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[Music] okay so first we have our student spotlight sick children so okay so I am so very thrilled to be here today as the proud principal of center school to share with you some of the developments in our preschool program we have this year we added a teacher we added a speech language therapist that the program is definitely growing and they're doing some really great things all in alignment with the Connecticut Early Learning and Development standards and in best practices for you'll see ruler involved here just this is where it starts this is the foundation so I hope that you can see where the things that are our teachers and our speech therapists are doing with our youngest learners I'm three years old coming in you know over the course of the year we believe students enrolling really are building the foundation that they'll need to move forward so that portion of a graduate really starts with the right here so I'm gonna the teachers put together a video and so I'll take some questions afterwards but they wanted to kind of give you a broad scope of what happens in their their program [Music] the program has changed to show you a little video sampling of our students we want to make sure that everybody knows that they're very the Board of Education let's welcome the administrators [Music] [Applause] [Music] if it's red alright let's start our pattern that we won save the tiger [Music] can you point to the number eight Tyler what number comes before eight can you point to the number ten can you tell me what number comes after ten okay so we have the most sunny days what type of weather do we have the least [Music] now could you tell me how many cloudy days and windy days we have all together Harry's doorbell rang again it was his friend the spoon looking old as can't be Harry said please come and join me what do we do with this boom me mix or sterner look back at this picture what do you think is going to disappear and right where was aired Oh mark Harry was go ahead Radley what you got you know that is great would rape yeah [Music] are you feeling how are you feeling [Music] it was his friend the straw looking oldest to be Harry's dead that's right get the shot now can you guys try to make some circles for me [Music] [Applause] that's know me leo [Music] Oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so as you can see there's a lot of purposeful work that's happening everything that happened there is tied to a standard that it will lead to a further you know kind of progress up through the grade levels in support of fine motor development language development sensory development self self-regulation and self-awareness as well as early literacy math skills so there's a lot of work going on in our pre-k we're very proud of all that they're doing does anyone have any questions or anything to ask about sure okay we can move on to public comment nobody's signed up is there anyone here from the public that would like to speak just when you get up to the podium just please state your name and address for the record and you'll have three minutes Thanks hello all right thank you my name is Victoria Guarino twelve rocky road in Brookfield so I haven't been to any Board of Ed meetings this year I apologize but I did hear from a student actually a high school student that there is possibly that the K through six Spanish program is possibly going to be taken away is that true it's something that we have discussed at previous meetings okay so um I just as a parent in the town and as a 14-year educator in a different town I just want to speak to how that would negatively impact our students and our town one of the main reasons that my husband and I bought a house in Brookfield was because of the excellent school system and one of the major programs that we did look into was the language program and how it starts at so young early of an age my sorry my students a curry he goes to center school he's in kindergarten and he is loving the Spanish program he comes home he's taught me the days of the week he can count to 20 already in Spanish he knows his colors in Spanish and we know developmentally that children once they hit puberty that language acquisition really starts to deteriorate so the time is when they're in their early education in elementary school that it's really important that they are acquiring these skills and so I just wanted to state my opinion on on this situation so thank you very much thank you thank you is there anyone else who would like to speak okay seeing none we'll move on to the student representative report okay hi everyone so in the high school right now we don't have a whole lot going on but we have midterms for one thing today was the first day so who have students who had like their first two classes on a day is they took those midterms they didn't have any classes they didn't have to come into school which is great but that was the first day and they're gonna go on until Monday so that's just something that's you know been going on other than that there's a lot of planning so for example we're having we're trying to revive the mr.
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[Music] and we do walk over you Victoria will answer Alex Backlund and jurina-chan where's your tongue [Music] represent the Jewish Mary [Music] thank you ladies and gentlemen what has mr. de for allowing us to recognize a winner of our writing contest here at the school board meeting I want to thank you guys because none of this strength no problem this would have happened without your support you came here a few months ago to try to promote our program after decades of not being utilized our post you see great help from Kara thank you very much for spreading the word and getting those candidates and today I would like to present to you our winners as verse Victoria wolf Anderson Alice Halton arena chef during the channel now it is a quick recap of our writing contest called the voice of democracy and the yelling basis of national provides us a team to distribute to our students I mean they can write an essay based upon that being I'm also dual reporting pretty much a speech of the essay as well and we judge the students based on the delivery for the speech the writing and the content and all the students here deliver we were grateful to receive it and to receive their the entries and we see their perspective last year's think what makes America great Victoria our first-place winner --whoa a Maine amazing essay about the process that she underwent to come to the realization of what it was life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and it was a very bold statement because it started after the controversial election in 2016 and she to her emotions and asking different ethnicities and friends from different backgrounds of whether they think America was great so she provided a perspective from different nationalities and it was again a very bold whoa approach especially since it was going to be revealed by mostly Vietnam veterans Korean War battle but we appreciated it and we were happy to say no where it's a state which you want third place at the district level second place winner Alice Hoffman providing a great essay revolt around 9/11 they have that one event told him that no matter how the body would main scenes Merrick America can come together and unite tours one cost and in a arena provided a great perspective from an immigrant background he told the story of her parents and how they came here and they were able to pursue their dreams and with that being said I would like I would like to present Victoria or family son with the first play plays black she was already given her $500 check at a previous event expected the details our providing second-place plaques to the Alice Walker as well as the $250 check for for second place winner and also I would like to provide third place flag to what happens when you win things you get lots of recognition which is low deserved before I recognize our winners here I do want to say something was 149 I've got to know folks there over the last year or so and one of the great things they do is a pancake breakfast every month and if you haven't been there and courage you to go because the proceeds go to their scholarship fund and the food is really good as I can but it is a wonderful our young people and I have to say to all of you that this is maybe your first big recognition but I guarantee it won't be your last and through life there are opportunities to really step up and and say something important to the community in this contest so we all appreciate that but we also I know that we're gonna go on into business time and time again we need you to so I'm going to start with the citation citations from the state of Connecticut and it is from the General Assembly and it's nine five members of the delegation from Danbury that's myself Julie Kushner representative Richard a Smith Steven party after God created our content rahiba event Brennan being hereby known to all the Connecticut General Assembly offers its Lucero's congratulations to Victoria wolf Anderson in recognition of your achieving first place in the voice democracy scholarship program at Danbury VFW plus 149 your audio essay demonstrated American values of democracy and patriotism best of luck in the district competition which we already know you have done well and heather's the entire membership extends its very best wishes on this memorable occasion expresses the hope for continued success and that's signed by the president pro tempore and the Speaker of the House Martin and moody and Joe aricema wits and secretary of the state Denis marrow language in this because people but Alex nonetheless I do want to read our congratulations to you in recognition of your achieving second place in the voice of democracy scholarship program met dancer ABF w+ 149 you listened and told our American story of democracy and theatre Tiffany Mercado is saying we you thrive in the next steps of your education and all of your endeavors now Tina jurina-chan and recognition of your achieving third place in danbury VFW post voice of democracy scholarship program you demonstrated our American ideals of democracy and action [Applause] anybody take a photo together it's be nice to get the flags this one first like it's just enough for some closing statements I just want to touch base book some more of our scholarship we as senator Julie Kirchner I've mentioned before we do hold a breakfast every month for our own personal post scholarship with the voice of democracy there's also a patreon spend which is at the middle school level and these are reoccurring themes each year so each year will will have a new theme to write on and so this will go on and on for years to come so it's just not at the high school level but also at the middle school level and in conjunction with our VFW Post 149 scholarship so it's our way of reaching out to the students and making a difference so that's all I guess I think that resumes getting built in [Laughter] I just wanted to mention that obviously congratulations to the winners but that the board should know members team at the port that's done who wanted this post is incredible relative to what they do with education of the students I can attest to that the one of the initial people that helped us kick off the playground project and make it a success and that constantly doing something to promote the education of network so thank you one to you true great job thank you first of all I just wanted to say Happy New Year and welcome all of the new board members we're so happy to see you and happy to have you here I'm here tonight because kahlúa at AI has noticed on the agenda that there is something about the AI of madness operations plan and I'm not really sure if this is the right thing we were wondering if this is the conversation about turning the magnet school in between in truck magnet school and if I just wanted to waste that we have some real concerns about that at our school our staff does many of us myself included have been at 14 years ago and you know we where is he in there we we work together constantly we're meeting you know before school after school during lunch times during prep periods were meeting with each other meeting with students there's constant communication going and we we kind of feel and we're sure that you didn't intend to keep us out of the conversation but we would really we would really welcome you to come and talk to us about this idea that you're tossing around before you make any decisions we might have some some food for thought for you and we would just really appreciate open lines of communication between you and and us because in the end whatever decision is made we're going to be there still and we're going to be implementing and whatever it is whatever decision is made so we really value communication amongst ourselves as a team and you're part of that team and we really would like to welcome you into our school into our home and and have have open conversations about that's all that I wanted thank you so much so I just wanted to first thank the board for the conversation of the last meeting and really for hearing the teachers who spoke about the calendar and for postponing that though until tonight I also know that they attack a Samara for her work and trying to also hear what the teachers had to say about the various issues it's a work in progress every year it's gonna change I know that dr.
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Leonard for your report no report this evening great planning commission officers and committees written communications and petitions we have a couple of items that are in our packet and now we move on to audience participation at this time I invite anybody who is here at our meeting to address the Planning Commission in regards to any item that is not on the agenda if you are here to address any item that's and the agenda please step forward state your name and address for the record and you'll have up to three minutes to address the Planning Commission my name is Adam Hughes my others 2-1 to East Washington Street it's like the first and foremost thank you guys for hearing me out tonight I'm here to kind of speak on the short-term rental agenda item that got passed last two weeks ago at City Council not going to spend too much time talking to you about how much I disagree with moving forward with option three but rather I'm going to spend time focusing on something I feel is a little bit more important and that I think that there is kind of a negative rhetoric being painted at least that's what I'm sensing from City Council when talking about short-term rentals and those who operate them the vibe I'm getting is that most people are assumptive that short-term rental owners are absentee owners that don't participate in the community and don't care about their neighbors and I feel like it wouldn't I wouldn't be serving you know the company that I worked for and put so much time and effort into if I didn't speak up and kind of share with you guys a little bit about how we operate so we have Reynolds long-term and short-term and I'm just here to tell you that there are property owners in Rena and rental owners that take this seriously and operate them with honesty and integrity we engage our community we like being active members of our neighborhood you know this I think all this stuff has kind of been brought to light and has this negative cloud over it because of some unfortunate events that occurred and on you know whether it's parties or things that have happened with the short-term rentals and in them I think that just taking that negative clout and pushing directly into a full outright ban which option three kind of what essentially option three is I just think that it doesn't give a fair shake to the people out there that are doing it correctly we're kind of being put in this situation of guilty until proven innocent rather than innocent until proven guilty and I just think that it's not quite fair so yeah should we regulate it and put some more parameters around it sure I mean for the people that operate these properly and care about their neighborhood it's not going to be an issue for them to make sure that they're doing it that way and hopefully it can weed out some of the bad apples but moving forward binary you know with option three and taking these out of commission completely just it doesn't make sense and yeah I just I want you guys to know that there are people out here that do it properly that care about being active members of the neighborhood and we provide a pretty sweet and pretty cool experience to people that come into Ann Arbor and want to experience this place just like the citizens who live here so thank you so much thank you is there anyone else in the audience who wishes to address I have to tell you that we met with Elizabeth Nelson at her Sunday Coffee Hour this past week and I was really shocked to hear her comments I asked her you know I said back in October when we first started talking about this Carlisle report and what was going to happen and I got an email from her or she said oh I don't think you have to worry you know you non-owner occupied host councils not going to go in that direction it's not our intent to put you guys out of business and basically that's what they did there or they're trying to do so I asked her at the coffee you know what what caused this change of heart because you voted for it and she said well you know we really didn't have a lot of information we we don't think that the report was very good and you know a lot of members on council just sort of feel that you know this is not a good thing to have in your neighborhood well that was shocking to me you don't have a good report you don't have good data you're gonna go ahead and push something through that it's gonna put people out of business and for why because you have a feeling that you don't want these people I am those people I am a host we host primarily families in our home I have a family coming from Iraq in a week to stay for five weeks while their father gets a stem-cell transplant at U of M I challenge anybody to say that I'm a bad neighbor I know my neighbors we had a family come in this past week to meet their great grandchild for the first time the woman came out and helped me shovel the walk and engaged my neighbors who were out shoveling their walk she said you know how it was so great to be here lovely neighborhood if that's being a bad neighbor I don't know so I'm really asking you guys to start thinking about what you're doing here rather than just acting on the mandate from counsel because I think that the mandate from council was ill-prepared ill-advised small-minded and rushed to judgment thank you thank you hey guys Heidi poster 1204 Brooklyn I'm just going to add on quickly to what Carol said the other the other thing that Elizabeth informed us was that because we we were really concerned about option 3 being the the option that was put into the ordinance as opposed to one of the other options that was less I'm gonna say trakone Ian hope I don't offend anybody by saying that but the response that we got was well we had to go with option 3 because that was the only option that the city felt that they could enforce we've heard a lot about enforcement and the give-and-take in the back and forth about how hard or easy that might be you know I'll volunteer my services I'll volunteer my staff services we will roundtable this with anybody who wants to talk to us we as my employee Adam mentioned we abide by all the rules you know we we don't get we don't have police calls we don't have issues we don't have complaints we're good neighbors as he mentioned I think that the way we do things and the way most short-term rental owners do things are you know 98% of what would need to be incorporated into a set of bylaws that would really enable everybody to get along well and to eliminate the issues I will just I will just say I'm not here to dispute anybody's issues that they've had I'm not here to judge them or downplay those you know we've had one air B&B where complete strangers stay together and they share a common area but they have six different Suites we've never had a problem with people not getting along or anybody feeling threatened so I'd like to chalk that up to being prepared beforehand having a good set of rules having codes of conduct being available 24/7 having those guests know that they are accountable to a set of rules all of those things working together I think you can you can use those to really run up a productive business that doesn't in danger harm or threaten anybody else so we are we are here we are ready to work with the administration we are experienced we've been doing this for a long time and I just I want to make that offer now because I think we can be helpful so thank you very much thank you is there anyone else in the audience who wishes to address the Planning Commission regarding an item that's not on the agenda and I don't want to repeat a lot of what they said but I guess in terms of the report I also had gone to Elizabeth coffee and her words were the report from Carlisle was pathetic and that was a direct quote my concern is that there's going to be a lot of emphasis from your group I think it got sent to your group to really look at option three is a starting point and I would really like to make the suggestion that you look at option one and start there as your framework in terms of how to regulate short-term rentals as Adam said I think everybody's okay about getting got the permit the certificate occupancy do whatever you need to do most of the people have done that and I think right now there's a lot of data that needs to be collected in terms of they go well we don't know how many are out there we don't know where they are well in my opinion that's not rocket science you like you know in July you come up and you say when you have your final report you need to be registered or whatever it is by a certain date and those are the people that are in us so you're not all of a sudden changing the rules on people who've had this business for however many years three four or five years it might be longer there was some concern about you know you're operating a business in the residential area well this was a concern then how comes some of these certificate sees that actually said short-term rentals were allowed I know there's some differences in the zonings but I guess my my point is is I'd really like you to make your starting point option one definitely get handle on how many of these short-term rentals there are and yes there are some bad instances that have been getting a lot of notoriety but there's a lot of good experiences that are being sort of pushed to the side because of these few that are rather extreme I'll say so anyway I thank you for your time and hope that you'll seriously look at option one is being your starting point thank you thank you is there anyone else in the audience who wishes to address the Planning Commission seeing no one will move on our agenda and the next item is public hearing scheduled for the February 4th 2020 Planning Commission meeting we have three petitions scheduled for the for that meeting one is the garnet to plan unit development and site plan this is a proposal to rezone 8.2 acre parcel from c1 B to Planned Unit development to can start 210 unit condominium building with 14 lower-level parking spaces at 325 East Summit this was a petition that came through previously it was denied by City Council and the petitioner is seeking approval of the project through the planning development zoning category then a proposed request for annexation and Zoning by a property on a single-family property owner to annex the property from Ann Arbor township into the city at 1780s IO Church Road and then finally proposed amendments to the city's requirements for site plans area plans and required plan information specifically to clarify the required site plan information for special exception uses thank you now we on to unfinished business the first and the only item in our on finished business is MSG see you credit union site plan partial rezoning for City Council approval and a special exemption used in landscape modification for City Planning Commission approval will begin this this item with a petitioner presentation you'll have up to 10 minutes to address the Planning Commission we'll then head on to Miss Thatcher for a staff report and then a motion and discussion and a vote good evening my name is John Vitali and I'm with the firm Stuckey and Vitali architects I had a question before we proceed with the presentation understanding that there's only six commission members and that we would require a vote of all six to pass our proposal is the ability to table this at any time during your presentation or is there what what if we can we go ahead with a presentation and then table at a later time or so the table if if we decide to table it would come from the Planning Commission so if one of the Planning Commission members moves the table it will come to vote the table and then we'll go from there okay to be clear initiating the presentation doesn't forego that operate that that's why I appreciate that that's what I wanted to clarify well again this evening we're presenting a new facility for Michigan schools and government credit union so the credit union of course has been a very successful credit union and is very interested in locating in the Ann Arbor community on our firm stuck in vitaliy architects we have been in business over 50 years our firm is well established has done a lot of work in the in our community as well as throughout the United States myself personally I've been on a Planning Commission over 25 years personally and I so I have a feel for sitting behind the desk as you do tonight included in our team is don't feel engineering a national engineering firm with experience again in various states throughout the throughout the country I'll talk a little bit about the history of the project project we started engaging with the city of Ann Arbor in genuine January of 2019 that's when we started our pre semental discussion Planning Commission meeting that that we went to on December 3rd 2019 Oh actually almost 11 months after we started the process introduced the idea that no drive-throughs might be considered so you just wanted to make the point that you know throughout the process working with the Planning Department that that's never really come up and although we've gotten full approval from planning's to happen planning and engineering that the discussion about no drive through to reduce the carbon footprint was the first time that that was presented to us so our our client has really put put forth a lot of due diligence and hard work money and time invested in getting this project to this point and and you know there's really no written ordinance or written directive or anything that really talks about reducing that carbon footprint so that that's the first time we remain aware of it is that that meeting so I would like to talk a little bit about drive throughs in general so for credit unions that Drive thrus an inside essential piece of their business model it provides convenience to the members it provides accessibility to people with disabilities and the elderly people that are caregivers people with children young children it provides convenience for them and the idea that less Drive thrus creates less carbon footprint I think is a little bit unfounded as well because less Drive thrus provide longer waiting lines more lines a lot more cars so the idea of reducing the amount of Drive thrus is not really helpful I think in the idea of the reducing the carbon footprint but even even the idea of a carbon footprint reduction by no drive-throughs is not really totally proof in fact a quote in one of our slides we have a quote from our wdi which is a international engineering firm and they're their specialists in environmental consulting a quote from them suggests just the opposite the congestion that occurs in parking lot together with the start-up emissions and emissions from Express travel distance to and from the space all contribute to produce somewhat higher emissions per vehicle compared to a business that has a drive through and this is an international firm and so I guess I'm saying that the idea of just eliminating drive throughs is not really thoroughly vetted and thought-out and so I mean the idea of lowering the carbon footprint is admirable and I I think that we can't dispute that we all don't disagree with that that effort but I think there are other things too that might be even a higher priority in reducing the carbon footprint that might be considered besides removing a drive through so credit unions are not a high-volume pedestrian destination either and so credit union members need the convenience of a drive-through so I'll let Mike planting from our firm we did listen to the Planning Commission and we made a number of revisions at at your suggestion so we resubmitted a lot of these revisions and Mike Mike can go through those right now so if you go to the next slide the site plan from the meeting we had in December the revisions we made it one of them was the landscaping so we've taken the landscaping that's right at the entrance coming off of west stadium boulevard we pulled the tree back and we also have trimming notes on the tree to keep the branches at a certain height we added pedestrian walk up ATM to the front entrance so it was concerned about bicycle travel coming to the rear with the ATM or walk-up so we've kind of given both opportunities for walk-up and bicycle and our bicycle you know stations there are right next to the entrance and that's right at Stadium Boulevard so it's good visibility so we've provided for that there was another about adding a sidewalk on the south side from the Arbor Farms for that people that may be parked there would run over to the ATM or to the credit union so we've got a sidewalk that runs the entire length there on the south side to allow for that occurrence too for them to have a path to get to the front of the building or come out of the lane go over to our farms so if we've provided for that we also reduced the amount of asphalt paving we pulled the site in we got rid of the loading zone and we've actually reduced it from 36 percent coverage to 32 percent coverage so we've reduced the pavement on the entire site by the 4% we also I know there's a discussion about trying to get cross access to the adjacent properties both to the north and the south we realign the South so it's not directly in front of the drive-thru so when you come out of the drive-thru and make a turn and then you go around the site to exit if we can't have that cross access at this particular moment but as planning staff provided for you at the last meeting we're showing in our plans so if the future properties develop we would have it in place and there was also discussion we would provide across access these been through discussion you know through working at the planning and the final version of this so that's no problem but we also provided a North now connection potential and we've lined them up so those are two-way is twenty four foot wide so you can have traffic on both ways through this site so that's another change that we made so we you know we tried to tighten this as tight as we can get it we've tried to align the parking and the driving areas so they make sense and hopefully that cross access will be available to us in the future so those are the changes we made to the site plan based on your feedback from the last meeting thank you hi i'm steve brewer i'm the chief financial officer for michigan schools and government credit union i just want to let you know that we're really interested in being a part of your community we have 15 branches you know 13 other communities and we were very good community partners every every every city that we do business with would give us a good reference as far as our community our commitment to the community our involvement in the community keeping the property up in excellent condition just like john mentioned for his firm we're 50 plus year old company we're the largest credit union headquartered in Macomb County and we're the top 2% of all credit unions in the United States we have excellent financials and we would be a very good partner for your community we would really like to be here I have some information about our efforts in the different communities from 2019 I'd like to pass out to you as well Steve if you have any question so you'll be glad to answer those great thank you so much we will now move on to miss Thatcher for the staff report I don't have much to add the one obvious big thing that wasn't addressed in this revised site plan was the concern about having drive-thru lanes in the first place but they have chosen to resubmit with three drive-thru lanes and I'm happy to answer any questions you might have great thank you alright at this time I'd like to open up the public hearing if there's anyone in the audience who wishes to address the Planning Commission and regards to this item you will have three minutes to address the Planning Commission you'll want to step up to the podium state your name and address for the record seeing no one I'll close the public hearing and I will read the three motions that we have before us and without objection we will take all three together great motion number one the Ann Arbor City Planning Commission for sorry we have four have to flip the page we have four motions is everyone okay taking all four of them together all right thank you motion number one the Ann Arbor City Planning Commission hereby recommends that the mayor and city council approved the Michigan schools and credit union rezoning petition to see three French commercial district based on the proposed zoning and recommend commercial land use designation motion number two the Ann Arbor City Planning Commission after hearing all interested persons and reviewing all relevant information finds the petition substantially meets the standards in Chapter 55 Ann Arbor unified development code section 5 29.5 special exemption use and therefore approves the Michigan schools and Credit Union a special exemption use for maximum of three drive-through lanes as part of a financial services use the pool is based on the following findings number one the proposed use will be consistent with the c3 fringe commercial district zoning district which provides commercial activities access primarily by automobile to the proposed use will not adversely impact traffic pedestrians bicyclists circulation or Road intersection based on the location West stadium boulevard provides access to the site and the proposed use is consistent with other surrounding use traffic impact motion number three the in Arbor City Planning Commission hereby approves the proposed landscape modifications according to chapter 55 unified development code section 53 dot three dot B dot seven to require zero square foot square feet of bioretention area due to the condition of contaminated on-site soils and motion number four the Harbor City Planning Commission hereby recommends that the mayor and city council approved the Michigan schools and Credit Union site plan do have a commission that will move that move by commissioner Mills seconded by Commissioner get Brandel and we are in discussion Commissioner Agra Brandel I'm a little confused that it's the plans that we're seeing show bioretention but then that in the staff report and and what was just read it said that there isn't any bioretention so could you clarify what we're seeing versus what were they here yes the petitioner please I don't want to go come on sorry good evening Eric Williams don't field engineering and design 607 Shelby Street Detroit to elaborate on that so the site was previously a gas station car wash facilities there were underground storage tanks that had previously existed since removed there's some elevated ground water levels in certain areas that were found to be contaminated so that's the reason for the waiver now the detention pond that you're seeing we've worked with city staff to ensure that it's going to be lined with a plastic liner those liners allow for small planting as we wouldn't put any trees on them or anything like that that could potentially have deep roots and then on top of that that all allow for easy maintenance should a problem arise where the liner is punctured for one reason or another they can usually come in remove and replace whatever needs to be taken care of as opposed to having an underground detention system that you would typically see in a more urban environment so by row attention obviously allows for infiltration the city of Cup the city code allows for or they require infiltration to be accounted for in this case there's a 20% increase in the detention requirement so we are providing that increase by not allowing water it's an infiltrating to the system how deep is the liner I'm just curious it's either a 40 or 60 ml plastic there's we're working with the particular supplier I think they usually put a six to eight inch cap on top of it of clean soil and then from there you know we'll have perforated piping to get it into the the outlet system I'm just curious how much what's the section of soil on top of your your liner it'll be like six to eight inches it's not gonna be a significant a significant cross-section so you're planting plants in a six to eight inch soil profile now she's asking for the narrow section of the attention bond so we would like we're gonna work through those particular details with the manufacturer if it you know we've we've had discussions pull em in early with local manufacturers and if they deem that we can't put any sort of shrubbery or anything like that we would obviously maintain in the manner necessary to meet the requirements so then the the plan that we see in front of us that's what we're it's it's basically all herbaceous in terms of what's planted there there's no shrubs and they're sitting in a 6 to 8 inch soil profile on top of a liner basically correct and that's the soil cross-section I'm not a hundred percent sure on we would defer to the manufacturer and we do if you'd like I could provide you the sections that were looking at but I just don't have them off the top top of my head I guess what I would say so I do this for a living so I'm probably gonna beat this part a little bit more than you would be used to for something like this but you know as a planting media that is really thin in terms of a plant surviving and so you may just want to work with staff to figure out what is a viable section for survival with your natural features person because that doesn't seem like we would end up with a bio retention full of green things to me in terms of sort of what the end game would look like and function and so so basically you're you just purely have a detention system that it's filling up the water and it's bleeding out correct through perforated pipe at the bottom so I would just think whatever species you have in there think long and hard about what's actually gonna work given the soil profile that you have so it's just not a not a situation that many plants are used to growing in in this area they have just kind of a cap it's such a short you know distance yeah so okay so I understand how its functioning now that's helpful but you know should things go forward I think that's something that should probably be reviewed a little more deeply because I think if it's six inches of soil I think the plants just aren't gonna live and it's gonna look bad and I don't think anybody wants that you know so they have well right and so let's set them up for success by having enough of the soil profile and and weather that the liner can be deeper so that there can be something that has a chance of survival I think is a would be important if it were to move forward to make sure that that technical piece is gonna work so okay so was did you ever explore brownfield remediation as part of the project or no well we have the due care plan that the environmental there's a quite a bit of history with the site so the do care plan was the way we're kind of following your falling when there's an okay fall on the plan okay all righty Commissioner Mills I know last time I was one of the people that was really concerned about the drive-through and the criteria that we had to evaluate the drive-through which was effectively safe movements of pedestrians and vehicles and I want to applaud you for taking what we said and making this way safer I think that the way that the outlet from the drive-through works is a little bit more logical it's kind of clear what to do if I'm a pedestrian like where I go the I was going back and forth in my mind like imagining walking then through your sight because again mostly I would be on on foot or on bike and trying to figure out like do we do you really need a sidewalk all along that southern border and I think I think you kind of do because some people might not they might be not there to use the eighty or it might be after-hours right there coming from the shopping mall after-hours and so they want to use the ATM and so the back door is not open so you kind of do need I appreciate that you are providing a path for them on your site I think that that's really helpful I really appreciate showing the where the connection points would be if some day as I think our plans call for and what we would hope other property owners get on board with is connecting the neighboring sites I think that that's really really helpful I thank you for putting the an ATM on the front I think that that again is really helpful I'm a little bit nervous that people it's going to be your members that are using it and so the first time around they might walk up to the back ATM if they again depending on where they're coming from but maybe they'll learn walk in through the door and some of the same comments that I had last time I appreciate that the bike coops that you have are the most convenient parking spaces here and so kind of minimizing doing dual-purpose with your if the the asphalt that you do have in terms of the requirement for the trash pickup kind of you the driving path for that I I think that I hope that you also feel that this is an improvement to the site plan like I know that it must be nerve-wracking right to hear a whole bunch of people say well I wish you would have done that but I think I believe looking at this that this is much safer for pedestrians and so this is something where I appreciate the research that you've done on the impact that it has on our carbon emissions I really appreciate that I don't dispute I'm a researcher I don't dispute the research I think that you know on on corridors like this I mean this is where we really hope to see multi-story buildings that's not what our code calls for right our code I think allows for this we have discretion to make sure that any drive-throughs conform to those standards that we set forth in our code and so this might be something that we want to take up in the future in terms of what's applicable but I feel like the criteria that we have right now that this meets it so I plan to support this I've recognized that I recognized that the petitioner was asking potentially for a postponement and so I don't want to move that right now but I because I was one of the more outspoken people last time I just thought I would put it out there that this is something that I do plan to support mr.
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[Music] and clifford will start at the bottom this kennedy will work from the top clifton trying to work out and he gets out both wrestlers are tied up [Applause] two bad points and another pin for clifton as kennedy falls in the 132 weight class clifton leads 30 kennedy zero as now we have the 138 weight class best link for clifton giovanni cairo and kennedy no wrestler it will be a forfeit win for clifton and we have a forfeit clifton walks up [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] senior wrestler for clifton going up against taizer thompson from kennedy [Music] and wrestlers start off tangled up and kennedy tries to take the shot as he gets the right leg of clifton wrestler and clifton gets him to his back as he gets gains two points from that and he lets him up kennedy 4-0 4-1 clifton leads in the first period and clifton takes the shot as he got it locked in and he's trying to slam him and he gets him to his back he's trying to get to the pin three back points for clifton as clifton goes up 9-1 in the first period as clifton's trying to work with kennedy wrestler three more back points for clifton as they lead 12-1 in the first period [Music] and wrestlers go out of bounds as they meet in the middle and kennedy will start at the bottom as muhammad gaith will work from the top and kennedy escapes as they get gained one point from that and clifton takes a shot and that's the end of the first period clifton leads 12 for two and clifton will work from the bottom [Music] and clifton gets the reverse for two points clifton leads 14-2 in the beginning of the second period this morning [Music] and he gets into his back successful two back points for clifton clifton gets a successful takedown it would be a tech fall clifton would gain five points as clifton [Music] and clifton wins in the tech fall mohammed gaith 18-3 as 15.
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Callas mr. president members of the board and members of cabinet this evening mr. Dean will present a recognition that the district is receiving from the College Board mr. president members of the governing board dr. Kellis and members of cabinet this evening we are excited to present to the governing board the fact that the Dysart School District has earned a position on the College Board's 10th annual AP district honor roll the annual AP district honor roll recognizes districts for increasing access to Advanced Placement course work while maintaining or increasing the percentage of students earning scores of three or higher on the AP exams to sum up very quickly we increase the number of students taking AP courses and increased their their scores as well and so often when you increase the number of students who are taking a test you see a decrease in scores just because of sheer numbers our students increased and continued doing a great job on that and so as a result of that we have been placed on the College Board's 10th annual AP district honor roll we'd like to say congratulations to our high school principals and our high school staff that are here as well so congratulations [Applause] well done on that we'll go ahead and move to recognitions and celebrations item number three district partner and recognition dr.
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BHS talent show that used to happen a couple years ago just like it was just a fun talent show that everyone enjoyed but recently it hasn't been occurring so student council is trying to revive that in the form of mx BHS which is supposed to be like a gender-neutral talent show that just you know it's just more inclusive incorporates everyone who wishes to participate so that's something that student council has been working on so it's probably gonna happen sometime in April after the play they're still trying to figure out all the details but I'm excited for that Leo club is also having a Valentine's Day fundraiser again that planning is going on it's for the harvest pack which is a nonprofit organization they're looking to sell like candy and mini bears just you know fun Valentine's Day things to raise money and also something else that's going on right now in a class that's new this year at the high school in scientific research which was just started this year we are actually in the middle of conducting experiments that we have designed for the past semester so first semester we you know did a lot of research on topics of interest second quarter was a lot of planning on procedures and talking with mentors some people contacted professors at colleges some people look to psychology teachers in our in the high school and now third quarter we're actually getting to conduct the experiments so they arranged from like psychology based experiments to biology and genetics so it's it's really interesting to see how it's gonna play out there's about ten kids in the class it's very you but it's it's nice to be doing something different something very hands-on so that's all that's really happening in the moment right now how did the master your midterms event go oh yeah so I personally was at the peer counseling one because I'm a peer counselor I didn't go to the master in Merton midterms one that was from students at Brookfield but we had about sixty freshmen show up to the freshmen midterm review night which is about what we get every year and it's great to see I mean we hope that it helped in some way at all if it relieved a little stress if it helped them plan out then we'd say our job was beneficial but yeah I thought it was good it's great thank you all right Thank You Monty we will move on to approval of Board minutes oh sorry I skipped written correspondence then we have a lot of britain correspondence yes Andy Korea wrote concerning the budget Eve Sturdivant shared an op-ed regarding the budget process Georgia stabile and Ron Jaffe wrote regarding public comment at meetings Aaron scelera regarding special ed Monique Matthews and Sherrie Styron offski regarding a news Times article Georgia stabile regarding the world language program and Ron Jaffe has shared an article about vaping Thank You recommend a motion that the board approve the minutes listed below as recommended the public forum on January 8th 2020 the regular meeting on January 8th 2020 and the special joint meeting of January 15th 2020 second any questions all in favor so now we can our superintendent's update Thank You Rosa due to the budget discussion in the new building project discussions tonight I thought and the fact that the boards heard from me enough in the last couple of weeks with all the meetings we've had I'll defer my time but I did want to take the opportunity on behalf of the policy committee from this evening to put forth that the policy committee would like to motion to move policy for one 17.4 dismissal dismissal / suspension of non-tenured teachers for a first reading for this evening perhaps that could be moved to new business okay so I will go ahead and make that motion to amend the agenda and include policy number for one 17.4 yes to the first item of new business thank you all in favor aye that's it Rosa thank you on two subcommittee reports first up we have facilities okay so we met on we met on Wednesday January 8th I was nominated Committee Chair thank you we reviewed the school dude reports and we were updated on several projects one is the high school generator unfortunately it's not online there was a discrepancy in the factory wiring of the 80s and has been discovered and his work is being done Courtney fixing of this the middle school generator went out to bid paving at the high school so the athletic entrance the curbing the sidewalks this project is comparable to the middle school paving I won't require a lot of engineering paving at the middle school this is phase two the it's budgeted for it was budgeted for two hundred forty thousand it's gonna cost about one hundred ninety two thousand so we'll be able to go now further out this will be summer work HVAC controls at the high school we need to set up specifications for this work we have four buildings and five to six operating system so mr.
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Styles at a meeting today with us when we were talking about the conferences again so it's good I just think that the more we work together and more we communicate better so that was good and then I also just wanted to encourage all of the board Manor members to make contact with their liaison schools I know you guys were all newly assigned I've heard that at the last meeting and get into the schools talk to us talk to the parents talk to the teachers talk to begin really get a feel for what the school is like and what is going on in the classrooms and at Mt PTO meetings attends over the social but on you can really learn a lot by visiting I know our last liaison lino at Sandra she was a ton of our events I've mentioned that I care before and it's just really nice to have that connection to the board and to have members of the community in each of the schools have those connections so I hope that everybody will take the opportunity it goes along to your job against that point that and I know you're trying to superfast but if you try to make it a time to get out to some of the events feel for what's going around this after all motion to approve the consent calendar just assume that I get a second mr.
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Leonard I just wanted to do a quick housekeeping note that in reviewing it I was I was made aware that the past site plan was included in the link to the staff report an attachment so the staff report reflects the changes the presentation from the petitioner is accurately reflecting the changes and I have provided you an updated link to the most current staff report my apologies for that Myron's so I apologize I unfortunately missed the December third meeting I was absent that day so I've been trying to catch up on the back and forth and maybe just anecdotally when I saw the previous plan which I thought was the updated plan this plan is so much better so I really I'm incredibly encouraged by that I had one question about the parking so I noticed that the minimum parking is 18 spots the maximum is 21 and you've chosen to do the maximum and given that there was a concern about the amount of asphalt I wondered if you could speak a little bit about that decision and I can try to answer if I have to I can defer to the credit union but the number of staff that'll be at this branch they have there's three offices there's three what they call member service representatives those are MSRs and there's three teller at the you know you walk up to a counter so that's like nine up to nine people would be at this branch because this branch is farther away from their headquarters you know they'll be doing mortgage closings and the closings at this branch so you'll have you know potentially aspire seller real estate people doing a closing here at times for home mortgages and such so with the nine and we went with the maximum because we're gonna give up eight to nine for that that'll leave us eleven ten to work with ten eleven to work with on a daily basis you get a you get three or four members now you're down to three or four spaces a couple of those are handicaps so you know we need that we need enough for them for obviously the employees new members the team members to park and that's why they'll be in the back half of the site and then they'll leave the front for them for the members to occupy and so that's the reason we want with the higher number just because there's gonna be closings here and on lots of other kinds of you know financial type loans and such so and maybe people will come from the adjacent parking lots too which is potentially possible but we gotta support that design for that I understand right no I understand that it seems like a lot of parking for a credit union but okay thanks you're welcome further discussion I did have a question in regards to the special exemption use mr.
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and wrestling at 152 pounds for the clifton mustangs christopolous as clifton has a 41-0 lead against kennedy and satopolis has the right leg of the kennedy wrestler as he's trying to get a takedown [Music] oh [Music] that's the thomas is trying to take the shot unsuccessful attempt he gets to take down clifton up 2-0 and he's trying to get him to his back [Music] and kennedy gets out of that gain one point 2-1 in the first period takes a shot gets the successful takedown gains two more points and that's another pinfall for clifton stadopoulos pins in the first period as clifton goes up 47-0 and now we have wrestling the 160 weight class fort clifton senior wrestler eddie maldonado going off against kennedy wrestler ed garsantos [Music] 160 pounds and kennedy takes the early shot [Applause] [Music] as kennedy was trying to go for the big slam there [Applause] maldonado with the takedown gains two points and clifton got additional two more back points from there and kennedy takes a shot unsuccessfully [Music] [Applause] [Music] clifton gets two more points for a takedown mother nada working from the top [Music] [Applause] and clifton gets the successful splatoo and clifton gets two back points from that as clifton takes a 8-1 lead in the first period kennedy will work from the bottom unless clifton will work from the top ah as we have a kennedy wrestler down as he's appears to be fine [Music] did you see his shoulder [Music] as we have coaches come out to the wrestlers and we will resume wrestling forks four seconds left in the first period and that's the end of the first period [Music] [Applause] and kennedy gets the reverse 8-3 clifton leads second period [Music] how's clifton's trying to work from the bottom maldonado in a sticky situation here [Music] clifton gets an additional point goes up 9-3 56 seconds left in the second period as maldonado attempts to reverse [Applause] unsuccessful [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] [Applause] hey [Applause] and that's the end of the second period goes into her third period leading nine to three maldonado takes the shot gets him to his back [Applause] clifton gets three back points from that as they go up 14 to 3.
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Kellis Thank You president at this time mr. Dean will introduce this item mr. president members of the governing board dr. callous and members of cabinet we'd ask that the governing board please come forward on the dais to greet a couple of very important groups that work with our schools the first organization that we would like to recognize this evening as an extraordinary Dicer partner is the lord of life lutheran church the lord of life lutheran church works with Thompson Ranch elementary school each year and partners with them in various projects throughout each school year this year once again the church sponsored and provided Christmas gifts to 50 Thompson ranch families we'd like to ask them to come forward be greeted by the governing board and more importantly we would like to say thank you for being an extraordinary partner for our kids [Applause] and dr.
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Coble had a meeting with automated logic and they're putting together proposal to perform the first phase of the work the cone elevator service is back on a new key access which has been ordered but we don't have an ETA yet on the install of this we received an update and discussed the bathrooms at the high school and mr. Blandon shared some very creative and outside thinking ideas impossible systems that will be put into place to rectify issues we're currently dealing with mr.
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Rick are there questions and directions [Music] everyone uniting thank you for coming turkey says Vince damper of a few times this is a first at the border so just going to take us through the funding cycle and where money comes from at least how its distributed and do some comparisons because of that nature as well - it doesn't faster yep so how long is the reservation how long do you want me to because I will tell you I will lose through some of this quicker than others this presentation you don't want to know what I can move through it in 15 minutes you won't learn much it typically takes about 90 but you have a big agenda tonight so my target is roughly 50 minutes with that said some of what I do will be quick and feel free to ask questions or stop me and also know that I spend a lot of time in Danbury so I am happy with anyone on the board and with anyone in the general public and go through this in more detail so this is not a wedding time this is really as I see it's just part of an ongoing conversation can you hear now are we ready that we're going to do this quickly people buckle up I'm going to tell you first that this whole estate finance project was previously known as the Connecticut school finance project we started in really Gary to me is incredibly important community for the first community we worked in so to date I've had meetings with over 200 people in this community or interested in school finance pacifically we are nonprofit nonpartisan we are not a member based organization so we really strive for transparency our goals and objectives I'm going to summarize quickly we think it's important that people know how school or state finance works so that they can participate in civic process and that means having discussion and working from universe set of facts so that's what we strive to do basically we do this across the state I'm active in about 50 communities doing community engagement work and then we do additional work that's technical that helping both the state and communities we will not waver in our local issues so anything from your budget to policies we have no opinion on we want people to understand what what they're making an opinion or a decision about but we have no opinion we also don't endorse people candidates policies it's important we talk about school finance though to understand the state of the state first so very briefly what's going on in the state right now is that fixed costs are crowding out discretionary or non fixed costs at the state budget level this is important because as fixed costs grow essentially there's less money for discretionary spending and discretionary spending they're things like education doesn't sound very discretionary but if that is categorized as non fixed so as fixed costs continue to encroach and are now and 50% of the state budget it creates real challenges for education education funding makes up the largest portion of non fixed costs you're seeing right there education is museum education easier in libraries at almost 40% of the non fixed cost the state budget education is about 30% of museums and libraries being the other 10% nurse out state funding and we can break down even further when we drill downtown the most important thing is that huge blue wedge which is educational cost sharing and Alliance funding that's the funding for neighborhood public traditional schools a percentage of that education funding it's two districts and kids through educational precautionary so school finance for us is really about kids schools and communities and sometimes having five units conversations we lose sight of the kid so it's important to us to talk through the items of the tiles but to Alex who plays in dear Mary third grader who grows up who wants to become a doctor question is how much funding the decision to educate have honestly depends where he lives we're looking at similar school districts so what you won't see here are adjacent districts you are less similar to Bethel than you are to Norma or to Stanford that's why those are selected and when we look at just three similar school districts they vary from the state is getting 3,200 $11 per pupil the intermarry as the municipality contributing eight thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars and your other contributions are six hundred and sixty one dollars or five hundred sixty one dollars of charge which is both your federal funding for things like title one and ite a special education as well as the skills of profit dollars so grant said the district would get per pupil that's twelve thousand seven hundred and forty two dollars per child to be clear that yes it is the lowest in the state to understand the range of per pupil funding in the state the lowest is at twelve thousand seven hundred forty two and you have multiple districts covering quite close here and the highest is believe at this point right about 35,000 per kilo so there's incredible right there's an incredible range if we look at Norwalk the state is given in nineteen essentially normal walk contributes a little over 14,500 and they're getting about $550 and other contributions totally out at just under 17,000 per pupil and we know just fast-forward so you can see this comparison of state contribution at 3200 for January 1924 Norwalk and 2004 Stanford you're seeing this town contribution at January at 89 70 in Norwalk its 14,500 per pupil and in Sanford is 15,000 877 essentially in these three comparable communities what we're looking at is a range from twelve seven forty two ten eighteen thousand five hundred and seventy dollars per pupil this is problematic when you're looking at this and we're talking about Alex right he's the same child no matter where he moves to and the question is why school finance first of all the state little issue it's not a federal issue funding in Connecticut for education six point three nine billion so let's understand we're talking about billions of dollars here the total spent in education dollars we had it annually is 11 point 1 billion right now of that large blue edged is going through that concerning disco contributions so 169 different decision-making bodies determining how much they're going to allocate to education in the community the really top scheme are there at less than half a billion is your federal funding it's important to note that federal funding coming to the state does take into consideration seeing wealth so if the mo through the small now in Connecticut embarrassed another state and at 4.2 1 billion that comes from the state and the state legislature that's the decision-making body just to be clear we talked about school finance in terms of acne and specifically with students we look at equity in three different ways students with disabilities and to be clear students with disabilities Congress an incredibly broad range of children with unique needs for a very smaller time limited or low-cost needs to very high find independence that are staff expensive needs those put additional burdens on the state or the district frankly connected is one of four states that doesn't have any methodology for funding all of its special education students the next one I would point to as English learners English learners of which jamberry has a significant percentage those those children need additional support and resources to these are the most of these and children write learning learning content and master in any language concurrently and now again has a cost that's associated with it for the district and additionally students from the low-income family and there are additional supports that districts put in place to get kids who may not have the same exposure or experiences up to level question of does money matter short answer is it definitely does but we can talk about they about that some other time it's important to understand what's going on in the state to understand what's going on in Tina Mary when you're looking at you're seeing a tool decline in student enrollment of over 37,000 students over the last ten years and then again this is happening across the nation the number of students enrolled it's just simply lower Danbury is the sixth largest in the state with its largest district your enrollment has increased consistently over the last ten years so going exactly out of it from the state trend student need is also increasing so if you mentor a student out of low income and poverty or nominally disadvantaged students in the state of Connecticut that green line is special ed students and the red line is English learners and those numbers are growing at a relatively consistent but neither is predictable case way student poverty and every is increased by four percentage point but really what we're looking at as we talk about economic disadvantage again it's that number has doubled since 2008 women in the district you know certainly a you know you all know that the Great Recession of only nine had horrific impact not just on our state but I really had kids with families as the most vulnerable and insecure so in the rough number dairy serves a higher percentage of English learners than someone of districts you're at 26% you can kill with my home district of window which is just slightly larger resident centage that's a huge number and just her people to start thinking about that differently one in four kids in the classroom is learning English and in a classroom of 20 kids right take five minutes and they're learning English but they might be learning different mainly coming from different home languages so that's an incredible challenge Deary respect less per student than pure district and more than 4-thousand less than the state average i I know that the general public can see this really clearly that's small I would encourage you all this is my if I only could give you one graph this is it so I would encourage you to take a look at this because it really gives you an opportunity to look across subgroups you have the rain in Cornwall right now it's at thirty five thousand one hundred fifty five dollars per people the closest key you guys' gamer in at thirteen thousand sixty one dollars state-funded the state gives you three thousand two hundred and eleven dollars you were seeing less funding for people from the state but here are all the to Pierre towns so the question is what I would back trade first of all is important to know we have 11 different funding formulas so if you flash back to that first big pie chart where that big blue edge and at 68 percent of C education dollars were coming through education cost share into traditional educational settings and public school districts the others are for magnet schools culture all of it there's a myriad of funding formulas here that divided up the others ECS is what we're going to focus on there's a history to ECS it's helpful to know playing through that and moving into West last year in Danbury you've got a thirty two million three hundred four thousand three hundred five thousand will round up because of the new formula the basin moving forward is is ultimately going to land you at fifty six million eight hundred thirty seven thousand which hopefully sound much better number quicker but between now then it's incremental growth and we can look at it again I told you talking about finances in terms of education kids is really important so it's important to realize that kids in fiscal 19 when here very got that 32 million won't see full funding in the district from the state in 209 throat so what's with the deal with ETS they start with the foundation amount its legislatively set and set at eleven thousand five hundred twenty / people then we add weights to it there's a low income student weight of 30 percent so take your number of kids as measured right now at free and reduced-price lunch and that's the 30 percent we increase from the foundation there is a concentrated poverty way for districts above 75 percent of their students in low income and poverty there are three of those districts in the state Barry's not one of them just so you know that concentrated poverty week as an additional 5% per pupil but only above that 75 percent threshold so at 76 percent it would be 1% additional 5% Monday and then an English Learner way of 15% we just new and exciting here's how it plays out essentially a general education 98 student I have four kids so I call this one my average they're all four these are very different I have an average share hooray and so that's funding the funding the state says she needs to get education is $1,525 but we look at a district where for instance here again a low-income English Learner and that happens quite often here in January you're changing what the state says is needed to educate and for sixteen thousand seven hundred and eleven dollars per pupil so week two matter and this weighted funding formula makes a difference as we start looking at what is going on in funding and what is needed essentially that it once the state says you know we've done all the calculations the number of kids you have four weeks of the needs we come up with a total amount of what it would cost rate essentially what they do then is say well how much can be a very packed what can your community afford two packs and the way they determine this is been looking at 70 percent of property wealth 30 percent income wealth essentially they're looking at what is your taxable property how much money can you raise through property taxes but secondarily can your community pay those taxes so the united that through both property wealth in the wealth and their waited at 70 percent property 30 percent in income wealth and essentially come up with a number that identifies how much can you as a community now part of this and this is new to this newer ECS funding formula is additionally looking at economically distressed communities and waving those a little bit heavier so every year the state measures not helping communities through the pink index on his floor of 0 to 500 if the test you don't want to do well on low is factor the higher the number the more economically distressed the community the state has determined that above 300 is a community and higher at risk or in need and so they have tweaked the base a great show to add percentage points to that based on the ranking of the pic index Danbury is not above 300 so you are not getting an additional meaning on this and then there's a reason schedule essentially counts receiving increases like jamberry are getting an additional ten point six six percent per year until we get to full Hyundai Alliance districts are health harmless meaning you don't get last money but that is not the case no matter how the hormone runs in DeBary rate so there are some challenges with this those they are free to just peruse at your convenience if you want to hit on special and that's an important piece school friends as well understanding that the total number of special ed students in Connecticut has increased by nineteen and a half percent but essentially that's the two percentage point increase in special and identification over the past five years at the state level special ed funding has been extremely predictable that is not most school districts experiences over the past five years the total per pupil spending across the state has increased by one thousand eight hundred and eleven dollars was special in spending per pupil has increased by seventy eight dollars I think this is a really important slide again this would probably be one of the second probably the second slide that I would say is incredibly important this kind of this data it doesn't lie it doesn't sit necessarily comfortably side by side with the narrative experiences that we've all heard through a district so I do think it's important to just see special education by source here's more pie charts a huge blue pie chart is 65% of all special education spending in the state is from local sources so that is your district your municipality funding special ed the state contributes 29% and federal funding makes up 6% those percentages have been incredibly consistent over the last few years six years now so it totaled the state spent seven hundred and eighty four point six million dollars in special education it comes through three streams the first stream that you're looking at the tallest bar is as a portion of East es so in 1995 the legislature moved special ed from his own unique line item to be a part of education cost-sharing so now the ECS dollars you get includes special egg dollars from the state so that number in total is four hundred and forty eight million seven hundred forty eight thousand seventeen dollars excess cost to be clear about access cost excess cost are those unique students whose need to require such investment that it seems horn and half times the average per people cost of the district once you hit four and half comments so for an amount times year twelve seven in India very you can submit for reimbursement from the state under excess cost what's important to know here is that that's a capped fund so it is what it is right they aren't going to reimburse based on an extraordinary number especially in kids and everybody gets reimbursed so reimbursement once you once you hit poor enough times your per pupil reimbursement is roughly seventy cents on the dollar it varies year to year that's a Kaplan they said and then other state agencies through state agencies they also spend over on special education but the largest source is the ECX grant so according to the Connecticut State Department of Education and it varies year by year between 20 and 25 percent under education crosshair dollars are attributed to special education let's see important to know regardless of wealth districts really spend the same amount on the same percentage of their local to spend insurers on special ed so these are the district's reference groups that the State Department of Education infuses and the highlighted one which you refer to as a Turk is their age that would be varied but an across this factor of regardless of where districts fall it's about the same percentage of the education project but that changes when we talk about a dollar so when you look again from the state reference group a across addition reference group I essentially for those of you who are familiar with this reference groups this takes a lot of statistics and details about a district and combines them in districts that are most similar district during a dirt a is typically a smaller district and probably wealthier the income while average in the community and district group I is larger or in districts already in community that's a really rough summary in fact so again we could have a more expansive discussion but well you know this is that just district school districts are spending per people on the special ad endured a thirty five thousand into each 19,700 purview of all of their lot of reasons for that looking at the inter very much like Houston egrets special egg growth has been pretty consistent and constant and relatively consistent these costs that you're seeing here are hurricane al achieved non-tuition versus tuition expenditures with the total at the top and you know it is I think it's really important to know that tuition expenditure is being called out it's in the Challenger districts and that that's a line item that's a pretty big line man and what I would tell people in looking at this is looking at the amazing consistency with special ed as far as tuition our placements and keeping it really controlled and study which is hard when you're looking at the growth that we showed over those previous five that previous slide so I think it's really important to just focus on that perspective ultimately the story in here very about special ed is spending her people has decreased and I'm just gonna say that it's not easy to do so I think that as the Oaxaca budget it really is important to understand that with increased diagnosis and it's really important when we talk about special ed you can graduate from high school this year 100 kids who have a special that needs and get a hundred kindergartners who have special enemies and and they are nothing alike so a lot of times our art our reference point is just general education students so we think it's a one-for-one in special ed it really isn't so that's important to know to the percentage of special ed you guys couldn't have worked this better if you tried it has remained remarkably consistent and I will say that that isn't the experience across the state and it is a challenge so that is not a story a lot harder to do story of global funding I just want to touch on this briefly because I know there's been a lot of questions around the state and local funding in the district we're talking about this joining six point three nine billion that municipalities to contribute India very you're contributing eight thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars per student which is lower than all the one of your pure tax and essentially you know the the portion that Palisades which I will call it as trust when I'm in Danbury and helping folks understand this is that the the district budget is not a one-way process right you're working on it all year you're thinking about what is working or you know what it's not working and looking ahead so I will tell you that I absolutely consistently tell people that Wayman is important and it's important my consistent basis repeatedly and often to show up and Anita feedback we have to take folks on how that goes the minimum budget requirement is not an issue in Danbury but essentially just a now a municipality cannot contribute less to the school district in the current year than it did in the previous year basically you can't take away municipal funding so at Kasserine study your reliance districts there are millions of legislation that on how this may change for alliance districts but for nominal for our alliance districts is very clear and ultimately at the end of the day you have to raise taxes to pay for it right so helping folks understand that the municipal budget plays a role in this and people articulating priorities in the municipal budget because in fact your your education budget as well and that's done through obviously your property taxes just to just you know when we started talking about disparity of wealth than this team I do think it's important because you know part of this is looking at state funding for education part of it is understanding the environment that the state operates in the value of Grand list in the state of Connecticut that ability to tax property the property wealth part of the base a ratio that varies by forty eight point five billion between the wealthiest town and release wealthy town as far as ranked list so that's the challenge right equalizing that Grand list per capita just so you know that's the value of taxable property per resident in Danbury it is 120 1741 is lower than three getting all three of your pure house median household income refers to that even level earned by a Newton household were half the homes in the area or more hacker in less basically you guys fall right in the middle the comedian of the media so the median household income in theater is 68,000 Mill rates when we talk about Bill rates those also vary widely and I will tell you that it is not unique for me to go into a community and hear that everybody feels they have the highest memory I will put that to bed now Victoria Hartford is at seventy four point eight to nine but I've come out to that is that they have some assessment pieces that they don't have the same as the rest of the state essentially so if you look at the next closest one water Barry said that six sixty minutes that's the tax rate so that varies across the state dan Barry is in the middle of this carrier counts at 27 so again we're when you're looking at how are you able to raise revenue no mill rate matters and understanding fall in that matters so how this plays out is if you were to have a two hundred thousand dollar home Indiana Barry you're paying thirty eight hundred and sixty four dollars in taxes if you were to do that in Camden you're looking at 67 of their dollars in taxes cars we take a 2014 Honda Civic they're very tax on that we can put in between or in him then that would be two hundred and three dollars I'm not going to go into how other schools are funded just know it's way too many and you know at the same time I will say that I've been deploying the buggies were the best ones sure all right yeah five different Magnus formula so I will hit this every one of those is one single magnet school has this very own funding formula so it depends where a magnet school is located essentially in the shaft region which is fabrication region in our Hartford and surrounding communities or outside the patch fat chef region and who's operating it is it run by a host district like the intermarry public schools and AAS or is it run by rats for regional education service centers such as an advance those all play into what kind of funding you end up with for magnet school kids I will say that in your packet you have a chart that's in a detail this a little bit more it is on our website because this is an expensive I will ask you questions about is school funding that I can either insert directly now or get back to all of you here in none this is a lot to process this was a lot to throw out there and incredible period of time so what questions do you have in our being like I don't know if we have this convert like two minutes or so oh I don't I do a lot of time thank you for the presentation two questions the 32 million dollars that you say is pcs does that include Alliance money in there it doesn dollars if denry has challenges as enrollment increases or by property level in addition to non-english speaking students coming in why is it that the state going to give us three thousand dollars relative and I can't imagine fair like I said before our brand list is not Stanford why is it that we get so much nice so I don't answer that in broad brushstrokes and because I think I I can't get there on behalf of the state for some of that but I will say this what happened in school finance and I started in this role in 2016 when I started in this role we as the state had the end in the education cautionary formula that's incredibly important in a community like Dan Barry it's not necessarily a key piece of information everywhere but what happened is they they no longer took student population into consideration in previous iterations that formula who are also looking at student needs so what happened was they were they were giving out dollars for education as block grants as flat funded block grants and essentially what you got was based on years prior and this went back several years now when you look at that state demographic trend right of population declining that student enrollment declines if you're giving out block grants and student enrollment is declining your per pupil is essentially going up in a few districts typically our urban districts we saw population growth most of those urban districts did not experience a massive population growth there's only one other community that I can think of an experienced growth pretty profound rate so what's happening is in these districts where they're their population is declining and they're getting this Block Grant just by nature of that funding methodology their per pupil is gonna live in a community like Dan berry where your population is is increasing and increasing and increasing and year over year you're being held to flat funding that has no relation to your student population your per pupil just in that setting is going down so you know I would I would make the argument that part of the reason you are you know it's a cross for a lot of folks that dinner is last in per-pupil funding that dynamic is what got you to here and now this state is trying to play catch-up right and yet the state of the state is such that thinking of fix that over one year they can't fix it over five years and and so you're probably a more painful position than a lot of districts that are seeing increased contribution from the state there are significant number of districts that have their PCs going up but not in the same magnitude so basically what I would say in layman's terms the best way to describe it is now that they're in a formula and the formula started with where you were you you got a ride a rollercoaster ride to get to the end you can't get off and that's the pain that you're feeling from the state side of things there's nothing that state statute that requires the State Committee that over a 10-year period or not the season was was over ten years there's no one to the top department to the best of my knowledge well I mean I see you know I look at it it's too is there an opportunity that more earlier probably not can they have been done it probably historically over all of our experiences in education I think we've all probably seen different callbacks and times where that didn't happen so you know since this formula has been implemented I've told people absolutely as important every year to make sure that they adhere to it and has a top priority that stings looking at the slide about local contributions and only Bristol's first was different that's different challenges than everything I'm looking other towns that are similar we're the lowest different pupil funding and we're getting more from the state than let's ignore or stanford say i almost doubled um is it safe to say that these towns are are getting stood in our peer group area let's say Groton at Middletown are getting similar amounts from the state to Danbury is awesome I know when we ask you to dance for what I I'm not positive I would be happy to network with doctor South put together here it goes I think we've done some peppers for productor South but I keep copies yeah I mean this is kind of what we do when I take your hutchins and happily convert that into data because I think that would be useful to compare not just the local contribution what they're getting from the state so if Middletown is spending eleven thousand five hundred per pupil and they're getting a similar amount from the state we're spending significantly more per pupil and cookin and contributing in family on a local level we're family on a local level they're committing an emotion our way yeah I would say right so you know with the lift is because it's great if you see a community that's giving twice as much as as a local level than dear Koreans but you also need to know what's their mill rate to get all of our grants it should but it also you look at the date because some of that information still we're still waiting from this date for New Orleans so our data is probably behind what you have general public sometimes isn't realize that the Turner one is calculated tailored and so is the Commandant luck yeah everybody's thinking hits in addition to militia Jew is a categorical money especially that's not in there correct as we discussed that it's not to get to either the average first student expenditures there's somewhat misleading because all things being equal many of the districts their denominator drops it's going to give me a higher higher number as opposed to Danbury which is completely opposite you know it'd be good if we can get that fifty million dollars that they're going to give ten years to make it equal next year I mean that averages out that we get two million dollars a year this year we got a 1.2 in unexpected bomb it's opening day so you know covers that cost but it doesn't cover we have so much that we could when you use the word argument I guess it's a better word demonstrators are probably a better word as to why they need more money and what makes us different than other groups if you recommend we we do this I mean does fall on deaf ears or I always think the we're like squeaks allowed us gets the oil but who leave squeak - that's a tough question so there are a few things in there that I want to just share separately first yet it's important when you see a district that's spending 35,000 per cue-ball it's important for the general public to know where any pets that's not a target goal that's not what everybody should be and it's also important that the state average is that it's just an average not a target amount but you know like I said I'm active in close to 50 districts across the state I work in a district that has less than a hundred kids in its elementary school their cost per pupil is more not because they're investing more in that but simply because there's zero economy of scale and and so I think that's important for people to understand that small districts cause a lot to run and so you're seeing some of that and you think historically what you see is this wheel that squeaks the loudest get the attention first right however I would say over the past few years based on the fiscal state of the state that no longer holds true that the fiscal realities of the state and you know not included in this presentation are things like the Teachers Retirement System you know the birth of the pension systems both teachers and the State Employees Retirement System post employment benefits and bonding our luggage screening that encroach growth from fixed cost in our fixed costs and and that is increasing annually at a significant rate so that means at this point they're trying to come up with the funds to maintain what they've already committed here which is why it's important to advocate that a adhere to the formula and that's that's the challenge you know I think you know not that it's not to say that that there is a knee and they know there is and I also have had the privilege meeting with students with teachers I feel so fortunate to be involved in this community so deeply and I think there is me I think the problem is there is absolutely a lack of resources at the state level two keys back at this point that's not a ready answer it may mean that states collectively going to be Connecticut the other states because I haven't assumed may be improper I mean we're basically killing off Sophia the teachers are coming themselves and all the problems were having basically to come at the expense of the students than the expects the staff year after year we put together budgets and you know we understand the trials and tribulations municipality in the state but it's kind of heartbreaking to you then go back and scratch your head and say wow we got it you don't really hate this eliminate this you know they're not really moving in 20% for stuff they're offering the kids the students the best education we possibly can it's it's frustrating yeah it's just a very frustrating thing yes I want to believe that ugly at least we could take our story to the state and maybe educate somebody and somebody listen to us rather than to fall on deaf ears if you don't have that hope than to me and I think it's an exercise okay it's all saying this I don't think it ever falls on deaf ears I think that's really important because I think the more that people tell the stories beyond their kind of stories it really helps much like I tell residents to come here and talk to you all about their their experiences concerns with the budget both positive and negative to be a part of that ongoing conversation I think it is equally important for you as public officials to be a part of that ongoing conversation at the state level and I think that no rust is ever wasted in doing that and will say there's a unique thing that we do in New England and in New England what we do is we have a 169 we have over 200 school districts right if you look at a state like New Mexico last time you may have eaten and school districts many most states once you leave New England work on a County form of government I'm not advocating for that or not but what I will say is it changes how you manage and distribute and allocate resources and again when you think about you know when I compare a small district with a hundred children say there there is a loss of human you're running a small district our big districts are relatively small compared to what you believe New England with what districts are so there's an economy of scale that is out there and a mode of operating that is different than we do so fundamentally what I'm seeing is and the court how we operate the system that we have designed fragments resources in a way that creates a little more competition and a little more scarcity that you might feel in a system that allocates resources differently and that that's a challenge that's not an insurmountable challenge and we saw this year or Massachusetts revised their state funding methodology so it's not nice to medical challenge but that's you know understanding and that's why I start with the state of the state the core of the environment you live in and is so crucial to understanding how we can be successful West End the governor's brothers it's not looking at that you saw what happened yes it was an insurrection you know and I will say to share even I work across the state last year you're familiar with the bills that were proposed that looks specifically at back-office regional consolidation or district consolidation in a way that was not meant to move kids but to again capitalize on some of that collaborative opportunities that were missing being so pregnant I will say across the state there were different experiences so third there were regions of the state that are trying to do more of that and so that was seen as an opportunity and a road map and there are regions that were are happy you know with the way they are doing business with a cost of doing business and don't want that change I think what what I think and he well no we know I'm fairly optimistic I think conversation is really important we think what that did last year is pull that into the discourse in a way that we all have to start talking about how do we work together to actualize some of efficiencies thank you understand this charter school formula is just I know there's an additional $3,000 per student from the state obviously that comes from the same type of money that we use it does not so let me be very clear so in charter schools thank you so much for bringing this up a new effect this charter school proposal here so to be clear there's two different formulas for charter schools in Connecticut I leave 20 articles and again right now there is a state charter school formula and there is a local church or formula local charter schools there is only one it is in New Haven that's the only one that exists that is the only one that has received approval that is not the model that the proposed Hurst will be appearing would fall under so the funding model that that would fall under is the state church full funding model where they would get directly funded from the state at eleven thousand two hundred fifty per pupil so I will I will say this when we go money without making you know look at the screen or make you dizzy let me back it up here the most fun way I possibly have to just look at this slide of where education dollars are coming from right where we will get this drill down slide a state education funding here so the presumption a lot of folks may understandably so is that inner state education is kind of a bucket in front of it as education right we're giving you your education dollars and you all divide it up the way you want to divide it and somebody magically does that in Connecticut these are all feeling pendant line items that exist in the general fund so so education funded and we can take that charter school as an example if you were to eliminate charter school funding and just to be clear charter schools are 4% of all of our education dollars if you were to wipe that out tomorrow and that just didn't exist right there were no charter schools in Connecticut anymore the typical thinking is that will that revert to education those are education dollars and therefore it will revert to ECX or a little go what what would happen is those who would revert those dollars would revert into the general fund as a whole to be used in any way the state needs a priority so there be appropriate to education all the research it could but is equally likely that they would allocate that to tree-trimming on the merits it's just it may expense to us right to to kind of say well education dollars should go to education no matter how I move this entire allocation it should all be education dollars but that's not the way it works so it it kind of flies in the face of what you would expect there's a casino money I can send you a separate chart on that they told him enough knowledge to be would be speculation I know that for me I you know I was in I was it still just felt funky and I think it's because in our normal lives it's just such a strange thing I will say my colleagues who work in government relations don't see this as odd at all and we're surprised that people didn't know so I guess it's where you're standing question well it's not a block it's not thirty nine point six percent of the budget is education and just move it around that up into this pie chart but suffice to say if we increase magnet schools return to schools by one percent it either requires more money other than out of the budget general or it's going to require rearranging money on that budget what are they up it has to come from something so mad low funding goes from ten to eleven percent either the sixty-four has to go down one of the other things on your dad or the state needs to get more money in education because yeah and then this gives you a bunch of weird pedicels because you know it is there is that you and ECS doesn't exist and there isn't formula and so you you wouldn't have to not fund it and then create a separate statute typically growth and expansion in any one of those areas it is seen as a true growth and expansion that not take one he's the other sort of one grows it's got a new money it's got rearrangement so if there's no money there's no that's what's up the charters we've been funded that well there haven't been dating you but there have been any new charter schools that have and find it in years that's what I'm saying it's been like four years and corrected for proper didn't one of the charter schools are tried to close a dozen they may have although I will say with consolidated or one living with Hartford there's a lot it has Hartford has experienced the issues of your big experience tremendous student enrollment declines which have left I'll be expecting the chef settlement to have any effect on districts in the places on camera we are but that's not necessarily the same thing is whether that settlements going to be interpreted to apply so so for those of you who aren't familiar with chef chef is a desegregation and settlement essentially a lawsuit was brought against the state saying that Harvard Public Schools was segregated racially segregated and they're required to desegregate they have not been able to attain desegregation no matter what they try so every two years they go through kind of more stipulated agreements about how do we reach that and rely on a few things to do that there is the new settlement has been years in the making they're actually out by a couple of years there was a resettlement announced that he needs a visa and the fiscal protections of what that means most significantly in Hartford have not been run yet we don't know where we're monitoring it incredibly closely I will say they anticipated impact on that is is really a focus on I referred and it's a state obligation to desegregate Hartford Public Schools just to be clear is also not a party in that lawsuit I want to hear another so welfare in this weird place in acting on these desegregation settlements so it's right now I have the state but I do not confident yeah [Music] thank you thank yo reach out to all of you by the emails that if you have questions this is what we do so okay [Music] tonight eight separate servers you have nineteen on working results analysis to general immigrants and London would probably - sir what do you have anything regard to the operation budget my feeling is is it's good that you in the summary put the notation of the additional funding but I think also for a better understanding and for future references looking back at the statements that to be another column and on there that shows that 1.2 million dollars more pockets because when you're looking at the category that shows the deficit at 909 number thousand becomes a difficult had the data a footnote something on the model so again we all know whether this this year or two years from now three years we may not know that the other question I had was the athletic claims what created the problems that that boosted up these claims or injuries minor questions on the grant budget the budget the grants does that include our anticipated who's coming in or money's collected [Music] but the actual so you'll see that the earlier yes I have work so on the staff overloads you know it needs okay is this just formalizing the fact that Courtney is just an operation change that's why I thought [Music] so I'm just asking this just strike writing versus March 16 that raises money and has their those 15 was genius so we're taking out 16 per month just like Thank You Justin Oh portable chair so just a note exposed to you some turns previously first one did at the [Music] but under because at our professional photography much later Davis's his brute but we did leave the rotation of that violence that was consternation about where those days meant transition he's supposed so realized that is there will be a popular calendar the added still don't know that spring conferences orientation there is contractual language around teachers and astray for a psychic conference in the evening around but folks in for certainly any time a teacher can request American requested week we definitely yeah [Music] six really states no T Dow no time to hit really started to get out to ten days and that was a was relieved [Music] so that means we almost have the same amount of early dismissals as this year's with the one hour so we just went from the same number of earliest missiles but one-hour release missiles to have to increase time you may recall a board set to make book to achieve to do the work that you need to do so what we've done is we reduce the numbers increase the time so the time they spent their can do the work that were expecting teachers to do it this is right back into the into the question who saw what was up here you know that takes more resources to not only get subs with this loss of time the more time for people who do the work so anytime we can do the work of the day so in order to capitalize on it simply at least do another decrease to the number we were at 21 and went down to level 11 had a one-hour dismissal we reduce it down to six that was third that's not gonna be enough teachers said we needed some time to Ottawa and put that in and we had three days we had three more days to do the work and we're doing across the district for all of them and then Chris didn't know so the answer was reduced structural time this next year than this year and the goal of the calendar is to increase continuously the constructions or continuous days side-by-side wait you did it by going from going the way we did it by illuminating some really get under something once that we've done that was a goal they'd still be visited probably not achievable not to do the work that we have to do you know I said that last week I looked at you guys come back to us with scheduler works this should give us the kind of time your question is work to be done in America I mentioned last year school district did something really unique because parents were upset which it's Thursday they put these back to back Tuesday Wednesday they did that four times during a year I knew this the week where we're gonna have some disruptive time and then they go for a while resonate folks if you did the hours that didn't turn out to be as that's just making sure I understand the calendar we added back the change from the last meeting adds back in the half-day forty Val is that the only substance have changed to the early releases or there were other world release changes in three days in addition to teenagers and those were dates to try to get all the stuff we're asking the teachers to do the time and is this still less bad grammar is this still fewer early release days than let's say this year total a little girly by meaning not condition so this is basically and in those in that 11 ship but alternated or what was Apple was a in early life he never really released that it was first of all there so on day one day this time very consistent so whether you're releasing or bright berries stay tuned remembers their child care planning okay so we got rid of the one hour it's will continue working my sister already following us [Music] okay but this is about we're working the store working on some activities [Music] so students that we've redirected would be the assignment to about eight students thank you so that's what we also met with so we met with we never thought services which is one of the agencies that supports any of our students in town and we're talking about the way in which the partner to them and to bring that into the schools during the school day they traditionally an after-school support for counseling for families from all these certainly too late with our counseling staff at a school to provide continuity services we are going to look to see if we can bring them in with a parent to do some mediation stationing students and parents in the past dr.
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Leonard how do we tie that into this site plan I know we've had some conversations in the past about special exemption use uses for drive throughs that were put in and then ultimately it wasn't tied to the exact site plan it was came back with another site plan is there a way that we can tie that this special exemption use is tied to the site plan approval absolutely the ordinance provides that you can add conditions to any special exception use that you grant if so desired you could add a condition of that this special exception you use be granted and reference the specific site plan I would say that yeah I would simply add the condition to that it is based on the functionality and anticipated operation and impact to the site neighboring properties as represented on that specific site plan can I move that I think you just did seconded by Commissioner Mills any discussion on that amendment all right all those in favor on that amendment please say aye opposed it's proved we're back to the four motions with one of them being amended further discussion Commissioner so they thank you for the redesign I think it says a lot to the expertise on this board and the reception of the team in terms of evaluating it and pushing for a stronger design right the default design might not be the best and we can do a little bit better and so I appreciate that because depending on how the conversation went last time we might have been stuck with a mediocre site plan for several years and I think that's part of my position on this one I'm going I go back and forth about the drive through but frankly I am NOT interested in the tenant so much because this building can live beyond whatever tenant exists in it so we need to consider what this does to the fabric of the corridor and so that's where I'm trying to evaluate this property in terms of what what we're approving is you know highest best use but still matches our ordinance and what you know falls within our guidelines we do have our master planning ordinance and sustainability mission like art in there so I do talk about drive-throughs it is within our master plan guidelines so it's with due diligence of reading all of those documents you would discover that and we know that special exception use is in the ordinance so that would have been discovered this should not have been a surprise from the last time around so I think I think it highlights a lot from our side in terms of us being diligent and holding an accountability and pushing those conversations forward and so this is a precedent to keep that conversation forward I think is important I think it keeps the professionals on the other side has the count of both to actually do their due diligence and prepare and push the best work forward so I do think that this is a much better fit in the site plan and how it connects to the other fabric so I don't like the drive throughs but we have three other banks like on that block with drive-throughs I get that that is the current fabric and we there's a lot of moving parts and maybe those three banks go away in the next 10 years so or something and this one's the last one left but as as the city evolves you know I imagine that the site might evolve differently to and while it's set up as a drive through now there are also existing buildings along that corridor that used to have drive throughs that the building's remain the drive throughs disappeared so the emissions of it it just is if we if the tenant and Able's them to work or not so I support it through that mr.
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[Applause] uh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] as kennedy gets the reverse and gets clifton to their back [Applause] as kennedy gets closer into the match 14-7 clifton leads 38 seconds left in the match [Applause] oh that's the end of the match as clifton takes the victory at the 160 weight class clifton goes up 50 to zero as uh in the 170 weight class we have for clifton wrestling luke's and arie and for kennedy they have unique jackson now wrestling 170 pounds for kennedy jackson for clinton luke [Music] clifton immediately takes a shot as they're scrambling out of bounds i'ma just leave it until the next time both wrestlers tangled up here samari takes a shot [Applause] and both officers [Music] kennedy takes a shot scenario gets too out of it [Music] scenario trying to work that ankle [Music] break that arm out and clifton gets kennedy to his backhand that's another pinfall for clifton [Applause] clifton goes up 56-0 as scenari takes the victory as we have a kennedy wrestler [Music] oh down [Music] and it appears as the kennedy wrestler it's just fine as we have the 182 match up clifton wrestler joe abel freshman and kennedy wessler wrestling at 182 pounds shake hands in the match begins bill gets her early two points as he's working the kennedy wrestler tries to get the cradle [Music] okay [Applause] clifton gains two back points from that this kennedy will start on the bottom [Music] everybody all right [Music] and both us go out of bounds kennedy tries to escape from the bottom and that's the end of the first period clifton leads 4-0 clifton will start from the bottom bills tries to escape kennedy is glued down [Applause] man clifton gets two for the reversal [Music] okay [Applause] and that's all for the 182 matchup as joella bill takes another victory and clifton leads 62-0 and wrestling out 195 for clifton we have senior captain malik allen wrestling off against kennedy's man [Applause] [Music] 195 pounds [Applause] both wrestlers tangled up here [Music] and kennedy gets to take down no points earned from there as kennedy did not secure the takedown [Applause] and clifton gets the takedown as kennedy reverses it [Music] clifton has a technical difficulty with his head care [Music] now [Music] clifton will work from the bottom as kennedy wrestler and clifton gets a point takes a 3-2 lead in the first period [Music] oh and that's the end of the first period as clifton has the lead three to two it's kennedy we choose to start at the bottom and kennedy gets a point all tired of 3-3 in the second period oh because we have another technical difficulty with clifton's headgear 45 seconds left in the second period clifton leading 62-0 on kennedy and we have a resume match as we have another technical difficulty in clifton's headgear kennedy keeps taking shots to the clifton wrestler's face three to three [Music] as the referee has a word with both wrestlers [Music] okay as clifton takes a 43 lead in the third period many 20 left in the match one point for clifton as kennedy kept slapping at the head of the clifton wrestler oh my gosh as kennedy tries to take a shot unsuccessful attempt tries to shoot again clifton gets a takedown takes a 7-3 lead [Music] oh shot attempt and clifton gets another victory clifton will take the lead 66-0 as we have the 195 matchup between clifton wrestling asus valdez going up against kennedy's emanuel briggs [Music] clifton has a dominating 65-0 lead against kennedy the wrists of the kennedy wrestler [Music] kennedy takes a shot and he gets the takedown [Applause] [Music] as clifton gets four points from that takedown in back points [Applause] two more back points for clifton as they take a 6-0 lead in the first period [Music] [Applause] this kennedy takes a shot unsuccessfully [Applause] welcome to mustangs as we have a pause in the play cliffs and coaches come out to talk to their wrestlers [Music] clifton has a 8-1 lead in the first period as kennedy was stuck at the bottom and jesus valdez would try to as jesus gets him down to his back and clifton gets another pinfall they'll take a dominating 71 to nothing lead as we have the last matchup of the night at the heavyweight with 285 pound for clifton gabriel capral and for kennedy they will have tyrell briggs wrestling for kennedy at the heavyweights [Music] as wrestlers tie up and kennedy gets a takedown as clifton takes a shot to the [Music] private area as we have a pause and play [Music] in here as you can see we have the stag girl for clifton lily shaq in the bottom left lily say hi to the camera [Music] that's right [Music] peace uh kennedy's wrestlers trying to work that left arm for clifton [Music] tell them don't leave because i'm an interviewer the wrestler oh man that's the end of the first period as kennedy has a 2-0 lead [Music] let's go kennedy takes a shot and gets two more points [Music] that's a vault [Music] okay kennedy's trying to work the top [Music] clifton will start at the bottom [Applause] hey kennedy working the clifton wrestling right now as there's a 4-0 lead in the second period is coming to a close [Music] that's the end of the second period as kennedy has a 4-0 lead two minutes left to go [Music] oh and he takes the shot and we have a clifton wrestler down clifton wrestling gabe is now down big win by mohammed gay styles things [Music] my guys as we have the trainers working on heavyweights can we take this off like i'll just hold it i'm gonna help you okay i'll just just turn it okay [Music] kennedy takes their first victory of the day as we have an injury to clifton's 285 final score clifton 71.
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Saunders we'd like to get you in the picture as well see this is a group that knows how to take pictures they know what to do all right there's no directing this group they know exactly where to go he's not official we'd like to point that out congratulations and thank you again please give them another round of applause this evening we're pleased to be able to recognize two extraordinary Dicer partners and we would also like this evening to recognize skyline builders and restoration as I read the information would you please come forward this evening skyline builders and restoration adopted two families from each of our elementary schools and one family from each high school and provided them toys and a gift card for the families to purchase essential household items and food at the holidays we just want to say thank you for being such a valuable partner to our families would you please give them a round of applause thank you so very very much and that concludes that we have one more presentation [Laughter] mr.
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Koval reported that a night custodian has started at the middle school the high school head custodian position remains open and unfortunately there hasn't been a lot of positive responses of qualified applicants we're given an update about the boys locker room at the high school Tecton tech tongs shared the design cost estimates and alternatives and as a committee we decide to table a decision on the project until our next meeting and due to a shortage of time we tabled our discussion of the fire inspections and electric usage for our next meeting if anybody has any questions is that as a from this meeting the generator was offline is it do you think it's so that was as of yesterday oh that was of yesterday okay okay any update so when that might any other questions for joy all right we can move on to finance so the Finance Committee the Finance Committee met on on the 13th of January I'm gonna give a very brief report because the entire Finance Committee meeting was spent looking through the budget performance the outlook for the year and the special education costs and reconciling all that out and it became the basis for the presentation we did with the Board of Ed and the Board of I'm sorry Board of Ed Board of Finance and Board of Selectmen on the 15th which was two days later so I think all of us have seen that that material which basically shows a very significant exposure to our current budget on the special education lines there were some underruns elsewhere and for some freezes put into place to try to partially contain that and the Board of Selectmen approved to move forward a an appropriation to cover the known additional expenses after all those savings were netted out and the Board of Finance will take that under consideration at their next meeting so that and that's not going to be the end of the discussion because there are additional children coming in with with needs that cost money outsourcing types of costs and and so we're gonna monitor that and probably have another discussion probably in February into March as we have more facts on that so so that was the board of fine I'm sorry the Finance Committee meeting any questions healthy school starts okay so the committee met last Tuesday and we started with a presentation from Eddie why Dolph ski from Tecton about the bus lane design because we for the new building project and it was interesting to see how the buses would line up and how many buses could be you know quarantined I guess at one point and so the big takeaway is that if we choose to we can have a start the schools start at the same time the new school there could be one start time for the new school that wouldn't necessarily have to be a split time in terms of busing so that was just good information to know as we plan ahead if we think about start time so that that was good information then we continued our analysis of the survey data if you remember we surveyed the parents teachers and students and so two of our committee members Laurie and Colette did a more detailed analysis of the survey data in particular we wanted to separate the students out the high school from the middle school and we wanted to separate parents out by the school in which their children attend so we could get a better closer look at what the data really told us and so some interesting takeaways I listed on the minutes one thing is ninety percent of students reported that sleep was very important was important to them fifty-five percent of high school students are currently have less than six hours of sleep a night at least once per week and over 1/2 of our high school teachers reported that students are struggling to stay awake during first period so that was some some of the analysis of the data that we were able to sort of drill down and see to what extent is the problem of a sleep deprivation reflective in how our community is is responding so those were just some some examples what the committee is going to do from now from here on out is that we've gathered a lot of research and we've done the survey data and what we want to do is cull it into a format that's digestible and understandable for both the board but for the wider community and so we're going to develop really like an executive summary that would be something that everybody could sort of access and look at and that you know executive summary would highlight the key research it would highlight what we learned from the survey would highlight some of the steps that the committee had taken along in the process and who we had engaged with in terms of what other school districts we had visit had conversations with so that that's where we're moving towards next and you can see there's a tentative timeline for what we would like to work towards worth we'd love in March to have a presentation to the board in which we could go over that executive summary and sort of update the board on our findings we'd like to plan some public forums in March and April and continue public outreach and perhaps align our recommendations with some community and endorsements from different organizations and then our plan is to by April or May have a recommendation to the board for your consideration and a vote in June lastly the committee also is interested in conducting some focus groups to drill down on some of the data that came from the survey so collecting perhaps groups of high school students or groups of parents or teachers in which we can ask more pointed questions to follow up on what some some of some of the key data points so I'm gonna follow up with John and see if that's something that we can arrange in the coming month or so 9 percent of parents reported that sleep was important so how many parents she's like hundreds hundreds I can't remember them if I remember correctly I think you're looking it up right now right in the six hundred great at least we had a really good response yeah and every high school student did the survey close to it you're just gonna pull it up right now except for it kids might have been absent that day yeah okay 746 responses from Paris so that's on microphone so people can hear 1052 students respondents and how about the staff here 450 550 for Gen remind me about the timing if this you know is endorsed and and the recommendation is to move forward with changing the start times would it take place next school year or the following so here we're thinking not until the new school opens in two years okay so our hope is if we have a recommendation and the board approves it that would give community members and schools over you know really two years to plan and adjust I feel like that's a nice good at a time and then we you know as we said we don't want to make any changes before the new school opens because so much will change with that so if we are going to make a change in terms of start time that would make sense mm-hmm two years away so a little over two years by two and a half from now I guess right give people plenty of time if the Board considers it enjoy yeah all right and and the other thing I think we've stated before is and John's reported that other districts are making changes sort of as we speak and I remember I think you told us one district decided now and they're putting in place in September some districts have taken the slow slow research walk like we've done and working with their communities and they've been on it for two years now or so and and they're making a move likely for next year and others like Newtown a couple of years ago and I think New Fairfield making a pretty quick move yeah making a decision more quickly so well again it's community context and you know with our I think the wise decision is to take our time like we're doing but then also why have multiple changes when we know we have the school project right online I think that's smart even if we could do it sooner I think it's just easier if we align it with the new school yeah cuz like the buses will have to change for the new school so you know if we're gonna get really it has to do with the buses how many you know loops and different things will have to take so it's hopefully it'll make sense parent drop-offs people have to learn new routines so there'll be a lot of learning never everyone yeah you might have two years to practice yeah two years to practice with the orange cones out work on that okay any other questions for Jen recommend a motion that the board approved the items listed on the consent agenda as recommended retirements and new hires second just like to make a special note Eddie Barrett our longtime 28 year maintenance worker has decided to retire and we just can't thank him enough for almost three decades in the district not for those of you know Eddie he is a a character I think that's a great word we'll leave it there and he is he's a heck of a guy and he's given so much to us for so long and we just want to thank them for service hi so now we can so first up you actually have policy for one 17.4 yeah for first read I'd like to move that that we approve motion I'm sorry policy for one 17.4 for first read on do we have copies of it okay thank you so policy for one 17.4 is part of our 4,000 series dealing with personnel and it's really the it's it's an existing policy we already have it in place it's based on cabe's version it has to do with the date that non-tenured teachers are notified if they may not be renewed next year so currently the policy has a date of April 1st that a written notice would be due to the employee by April 1st however and that was based on prior state law the state law changed a couple years back in 2011 and the current teacher tenure law dictates that now May 1st is the date so we would simply be updating our current policy to reflect the change in the law to May 1st that's the only change that we are recommending and this is a policy while the copy is coming around now this is a policy that we brought forward and talked over with the former policy committee back in the fall and the idea was to wait until the new policy committee was formed after the election and so we we reviewed it tonight the main reason we brought it we reviewed it this afternoon before this meeting and we're bringing it forward tonight frankly there's some urgency in it because if if we waited until February 19th which is our next board meeting 30 days from February 19th is not March 19th when we have our next meeting our next board meeting after February our second board meeting after February 19th is March 18th so it wouldn't be 30 days now we're getting close to April 1st we'd be waiting into April with the way our process has to go so we wanted to bring it tonight so then we could bring it forward by the first meeting in March and have a second read and it has those conversations and again it's just a simple date change it's one of those pieces of legislation that frankly is really a good thing it gives us more time and more opportunity depending on the budget situation in any given spring as well as having the opportunity to work with our newer teachers for another month before we have to make any difficult decisions any other discussion thank you everyone so John we just in terms of comments on the first read we have to give 30 days so it would not that would not be for our next policy meeting is that that's what you're saying for next board meeting is February 19th so today's the 22nd so it wouldn't actually have been 30 days so it would have to be the first meeting in March which okay don't know if the top of my head March 4th March 4th so that way second read where we could adopt in there next your next policy committee meeting is the Martin midmark our next policy meeting is February 9th everywhere the formality of the 30 days is when it's on the board agenda okay we could do that tomorrow to be Franks on this one I think you especially okay so well we say comments by our February 19th okay that's board meeting everybody any other questions about that February 19th to Debbie okay we can move on to Tecton approval of school design okay recommend a motion that the board approved the schematic design documents as the basis for the design development phase of the new school building project second okay so in front of you guys you have the packets that has all of the most final schematic design drawings or the pictures on it so aside from Mike and Jen the rest of us were received the presentation by Tecton so you know if there's any other questions or we do have the presentation from Tecton queued up if we if you want to see it sort of bigger but sort of now is the time to sort of ask any questions before we vote to finalize this and just so that you guys are aware and I asked this question last night schematic design is not sort of the most final design work of the project really that's that the but all of the detailed stuff is going to be during the design development phase what can't change in schematic design is sort of the square footage major components core components of the building and the envelope so you know in terms of shifting some things around on the inside that might still happen throughout design development could I comment a little bit on last night they did a great job oh my god I mean they they took all the stuff that came out of the public hearings they had what we've seen and I hope we put it up on the website because this is a really good person tomorrow tomorrow what I what I walked out of it is you remember we had those wings that we had talked about and a high-level design of where thus the where the shared spaces would be they they took us through specifically where the you know every major component was you know whether it be the health suite or the you know how the cafeterias would work and all the special ed spaces and all the teacher breakout spaces and and how the corridors would look and feel and you know it was very thoughtfully done and and I and they actually have built in some flexibility if they have budget money once they get the hard thing is they can do a budget and it's pretty close right now to what we had approved but when they actually get out to bidding they will have the construction companies they might have room to do certain things like building the bridges in the back was an optional one right they'll dealt in the base they have basic structure you know but they would enclose it as an optional ad so there's some really well-thought-out budget management wealth and they showed us some of the pictures of what they're thinking about and in the next phase which it was a look and feel like I was very impressed and I think one of the things I have to comment on is how receptive the architects have been to the user groups so when we talk about a user group those are you know anything from you know facility director and and his team all the way through our TR classroom teachers our specialist teachers our phys ed leadership music and performing arts leadership all kinds of folks special education department social workers all kinds of folks have been a part of this as well as principals and dr. ruby and mrs.
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Tapia thought met with them literally and we're now in the process of bringing an additional folks into those conversations to keep our private like this and the goal here is to work with some of the students smaller the students at different actual that well sure and I recently had a meeting with Lisa Marcy and this is in reference to the community care team mom it's okay to the board about last year we have a fight for and I share an unfortunate you're not successful in that yet or the Arab Peace of innovation for this year and our hopeful that there's potential for $150,000 from the state and that would support social emotional needs for students from our base in the community care team model off of the model that has been very successful working with General Hospital may also be a partner in this Irish western town all network they're currently doing this with a homeless population where essentially they have all the social services agencies and with the individuals consent those agencies meet on a bi-weekly basis to talk about the cases and one-stop shopping I'm so everyone from for example housing to menopause clinicians to food services are all that the tables everything and I'm an individual and talking about the support that they can provide so we are looking to pilot it would be the first one to see a very similar model of our youth and to really do you know we're noticing with many of our kids that have increased behavioral mental health needs that is beyond the school rate they need support there and part of navigators community very cumbersome for families there's only us and so this would be a way to break group people together to get certain supports and services beyond the school the Department of this one place so you know keep me posted on the grant application there there is additional grant funding from the city to match that which would allow us to hire a clinician to coordinate the team on an official support the air conditioned on mentoring that I've gotten off the ground every strike someone was doing some research in Germany that asked the other thing that hasn't happened yet wasn't working with the Park District and if you were the organization sit down very particular kids together and waiting for someone who was out of country to come back that they're looking at and you're going to see in the budget to expand their alternative program Jack use their program take advantage of that but we can't across the space pathways Academy has not operated this year and been there for years so there is unused space that adult they can use it they went there and evaluated and it seems that they can use it if they can they move there if that all comes to fruition you can expand the program we'll turn it over to Jackie space for other students take the benefit we don't have a we have room for more students if we you don't want to put more students in the current area the businesses I think the Japanese doing is tremendous with and there is one thing but if we expanded that as a moral support services as of this mind we didn't know about that so therefore just I think one of the things that we've had as dr.
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Leonard well something you talked about about the evolution of this and Jill I don't know if you went away in this to this special exception use now that we've tied it to the site plan is very specific to this geometry it's also specific to financial services use I don't know what if to that intention of flexibility if you are interested in as a commission linking it to both financial services and this physical configuration or you're less concerned about the you space but more about the physical configuration of it personally I'd be open to keeping it tethered to financial because we did see reports that Food Drive thrus actually do more emissions impact and so tethering it that way means that it adaptive reuse if it's food based would remove and I would have it would have to come back in yes yeah I just want to be clear or and part of the other reason why I wanted to tight to the site plan is I don't want the drive-thru moving to the front of the building down the road with another hammerschmidt I also missed the previous meeting where you guys presented the initial site plans I apologize for that but I'll just sort of echo what some of my fellow commissioners said I very much appreciate that there is a walk up ATM I wish my bank had that I also I like seeing it about the orientation where it's closer to the street so it's not just separated by a sea of parking I guess one question is there a reason why you need three lanes and the drive-through well the reason behind that the first lanes in ATM lane so that's totally not not a not an interaction land and then we have the other two so part of it is if one breaks down we still have one operating and they do break down it's like mechanical type function and then also you know if you have one lane and you have more car stack they more time waiting so we thought if you get two lanes and at the last meeting Steve Brewer had mentioned they have a daddy because of their member makeup and the other branches this would be number 16 for them they do have a person that's allocated to the drive-thru function so it's a faster transaction members aren't waiting they want to service them as efficiently as they can so that's the thinking behind the two lanes and I expect that other branches you actually would have data on the I guess I'm just asking me who's the bank that I go to I do use the drive-up atm because there is not a walk up ATM but I never see anybody else at the drive-thru so they as was presented last time Steve Brewer had mentioned that their members want all func so they want ATM they want to come in the branch they want to drive see function they want online so they're looking for a you know all of those options and you know the clientele is varying so everybody kind of picks what they like to use so that part of the reason we do approximately 5,000 transactions a month in the drive-thru Wow anywhere from from four to six thousand a month in the ATM okay thank you you're welcome so I appreciate all the changes that been made I think you took our feedback and you did great things with it so thank you so much for that with regards to the drive throughs I am gonna support this site plan and what we have before us this evening but I guess this is more of a you know a cautionary tale to the development community that that might not be the case forever this commission may not approve drive throughs in the future and it's at our purview because this is a special exemption use so with that is there any other discussion Commissioner Mills I'm just wondering asking the petitioner if you would like me to move postponement or if you would like us to proceed voting tonight all right seeing no further discussion all those in favor please say aye aye opposed we are approved thank you very much all right we now move on to our regular business and before us this evening is the fiscal year 2021 through 2026 capital improvements plan CIP for City Planning Commission approval and this evening we have a report for Miss Gosselin I'm sorry I just wanted to say thank you very much referred for considering our revisions in the plan we're looking forward to being part of your community and miss Hammersmith if you'd like to be a member we do we do have like the services that you're looking for thank you thanks again thank you miss Gosselin welcome back thank you very much I promise not to do too many bells and whistles so I basically tonight just want to hit some of the highlights we did have the work session in December which most but not all of you were able to attend and of course it's as a public hearing so I want to kind of hit the highlights of what we're doing also in case there's anyone here for the public hearing so what we're here for tonight is looking for a resolution of approval for the fiscal year 2021 to 2026 capital improvements plan in effect what we're doing is looking at changes to the first two years of that plan but you always have to approve a six-year plan at a time so when we hit these odd-numbered years what we're doing is keeping the capital improvement plan in alignment with the capital budget so in May city council will be approving the 2021 budget so if we needed changes to the capital improvement plan that's where we insert them as in this modification plan so the things that we incorporate into the plan our changes in budget changes in schedule sometimes the combination of the two and then there always be a few plans that are added or deleted usually in response to something totally unexpected in the nature of a needed capital maintenance sort of project so within the plan itself that you have I went very you know elementary school level and used colors so you could see which kind of change was being proposed and I think that just helps in terms of navigation it's a little over 77 million it's now 116 which is quite a difference and I'll highlight some of the things that drove that so part of it was simply delay a fiscal 2020 projects into 2021 so it's not really that much additional money but we had several projects that went to bid and they came in too high and we decided not to award them and to kind of go through the cycle twice we also are making a technical change when we line sanitary sewers the big ones we had been using a styrene project or product I should say in them ABS very the odor is very unpleasant there are a lot of complaints and also in terms of storm sewer linings we decided we're just done with it because ultimately it could end up in the river but we decided to also make that change for sanitary and at this point is quite a bit more expensive however we feel environmentally that's justified and we had a couple of big lining projects in 21 so that was one of the increase also the Allen creek berm opening project that we're very excited we'll be starting here shortly many of you know has two tunnels under the railroad kind of behind North main one for pedestrians one to carry stormwater took a lot of time to get to this point very unusual project for a contractor to bid and so came in pretty pricey and that was part of the increase we had some things happen at the water plant that required immediate attention I'm kind of the positive side of things going up the DDA is doing additional investment in the downtown kind of accelerated some of their streetscape projects so that's good news kind of extra and similarly in the street system council had a loud use of some fun balance to help catch up with our street condition we also got a little bit more at fifty one money than anticipated so those are the basic reasons for things that increased so just quickly net we have 37 projects with funding adjustments 36 with schedule adjustments 28 that had both and then 14 projects that were actually added and as far as the type of assets that had the most number of changes the water system was the number one with chains followed by sewer so we're seeing lots of funding shifts in the utility pricing that we're getting contractors are not hungry and so the prices have been going up way more so than like streets or parks or some of the other asset groups so those are some of the highlights of the change I apologize for my froggy voice I'm at the end of that horrible respiratory thing that's been going around you do also have just a simple listing of things that are changed so if you prefer tables to colored in things you've got both to look at but with that that's basically the gist of what we're doing and so I'll be able to answer any questions you have or any that arise from the public hearing where you might want my assistance in answering perfect thank you so much at this time at this time I'd like to open up the public hearing on the CIP if there's anyone in the audience who wishes to address the Planning Commission plus please step up to the podium seat your name and address for the record you'll have up to three minutes to address the Planning Commission seeing no one I will close the public hearing all right the motion reads as follows whereas section one colon 185 of the Ann Arbor City Code requires that the City Planning Commission annually prepare a capital improvements program for the ensuing six fiscal years whereas the fiscal year 2020 through 2025 capital improvements plan CIP was approved by the Ann Arbor Planning Commission on January 15 2019 as a supporting document for the city's master plan and whereas the fiscal year 2020 through 2025 CIP was approved with minor adjustments by the n Arbor City Council on May 20th 2019 as a basis for the fiscal year 2020 capital budget whereas the second year of the fiscal year 2020 through 2025 CIP has been adjusted based on current conditions as related to the adjusted fiscal year 2021 capital budget to be considered by the City Council and where as a duly notice public hearing was held by the City Planning Commission on January 20th 2020 resolved the City Planning Commission hereby recommends recommend hereby approves sorry the fiscal year 2021 through 2026 capital improvements plan as a supporting document for the city's master plan move by Commissioner Mills seconded by Commissioner so they do we have discussion I'm sure Sylvain and that motion should the public hearing be dated January 22nd and we will would you like to make that the date today state friendly okay thank you for their discussion mr.
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president Matt not madam mr. president members of the board superintendent dr. Calais colleagues community members it is my great pleasure to talk about our Dara grant that we were awarded and I was going to go into a little bit more but I could see a few transportation supporters out there and employees and with director Richard Moore and karma Valenti very appreciative of their but we also have miss Tina was a Lowe's ASCII good enough close enough who would like to just say a few words about it so instead of me going through mine we have a check here that she we'd like to present to the board for our grant award and she'll toss a few words banner well thank you everybody members of the governing board thank you for having me here tonight I'm with Tina wassalam scheme with the Maricopa County Air Quality department and we are very pleased to offer this cheque to participate in this program the state Clean Diesel program provides funding to switch out or retrofit diesel vehicles and equipment in order to reduce ozone pollution the funding for this grant comes to Maricopa County from the EPA and is also supported by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality this award will provide up to one hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred dollars in grant funds to support the state Clean Diesel program and benefit air quality by replacing 1 2002 and 2006 older model diesel year school buses with three new 2020 ultra-low sulfur diesel buses matching funds of 75 percent are provided by the school district emission reductions for the two vehicles will receiver for the three vehicles will result in a lifetime reduction of over one ton of NOx pollution and other pollutants and over 22 tons of co2 which all contribute to our ground-level ozone issue we have here in the county the program is consistent with our mission is to provide clean air to Maricopa County so visitors can live work and play in a healthy environment so we thank you very much [Applause] all right we will go ahead and move on to address the governing board do we have anybody no one tonight excellent thank you we'll go ahead and move on to Section E superintendent governing board updates student update we have Lewis hi yeah pyah pyah did better the first time what's the time over to you good evening mr.
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