Dr Hassan to um lead us in the pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic which it stands Nation God indivisible liberty and justice for all thank you it's so nice hearing the kids speak louder than the [Laughter] adults we now move on to 1D adoption of the agenda motion to approve is written second Lisa we have a motion to Second Shante Rothchild I Ben Owens I carola Lopez I Patty crae I Robert Downey I so moved we now move on to item two superintendent report Dr lopman thank you president Downey happy New Year officially Maricopa Unified School District has been awarded the ninth grade success Grant a $50,000 Grant to support professional professional development at Maricopa High School this funding will allow our teachers and administrators to attend training this spring and supports our efforts to improve instruction student engagement and academic achievement thanks to the dedicated efforts of our grounds team two major bleacher projects at Desert Sunrise High School are almost done the projects include additional bleacher seating for the football field and new bleachers for the baseball and softball fields where there currently is none nearly 7,000 square feet of concrete has been poured and bleacher assembly has begun these projects significantly increase spectator seating which if you've been to a football game you know that it's in desperate need um and provid a great space for fans this spring for our spring Sports and they're going to everything will be installed in time for uh graduation this may at Desert Sunrise High School good attendance is essential to success tonight we're celebrating two schools whose extra efforts have paid off and you know it was a pretty rough winter with the flu and all of the other Gunk going around so we're really excited about the two schools we get to celebrate tonight each school will receive a certificate and $250 that we hope will support the strategies that work best to promote good attendance so Mr Downey get ready to hand out some funds they're here somewhere I think well if nothing else we'll give you an IOU I don't know where it is are they not what we're good for it so principles when I call your school please come to the diets to receive your certificate from president Downey yeah and a handshake Right congratulations to go to best second quarter attendance to uh Pima Elementary School come on up Miss Allison you can just do a hand and more congratulations go to Santa Rosa Elementary School Mr franic come on up [Applause] great we would like to acknowledge that three board members were sworn in earlier this evening Mrs Carolyn Lopez continues her service on the board that began in I think 2023 like november-ish and we'd also like to welcome back Mr Owens as a returning board member and we extend a warm welcome to miss Shante Rothschild who brings fresh eyes and a unique perspective to our governing board congratulations to each of you [Applause] and thank you for accepting the awesome privilege and responsibility of governing board membership and with the leadership of President Downey and vice president coute and the entire governing board our community can trust that the district remains in good hands and that's my report Dr you Dr lukan move on to item three governing board members report remember rth child I have nothing to report at this time thank you welcome member Owens thank you president Downey uh glad to be back um the uh before I even uh got sworn in here um back in I think it was December 19th Dr lman and I uh toured Santa Cruz um my first time uh being in the school so that was uh uh that was kind of fun um we toured specifically uh kindergarten um first grade and then down to third I don't remember where else we went but um there there was a lot to see big school um but it was kind of fun to see specifically how um our kids are um learning words and pronunciations and how letters fit together and then how they build on those letters to um you know with with the diagrams and the uh flea Maps I think was one of the things that if I remember right and all that stuff that was not around when I was in school um so kind of seeing how how that kind of has progressed and how that helps helps them to create a um a solid uh argument or or writing uh that we saw as we got down into to into the fourth and fifth grade um area and just seeing that progression uh was uh was great so uh that's all I have for this evening thank you remember Lopez hi guys everybody have a good holiday we're back back to business back to learning I got to learn a couple things um first I went and I don't know that it was a tour of Santa Rosa but I toward Spalding and it was something that I really enjoyed as a parent I have struggled to help my children learn what Spalding is help them with their homework help them read I didn't learn how to read the Spalding Way um so there was a big disconnect and I feel a lot better now and the um oh it just went blank with the name what is the name of our web the te uh Academy no what is it that we're doing my mind went blank it's the academy or the thank you parent University sorry um has been really informative with spaldi so I'm just reach out if you're a parent and you need to help with that I really enjoyed it um it was very eye openening and it makes so much sense that I'm like oh yeah okay we could do this now so that I enjoyed I also um judged a debate at Desert sunrise and that was awesome to see these kids and the viewpoints that they take on different subjects was amazing um I got all kinds of tickled with that and very proud of our students for doing that so that's it thank you member vice president crre thank you president Downey well um welcome to all of our sworn in board members and I'm so excited that you guys um chose to be part of this and I look forward to serving with you to make an awesome board uh welcome back to all the staff and students I know you guys couldn't wait to come back to school on Monday I'm sure you were just waiting at that bus stop 15 minutes early um so uh before the break um I was able to attend um the fifth grade gifted Invention Convention that was here um in the boardroom and it was amazing uh the ideas the uh mockup models um and just asked talking to the students and asking them why did you come up with this and hearing their thought process was just amazing we have a lot of very brilliant um and out of the box thinking students it's it's so inspiring uh I also attended the uh Santa uh Santa Cruz Elementary uh Nutcracker performance I was not able to go last year so I was able to go this year um we had uh dancing mice that were just adorable um and then um right before the break I did attend uh the Santa Cruz Elementary the fifth grade wax museum uh it's a project that they do um they were outside and everybody they did a poster board they had a speech and I went to each one of them and just again just asking them why they chose that individual and what they learned about that individual it's just so refreshing to hear it from their point of view uh we teach it from the from the curriculum but just to hear their take on it is really an interesting thing to do so if you ever get an opportunity to to come to any of these school events try to do it it's really amazing and that's all I have thank you um I just want to take the opportunity of welcoming um member Rothchild to the board and returning members Owen and Lopez to the board um thank you for stepping up to the plate hopefully it's a good year or in your case two or four years that um you can serve on the board but welcome welcome back to the board and back for the board the only thing I I'll mention that I did do over the break was um I did attend a half day seminar on um new board members orientation um it's surprising what you can learn even after a couple of years on the board of um the tricks and the things to do and the tricks and those I just encourage people to continually be educated and learn again and um visit those types of um seminars they are very useful and each person has a different tack a different view of how to run the board even down to um when people can speak and how they speak and that type of thing so it's it's interesting um that's all I have I'll move on to item four information item specifically 4 a classroom spot Spotlight all back SB Elementary School Dr Hassan [Applause] good evening to president Downing Dr lopan and governing board members tonight I will be presenting our classroom Spotlight I will be highlighting the depth and complexity framework being used to help our students think more critically the information I will be sharing with you tonight aligns to goal one and goal two of our strategic plan the core relation to goal one is a focus on 100% of our students at or above grade level and our gold standard signature programs for goal two this presentation will focus on elevating student Voice by implementing strategies that will help our students be critical thinkers my topic tonight connects to a portrait of a graduate it is in alignment with all of the attributes slec Elementary is the home to the gold standard signature program called the Maricopa accelerated program the accelerated program is currently in year three of implementation there will be an accelerated class for each grade level by the time we get to the 2728 school year while this program is only offered in one class per grade level up to second grade currently it was important for me as a leader to make sure that we find a way to bring High Lev of learning and thinking to all of our students every student can learn at high levels depth and complexity helps to increase the level of challenge for our students not only will our accelerated students be challenged cognitively but so will all of our students staff are currently being provided professional development on the depths and complexity framework we have currently had three PD sessions with an additional two trainings coming later this year The Depths and complexity framework provides teachers with tools to empower Learners to be independent thinkers and creative problem solvers it aims to promote deeper thinking and more complex ways for students by providing them ways to explore a topic from various perspectives the most recognizable part of the depths and complexity framework are the 11 elements represented by a set of icons or pictures that are used to guide student inquiry to my left you can see the 11 icons used to explore topics the 11 icons are divided into two types depth and complexity to look at something in depth we are thinking more deeply we think about the language being used questions we have Trends ethics details Big Ideas and rules when we think of something in more complex ways we think about topics with more than one point of view how things have changed over time and how things are connected the icons of depth and complexity are used to initiate a more advanced and extensive understanding of the subject matter for all of our Learners the icons are looked as a lens of learning that will help activate higher level thinking skills these iconic prompts for depths and complexity challenge Learners of all ages and are applicable to every subject area tonight with me I have Mrs gilam a fourth grade teacher at our school site who will be assisting me tonight you will observe students using the depth and complexity prompts to think more in depth about a non-fiction story that they have read called kids and business from our district adopted wonders curriculum with that I will go ahead and turn it over to Mrs gilam [Applause] good evening my name is Miss Gilliam today I'm going to show you how my students use depth and complexity icons to answer essential questions our class read a story about a girl named Haley Scott Haley had been wearing herin a since she was 18 months old Haley used to be embarrassed to wear her hearing aids but decided she wanted to be proud of them she started a business making hearing age harms my students read Haley story earlier and now we'll pair up to analyze the story an essential question using the depth and complexity icons okay Super Stallions are you ready let's start with our learning Target all right learning Target all right the first icon we're going to look at is language of the discipline so language of the discipline helps students understand vocabulary there could be phrases or terms that they're not familiar with so we always start with the language or vocabulary of our discipline we've already reviewed those in class so you'll see them here in our depth and complexity frame the next thing we're going to do is our essential question how did starting a business help Haley Scott okay students please stand up hand up pair up partner a begin so you'll notice that my um students share with their partner and then we always thank our partners for sharing B based on what the students shareed with each other I have some students that identified some details from the story I have some unanswered questions so these are things that they want to know more about and then I have some students here who have picked ethical points so this has to do with right and wrong being just and unjust fair and unfair Hale Haley Scott started a business making charms Haley has been wearing her hearing G since she was 18 months old Haley thought that other people thought that her hearing aids were weird Okay so those students just shared the details so I would have the details icon added to my frame and they would add those notes there I have one question I wonder who buys the charms and on answer question is are kids allowed to wear them to school are they against dress code I have an unanswered question I wonder how she comes up with her designs okay so those students had unanswered questions those are things that they want to know more about so I can add that to my depth and complexity frame and they could add those Det details there Haley wanted to be proud of your hearing how can Haley's charms help others so those are the ethical points that I was talking about I could add that to my frame and my students could list those there all right thank you so you guys can have a seat the big idea or central theme is our essential question so you can see all of the different icons that my students were able to use just from one question so now we're going to answer that question how did starting a business help Haley Scott everybody's ready to answer I'm going to call on Kora starting a business helped Haley Scott be proud of her hearing it so from there um students would then do some type of writing it could be a paragraph it could be a partner writing but they would use the frame to then answer the question these students chose these icons but somebody could have chose multiple perspectives they could have looked at it from different perspectives we could have looked at trends um how are the sales going do they sell more right before school starts or is it around the holiday times we could look at patterns we read a number of stories about kids who started businesses so what were the different patterns that we saw in those stories so at that time I'm going to hand it back over to Dr Hassan thank you for your timeing section [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you Miss Gillum gillium and our fourth grade students for that demonstration well this was just a snippet of how it could be used although this was U modeling the thinking that comes with using the icons students could take this topic as well and produce a thinking map such as a tree map to continue to write down their key ideas and details it's important for us to also use our non-fiction text so that we are preparing our students for high school and Beyond while we are in the beginning stages of implementation teachers and students are noticing positive results so some of the comments that we have received one example is from a second grade teacher who has said using depths and complexity has positively impacted my students since implementing it my students have been able to better identify uh patterns Big Ideas multip perspectives in a variety of subject areas it is also helping with their collaboration and being able to do that more efficiently in the words of a Fourth Grade Student unanswered questions is my all-time favorite because you get to ask questions about the story that hasn't been talked about yet teachers will continue their professional development on depths and complex and complexities as mentioned earlier we have two more sessions for this school year teachers have been asked to use the framework in two lessons prior to our next training they were asked to prepare a lesson connecting that to a grade level standard and using the depth and complexity framework in addition to bringing in uh doing their lesson they needed to bring in those samples as well as reflect on three questions the first question was how did they connect the depths and complexity prompts to the standards that they taught for the lesson the second question was how did the depths and complexity icons deepen their understanding of the standard and three what changes did they notice in their students ability to analyze compare and evaluate information in conclusion The Depths and complexity framework benefits students by promoting deeper knowledge retention creating problem solving and the ability to apply Concepts across different contexts depth is Simplicity is not a program but a way of teaching students how to think for themselves I look forward to elevating The Learning Experience of our students throughout the remainder of this school year using the tools that this framework offers and with that I'll take any questions Dr isan I have a couple um first off I do want to guys did great um that was really awesome to see um and I love the questions that you ask those are great questions I'd like to know the answers to those um so you said we have the accelerated program at s at Saddleback and it goes to second grade is this framework only being used in The Accelerated classrooms or is it being used throughout all grades in all classrooms through all grades and all classes um I wanted to provide that connection so that accelerat it wasn't just in one class per grade level but how can we bring those experience es to all of our students across the building and this is a way to do that that's awesome um what is the future plans uh for um continuing that accelerated learning learning classrooms um to the different grades so you said we go to second grade right now yes right now it's in second grade and then each year until the 27 28 school year then we add in additional grade level so next year we'll do third grade and then we continue on to fourth and fifth until it's across the building awesome thank you so much for sharing you're welcome good job [Applause] guys I'm just going to um probably reflect my age and say it's so nice to see um critical analytical thinking being applied um again show my age it's good to see group and teamwork being used and especially to show my age it's good to hear please and thank you been taught to the kids so thank you very much really good well done kids really good job thank [Applause] you did oh sorry um more of a um comment than a question so as someone who's in the workforce seen your students in the manner in which they were interacting on such a professional um level um literally just brought joy to my heart having actual conversations and engaging with each other complimenting each other for the questions and being able to say hey I had that same question found it very interesting and just a reminder that uh education never stops so congratulations to you Mrs gum and the [Applause] students I apologize member stick your thumb up or weave at me or something to say hey I got something to say I always try to speak last okay we might move on to 4B addressing growth and classroom needs for fiscal year 2025 to 2026 Mr Harmon all right thank you good evening president Downey members of the governing board and Dr lman the purpose of this presentation is is to consider plans to address growth and classroom needs for the 2526 fiscal year Strate strategic planning for growth and additional space aligns with all four goals of the marope Unified School District strategic plan when we review our projected growth from our latest demographic study we're expecting over 4% enrollment growth at just under 400 additional students overall we're positioned very well to handle the incoming enrollment with our current classroom inventory with a couple of exceptions this presentation will focus on the two elementary schools that may require additional space for next year uh first is Santa Cruz Elementary requires five new positions for growing enrollment in the 2526 school year we have worked with principal Reinhardt to evaluate and review her current classroom inventory and have identified three classrooms not assigned to home rooms that can be available for new positions next year that leaves us with a need for two additional classrooms at Santa Cruz we're currently reviewing all options including program placement classroom modifications and additional portable classrooms um the second is Santa Rosa Elementary um requires two new positions for growing enrollment again we've worked with principal Sanic to evaluate and review her current classroom inventory and have determined that all classrooms are assigned to home rooms and we have a need for two additional classrooms at Santa Rosa next year we're currently reviewing all options again including uh program placements campus modifications and additional portable classrooms um sorry the addition of portable classrooms we're confident in our ability to address these needs uh for classrooms for the 26 25 26 school year as a reminder next year is our last year before we open the sarento school and opening that school will provide some wiggle room as we wait for State funding for our next school short and sweet I'll be happy to entertain any questions you may have Mr Harmon does Santa Rosa already have a a portable building Santa Rosa does not so that would be new that's correct um and then we utilize two at Santa Cruz we currently have two buildings or four classrooms at Santa Cruz yes by putting in said will that affect our funding for the next school that we build like as far as the amount of kids will we still show that growth for that next amount of funding to come in in like two two years right two more years uh yes okay yeah two or three years um it will not affect our funding okay um the state's formula includes what they call a leeway of locally funded space so they do allow a certain number of square footage that we can construct before it impacts our formula that qualifies us for additional space or way below that formula so none of these uh proposed potential increases in portable classrooms will will impact that uh that qualifying of additional space for State funding and then what the what's the feedback been from the two sites and and the principles and the staff what's the feedback been when we talk about bringing in two portables next you know Port the the Portables that we um purchase and install are they brand new facilities and they're equipped to the same degree as um as our regular classrooms are with technology air conditioning Etc um they're they meet all the the minimum requirements uh and then some they have windows they're they're nice facilities um we um allow you know we we place we give principles that ownership of the programs that go in there the kind of the the traffic management that kind of stuff uh our facilities and uh team and our contractor that we work with with Mr Harmon um we partner very closely with the school principal so that they're in on the ground floor contributing to the location the proximity to bathrooms all you know they are the they are the ones who best know about all of those logistical features um we they do consume space you know that that's the other side of the coin is they consume space that is we we you know it it's just space that could have been previously playground or basketball courts um there's also the imposition of construction we living in Maricopa nobody knows that better than us you know that's an imposition as well um so it's it is a it is an example of a growing pain we have great staff great leadership who uh work with it and and um you know it it turns out to be a good situation because we can prioritize class size this way um this is is really what drives this conversation is our commitment to our Elementary class sizes what is our Target date to have a plan in place so that we're we're starting the school year with all of this uh for for the portable conversation that timeline is is tight um I've already had lots of meetings getting uh getting numbers to be ready for a board approval when and if we've satisfied all the options that we're identifying one of the options is portable so I need to be prepared for that if that is the decision that we that we make so I've already engaged with Core Construction who did the the previous Portables and an architect um a portable vendor so we're already um that Ball's already rolling so so uh they're confident that if that's the direction we need to go we'll we'll be able to hit our deadlines the start of the school year we're also in the process of looking at campus modifications or um you know other programs to see if there's other options so but we're we're working on that every day thank you Mr Haron first of all thank you Mr Harman for presenting um that presentation question regarding safety so with that can you explain a little bit about the location of the Portables and how students can remain safe even though it's a separate section um on on the grounds yeah that's a great question our Portables are placed within the envelope of the uh the perimeter fencing so so they it is uh is within the fence envelope and all the Portables are outfitted with a um a secure um with with secure doors and a electronic access um so the the kids can can come and go if a kid needs to use a restroom the the Portables are located right near a restroom Hub of the of the main building so you know many times they're closer of a walk than kids that might be further on in the internal hallways but they can take their bathroom pass Buzz themselves in and out and get into their buildings but that building is then locked for any anyone that was not authorized to enter the the Portables that that answer your question yes so just to restate for myself so in short no one can enter the Portables without first going through the secure front office that's correct okay thank you Mr Harmon is um I've been in uh when when I did my tour at Santa Cruz um I was in the gifted uh portable there very very nice I I was I was surprised uh at how how bright it is in there um how nice it was um and that was something that was started uh as I was exiting the board previously so seeing that kind of come full was was kind of kind of nice but um is um if we put Portables in um is there uh enough uh I'm trying to trying to phrase this correctly um we've done done it before obviously um Can can we get it done in in the city partner with us and getting uh getting those done on time so that's not going to be a a hindrance have you started engaging some of those conversations as well we're we're doing projects on a regular basis to require City permanating and approval we work closely with those teams starting this early um will give us uh plenty of lead time to work through the city were permitted Portables also require permitting through the state Housing Authority so we have kind of two levels of of Permitting approvals and that's that's really the critical timeline outside of constructing a new building um that that the team is well aware of so starting early just make sure that you know one week delay could mean you know a make or break on on a early July um deadline so we're we're looking closely at permitting and we're we have great Partners at the city and great relationships to to mitigate that gotcha um and then the other question is so we uh if we put Portables in let's say at um uh Santa Cruz which is very close to the sarento uh site um does that become kind of a a a one-year Band-Aid so to speak to to kind of that you know in two years now hey we've got open classrooms that now what are we do with do you follow me I do um we wouldn't propose to build a portable that was a a temporary one-year solution and we would if that was the case we may consider a lease a portable for for a year because it you know it would be much cheaper to to lease for for a year than to buy forever so that is a factor that we're looking at at both of those sites also because of our our long-term projections of growth even if it's temporary for now you know two or three years from now we're going to be in another cycle where we're waiting for approval for from the state so we're kind of always going to be two or three years away from a similar situation um that being said we don't want to build Portables if we don't have to and so we're we're looking at at all of our options gotcha my questions were asked an answer so thank you Mr Harmon thank you now move on to item five call call to the public uh least I don't have any cards so we'll skip item five I move on to item six consent agenda motion to approve second Lisa we have a motion to Second Shante Rothchild I Ben Owens I Karen Lopez I Patty kraay I Robert Downey I so moved we now move on to item seven action item specifically 7A discussion and possible approval of the Personnel schedule Mr Becket thank you president Downey members of the governing board Dr lman have the Personnel schedule in front of you tonight take any questions you have about the schedule thank you for all looking at me um I do not have any questions so thank you Mr Becket I did have a question but it was answered earlier uh so if there's no other comments or questions I'd like to make a motion that we approve the HR schedule second least we have a motion to Second shantee Rothchild I Ben Owens hi Karen Lopez hi Patty crae I Robert Downey I so move thank you Mr Becket now move on to item 7B approval to adjourn executive session the governing board may vote to convenience executive session pursuing to ARS 15843 B6 student suspensions and expulsions for discussion of student Discipline matters for student appeal a motion I'll second Lee we have a motion to Second Shan Rothchild hi Ben Owens hi Karen Lopez hi Patty crae hi Robert Downey hi so moved um you're welcome to stay we do have a couple of items after this but we're actually going to go into the back now for an executive session I have to say at this point in time I have no idea how long the executive session will actually take um but people are willing to stay around for um the the final two items on the agenda e e [Laughter] they may year nice I love it great job I the shoulder I'm like I got e e that's e e e a e e e you e e car way e e e spe for e e e by you for e for e great e for e e e okay it is least assume you're going to record this so it says just I do it but um at 7:46 we're now back in Open Session I move on to item ITC election of the governing board president to sered from January 2025 to January 2026 follows the same U format that I did last year which is they ask each board member um if they're interested and can an opportunity to say why they're interested and why they they should be on board president and then we'll go forward to a motion in a second okay just an order member Rothchild I'm sorry president can you repeat the question the question is we're on um item 7 C election to serve as board president from for the next basically this calendar year the rest of this calendar year so would you like to be board president no I would not okay hey we've had people come straight on and and want to be present member Owens uh no thank you president Downey member Lopez no thank you vice president CR president Downey I would like to um be president if my fellow board members uh feel that it's appropriate so I've served as um the vice president for over a year now and I've also in the past have served um as the president of the board and I would be honored if um my fellow board members had confidence in me to Le the board thank you thank you vice president c um the board has seen a lot of turnover in the last couple of months um we lost two long-term members who both had vast knowledge and experience of the M musd District at large and specifically with the musd governing board we have several very large projects initiatives that started last year 2024 and those those need to move forward quickly in 2025 I feel that continuity and consistency would be appropriate at this time for this year to that end I'm willing to serve as president for another year but just for one more year um and that's me um and I open it up to comments questions or a motion a second uh I would motion uh to nominate uh president Downey for another year another year I second that motion half to since I volunteer to do it um Le to have a motion in a second Shante [Music] Rothchild I Ben Owens I Carolyn Lopez no Patty crae Robert Downey I it's moose three to two um no juggling of seats at this point if there's a chance in present I go see um thank you board we now move on to item eight sorry 7D elect governing board vice president to serve from January 2025 to January 26 say it's a newly elected president again I will give each member an opportunity to say if they're interested vice president and um if so why they think it would be appropriate for that job for this calendar year member Ros child I am not interested member ens I found at this time president Downey thank you remember Lopez vice president cout oh you have the motion yeah you got a motion you need to speak under your mic motion for Patty crae to be the vice president for another year I'll second Lisa we have a motion second T rosch child hi Ben Owens hi Caren Lopez hi I Addie CRA I Robert Downey I so moved uh we now move on to item it specific e adjourn motion to adjourn second Lisa we have a motion to Second Shante Rothchild I Ben Owens hi car Lopez hi paty kraay hi Robert Downey I so moved we're now adjourned 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actually wait one second five four three two one good evening everybody and happy New Year thank you Mark um it is January 8th that just G work out something's turned up so we're working with a new system so um thank you for your patience figured that out thank you um I will start as I did last year reading our vision statement the ashin public school strives to be a model District that creates a culture of inclusivity for our diverse students and staff who feel safe and supported are empowered with the academic and social emotional skills to pursue their chosen path and embrace their roles as positive contributors to local and Global communities this meeting is being recorded by waca cable TV our uh plans this evening a call to order opening procedures agenda review and adoption um there will be time for public participation our reports and presentations include uh student presentations um yes uh warrant approval superintendent report assistant superintendent report um and then we will have second reading of policies approval of policies dja purchasing Authority DJ bidding requirements bhe use of electronic messaging by school committee members the consent agenda includes approval of gifts and donations Grant approval minutes from December 11th 2024 um and we will not be entering into executive um session this evening we're going to put that on hold we get some further information so I will take attendance uh this is a hybrid meeting some of us are here some of us are on um and just let me know if you're okay with the order of business this evening I'll start with our friends or online Tina here and yes Paul yes Ry yes Mark sure yes okay so um we are ready to start by asking if there's anybody from the public who wants to give any comment tonight I don't see anybody in the room and I don't see anybody online other than people who are on our agenda so I'm going to move right into um the agenda we'll start with the student presentations hi Britney toar you are you ready good how are you doing you know Another Day in Paradise um I think Cassie is in right she just signed in I might have um sent the wrong link unfortunately to Francine Cassie do you need me to give her a quick call I just sent her a message so I think she's switching over okay perfect you want me to pull up that presentation Brit yeah that'd be great okay so while we're waiting for everybody to join um cassia has obviously been doing a phenomenal job with the students in her program um you know spending as much time with them as possible peeking into the office signing in and out of um our space has been pretty awesome to hear all of the things that they've been doing day in and day out most recently uh cassia supported all of our young adults accessing public transportation and the public transportation um was awesome to our group and hook them up with a whole bunch of swag um and is really supportive of pretty much doing whatever they need to um to help them be successful oh hey Sophia how are you can you hear me yes I see maybe a little helper in the background hi Francy yes all right cassia if you want to go ahead and give your update great welcome everyone Thanks for um giving us some time to just give you a little update on some of the fun things we've been doing um so do you mind going to the next slide I don't you just tell me when to switch okay thanks Cas thanks Sophia do you see the screen right now you want to tell everyone where we go on Thursdays yes YMCA the the YMCA in Metro West and we've even done some weight lifting with the assist of weight machines as you can see in the bottom right corner Sophia is very flexible we've done some great stretching right um they have some amazing equipment there uh sopia what's one thing that you like to do when you're on your bike listen video listen to some videos listen to some music right they also have a couple machines that um are almost like an interactive video game so as you're pedaling on your bike you can play games and you kind of can steer and the faster you're going the faster your avatar goes so um people are very motivated to go to the YMCA we have not had a chance to um try the pool out or any classes yet but um we go for about an hour once a week so far and we're trying to carve out another time during during the week that we can get over there um but all three of our students are loving when we go to the YMCA so that's been great you want to go to the next slide we just need a second not there we go awesome sopia do you remember where we go for our classes mon hour movement one hour count that's right that's right so we have been participating on Tuesday Mornings um we were doing almost every other week last semester but it'll become weekly this um for the rest of this school year where we go and we meet up with other um young adults um mostly in transition programs with Westboro Holliston and hopkington and they have um adaptive classes where we kind of will do music for a few sessions and we move on to art for a few sessions and then it's like a movement dance um for other sessions and they are graciously allowing us to also use their space afterwards where we can have lunch with each each other and socialize uh when the weather is nice we we're eating outside um and also just taking walks around the campus there we also will sometimes pop over to hopton's transition um space and check things out and see what they're doing over there too so it's been a great way to connect with some other um peers which has been fun awesome all right we can go to the next one this is my favorite picture of Sophia um you want to talk about this Sophia relationship relationships yep and social skills yeah yes so we a lot of our friends that we have met during our hopkington arts class we meet up on Fridays and we have done all kinds of things um we did some apple picking and took a hay ride in the fall we just recently went bowling we had a Yankee Swap where everyone went and they purchased a gift and then we had a a little Yankee Swap afterwards um we had a friends giving where we went to Westboro Sugar Shack and everyone brought dishes that they made and we shared um so it's been really amazing a lot of times we also just meet up at parks and we'll bring a lunch in the nicer weather um and do some walking around and so it's kind of a mix of activities that will cost a little bit of money and then just free time as um free cost activities as well um one of the favorite um times that we've had was just going to the natic mall and meeting up there and kind of going into different groups and finding stores that we liked and talking about different things and looking at prices so um that's been great to keep building our connections with peers too so we can go on to the next one all right this is what we did today right Sophia Pantry the food pantry and on what [Music] ni that's right and we did a food drive at the middle school this November um everyone was phenomenal there was tons of donations uh when they came into our classroom all the launch students were checking the expiration dates which was a great skill um for everyday life to work on um but also very helpful for the food pantry to do that ahead of time and then we brought everything in we help to organize the shelves when we go in um we put food back onto the shelves and make sure that they're organized by expiration date um we also help fill orders so we'll get a shopping list and we have to go through the food pantry and collect the items for um pickup and um so that's it's been great we're working on kind of these living skills but also in a very helpful way for um Asin so that's been great we can move on to the next one do you remember what our first fundraiser was Sophia last month what were we doing wrapping wrapping right we we offered a service to the Middle School staff that if they wanted to bring in holiday gifts that they could for a small fee um have us wrap them and I have to say we did a very lovely job they were very professional um we had different wrapping papers so people had to work on customer service um money handling skills reading the order forms because um people would request certain color ribbons or or wrapping paper um and it was following multi-step tasks which was great um so we did that for about I think it ended up being about a week and a half and we raised $76 so it was a great first fundraiser um we're going to put that money back into the program so um it'll either go towards you know future fundraisers and and purchasing some materials to keep that going um or back into the program such as going grocery shopping to to cook meals in in the classroom so that was great so cool and then this was on Monday so yeah Britney gave a little um introduction about this the Metro West Regional Transit um Authority has been amazing they have um a travel safety program so one of their coordinators met us at the middle school um she planned our route for us and she helped kind of tell us what to do um so we were able to cut through the field and slag down bus number five over on Memorial Drive and this is a public um you know transportation and um they do have discounts for um young adults who fill out applications um for using their services and so it was a great first step to practicing um using public transportation which we took to their Hub over in Framingham and she gave us a great tour of their building um and so it's something that we're looking forward to hopefully trying to use more often it um there there's set bus routes that we can use to get to hopkington and also to a lot of different places right in Ashland that we already go to so over by Shaws and and restor so near a lot of the places that we have some internships so that has been our our fun so far for launch Sophia what do you think about waiting for that bus on Monday outside Prett Frozen yeah it was very cold but people did a great job waiting for the bus right Sophia yeah yeah and that was all we had for today was there anything you wanted to add Sophia that you've been enjoying at lunch recently was it so fun what's your part of cooking cooking nice we made we made some mini pizzas this week so far right sprinkling on that cheese she did over vacation say in the middle of vacation I missed my program nice we missed you too it felt it felt long it felt very long I'm sure we all enjoyed ourselves but we were so happy to see everyone back after those two weeks does anyone have any questions or comments about the launch program just it's just wonderful to see the skills you're you're giving kids the opportunity to develop world to hear what you do and so yeah we've been having a lot of fun but it's it's been so nice to be we are everywhere in that community so it's been great I was going to say I'm I'm really impressed with how much out in the community you are and the connections you're building for all the students I think that's so crucial and you guys are getting out so much in the community I'm curious what is your transportation look like how are you guys doing that so we are still using the town electric car um so we are able to have myself typically drive and then the three students are in the car um we do sometimes also have our other um support staff Miss Siara in the car with us but she is also um sometimes in her car it can kind of feel a little tight um in the back seat but um it's been working out well with charging and uh you know we're not going super far the long distances that we're going maybe is is about 25 minutes so we're always fully charged and able to make it back well well done it sounds like you guys are doing a great job thank you it's been great and thank you so much for coming and telling us about all the wonderful things coming out of the launch program sounds amazing thank you Sophia for all the information I hope you're enjoying everything and we look forward to hearing more from you guys thanks for having us have a good night everybody good night bye all right Paul do you have a warrant approval tonight yeah one sec between December 12th 2024 and January 11th 2025 although that's interesting it dates dates in the future but um I Paul Kendall authorized by my signature payables in the amount of 71 13,22 529 this includes general fund expenses of 353,000 revolving expenses of $347,500 expenses of $1,111 74 and meals tax expenses of $ 6226 thanks Paul do you have a report this yeah just quickly um again echoing abk's comments when Mike and I were walking around the schools uh the last few days days you know we certainly got feedback with regard to the length of the the vacation uh some certainly enjoyed it others were like couldn't wait to get back uh the kids were pretty funny at Warren uh as you walk around half and half we walked into a classroom and in one of the teachers had done a survey and and literally they like Mr Adams Mr Kyra look at the board it was split 50/50 saying oh we wanted more time or it was time to go back to scho it was pretty funny but uh a couple things one um just a reminder uh there'll be continued budget working um workshop on January 25th uh with school committee uh the the town is seeking an opportunity for us to come together as a the finance committee as well as the select board so that's out there just for I think for folks to understand this is a a long budget cycle this year uh we've been working hard at it um and the last thing is the next meeting I think it's important that that Mike and I do a presentation to the committee on the competency determination uh that relates to the mcast ballot to uh because there's certainly a lot of conversation uh in and around the Commonwealth uh as to what the roles of the school committee will be which is actually approving we have a policy uh with regard to our graduation requirements and just I think it's important that you understand what the next step is for the board but also for the district um and we're trying to maneuver through that right now uh with the state I think uh a presentation on the 22nd uh as to what really is changing and what did change with the ballot initiative or the ballot that was passed um it's every Community is struggling uh actually trying to figure out the right thing to do for their own Community but we must have uh compeny determination play which the mcast was that could I just ask perhaps I mean I know we'll talk about this at a agenda setting meeting yeah um but could you circulate against the current policy correct this is a point of reference for everybody to look at and absolutely Mark yep that's all I have thanks Jim Mike did you have anything toight we can't hear you oh Jim do you yeah I was trying I was just trying to unmute sorry about that okay yeah um so we had a fantastic educator evaluation committee meeting today just uh just wanted to point out the the work that that group is doing to be looking at the current rubric that we're utilizing and comparing it to the Desy model rubric that was recently put out um they spent some time looking at Standard 1 a and standard 1B and trying to determine if we want to move away from our current rubric and move towards the desie model rubric or are we going to be morphing the two to create something that is is um taking the best of both of what have what we have to offer and I'm just really really pleased with the rich discussion that we're having with the uh various Educators that are in the room there's you know some teachers some some service providers counselors and some administrators and just I just think it's just an excellent excellent group so wanted you to know how hard they're working uh open Architects is coming to meet with our administrative team on the 12th to introduce uh the next portion of that program which is called the student companion and that's going to be where we're going to now house all of our mtss um the tiered system of support intervention information for all of our students so as we talk about making those next steps towards um uh providing each student with personalized plans or intervention plans uh this is going to be a major piece to that puzzle so I'm really excited about what's going to be presented uh they have taken our entire dcap and bcap document and they have put it into the open architect system where we can simply utilize a drop-down menu and to choose different interventions that are being accessed by all students to put those in and they're going to be showing our our administrative Team how to utilize that and then get some feedback to make sure it's going to be um purposeful and meaningful for all of our staff members other than that our midyear win uh our midyear assessment window is open for I ready so all of our K to8 students will be getting their winter Assessments in uh Ela and math that is all I have for today thanks Mika okay moving on to the next section policies this is the second read so unless anybody develops some concerns uh since our last meeting um we should be set to vote on these policies this evening to certainly raise any concerns that you might have first one is the dja purchasing Authority any other comments or concerns or topics for discussion before we vote we have motion purchasing as would you guys hear that at home no okay I have my mic on uh again I move to approve policy dja purchasing Authority as presented second all in favor Marcy I Mark hi Tina I Paul I and I and next up is DJ bidding requirements did anybody have anything to add to that discussion do we have a motion to approve DJ bidding requirements move to approve policy DJ bidding requirements as presented second all in favor Marcy I Mark I Tina I Paul I I for me and then finally the bhe use of electronic messaging by school committee members any other comments or discussion about that move to approve policy bhe use of electronic messaging by school committee members second all in favor Marcy I Mark hi Tina hi Paul hi I and next we move to the consent [Music] agenda is there anything anybody wants to say about anything on there other not I'll take a motion to approve the consent agenda move to approve the consent agenda second all in favor Marcy hi Mark hiina hi Paul hi I um and there's no need for the last item on our agenda we're going to postpone that until we have further information so oh sorry uh reports of school committee members I almost skipped your ability to tell me what you've been up to we'll start uh Paul anything you want to share No Tina you know I don't think there's anything since our last school committee meeting no AB um I got nothing except we do have midterms coming up soon and the high school and I know the middle school as well so not looking forward to that but also it's it's coming up and we got to be ready we gotta go right back into study mode right yep Marcy don't think have wow we're just getting back to work here I did attend the waren sight Council so so uh that was no two days ago uh anyhow all good there and that's it all right move to journ do we have a second second all in favor I I all right the meeting is short but it's over and thank you all for being here and we'll see you next time good night nighte
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h I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America stands indivisible order arms poost right before we sit down could we stand for just a moment to recognize our pright to president thank you very much [Music] [Applause] [Music] Lise want to do roll call pres Jerry pres here K here here Lauren here jie now we will have a scrip for of public participation the board welcomes public participation and ask that speakers please limit their comments to 3 minutes speakers may offer objective comments of school operations and programs that concern them the board will not permit any expression of personal complaints or defamatory comments about Board of Education Personnel students nor against any person connected with the de public school system thank you m did anyone want to speak before the board tonight move on down to C that I have the consent make a motion education approv consent the consent calendar 25-1 through 254 as recomended and the motion I hear second any question conc consent count any correction seeing none all in favor I hear I I have we have anyone education St good evening everyone happy New Year nice to see you all um you haven't seen me in a while and so I have three quick things to talk to you tonight about the main reason you haven't seen me in a while is because I want to give a personal compliment to our superintendent um I haven't needed to come here because we've been able to solve a lot of our issues and um things of concern without having to come to this this forum um she's been such a great communicator and I really just want to extend our appreciation for just being such a amazing communicator and even when we don't or we don't solve a problem we're working towards it so it's been a really positive few months I also brought a friend with me tonight um I'm here to introduce our new vice president of the teachers union Julian schaer Julian is a teacher at Denver high school he's been teaching for 10 years social studies and he was appointed to fill out Tom Ross's um vice president term for the remainder so we've got him for one more year and then we'll both be up for re-election um so I wanted to introduce you and give him a moment to just say hello to you hey uh really hon to have this position uh really look forward to working with everybody here I know uh you know our interest sorry we want what's best for our students in these schools I'm look forward toing we on that so Julian has um a deep background of advocacy and um working for for um social justice issues and some very important issues in community centered issues so his background is very deep so we're happy to have him on board and we know he's going to bring his enthusiasm and his excitement to our executive board team and that brings me to our number three issue for tonight which is the one I'm sure you're all been talking you've all been talking about which is our budget process that we will be joining in with you on that process for the next several months we just wanted to come to this forum and kind of let you all know that our intent is to really work with you on this process and to be um working in Partnership we think that's the best way to go about it so we want to join you at City Hall we want to join you at the capital for lobbying for money we want to join you in all those processes that will help our district um rather than come at it from you know us against them perspective we really think that it's if we team our efforts and we can bring a lot of people behind us if we work together and um get this get this done I know we have a big mission ahead of us opening a new school and I know the ask is great but we also know we really want to keep all of our very valuable assets our teaching staff in Danberry working for danber and working for our students so I just want to encourage us to keep that communication open in the next few months and please reach out to me with your questions and we happy to invite you to talk with us at our executive board or even come with us come and join us at one of our rep Council meetings if you like and the superintendent has made a great effort she's going to be coming and listening to some concerns of our members next speak which we're very happy and our members are excited about that thank you so much and again happy New Year right thank you Aaron and thank you for bringing the young man so that we can and thank you for those inspiring words 2025 is going to get off good okay thank you so now we have our student hello my name is AR West and I'm helle Board of Ed members cabinet and community members thank you for allowing me to represent and speak on behalf of the Alternative Center for Excellence our first point tonight is Melissa l in a journalism class we would like to invite you all to check out our first articles of the school year in the alternative times the alternative times will be access to a alternative times.com get on Twitter a times our second point is last night Ace held a midye parent teacher conf last night began as a whole group to communicate whole school goals and expectations as we hear about upcoming student opportunities and events parents and students were able to follow their students schedule meet individually teachers and talk about go setting progress and intervention strateg during the first week of the second semester the a stff students will hold a special a LGE gr with the goal of being with the goal being the announcements of our January Award winners as well as public recation and celebration of our January graduates our January graduates will remain part of the senior Google classroom in order to participate in senior activities in Spring as well as prepared to participate in June graduation ceremonies we are currently setting up interviews for the 21 students who visited a so they can begin attending at the start of semester 2 students are also still visiting this week and next week visitors at Ace are hosted by our a ambassadors our a ambassador program is led by danela Melissa Kia and Diana the postural alliance of Western Connecticut has awarded a grant to Brookfield Craft Center for a students to participate in two after school sessions each session will last the month Session One includes metal smithing jewelry making and nature print making this this session begins January 15 session two includes mxed glass making embroidery and sashiko stitching this session will begin on March 5th a special thanks to Anthony Helman for leading this effort transporting the students in the Ace van and participating in the sessions with the students thank you for allowing us to share what is going on with our a family and make be strong thank you before uh before you leave do is there anything special happening coming uptime soon for someone at the table I graduate the 24th of January congrat I'm AR's guidance teacher at a I wanted to come and and thank you so much for doing so many wonderful things at a being a leader and Ambassador and right futuree of you [Applause] thank so we move on down the agenda Community Relations Committee uh So currently our next meeting is scheduled for February 12th it's likely we're going to try and call a meeting before then but we are waiting um as everybody is to get information about uh the budget process before we move forward um we have a meeting scheduled for the end of February and um I've already reported on our meeting that we've already had thank you I just want to remind the chairpersons of our committee if you feel like you need an additional meeting please let me know before we go ahead and set it up with our legs on make sure that everybody is available but we can also have an additional meeting beside your regular meeting if you see okay excellent okay thank you finance yes fin policy our next policy meeting is sched for February 5th um if if it's possible we may try to get a meeting in in January but um and I are having conversations about that so um we just had our last sites meeting before this meeting sorry that it ran over a little bit um we had um went over a couple of action items that we'll be talking about during this particular meeting and also we went over a lot of list of repairs and things that have been done and are in the process of being done within the school district so a lot of lot of progress being made um we're in the process of finalizing our schedule of meetings for this year so that would to be thank you action Michelle education specifications Elsworth Avenue School Lo replacement motion that the Board of Education approv the educational specifications dated December 17th 17 2024 correction there for the Alworth Avenue School Report replacement as recommended by sites of facilities committee and in accordance with 25-5 Michelle made the motion I hear second any discussion concerning the motion see none all in favor could I hear I I any OPP motion so car action item B Teresa education specifications Hast toown Avenue elevator installation motion that the Board of Education approved the educational specifications dated December 17 2024 for the hwn Avenue of school elevator Edition as recommended by the sites and Facilities committee and in accordance with 25-6 motion made by Teresa I hear second J any um opposes motions I got I I couldn't see your face J I'm sorry okay motion made by Teresa second by jul any question concerning the motion no all in favor of the motion motion so care superintendent report hey good evening be with me I little cold so um I'd like to welcome tonight um Angela Smith Angela if you can come up to the table and I'll talk a little bit about why you're here tonight Angela is a wonderful teacher at the high school and we have some students and helpers in tow here this is wonderful um and you know as part of our strategic goal to help build continue to build our career Pathways um Angela has um begun an a program called Ed Rising it's a program that that the state of Connecticut is um supporting and we recently won some some Grant money to support it but I will let Angela tell you all about it but this goes in line with the development of our Academy Pathways and thank you for having me and my kind ofs of teammates here uh a couple of months ago at the beginning of the school year I had students that were interested in education but they just didn't have enough space in my classes so I'm teaching education and Child Development where we run our free school and we have our daycare at the school and there was so much and want to but there wasn't enough spaces for students and even if we expanded we still had te like students who were like I want to be a teacher but other curriculum is kind of buing that time and so with that need I was like there's got to be a way that we can help these kids we I know as somebody who's been in education for many years that our need for teachers is great and if we have students who want to become teachers and we have such a need especially in our district for Danberry to have such a diverse population have a lack of teachers when we have so many willing participants and good-hearted students that want to join this profession to kind of join with us and so we kind of I kind of came up with this idea started running it with a couple of students and said hey who's interested I had about eight students that messaged me and said hey you're interested we like to be leaders in this and help you build this and from there we kind of started this I think our very first meeting was right before homecoming and I have to see Dr casir in the gym as I was decorating and told her about it and had no idea that it was going to take off the way it has we did have an article published in theary news times last week and so it's been a great way to kind of get the word out we have about 40 student members who have been actively involved and as it started to grow kind of sought out some assistance with this because I knew like hey this is a great Endeavor but for us to be strong together in true D fashion we have to come together as a team and so Amy roic who is my counterpart who also teaches bir through 2 and the prerequisite courses in our Academy kind of sat down together and said hey this is something we can definitely make we both are passionate about education we want to see the changes and we want to make something amazing for our students and so I brought Miss bro along with me of talk about some of the things that she's worked with me hi everybody um so a little bit about the benefits of this club um and we have some slides that do support um some of the things we're talking about as well this is a nationally recognized organization if you think about something like NHS every high school has a National Honor Society this is something similar but there's chapters in many high schools and so there's a lot of recognition that comes with being a member of this club and so there are scholarship opportunities for our seniors um there are lots of networking abilities both in our local government and up to our national or our national government um and then the biggest thing that I want to kind of align with the benefits are um our conference and competitions that are coming up that there are so many opportunities to showcase the work that our students so much want to not only involve in our danburry schools but in schools throughout the country Country and this is an opportunity that will put them on a national stage to see truly all of their work and all of their innovative ideas um we really want this retention of danburry students becoming danburry teachers so making sure that you know the kids that are involved truly benefit from this club really matches well with our Academy um I'm the academy lead for our professional and public service so I work very closely um with our education track and so it's very fitting that you know Angela and I um are here to represent the incredible leaders that we have so I do want to um share the microphone with our two student Representatives so I'm going to give the mic to Sarah who's going to talk a little bit more about the involvement directly that the students are going to [Music] experience hello my name is Sarah I'm the president of Educators Rising club and I'm extremely honored to be here and talk with everyone today so um as a club we're extremely focused on helping develop stronger teachers within our own numbers but also giving back to the community that helped Inspire us to become Educators in the future so um one of the areas we're really focused on is we want to create connections with local schools in our area we had this idea that our members would adopt a school and we would hold um uh fundraising events in book and supply drives to kind of create that connection so that not only We are Becoming familiar with teachers and students in our area but also they're becoming um familiar with us and how we are teaching in our own environment um another one of our really big ideas are um parents nights out um so along the same lines we're really interested in kind of giving back to our community we understand that the parents in our community extremely hardworking and deserve a little bit of free time so um these would be opportunities where they could drop their kids off at DS for a small Fe and we could not only practice our own teaching techniques and mechanisms and learn um really important information but also we can kind of um create that ability to um give the parents a little bit of a break um another really big area we talk about is teacher appreciation um the staff in our area we have um had the opportunity to be taught by are so amazing and they are really the people that have inspired us to have our future careers in education so we really want to make sure that we're showing our um appreciation to them we're planning on doing um fun pot locks and banquets for teachers whenever there's professional development and they have to stay a little bit later so we understand how much hard work our teachers put it and then we also want to um orchestrate an a an event where students can send letters and notes to their teachers that they're grateful for so that not only us as a club is showing our appreciation but we kind of create that um feeling of appreciation for our entire school and then um I know kind of talked about our national conference a little bit but I really we're very very excited about it it's in Orlando Florida and um we're really excited about the opportunity to be able to not only go and learn new things but have the D Educators RIS educ Educators Rising sorry Representatives on that large scale and to meet people and Lear things um we do understand that that is a financial undertaking um but we have started doing some funding on our own and we have our um class Treasurer here to talk a little bit more about fundraising thank you hello my name is the this club so as Sarah said we have started our own funding with big sales and we plan on doing more fundraisers like around the community to ra M for our club um we do have the EST grant that is helping our club but we do need more for our conference and in order for us to travel to Florida we would need an estimation of $10,000 be gr for on keeping our fing now I wanted to bring these young students because I tell everybody if there's every day that you're questioning like why are we in education the state of education today come and spend 10 minutes in one of these meetings listen to these students these aren't my ideas that I'm kind of fed in mic we listen to these kids and we hear them part of my CL them go and observe teachers and they come back and they like hey we see issues and instead of saying oh there's a problem sitting down and complaining we a lot of people tend to get comfortable doing these kids are coming up with ideas how can we deal with cell phone policies how can we deal with teacher retention what do we do we don't have enough tutors we don't have enough interpreters how can we help teachers how can we provide this in the future and to see these kids come up with these ideas and see this need and want to get back to their Community not just kind of say oh well that's a problem somebody needs to fix it or they need more money these kids are wanting to do that even the money that we're trying to raise a lot of that comes because it's not just that we want to a conference but they're also raising money so we can do things because they want to show their appreciation and show the community how much they are important and that they are Valu and so it's a great honor to be able to work with these kids and so to let you see their amazing contributions to this club as well is just amazing so I also we have our daycare that our preschool program that works at Dan high school that will be starting at the End of This months so you know anyone with a 3 to 5year Old who is interested in a nursery school program please have no hesitation contacting me and get you information because these are two of the many amazing students that will be teaching these students and the work and effort that they put in to becoming the future teachers and to build students and we only population in D is is amazing we host a forum this is my second year of doing the program and last year I hosted a forum I was grateful to have several you come and I open the invitations to all of you on the board as well to come and talk to all of my students and club members about education what you see the need to be and how they can contribute currently we have nurses psychologists at the school therapist some of our admin Miss Kate bu is coming to speak on special day she spoke last year and the number students that came up after and said hey I want to be a special ed teacher now it's just amazing because that's a very hard to build area and when she spoke she lit a fire in several of these students several of them who are now in college majoring in special education and so Dr Casmir it was the day after she had been appointed and they hear the kids go Oh my God that was a superintendent she cared enough to come and talk to us and as buz she wrote a book like somebody in our town did this so it was amazing and so we've turned it into a full day event we have an author coming in talking about different aspects they can contribute and work in their competition skills as well as just become better Educators here so thank you again for the opportunity to share I want to thank all of you I don't there any questions but um thank you so much for coming tonight and you know the bureau chief of the state of in state of Connecticut is super excited that we have open up a chapter and there's a lot of scholarships attached to this for kids there's tremendous opportunity um I just I didn't mention a par professional um Loop to this that the goal is to get our own students certified to become par professionals to loop back in to work for our system it's also an area a shortage area so again you know fulfilling local need with some of the um wonderful things that the kids are going to be doing so thank you all for coming tonight thank you so much and St she spoke so eloquently sh important have question thank you thank you thank [Applause] you okay um the next update is about the magnet school so I have Dr in rockco here tonight um to help give us a little bit of an update I wanted to talk a little bit about some con that that that we have um before as you know last year we were on the corrective action plan um with the ratio and our numbers and um this year uh we were headed in a good direction we got a notice from the state um our mbers were slightly off from their numbers um and so they flaged us again we have since contacted them provided data that showed that we were in fact in compliance but we are marginally there and um you know we've been doing a lot of talking about how to increase the recruitment how to increase more exposure to the school um and so you know our our the principal that's there now has done a a tremendous job um in the last couple of months really pounding the street to go out to different um she's been to the board of bed Brookfield she's been to several places um she's reaching out in the community at sport sports events um but we're still having uh struggling to get a draw from the surrounding school districts and our participating districts so it is a bit of a problem um over time you know not only are we we losing up that immediate tuition dollars but the lack of enrollment could affect our magnet Grant and that's the grant that supports the staff that's there and so we're not trying to raise the red flag and alarm on that by any by any stretch but yeah but down the road you know once we've lost to kindergarten that now you have two you had three kindergartens now we're down to two that two rolls up to first grade now we're down to first grade and that pattern continues all the way through fifth grade um which leaves the school Under enrolled right now here we are bursting at seams uh with most of our other elementary schools so to have one of our um newest buildings um under enrolled or continue to potentially be under enrolled is is problematic so we've been meting um to try to brainstorm some different ideas and we'll continue to to bring some of those to you in the future um Dr can you give us a little bit of an update on sort of the numbers and where we're at any other information that you might have as permit sure so we do have again thank you um I do have the numbers currently for this year as Dr mentioned we did get FL by the state um they had our numbers at 76% de enrollment we cannot exceed 75% we discovered where there was just some coding errors um and those discrepancies were corrected so we'll be in contact with the state to rectify that and get our numbers back in alignment with them again they were just coding errors um and we corrected the system that caused the coding errors so that that should not happen again um we currently have 90 out of District students enrolled in adet school with um 237 students for a total of 327 overall um we have seen approximately 15 students leave the school this year which is always why we need we can't get right to that 75% because there is some fluidity um in the numbers and it just takes one out of District student to to leave to tip that percentage so we have to be very cautious about the enrollment and keeping it very tight um as we begin the enrollment process which we are in the process of now um the lottery opened on January which was this past Monday um as of the close of the day today we had there were 349 applicants receips and the majority of those 328 were G students um I am pleased that there were 21 out of District students Which is higher than what we had this time last year so um that's a positive uh for us I'm very optimistic about it we we are in our um people who have registered online for the lottery are again from our two districts that we have held waiting this on for the last several years um but they are at their maximum seats so we help have these waiting lists for them um but they are limiting the seats that they are allowing um so Dr casir had worked with one of those districts last year to get them to let additional students come um and work at a tuition agreement with them so that was we were able to increase that population of students by 10 which allowed us to bring gber students in so it was that really that negotiating that allowed us to get students entered this past year um we again we will lose about 15 students acting F uh fifth grade at the end of this school year from out of town so we will fill those 15 seats first um and then we'll go from there to fill the the remaining seats for M Town students the lottery will officially close on the 20th um but as we did last year we did keep it fluid end gate for out of town residents who wanted to apply um so we did continue to enroll out of town students because the school is under enrolled we have the capability of doing that and we want to increase our outt [Music] students um Dr um Mr Jackson has been doing a phenomenal job this year of of Outreach to community remember she has visited um daycare centers in surrounding towns she's met with the directors of those daycare centers she has had them distribute materials to the families who are attending at the daycare centers she is uh hosting open houses regularly at AIS she is attending the events at the Police Athletic League uh our Cal building here in town for that when hles multi- toown sports events and handing out materials at those events um Dr cig has worked again to produce a video for the school that's running on social media platforms that's done playing regularly um Facebook soon Facebook now YouTube soon YouTube soon YouTube soon um so we are in a full blast of recruitment um and I'm hopeful that we can reach more towns and and bring it home in bring moment up again thank you I'm just going to add one one thing to that we started to have some conversations around the need for recruitment in general in the in the school system teachers the maget programs lotteries um so you know when we start to talk about the budget um you'll see some some requests in there for um some dedicated U recruitment efforts it it's wonderful that the principal is out doing all of those things but it's also quite a lot and we just we need some Focus effort so that we can keep the magnet program uh right where it is and and maximized thank you any question from board members thank you good night thank you guys okay the uh School building committee this is it's just a notification that we have an there's an ad hoc committee committee for that the city um the city of Danbury that uh will be attending as uh part of that um adoc committee on January 13th at City Hall you know we are uh last year we started during the budget season this kind of came about as during the budget process where we talked about the conditions of the schools the needs that we have for um all kinds of things um facilities came up quite a bit and during that and so there was um healthy conversation about the need to do something more than just meet you know have a budget presentation talk talk about it get aggravated once once a year and then go back to go back to our boxes so um there was a nice Reach Out across across the aisle to um collaborate and to build a uh a Way Forward um so the ad hoc committee is designed to come up with a plan um to address some of the school facilities issues and other issues related to some of our shared maintenance and and problems that we've had in the past so there was a good meeting in uh July that kicked off that uh seems promising in our next meeting um where I hope you know more substantive conversation about about our needs and really helping the school system to have modernized learning facilities um and to partner with the city um to get that done over over not just the short term but also the long the long call so that is the the 13th and I look forward to to attending that um budget timeline I'm start to run out of voice in a second so quick I'm going to turn over to you like we in a second um I did provide um an update to the board but um we'll have a u an initial budget overview presentation to the finance committee on 115 we're hoping to do a budget workshop with the board on 121 we would love to get the budget adopted by 122 but that's a fa yes that's very tight um but we have a lot of back updates in between that we could of so we're trying to we're going to try to uh aim to that goal and then the budget is due to the mayor's office on June 13 so we're going to you know hopefully we will the next month or so be very kind of tight and hectic um in between all of that 122 I think is going to you know we originally put the dates out that was our hope but I think we're going to have some some time to that we're going to need for the workshop but um we have a backup hold on our calendar for 29 for another budget Workshop if needed so you continue to need to dialogue around that um we can do that we can also call a special meeting then um to adopt prior 213 if you want so it's flexible at this point but our our goal posts were 115 for the finance committee 121 for the workshop the target was 122 for the budget adoption and 213 for the budget due to the mayor's office we have a lot of work to do in between all that so um I my talk a little bit about some of the tremendous work happening in the background we're trying to build a budget that it's a little bit different so that's um very detailed and um will help us make better projections in the future and there's a lot of movement happening behind the scenes and Mike is responsible for that before I kick it over to you I just want to congratulate you again I don't know if the board knows but um Mike has a new addition to his family girl um just not too long ago so it's been a very busy person so pick it over to you thank you um yeah so our timeline comparatively to last year uh it looks a little compressed um but um our goal in in this budget process was to produce a budget um that you know comparatively to previous years um is is airtight um to provide a budget by location which is something that really hasn't been done before our system had the ability to do it but it wasn't done um one of the grants that we submitted for uh this year required actually us to submit the the budget by location which is something new and I think that that's probably something that's going to continue um probably in other grants so we want to get ahead of that and start that this year um as well as Carri I know that you had meetings with the state and you look very often at the cost per location and it looked like the numbers might have been skewed a little bit um and so what I did is I downloaded all the data for for the past few years and put together a bilocation budget according to the budget policy so we have the 24 um budget and actual as well as the 25 budget and actual where we stand um and the the great thing about that is not only were we able to do it by budget but we now have identified the the folks that are in charge of those areas right those we call them DS um but those locations and that afforded us the opportunity to get something that we've never had before and that's ground level intelligence so it's it's working with the site leaders understanding what their needs and their wants are uh it's not just a budget well that's what we budgeted last year that that's not good enough right we wanted a detailed comprehensive budget delivered to you especially because the timeline is going to be so short thank you and I just want to you know the we I would have hoped to have something to you already but again the the movement behind the scenes in the back end of our financial system there's been a lot a lot of movement and cleanup and when I say cleanup it's it's really just alignment between all of our systems that needed to happen um and I and um it's a lot of work so I just want to thank you and your team and it kind of came in a time of making a decision on to go into to utilize this go to this direction um at the same time as all the Audits and and the things that were kind of really taxing the office so I just want to say thank you um and we look forward and I know the board will look forward to seeing uh what that what that looks like and the budget by location it's important for me for us for you for the city too to understand kind of how resources certain resources impact certain schools certain buildings by number by need you know why is one school have um a higher number you know that the enrollment uh looks a certain way looks similar is it because of the population that's in the school and it's really it tells a story when you when you build a budget um by a location and it helps to clarify um and helps people like me and and and Department Le to plan for the needs of the school but also to communicate what's going on and so um it's it's going to be I think important for us moving forward it's not certainly a cutting image idea anywhere else but certainly for here it's I think it's going to be very helpful so thank you for all your work on them yeah thank you and and um we have all the uh excited to say we have all the work papers behind the numbers so we know exactly what is in this is by line item as well we know exactly what is in each line item and then the good thing about that is going forward into fiscal year 26 we can do things like have a very analysis so if we are a little bit off the budget we'll know exactly why down to the the very long item so um it's exciting yeah thank you question okay zip right along here thank you Mike um the last couple ones are are relatively quick um I think I I did email the the board but I'm going to be starting a little bit of a superintendent video series and that's really just a fancy way to say we're going to get a YouTube video is going um to start sharing some of the good news that's happening uh across the district so we'll do a leadership series and we'll do a teacher series an educator Series so we're celebrating um any Innovation that's happening good practice good work um and certainly when we have things to celebrate that make sure that we're communicating those widely um and and maybe combat some of the negative press out in the paper sometimes that we that we get there's so many good things that do happen here there's a lot of people that are working very hard so it's it's nice to kind of stop for a moment talk to those folks and make sure that's communicated widely across the community um so that'll be starting up in in February um the next item is the Board of Education superintendent staff survey so um we had a great conversation about the need to survey staff to get a sense about what's going on with climate and um you know the board um is very interested in climate very interested in what the needs are of the teachers and the staff and and the administrators um and as a team we develop some questions together um and thank you Al kind of got a spark with some questions that that he had KN and the team refin those so we'll be sending that out from the school system on the 13th of January that we'll go to all the educational staff and we look forward to seeing what that is and the questions are along the lines of um understanding what our strengths are areas that we need to improve some of the budget priorities and um you know things that we can do to get better so it's really about Improvement um so a forun that we'll be sending I'll be sending a a budget um questioner to the community to the parents see what their priorities are you've done that in the past so that'll go out think about a week later not to confuse folks for the parents for the teachers who are also parents so we'll try to separate that out a little bit and then the last item is um the calendar revision so uh some brought to our attention that R sh's been off rash sh starts on the evening of September 20 2 and the 25 26 um and so we have that day indicated but really the day that's of acknowledgement is the next day in the 23rd um once we put that calendar in front of of cabinet and started talking about some other changes um that we want to take take to a second past that um around some of the holidays and do a second review and everybody always scrutinizes that first calendar pretty pretty intensely because that's the first one that's going to came out two years out now we're looking a little bit more at that 25 26 so give that another pass and we'll be coming back to the board with some some suggestions to consider and um I lied I did say that was the last one I didn't want to mention it didn't make it for the cut on the uh on the agenda but the power school breach and did send out some notifications on that um I don't think it's a super critical breach that anyone has to wor about there's no sensitive information by sensitive I mean Social Security information and things like that which is always the one that people worry about um and so just for anybody out there didn't know what happened uh we were notified uh that one of our our venders of our student support for student information system that under Power School were breached we were not breached through G book school system the or company Power School uh was breached in one of their portals um and they accessed uh whoever it was accessed what we call tables inside the system and the tables have some information about the users and um it was a very limited section that was accessed and we don't load um Ultra sensitive information in there it's kind of the basics uh which were sent out and identified in in the letter that was sent out so um we're working with them we learn more about the nature of it if something comes more than what we' learned today we're certainly going to notify the staff and the community um and any next steps that we might have to take um but that's all we have for now just want to make sure that information out to everybody as quickly as possible how do we change the password so on power school if you're a power school user um there's a you go to the user profile and it just says change password and actually in the breach they no they did not access the password so technically the passwords were not accessed but you should change that anyways if you have a power I just want to make sure that when we send out the survey that nom it is anonymous not even collecting information by level you know teacher or administrator so it'll be pretty generic I know that that I know the district that I work in uh you know the board of education did that that's where I came up the idea and they did make some changes in you know the process of hearing all the staff and just not Educators but you know the custodians the maintenance people and all that we want to hear I mean for myself and I think the board feels the same way is we want to see uh we want to we know there's some concerns up there um and I think collectively if we put all these concerns together I think the board can come up uh with some sub recommendations and policy changes if it's if it needs to be done and so we know that a lot of it is going to be U funded directed so we're going to have to work with the city to make sure that we we get our stuff but I think I look forward to hearing back feedback from from the staff see out there thank you the 13th January 13th you expect back well we'll give it a we'll give it a couple days we'll give folks to a chance to reply so probably about a week and then we'll take yeah we'll take a look at it when it comes back sh with the board it's going to have to be it's pretty open-ended um so it'll have to be cified really for patterns and Mees take take a little bit work um my comment is a very brief board chair I I had I had a list of eight but you know I've cut it down we'll talk about that at the next meeting okay since this started off such a good positive way in 202 first of all I want to thank Al for bringing the survey to the board and I want to thank thank the board members that participated and in giv their suggestions and those that didn't you know you read up and then you decided that okay that was part of my por I was going to ask to so I want to thank you a for bringing that to us and we finally finally got it out so we're going to get it out on the 13th okay so that's one achievement that the board did last year okay the second thing that we did and at the next meeting is we going to make a motion to implement our board goals that we develop as a book so now you got the paper and you don't have it with you call Carol so you can read it good and we discuss it at our next board meeting and accept those go okay lastly I know that we are going to work together good as we did the previous year no matter if we don't understand one another we talk it out and we worked together last year to do several things and I'm looking forward to working together with you all again so on top of that I have nothing else to say I make a motion to adjourn okay I am second
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half% again we're going to know what that really is in February for next year uh you see that's lower than any of the previous year values going way back and so with that the 10year average up top in that far right box for 2526 in the red the bottom one 10e average is 10.6% growth in your tax base related to property tax collections uh if you look at the net full cash assess value again what's really happening in the economy in this District you've been growing at over 10 years 177% growth on average so again the the Red Bar because I want to come back to this when I show you bonding capacity I'm going to be referring to the Blue Bar net full cash and the Red Bar will be for taxes first uh here's a 10-year look back of your property tax rates in the district for the last 10 years the Orange is your primary tax rate again for general fund um spending and you can see how that's looked over the past 10 years what I'm going to focus on is the blue uh that's your secondary tax rate you don't have an override in place the last one you had it looks like was in May of 2007 and it ended in 20134 that's down below history of overrides but the blue the blue uh part of portion of the bar is your bond tax rate you'll see 10 years ago uh was around a dollar uh it probably came down a little bit because your assessed values grew and then you see how it jumped up in 1718 that's because you had a bond election in 2016 and when the voters decided to take on bonds to fund important projects schools and buses and everything else they they approved a tax increase in your in your District boundaries it went up to a161 uh to set around a160 to1 62 for about three years there from 1718 to 192 20 as we sold those bonds down so you asked the voters for a certain amount and then we took down smaller chunks over three or four years as your all those Bonds were sold and and then spent on projects you had no more bonds to sell now as your values grow you can see how your bond tax rate has come down off of that from a162 high down to where we are today around a19 do10 you can see last year was a buck 25 the year before was a142 so in the last five years taxpayers have been paying anywhere between A110 and a155 for the bonds and because your assess values have been climbing so greatly and again largely because of new home growth right not just in uh Market values of your current homes property tax values going up in your current homes but new home growth those you'll see tax rates have been coming down considerably so we're going to show you a scenario uh actually three scenarios for bonds a 40 60 and 80 I believe million dollar scenario all where we can structure in such a way where we keep it at a dollar n or lower where where current taxpayer where taxpayers are currently paying on the on their bonds at a buck n110 there and so I'll show you that that math here shortly before I get to that this is just what you have outstanding in bonds um from the 2016 election you see what what the second column School Improvement bonds that was series a from your 2016 election we sold Bonds in 17 came back in 18 and then came back in 19 to sell the rest of your bonds from that from that election and the First Column is a refinancing we refinance debt when it makes sense kind of like refinancing your home mortgage when interest rates go low we refinance old debt at higher rates with new debt at lower rates to save taxpayer dollars and so we refinanced previous year debt at lower rates at that time uh all this to say is you have a principal and an interest rate here but here is your debt service Debt Service is like your mortgage payment principal plus interest the principal is the blue the interest is the red and you can see that the next uh you're almost finished at 2425 you'll have that paid off on July one so you have two more years or just over four million bucks and then it drops down considerably to about 3 million and then below 3 million for many years it's it's here where we can structure any new Bond issues uh in such a way where we don't really need to increase it too much over the current $4 million range or we're able to keep your tax rate constant if that if you CH if you have Capital needs and you ask to voters to vote it in and they approve it and we sell debt we can layer in in such a way where we're not increasing the uh the debt over the current estimated tax rate of a dollar1 doll9 and and before I get to that that page here's how we calculate your bonding capacity um that First Column there that says current if you could borrow today you can't borrow today because you don't have voter Authority but if you could the statutory formula is right here in that current uh column it's 20% of that blue bar from the first slide $779 million and you subtract out what you have in debt that you currently have that you have unpaid so far and so your bonding capacity today is 121 million in change but bonding capacity can grow over time uh so on 7125 we have that middle column you make a principal payment you pay off more debt as a district on every July one so your bonding capacity then grows to 24.6 million and then on 9125 it's actually the third Monday in August when all your levies all your tax rates are adopted and approved every August but I just put 91 um we have a project in there of 10% growth on that blue bar again if you get 20% it's going to be a lot higher here but right now we're projecting on 91 of 25 before a November 25 election about $140 million of bonding capacity that's not to say that you will ask the voters for that much I'm just showing you that's how we calculate bonding capacity for school distri districts all across the state your needs may be half of that I have District clients who have 40 million of bonding capacity and 80 million of needs and that's how jmes was over the past 20 years you never had enough bonding capacity so you would ask the voters for you know a certain amount but you could only sell smaller chunks so that let me go back to that real quick that's why we did these three sales 7 milon 380 that middle that second column there in 17 that's all you could sell you were capped at your bonding capacity limit back then and then we came back a year later based on growth in your assessed value all the new homes sold 14 more million of your election and then final finally in 19 as your tax base grew we sold the final amount and that's how a lot of districts are but in your case if your needs are less than 140 million you can sell all of it at once I'm not suggesting you do because you may want to spread it out based on your project needs and when you when when it's scheduled but you have $140 million of bonding capacity not to scare you because I don't think you'll be asking the voters for that much we did three uh scenarios for you here and this is the summary page there's a lot of detail Pages after this I'm not going to go through every one of those pages uh but all of it leads to this page so I'll I'll spend some time here the first scenario is in blue $40 million scenario if you ask the voters for 40 million and you sell the 40 million in two chunks $20 million each year 20 2026 so if you have no November of 25 election you'll probably sell the first Chunk in the spring of 26 come back two years later in 2028 to wrap up your your projects with another $20 million sale now in scenario two likewise 60 million we just add on a third Bond sale going out two more years to 2030 and then lastly in scenario three we add on one more Bond sale going out to 2032 um for another 20 million so it totals 40 scenario $60 million scenario $80 million scenario the total tax impact including your old debt is in the summary here of blue orange and red or pink or whatever that color is um you'll see in scenario one because you're not borrowing 80 million you're borrowing 40 we can keep your bond tax rate below that doll10 which is where it currently is to doll eight for about four years and then it'll start to go down if you ask the voters for 60 million and they approve we can expect the tax rates to look the dollar eight to go out a little bit longer see how it goes out about uh nine or 10 years maybe and then if you ask the voters for 80 million um that we can keep it at a doll eight but it would just go out uh looks like call it 15 years and then it'll start to go down after that so our goal at least for this evening was to just show you how you could uh ask again it depends on what your Capital needs are what your what you what you real and stick to your needs not your wants you know if you want to pass anything these days but if you have 60 million of real needs or 80 million of real needs we can structure it in such a way that keeps the tax rate the same going forward compare the same as the current year now that doesn't mean there isn't a tax impact every bond election has a tax impact it's just that we're layering it in in such a way where we're keeping it at or below the current year the tax impact is at the bottom there and so for uh the project we call it the projected average annual tax rate of additional bonds so just for the new $40 million election in blue it'd be a 42 Cent average tax impact over the life of the program um for the 60 million it'd be 56 cents and for the 80 million to be 69 cents what does that mean for the taxpayer for $100,000 tax value home which I know is low but it's it's good it's easy math you just move the decimal over two places it's $42 a year $56 a year or 69 bucks a year depending on what you ask the voters for and I'll show you that the math on that here here shortly but this is the basically the summary of three different Bond sizes and and we're structuring in such a way to keep that tax rate the same as what taxpayers are currently paying for bonds now this gets I apologize to the audience gets tougher to to read these slides as the uh as we put put more numbers on a page but this is the $40 million scenario which was the blue in the summary all we do is we project your assess value in column two and column three by what we're showing the growth projections in colum three of your tax base um and then in columns four and five that's your old debt service that's what you're currently paying so if you don't have an election you can expect your tax rates in column five to drop considerably at because your tax base is growing considerably so you see it be about doll eight and it's going to go down below a dollar it's going to go to 64 cents and that sounds great if you don't have needs but if you have needs of as a district um to fund projects to fixed roofs or whatever it is that the the state won't pay for you you have an you have an opportunity to layer in new debt without raising your tax rate not all the districts do like your last election you actually had to raise your tax rate most districts had to do that back then you actually had to lift your tax rate up now you don't we can structure it where you would not have a tax rate increase over the previous year so you can see this remember the scenar the $4 million scenario we did two Bond sales 20 and 20 that's column 6 through1 principal and interest estimates again we're estimating interest at 5% interest right now on bonds is around four so we hope to be conservative here and then hope hopefully you outperform this this is what we would put in a voter pamphlet um but that total tax rate including the old bonds the new bonds is in column 14 there's that dollar eight that I brought forward to the summary page that tax impact for just the new Bonds in blue is at the bottom of column 12 it's the average of all those years of the 40 million 41 Cent 42 cents rounded remember that number I'm going to go this is the footnotes I kind of covered most of that uh that 42 cents on a $100,000 tax value home uh the math behind that is you again you move the two deciel over two places for a home it's $41.98 a year or $33.50 a month now your average home value tax value not market value okay your average tax value is 190,000 right now and that goes up a little bit every year and you may say that's even low right compared to market value well there's a distortion right now remember it's that red bar that people are paying their taxes on not the blue one that red bar is restricted by formula and the way that works is if you have you know all the residents or commercial property anybody who owns land in the district if you have a home that you paid uh $400,000 to buy a home um and it's uh it grows 10% in market value year-over-year a tax value can only grow up to 5% tax value is capped at a 5% growth on a residential or business property and so that's why that red when you aggregate all the properties in the district that's why that red that on that first chart is so much lower than the blue the blue is unrestricted the red is restricted so what does that mean here that $190,000 tax value home right there that could be a $400,000 market value home so so could be a $450,000 home you know whatever the home is selling for in the market it could be in the 4450 it could be 350 to 450 let's call it the tax value is substantially lower and when you're talking about Bond tax rates or even override tax rates you really want to focus on the limited value because that's the tax value that's actually going to be used to to pay taxes and so on $190,000 home that's about 80 bucks a year or $666 a month we also and this is all information that would be reported in the voter pamphlet so that's scenario one scenario two is very similar except we add on a third Bond sale I don't need to take you through the rest of it it's a doll eight though we're keeping that total tax rate at do eight the key Point here is that that is 56 cents 56 a.
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half cents on a $100,000 home it's 56 bucks a year $471 a month and then the scenario 3 80 million we add on another Bond sale uh out in 2032 two it's still a doll eight it just goes out longer in column 16 uh the average tax impact at the bottom of column 14 is about 69 and so that is about $69 a year or $5.70 a month again that is the tax impact of those bonds but we are structuring in a way to keep the overall Bond tax rate basically the same or declining uh you're in a good position for us to to do that so that is related to bonds I don't know if I should pause or just I have a couple slides Ono overrides and a couple slides on daa overrides I would say pause for a second for questions but also I have a couple comments but I don't know if there's any questions that you guys have currently in Santan Valley there is an incorporation effort underway and along with that um there's a lot of concern about taxes and if this were to go to the voters at the same time as the incorporation effort how would the incorporation effort or vice versa affect one another or would it do you think what what would great question and I'm I would I would suggest you talk to an expert which would be a political consultant which we would talk we would be able to there's I call them the Pauls either Paul B or uh Paul Paul Ulan they they actually help strategize but they're they're they would be helping you decide if that's a pro or a con or if it's best to wait a year or not or not go the same year as that's going is that going here in November of 25 the corporation effort I believe that they're trying to get it on get on or not and so you guys know the reason we're even bringing uh Mike forward uh I'll be honest with you Julie and I went into the meeting not anticipating these numbers and so when we went out for an override back in 20 right before covid um uh the the political consultant and we have a quote we have a request for quotes out right now they're due on Friday uh but but we anticipated uh that we would have this type of capacity and therefore we wanted to make sure um I think Julie and I both after our Jaws hit the ground uh Mike was able to tell us what was going on a couple and that's why we decided to move forward with you a couple considerations or a consideration that's not factored in that is a positive is from what our understanding is is that the LG plant the one that's going to come on board which is scheduled to come on board in 26 there's an 18-month lag time before that um hits the rolls the tax rolls that is not calculated in here uh the cost of that one building there alone will have a tremendous positive impact on tax rates because it's going to take the assess valuation significantly higher and they're going to be one of the largest if not the largest um tax pair in our boundaries and so we don't know what that impact is so as as we show you 108 uh those numbers may change based on that we would figure on 18 months that if it comes in in 26 you're going to talk about mid 27 if my numbers are right that that's going to hit the tax rols and so we don't know what that impact is as LG continues to add to that plant depending on how long it takes for them to build that increase will continue to come into our District we will be a property Rich District uh most if you're not aware of how uh the budgets M Equalization formula is done in the state what's done is everybody's equalized and so there's some districts that can't raise enough taxes to pay for their needs and there's some other districts that raise more money than their needs are so the scotsdales of the world and so what happens is the excess money that's raised goes into the kitty and is distributed equally across the um state a district like Scottdale is called a non-state Aid District because they don't get any state aid because they raise enough taxes when LG gets done we will become a non-state we'll become a state aid District non-state Aid District we will not need state aid to pay off our our debt and so or to raise our taxes excuse me so there's a bunch of things that are happening um to Mike's Point about the Pauls that's what we will get in the February you'll have an agenda item that says here's the political consultant we put out this many requests we got this many quotes back we're now recommending you go with company X whoever that is and then sometime probably in um uh March possibly April they will go out and do a survey of our residents to see I can tell you right now based on the last time if it doesn't come back with uh 60% uh positive rating on a survey they're probably going to recommend you don't go out so that's a determining Factor but you got to take it one step at a time in terms of his talk about what are our needs uh Mr Anderson and the principes and and everybody at the district level have been looking at what are the needs of the district and we will put a committee together uh invitations will go out Friday uh and we'll have a series of three or or excuse me four or five meetings that we will review exactly what we believe our needs are at this time and then we would anticip ipate depending on what our needs are what does this political consultant tell us what does Mr Lali tell us from Ste that come around may we probably do a presentation in April or May and then come back in May or June with okay do you want to go out for a November election the answer may be no um but we have to kind of go through a series of steps one at a time to see how does it play out for you guys to make a make a decision um and so that's kind of the timeline line of where we're working on so we're working on multiple things I'm bringing you this so that you have an understanding of why we even decided to do this because a lot of people say why given some bonds that failed um in any number of Parts especially in East Valley and it's only because the diff differential is so great that we can hold the tax rate um I'm guessing if you ask a person would you would you approve a bond if your tax rate was increasing and then the second question is would you approve that same Bond if it didn't increase you might get a different answer and that's kind of what we're trying to figure out and again I may come back to you uh and something may come up and let's just say the the survey says 40% would support it well you're not going to see me come to you because we're not going to waste the time effort and energy when that's at low but if it comes in at plus 60 then then we would start that whole process other questions we'll move got a question Jason just thinking for most people I think you ask them we're looking to help the schools financially comes but we're not going to raise your taxes I think to most people is be like yeah let especially if we can say herey there's some things we're going to look to improve here's how we're going to grow oh and you're not raising my taxes so I think most people in issue will that being able to present it in that way will be truly helpful for people to be like yeah I think I would be I think I would approve that probably one of the things we'll just have to account for is the fact that 70% of the kids don't attend our system so if I have a child in the charter school do I approve that or not approve that based on the fact that I'm not necessarily going to get a potential benefit of it as compared to the reason we're in this building is because of the 16 Bond the reason we have a CPAC is because the 16 Bond well that was a Carro that was a carrot for the whole Community we probably won't have the same kind of carrot um this year doesn't mean they won't go for it but that'll be the over that'll be what we have to overcome certainly that'll be what you have to overcome although property values maintaining property vales you know having good schools in the district boundaries is always us um okay real quick I'm just not I'm not going to spend much time on overrides uh but there's two types there's the maintenance and operation override and the district additional assistance override the maintenance and operation override is for things like you know hiring new teachers or teacher raises uh new programs things of that nature anything related to your general fund and and so it allows you to override your current M budget by up to 15% which is your Revenue control limit 15% of your Revenue control limit so there that's a that's a formula if you will and so we have a calculation there on this slide 15% of your current uh Revenue control limit equates to just about 4,457 um in the first year there now uh m&o overrides are good for seven years it's just an annual payment there's no interest it's not like a bond it's not like you're paying you're borrowing anything here it's just an annual Levy and if you you can ask the voters for 15 the full 15% you can ask them for 10 you can ask them for eight you can ask them for a flat amount whatever you want but the max would be 15% of your Revenue control limit you ask them for the full 15 this is approximately how much you get each year we growing your budget a little bit and and growing your tax base a little bit to come up with estimated tax rates the estimated amounts you get about four and a half million a year and it grow you can see that now in year five is the last full year you would need to go out and ask the voters in year four or five to renew it to continue the override uh for the next seven years because if they don't pass it by year five you'll see in year six it goes down by a third and then in year seven it goes down by another third and then year eight you're at zero so these overrides were designed so that it didn't kill you it just didn't Lop off Cliff it phases down but if you want to keep it going at the current first of all passing one a new one is your most difficult challenge because it's a new tax rate increase it's a doll1 12 see that there in the middle column it's a doll 12 tax rate increase to ask the community for again important reasons you'd have to sell them on the reasons right but it is it is a complete tax increase it's just down the road what if you do get it P you're going to have to renew it every five years or so to keep it going that's a little bit easier so you hear about districts around the state that have overrides and they pass overrides relatively easily well they're really passing the continuous ones the new ones are tougher to pass so just as a heads up and we also calculate the the tax impact on an average home that's that oh well we have the average home there 210,000 we're growing that as well each year so it's about $237 a year the start then it grows a little bit will phase down as well so that's the M override the diser additional assistance override is a little different that's for capital projects you can do you can have a bond election or you can have a daa or you can do both I mean I wouldn't recommend you to both in this District some districts are able to do that but certainly out in East Valley it's probably one or the other but this is though it's not a bond you're not borrowing uh money there's no interest payment it's just an annual l just like your M up to 10% of your RCL so we have a calculation on that and they can be used for any Capital project um that you desire but it it's a seven year it's for seven years now unlike the M which phases down in years six and seven this doesn't phase down you get it for the full seven years but then it just goes away and so we just ran we estimated that roughly 10% of your Revenue control liit right around 3 million we we're ballparking about 3 million so we're just showing you a $3 million daa override and then the green box is a$2 million you got supps for two million or one million and you can see though that any any override ask including this dis conditional assistance override is a tax increase because you don't have one it's not like you're continuing it and so it' be a 75 76 Cent uh tax increase on 3 million 50 Cent 51 Cent on two million 25 cents on a on a million dollars so you can see the impact there um for daa overrides um and that would be my summary on overrides any questions related to those two if not oh I just have a sample capital projects list don't look at the tax impact this is for a different District but on $2 million you would have to show the voters what you intend to spend the money on for a daa override so out of that two million you know some would be in this case the district did technology and curriculum and some some money for the admin facility admin purposes technology so you're going to have to do a capital projects list like this for even Bond Bond elections or for anything Capital related so that's just a sample there and and that's what what we've done is is Bob's calculated by talking to everybody here's all the different things that we think we need and so whether you're doing the override or you're doing the bond part of the committee work would be to say so if these are all the things that we need do you as a committee believe there should be a recommendation to the board in favor of going out for a bond or a daa and what for and so if we say we have security or we say we have transportation or we say we have curriculum those are be the types of things and and we would have to say we're going to spend this much in curriculum or this much in in TR we're going to get 10 new buses or whatever it is and so for the voter and as well as you it's going to be a recommendation that says we believe we should go out for this much but just as importantly the committee is going to say and this is what we should spend it on so this is not like a blank check that if it's passed by the voters you get to do whatever you want with it whatever you decide to to take out to the to approve you have to spend it on that whether it's a daa override or Capital Bond so that's the committee's work is to try to get an idea that says we think you ought to do this or we think you ought to do that uh the final decision of the committee will be not made or the recommendation of the committee will be not made until after we get the political consultant back with the uh with the uh the survey data of the high efficacy voters in the district so so keep that in mind this presentation has many other pages except I'm not I only have one more slide for you and that's this one the rest of the pages is if you have trouble sleeping at night feel free to open it up and read it's all you want to know about bonds and overs um but anyway important dates Dr Wyman touched on this he did a great job talking about kind of your steps but all of it points to if you want to go forward calling for an El having an election resolution before the board in May or June it says here may through July in your county you can call for it I believe in July but I don't recomend that you have the Fourth of July week in there you have people on vacations it's tough to get boards I'm just and then on the back end of that if you wait till July then getting that voter pamphlet finished in like three weeks is very difficult so we recommend that districts call for it as late as first or second week of June maybe the third week Max latest um so work backwards from there and Dr Wyman kind of talked to you about all the steps that he's uh taking you through but it kind of follows this this timeline here and you could theoretically you call for an election today but what that does is is that places limitations on what can be said and not said um uh the issue you're trying to balance out in the old days you were sitting there saying well we're going to do this and November first Tuesday and November is going to be the election so we backtrack it here's what we got to do but now with early balloting and some of those kind of things you you've crunched that schedule so even if you call in May in effect with early balloting uh you may have the determination of it by October because most people turn back their early ballots within a week of receiving the early ballots and so so it's a little bit different of a of a of a system than maybe in I'm old enough to say the old days um but but that's a function of what we do too is trying to how how long do you take to if you decide to go out set up the pack and get out and communicate to people what you need to do so that so that becomes a real determinant but but until we get further on down the road you don't have to worry about that because if you don't ever go out it's a move point so we just trying to give you the information and then over the next few months we'll we'll give you more more and more information and then a final decision any other questions for me water from a firework or good okay thank you and thank you Mike appreciate you coming out and sharing all this with us like I say once he gave us that that piece that says we don't have to um we can keep the tax rate the same that's when that changed Julian mik's decision and we kind of accelerated some of the conversations had it been a different scenario like Mike was describing back in 16 um we might have not even pursued it past that so that just kind of gives you an idea what we're doing and why thank you all right that brings us 9.2 discussion and information on student achievement all right good evening Mr President Dr weinman board members illustrious colleagues and audience thanks for allowing me to um share some wonderful things with you tonight so we'll start with some data and then we have some information on grants and federal programs that we have going lately um let's see if I can make clicker work tonight there we go Okay so for assessment I um will let you kind of look through the the spreadsheets and the charts as we talk here and I'll give a little context to some of what we're seeing here so um what we have three times a year is called our practice test and so that is aligned to the aasa assessment at the end of the year it's designed to be a predictive assessment of potential um student achievement on that assessment at the end of the year so um we take it at the beginning at the middle and the end of the year and then um use some correlated bands to kind of get an idea of where our students might be performing so this is comparing this middle of the Year test to what we saw last year on the middle of the Year test um versus this year on the middle of the Year test so um typically in the past we see a little bit of a dip um in that middle of the Year assessment data for um a variety of reasons but um this year we're definitely seeing some some positive Trends in some grade levels we're seeing some some places that definitely still need some some attention um and so that is one way that we kind of looked at this information this is specific to the El test on these first few slides here the um assessment is just given in third through e8th grade also just kind of put that context there um then we looked at it compared to the beginning of the year assessment so um where students were performing at the beginning of the year to where they are performing now so like I said in past years we typically see a a dip most grade levels in this middle of the year um where you can see here we're seeing some positive growth in lots of um spaces there so that is definitely something we are looking to continue and then we look at the cohort data so we take a look at those students um from one year to the next so we match those students to say are they still growing from one year to the next um so when we look at that cohort data and those match students most of those cohorts are showing some progress um we definitely are continuing to look at that Middle School um 7th to 8th grade um area to see how we can make some improvements there um one of the things with this assessment that I will also make you aware of is that they just recently did a new correlative study to the aasa so they are going to be releasing new bands um new proficiency levels that our students um might fall into what we've been told so far is is that most of those bands have had a decrease um so um in in the requirement to reach that minimally proficient or proficient level so what that could look like for us um is that we would see an increase in students that are performing at what they would consider a uh predictive proficient level that's what we're waiting to see those new bands for specifically um but that is something that they have redone recently throughout the State of Arizona when we look at our math data math is definitely an area where we are still continuing to work um again this is comparing just that middle of the Year assessment so last year to this year and how our students are doing um our math adoption has been in effect now for just a couple of years and as you can see those grades that are at the lower end that I've started with it are starting to show some of that positive growth so looking to continue but definitely looking to focus on math um and see what what other things we need to be looking at when we look at our beginning of the year test to the middle of the Year test um similar things some small areas of growth fourth grade is definitely an area of concern that we are looking uh more deeply at currently and then this is again that cohort data so as you saw more with the ELA we had more of that positive growth happening with our cohorts this one is not um showing that currently so one of the things that we have begun to work on and I it's at another slide at the end but is really starting to analyze any and all factors that could be contributing to some of these things so we've look we're looking at our curriculum Unit maps we're looking at alignment of those to the asasa blueprints and to the assessment blueprints to see if we are missing something um making sure that we are in fact instructing students on the things that um they need to be instructed on and that those are aligned we are speaking with our instructional coaches about those tier one instructional pieces um and really working through the PLC process to continue to analyze um and find those areas that we can refine this year was the first year we implemented the a science practice test and so um we give that in the tested grades so that's Fifth eth and 11th so um you can see some positive growth there our 11th graders didn't take it at the beginning of the year they were taking the New Horizon assessment right around that same time um and so that's um something that we will look to see their growth with this next assessment and then we have the ACT Horizon assessment that is a new assessment for us this year as well that one is designed to be predictive of student performance on the act so the ACT is taken by 11th graders however we have all of our students participating at the high school in this assessment um in hopes that um It prepares them our ninth grade students also would take ACT Aspire so a similar assessment um but slight slightly different so you can see um the average score there at the end of last year for our 11th graders and then our predictive score in August they took it again in November and then they will take it again in February before um they take it uh in April some of these steps we kind of already talked about and I can I can let you look those over but really we're continuing to work through our PLC discussions talking with coaches with leaders um really trying to analyze what has been going on in our data where we need to make different decisions and how we can do that and I will pause and let you ask any questions surrounding that data that you might have on some of the cohort change where it's more dramatic for example the ELA practice test cohort comparison data 7th to 8th grade that was over 20% um do you have any kind of hint at what you might think it is can you elaborate on that a little bit more and then when will you be able to report back to us on some successes that you might have had or implemented yeah we can definitely report back at our next meeting um because this data happened right before the break we just started some of those anal analyzing conversations with some of our um coaching staff yesterday at their meeting and then our leadership team meets again next week and so some of those ongoing conversations will continue to happen but we have asked um our content Specialists to dive into those curriculum units those Blueprints and give us some information and let us know what what has happened there so we can definitely report back on any findings that we have there um this assessment is um a little bit unique in that all of the the pre- skills that we work on with our fast Bridge or those walk to intervention sometimes we see growth there faster than it shows up on this assessment this is um a very heavily comprehension based you kind of have to put all those skills together so I can definitely give you some more context on some of those other assessments and how that is looking and contributing to some of this as well if that would be um helpful for you also we can do that too thank you yeah absolutely back to that 20% I hopefully you're putting some emphasis in congratulating the teachers yes because the curriculum by itself does nothing it's the teachers the good teachers that put that bust their hump to get that going there so that would be up to the principles to be sure that they are congratulating those teachers because that's what they need that's the only way you're going to increase that we can get curriculum after curriculum but it's teachers that make this happen and they have to be recognized by their principles to know that's what's happening absolutely we definitely had a lot of those celebration conversations too when you really break down um the data into sites and C campuses and teachers you really find those pockets of Celebration and um I'm happy to share that information with you too if that's helpful we definitely have that also so um if you want to let Dr Wyman or or um Judy know what you want I'm happy to put it together for you absolutely oh yes I was gonna say that but I didn't want to steal Christine's Thunder um but I will I will steal it so um along the lines of celebrating teachers one of the things that we're looking to um um do differently for our March professional development day is have um our teachers present to one another the things that are going well in their classroom we notice that your data says this what are you doing tell your friends let's all get on board with those great practices so we have um our leaders our coaches out um inviting people personally but we've also put it out to every staff member to say is there something you want to share with your colleagues that that's going really well in your classroom um let's bring that forward so we're definitely looking to um do all of those things that you were just mentioning Mr Beach and and sharing those celebrations so we will transition to some federal programs information so we've recently received a few new grants one of the grants that we received is the K3 dyslexia design Grant um it's a $1,500 Grant and this aligns to the move on with reading program and what the the law says is that we have to have a dyslexia design at all of our schools that serve K3 students so in the past year we were able to U meet that requirement and get at least one person at every campus trained and um through the letters program is what we used this grant allows us additional funds to get another person trained at every site so um this grant um was awarded to us just before the break so I think our leaders this is some news for some of them too but we will be putting together a plan and asking them to give us that design so that um in the event of turnover in the event of anything happening we still have that person in place um and we can take advantage of the funds that are available to us um we have the ninth grade success Grant I'll just briefly touch on it and I will invite Dr gulsby to tell you a little more um earlier she told you it was $50,000 and I don't know if Dr GS be realizes it's $100,000 it's $50,000 per site so it's quite a um a wonderful opportunity for us um and for for those schools to um have that uh Grant it's a competitive Grant there are are certain requirements and the biggest one um to make you eligible is that you have to have less than an 85% graduation rate and so both of those sites qualified for that um there's some another criteria that goes in that gives you a priority rating and most of those we don't actually qualify for so the fact that we received this grant that it is competitive um is pretty exciting so Dr gouby will you come share with us Dr Wyman sent out an email and suggested that some of the schools that we might want to look at this and we grabbed a hold of it because that's something that we're Focus fed on at our school um part of the grant is that we're connecting with a School in Colorado it's called the colorado high school for success and they have actually worked with schools in the Phoenix Union district the Tempe Union district and they're focused on is how to build student achievement because they know that the ninth grade year is so important and when I talked to them about our grant I told them our whole school is important you know and it's hard to look at it and any skills that we can get for our nth grade kids we can apply and working with the Colorado school they have a data system they have action steps that they're taking they're focused on improving attendance and they're focused on building things that connect the schools back you know the kids back with school and focus on them owning their own learning so some of the steps that we're doing is we're going to um adopt a character strong tier 2 curriculum that we're going to be doing with our social emotional things for our kids kids and providing training for our staff for that we're doing a check and connect program where you actually set up a one-on One Mentor for students where you're calling them to find out why they're not at school and you're sitting down with them and finding out what will help them with learning more we're also meeting with the Colorado school that's going to Mentor my team on how to look at our kids and what's the best bang for our buck to get our kids um going and we're really focusing on data at every grade level and saying where are they at what do we need to get them to graduation and things along that line and then the third part of the grant was to create a connection between the eighth grade to the ninth grade so that we make sure that we cover that and involve our parents in presentations and doing more things with FAFSA and things like that that let our kids know that college especially with the wonderful Grant with CAC that our kids should move on to community College too if that's their plan and a big part of a lot of our kids want to do the technical skills and CAC is offering some amazing programs where the kids can go there and then step right into a job of significance for their desire and also for them to have a great living in life so we're really excited to have the grant it was just um you know like Yay money so and and the other part of it which I wanted to mention too is my staff volunteers we're there at 7 o'clock at night and people aren't getting paid so we're going to put some money into paying the teachers for their time when they're testing students at night because we have kids that work all day and they got to come in at s or 8 o'clock I have kids that graduate at 10 o'clock because I have crazy teachers that stay there and finish their tests so that the kid can cross the finish line so that's kind of what we're into and and we're looking they have programs in Colorado that we're going to look at and see how that transitions to us so thank you um so thank you Dr gby and I I will say um we we did the Grant in the 11th hour and and she was amazing in getting me all the data and the information that we needed for it so um she worked really hard and it is well deserved and the last thing we're going to highlight a little bit are some successes within our mckin vento um migrant programs um one of the things that you heard kind of mentioned earlier from uh Miss Pierce was our project bridge and so one of the things that we applied for last year was a homeless um Youth and education minig grant um it was a $5,000 Grant one of the things we noticed was that we had um a significant underidentification of our mckenny vento students um we know they're here we just weren't aware of who they were and so we wrote the grant um as a way to get some initial items for a community room a space that we could be um meeting with families helping them meet their physical needs but also some of those other community resource needs helping get their kids enrolled in school um just kind of have that place previous to that we were doing it Here There and Everywhere and we were storing things Here There and Everywhere and so really look to make um a bigger impact and and part of that comes as um this school year every one of our schools has been identified as Title One and so we know that with an increase in that identification our students that have needs are out there our families that have needs are out there and so we wanted to make sure that we were supporting those um and as they mentioned we have some wonderful ladies who are going to share with you about how that is working so far um we're excited to kind of launch this second half of the year as we were working to get everything set up so I snuck in a few extra pictures uh since this was posted um they finished organizing a lot of the room and so you can see um this was a pictures from our resource space so we have everything from um home needs hygiene needs food needs clothing shoes um our goal is that if the student or the family has the need it doesn't prevent them from coming to school so we want to um have that available to them and I will let the ladies speak um a little bit more in just a second and then um just some pictures for you here um Miss Thompson will will share with you that this is housed at Harmon but as we said it is a community resource for everyone and so as such uh Miss Thompson has organized involvement from every one of our schools in providing things um through their student councils for this so there's a few pictures here this one is from the high school uh these are the adorable friends at Ranch um who work so hard to collect some items um so I want me to keep going and then turn it over to you guys I can okay um and then we also have a second space so we have more of the the resource room space and then we have a second space that is really more of a community meeting room so this is actually um a migrant family event that was held right before the holidays um so the students were able and families were able to come in to do um some fun things together they they received some uh holiday support and Gifts um a lot of our our migrant students which Miss alfo will talk about um are working through a tutoring program um and it's virtual so they got to actually meet their tutor who was there in person so it was a really um fun event and it's wonderful for us to have that space and they'll be able to share more with how they use that space so ladies will you come up and share with us please um going back to our excuse me sorry Dr Wyman members of the board um going back to our mckin vinto numbers have increased significantly um last year we ended the year with about 90 students identified as n mckin vinto mckin vento are students that are considered homeless um lacking fixed regular or um adequate sh and so we're predicted to meet those numbers again this year um we one of the reasons that I feel like I advocated so um intensely for this for this resource room is because I was meeting parents in the front office and I didn't felt I didn't feel like it was very dignified so this resource room has allowed the capability for me to meet our families face to face um other than pH interviews meet them face to face we have internet connectivity uh Chromebooks were purchased with the grant as well and so meeting with the families I'm able to have a more um intense conversation to identify their needs and U making connections with Community um community supports I have reached out to the um to Cara which is our Community Action Agency here in panel County um we have a Community Action Agency and then Maricopa we have um a housing Hub so car would be our equivalent to the housing Hub and so making that connection has led me to understand more of the the process and help help coach our families we've been able to assist um families that are undergoing domestic violence and meeting with families the children have a safe place to play while mom is being coached and supported on her journey of finding those those supports that she needs for shelter um most importantly though I feel like this um having my migrant Ed families have a place to meet and um and like Jennifer said the the students got to meet their teacher for the first time and the students got to meet their besties that they have been communicating with in a virtual classroom for tutoring um again we we strive every day to meet the needs of all students so this is open to to the community and um you know it's they they can just call and we will'll open up the door and I'll I'll modify my schedule to help the families um but you know just having a safe place where families can meet with dignity was was the most important uh gift Jennifer help me with and getting resources um we're very appreciative of the The Dr Wyman was supportive and and we're very appreciative of the team everybody I'll hand it over to can can I ask you a question absolutely so my lens is I was a counselor for mckenny vento so in Mesa um but my question to you is so are you not identifying students at registration yes absolutely we are that's that's our our gatekeeping process our registers do a phenomenal job of identifying students but but being able to serve their needs after they're identified is a Paramount so that's why the resource room was so so helpful to us okay and so um do you cuz I just had this conversation with someone else in the community and I was saying you know I would love to donate clothes or you know something to do we even have that and so I was looking on the website and I I found a little bit but advertising that may be through our community and unfortunately I don't have any kids my kids graduated already from Colmes so so I don't have that connection but like something that I don't know I know it costs money but like little flyers or something and I can share with you what we've done but um before was just letting the community know hey we have this resource um and so if you'd like to give because I know I would I would love to donate and give to that to that resource and absolutely this is a this project is evolving and so I think that's what that's our next step is making sure that we're sharing this with the Community I plan to have an open house and so I have a pocket full of of people that have supported me and so have them together and then just share our resources of community leaders Church churches organizations food banks and then have invite the public to see what what we have to offer but yes that that is actually on our to-do list awesome thank you right for sure and it it's baby steps right I mean you you know so um but that is one of my passions and so I'm excited to hear that that you're doing that and that you know I would love to help in any way I can thank you so um I'll just piggy I'll start off with and piggyback on that um we will be uh this tus and I will be contacting the social workers and the counselors at each school and letting them know uh we were talking about creating the flyer um to get it out there um also it's a great uh tax donation that people can make in the community um too um as Miss Pier said earlier um that's one of my things that I love to do is go out into the communities and um if I could click back to the the majority of the food that you see there um came from different um Community um agencies um I've been been able to reach out to like Gold Canyon um RV um park right um the Vinland um salera at Johnson Ranch right and these um they're retirement communities and they love to help out so I take a board a foam board and um so for example at um for Thanksgiving um I made little leaves so it's a tree with leaves and I asked for three cans of corn um four cans of this and the residents would come take the leaf right and get it and bring it back and then I would come pick them up right so there's a lot of community um retirement communities that love to do that and Cana is really a big suppor of of us too right um and then there's some local businesses that I have um uru AO has did a a really great thing for us for teacher appreciation um last year um and so that is something that I think going out and trying to uh get the room started right and to have stuff in there and then along that we want to include our school right so um we I went to student councils um and ran um that's the little kids they did the hygiene drive and so they did a remarkable job on it and then the high school went way over and Beyond because I was just asking for um Sue socks and underwear um for their age um size and they included food in that so um there's a lot of togetherness with this right um and this is for families in in our whole Community um we saw the need of kids coming and their sandal have been stapled so many times that you could just could staple it again right or their shoes had so many holes in it that they couldn't really enjoy you know PE are I'm so hungry Miss Thompson um because I came to school late and I have any breakfast at home and so that's the need um for the project Bridge we named IT project Bridge because the bridge we're Bridging the Gap you know that the student has um we want to take the worry off of basic needs being met so the kids can come and be ready to academically grow and learn um so my role will be the food and clothing room and Mrs P's role will continue with the mckin vinto and the resources of helping families come in and get where they need to get um we appreciate your time um on this um and your support with this is there any questions that y'all have that you would like to ask us about the program um as opposed to a question more of um some hopefully helpful feedback um it I do agree that it would be great to see some flyers and other things out there and that would cost money um but social media is free and that would be a tremendous opportunity for our district um and the other schools to support you in this endeavor by sharing it on a regular basis on our social media um the other thing that I thought of as I was listening to you is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has a program called just serve and you can put opportunities on there there's several other schools in the area that have put their opportunities on there um I know the woman that runs that and she's been looking I'm familiar because I I am LDS I am very familiar with that yeah she's been looking for ways to connect with the school district as opposed to some of the charter schools she specifically wants to reach out to com's District so that's another thing um that I I think would be helpful for you to be sucessful do you have her contact information I'll be right on that yeah I can give it I can give it to you um and then the other thing is I know just from some of the meetings that I've attended and watched online there are lots of activities such as the uh comes High School trunk or treat where there was about 4,000 people in attendance that would be a great opportunity for you to have a tent or a booth there um and they could advertise in conjunction with you that you're accepting donations and things like that so good luck and thank you for everything you've keep them coming I I will my my email is t Thompson atoles I I welcome any any help any at all thank you so much so as we we mentioned we we are in the beginning soft launch stages and and those are all such amazing suggestions we'll continue to grow with um we have our community Cafe coming up where we're hoping to connect some more with some of those community members really take advantage of those opportunities but continue to look for ways to bring things to our families um by way of those physical needs by way of um our Volunteers in our community coming in and presenting on academics and how to support your kiddos at home or there's some parenting skills you need some support in let's bring someone in and do that let's facilitate the some of those things so really trying to meet those broad needs um and now we have a space to do it so we're really excited um to see where we can take it um these two ladies are amazing they're very humble they work very hard they care very deeply about our community um so I know this is going to take off and and continue to grow and be wonderful so if there are no further questions I will put the clicker down and let our next uh item happen thank you so much for your time this evening all right thank you that brings us 9 point two any questions or on student achievement no that was I mean I'm sorry on uh student enrollment that I sent you the report last week so if you have anything we more than happy to answer okay all right 9.4 this the first reading and this is this is just uh us bringing forward uh we're working with t telecommuting uh there is a uh a regulation and a exhibit that goes with it you're only responsible for the for the policy uh this has been done in conjunction with our attorney uh there is no just so you're aware there is no um either through asba or through uh the trust uh there is no telecommuting uh policy per se there's different districts that are working on things across the country but they don't have one so this would be our policy it would not be copyrighted uh please take a look at it if there are any particular questions you have in between now and and the February board meeting let me know um but otherwise we we'll come back in February for a uh approval but that's something that you're wanting to do yes this this is a recommendation to come through and so what will happen is we will bring forward the the telecommuting policy um for a second read in February uh if you approve that then we would put forward uh the next day I would share with you the um regulation the regulation's got all the details so whereas this is a two-pager the regulation I believe goes eight pages because it puts the meat on the bones of this is expectation this is who qualifies who doesn't qualify the exhibit is then the form that would be used uh that um a person who if they qualified would go ahead and fill out that form to say I would like to be considered for tele telecommuting I will tell you up front that obviously the telecommuting is not open to everybody bus driver can't telecommute you either got to drive the bus or not drive the bus and so that's kind of what the regulation starts to address which which people would even qualify and and what are the qualifications uh we have three different levels so so that would be presented to you guys I mean that would be part of the after the policies approved okay that brings us to Executive session so I'll take a motion to move to Executive session 10.1 and two which one the recommendation actions there so so what you would do is just make a recommendation and go into the executive session I would look the black part the part move to Executive session yeah pursuant to the two up in the black where it says pursuant to the to A1 uh 15 iight it's not good enough just read that top part of the black got it got it pursuant to as ar51 1841 and ARS 3843 10 0.03 a public body may go into executive session for discussion or consideration of personal matters in the pupil dis disciplinary proceedings student expulsion remission I second that motion all right have a first and a second all in favor all right we're going to pause for executive session for
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e e e [Applause] good evening everyone good evening everybody good evening that's right I do the same thing with them uh I want to welcome you all to this evening's concert of our orchestra band and Symphony Orchestra my name is Mr Jason price I'm the band director here and next to me here is Mrs conen trash our Orchestra our Orchestra director um before we begin uh we before we begin the program tonight we want to acknowledge the passing of one of our our former music colleagues Mr Blair hson wow now I'm shaking he taught ban and Orchestra at the high school before us from 1993 to 2021 and would later go on to teach at lore and then retire in 2023 he was recognized as EHS teacher of the year in 2013 and received the 2012 Grammy signature schools Enterprise award on behalf of Ying High School Blair was an accomplished musician himself and we loved working with him and playing alongside him whenever we had the opportunity aside from all of his accomplishments Clair was an extremely kind and warm person who cared deeply about his students and co-workers we thank him for his dedication to music program in ying and for making sure we have a music program to continue for many years to come so uh with that being said we like to dedicate this performance this evening to the memory of Mr D Blair Olen and I'm going to turn it over to Mrs TR to begin our program all right good evening um so again I'm Colleen TR I teach Orchestra at both fiser middle school and new high school um and like Mr Price said um we just really want to thank Mr Olen for everything he's done for our program it wouldn't be here without him so we have a lot to thank him for and we would like to dedicate tonight him um our first piece this evening is going to be um for the star of County down it's a collection of Irish folk songs um it starts off with like a slow introduction turns over into like an upbeat song that was like used to like s while you're traveling like a long journey the next song you hear is a slow ballad and this one is called for the star County down in this case um the star is a woman so it's like a love song for my star um and the third the final song is a really upbeat and fast jig or real like an upbeat Irish style um piece of music so we hope you enjoy [Music] for [Music] the [Music] the [Music] for [Music] l [Music] the [Music] for [Music] [Applause] thank you our next piece is called she will hang the night with stars um the title is a quote from an Oscar wild poem um and this piece was commissioned by and uh dedicated to um an orchestra director out in um Marquette Michigan uh Janice Peterson so her school commissioned it dedicated to it uh to her which is really nice um it's just a really beautiful and lyrical piece that will showcase the orchestra's ability to play um very lyrical um in a lyrical and expressive Style for [Music] h [Music] I [Music] h [Music] oh [Music] the [Music] the [Music] h [Music] you okay our next piece is going to feel much different um it is called lacra and it is uh lacra is a kind of Rhythm that you hear in Afro Cuban music um for example like salsa and lacra literally just means um the shell it's referred to playing the outside of the shell of a of a um timbal which we'll have back here with our percussionists um so this piece is challenges with like really moving rhythms challenging rhythms bow kind of stuff um for the upper strings and for all the strings and there's going to be like a brief shallow feature on this piece also features some of our percussionist from concert band um Eric green will Simon Lauren Harris and Justin trios um so thank you to them for joining us and rehearsing with us um and to Mr price for helping us make sure we had the percussion element for this piece okay so this is a lasas for [Music] e [Music] l [Music] e [Music] the [Music] the [Music] you [Applause] all right um the orchestra's final piece is going to be it's called Inno and it's an arrangement of winter from the Four Seasons By Baldi um you've heard this piece somewhere like on TV like in a commercial for something um it's used all the time and the composer um really wanted to succeeded in painting several like just images of winter so at first we hear like this kind of like cold harsh like shivering kind of sound like kind of like tonight and then in the middle of the piece you hear like the nice part of winter um it gets a little like Cozier kind of like warmer sounding in the middle then we get back to that like chilly kind of like literally the strings playing fast it's like supposed to be like the Shivering it's the cold outside so we hope you enjoy um winter from the Four Seasons in barau um after this we'll have a brief transition to bring out uh the concert band thank [Music] you [Music] e e [Music] [Applause] [Music] n e [Music] [Applause] for for for w okay [Applause] see hi again everyone uh while the the band is finishing getting out on stage and getting all set and ready uh I just want to make a quick announcement from our Tempo which is our parent organization that helps to uh support our entire music program up here at Ying um so Tempo the uing music parent organization would like to thank everyone for their support throughout The Fall season we had one of our best fall fundraisers since before Co that was the pie fundraiser so thank you all for uh getting those pies sold and we hope everybody enjoyed them at Thanksgiving we will be seeking volunteers and donations for our planned April Coffee House event that will feature performances from our outstanding musicians from all uh facets of our program band Orchestra and choir so uh be uh looking out out for emails and if you are ever uh wanting to help support us in those any events from fall through the winter and then into the spring uh please reach out to our uh Tempo through our email Ying Tempo gmail.com and we would really appreciate any help and time that you can can offer uh I'm just going to turn around see if we're all good to go all right um progressions finishing resetting some things on that note our winter program put this down uh for band I usually gear towards classic band repertoire so music that uh kind of brought band and coner band Wind Ensemble into the classical World realm in the early 1900s and through uh two modern times uh so we each piece is something that I feel that they should perect form before they graduate uh after four years of playing in the high school Ensemble that being said the first piece we're going to perform is just for our percussionists usually in this classic rep they don't get too much to do because uh early pieces did not include a ton of percussion parts so in order for them to keep their skills up and uh not have Idle Hands back there uh uh we're going to be performing a piece called Avalanche and then we'll dive into the rest of to our program so here's our procussion Ensemble with [Applause] Avalanche [Music] for e [Music] e [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right thanks so much how about one more hand for our procussion section back there our first piece is a March now when we hear March we usually think of parades things like that but a lot of marches in the early 1900s l 1800s were intended for dances uh they were Fox trots and this March castles in Europe was written by a man named James ree Europe James ree Europe was the first African-American leader of the Army Band during World War One of the army bands during World War I um so it would be fight he took his band over to Europe would be fighting during the day and then entertaining the rest of the troops at their nighttime events um and he was the composer and band leader for the castles who were the inventors of the fox TR during the early 1900s so here is castles in Europe by James Rees Europe la [Music] la a [Music] to the [Music] [Applause] thank you so much our next election is entitled three airs from Gloucester so this piece is in three movements so please hold your applause to the very end there'll be short little breaks in between each movement um but this piece is written based off of the composers fascination with a couplet a poem from the 10th Century that reads there is no one quite so cely as the Jolly Earl of Chumley so here is three airs from glosser [Music] la a a h [Music] all a h [Music] h [Music] h [Music] [Applause] so always McKenzie our two uh [Applause] soless like you had to do it okay our next piece is really an exercise in just creating beautiful music and really it focuses on control and it starts out and for a long time we'll just stay quiet and bring you along on this journey and then eventually we'll build up into this climactic moment and then bring us back down so it's just a moment for us to enjoy some beautiful music no program no story just music for music's sake so here is Adagio [Music] oh the a [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all [Music] [Applause] thank you so very much our final piece for this evening is a piece entitled EST Stompy uh EST Stompy is an old 13th 14th century French word which meant ReSound and what that meant at that time was a piece of music that was being played would each section be repeated like for a dance or something like that in this modern interpretation the composer takes ReSound and uses repeated notes and repeated rhythms throughout the piece they be uh this piece is very cinematic in its uh makeup think you can imagine movie scenes and things like that that would go along with the different sections the beginning and end are very bombastic and aggressive the middle is very romantic so please come along on this journey with us through a stomping thank you so much [Music] la [Music] la [Music] la [Music] la [Music] all [Music] all [Music] la [Applause] [Music] la [Music] a [Music] sh [Music] la [Music] [Applause] w [Applause] thank you so much we just need a few moments to change a few things up for S Symphony Orchestra and we'll be real quick and right back with you thank you so very much for coming out this w another e for [Applause] all right so um coming on stage now is our chamber orchestra um before they play I'm going to take care of a lot of different thank yous but um and give them some time to finish setting up um so a lot of people to thank to make our concerts possible the first people I like to thank um are our Billy administrators um many who are here tonight um Miss Zabo Miss Jarrett and our dean of students Mr coward and Mr sheffel um we'd like to thank our district admin um Mr mlin is here tonight my supervisor our superintendent Dr Gentile and assistant superintendent Dr bogus uh we'd like to thank the board of education for their support um thank you to Tempo our music parents Organization for all they do they're the ones doing the candy grams they um work on our banquet at the end of the year um so thank you to them for all their hard work um thank you to Neil Ben and the rest of our consal team at uh the high school here they are a huge help when it comes to setting up all of this the percussion the chairs the stands and making sure our space looks really great for concert nights like this um and finally thank you to our students and to you all for being here tonight their family and their friends um thank you for all your support tonight and also throughout the year so round of applause for yourself for the students all right and now um the first song that chamber is going to play um and by the way chamber orchestra just means a smaller Orchestra so you noticed the orchestra has shrunk from before um so just means a smaller Orchestra they're going to be playing Hungarian Dance number five by Johannes Broms it's another um example of a classical piece that you've heard you're going to recognize it you just don't know why um it's just like used in a lot of different places and it's a really fun exciting piece it has a lot of moments where it stops and starts again like some pauses and it resumes um but we'll make sure you know when it's over for sure so this is Hungarian Dance number five your [Music] n [Music] l [Music] [Applause] all right so we're going to have a brief um transition while we bring out um the rest of our symphony orchestra group so our chamber orchestra serves as our string section um and then we will also be joined by members of the concert band who together make our symphony orchestra if you went to fiser or know any students at fer similar to our honor Symphony program we're trying to kind of continue that here except we do it after school so um props to these students for spending time here after school we meet Thursdays at night um it's been a lot of fun working with them they're very different at night than in the morning very like energetic um so just um like props to them for giving the extra time and rehearsal time towards these pieces um the first piece the combined symphony is going to perform um comes from very's Opera AA it's set in ancient Egypt and the scene that we're hearing the music from um there's like an army returning from war and it's like a parade of officers and royalty it's just a very um big spectacle like a kind of like a Fanfare sound um in the Opera like in the stage version they um like have like a huge set piece there's like is on stage like a whole parade um so I can just picture like big Royal Parade kind of like big entrance um so this is the grand March from AA for for l [Music] a the a to [Music] l a [Music] the [Music] [Applause] okay our final piece this evening is respect as performed by the queen of soul artha Franklin um in this Arrangement you're going to hear um a saxophone solo performed by by Kendall Roman El so just a little bit more about this piece um when artha Frank this isn't um she covered it kind of put her own spin on it um there are changes made to the original lyrics um to kind of include commentary on women's roles um gender roles like in their relationships things like that and would become kind of like a feminist anthem at one point um it consistently ranked the top of like like most popular songs of all time even in like the 2020s it's still kind of up there um so long story short I think we all know the song I hope you enjoy um our arrangement of respect bya Franklin [Applause] [Music] you [Music] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you again to um all of our students for their hard work thank you for being here and supporting us um throughout the year and especially on our concert night um thank you [Applause]
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