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your seat belt okay motion carries and move on to j6 recommendation for renewable of eligible administrative staff and authorized to issue employment contracts to the 2020 2021 school year dr. kaylis Thank You mr. president mr.
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croto will introduce this item president Leonard members of the board superintendent Callison cabinet the next item is a motion to approve eligible administrative staff for reemployment and authorized the issuance of contracts that you just approved for the 2021 school year any questions discussion I'll entertain a motion I move the board approve eligible administrative staff for reemployment and authorized the issuance of employment contracts for the 2020 2021 school year with benefits commensurate with the position second why am i drawing a blank here motion carries thank you all right we'll move on to j7 recommendation to approve the school aid crossing guard position for elementary schools dr. callous Thank You mr. president mr. croto is the showman for tonight he will take this item as well I promise to retire after mr.
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president members of the board superintendent Callas and cabinet tonight we're bringing forth an approval for a school aid slash crossing guard currently at the elementary schools we have a school aid which is 0.625 FTE and a school crossing guard which is 0.25 we're asking to combine those give the option of each elementary school to combine those make a position of 0.875 the salary does not change however it does move that employee if they do this new combo position into a benefit eligible position we hope that by doing this currently we have eight faking crossing guards we have no vacant aides so and 13 are currently doing both positions so we hope that this becomes a way to excite people about taking that type of job and being a crossing guard to school aid to have that combo position available to schools they still will be able to keep them split if they would like because currently we have positions where there's two different people in there but this gives the option for the school to combine those and attract people to fill those positions thank you any discussion on this I'll entertain a motion I move the Governing Board approved the addition of the school aid slashed crossing guard position for the element elementary schools as presented second motion made by miss Tanner seconded by mr. Pritchard Tracy Oh miss where's Nico I heard a voice but I couldn't tell where it was coming from most saw your sink Bell thank you a motion carries moving on to j8 discussion and possible action to schedule a workshop study session dr.
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kaylis Thank You mr. present members of the board and members of cabinet we have some administration has some election data that we would like to share with the board from the November election and then allow the board to have conversation and discussion about some general direction that administration could follow during the next year so this study session would address that topic is election and future future election opportunities there are two possible dates one is the last Wednesday in January which is January 29th and the other is the first January or the first Wednesday in February so either one of those would actually if the board was okay it would be best for administration if it was earlier than later are those regular board meeting night mr. president miss Pritchard no I would prefer the 29 I'm Clara it's usually oh it's usually during the day it's like a 8 - 2 or 3 or 9 to 3 although miss mr.
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Hicks is presenting this year at bolts mr. president mrs. Densmore it is from 69 but then that work okay almost from the schedule a workshop study session on January it's at the 29th 2020 at 6 to 8 p.m. all right motion made by J Leonard I'm sure of that one seconded by mr. Singh and motion carries thank you for that move on to request for any further agenda items yes I do have one and I didn't have the chance to write it up yet for Miss Brown I would like administration to possibly look into a life skills type training there is a particular program out there it is called not my kid and in light of losing a Dysart student over the holidays and other issues that may have come up such as substance abuse vaping relationships bullying body image that type stuff and although we have social workers that have come in I would still like for us to possibly look in this particular area is called like I said not my kid and it's more like Abin evidence-based type curriculum they can come help with building those relationships and you know so you guys can provide some type of information back to us it is a program that is out there there right now and about 15 Valley schools and it's middle grade through high schools but I think that sometimes even though we are we are the school there's still life skills type training that still needs to go on with schools so I will write it up as a request and get it to you Louisa thank you and the other agenda request items all right let's move to Ella one howl motion to adjourn made by J Leonard a second by miss Pritchard [Music] you
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good Moines McCollum today is January 13th 2020 it is the 87th day of school this is the whe news I'm Abby and I medicine today for lunch there will be Chicago hot dog baked fries baked beans fresh grapes and no tomorrow progressives are being perfect string cheese apple juice and milk we have we don't have anyone celebrating birthdays today if we missed yours happy birthday please go to the office to pick out your birthday yesterday somehow question was a merc a push Bishop Bishop and and pawn are all pieces to what board game the answer is test the winner is may hard three Boyd Minh come to the office to pick out your prize today's from backwashed innings if something is hydropower what is what is used to make the energy remember to put your answer neatly include a name and class we have a special announcement the winner of the picnic table drawing for this week our second grade my brother Aaron into reading geotube all London to reading Christine to Keenan three Connelly three Glover in fourth grade Josh for woods Maddie for Colette Oh Scott and Aiden for fester and now we are a brief period of silence to reflect unnecessary activities of the day please stand for the pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all Wendell it won't out lead us in the pledge I pledge to be a be a star whether whether or not school or travel farm I pledge to be safe in every way I pledge to be safe in every way to [Music] military I would be respectful in all I do and be a star the whole day sale and reassure the Holyrood have a marvelous Monday remember she is kind
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so bringing those trending topics relevant to us Hatter's in real time today is January 10 2020 and welcome to the first broadcast of the new year yup the last time this show was broadcasted was in 2019 and since then we've had a winter break and I knew your celebration and a full week back at school so we hoped we had a happy holiday season like to welcome you to the 2017 segment of BBC live our DHS weekly recap what we cover in our first segment that's it for the hat starting Fernando Costa Fernando take it away all right Christian lately actually sorry for me no it shows the reality of student lives okay 23 is a new 13 tip of the hat shows the reality of DHS students lives and every high school a friend of course and once again reporting for the DHS segment the tip of the hat and let's get into this week's events first up unified best book again this Wednesday pairing individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities individuals without disabilities real everyone continues to have fun in my world as well on Thursday deca hosting a dekinai at the Demery Ice Arena where debris at Rick's played the Watertown wolves win there yeah big win all proceeds for the tickets winter deca and the event was a considerable success looking into the future this is for the esteemed DHS choir to madrigals is taking place on Thursday January 30th please see Miss rustling in 215 for audition materials also join mr.
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samaras room annex Thursday during flex if you have a love for Harry Potter's you know all the books from JK wrong I guess because that's when the new Harry Potter Club is going to start and unfortunates wrap it up for what's going on ths back to you Christian thanks ready No Deal Harry Potter Club some pretty cool and AP students make sure to make your test payments to miss Aikman before January 30th each AP class has a test requirement each test costs $100 with a $45 late fee so if you don't turn in in before 10:30 if the pay that X in 45 bucks in other news this week in sports will come up right here with me to find out the latest for Hatter's and other big sports or other big names I got you covered here so let's go on with the this week in sports so it is a big one as we always say here and well here at DHS a lot of things going on winter seasons has just started here at Danbury high school and here at Danvers High School so we're excited to know basketball hockey sorry about that folks maskull of hockey and we're just excited to sees all happen as welcomed amber hatches a fernando mixing beforehand so it's a new year so that means winter sports are coming up here at Danvers High School hence we apologize we're having some technical difficulties with our teleprompter so big you're going on here camera high school the winter sports teams basketball is playing their form one to start the year is they've lost the staples and then the hockey team is it's still playing well there Owen two and one in game tomorrow night and then of course lynching the girls last between 5 and 2 and our Hall of Fame coach Jackie Denardo and as you went from before future games coming up here Dan very high school and obviously swaddling coming off sorry that we're very discombobulated today but anyway we'll keep going here on the sports as uh now we have the teleprompter working so let's read it off there apologize their fat folks it's a new year so that means winter sports are here the boys mess up we have three much before are off the floor and one start and their rig number nine and the connect I'm Connecticut pull so very impressive for Coach Bach and his team girls basketball their five in two after a big win over New Canaan last night they are also a good start for el coche DiNardo obviously hall favor track and wrestling a rough off two dozen undefeated starts wrestling against the Beast of the East this weekend which is up in Delaware levy ice cats hockey team Oh two and one after a rough start in Maine and they would play in Mount Pleasant New York this weekend take on the other ice cats the Mount Pleasant nice cats and approach support says for now high school for Danbury hat tricks they play the Watertown wolves last night and they've won 15 over the last 16 games for an expansion that's impressive and they that include a two-game sweep of defending Cup champion Caroline Thunderbirds last weekend in Illinois and a Googler psyching and it went for 8 one win over Watertown last night the game arena so finally it seems like our game is set and match so the final quarter of our segment is over so that will do it for sports we apologize for the technical difficulties here in our and our final segment today exchanges the competitive scene from out on the field or ice or Court whatever you want to call it there to the internet she's going to discover the latest trends in TV and our video our virtual media Club is the right fit for you Andrew Lewis is hosting once again today and Andrew what we got thanks Christian so once again I am back for 2020 to discuss all the latest trends in virtual tech movies games all the things you know on social media so now there's 2020 we have a lot coming at us so black yesterday Game Freak is presenting new details toward Pokemon with the new expansion packs for coming June and fall of 2020 with new areas and new Pokemon discover as well as a pokemon mystery dungeon that's returning in March and you can also check it out right now in the eShop there's a demo out right now and I checked it out and his credible bat game was incredible and I also loved the episodes for it so it's another brother that was a great interruption but ok premiering next week in theaters is the long-awaited return of bad boys for life with will Will Smith and Martin Lawrence starting their iconic roles as the old school cops for one last takedown against some I I'm a drug cartel there are gonna be more games coming out in 2020 such as we got Final Fantasy or II cyberpunk dress and evil 3 and I know where valve which was a company that hasn't presented the game since 2012 announced that there's a half-life game coming in April which is gonna be a setup for the VR headset so be sure to check that out in April that's all the time we got for today come back for more tales to tell all right thank you Andrew sorry for the interruption there it's like just don't tell my brother about that Pokemon thing core 2 and semester 1 are coming to the close this month so make sure to check your grades and ensure all of your assignments are in order here at Danbury high our quote of the week for today is my Verma cleland so that states what the new year brings you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year try to keep that mind throughout 2020 ladies and gentlemen and that's about all we got today here so we'll keep you posted live VPC wives
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[Music] the program started about three four years ago it's called skate after-school it's a nonprofit organization with amateur skateboarders in the community that wanted to give back to this is the first school structure program that they started started with maybe a dozen kids and now it's built up to a cap of fifty kids they have have to get good grades and good behavior to come in and then they come here and skate and they have volunteers at our Amateur skateboarders are well that help the kids with tricks and kind of teach them balance and how to stay on and it's growing flourishing program here at the school that turned into like one of the most popular ones
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I'm Devin Sheehan I'm the interim principal at Pat Tillman middle school I'm really fortunate in the interim assistant principal at Pat Tillman middle school I think as long as parents are making sure that their students are getting enough rest and you can breakfast getting to school a long time and just you know check-in and at the end of the day making sure they're doing their homework and also having open lines of communication with their teachers and building those relationships for a child to be successful they the first diploma says they need to engage and engage in the classroom and in their lessons and then they need to be engaged in the school community so participating in clubs and then sports and then lastly not being afraid to ask for help teachers are here and staff members are here to help students we're currently under demolition and the construction of the new admin building in the new school is underway and it should be completed in May of 2020 and then we look forward to starting the next school year in August of 2020 with a brand new building [Music] at Tilghman middle school we offer of ba Surya electives pathways ranging from avid to stem digital graphics and an intense kinetics program we've recently added a robust robotics program Taekwondo studio a dance program and we are looking to grow each year with these different avenues that kids can be exposed to [Music]
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[Music] both school district is located in central Phoenix in a very high needs area roughly between the Phoenix Zoo and the sky over airport over 95% of our kids receive free reduced lunch we have the umhum homeless shelter in our area we also have a significant population of African and other refugees from other countries poverty is a big issue for our district and overcoming the effects of poverty is one of the main driving forces of what we're doing for our community and the Baals promise neighborhood is all built on the premise that what happens outside the school walls is as important as what happens inside the school walls so the false promise neighborhood is an effort to bring together through collective action to bring nonprofits and charities that have resources to the needs of a community and by supporting a community we're supporting the school's hunger and food insecurity is an important aspect of kids lives if they come to school hungry then it's very difficult for them to concentrate and do well in school so it starts with the beginning of the day when we have a healthy breakfast it goes throughout the day with the kinds of opportunities we give to kids they have a healthy lunch they have a healthy snack in the afternoon kids get out in the afternoon many of our students go to the Boys and Girls Club in the Balts community and we have a healthy environment there also so kids will have a healthy environment throughout the day the benefits to breakfast in the classroom for our students are its helps them in the morning get a little bit of nourishment in them so that they can be ready to learn many of them don't take the opportunity to eat at home so this is their first meal of the day the kids do come in ready and they're looking for that they want to know what are we having for breakfast today I know that this might be the only meal that they may get having it in the classroom everyone eat so there's three items a lot of them aren't aren't exposed to a lot of the things that like maybe bagels maybe cream cheese maybe and they'll try it they'll try some of the fruits that a lot of kinder they don't know what a pear is so it's funny when the first time eating a pear you'll hear whoo I like this and some I don't like it the ffvp which is known also as a 5-foot vegetable program is the USDA program it does provide the students with fresh food or vegetable either after breakfast or after lunch they always remind us what is it what is it so very excited very very excited about this program we also offer on a daily basis we have a salad bar when we try to provide every day no unique items on that we kids will like on all students amazingly enough they also don't do have themself as I said about another project that value this on United Way has been working with Brunson Lee elementary school is a weekend hunger backpack where it's got recipes and food and they're working and testing the curriculum and again this is to help the whole family engage in healthy eating but also having adequate food this is a wonderful model to look at how do we hardwired if you will healthy eating and healthy living for all of your students my keys actually they like getting their bags every week but I don't your kids complain that they didn't eat all weekend which is game last year I studied cooking classes for our children to students on also the families trying to educate them about healthy habits unhealthy cooking so it's time we had like twenty to thirty parents on students coming to new to our cooking classes once a year we have what we call a future chef contest we asked students to come up with some unique recipes with selected recipes listen to two sadiq so for consideration for a national we're not so to be in the Sodexo a recipe book so we do this annual 1 1 s parent distribution program when the parents come in they go through a section where they're given information that will help them get educated on on how to live better and then i'm gonna go and pick up a bag of food so when we take a look at the garden it's it's really twofold we have integrating science with instruction during the normal day and then also we have a parent component in the afternoon and it really is centered around the idea that we live in a food desert and they learn about how fruits and vegetables grow and the health benefits of them but also that that they can be grown right in their backyard we're so pleased with our relationship with the discovery triangle and the Fresh Express The Fresh Express is a retrofitted city bus that has been turned into a mobile grocery store it has fresh produce available once per week and then we can have our parents as they drop their kids off also visit the mobile Fresh Express Balt School District is is located in a food desert which means that close by we don't have grocery stores with good fresh produce available to them many times when people are in poverty they tend to either eat fast foods or convenience store foods and they don't necessarily eat the most healthy things and so we want to make those options available to families so they can provide more home-cooked fresh meals for their families which we believe contributes to a healthier environment for our kids and for our families hopefully through the course of the day the kids that go to balls are going to come out of our system healthier and happier and more prepared for school and for life [Music]
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[Music] all school district is located in central Feeny's roughly between the Phoenix Zoo and the sky over Airport and the boss promised neighborhood is all built on the premise that what happens outside the school walls is as important as what happens inside the school walls so the Balts School District has developed several policies to help schools and families to see how a healthy relationship with food and health and wellness can be developed so we had policies such as food cannot be used as a reward or punishment when you use food as a reward then students learn to see food as a way to solve issues in their lives another policy we have is that we don't have fundraisers that use food fundraisers have to be healthy fundraisers we can't use food as a reward again it's very it's very important to us to look at the holistic viewpoint of our community of our students our family and the entire community and how they see health and wellness in their community hopefully through the course of the day the kids that go to balls are gonna come out of our system healthier and happier and more prepared for school and for life st.
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Luke's Health Initiatives is a nonprofit foundation and we are partnering with Valley the Sun United Way on the breakfast in the classroom project because we think it's a great model that can be replicated around the state and what we appreciate is looking at the evaluation mechanisms how is it rolling out for students how are the teachers feeling about it the benefits to breakfast in the classroom for our students are it's helps them in the morning get a little bit of nourishment in them so that they can be ready to learn many of them don't take the opportunity to eat at home so this is their first meal of the day I think that I've see I see the benefit of it the kids do come in ready and they're looking for that they want to know what are we having for breakfast today having it in the classroom everyone eat so there's three items and they'll try it they'll try some of the fruits that a lot of kinder they don't know what a pear is so it's funny when the first time eating a pear and you'll hear who I like this and summer.i like it cold noodle is a great activity that I'm able to use in my classroom it allows the kids to get up out of their seats and move around there's educational games that we can do during lessons that help review skills and get them running the kids love it [Music] afterwards are usually pretty tired they had a lot of pent-up energy this allows them to take it out so they can sit down and focus fourth graders only have an attention span of a certain amount of time and this allows me to lengthen my lessons the ffvp which is known also as a five foot vegetable program is the USDA program it does provide the students with fresh food or vegetable either after breakfast or after lunch they always remind us what is it what is it so very excited very very excited about this program we also offer on a daily basis we have a salad bar when we try to provide every day no unique items or that kids will like on all students amazingly enough they also don't do have themself at the salad bar [Music] social and emotional learning as what we really focus on if there's four core values for Playworks healthy play a healthy community inclusion and respect and so our whole goal I play works is to make sure that every kid comes out ready to play and that they can play safely and not feel bullied or belittled or anything so they've just felt comfortable coming out playing with their peers today we're going to be playing a few different game our main focus today is working on integrity and so as we play these games we're just going to incorporate integrity how do we use integrity in this game oh we use integrity by not cheating by not lying by trusting each other when we do a game and stuff like then another project that value of the Sun United Way has been working with Bronson Lee Elementary School is a weekend backpack where it's got recipes and food and they're working and testing the curriculum and again this is to help the whole family engage in healthy eating this is a wonderful model to look at how do we hardwire if you will healthy eating and healthy living for all of your students the program started about three four years ago it's called skate after-school it's a nonprofit organization with amateur skateboarders in the community that wanted to give back so this is the first school structured program that they started started with maybe a dozen kids and now it's built up to a cap of 50 kids they have to get good grades and good behavior to come in and then they come here and skate and they have volunteers at our Amateur skateboarders are well that help the kids with tricks and kind of teach them balance and how to stay on and it's growing flourishing program here at the school that turned into like one of the most popular ones so when we take a look at the garden it's it's really twofold we have integrating science with instruction during the normal day and then also we have a parent component in the afternoon room they learn about how fruits and vegetables grow and the health benefits of them but also that that they can be grown right in their backyard once a year we have what we call future chef contest we asked students to come up with some unique recipes with selected recipes it's on to sadiq so for consideration for a national one also to be in the Select so a recipe book last year I studied the cooking classes for actually the students on also the families trying to educate them about healthy habit unhealthy cooking so each time we had like 20 to 30 parents on students coming to new to our cooking classes we're so pleased with our relationship with the discovery triangle and the Fresh Express The Fresh Express is a retrofitted city bus that has been turned into a mobile grocery store it has fresh produce available once per week and then we can have our parents as they drop their kids off also visit the mobile Fresh Express so we want to make those options available to family so they can provide more a home-cooked fresh meals for their families which we believe contributes to a healthier environment for our kids and for our families both schools have made phenomenal progress towards wellness one of the best efforts at ball schools is their physical education department not only our students getting 60 minutes at least 60 minutes of high quality instruction each week but the PE teachers here really go above and beyond to ensure wellness is embedded in every part of the school day and are the true champions for this work a new Boys and Girls Club at false elementary is allowing us to expand into before and after school programming which is giving kids even more of an opportunity to eat healthy and move more not only are the students in the boss community getting a great education but they are getting the chance to grow up healthy this is a huge advantage this work is making a significant difference in their lives you
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good morning to come early today January 14 2020 through salad and birthdays if something is what type of animal as thoroughly from the movie or not John please stand for the front I pledge allegiance indivisible with liberty and justice for all whether I'm at school or travel far I pledge to be safe in every length I pledge to be safe in every way take responsibility during work and take responsibility during work and play I will being I'll be respectful and all I do I will be respectful and all I do and be a star for danger and be a star the whole day sir how do we change the world one random act of kindness at a time have a terrific Tuesday thanks for watching bye
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good morning there hallo today is genuine today for lunch therapy french toast sticks yogurt cucumber hash brown apple juice and number tomorrow for breakfast derby fuel for your graham crackers or chucks orange juice and milk we have some friends celebrating birthdays Mason young please go to luck next time today's fun fact question is what is the name of the big Hollow Superintendent memory write your answer neatly and include your name and class and now he loves our appear to science please stand for the pledge I pledge allegiance should I call a pledge I pledge to be a huge star I pledge to be a big responsibility to work and play take responsibility very work and play I will be respectful I will be respectful and all I do and Buse can hear and the blind can see
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welcome back to Greensburg high school for tonight's girls basketball matchup between South Dearborn and the home Greensburg pirates me and my co-host Lane sparks are here you can also listen to us on Live 365 throughout the school day and listen to our DJing skills and music broadcast Lane let's talk a little bit about last night's game with the boys you know we barely won but it was now back to coal the boys they won last night by a score of 65 to 60 they played this Saturday at Southport at noon so make sure to get your tickets for that the Greensburg girls next game will be Saturday against Rushville the girls are starting to come off a floor we're about a minute and 50 to go before the game leave there
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okay yeah well I'm gonna go ahead I'm calling the board meeting of the zoo's Unified School District to order and today we have a special meeting oh we have the flag salute everybody stand up hand over your heart I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America one nation under God okay and now for a roll call board member Sheila mean Cruz and board member elana tortillas pena president and board member adriennes and board member gabriella utter yes present all righty so at this point you're going to go to the approval of the agenda a motion to approve the agenda alrighty let's do our bode okay now we're moving oh we haven't we're not done yet are you waiting for me oh it's not no okay all righty and passes 5-0 and next we go to item 2.0 items from the floor public comment on agenda or not agenda items this is an opportunity for the public to address the board on agenda or not in jinda items no action can be taken on non-agenda items individual speakers may be allowed up to three minutes to address the board on any agenda or non agenda item prior to addressing the board please fill out the request to speak public comment blue card and submit it to the board secretary do we have any great thing is we don't have any we will move on to general functions 3.1 trustee voting areas where we're going to learn all about the trustee voting area thank you can you hear me better okay okay so tonight I'm going to just kind of give you an overview of the California Voting Rights Act mention the key points and give you an opportunity to ask any questions so let me start by just pointing out that there's two general types of Elections there's the at-large elections which you have currently where voters vote for the entire jurisdiction and elect members of the board there's the district based or trustee area based elections where board members must reside in a particular area two particular trustee area and only the voters in that particular trustee area vote for that board member prior to the passage of the California Voting Rights Act most school districts utilized an at-large system but with the passage of the California Voting Rights Act many districts cities counties are moving toward district based or trustee area based systems due to the fact that the California Voting Rights Act strongly disfavors at-large elections so was passed in 2002 the purpose of the Act was to enhance the protections in the federal Voting Rights Act and provide voters particularly minority voters the ability to challenge at-large elections and to elect the candidate of their choice the California Voting Rights Act prohibits at-large elections that impair the ability of a protected class you know racial or ethnic minority to elect the candidates or of their choice or to influence the outcome of the election and so when you get involved in litigation over the California Voting Rights Act one of the things they looked at is to see has there been a history of racially polarized and when one of the things that the legislature did when they passed the California Voting Rights Act is they lowered the threshold of proof so they made it easier for the plaintiffs to win the lawsuit if they file a lawsuit against the school district or city or special district and so today no public emiti has won a lawsuit involving the California Voting Rights Act and when you lose a import you end up being liable for attorneys fees litigation costs expert witness fees and so on and it can be incredibly expensive the city of Palmdale the city of Santa Monica have both been involved in extensive litigation over the California Voting Rights Act and have been held liable for more than a million dollars in attorneys fees so it can get quite expensive if what's happened in most cases with cities and school districts as they've gone voluntarily into moving toward a district based system to avoid litigation and to avoid those huge attorneys fees caused so what's the process how does that process work well the board starts by adopting a resolution to initiate the process of establishing trustee areas the law requires that you have four public hearings a minimum of four public hearings so you have two public hearings on the criteria and the composition of the trustee area maps where you hear from the public and then between the second public hearing and the third public hearing the demographer that's been retained to by the school board then publishes maps they have to be published at least seven days before the third public hearing and then the public would provide input on the maps at public hearings three and four and then following those public hearings the board adopts a resolution to adopt in particular yeah so typically there's three to five maps that the demographer will draft on behalf of the board and then also there's a process for waiver from the State Board of Education because there's a requirement in the education code that was placed there before the passage and the California Voting Rights Act which requires a vote of the electors by the district but every school district that's got involved in this process has significant waivers so that there's no election among the voters because the problem is if the voters turned down the switch to the or the transition to the trustee area elections then you could end up in litigation and can end up costing quite a bit of money so there's also a process after you approve the map it goes to the LA County Committee on school district organization and they have a public hearing at the LA County Office of Education then they have a public hearing within the school district and then they have a third hearing and a vote on whether to approve the map that was approved by the school board so he's got the requirement to with the LA County committee and you have the State Board of Education voting on the waiver that process though the State Board has always approved the waivers they've not turned to me down the only difficulty with the process before the State Board of Education is that there's a lot of lead time in order to get it on their agenda so for example the deadline for the March March board meeting for the State Board of Education already passed it was January 9th so the next board meeting for the State Board of Education is in May and the deadline is sometime in March they have to complete that waiver process and get that waiver in by that deadline which that's something you could it's possible to accomplish yes that's not necessary you can go ahead with the waiver before yes the state waiver would have to be completed for the May State Board of Ed meeting the LA committee County committee process would have to be completed by May as well so that you the Registrar of Voters needs everything completed by the end of June so they can get it ready for the November election I think I may have that on the next slide okay so so I kind of outlined that the process this is kind of a general overview of the the timeline so you would initiate the public hearings in January and early February then you'd have the third and fourth public hearings in February and early March would approve the map in March and then we would go to the LA County Committee sometime in March in April for their approval approval by the State Board of Education in April or May as well submit everything to the Registrar of Voters before the end of June and then it would be ready for the November 20 2011 and then in 2021 there's the potential redrawing of the trustee area maps due to the 2020 census so the census is going to take place in April of this year the results come out in 2021 and so depending if there's been enough of a population shift it might require adjusting of the maps you'd have to review the maps with the Devon demographer to see if they're still within legal requirements there cannot be more than 10% variance between the largest district or the largest district of the population versus the smallest in populations so if it exceeds that as a result of the 20/20 they would use the 2010 census events up lament that would later information that's come out from the Census Europe so they start with drawing the maps to make sure that all of them the trustee areas by population are within the 10% variance and then they look at the ethnic breakdown to make sure that they're not drawing any districts that isolate minorities depending on the demography of the district to mess with the demography so that could make a difference if that wasn't there in the 2010 census but now it comes on board in time for the 2020 census it could create a shift and it also could create an ethnic shift depending on the ethnic makeup of the community that moves into that new development and I have a question sure okay basically the reason that we're doing this and not just you know we're rushing through that not rushing through it I'm sorry that was a bad word II the reason that we are doing it now so we get it done by the 2020 by November 2020 the reason why is because the main reason would be to avoid litigation and the potential that you're going to get a demand letter particularly in the last few months there's a group of attorneys that let me back up for a minute there's a group of attorneys out there who have made it their career to sooo school districts and cities and special districts over the California Voting Rights Act and as a result of their activity the legislature stepped in a few years ago to try to limit the attorneys fees if agencies cooperate and make the transition so if you make the transition voluntarily before you get a demand letter then you're not liable for attorneys fees if you complete the process within 90 days after getting a demand letter since you haven't gotten a demand letter that gives you a little more flexibility in the last few months the attorneys have been targeting LA County not typically when something happens like counties kind of on the forefront and the first ones to do get involved but for some reason under the California Voting Rights Act San Bernardino County Riverside County Orange County San Diego County at least in Southern California were targeted first but now they're starting to look at LA County and so I've got several clients who've gotten demand letters in the last few months and so some of them are moving forward for the 2020 election in some cases they have entered into an agreement with the attorney who filed the demand letter paid him the thirty thousand dollars that the law allows them to obtain and then they're going to go up to 2022 elections so so each districts different each district has a different environment that they're working in different political climate so you know it's a local decision that the board has to make as far as you know to go with the 2020 election or the 2022 so if we're looking at the potential redrawing of Trustee area maps based on the census how much of the process repeat would need to repeat itself if there is a redrawing all right are there public hearings once again would be public hearings and you would see the process again there were the demography fees would be about 20,000 50,000 and not have to accelerate like we'd have to do with this kit in this case because we'd be looking at a redrawing for the 2022 probably in 2021 and 2022 we you probably could do it at regular meetings part of the reason we had to go with more special meetings with because the my our firm is already committed to other districts that have already started the process and they tend to meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays that that seems to be the most popular day so everybody's double-booked and the demographers are stretched pretty thin too so you know that's you know one of the difficulties with you know moving forward with the 2020 election but the difficulty with delaying till 2022 did you run the risk of getting the demand letter and right no that's but that's almost asking I was asking about like so if we do it now right and then and then after the census we have to go through this process again right I'm asking could it be at a more reasonable rate where we have those meetings in conjunction with our regular meetings and not have to have special meetings yes I don't think it'd be as much from it's just a matter of the fact that we're already committed to it for their districts unfortunately and so I think the last slide these are the commonly used criteria for drawing trust earring that's equal number of evidence that's the biggest one can't vary more than ten percent compliance with the federal Voting Rights Act so you can't discriminate against any ethnic groups compact and contiguous as much as possible so we try to follow you know we don't have want to have any odd really odd shaped trustee areas if possible respect ease ease of interest as much as possible so with us because we go through this process and one of the reasons that I personally find it so interesting I really get to know the district because I start to find out what the communities of interest are it needs to adjust to what cities are maybe possibly involve some districts have multiple cities some have just one city some have neighborhoods well established neighborhoods so just varies and so we look at those communities of interest we look at natural Geographic features we look at highways freeways major arteries and streets look at that you know we look at incumbency look at other considerations so with the equal number inhabitants is that just inhabitants or is that like the citizens voting age population it's so it's just just people any baby any adult any person citizen non citizen everybody yes so you count everybody that's why we look at the 2010 census and then when you get into the issues of making sure that you're not isolating minorities or discriminating against minorities and you look at the ethnic makeup then you look at citizen so I have a question sure stay um if we did nothing and and we did get a potential lawsuit what what then a couple of things could happen depending on the attorney who files the demand I you know if you fight with you know the situation you could end up you know onions of thousands of dollars in attorneys fees if you work with the attorney and agreed to move forward it's typically thirty thousand dollars is the cost the and what they've been doing is agreeing at least a couple of districts that is you know will agree to put it off till 2022 if you pay me the thirty thousand dollars now rather than making me wait so it's you know it just depends on on what you as a board feel is most appropriate for your situation for your district what makes the most so are we guaranteed to get a letter or what you know there's a matter of just a little like well how much risk you know it's kind of risk tolerance you know when they talk when you know when you talk to an investment advisor for example they ask you about your risk tolerance to decide what you want to invest your money and retirement its kind of the same thing you have to kind of weigh the risk and some districts are willing to take the risk and other districts are more risk-averse so it just depends on this board and how much risk you want to take as to whether you're gonna get that so by having these meetings we're being proactive by family you're educating the community and you're educating yourselves and so that's helpful you know I have several districts that have had several meetings like this and have decided to just go with the 2022 election and take the risk and then I got several other districts they just want to take the risk and have to move forward with the 2020 election so just depends and I'm in some districts where we've gone through the process for the 2020 election we have a huge crowd and we've had six seven eight public hearings because public has been so engaged and so involved and then several other districts there's only been one or two people even come to the board game so you know you just never know you know your community better than I do you you know what if they'll you know be interested in the issue engaged in the issue or or not just so I think it's it's maybe safe relatively safe to assume that even if we move forward with this in the hearing now that there will likely be some redrawing of districts based on census data as we look at the ships that have happened so can you say what are the costs for doing it once if we did it after for the for the 2022 versus doing it now and after well you know I got a couple of proposals or yet one proposal I put out a you're a student of the demographers to give me an estimate of the cost and when I got back is just under 20,000 from one of the demographers and the other ones pretty much about the same so it's about 20,000 and then you know if you have to readjust the boundaries in 24 20 22 it's about a little bit less maybe 15,000 so if you do it twice it'll cost about fifteen maybe twenty thousand dollars in extra and demographers but if you do it now and you're saving potentially saving thirty thousand dollars in attorneys fees if you don't get a demand letter and you're less you're coming down the chances of getting a demand letter if you move forward so just I'm clear what that means is is a guaranteed paying out of twenty thousand to save a potential like there could be a $30,000 you know that comes in or we pay twenty thousand now to avoid a potential thirty thousand yes you do that's yes if you go now you you have a greater potential of avoiding the thirty thousand can't guarantee that you won't have to pay the thirty thousand because if you get a demand letter tomorrow we're kind of stuck because you haven't formally initiated the process you initiate the process by adopting a resolution so that's scheduled for it believe January 27th if I remember correctly so we're not quite there yet but if you adopt the resolution on January 27th then you've got 90 days to complete the process and you're pretty much safe from the $30,000 at that point but right now you're you're not you're vulnerable so I mean so when I do the math I see so potentially it would cost us like $35,000 if we have to do it twice if we start now have to do twice yes and then taking the risk it could be only $20,000 down the road or it could be 20 plus 30 which is 50,000 yeah so that's that risk you talked about yes in attorneys fees that would be the 30,000 because 22 do the demographer in 2022 but I mean our attorneys do so thirty thousand is the fee for every district regardless of their enrollment or how do they just where they get this $30,000 from what was they based it on the $30,000 is the there's a also inflation factor that the legislature enacted so it's slightly more than around 31 now but what they did was they these attorneys were sending these demand letters and then demanding 50,000 60,000 70,000 dollars so the legislature put a capital catherine and then they added that inflation factor so it goes up a little bit so that's where that comes from oh and their submitted invoice and you know they have usually hire a demographer of their own to do a study of the district so that's part of the cost of them there their time as well usually more than thirty thousand one you know so Linda did you mention to us that we got a request for information that no I wrote her around our voting not a demand letter a request for information so we did get a request and it was asking questions that were around where we are in the process of doing this transition how much money we've spent on legal so far so it it led us to believe they were looking to see which whether this district and I'm sure they submit to a lot of districts had already started the process so the request that has been asked of the district was it by a constituent was that by an attorney it was by an attorney who isn't capital at the word capital Omega I apologize but this we're not sure if this group is formally connected to all these attorneys we're singing these demand letters but it's possible because the three that I'm aware of or we're all sent to District students or still have that large system there's not issue so if they share that information with those attorneys then then they know which districts have not initiated trustee area systems and then they can fire those two managers whether they're doing that or not when was this request made say sometime in November okay so just recent and that what they requested was is their request was to see if we had started the process or what exactly was the request they were asking how much money we spend on attorney fees in the process whether we already happened to be a board trustee district in the process of us redistricting correct we had already hired a demographer how much we spent on the services any other well I think you'll have a few weeks to kind of Mull it over and then I do have a question about timing that so if this is not is this one of the public hearings or this is not so did we scheduling updates for all those public hearings this isn't one no it's not and that's the day that I said that I couldn't read it and I won't be then the 27th either and I won't be there on the 12th February it looks like we have one also I don't know my calendar so I won't I mean I can call in but I'll be in DC the third so I but I mean I want to clarify though is it a is it a board meeting of the committee forms are usually not board meeting so are they agendized are they not well depending on forums comes to the meeting of three board members planning to attempt and we would call it especially if the community forms that that I've attended has been chaired by the superintendent and then maybe one or two board members comes sometimes no board members come they just allow the superintendent to run the leader for them and then get input and then provide that input to the board so typically the superintendent doesn't report at the next meeting which will be the next one to go back to that that the our Kathy can you go back to the one that had the dates there okay so usually I'm at the pub the first public hearing would be when January 27th so that we adopt the resolution and have a public hearing on the same day yes you would adopt the resolution that you wouldn't you and then you have your first public hearing okay and then the second second one would be February 12 but in between you're staying you are gonna have the forum on the third yes and so those first two public hearings you will be talking about this criteria February 12th and that's one you can't be there people would bring up some more specifics anything that might be you know citrus Avenue is the main thoroughfare of the district and so therefore you know the line should be drawn along citrus Avenue just pick the 60 freeway it goes through it just depends and I'm not familiar yet or if there's you have to divide it by five so so the community forum at a Sousa high basically is going to be four okay so pretty much the same information that you're giving us to giving to us today the demographers going to be at the forum community forums are a little less formal you know typically depending on how many people come I mean I there was like 40 people we had a few where there was just five or six people so we just sent around a table and to you know the district how you want to do it it's not a formal board meeting so you can you know the one that just had four or five people so so what you're saying is that the the structure of the forum is going to depend on the amount of people that show up I think that's just amazing the nature of like of a meeting with people the more people you have the more organizing needs to be for it to be effective if there's fewer people then it can be a conversation roundtable yeah I mean typically we prepare for a group of about 25 to 40 people we have a formal presentation and we you know have it set up similar to the board meeting but if a couple of times we just had five or six people we just you know we did did the formal presentation and then we just had everybody sit down around a table and and just Athleta masks questions and we just had a conversation but it's really up to the superintendent that was that that particular superintendent because there was only five or six people so you know but typically the bigger ones are some way to afford me we have people you know come to the podium speak for three minutes you know yeah if they can ask questions whereas typically in a board meeting they can ask questions of the board members but in the community forum we have we allow them to ask questions and then depending on the nature of the question either the superintendent the attorney so since this forms gonna be taking place in almost three three weeks or so are well we have this on our website will the parents be able to you know the community know to be able to come either an invite and then now going back to the dates event so then after February 13th that's hearing number two what comes next what is your next date three twelve oh sorry and that would include a public hearing and also the adoption to start to initiate the process and then on the third of February is the first community outreach meeting at Azusa high and what I what are scheduled here is one of the zoos a high one at Gladstone high and one at Sierra high school for basically the idea of you know dispersing the meetings throughout the district so that people can attend them easily there on the 12th we have our second public hearing that's during a board meeting and that would be on the criteria also on the 12th after the public hearing is a resolution to identify criteria for the demographer to use in preparing the the maps and some more details about that and then during January in February there is information solicited from de Lac school site councils and bargaining units regarding that waiver that mr.
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Wang Hart mentioned earlier that is the waiver from an election by February we'll have some draft maps created and we'll publish them a new bike so January February around the waiver I would like us to also get input from these groups about the maps if we're going to get input at these forums I think let's have that conversation with with those with these groups as well so is it so it's just deal AK school site councils and bargaining units those are the three that we're getting input from the State Board of Education has a process called the waiver process that is used in a number of different actions that boards take and it specifies which groups need to formally sign on to the waiver and so those are the groups required to sign a waiver for this process okay well I mean with the tight like timeline I just want I just want to know how we're going to get that input from them are we just gonna invite them to the community forums would reach out to meet with them talk with them what is the deal act meet again Norma do you happen to have the date the date for the next elac meeting and school psych councilors generally meet how often usually every month so yes so should we then determine as far as there's there's these three community public meetings should we determine whether we want whether there's gonna be more than two of us that are there so that we know two agenda items that would that would be a good idea yeah so let's look if you have your calendars with you we can do that metal so the first one is at Azusa High School on February 3rd we have our board meeting on the 4th I believe so if you can indicate if you're available or interested in coming on the third I can't so Jerry I cannot yes so right now we have two that would come so we would not need to do it however you need to let me know right away okay perfect okay okay we can do that then our next one after that is 1026 like that's done high school so if you can check your calendars for that Yolanda yes okay yeah I can go to Belen yes you can enough anybody I mean I but no but I think we should agenda it's not a big deal to agenda is a meeting so if people want to meet up with everyone so we should go all right great ok and then let's look the last one is on 3 2 March 2nd at Sierra high school what time would this be Yolanda okay ok great so then I'll make those into board meetings great thank you let me go back to the the map so you get the sense of we're we have public hearings then we have the community outreach then we have additional public hearings it's a consider the input that we've gotten first on the criteria for the maps then the next set will be with the the content of the map the way they're drawn and then there's a fourth public hearing on March 4th at the the February 12th meeting we would actually adopt the resolution at that point was the criteria or that would happen at the next meeting so we're gonna have a public so we have input on February 12 to adopt the criteria following the second public hearing you know if I can sooner but you would have discussed the criteria on the twelfth and on this of January as well on you would have heard input on February third - and then at the February 12th meeting is when you would adopt the resolution after you've discussed the criteria and heard input on it okay so that would already have been so the more where you do the resolution to initiate the process is also the meeting where you begin to discuss what the criteria are you adopt a resolution on the criteria that's the direction to the demographer to draft the maps okay prior to the February 24th they have to be posted and published seven days in advance so that would be February 17th and then the public would provide input on the maps themselves so typically there's three to five maps and so people would comment they like this map or they don't like that map and they would give the reasons why board members also would participate in that discussion so they have five days to draft the maps if we adopt the resolution on the 12th and they have to post it seven days before the 24th is that sufficient time for demographer to do do justice to to whatever criteria gets developed and input from the public so I mean I mean I was gonna tell you right now my concern is that I would rather have I would if it means we have to adjust the timeline I want to make sure that the demographer has time to do a thorough job and not five days to brush something together well this is this is the timeline mr.
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Wein current sent us so he'll verify if it's doable if it's not we'll change it and I'm also so Wednesday meetings are difficult so so the 4th of March I will also not be available for that 4th so I have a question in terms of the resolution so well I just continue going through so you're you're in so it 2024 we were saying a third public hearing where we have the maps and then what and then they have another community forum at glass on High School on the 26th of February and then another one at CR High School on the 2nd of March can we make sure that people understand that the public hearing on February 3rd is very different than the other two because that public hearing is going to be about the with the criteria for the demographics and the other two are gonna be on the actual maps ok let's make sure the public understands that there's reason to go to both to at least two meetings because there's different public input so basically just defining that it's not gonna be the same thing yeah right because some people assume oh it's gonna be the same meeting and three places I don't need to go again yeah well clarify what it's about so that's a really good point so they know why found in some districts is people who are interested will come to each meeting and typically we explain the first set of hearings is for the criteria to discuss the criteria and there's not two the third and the fourth hearing are to discuss the maps themselves how they're drawn and whether they should be changed or adjusted so my question now is since we're going to go ahead and what is it February 3rd their criteria when is it that we're I mean are we in the process of hiring the Democrat grandma demographic demographics okay thank you demographer now what what does that look like can you share that with us we typically have worked with demography companies national demographics and both excellent firms I requested proposals from both of them anticipating what might be needed I got a proposal back from cooperative strategies just under $20,000 but I haven't heard back from the national demographics and that may be because they're just too busy I'm working with both companies in Britain and numerous districts right now and they're working with other attorneys as well so they're they're stretched thin so that may be what national demographics so on the 27th this is a special meeting for the adopt the resolution is that what you're saying for it's not a regular school board meeting yeah January 27th we would also put on the agenda hiring okay so he said public - about the criteria three and four are looking at the maps and the fourth one happens on March 4th also on March 4th there's a public hearing on the resolution authorizing a waiver that so that there's not an election and then on the 11th of March this is another resolution to adopt the specific map to change the election process the election method adopt the specific map and identify these areas and then authorize that this be submitted to LA County the LA County like a committee or at Los Angeles County can many on school district organization so that kind of wanes up the process that says now we have our maps we identified the criteria we listened to public on that we got the demographer or the demographers submitted some maps we listened to people's opinions about those maps we came to a decision about what to do and we're ready to submit that to the Los Angeles County Committee on school district organization so now we do that in March and then also in March are submitting that waiver application to the State Board of Education they'll put it on their mana agenda meanwhile in March or April the Los Angeles County Committee on school organization will have validating a making sure that prove that the change that you have all decided on and and once the State Board of Education approves the waiver then we're done and we're official wasn't there step where there you have to hold a meeting they have a hearing here in the district so I just need clarification that if we're gonna go ahead and remap after the census right here it says on 3/11 2020 identified the trustee areas in which elections will be held in 2020 so can you please clarify so will the elections in 2020 November 2 20 well the map be already in place if you go through this process and follow this timeline yes the maps will be in place but then we're gonna redistricting so it's going to shift her house it's going to shift again typically keep generally the same boundaries but it starts first and it costs to July 31st but we actually we had a meeting with Daniel Lee today who said that it's been extended to July 31st to finalize everybody we're all supposed to do it on April 1st if people don't that our parents and constituents can click on click on for what they don't do it on our website but we will have computers that each of the schools that they can come and use to complete their census yeah I mean I think the question is for us so I mean I I think people ask for more information right to decide what are we gonna or what are we doing next we haven't had that I'm not sure everyone last time said they were I'll say my only it appears that this this feels relatively like imminent or or inevitable I mean to me the only thing I wonder is to do it now versus waiting till after is the only thing I wonder like what we're really saving or not that that's the only thing I'm not I mean we're it's a risk or that we're taking that we're not gonna get a demand letter I guess I have greater confidence that if you're saying that if we follow this timeline then you're saying that based on this timeline with the meetings that laço has to have here and whatnot there's a certainty that it would be ready by 2020 if nothing goes wrong if we if after you adopt a resolution on January 27th and you know note there's no delays and everything goes smoothly and we finish it within 90 days then you're protected from that 30,000 but I have to tell you it doesn't always go smoothly I don't know the district and I don't know the community but I've had in other districts we've had rather than followed the time limit when we got halfway through we extended the timeline to do a fifth and a sixth public hearing and then they made adjustments to the map so we started in one district with four maps and then we expanded to eleven and then they went back down to three and then back down to two so if that was based on community input they had 30 40 people coming to meetings and saying well you know we don't think that this apartment building should be in district 3 it should be in district 2 and you know people really got into the videos and then I've had other districts where only one or two people came and they said the maps look fine and the process went smoothly so I can't promise you that you know I can you know protect you from that $30,000 because they don't know how that process will go so I mean I think the other piece that I would add is just I mean from what I've heard like some of our neighbors have decided to go the route and are going to trustee areas others have talked about it and decided they are not going to it at this point so I mean to your point you and I think I think both are both are our options that we could consider in my mind and I'm ambivalent I'm either way I mean I'm fine either way really anybody else your London how do you feel about it oh okay Gaby or board member iriemaan okay well so if if some folks if some folks are fine either way then I then I wonder why why don't we why don't we look at extending this this is a rushed timeline is because we're trying to squeeze it in for this for the upcoming election but if we're if we're finding either way can we should we slow the process down or not maybe look to after the twenty after the twenty twenty election so we're only paying what because here's something that could happen correct me if I'm if I'm wrong we could invest the money to do it this first time the process could be delayed and then we don't make it to the 2020 election we get a demand letter we have to pay that that money and then we have to invest the money again after there's the the census to do the process again anyhow that's possible the other possibility is that between now and January 27th you get an eMeter that's true yeah so there's those two possibilities it's hard to predict right exactly what's happened so but but if we go through the entire process and adopt maps somebody could still send us a demand letter and like let's see it after the ability for us to put it on the 2020 ballot if we if the demand letter comes in after January 27th after you adopt a resolution to initiate the process and if you complete the process within 90 days that which would be April 27th then approximately then you would be protected from that 30,000 but if you don't finish the process by April 27th you could potentially be liable for the so what would do you think the odds would be that we're all the way that far into the process and then we get delayed and then somebody hits us with a demand letter I mean do you do you think they'll actually do that when they see that we're already doing it or I couldn't tell you for sure I can tell you that in one district that I'm working with here in LA County that did happen well they started the process then but they didn't complete it within 90 days so they ended up having to pay the $30,000 and that wasn't really the fault of the district it was just the circumstances that occurred the way well yeah I mean the other districts that I'm working with we started the process back in August and September and so we're pretty far along and we're gonna probably complete the process by January February and so yeah starting the process in January does make it a little bit tight and that's why we wrote it this way there's a little bit of leeway in the public hearing is orange for thinking that we have a little bit of leeway that could be you know expanded to you know a few weeks later in march toward the end of march if we needed time but I wrote it this way with the idea of mine that if we did need a little more time we had some but yeah I wouldn't argue with you that it's a it's it's a big decision you know and for us just to have a meeting here and read this and just make the decisions it's it's I'm myself as a quadrant right I just thought it's just very rough rushed for me yeah well you have to kind of weigh it you know the community better than I do like I said I have you know it's one district in LA County where the demand letter came in during that window period another district there waiting you know till the 2022 and they haven't gotten a demand letter and then a neighboring district did get a demand letter so I don't know how these attorneys decide which district to send the demand some cases some cases it's a community activist who goes to them in other cases it's just could I just clarify something this is basically a 90 day schedule and if we if we start the process later on and decide that we're going to have an elongated process but we get a demand letter we're gonna have to go back to that a 90 day schedule because if I heard you right yeah it has to be completed within 90 days once we get the demand letter so it feels tight right well but it may feel tight if we get it it will feel tight whenever we get that two-man letter if we do I would like to request a copy of mark I would like to request a copy of that notice that you were given if you can go ahead and please send that over to myself and it whichever another school board member would like that copy as well I would like to go ahead and read what they had asks what they've asked for could you please have it by next week already thank you I would I mean I would include our response to did we respond to one last question so yeah we're saying if it's not completed in 90 days then we're we're kind of exposed again ken is there the potential of scheduling a meeting on the 89th day to adopt a resolution to to reset the process to keep us in line how does that are there things that we can do or one district did that they adopted a resolution in 2017 and then decided to go ahead and start the process and they adopted a second resolution in August of 2019 but you know the attorney argued that hey you didn't complete the process of 90 days from the filing of the resolution if you can state them for the film she couldn't capture and we can hear you the whole situation the way the legislature set this up makes it very difficult for school district cities special districts to avoid not going to a by district system quickly and avoiding attorneys fees you know it's like I said in some cases there's a community activist who goes to the attorney and says hey you know you know sue my school district or they're not you know they're not moving fast enough so there's been a few of those sometimes the letter just comes out of the blue and we don't know how so it it's you know you asked about having two resolutions well in the case that I mentioned with the school district that adopted a resolution in 2017 they decided not to move forward with the process and they waited until 2019 they adopted a second resolution in August of 2019 and then they got a letter to man letter in September of 2019 so we argued that you're not entitled to 30,000 because we're going to complete the process within 90 days from the August 2019 resolution and they argued no it goes back to the 2017 resolution and so you know we we ended up settling we didn't pay him the whole 30,000 but we ended up paying him quite a bit of money so you know it's a it's a tough situation if we would have litigated that than what it cost the district more than $30,000 is it possible to move forward with this process but use this process to get information from the community and their input on their preference moving forward sure you could do that yeah yeah that won't protect you from a demand letter but it'll give you a more of an it will give you information so make it so we couldn't adopt a resolution on the 27th and then move forward and yeah I see mission yeah if you adopt a resolution on the 27th of January you can still change you know decide how fast to move forward you you if you decide not to complete the process at 90 days based on the community input you certainly can do that but you have that risk of a demand letter in the $30,000 I think that's a good idea I mean many idea I okay so we kind of have an idea of what we want to do this is a real goal to the 27 are meeting on the 27th and discuss it more kind of digest what we've already heard and so then should we at that meeting and/or at the February 3rd meeting that if you know to the public that that's an opportunity to speak into the preference one way or the other so then if you do that you would be potentially if you want to adopt a resolution you might be doing it on February 12th which would be a first resolution but that fabric also according to this is when we're supposed to be doing the second resolution for the demographer the criteria so can we do both he said we could adopt the resolution on the 27th regardless and and still move forward with the public hearing yeah and if you decide not to move forward for the 2020 elections after you adopt the resolution you could always amend the resolution at a later meeting you but just then of course your formal sure to the 30,000 but you can always amend the resolution my purpose would be therefore then to move forward so that as scheduled on the 27th adopt a resolution but you know get some some public input to speak into the preference from the community is there a possible way we can do Community Survey like we do on a school bond you know how we we serve the community and see if they you know words maybe will run if you can speak idea you could do a Community Survey sure I mean there were no prohibition on doing that it's more of the logistics of it I don't know how long that would take you'd have to hire a consultant to to do the survey but sure you could do that so we've agreed upon having a Community Survey well I mean I think a Shimano survey or the bond it was the actual poll well a survey poll whatever you call I just like to know how what community feels about this process will get a better idea also I mean perhaps maybe on the 27th have that survey that polls so that way we can bat day again get some type of you know some type of information of how the constituents that the the community feels about this sure on the 27th on the 27th or for the 24 the beginning of the time for the meeting so then now as soon as we feel well is how does that impact our pack plus survey when does that go up or did it already go up it's already and when is it when do we want people to finish it by the other input okay I guess we're done thank you sweetheart thank you meeting is ending at 8:10 p.m.
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where the green okay okay it was good evening everyone it is 6:05 so we're gonna kick this off we have a quorum and a very full agenda and some people who've indicated they want to get out of here at a reasonable hour so we will try to Commissioner hukum your mr. McCoy Commissioner CLE V dear wisher Mirsky your chair Lensky Commissioner Carlene Colvin Garcia here Commissioner soccer here and a commissioner I'm a comer we have thank you okay so we have the agenda in front of us as I said a number of items on there after our usual energy report we have an update from the office of sustainability and innovation around the solar landfill solar proposal we have a solar access resolution discussion the EB ordinance presentation and a resolution not I think not to be voted on this evening I think it was intended to be a conversation but I guess we can discuss that around the electrification ordinance and a conversation around solar installs and then we will move into our committee updates so do we have a motion to approve the agenda or any move to approve the agenda all in favor okay and the minutes we got the minutes from Josh move all in favor aye opposed okay the minutes are approved and at this time we'll open it up for public input we do have a couple members of the public here if you'd like to speak for a few minutes on any topic related to energy or welcome to the podium at this time Thank You chair Lensky Ken Garber just take the obvious we are in a climate emergency and it's great Attenberg likes to point out in an emergency you change your behavior sadly that isn't happening in ann arbor construction just since the city's last Climate Action Plan in 2012 the city has approved projects that have brought or will bring 5,500 new bedrooms just to downtown Ann Arbor on the outskirts in a do Varon area alone north oaks north sky and cottages at barton green are building out 823 single-family homes townhomes and student apartments with 2,800 bedrooms the U of M has its own building boom going on all these projects with a single exception to my knowledge a small project in 321 North Main they use a geothermal burn natural gas for heat this has not even been a site plan review issue natural gas heating has just been assumed but why not cost practical electrification alternatives exist and any marginal cost difference would be trivial in the overall construction budget I think we use gas for the same reason we drive cars on one-mile errands take daily showers and fly to Florida for the winter even though we no longer have Michigan winters because we've always done it that way last month I spoke here to you and suggested that you try often adopt an ordinance banning natural gas infrastructure altogether in new construction as cities like San Jose Berkeley and Brookline Massachusetts have done to jumpstart this discussion we at the climate mobilization have now drafted such an ordinance incorporating what we think are the best features of the existing ordinances yes we know that the city attorney and U of M law professor O'Dea Selene have been asked to look into let me get the legality of such a measure but we cannot afford to wait for a definitive legal opinion you must move forward now so we are ready once the lawyers have signed off we can't every two weeks keep approving more and more fossil fuel infrastructure and still expect to achieve or even approached our 2030 carbon neutrality target I believe that target is feasible but only if we radically change the way we do things quickly scaling up to a world war two scale national and local effort we must change our behavior for the sake of young people here and everywhere this ordinance is just an obvious first step to stop the bleeding we put it forward to start the conversation in no way that we consider it a finished document thank you for giving it your attention tonight and for your excellent work on the Commission thank you I want to agree with Ken about getting out for natural gas I just converted my house over to an air-source heat pump this fall and it actually performs a very very well and it's a lot more even heat I think one of the most important things that Ken said was that were in an emergency no time to wait I wanna say thank you to all the people that worked very hard on the EEV ordinance citizens but it's taken an awfully long time to get that truth of process and it still isn't through the process we need to try and streamline things neither of our council people are here tonight so I can't ask them to try to speed things up but time's a-wasting so I hope you'll go ahead and push the evie ordinance the interesting thing is that we don't have it passed and we're already seeing these big developments that go in actually installing some AV charging stations on their own now it's not the percentages that we have in the ordinance so the ordinance is still very important but we're kind of behind the curve if people are already doing it before we're saying this they should so thank you thank you any other public comment okay moving on to the Energy Report point of water is it appropriate to hear just a motion to adopt this here or at some point later in the agenda bubble ization okay energy report news from the office and commissioners all right I want to kind of welcome back Thea Yeager leader who helps a lot as far as energy Commission work and other work in the office so she'd say she took her ten month-to-month kind of break which ended up being a little bit longer than two months but she's back now with us I just want to kind of welcome her back to our office I also wanted to bring up some information as far as our forum so every year you know we can these forums I think from January to April and this year the forums are really geared kind of towards our a20 work we actually have in January January 30th from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
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