I I don't oppose it. She's trying to ask if the person is willing to work really hard. I like it. I mean, it is a little wordy, but I I think the point's there. They'll probably say, "Can you repeat it?" Yeah. Um, but I mean the crux of the question is the last paragraph. So I would I would say maybe we could in the first sentence strike everything up until disclo like through disclosure and just say we are currently in the middle of a shift in this district or Yeah, that'd be do that. Does anybody agree or disagree with that? I'm indifferent. I think the crux of the question is fine. Yeah. All right. So, we'll start it then with just we are currently in the middle of a big shift in the in this district and then want to add in the district. Okay.
I don't know. Maybe not. Yeah, actually I think you're right. I think you could take out implementation because we already have implemented it. So support and okay. Oh, go ahead. Anything else? Well, ensure systemwide practices if we already have it just that a reads as though this is something in the future, not that something's happen. Sure. You could put you can make it as simple as continue to support the I public schools equity and belonging in just make it just like that. I think that's what you mean. Continue to support. Okay. Thank you that Claudia. Y Okay. B incorporate global citizenship education into the curriculum to help students understand and engage with global issues. Incorporate global citizenship education into the curriculum to help students understand and engage with global issues. Is there a specific curriculum? I would question what is is it specific education or is it just broadish?
You know, it's obviously I think less desirable to you know build gas into buildings um but um sometimes you know it just it's necessary um in in small iterations or in small extreme usage cases. Yeah. And it sounds like and especially to reduce those the really high costs during really for example cold spells, right? Where where that where the incentive structure flips um due to the operating due to the operating costs. I've heard that as well a number of times. the I mean this is this is one of the things that I think we've we've heard again again and again in commission meetings also is the need and I know that there's a variety of sort of modeling out there and uh assessment of sort of the trade-offs between high performance building envelopes and the construction associated with that and the cost to operate and things like that and and it seems like what keeps getting missing is the interpretation of that for for the location and for those to really understand the trade-offs and the costs in an easily in a in a in a a readymade way.
Good evening everyone board members. My name is Gary Reid. I am a head custodian at school 17 and I am also the president for the union for custodian maintenance. Um, I've been employee in the district about 18 years now at school 17. On behalf of the members, I'm here and we all are here to express that we are proud to work in Clifton Public Schools. We all take pride in our work skills and performance dayto day, week after week, year after year. With that being said, we all work very hard and a lot of members and employees are struggling to make ends meet. We all know grocery bills increase, rent, mortgage, utilities, everything. The list can go on. We signed a one-year deal to extend our contract, hoping for better wages and and a better salary guide in the future. As of now, it's that time again, and we're still here trying to negotiate a decent and fair increment for all employees.
And in the report um we talk about the the fresh air makeup units. They're also the same age. all of the fresh air units on the roof. You know, some of them are most of them are from 2000 parts in there uh that have been obsolete retrofit parts, you know, that they cost an astronomical amount of money. Everybody knows how important fresh air is. I think we have an extremely great fresh air system, but it is going to all need to be replaced. Cooling towers. Um, without the cooling tower, it's one piece of equipment. Just one piece of equipment that if it goes down, we're not going to have air condition in the building. If it comes to a motor that we can't get today, we're not going to have air conditioning in the building. It's just, you know, even though we say we got a heat pump in each room, which is your air conditioning, it's water cooled from that cooling tower.
Um especially on on some of the things that we're very much aware happening. Um, I just want to make for the sake of of of transparency assure our district that for the time being we do have an are okay to continue as we have. But of course understanding that if when we do need to make changes that that's something that we're going to be very much aware of as a board and leaning on you as the CFO to inform us if necessary and of course for us to support that because I think that that's something expressly I know and I'm not saying that we've heard anything or want to but I do know what people are seeing a lot of and it's chaos and it's uncertainty but I but I genuinely want to say that as much as we've we've seen that I I've never felt uneasy about what we're what we're able to do with the school district this year.
I assure you, I will get phone calls to Thursday rather than Friday. I believe that date is May 15. We will do our best to immediately get a communication out from my office, social media, text messages, the marquee announcements to the kids recognizing fully this will cause frustration. Um, however, my view even if it were only one student, I I would not I would not be able to explain to that parent while why their child couldn't either compete or participate in. So, I'm just giving the board that information. I'd be glad to discuss it. Actually, I can't discuss it because it's not on the agenda, but I'd glad to see if you want to come individually. I'd be glad to provide more perspective. Will that change? Uh, no. Nothing else changes but graduation. We could school will still be out on that day. What it does is create an incredible amount of work for Mr.
Uh is there any discussion? I I just wanted to say um had the chance to to meet and have a conversation with Mr. shock and I'm I'm very excited for Canyon Valley, for Gilbert Public Schools. I came away very impressed and and frankly inspired to be a better board member and a better father, and I think he's going to be wonderful. Thank you, Dr. Robersonson. I know that was sincere. Um, I echo Dr. Robersonson's comments and look forward to uh a productive and successful year at Canyon Valley under your uh leadership. Anyone else? Okay, then we'll call for a vote. All those in favor of appointing Adam Stro as principal of Canyon Valley for the 2025 2026 school year, say I. I.
Who prompts that case to be evaluated? Is it a parent will say, "Hey, my student's not going to meet it." Is it an office thing where a teacher or somebody says, "Hey, there's no way this student can meet it." My question is, who prompts the case by case to be evaluated and at what point? So, we have an coordinator who works with those. So, these are individuals that know Go ahead. Oh, okay. So, to further that then in the best case scenario, you would know that freshman year. It wouldn't be waited until the senior year to then decide that. I'm trying to understand the process and the timing of when is that exception given. And I think we can get that exception at any time. Um, but it could be decided as early as any. So my question was even if a parent says recommend that they have that part of an that will create a reason of that that a student that comes to our district in their senior 28 hours.
We just get it done. Yep. Do I need to go next door and and maybe help him out a little bit? Would that Would that work? Yeah, I think you should take over for one of our damage characters. Okay. Can they hear us? Can any of our players hear? Hopefully not. All right. I'm just trying to give advice. Yep. Like like So there's one of their healers. We're sneaking up around their healer here and trying to hit them from to surprise them. Healer has ability of fade. Another that healer has the ability to. And I like all the different views and angles you got. Yeah, man. Now, what what is this what one of our students see? Are they just seeing the one screen? Yeah, they see their own screen like Yeah. Mine is their own picture. They're seeing what we're seeing out of Eli right now.
All right. So, we're good with that one. The third one. Uh, how would you create an environment where staff felt safe to approach you with problems? I like it. Yeah, I like that one. All right. I actually have a problem. Um, how do you build strong relationships with parents, teachers, your admin team, the town board members, and the school committee? That's a long response, I'm sure. Oh, we're there for an hour. Anyone guessed it? All right. What are your greatest strength and weaknesses as a leader? Why are you interested in this? Oh, sorry. Did I have issues? These are just generic ones. I think I found these online and I sent a bunch to Lari. Um, but I mean I feel like it's important to like ask somebody what they think their strengths and weaknesses are. I used to interview a lot of people when I worked in corporate America because I would have a lot of people reporting into me and that was like a key question.
I would say that it's it's not a specific curriculum that we're looking that we would look to adopt, but understanding that the world goes broader than canon and ensuring that there are multiple perspectives and that there's an understanding of operations within the broader world as well. Questions? I suggest um changing to help um to empower curriculum to empower students. sound like that better word students two or something. Okay. C provide opportunities for students to participate in international exchanges, virtual collaborations and service learning projects. Very straightforward. Okay. D promote awareness and action on global challenges. You promote awareness, but you're not promoting the action necessarily, right? Promote awareness and action. You're not promoting action. Yeah, I know that. What like what's an example of that? An example of how we Well, that so Mr. Bishop just said to me, and the more we look at it, and we've read this a bunch of times, I think B and D are very similar.
I know there was some work that happened last summer through the Graham Sustainability Institute to sort of look at Ann Arbor and the cost of new construction and the cost of electrification and how that um incentive structure traded off um and the sort of relative expense for that and and I think some high this sort of highquality education around the perceived and real trade-offs is still something that seems to be missing from the conversation or seems to be missing in a readily accessible way. I think and so there's a lot of assumptions about when and if um you know both in terms of materials and as well as the sort of economic calculations that go into that as well. Commissioner Malik. Yeah, thank you. Uh, just to follow up on Commissioner Burkowitz's comments about the dual fuel heat pumps, and I could be wrong on this, but I think for instance, the Ann Arbor home energy rebates are not eligible if you're doing a dual fuel heat pump.
The maintenance and custodian team haven't had a salary guide step increase for over four years. We are currently in a time of economic uncertainty as evidenced by the recent decision from Washington that eliminated the remaining ESSR funds our district was still utilizing. We are all asking you board members, can you provide some type of stable footing for the upcoming school year by allocating a budget which meets the needs for our district. We recognize the board responsibility to manage taxpayers money wisely and invest in our schools is the is the proper way to do that. A 2% cap will help our salary guide and give members and employees better wages. We encourage the board to look into any additional funds you can receive through our newly introduced New Jersey tax incentive aid. This aid is only available to selected districts who spend less than what the state determines adequate amount to provide through a through a decent and effective education.
And if that fails, we're not going to have air conditioning. Just so I have the best understanding possible, right? Obviously, I'm not going to expect to be a HVAC master anytime soon. Maybe maybe I can sit down your office and you can teach me some things. But, um, looking at replacing those heat pumps, uh, you know, that is a singular part as part of a a much larger system, right? Um, and as a potential cost to replacing those heat pumps, you might need to replace other aspects of how that system works. Is that what you're getting at here? Absolutely. Gotcha. Understood. It was all installed. Yeah. At the same time. Yeah. Everything was installed at the same time. You know, most most pieces were installed in 2000. Fresh air, cooling towers, heat pumps, all came at at one time. And the $300 to $5,000 per unit, that's just for the heat pump.
Now, now maybe maybe that's just me being super optimistic as I as I usually or tried to be, but I just wanted to assure at least for the sake of communication say that that is something that is always on my mind as a board member and I do know I kind of press on you all as as administrators at least to say, "Hey, if there's something we need to be aware of, call a meeting. We need to have a discussion about it as a board. do it. But I just wanted to for the sake of um you know, we're not just brushing over the budget and we're not just saying no, yeah, go on as it is. We're very very very well aware. We already um we're forecasting our ADM for the new year based on the historical trends. We have the standards that and we already met with the principles.
Webb and Mrs. Penrod and their staff members. It creates a bunch of work for them. And I don't take that lightly. Uh, again, I think it's a classic dilemma, two bad choices, but if we're putting kids first, I think we put kids first. And, and that's really my report, Mr. President. All right. Any other questions that you might have of the superintendent? We We had We probably need to work something out a little bit. We were going to have a open open meeting on teacher retention on the 22nd. the new superintendent, John, can't be here. So, we need to push that down the road a little bit some other time. Maybe we'll get him to set the date at his convenience and then we'll try to meet with that. Since it's an open meeting, the public will be invited. So, and we want to make sure the public gets an opportunity to say something.
Any opposed? All right. Uh we would like to uh yeah we'd like to invite uh Mr. Shrock to come up and say a few words and then afterwards we'll take a brief recess so that uh we can offer our congratulations oh you got to turn it on there's a button there Mr. Mr. President, members of the board, Dr. McCord, superintendency, thank you. I look forward to the new adventure and the new chapter at Canyon Valley, and I look forward to sharing with you the successes of the students and uh the families there. I also would be remiss if I did not say thank you to my wife and my my family back there. Um, as you know, education is not just a job, it's a life, and um I'm thankful they're along for the ride of that life. So, thank you guys. And thank you.
Good. In the policy now. Okay. Did you mention that it's a state requirement though? So then would it matter where they came from? I guess I'm trying to understand why does it need to be prrated if it was already a state requirement? It's just part of it's part of our policy also. So even though it's in that we're doing that we're giving it. So it's not a state requirement as of yet. It is not yet. We did um start hours this year for seven hours for all of our giving to the community all year set of programs in the high school where they also did this year. So seniors only need seven, juniors only need 14. And do the students know that? Because my son's a junior. He thinks he has to get all 25. Right now he thinks that. And so I'm going really No, I didn't say that.
Okay. All right. So, Norwell's got it pushed quite a ways here. Yeah, we got to get that. We got to get control back of the robot. Yep. Look at that. I can see the robot being pushed. They they just dropped their ultimate ability, which is the minefield. I hate when they do that. We're about to run into M. Good job. Got out of the way of that. But doesn't look good. Yeah, but we're all right. We can How How many How many chances at this do we get? Well, you get until they either push it till the end or 5 minutes and 33 seconds. The entire game. That's the entire game of uh Espiransa. Yeah, espanza. Here they're in their final stretch here. Norwell's got it a little bit. There's the robot right there. We need another stand. So, right now, Blue J, we're contesting it.