All right, having quorum, let's stand for the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Turn over for students. All right, T99 is here and I think Lisa's going to get us started. Do you want to run the clicker, Lisa? Sure. Power. The power of the clicker. Okay. Good evening everybody. Uh my name is Lisa Baler. I'm the director of special services for the district. And tonight you have the special treat of hearing from some of our students at the transition center T99. So um you can see up on our screen here today we have student Ibette Bledo. Hi. Hello. Hello. Um Beth is not here with us yet. Um but also Tegan Shu. Hi. And um we have a couple of our staff members also with us.
Uh I request a motion second to approve the agenda. Second. All in favor? I I thank you everyone for coming tonight and thank you for those at home that are watching. Um do I recognize Do we have any of our seal of biiteracy students here tonight? We would just like to acknowledge though that we do have um some students who are going to be we have some students who are going to be receiving their seal of biiteracy at the end of this year which is a an opportunity. Arnold Patrick if you want to just come up and speak a little bit that about that. Mr. Furski from the high school. Two for one here. I get to warm up the crowd for Dan and Ted later on. But um these students will be awarded at the senior awards nights as well as graduation. So I just want to come and read into the public record that we do have 20 students this year who are receiving the seal of literacy in various languages.
Um, next item on the agenda is for the board to hold a hearing on Sorry about that. hearing on an amendment to lease an additional appropriation in connection with proposed project. If you are interested in speaking at the hearing, please make sure you sign in the signing sheet, which should include your name and address. There will be an opportunity for the public to make comments about the lease rental to be paid under a minute to lease and appropriation of bonds proceeds.
Um, we really wanted to honor our firefighters. Um, we love the building. It's a historic building, so clearly we wanted to keep it um in its form that it is now that you'll see today and hopefully forever. Um so we ended up going through a new process for the town of Ashland. Um but I wanted to start I'm going to back up a minute because I wanted to start today with a story because the best part about this place is the story that it tells and the stories that are going to be told in here and the if these walls could talk, right? So, when I first met the owners of Clover Road Brewing, it was because I got a phone call one day that he wanted to pop up at the Corner Spot. And he didn't know how to get in touch with anybody at the Corner Spot.
And it's always against Long Meadow is always good. Long Meadows 5 and3. Uh they they lost to Chumsford in the opening their opening matchup. They lost 17 to8 and East Law Meadow lost to Chums Chumsford the other day. Uh they got spanked. What did they lose? That was just a couple of days ago, right? Yeah, they lost 11 to8 and then we got beat by Chumsford 17-8. Okay. Well, I'll be eager to I'll be eager to learn and provide whatever commentary I can here, Jeff. So, players to watch, Steve, are going to be Sam Goodren. She's a well uh Mass Live Super 7. Okay. She's going to Holy Cross and Hornick is another Super Seven. She's going to Villain Nova. Addie Jordan gets the ball quickly gets over the ball over the restraining line to set up East Law Meadow's offense as she gets the ball.
Um we appreciate the supplemental resources that are um included in the package. Um and the committee was was happy to to move the book forward. Um, another thing that we really like about the book is a lot of US history textbooks that you'll see on the market will cover the entire scope of US history. This class is kind of like the second half of US history. Students get the first half at DOD in grade 8. So, it's nice that the the full scope of the book is focused on the period of study for the class um and not the entire American story. So um as you can tell from the title, reconstruction to the present is is the period that we u cover through our curriculum. So um yeah. So have you been in contact with the whole social studies task force in the state that's been working on this for a few years and are other districts using this textbook?
See that? But since you've numbered the pages, so these are the financials that were uh presented for the uh month ending March 31st. Um it was a very typical month for us with two payrolls. Um we came in uh just over $14 million for the month. Um for the year-to- date expenditures, we're at 100 million uh.7 100 um 100 million 73,000. Uh and our balance, you'll see, has changed a little bit since uh we spoke last. The current balance is projected to be 1.8 8 million. Um, and I just wanted to go over a few things um, that changed there that drove that number to change. Um, one is our continued efforts to reclassify staff into the proper locations. Um, we made a significant effort to move people that were supposed to be in our alliance grant to Alliance. Um and upon doing that we realized that there were people that were in alliance that had to then be moved back into general fund.
U Danny Baldderas is one of our T99 teachers and he's also going to be translating for Abette's family. Myself, Megan Keller, one of our teachers and of course Carolina Shenbeck, our T99 department chair. So whenever we talk about transition 999, we like to share our purpose because a lot of people don't know about a transition program. So we service students in the district 18 to 22 who have finished their four years at Danners Grove North or South High School or some of them return from a therapeutic day school. And our focus is really life after high school, getting them as independent as possible, getting them prepared for whatever their life will look like. So, a big piece of that is connecting families and our students to the Downers Grove area where they're going to live and vocational pieces. So, that's why we're going to talk about our volunteer opportunities.
Um, sealed by literacy is an award that is given based off their competency in English based off things like their AP scores, dual credit courses, or ACT or SAT score combined with their testing on a standardized test in their language. So, high achievement for them for sure. There's some uh especially unique kids here. So I just want to recognize them and I will just read off the list as long as well as what language or languages they scored in. So we have 10 students who receive the state seal by literacy which is the highest standard and that is Shub Shaw in German, Matus Plazek in German and Polish too, Jackson Whipper in German, Tegan Cathkart in German, Perina Sony in German, Damen Sternac in Polish, Mia Estrada in Spanish, Andres Casada in Spanish, Michaela Agiri in Spanish and Raphael Roas in Spanish. Along with those students, there are another 11 names to be read for students receiving their state commendation which is slightly lower but still a high achievement.
At the hearing, we will ask that each person limit their comments three comments to three minutes and that the topic be limited to lease rental and appropriation of funds under consideration. The notices for this hearing were published as legally required pursuant to Indiana code 20-47-3 before a school corporation may enter an amendment to lease with a nonprofit building corporation. The school corporation must conduct a hearing regarding the execution of the proposed amendment to lease and whether the rental to be paid to leaser building corporation under proposed amendment to lease is a fair and reasonable rental for the proposed improvements. Similarly, before a school corporation can appropriate any dollar and directly receives the bond proceeds, it must conduct a hearing on those proceeds for the additional appropriation of funds. We will now open the public hearing. Remember, if you'd like to speak, please sign in the sheet which is located over there by on the table.
So, he was talking to his best friend and they were saying, "Hey, do you know anything about the Corner Spot? They're residents in town." And they were like, "Oh, my neighbor actually runs the Corner Spot." So, he got connected with me through a neighbor that lives across the street from me to say, "Hey, can Clover Road Brewing pop up at the corner spot, and I didn't find out that story until a while after the whole thing." Um, but I just thought that was a really cool connection. That's what Ashland is all about, those small town connections that lead to so many bigger things. And this is a perfect example of that. So, at any rate, John says, "Let's pop up the corner spot." And I said, "I can do you one better." How do you feel about an old fire station? Um, so we did something that we hadn't done yet in Ashland.
Passes the ball over to M. Whiter. Kicks the ball over to Kenna Marino. Marino over to Mckne. Mckne over to Lucas. Back to Mckne. Over to Marino. Spartans working the perimeter looking to try to find some way in for a seam. There's a lot. They try to get a lot of shooting space, Steve. That's when go like this. M will take it around the corner. Goes in. Save off the post. Long meadow comes up with a ball. Loose ball on the ground. Caroline Lucasic there. Ball still bouncing around. Calib tries to get in there, but no good. It's number seven Den gets the ball and she's chased down by Addie Jordan. She'll have to turn around and kick the ball back all the way over to Burke. So Long Meadow looks to reset at midfield. Builds their attack from there. Number 14, Conway. She's one of their leading scorers on their team.
Yes. Yeah. Um it is a popular textbook um across the nation. Um I also had the opportunity to talk with uh the Connecticut social studies consultant um Steve Armstrong um to get his opinions on the book. um it is very well aligned with the C3 framework and therefore the new revised um state standards um and um came you know received the endorsement of Steve as well but is definitely um crafted with uh the C3 framework in mind and um is is much more aligned with the current Connecticut standards than our current work obviously. Um, so yeah, we're we're pretty pleased with um it's alignment with the standards. Has um Steve Armstrong been in district at all doing any kind of professional development? Yes, he's been here quite often. He worked with um our sixth grade, our seventh grade, our eighth grade. He's been working with um or I should say he's held sessions where high school folks have attended.
So there was a a a surplus being shown and then when we finish moving everybody uh you'll see the balance now for salaries is 30 uh 382 383 uh000. Um and that number is um is still fluctuating as we continue to uh move folks. Uh today we were able to sit down um with our grants coordinator and go over um another big grant, IDA grant. Um so there's going to continue to to make those numbers move, but um as I'm doing now, I'll go over those numbers with you and and how they change. Um the other big benefit is the next line under that uh employee benefits. I know it says employee benefits, social security, it's it's uh much more than just social security. That's where our health sits, our dental, our long-term disability sits, as well as social security. Um, that number is an uh the actual number that you'll see is a number that's generated when we run payroll.
Fingers are too cold. So, our two main groups that we have at pro uh at T9 are life and our strive group. And right now we're just going to encompass what we do to kind of incorporate the life group out in the community. When some of our students are not ready to job train yet or they're not really ready for like real world instances, then we prep them. And then one of the main ways we do that, one of the biggest venues is through um through our community um experiences that we can provide that So, since we can't share everything, we created a little short video so you can see what our students do in action. Don't click it. Sorry. Is it that link? Yes. [Music] Transition our time where hopes collide. Building dreams with hands that strive together. We grow where hearts [Music] decide our purpose.
Ethan Rigna in German, Luke Vanis in German, Parv Meta in German, Andres Quesada again in German also had the seal for Spanish. Jacob Brooft in Spanish, Bella Brash in Spanish, Leila Carly in Spanish, Cassim Musoki in Spanish, Daniel Rodriguez in Spanish, Sydney Terrazinski in Spanish, and Meen Wang in Chinese. So along with the German and Spanish courses that we offer, congratulations. [Applause] Along with the German and Spanish courses that we offer, students can also test in their other languages that they may be speaking at home, such as any form of Arabic, Polish, Chinese, across the board. Looking at at that. So, congratulations to them. We are excited to see what they do. They will be earning college credit for this commendation. And as well, um, another important point to recognize too, they have a very good representation here of Spanish and German this year, which is nice to see from both programs.
And as I mentioned earlier, we ask that you state your name and address and limit your comments to proposed rent to be paid under the lease. Or yeah, lease and appropriation of bond proceeds.
Um, our assistant town manager, Jen Ball, and Michael and I, I'll introduce Michael in a second. Um, we talked about doing a different way approach on who is going to come into this space. So, we did um a request for um information. We just wanted to say who would want to come in here? What would they want to do here in this space? Um, we got a couple interested parties, but nothing really stuck. It wasn't big enough. It didn't have enough parking. Um, there were many reasons. So, um, we took the little bits that we got from feedback and we put out an a request for proposals and John and his team, um, decided that this was a great fit for them. So, Clover Road Brewing in Hudson, Mass has now opened their second location here and we could not be any happier. Um, especially said is is completely accurate.
She's a sophomore and Conway has 14 goals on the season. She kicks the ball over to Henen, back to Conway. Once they get to the other side of the field, I have a tough time saying that. It's that tough time between the sun's not really all the way down yet and yet the lights are not on yet. So, we'll have to see how that goes in the interim. Oh, balls on the ground. Ball's knocked loose by Jordan. Lately, when we've been playing a lot of the Eastern Mass teams, we get a lot of calls on the officials for an illegal check, which doesn't seem to be. We've only had two games where the officials have let the girls play on, which is always better to let them play on horse. That'll be illegal check. And Henson will be getting an eight meter. Wal's Wal Me's first attempt in the 8 meter.
He's also been here to work with both high school and middle school folks. over the past four years. I would say four to six years. This is first year high school class. This is for the sophomores. So second year, this is second year. Anything else you want to add? Yeah. I just wanted to show you there's a link that um was here that was not copied but this is the analysis that the teachers had done and they looked at three different textbooks which are across the bottom of the screen and then across the top of the screen you could see who the teachers were and they gave it a rating and and it's colorcoded so that you'll see a lot of green. If you clicked one of the tabs at the bottom, you could see the other books and what the ratings were for those categories.