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Nunes alluded to it is you know looking at a shifting of priorities in terms of expenditure we do not we do not know it's definitely the town side of government's responsibility so we don't but then again we don't really have control over the override either so we could probably I mean I think I think the School Committee is a very important body in in town and you know I'm sure that the select board and Finance Committee would be interested in you know whatever you have to say so I if an override isn't something that they're you know going to entertain and then maybe a shifting of priorities would be it wouldn't hurt to try I guess no I just yeah and you know shifting of priority is it just you know we're yeah we're grateful for what they give us but I too have been stuck in that perusing the social media and it's really discouraging to see comments around the use of technology as being a babysitter for students in the classroom and it's so far from what's actually happening I would I would interject that it makes teaching more complex and complicated and that topped with trying to get students to a place where they can achieve their greatest potential using those tools are necessary and the times were in you know this isn't 60 years ago seven years ago I mean education has changed and shifted in no easier much more complex to really maintain system in a classroom that allows students to learn and achieve and so yeah I think it's really important that there is in that focus a shift in priorities because we need this money we are in the lowest of you know in the very low percentage of what we pay you know we talk about Dartmouth pride and we talk about you know all of our students matter and it's the you know any future leader starts as a student in a classroom anyone and so I just don't understand the reluctance to really accept the fact that we have a low tax base and yes not everybody makes a lot of money some people many people live week to week you know life is complex but our students are our future and I guess that's my comment to this and I would certainly support this and I hear what you're saying as it's it I wouldn't want it to be limited but Shannon go ahead so I'll make a motion that we will pass a resolution to request that the Select board at their next meeting take up the issue of and support a request for an override so the town can increase its contribution to health care for town school and town employees second thank you that's something we want to individually sign I think so I mean what versus I mean where they're coming from was do you want it if we just all individually signed it you know when it's ready type of deal we missed tonight's meeting so it's gotta be from before the next meeting the next meeting is much third a month I'm not sure any I think I might I think it's March 3rd oh is it yeah because they taking I think they cancelled the one like two weeks from tonight and then they're going back-to-back so I think they're going to march through it a march 10 okay well thank you everyone for that and with that since I didn't have a report does anybody else have any other updates on things two quick things madam chair number one good luck deca students are headed to the states at the end of the month the 28th 29th 27 28th and 29th up in Boston it is 32 or 34 of them and you know hopefully they'll do as well there as they did down in Hyannis the beginning of January and Brendan was kind enough to mention ayran to a percussion in college I'd show on the 22nd doors will open at noon time our junior varsity goes on at 128 our virus city goes scheduled to go on just after 3:30 and the Vice Calgon Awards will be right after that you know quarter of four type of deal and then the percussion groups will take over and our percussion closes out the night just after you know seven twenty year or so and awards will be right after so you know come and enjoy the kids there's some thirty last time I looked over almost forty groups between the two the two groups coming so have a good safe vacation next week vacation that we've all been sick I lost track of the week so our next meeting our next regularly scheduled meeting of the school committee is Monday March 9th 6:30 here streaming live and with that I will entertain a motion to entertain a motion to adjourn into an executive session to provide an update with respective collective bargaining bargaining with union personnel not to return to open session so Chris Oliver yes Shannon Jenkins yes yes thank you
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in the interest of respecting our I called a meeting to order at 6:04 Josh will you take a roll call sure [Music] commissioner McCoy Commissioner murski your chair Olinsky commissioners Locker your kosher schreiber here okay and councilman Eaton is here but stepped out from it yes okay we have the agenda in front of us as folks on the preview of it relatively light agenda today we did add a last minute agenda item the presentation on battery storage that Commissioner hokum will be providing otherwise we'll just cover our usual items and committee updates do we have a motion to approve the agenda so second all in favor aye all opposed okay prove the agenda approval of minutes Josh sent the minutes out for review do we have a motion to approve the minutes so moved all in favor aye I'll post okay we have approved the minutes at this time we will open it up for public input any member of the public who is here and would like to speak to us for a couple minutes on a topic of importance to energy is welcome to come to the podium at this time no public comment okay with that we'll go on to the Energy Report news from the Energy Office and commissioners yes so just a few updates for everyone by-laws we do have bylaws that actually passed council so the edits we made passed which means we can also have to youth commissioners on the Energy Commission so I wanted to kind of share the good news I know that we had a couple of people in mind but that's something I guess we can work with work on to kind of like by who those youth commissioners will be yeah so is there any timing requirement about when we begin soliciting for those we would just ask them to submit their application through the usual process and the mayor and council will review yes okay okay is there is there a way to kind of get that information out to the public in case there's yeah anyone that wants to I was interested in we're like an email we can forward right so we had um we had taken down as an action item when it was ready to be in touch with the U of M student government relations liaison Kyla McCallum had visited us here once and said she'd like to circulate that information and then I'm thinking I mean we could draft something up but I'm wondering if the Community Engagement subcommittee might be the right group to kind of just take on passing that information along to local schools and youth organizations and so forth there was a high school sustainability or climate related energy group that was starting up to find that contact great yeah and Carlene might have some through this as well the age range is 16 to 25 16 25 great thank you yeah high school students or something that yeah and maybe it would be useful for us to draft a document I'm just explaining the expectations right who's eligible what the process is for them to apply and then what our expectations are about the length of time that they serve their attendance at the meetings how they participate and the benefits to them of course would staff do that or because it's joint with the environmental Commission I don't believe there's any differences between this Commission and that Commission and the youth representatives so we should have a common document it seems to me yeah I mean that's one of those things if we want we can communications council meetings government students a couple numbers sign their agenda and I think through our usual additionally if the last council meeting we passed a resolution that will change the process too but we as a body will make recommendations to the mayor and so as openings come up I have access to every application that the city has received for the Energy Commission we can share that information we may want to form a subcommittee just for membership issues like that you know who to recommend to the mayor the mayor under the city charter has the absolute right to appoint anybody he wants but this will initiate the process with us at least making a recommendation and then he can do as he pleases that's good comes from all quarters that way then and and yeah this will be true of every board and Commission that just this one yep oh one other thing I'm sorry actually the bylaws didn't pass at the last meeting um the the resolution that passed changed the statement of purpose for this committee or this commission Commission and changed the membership but it did not include them the bylaws and so we'll have to circle back round make sure that they get on the City Council agenda but the actual resolution that I'm looking at from the last meeting was just the purpose in the membership and Josh one of the thing regarding youth members I recommended to Emily I assume she's done this to reach out to some of the interns that we've had who are also connected in with a lot of the student groups at U of M as well as Grant Dukas who you remember whose students a clean-energy and you know there's the membership of those groups as on the rise so tapping into people who are already passionate and informed and engaged makes sense alright a few other updates as far as the energy tech an a20 we have finished going through the ideas and ranking them currently we have a contractor who the ideas are now going through we're kind of putting a finer point on the greenhouse gas impacts and sign what some of the financial costs we're happening we're hoping to have that kind of turned around pretty quickly here there's another town hall that'll be happening yes is that the consultant yes elevate energy energy yes that's a group out of Chicago okay and they are I remember Missy shared I think it was last month a little bit about what they were doing but can you speak a little bit more about what they're yeah so giving greenhouse gas numbers to each of the top-ranking ideas as well as giving kind of a rough estimate for cost take bloom on each of the different ideas that were listed by the energy tech okay we have a town hall coming up the 22nd at Pioneer which kind of puts the two bookends so the original one happened at cobblestone this is going to be the the ending of I guess the energy tax and kind of wrapping everything up so that's going to be a pioneer like I said February 22nd and then we also have a forum that's tied to the mobility tech so we just recently had energy TAC forum as part of the sustainability forums happen on annual basis and the next one's mobility which will be on Thursday at 7 p.m.
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hello I'm dr. Katzen with hcit and welcome to this edition of parent university which will highlight optimal student health and well-being today students under a lot of perceived stress will be a physical emotional chemical or all the above many parents and guardians may not be aware but just a few subtle lifestyle habits could skyrocket student success and unlock their full potential [Music] on this edition of our optimal health series on parent University we will discuss the power of sleep sleep deprivation is one of the number one problems of today's youth they simply do not get enough sleep proper sleep is needed for mental clarity memory concentration and overall performance it is important to stand that the body and brain heal and repair during sleep the body brain the body and brain are like a battery they need to be recharged and sleep is how you do it here are a few tips and suggestions that can help students and their sleep habits number one health experts recommend 8 to 10 hours of sleep for teenagers from the ages between 14 and 17 to consistency is key the body responds to rhythm experts recommend going to bed and waking at the similar times each day 3 this may be a challenge but it is recommended that there's not that there is not computer phone or screen time 30 minutes before bed research supports at electronics before bed interferes with the quality of sleep number 4 today it is common for students to sleep with their phone under their pillow we strongly encourage students to keep their phone away from their head and pillow as they sleep due to radiation concerns as well as the fact it may go off and disrupt their sleep patterns 5 and lastly try to stick to a positive thoughts and experiences before bed watching a reading negative or upsetting things will interfere with your sleep quality because your subconscious brain remains active long after you fall asleep so remember the way you do anything is the way you do everything success leaves clues and anything you do in the right direction is progress so thank you in advance for supporting your child's success thank you for watching this edition of Perun University [Music]
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good morning Mahalo today is February 13 2012 it is the nineties this is WDSU news I'm Melissa and I'm Christina today for lunch there will be a mini pizza bites future bright sparkling peaches and you tomorrow for breakfast and eat breakfast Pangos yogurt fresh grapes footballs and milk you don't have any monsters that question was how many items are and it does the answer is 12 the winner is Abel today's fun fact question is first ring is the secret identity for what superhero remember try again today include your name class we have especially know Barack Obama was the 40 44th president of the minutes he was the first african-american to serve as president in 2008 he was elected as the president he won a second term in 2012 before the presidency he was the president of the parlor how Harvard Law Review and a u.s.
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downtown library February 13th so that's all I have for Steph updates can you talk a little bit more about the Town Hall and what's what's coming to that what is the antenna time because it's like five hours long right yeah so there's yeah so there is I guess the way that the town the the original town hall at cobblestone was kind of programmed we had three major pieces so one of it was public input the other one was the tax of having kind of a Technical Advisory Committee and the last piece was a partner some kind of nonprofit partners throughout the community and really what the the final Town Hall will do is kind of wrapping up all those three so in many ways the TAC has gone through kind of created a list of priorities will have already the numbers will have kind of a finer point on the greenhouse gas number is the kind of cost to each of these and will kind of be doing a almost like a TED talk I guess is how we've been pitching it that breaks down the top ideas to the community and really helps to get their feedback it also brings in that kind of community leg of things so the community throughout this whole period they've been given three surveys to kind of have input on on the ideas that we're coming up with in the tax and I think this really creates an opportunity to get their feedback on this kind of finalized list as well as obviously having our partners there or nonprofit or are you sharing the results of the surveys then at the Town Hall yes okay so the results of the community surveys the results of the TAC prioritization and the results of the consultants analysis kind of those three piece it's basically yeah it's kind of a culmination of all the work that we were doing from beginning to end I guess that's the best way to kind of put it okay but then asking for additional feedback on those it's is it a presentation it's a dependent it's a presentation it's a presentation with a public input okay is there gonna be a Youth Forum as well a roundtable or something that was planned at one time right I'm not sure I would definitely reach out to okay anything else Josh from the city's perspective or energy commissioners news or updates okay then moving right along to our next agenda item questionnaire welcome has brought us a presentation around energy storage slums great do you have control of the slides Jeff if you want to just the mouse so I did this kind of on a quick notice like so we asked for some ideas or thoughts on a presentation some of you have heard me talk on this topic before there's other folks here who are studying this in detail as well so I'm talking a little bit about tonight distributed energy resources so when we talk about it in CMS we usually are talking about it from a larger scale so a DES or the ER might be serving a specific group like a city you can also think about what I'm on to talk about today about doing it locally and one of the things that you know about and probably you've heard me talk about the past is dispatchable versus intermittent power so when the lights come on and your furnace kicks on and your motor start there's got to be something running once you get you microphone lock flows with you just in case there's somebody watching online okay my voice wonder - sigh huh thanks John but anyway so if you turn a light switch on we need to have something running to support that it's got to be electronic flow to the device one of the challenges we have with our renewable sources for the most part are that they were not dispatchable they're not readily available they may or may not be available at a specific time so we're looking at solutions that can be used to backstop or smooth those renewables so batteries offer that and you've heard me talked in the past about micro grids and how you can apply a battery at different formats to to take advantage over enable the greater use of renewable energy to turn on light switches and service our loads so just a real quick update today of what's going on in an industry to let you know what we're doing a little bit of highlight of what's going on I have a few definitions in front of you I'll use the words a lot my presentations a bulk electric system that's the grid that's the wires that run around town um that provide power power I'll show it to you in a minute and how that looks physically I talked about distributed energy that's where we've generate electricity close to the load energy storage is where we store electricity for the future use of that electricity in a format or structure it could be in that it could be in a water pan like we have at Ludington or it could be in a battery there's a lot of ways we can store energy aid and use it later not so much all efficient and that's important to recognize generator interconnect that's where we bring in electricity sources that connect them to the grid that's an important interface between a utility service and a de are perhaps so think about generator interconnect is that key point when everything connects together and that design of that interconnects got to be perfect and I know what like Carlene you've got your new solar system that connects to the wires probably that generator interconnect was a little stressful but you can make it happen it can't get done in there ways to make it work so a lot of work goes on behind the scenes to make sure that's safe parallel is when a generating system works behind the scenes in parallel to the grid so think of a building like a city hall a parallel system might be a generator that's on-site generating electricity locally whether it's solar or something else and the grid providing the rest of the power so they're working in parallel to one another I owned it is how a micro grid works when the grid goes away the micro grid is able to withstand that scenario where it's no longer parallel but it's actually islanded so we call it Island it think about when you go to Oahu and you're sitting on the island in Oahu that's an island it grid it works as one specific Island did location has the word Island inflow back is where we have a scenario where a micro grid or renewable source or a battery might be dispatching the power backwards onto the grid so think about technologies you're starting to see visible and vehicle-to-grid we're thinking about batteries that can provide power back locally to a grid scenario and then lastly as the micro grid which is a segment of a grid that can be operated by itself without connectivity to the larger grid so I'll show you what that looks like here in a second so quickly and I'm not going to get in a lot of detail here but the pictorial here shows a grid and it shows a lot of different things connected to that grid from left to right is the main power grid with lots of different types of generation hooked on to an island of transmission with you see the big tall towers you see the big lines those are transmission lines they're usually at high voltage and they were done that way for efficiency reasons and then we stepped on that power locally to where you need to use it to a lower voltage every time we step up and step down we have losses however it's a more efficient way to transmit electricity is a really high voltage really lower amperage more efficient less loss in the lines but still causes us some aggravation that's the way the system was designed it was designed to basically provide electricity from the left to the right and now where we're going into is more distributed energy so we're seeing interest in doing things locally at cities at homes and you're seeing power flow in the red lines you can see the power flow now going to directions sometimes the power flow comes into you sometimes it doesn't and it causes a lot of stress to a system that was designed to be one way we're still working through this to find out how far we can go with our grid to see what kind of loads can be added safely and reliably because every time somebody adds a new system to our grid the lights may or may not come on if frequency is out of whack or voltage goes out of whack there's a lot of things happening in the wires and in the system to make sure we deliver electricity to you safely in the great blackout of 2003 I can't tell you how many neighbors came over and said well why can't I turn my toaster on well you know it just takes a couple amps well the whole grids down so guess what your toasters done there's a lot to providing power and I think a lot of people take it for granted the way there I'm paying eight cents a kilowatt and since the kilowatt hour and I should have 100% reliability takes a lot for us to do that is the utility and electric industry so challenges ahead of us so the future reliability really hinges on balancing the technologies we have um DTE consumers energy a lot of utilities have invested a lot of money to make our grid more resilient I work on the storm team with CMS so I see firsthand when we have a storm how much better our grid is dts grid performs better than it did five years ago simply because we've added technologies to enable us like recloser x' where a fault used to take down the whole circuit nowadays the fault if it's not bad enough and the recloser can close back in this goes past the fault and continues providing electricity maybe at a small window of time later but at least you have power back on so there's a lot of technology that's being layered into the grid to make it smarter to make it more enabled to communicate better and that's what's going on behind the scenes all those technologies in smart grid are helping us transform to more two-way power flow so I think that's an important factor Chuck what's the one acronyms skate has got what is it again supervisory control so think of it as your PC there are multiple platforms that it works on but now there's a lot more field information coming back to us and the old days you'd have sent out a crew if something broke send the line crew out the bucket truck you know go fix it nowadays we can diagnose over SCADA what's happening on the line where the fault is and be pinpointing a response and so that data acquisition is really important floods us with information but it's really an important system I mentioned energy storage there's lots of ways to store it I won't go into detail you've heard me talk about this in the past we have some that are a really big scale that we can store megawatts size storage that are being deployed now batteries you hear a lot about I'll talk a bit about that in a minute and then we have even smaller scale very fast acting devices I'm actually working on a flywheel project right now so we're looking at putting in fly wheels to react to disturbances on the grid in a faster format so we have to use these technologies to the right fit the important thing here is that they're coming down in price they're becoming more available as there's more demand for these kinds of devices moving forward this is just a quick snapshot don't get into the weeds of it the vertical graph is how fast or how long these systems can operate though right the flat horizontal line gives you from kilowatts scale all the way to gigawatt sales so you again the same thing Pumped hydro which I'll talk about in a minute offers lots of hours of storage high volumes of output so really a good solution for a grid as we're transitioning to different types of technologies for generation compressed air or energy storage so we either put compressed air or we can pump underground Michigan's blessed with lots of salt mines and and old oil wells and things like that that can be used for compressing and storing either air as a compressing device force for energy storage or to store carbon if we choose to from let's call carbon sequestration so Michigan's blessed with that we also use a lot of our our salt domes and facilities like that to store gas so this year we haven't had to use as much natural gas but we have stored Michigan being the number one state in the country with storage capability for natural gas really important but for a generation of electricity we can use those caverns pump it full of compressed air and then let the air out through a turbine and spin the turbine and create electricity so there's only two of those in the world that utility scale but there's a lot of interest in those now we happen to have the world's third largest battery in Ludington it's well soon hell and I think it's may have even happened I may be out of whack with this timing but over 2,000 megawatts at pump storage so you can see it's over 2,000 today there's and I think we were close to if we're not there were very close to being at the new nameplate of 22,000 I go out 2000 172 microwatts you can see the pictorial on the bottom looking at it from Lake Michigan you see a lake that's up above on a bluff if you ever drive by you can actually go on to that visitor stand and off 131 or 31 anyway along the lake there and you can actually see this whole thing that it's pretty fascinating but built way back way before we realize how important it would be to our grid and provides significant capacity and capability to the state of Michigan in terms of its ability to meet needs for capacity energy or what we call ancillary service when our frequency or voltage have challenges so Ludington is a really great resource we have in the state of Michigan that is what we call the big battery just question a question on that is and you get at this a little in the last bullet point but what do you see is is future potential for home storage and I'll just reveal my bicep because I my my professional hat on this at work National Wildlife Federation just called by reporters just today because there is a proposal for a new pump storage in Georgian Bay on the Canadian side I also sit on the Great Lakes Fisheries trust board which result as a game as a result of a lawsuit filed by my organization because of the fisheries damage is done by this this plan so the question is kind of you know what do you see big potential for this moving forward it wasn't originally designed with renewables in mind but I know it can be used that way so I could talk about this for a while for a long while actually I testified to Congress on storage and what we could do in this country with pump storage not that year to ago and um it fostered really interesting I've never been in Congress before where I had the whole House Energy and Commerce Committee in front of me peppering me with questions but I don't we do this why don't we do this and we had a dialogue going between myself and several of the representatives about in in Virginia they have coal mines well they're not going to use the coal mines they're underground cavern that could be used for something else instead we're talking through the whole idea in front of everybody else about could we use those for pump storage where we actually flood the cavern really very limited impact on environment because nothing really lives that down in those coal mines and it's a cavern that could be used for something like vertical generations so we walked through it and sure enough now Virginia and West Virginia both have initiatives to do pump storage in their states with coal mines typically we think about it as lakes or like Ludington I know of one other site in Michigan that we looked at pretty heavily for this it's really difficult when you have the environmental perspective to to actually permit wedington today would probably take 15 years from the time you thought about it modeled it bought the land rights did all the environmental permitting NEPA and everything else um when we have to do a integrated resource planning we're not looking out 15 years we're looking at five years but you know potentially in that range you know how do you schedule something how do you spend that kind of money in advance of a project that may or may not make it with that kind of an impact it's really difficult in this marketplace in this current state to permit Pumped hydro yeah maybe you'll get to this but I also wonder on the efficiencies because obviously you know it's a net you have a net loss of electricity right because you're pumping it uphill and then there's coming back and you know just by thermodynamics you lose but how that compares to other storage type pieces and maybe again I don't I don't want to take us too far down this one particular piece but but I'll be curious your assessment how it lines up I haven't heard anyone analyze that suggests we talked about that offline I could for a while just for the purpose of the question though which is a good one it's really an arbitrage scenario so our power grid the way it operates and a lot of people don't know this but the utilities generate electricity for their customers sell that power to my so by the power back from my son distributed so it's kind of a strange model that's been in place since about 2000 the nice thing about what Ludington does in a pump storage is we can pump the water up it up to the pond at night when the rates are low and let it down there in a day when demand is high if you looked at our demand curve you'd see how this matches up really well in Michigan with our demand and that's the real glory of it it's a large amount of power in a space that really fits well um it's environmentally sensitive we have probably the world's most innovative fish nets and things protecting the intake so we're not bringing in Lake Michigan fish um a lot of work is going on to fine tune this in fact the efficiency of these hydro turbines are some of the best in the world they're maxed out now we can't we can't expand them any further but I could talk a lot about the efficiency impacts at night what we see but it's it's still in my mind one of the best technologies we could use going forward to help move away from if you will a carbon-based generation okay thanks just a quick map of where we use energy storage so we have energy storage being used for our generation side you're starting to see more and more we're replacing gas speakers with battery storage batteries gotten to the point where it's scalable a large large plays we're seeing it mostly out in California where power prices are really high I mentioned energy arbitrage where we're doing at night today peak shifting which which is very effective and it provides other services like Blackstar you're working on a Blackstone case as well right now with batteries um obviously we can inject batteries at transmission level that's the current micelle marketplace for growth and battery storage in our space to inject it to either non wire alternative to instead of putting in transmission or to solve a particular power problem at the transmission level and then I'll focus on the far right customer behind the meter so we're seeing a lot of interest in solar storage at people's homes that's been driven by the cost of electricity being it at a point where it makes some sense potentially to add a battery the cost implications are there perhaps provide some UPS based power if you have a storm seeing more interest in people coupling batteries with their solar on the roof and so that's being aggregated in different places we're watching to see how that ends up rolling forward on a larger scale but it is happening at a at a small scale at homes so what's driving the current growth and storage obviously it's helping renewables become more dispatchable that case I mentioned earlier um the battery costs are coming down um we're seeing some press in the market FERC has asked all the ISOs to actually investigate storage and how it could be used in their marketplace mostly for ancillary service but for other reasons and we're seeing that it's able to be permitted very quickly we don't have to worry about admissions so much or siting it in a space that may not be best suited for large-scale generation perhaps local batteries might fit better in terms of launching it quickly at the national level this is basically a graph if you go from left to right what's happening the the curious thing here is if you look at 2013 and you look at the storage that's being added in 2013 the amount of battery which is the blue bar at the top was was innocuous it wasn't a large amount of you know effectively 80 megawatts now you're starting to see significant growth in energy storage going left to right in batteries and batteries they mentioned that they're coming down a price they've really become the solution if you will to a four-hour energy storage need and it's being touted as being the next generation of battery technology in my mind it's going to be probably flow batteries because lithium-ion has got some limitations it's got some fire risks and other things we're investigating low batteries which I could talk about again in another forum but flow batteries seem to have a lot of benefits and it's just taking that commercial step to get them to the market where we'll start seeing their application more but a flow battery is effectively two big tanks cathode anode and a look good electrolyte passing between them not so much in a way if I were risk and you can actually use fairly readily available materials as opposed to lithium to manufacturing so you'll be starting to hear more about flow batteries here in a short distance water ethically Duflo batteries have a longer discharge duration currently than the lithium ions as well which also make them better for utility scale and energy applications because it's a longer duration so lithium probably as a far-our duration as far as how much it can dispatch its full capacity a flow battery today I could buy a flow battery that's commercial for eight to nine to ten hours so you're seeing that capability grow and obviously having that backstop if you have a storm that takes out your service for a few hours maybe lithium I'll get you there probably a flow battery will make it even a more you know responsive system for you so like a micro grid or something like that might be benefited by a flow battery a lot of a lot of research going on throughout the state university of michigan's got research Grand Valley states got research going on probably Michigan State as well and flow batteries that seems to be the next step try this light that's in front of us right now is that to be understood as in 2013 on the left was what was in place and what has been added to that every year since is that how to understand that these are these are additions so oh 2013 was also the in addition that what had been in place before that yeah okay this is just purely the megawatts added okay so not a lot of storage in 2013 even less in 2014 yeah kind of economic impact there but you're seeing the shift in technology growth 2017 was kind of an anomaly they were expecting greater growth we had some things happening like the shortfall of supply capacity from South Korea impacted us I was trying to secure batteries in 2017 I couldn't and now you're seeing that growth in manufacturing worldwide catching up to the demand and there are projections that this is really going to take off your over the next few years we're watching it I think you know I don't know that I believe that but we'll see where it fits it's interesting balance so why is it limited in Michigan we don't have a lot of energy storage in Michigan I mentioned Ludington there's not been a lot of batteries built one of the big drivers is my so that marketplace we work in where we buy and sell electricity has no market for a battery there's no there's no payment to us if we had a battery we dispatch if you went to Ohio let's say which is part of the PJM interconnect you can actually know the battery and be paid for it but in my so right now in Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota other states going south that my so marketplace footprint doesn't have a market so nobody really builds much in the way of batteries there that's changing but even today it's still in that same space of that a lot of drivers for building something like that so we've looked in other places and I'm on the non regulated side so we've looked at battery storage I'm actually building one in Ohio that I'll talk about in a minute so there are marketplaces for batteries not so much in the my so space the other thing is relatively speaking Michigan's electric rates are fairly low if you went to the California Massachusetts the coastal areas you'll see the prices for electricity much higher that drives interest in putting in battery storage or that price point comes down and matches up better Chuck thermal is natural gas turbines there is that what that is thermal would be so ice you start we manufacture ice during night and use the for air conditioning during the day that kind of technology that's much electric generation so I mentioned cost coming down I don't want to talk about this too much but lithium if you went from 2000 to 2015 in this curve you see dramatic price difference and cost to the market so we're seeing that trajectory drive us and look at this really strongly I think by the end of next year we'll probably have had five or six batteries installed all of which are lithium to see what the if they have a benefit moving forward but I think we're really starting to look more different types of technologies going forward at a smaller scale at residential level you'll see it in your calculators you see it in your cell phone and so still be the lithium technology but I think you'll see larger scale batteries coming about as their price points follow a similar trajectory you've heard me mention this maybe in the past I'm not sure even Theresa knows about this one um the Innovation Centre injects and this is a project I developed a few years ago and I've been helping get it to the to the finish line interesting story we decided we needed to invest in a micro grid we had a building in downtown Jackson that we have office space in we own the building and in 2015 we went through an upgrade where we basically gutted in old 1938 building put in energy efficiency in terms of lighting HVAC the plug power is very low so the building itself is very efficient all right we decided it was a great place to put in a micro grid so we actually put in a battery the long story of that scenario was that particular battery its sister battery caught fire in the test lab and the battery manufacturer said stop you can't use that battery indoors it needs to go so we went through a nine-month hiatus of trying to find another battery that would fit our bill and we did um it is now in service at the moment it hasn't been commercially accepted yet we're still going through commissioning it's nominally a hundred kilowatts so think about three or four story building with lights and plug loads not a lot of industrial use inside but it's a pretty good-sized battery on the battery was sized so that it would be able to run the building all of its loads for about three days so it's got a pre-sub substantial amount of capacity to it from the building point of view especially over weekends we'll be able to run off-grid it's got a solar system that we integrated on the roof it's got electric car chargers that are integrated at the ground and it's really pretty cool system so it's gonna serve as a living lab for us to watch and see what we can do with our customers who are interested in micro grids and one of these days soon I hope to be a law for anybody that wants to come in take a tour of this to come see it so we're pretty excited about cutting the ribbon on this one and getting it down getting it done it didn't set any records in terms of getting it done on time but it's going to provide I think some learning benefits for us as a company and this is kind of what it looks like from a one-line point of view this is electrical diagram here's where the grid comes into the building it goes through a switch it has a meter up at the top we basically have taken over the building electric inbound where this line is coming in used to go all the way around here to here and run into switchgear which are all the loads so all the switches kind of like your house it has switch gear in the basement what we've done is integrated in there a new set of switch gear that has a battery at the bottom an inverter and switch gear with protective relaying that enables us to monitor what's coming in so we can watch the power quality of the grid coming in and if the grid goes black immediately interject and open the switch and interject the battery into our power supply to the building it was designed to happen seamlessly so that we don't trip any any loads so I'll be interesting to watch that take place we're going to do some simulations coming up but it will carry the full load of the building like I said for an extended period of time so it's a pretty simple pictorial in terms of how it came together I'll tell you this this whole protective relaying and making sure it's safe took a lot of extra effort we took a lot of time to make sure the battery was safe we have Otto's backup systems in place so that we if we had a fire we have provisions in place to overcome that unlike what you've heard in industry we've already in case something bad does happen and we've taken lots of steps to make sure it doesn't I mentioned the project I'm working on now this is going to be one of the first hybrid projects in the country we had an existing wind farm hundred megawatts in Ohio a pretty good sized generating capability pretty reasonable capacity factor it's been readily available almost all the time we have a limitation on how much power we can inject into the grid so we thought about what can we do about that and how could we learn from it so we decided to build on the property beyond around the substation a pretty large right now it's three and a half megawatts solar array so it's a pretty good sized ground mounted solar array and we're adding a one by four hour battery and we'll be able to charge the battery with wind or solar dispatch the battery on the fly wouldn't it makes sense we have about five or six different use cases where we'll be able to take advantage of that battery to watch how we can integrate it into the market and then learn from that to expand it and use it in other places so it's really a cool technology we're adding where it's purely renewable purely dispatchable and I wish I could have made a bigger battery because I think we'll be you're taxing that battery every day but it's an interesting living lab if you will down in Ohio graphically this is a solar graph so you'll see that it's [Music] effectively charging along here it's actually discharging at different times you see the discharge curve and you see the Sun come up and the solar is generating - the solar side of the grid and the blue it's charging the battery and then the battery's charged and at night it can shift and do load shifting at night so the same kind of a mindset where we can use the solar during the day both for meeting peak demand as well as charging our battery and then using the battery as a load shift to use it at night so we're really excited to see how this works both with wind and solar at the same time to have additional generation capability so that's kind of the technology of the future that we see happening quite a bit and that's all I had for you tonight so be happy for any questions or questions like the distributed generation side with all solar panels everything as you can starting to get into looking at distributed source and vehicle to grid and applications of a lots and lots of hundred kilowatt batteries that customers pay for and are sitting around in garages 90% of the time yeah there's a project in Washington County that you'll probably hear about that's a distributed solar the owner wants to have it be a micro grid that's going to serve as a resiliency home I don't want to talk about it because it's not my project but it's coming you'll see it on there it's got a lot of visibility my backstop so I think my understanding is since site plan review right now so if you if you google that and you want to talk about distributed solar I was at a facility in Alabama that basically had its own generating plant that was a micro grid and had 63 homes attached to it all high-efficiency homes all the solar on the roof all with batteries in their facility the battery in each home was basically its resilience but it was served by this micro grid so you're starting to see that buildup in smaller scale I think it's just going to keep scaling up there's been announcements in Oregon I believe Arizona there's several larger scale communities looking at doing that I have a question going back to the the purchasing of battery power in the mine so area versus others what is that what's the reason for that why do some areas are you know why are they purchasing the battery stored electricity and and why is in the MYSA area not so for an individual to purchase it no no on the grid scale PJM though why doesn't myself have an ancillary services market the way the PGM has an ancillary services market for batteries that's that's a political answer it's not a matter of well because you know my so it's got plenty of electricity that is generating from other sources and there's absolutely no need because we're not using I don't know it's a very low penetration of batteries in the my cell footprint as well there's the the the largest battery we came in second we were gonna build it and we didn't it's in Indianapolis it was built ahead of the curve they thought my son would adopt energy storage markets and it would be able to dispatch this battery they'd be in the market right out of the box that they captured the goal and most grid operations or utility operations with an ISO that covers the market is to be the first entrant because you're the first one in gets the big payment as an example the first wind farm in Michigan has 120 mega hundred $20 per megawatt hour sales contract if you built that today would be in the twenty eight dollar range so they were pretty smart eight years ago nine years ago to get in the market early they got the big contracts now things have tailored off because cost of condo for whatever reason my son wants to wait and not do storage they want to watch and see what happens and other ISOs let them learn first and adopt the rules probably at a lower price point they don't want to suffer that I think another piece to that and and correct me if you think this is inaccurate but my my understanding also I mean my so market is largely regulated the utilities and my so are largely regulated in PJM there's a lot of unregulated markets and in a regulated market the utility has construct in which it is safe and you know under most reasonable conditions there's going to be reasonable incentive to invest in having sufficient generation and sufficient capacity and in PJM and other unregulated markets they have experienced challenges where they have not had sufficient generation or capacity built and and the challenges that come with that in terms of the ancillary services and so those markets have put in a lot of like mean if you read those those markets rules are there hundred thousands of pages of kind of minutiae about different services they're selling and trading and all - I think compensate in some ways for the lack of that kind of stable regulatory construction so I think my so doesn't feel the need for it in the way that PJ Allen did yeah we operated in a moment and we're in different service territories my cell is probably the easiest marker rules but the most difficult to get any kind of traction in terms of new technologies or new advancements it's just the way it is it's it's just how they operate they just have different philosophies how far out then you think that the battery technology is for myself do you think was it five years ten years so what we call SATA or storage is the transmission asset so I've met that one picture that showed me you can plug in battery storage at a grid level that's probably a year or two out storage as a distribution asset maybe right behind it offering up an ancillary service to others or a frequency regulation I'm not sure it's really going to come I think they've already figured that they have enough so they're just it's just a different it could come to this area through other mechanisms right I mean the Michigan regulatory environment yes is interested in seeing more of the users were supportive of utilities proposing and piloting more of this it could come through that mechanism without necessarily and the utilities will continue to utilities will continue to pilot different types of batteries into different applications you know consumers energy has a 1 megawatt battery near the Western Michigan University solar installation and you know we're running tests on that and running use cases there we're running these cases in circuit West on a 500 kilowatt battery that's near solar in the urban settings and then in the process of installing another 500 kilowatt battery with solar for another use case and so you're gonna start seeing more batteries as distribution assets then you'll start to see more batteries as generating assets and that's the other thing that's complicated from a markets perspective is what use case are you going to use for that particular battery are you going to use it for frequency regulation are you going to use it for solar smoothing and which one of those things gives the greatest benefit for customers at that particular time so I would say that you'll probably start seeing more and more of those over the next five years there's some interesting challenge and I think everybody in Michigan needs to understand that and that is that I mentioned my so coming into play in that window of time and ineffectively before utilities would generate electricity for its customers and the state would regulate it now the utility generates electricity sells it and buys it from my so the state still wants to regulate it and they still want to tell everybody what to do but they're not in the market and that causes some friction and I've had to testify and talk to our friends in Lansing about how that's different how that model doesn't reflect the old days put your take your head off and think about it a different way and they're certainly in it we're all in the same mindset of if there's a storage application that makes sense economically or physically let's tackle it but there are other solutions typically to the problem and it may not involve a battery so we need to work together the month it needs to tell us and give us signals on what the investment profile should be where do we put our money but the state can you know shape that a bit but they need to listen and watch and unfortunately sometimes they get ahead of themselves maybe they go to California see the big batteries and say let's build a big batteries in Michigan and it and it's not the same fit it doesn't have the same alignment with what we need a Michigan and we're trying to keep the rates down too and that's an important factor too and we could upside-down the market and do some things but our repairs would really suffer I think so it'll get there we're making these baby steps but the movements there the knowledge base the learnings are all happening we'll be ready when it starts to really fit I'm really glad to hear that there are the like significant tests that are going on right now in the state so that's really it's very reassuring I have a little question that may be a little bit off-topic hopefully it's short and the answers short all right utilities here in Michigan since they're gonna have more and more renewable assets also looking at getting into the business of generating hydrogen with excess renewables at peak times were because P generation is about peak demand because hydrogen has a height higher energy density than gasoline does and so for industrial uses and potentially even for vehicles it's interesting are you guys looking at that everybody is everybody is there's a couple of barriers to hydrogen one is generating hydrogen so that's it's a a technology that's fleeting hydrolysis works there's other technologies that can be applied some of them the park you know there's there's a natural alignment with Michigan and having water that fit there are other elements of it like our electric costs which don't fit so well and if you think about a gas tank right a gas pump you're gonna go fill up your car the installation costs for that's probably in the range of 150 thousand dollars the same pump to provide you hydrogen's two million so you start putting two million dollar gas pumps all around that cost adds up very quickly there are technologies like in California that they've started implementing where they the states supporting it so it's subsidized and now you can start making a difference if there's a transportation market that will buy into the hydrogen fuel great if there is a need for it from an emissions point of view another driver that all those drivers line up in California it makes a total sense Michigan the economics certainly don't work we've looked at CNG and other technologies there CNG fueling stations out there but hydrogen's difficult plus it's flammable and nobody really likes driving on 2000 psi gas tanks full of hydrogen right yeah I start to worry a little bit about it so you've got to bridge those gaps and we're watching California we'll see if it works there maybe move it here Chuck can you talk a little bit about so I I have a little bit of research background into some of the battery stuff and I'm nearly to the extent you know this stuff so I have I guess I've often heard of batteries being talked about as a kind of panacea to solve the intermittency problem and the research that I have seen into this it starts to seem actually like a pretty daunting kind of infrastructure in and of itself you know the the capacity for Ludington x' there's not that much of that right these kind of natural things right so then you start looking at you know for every power plant you took down and replaced with wind or solar you'd essentially need the same amount of big battery storage there and I think from an environmental perspective I haven't yet seen convincing evidence that we know what we're getting ourselves into with the chemical side of things and end-of-life handling can you talk a little bit about you know your understanding of that and how are those challenges being addressed two responses one is again looking at California when Aliso Canyon had a problem Juuso Canyon is a large natural gas storage facility about three years ago and burned for days I think months maybe never was able to be extinguished the California I get ran into a natural gas crisis where they were worried about their electric grid being stable enough because a lot of natural gas plants have been built there so they turned to the battery manufacturers and said we have a problem and I think there were four tender offers accepted there are hundreds of megawatt scale batteries in California so we're watching the sea of that battery can actually provide that reliable service for an extended period you know if we build a natural gas plant like a Zealand it's got a forty to fifty year life that's economic will a battery lasts that long or is a life cycle for a battery going to be so frantically used that it now it's way more expensive than we thought so there's some learnings from that point of view that we're watching to see if batteries really are panacea to replace larger scale certainly the safety aspects of batteries we need to be mindful of that in terms of of cost you know it's a trajectory the energy storage Association we watch and trend what they have to say about it I've seen studies done by Lazaro and others that have comments been shown the benefits of going to batteries over time and how scalable it's going to be and then lastly as the end-of-life issue which again with lithium right now it's difficult to read to read manufacture lithium nobody really wants to touch it there's a lot of heavy metals in the batteries the interesting thing about an e V so J's probably aware of this the end-of-life of electric battery in your car like a volt is typically still has twenty per it's only consume 20 percent of its life so we can repurpose it we're repurposing them in different ways so like a a macroscale battery that's only gonna be used for 15 minutes a year or something along those lines perfect use for because it's gonna be available it doesn't have to be available every day to run and down the road but it's available for when it's needed so that's the kind of application we're seeing now with GM interested in that technology there's a lot of work on recycling going forward again moving away to flow batteries and looking at other technologies that don't have that end-of-life heavy metals problem probably solve some of the risk you see so thank you yeah anything else on the battery topic thank you very much John okay moving on then to our next agenda item we have our committee updates housing built environment and energy efficiency I know that committee was not able to meet this past month do we have anything from offline discussions to share the Mac Mini No okay um the Transportation Committee evie readiness sure where that is we we went through it last at the last meeting that you reviewed the yes there's been a couple of iterations that we're going through and it still needs some final review there's some contribution it's gonna be made on the code level which yeah there was some interesting input that was along the lines that we needed to put in additional safety slash code provisions in the ordinance as it was written um I think my recommendation is kind of to folk two pronged one is continuing with the current ordinance we spent a lot of time and effort to get it to a point where it's out there may be a couple of word changes we might want to take on that will help identify or bridge the problem that was flagged as far as a code issue and then we can move that whole ordinance process forward and then tackle the code issue as a new business item if that's the direction that wants to be taken by the subcommittee and so I continue to advocate that I can speak more on the kodesh if anybody wants to effectively what was pointed out is perhaps we should be specific about when we ask for a a building to be built let's say with an e v readiness capability that we actually size and specify how big the breaker needs to be and how big the service needs to be to that area of the building for future Eevee's um there's danger in that in terms of Technology and in terms of you know what is the quote gonna say next year and all those things we really don't need to be that specific we'd rather be more performance driven and just make sure that the code provisions are followed I think we're covered for the time being and every building is different every building will have a different service feeder it will have a different electrical configuration of may have different IV charging servers energies parking decks planned for this we have level two chargers and one of our decks and the breakers and transformer and feeders to that equipment raw size for the future they're oversized if you will um why get into specifying that every building should have oversized feeders well I don't think we want to go there but maybe parking decks you do so we don't want to get into the weeds I don't think for this moment I think we want to keep moving forward with that stepwise change yeah there was some flurry of emails in the last couple of days on this topic and I I hope we follow your advice which I personally agree with my sense is in fact I think Wayne put it aptly and saying we're writing the zoning ordinance yeah we're not trying to deal with building and energy code issues they're two completely different things and we could indeed have two documents one the second one might be a technical guidance or it might be an FAQ or it might be here's the person to talk to if you know you have questions about this or persons to talk to but we really should try to split the issues and my sense is that we should do the same thing with this issue also about solar being requirement for it was a proposal from commissioner clay T and from others that we require also that all evie charging powered by renewable energy and my senses the more we add on to a core focused ordinance the more complicated we make it the more stakeholders that get involved the more technical potentially it becomes and we just slow down the entire process and so I wrote an email and just to inject a little bit of humor in German they have a saying where they say it's foolhardy to try to create a product in what they call it is a an egg-laying wool milk South in other words you know normally animals do one thing well God created you know animals to do this and we human beings should learn from what God taught us and that is we shouldn't try to pack 50 things into one product or into one ordinance and I think we would be well advised to do the same thing here to that effect we are gonna be like re constraining our boundary and then you know our we're gonna be meeting with the planning we're gonna be having a presentation with the Planning Commission in April right is that is that the next thing I think the last date I got was April yes my understanding as well and then yeah froze Emily okay so next but so for their March meeting however we would like to have the resolution to be brought forward to and support of these orphans yeah great one of you will be drafting and bringing that it's a team effort very good all right all of you will be doing that very good okay yeah thank you energy production I believe by the way what with them the transportation committee or working group we talked about this our preferences is that we call it electric vehicles and we talked about transportation there is a transportation Commission and we want to make it clear that this subcommittee or of the Energy Commission is not something that is doing the same thing that the entered that the Transportation Commission is doing and our prime wheat what we would like to focus on is electric vehicles that's electric vehicle promotion whether it's personal whether it's buses whether it's charging infrastructure all those things we don't want to be giving the impression that we're going to be you know a centimeter thin and a mile wide we want to take one or two things at a time really focus on those like I was just saying before evie charging and let's focus on that and let's get that done and then the next thing and at some point we may branch out into you know broader mobility and transportation issues but our recommendation is is that we name this electric vehicles right was it like transportation electrification the notification no wasn't transportation what was a transportation electric okay that's what it was transportation electrification yep okay so it could be you know that could then branch out into scooters and things like that but it's really the electrification side of transportation it's not all these other transportation issues like ability pedestrian lighting wings yes that's what it was transportation electrification yes thank you efficient okay alright then energy production I believe Chuck do you want to talk to that I'll just speak for mark mark is the real champion here I'm just one of the slugs that helps um Mark's running this this particular subcommittee we met once with Josh he facilitated the meeting mark has created a work plan I'll call it that maybe it's that's a broad definition of it it talks about what is the production subcommittee like to tackle mark is great about big picture let's tackle it let's go and wrote it that way and I wish we had an army of people to tackle it off because if we got done with all the things he wants to get done we'd really get something accomplished so I'm gonna segue that into on one o'clock on Friday it Valentine's Day I know you guys aren't doing anything on Valentine's Day you'd rather sit in a production meeting at one o'clock we're gonna have a meeting here at City Hall to take the subcommittee report that mark wrote in trying to distill it into 2020 set of goals and so that's gonna be presented probably next month my suspicion did you guys discuss and look at what the energy tax are doing and I mean it seems to me that we should be aligned at least on the production side of the energy tech because there's also some efficiency side you know what we're what the tacks are doing as you know cuz you're one on that team as Josh mentioned before we've had got a whole bunch of projects we're narrowing those down we're going through the process that he described that's going to go through the budgeting process that's also then gonna get to some degree resource by council and it seems to me it'd be crazy to be working on things that are divergent from that is are those is there an eye to coordinating those two or as the is the sense that let them go their way and we're gonna pick a couple of other things and focus on that and get it done or that still TBD I think it's TBD but I like the idea that we all were collaboratively and if there are things that are not going to be fouled in the budget cycle that makes sense for us to do either this year or is a longer term action we take those on but I think the city's not that big we need to use all the resources we have to get things done we've learned this on our Energy Commission over the over years we've had these huge crawls we never get to the finish line because the goal is too big if we can slice and dice them into 2024 projects and 2021 projects we'll get some things done that'd be my recommendation thank you okay and the last subcommittee community engagement Commissioner sure um we did mostly a lot of brainstorming about different things that we are interested in doing I know John talked a little bit about about wanting to reach out to car dealerships in the area regarding having more v's available on Lots for people to drive I think you said most of them only have one of each so it's kind of hard to purchase Navy if you can't test drive them so we talked about meeting with them and thinking about maybe some involving more of like having a Power Hour around being able to test drive V's we talked about creating like a one-pager type of thing about what each of the subcommittee's are working on you kind of to your point about being able to be able to broadcast that out to the public whether it be student groups or other groups we think might be involved to try to get more volunteers to maybe get some support on some other projects that we don't have the capacity to take on C and we talked about replicating doing more I guess over there like solar home tours is that what you had , but in different neighborhoods so that people can come and see something kind of where they're at versus have ones at the same places most of the main things I remember I don't know if there was anything else major just a lot of conversation about different things that were kind of thinking about I think when we first came up with the four subcommittees it was kind of based on Missy's presentation at our work movement I want to say it was in December and she was suggesting that she might be interested in leaning on this group to help plan some of the Earth Day activities and do just some of the kind of community outreach and all of the just you know the community organizing around that and I think that was part of what we thought perhaps we could use that subcommittee for I don't know if she has ideas about how she would like to lean on mm-hmm is the city still planet wasn't she's saying that they want to do something in March that being next um so I think with a lot of these subcommittees and the first meetings that we had really kind of laid out what's currently going on so even with the community the community engagement side we talked about what we currently have operating at the city and even with you know community at large and thinking somewhat about how we can use that like as a vehicle basically and as you know a lot of the things with the energy attack a lot of these recommendations come out and this kind of gets to the earlier question as well as far as kind of the energy production subcommittee kind of I think funneling those in you know so making sure that we already have a kind of platform or something that's already started from which we can kind of start almost like a you know mobilize a lot of the ideas that are going on and coming out of the energy tag and some of the things that are coming out from those recommendations so that's kind of how we had envisioned it when I talk to Missy but maybe that helps answer the question okay yeah I just want to make sure work you know completely staying aligned to the providing support particularly is the Office of Sustainability and innovation has so much going on you know whether it's on quite frankly the community engagement or any of the other subcommittees that we continue to hear your input about where we could provide really kind of boots on the ground labor and help in that sense okay great yeah thank you well that is the last of our committee updates so at that at this time we will open it up again for another segment of public input if anybody from the public who is in our audience this evening would like to step to the podium and speak for a couple of minutes you're welcome at this time see no takers we will move on to the next the next topic which is our items for our next agenda so I captured three note for action items that some of we'll come back next month some are just action items not for the agenda but one to have staff draft a communication around the youth commissioners that we will be adding and if our Community Engagement Team then wants to get involved in trying to circulate that and and solicit those those applications to the Commission second I said we well we just need to follow up about the bylaws and find out what their status is whether they are formally passed or have an effective date for the next agenda we will have the e V readiness resolution to vote on and then to share an update from the energy productions about the work plan and the 2020 goals did anyone else capture something that I missed I want to suggest maybe we consider doing one other thing it it's not yet officially an agenda item but we discussed this in the last environmental Commission meeting and that was I recommended that we look back on the last year to sort of do an accomplishment report so go back through the meeting agendas and minutes and say what did we do and did we and may be pairing that with something like I don't know if we have something to refer to but what our goals were for last year or what we sort of thought we would do and using that as a learning experience so I actually drafted something for the environmental Commission and sent it out about a week ago I haven't actually received comments from anybody yet it was sort of interesting that really the only other than lots of reports the only accomplishments that we had were passing eight resolutions so we passed two resolutions in support of the Washtenaw regional waste Authority we passed a resolution in support of the solid waste resource management plan at least the updated one we passed a couple of other resolutions but we really didn't accomplish a whole from my perspective and I haven't heard as I said back from anybody to the contrary and I think it's always I mean you know when in my like my career I had performance review every year I derive accomplishment report and we would talk about that with my boss and talk about how do we improve what you know what obstacles there were what training I needed to have and I think this body should be doing the same thing as looking back and thinking what did we want to accomplish what did we accomplish and what did we not do so well and how can we improve that are we taking on too much are we taking on too little those kinds of things and I think that would be instructive so I would take on the responsibility of putting out a draft for everybody to come and I thank you the scary thing about that John yes you'll create this report for us a March that's the end of the first quarter already I know any 20 so I know it's amazing how fastest here is god yes okay anything else is for the greater good okay with that do have a motion to adjourn so moved all in favor all right I'll pose okay wait turn thank you you
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what is what wait in mine good morning big Hollow today is the very 14th 2020 it is 100 and this is whe news I'm crystal I am Madison neighbor on Shelby with hardened against with roasted veggies carrot sticks orange hats ice cream puffs and up tomorrow for breakfast there'll be seven real orange halves sunset juice and milk in France every birthday I mean are something versus vegan brownie as Robert the burying of Maria Smith that we are letting the people be yesterday's from the fact question was Bruce Wayne was the secret identity for what superhero the answer is Batman the winner is Amelia for what animal it doesn't tackle turn it remember to write your answer neatly and include your name in class Benjamin was a mathematician astronomer and he also captivated the location has done in that it was mostly self educated but that did not impact his brilliance it was sad after to start survey territory for the nation's capital and also corresponding with Thomas Jefferson and urged him to abolish next week is kind of sweet Atacama we are going to focus on being respectful and kind to one another we will be sharing quotes about kindness and having a spirit week so show your big hug pride by being kind to one another to start us off on Tuesday where sports team up close and show your show you our beat I'm team contest and now [Music] they still tied where's your allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all [Music] in every way I would be respectful and all I do and be a star the holder is there have a fantastic Friday remember it's cool to me time thanks for watching
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[Music] I love the teachers here at Mason tearing and help us when we need help [Music] we love trying out these things in the class [Music] like the great bonds that you can make with the students and teachers [Music] so I just want to thank my staff for coming and the families that came up to support us um it is it's a great pleasure every day to get to come to work with such amazing people and our kids are very happy to be there and that's what it's about so thank you thank you that system that step that six years before a lot leadership principles I can't thank you enough for the earliest letting us do that you know last thing this would great in the summer because we see the great kids and caring about the south thank you very much [Music] okay so good evening I'm allergic awesome she came out here with their Arab section destiny we're here today to talk about this month so on January 10th the gamer girls for like food facts in red states best performance for the large school any time of one minute and 46 seconds another congratulations to Tigers are entering the negative Soccer Coaches all new even work on the 20th of January the Danbury boys wrestling team won against MA in 1829 to 1837 by the NHS APA on January 17th three weeks ago the Mogollon club at HS took part in the Yale harder UN conference as they do every year our Ryoji treasurer decided to back at the studio was an iron affiliate and Victoria wolf Anderson won first place in a young essay writing process and will be published in the Yale political relations journal also on February 1st the Demery grows cotton field team 1 SDS West Division 154 points semester or finalizing and the facilities where teachers have successful rock fundraiser that also an integrated part of the Jericho project involved each mentor must each cross 1915 polish their box of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts in a chance for an Irish Catholic release on February 4th of Connecticut Commissioner of Education dr.
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Kellis Thank You mr. president members of the board and member of cabinet we would like to excited today to have the willow Canyon choir here under the direction of Logan McDonald's so the extraordinary willow canyon choir [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] now I can't make you stay but where's your heart but where's your heart but where's your [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] stop going I am not afraid to keep moving [Music] me going home [Music] [Applause] [Music] see you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you that was amazing job thank you so much definitely pay to see that group again [Laughter] awesome thank you so stage presents great well done very well done there's definitely something special about show choir for dinner yes you guys are amazing and and I don't know if the board knew we have to McDonald's in our district oh yes yes we have to I always confuse like you keep your talent coming back you're here as students and then you're back continuing to share all of your talents so we really appreciate you thank you so much thank you love to thanks so much [Applause] all right we'll go ahead and move on to see to the district spelling bee winners dr.
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Claire Doan stacking thst met students paid by the program's going on suggest the early project between June Carter and his best k12 Asian Kentucky South American CPA members these hires one in stereo six with a fifty to fifty month adrienne over time against Marlys engineering and software seed in the upcoming US tax payers the very dirty wonder SES competition their fourth year in a row our memory the Irish welcome Cowboys issue teacher HS as a refreshment main focus today as well as Angela Merkel media health teacher at boys in a transferred in last Saturday's epub as HIV partnered in the low yes 88 $5 and his loss today at every fundraiser happened chili for profits that around and carnations [Music] so I have the pleasure of introducing the force of the graduates tyranny task seems to come up and get some chairs that join me up here while they are this one understood that he returned to us there is a kid just like that my focus is on you guys [Music] we are all in place so I want to take this opportunity to introduce the team this is the steering committee as I'd mentioned I believe a couple weeks previous that aboard me made the team aware the district reason is a recipient of our foundation grant this grant allows us to go out and quite frankly to the work right so last year as part of the strategic planning process we have we were trying to incorporate the market the ratchet work is part of that process we recognize and acknowledge that portable graduate work quite frankly requires a significant lift position and so we were made aware of a grant to help us move this work forward you'll learn in a couple of weeks when we should be playing before important commonplace in the plan in this evening specifically a launch report for the record and so to my right is the steering committee I'm happy to say we are in good hands with teacher attend student leadership and I'm going to start with student initiative and so two of the faces you'll recognize because they are on our board and so Clara Thank You Clara and then Larissa who you just heard it to Italy to speak and then we also have KC to their left basically and then Nick who was also at one of our CY our PTO B's most recently some of the board members might remember everyday and so we have a number of administrators on the team as well some of them are here this evening some other or not associate principal dr.
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gills Thank You mr. president members of the board and Ken Hicks we would like to ask a do drew eight-year-old grieshaber to introduce this item good evening mr. president members of the governing board dr. Kellis and mr. Hicks it's with distinct pleasure that I get to introduce our district spelling bee winner for 2020 we had to be on January 30th and we had wonderful contestants here you see on the screen our top five contestants I believe just our winner is here this evening but all five of them will be going to our regional be on it's in February on February 22nd and it's in Buckeye so they will be representing Dysart the runner-up was Alexandra sily from freedom traditional Hayden Bostick from Western Peaks caleb dan from marley park Lauren cook from countryside and then our winner spelling the word marooned correctly was Alden Alana's and he's here tonight so you can come on up all day [Applause] come on take picture okay and again Alden and our four runner-up students will be representing us on February 22nd and but guy if anyone's interested in attending the regional beat they will be there thank you awesome thank you so much and congratulations on that it's a great accomplishment all right we'll go ahead and move on to c3 recognition for Career and Technical Education month dr.
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marks was a high school principal Rivera from South Stream elementary school principal Weber from ACE assistant principal for raise from Rogers Park Middle School and of course dr. Meade was in the back somewhere director family I believe at a previous meeting I had also shared and we'll also partner with the center Connecticut Center school change on this consultant working without district she is also working other districts that help lead this work in those districts for me this country's Nelson she couldn't be bestest evening that you will be seeing her at some point early work and then of course last but not least during a very capable hands two teachers from the high school and that is at least Tobin and great play so thank you team okay so I have the pleasure of introducing it first two slides and then we will presentation will be underway and so we have a few learning targets this evening I want to share so one is familiarize you with the concept of the community orchard undergraduate to explain how to portrait the Graduate fits in with the law to work with amber of public schools and three inspire you to embark on a journey to advance all learners all students to the highest potential so you may be wondering you may be wondering what a community of work community worker actually is right so essentially sorry I was using my teacher voice with my microphone is the skills knowledge and also the the disposition is what we were often referred to as soft skills right that are value not only by schools right but also by the community this is a community whatever we have people from my elementary all the way up to high schools often high school all aces as well and there are skills that are critical for college career community right so where ever should go once they have graduated we want them to be advancing all right so I'm sure the question is because we've had a number of initiatives over the last year and a half and the question I'm sure for many folks in our community is project initiative goals and so I'd like to bring your attention to the cycle that you see in front of you you might recall during the 1718 school year ramp that work helped us to get down to the community into being engaged stakeholders and talk about inequities in our districts and begin to determine uncover why we were experiencing those inequities and try to identify solutions to that work and so at the beginning of 1819 school year superintendent charge of the team were beginning to develop a strategic plan in December of 2018 we engaged close to 50 stakeholders in the community and those stakeholders we solicited feedback from over 50 community members to help inform our digital vision and mission in Division we landed always am very public schools aspires to advance all learners to their highest potential and then with that vision in order vision forward we develop a mission statement in which they're very public schools in partnership with families and the community provides transformational learning experiences designed to nurture thoughtful and prepare graduates and so the vision and mission work and oftentimes communities will see a vision in a mission and not really sure how the vision and mission of of the operationalize like what does that really look like we are seeing that for certain graduated as a way to operationalize deficiency so if folks are wondering what that looks like we are seeing by identifying the skills knowledge and dispositions of a Danbury graduate we're able to articulate a collective vision for all students in further operationalize decision by shaking student learning experiences and so previously you are Cairo you've heard Melissa talk about Palin when talking about his learning experiences once you have a 450 graduate you know perhaps we can have academies health of Khan Academy since our fight experience of the community so we are envisioning once we have a portion of record in place then that would help inform curriculum writing that will help inform what experiences it'll look like in our community or when initial we have that first and then last but not least one might ask how is the equity work thinking all of this and so when we are designing learning experiences we want to make sure there is equitable access all the students in those learning experiences and so we're seeing this this will be in cyclical in nature connected all throughout the equity piece to something that's all throughout all the works and the implementation of the strategic plan we will be back in front of you about a month we now will experiment it warm out with those strategies so our big question today is who this portrait serve as a student of different high school I'm invested in students like myself students such that students such as the members of the class of 2020 one-play myself we will be graduating soon this here is a view my classmates that will soon be graduating and venturing out into the world well fortunately our work is not all about just the Danbury high school we need to think about all of the students and they are a public schools we need to think about the future that is featured here at Rogers mark middle school these are some of the students whose education can pretend to shaped by the river it is written for this work to the district why we need to the portion of direct graduates help shape the education of students we're just already here in Denver Public Schools these are students who can be shaped by a portion of the program's work and helped in achieving their dreams so what are some of these changes what do they monitor themselves let's hear it from the source why do you want to be if I hear me you like to protect animals [Music] wonderful so those are their dreams into these students will enter kindergarten this year will graduate in 2032 the bulk of their work life will be in the second half of the 21st century what will these students need when they graduate 20 30 to fill these dreams what do you think you need to learn how to do well in school to be a great teacher [Music] to learn anything in school that's going to help you so that is our question it's hard for us and we are adults and that is where the portrait or graduate comes into play so it's up to us the community to create the environment in which they can achieve those dreams so what will these students need in 2032 we are asking you to help us in creating this vision now that we know what it is how do you fit into this so we want your input everybody see any why didn't put on this project and then talking to oppositional groups students alums business leaders community kind of transformational change without me mrs.
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Phylis Thank You mr. president members of the board and all the members of cabinet who are here present or virtually like to introduce this next item our CTE recognition month and the not so better half of the gree savers is here to present this on the G & G show right so thank you dr. Kelso good evening mr. president members of the board dr. Calais and mr. Hicks and guests happy Career and Technical Education month the month of February yeah yeah all right I'm excited to celebrate desserts extraordinary CTE programs with you tonight I've placed a CT fire notepad and an I heart candy bar at your seat - just to say thank you for all your support of desserts Career and Technical Education programs one of the handouts that I have up there looks like a tree this tells a big part of our story but but here are some additional information for us to celebrate CTE we'll be adding two new programs next year's stagecraft formerly known as tech theater and a certified nursing assistant program CNA with this new CNA program comes new partnerships with Banner Health and Sun health we're really excited about the opportunities for our students up to now we've earned too high or that we've earned our students have earned 271 industry certification or 271 students have earned 383 industry certifications with more to come this spring dye search graduation rate for our CTE concentrators is at ninety seven point seven three percent the state average is ninety two point seven percent governor Ducey signed the state of Arizona proclamation in support of CTE next Tuesday Mara Hall of the city of surprise will be signing a proclamation and we're really excited about next Thursday not that were not excited about Mara Hall but we're really excited that mayor Hermosillo with the city of El Mirage will be signing her first CTE proclamation for our partnership with El Mirage we're especially proud of our partnership with the city of surprise who donated a firetruck earlier this year to our finance fire science program and we'll be donating a patrol car to our long public safety program next Tuesday we look forward to continuing to build the partnership with our city of El Mirage with that again thank you governing board dr.
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Wallace in this way yeah they weren't going to change for some time now we would also ask that you participate in these opportunities we'd also have also asked you to be our voices anything that people under the reports to regret it is we sell it and try to work so long term it invite no means is the fortunately graduate ready now to be leveraged during the budget season but but certainly moving forward once we have a proportion in place we we envision the portrait work playing a significant role in budget during the budget season and so if the community has bought in to community to the community portion of the Graduate then we would have to acknowledge the fact that we're going to have the resource to ask annually to make this happen the doctor Pascarella prior to this meeting talked about an inverted triangle in which he's talked extensively about students who have come today to the community have been very easy in terms of resources that they need right and so part of our acknowledgement is if we're going to realize the dreams that we talked about in our opening slides particularly we're sitting going 2032 if these students are going to be the out Dan very proportions of the graduates we're gonna have to resource programmers in ways that possibly we have not done before and so we're acknowledging that our students are coming in needed and so kids they believe at first second third grade ready to learn to read in order to project as graduates later wrong we don't resource legal investment early then any portrait that we're going that we envision is not going to be workers and so part of our campaigning annual campaign would be to point back to the portrait of the graduate that this community has designed and continue to get behind that and continue to ask the city as the district as the board to resources yeah so leaves us with how can you reach out to us if you have any questions you can feel free to reach out to us if you email we have up here it's PG purports to private and well I see PWS and really email us if you have questions and concerns around this as we do this work preparing for our first of all any questions for the spirit to be sure I feel like we just went through this so many of the work from prior Smitty our community engagement can that be used or is this a totally different outlook to to the poor kid see feelings inaccurate because we definitely just went for this and so as part of our March for the strategic planning efforts we asked for feedback from the community to help inform the characteristics of a corporate depression but we applied for the grants one of the first things they told us was we appreciate the fact that you guys have done this work but you have to start over if you're going from the incipio this way and and if part of the rationale was that even in a year it can be significant shifts in an industry that could change the community's perception of what ridership so we were encouraged he wants to acknowledge the work that was done but it can't necessarily be it'll slide it over I mean you know we explained to them we would anillo the work at the other reasons we received the grant the fact that we went to the work and if we did not receive the grant we wouldn't continue to divinity or gang with but they also made a question for students just curious 22 you graduate admission knowing this plan out doing in high school tells us this means when we're even making videos for portrait of the graduate they asked me MPC like what do you guys want to be and I want to be a social worker and then when they asked what resources what you need even I was stumped at the question so at least know we have a project in motion that would help us identify actually you and me would help 90 been just like seniors about to leave but freshmen and sophomore kids at middle school area help you know school as well yeah because some kids already like at five years old no they want to do like they want to be a police officer that might change but some kids already likes destined to become something so with that they should already know what attributes would help so any assistant leave quickly about the students tomorrow carriages reminded me that last year as part of our you know we may work and then also it's part of this grant one of the conditions works that student voice is elevated in this in this portrait of the graduate and so oftentimes we'll talk about the fact and I'll brag about the fact because we were excited in crowd fact that we had 150 stakeholders it's part of this session to help it long division in addition remember say mister we have no spoons and meanwhile I think I've been in two or three meetings with these young people to my right and they there were meetings it's totally shifted the conversation because of their feedback but I think after the first meeting they were comfortable enough to push back and make sure that their points was heard and this was considered in the conversation and so we were mindful that they need to be at the table in shape in this new just unfortunate original that was one of the names when talking to them about her experience and when they recognized that we didn't have students have to pay what they've got to offer that they remind those people to meet we also will have students that are are the students to my right are very academically successful very involved in the school forget about students as well who commit fit different categories of involvement and their feelings that education is relevant right may not match so yes [Music] no our new budget speaks to a lot of money we're spending in the culture and climate talking about how do you think that my I mean I think that I think there are a number of things I know as a teacher one of the key struggles that I see in the classroom and maybe you can tell me if you've seen this in your own is a lack of connection between what they are learning and how that is going to be applicable why are they learning I have a contemporary list open am I going to have to write a sonnet right so this work is taking write what students actually meet figuring out what they actually need to learn and then being able to as much as well so we say fund programs that then give that back right so then culture and climate when the students are more engaged in the work the climate is better I mean that's that's the biggest lever right engagement I least from my perspective it's engagement and so you can't just say oh let me get a new let me just get a new one a novel so you really engaged in this Hunger Games or whatever it is it's not necessarily just a new or even bulk it's a completely different approach a transformational approach and so how do you get that you have to start somewhere and figure out what that has to be I think what you're attractive because every I mean I've heard so many students like questions what we're learning as to how it's gonna help them in the future and I just think this show because once once a graduate have sound like their last step look once they graduate with the good education point that how how we want stamp very public schools education to go they're going to graduate and come back and help the community like we're teaching the students like grow the growers and pictures can you tell me about that yelps are you babe set ask her happened um so I am I tutored this kid and me out doing math problems with him and he's doing looks like a patient right now and I was showing him I was like drawing a race so he can learn how to do that and instantly he's like oh no like you don't need that and then he goes oh Alexa what's ten times so he just thinks like technology he just relized right on that and given the intern to decide that's not to say they don't need basic math skills right but just to say youngsters are using the temp right and so how do you incorporate that how do we actually use that as a skill and teach them how to call that information rather than just a quick forward [Music] could anybody give me a simple definition as to what is portrait of graduates so that I can have that as a takeaway is that a concept is that a program about your attitude my own mind so I would say so this is how I would define it what skills what knowledge is what dispositions do we all value that we need students to have when they leave school it could be something like integrity or it could be something like critical thinking skills maybe broad categories and then what you do is you take those broad categories and you can just have discrete skills to meet them and then where the hope is you use that right you use that to drive institutional systemic changes does that or know it that's what you you can yeah you cannot say that you have to reduce it to a more simplistic Oh have takeaways so that you know within 30 seconds or a great thing people can support this and Evon understand what is I keep harping on the point right you're an academic person is students that academic pure are getting injured oh you've got to reduce it down to a common something's that there are students needs and see you know whether it's it's a whether it's a skill sale or something that helps them for the to being adult you know I don't want some tonight I'm just saying sure I've been struggling in that heaven is to reduce it to something simple in non-academic for Boulevard situations so that the rolls off your tongue very very easily so we we will watch this committee what do you leave by the town that time you graduate these are the dispositions of characteristics of the students that they've acquired over there k12 yeah we're driving it with the question of what do our students need to have to know in order to be successful in college we didn't - oh it's it's really just painting that picture of how we answer that question and the work of the coalition in the work of steering video for the next you know that person you know the shows are and you know and getting all the stakeholders to played a role in figuring out that story that we said you know this is what have you could be have and it's going to lead a transformational change in curriculum instruction and assessment this is going to change the way through Plus you know how you account for integrity so we have to think about how that's going to work and it's comfortable with the coalition as we start to build I'm just trying to be supportive because we say that the easier to have people understand what you're buying again sir sorry if I may be the very is simply I'm saying like the easiest way to describe it um would be the ideal characteristics and skills that a student you graduate with and although maybe right now we don't have necessarily those skills and here versus to find that's that's our goal for this is to find those but I would say some ice and ask what is the course of your graduate I would say it would be that but if the ideal skills and characteristics that once you've activated it and then I think this be complicating factor in this is we're talking about the students were graduating 2032 so we're not just talking about the students were graduating 2020 so we're we're talking about a future without even ready for ourselves so we're just a suggestion that can be a meaningful definition to have on here being captured you got your vision the for that mission statement you have a summary as to what this encompasses because you aren't you weren't talking about today you're talking about the future boy appreciate that because you had me make you slogan is just do it right it's not right there were the time to get the souls that make you move [Music] [Applause] I'd like to do is to make a motion at this time that the Board of Education adopt the superintendent's fiscal 2021 budget as presented for submission to the mayor and as required by the city charter any questions yes so things I wanted to state this point that I think can go without saying but this is just such an important budget anyway number one it's my to express how strongly I support this budget and number two you know I think I could speak its name is that this is just the beginning of a very long road ahead that's what the mayor and the mayor has to agree that everything in this minor is justified that needs to go the council and we need to I define 11 votes to confirm the mayor of town or 14 votes to change something so you know and there's a lot to ask and I think at this time you know this budget being where the artists in the school right now this is the largest monetary ask I think that we've ever had and I think that just speaks to where we are in this district and you know kind of the reality of this district and you know this but it is more than just numbers on page this is I think our declaration that were in play and we need to play and we can't do that alone I know I do but I'm on this ward sworn oath to advocate for public education and pledge to public education and I know that we're all going to do it but especially for this legend the enemies to be there across the board but we and mr.
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Kellis mr. Hixon cabinet for your continued support awesome job on us thanks so much appreciate everything you're doing for us on that all right let's move on to d1 audience with individuals no audience with individuals all right thank you let's go ahead and go to be one student updates mr. president members of the board our student isn't feeling well this evening and so we will not have us do nothing all right well hope they get away from the crud all right we'll go ahead and go to e to superintendent updates dr. Gillis Thank You mr. president members of the board and members of cabinet just a couple of items I like to bring to your attention one you have it in front of you this little flier about the Vista which is our spring lineup of shows we have mortar burn the great magician magician he was rated the best magician in Las Vegas and we're happy to have him the hit man the Count Basie Orchestra and the Drifters are all coming in the next few weeks so we encourage anybody who would like some very high level entertainment to buy tickets and to come to the Vista which is just right across the parking lot I also wanted to share with the board you have received this handout which is an outline of job responsibilities for cabinet and there have been some changes in there and if you have questions later on please feel free to give me an email there's a lot of extraordinary things happening in the Dicer with the arts academics and athletics and we're very encouraged by by each one of those areas lots of hard work and I just want to extend again thanks to the CTE program under the direction of mr.
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dinelli has the community relationship has been his face for years and I think we really need to push to get funky balls so we need cells to City Hall and you know I mean history tells the history tells us anything is their minds are already made up I don't think they've approved a recommended board budget in the past so it's gonna be up to us to fight to change their minds and you know I'm just glad without work that I thought were number senator but you're not even saying members of the council in the audience that I know will do anything for hope education is a ready to fight and I hope that I know you get this budget through by yourself this is just that I just want to pay court gene-rich all the work that went into all of our meetings we had you know Finance Committee and several workshops before we got to this place and everything register including the full board through the workshops ask questions it's just on the brain but echo on what I said the other night this budget being the largest monetary asked along with the recent bond tour so that with state reimbursement Wilkin County million additions to this ten billion is a big map of our local taxpayers and is to make up for the shortcomings of a fail east guess formula that is going to take ten year implementation based on all data if the face and each year it's truly not based on current data I questioned whether we should be asking for it even more I celebrated he's guest spacing so just to put that out there that I fully support the ask to accelerate these yes timeline but meanwhile we face a dire situation for our kids that are PR meant to serve and it's our job to act at all levels and in all levels which is why I will support this budget well 10 million seems like an exorbitant amount this is not the largest percentage amount that we've ever requested in the past 20 years however in keeping with being realistic the city does have its limitations just like the state I mentioned this last year sometime last year that danburrys not the same as Norma or Stanford and I found the same taxis in my opinion per pupil expenditure across towels is not really comparing apples to apples either and it does not reflect all of the money that the city puts thanks to our schools it is important to realize that we will have to meet some tough choices at the end of this very long process last night I was blown away by doctors ìletís stories apart when I wish about a student coming from a remote part of Mexico only speaking in my entire elect another student from Brazil only you know coming in at the middle school level only having a few years of somewhat of an education that really that really struck me but for people to really cure our playing I think we need to focus on the stories that are actually affecting people versus numbers I can last night's presentation was very well done it was comprehensive it was compelling you should bring dr.
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Griese Hebert there are extraordinary programs available to our students to provide them with an extraordinary experience that's all I have to report thank you for that all right we'll go down ahead and move to III which is governing board updates I do have a couple mr. president still gonna get used to no need mr. pres no need to whisper I'm not trying to whisper this is my sexy voice i attended the Toll Brothers ribbon-cutting dr. Kellis was there also and for Sterling Grove and it was an awesome awesome ceremony but I have to give big kudos to shadow ridges marching band that came in with a purpose and they left with the purpose it was awesome a lot of people there just loved to hear the marching band and the the sternness and the way that they were marching it was fantastic so kudos to mr.
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Selda along with you when you present this to mayor and I hope the council will see it as we do [Music] thank you and let the echo Rachel's confidence first rich thank you very much for all the work you did on this this is the easiest committee I ever had in that much chair because you did all of the work and a special thanks to Courtney because you did a great job on this and what's even more amazing is your very little time money this because you just kind of and this is hard this is absolutely in support of this budget this is the mattress the budget that we this isn't the budget it's a budget need and it's not needing we don't need this budget to do more we just need the budget we need this budget to just do what we're supposed to do to restore what we've lost and to meet our obligations to our kids and yeah we're not Stanford the comparing us to Stanford or Greenwich for Sharon and Kwan most probably but it perfectly apples to apples it's perfectly okay to comparison Meredith that's perfectly located in the comparison or a hand in or some of the other Peter talents weren't dead last with school funding and that's kind of change and it's kind of cheating so it's gotta change soon we do need more money other state of Connecticut there's no doubt about that I'm happy to go and jump up and down in the lobby of our state for money but I'm also happy to go and jump up and down the lobby are sitting for more money and be frankly Hannah so we wouldn't need a 7.3 4% increase this year if in the past 1 2 3 4 5 6 in the past 6 years budget requests of a four point eight nine percent increase were reduced for one point people or four point five nine was introduced 1.78 before 0.72 was introduced the one point seven ninety five point four five to three point one two or five point eight five reduce to two point lead or last year five point eight five reduced to three 2004 in other words we are here because the board presented responsible budgets in years past that were cut now they weren't cut for Mallove's they weren't cut for meanest and were cut because nobody cared that they were cut they were what they they were what they are and they are what they are we are where we are we need this one and yeah even more from the state more from the city I'm very excited about the commitment we've seen from other elected officials outside of this organization to education this year and we're going to need to go and we're going to need to ask them to utter that commitment carry it forward for this budget happy to go advocate for this again Thank You Courtney and rich and dr.
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Forrest and the and the kids I attended the certified staff meeting teachers getting together also didn't it the school connect summit this is the second year that I'd attended and it was it's where the community can get together with businesses and the school district mr. Williams went last year and he was at our table and it's how to connect the businesses and the schools and so they can help each other with different resources and be an outlet for our students but it was it was well well attended more people than last year mr. Williams last week we celebrated national counselor's week thank you to all of our counselors they go above and beyond what they do and so kudos to them I know each of them works extremely hard attended the district spelling bee and some of those words I even had to lean over to dr.
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