Do I have a motion? Second. That's your queue, Dr. Hoffman. Thank you. Uh Curtis Hoffman, 58 Hill Road. As a recovering archaeologist, I have You really want me to do this, right? Okay. I have provided the town planning office with a uh series of paper records of pre-Uropean sites within the town. These are only available on a need to- know basis and therefore should be excluded from the digitization project. because that's the conditions under which I obtained them from the Massachusetts Historical Commission. So, is there a question there or a statement? Uh, it's just to advise the project managers of this very worthwhile project that there are certain records that should not be made digitized and available to everyone because they are more sensitive records. Thank you, Dr. Huff. We are not doing This is [Music] or not. We could travel. Those would not be included.
Um, there's a section on the planning department and I I'll just because I don't know if I can comment on other things, but I believe I feel strongly that the planning board kind of writes in and asks for a correction here because it talks about um I'm just going to read this. Currently, the department is leading the comprehensive plan process, a critical initiative that will shape Ashlin's future for years to come. Now I am not aware of the planning department leading that and I I am aware of it being a public process with a steering committee. Um so if that is happening that the planning department's leading I think we need to expose that and talk about it. Uh and this may be just an error. I mean what's a little frustrating is that there's other basically egregious errors about planning in that same document.
Um we frequency with which they're receiving interventions is twice a week, 43 minutes each session again being pulled from a study hall and working directly with a math teacher during that time period. Um really to kind of build some of those missing foundational skills that's holding the student back from being successful in their current math class. So working backwards to fill in some gaps while also reinforcing what they're learning in their current math class so to not fall behind in their current math class as well. Um so doing kind of a little bit of both. Um and what we noticed as we've gone through the academic year is that quarters three and four the average score on the summitive assessments has increased by 10% with um I think there was one quiz back in the beginning of April end of March that was a 90 something.
We also bring in programs that foster student leadership, civic awareness, and compassion, one of our 5C's. An example of this is the rooted program run by OKAP that fosters civic awareness. As a student, the effects of these programs the effects these programs have throughout schools are transformative and so is community schools. It's unique to each school site and each community's needs. As a student, I know that community schools has positively affected my school experience through programs and resources. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you so much, Haley. So uh the impact is large and it is um it is coherent and cohesive and that's what really is what's going to drive the work forward. Um we are starting or ending year three for 13 of our schools and what are we going to do looking forward in terms of this year and beyond. There's three points that we're just going to finish up with in this last minute coherence sustainability and scaling.
We did have a student from Granite Hills High School who's um who ended up with a key, but I don't even think they ever got to try it in the car because um the the person that got it um won. So, it was a victor sweep this year. Hasn't been that way in a long time. So, um we can't always be winners in Apple Valley, but um we tended to win a lot at the um gets a gas to go to class. Looking forward to um continued relationship with them. Um there was the first annual um MDC film festival that was also valleywide. Um school districts that have a um multimedia program um competed and five um different school districts or five different groups um presented. We we did take a place but we didn't take first place but we now know what we're up to for competition.
We We're doing archived uh vital records, meeting minutes, town meeting minutes, stuff like that. Important stuff. No, I'm only kidding. No, I don't. I mean like stuff that people would want to look up online. So yours is very important but it will not be included. Did you have a comment, Mr. Herbert? Okay, I thought you did. Uh, any other discussion? We'll move to a vote. This will require a simple majority. All those in favor, please raise your cards. Thank you. And opposed. That passes unanimously. The clerk said she'd vote for it, too, but she's not a resident. Article 10, appropriate CPA funds for additional funds for the dog park site improvements to see if the town will vote to appropriate up to $60,000 for the Ashlin Bark Park site improvements and that to meet this appropriation, the sum of $60,000 be transferred from the open space and recreation account from the community preservation fund balance with unexpended funds as of December 31st, 2026.
But if if the planning department's leading this basically behind the scenes, then then that should be exposed. Well, there is no planning department right now except Elvo. So, well, this is this this was published. I mean, to get it in the newspaper, it had to be, you know, published several weeks ago, probably when Peter was still here. So, here's my my thought on this. Obviously, some whoever's whoever prepared it may not know or understand the jurisdiction of the planning board and it may just be an error. So, I'm going to start with that position and give the person grace. Um, and you know, ultimately I do think it's really important to make sure it's accurate. I don't think the planning department is running the show of the comprehensive plan. they are a super important part of the process. Um we certainly don't currently have a planning staff person on the comprehensive plan steering committee and and when we do they don't have a vote.
So, you know, dramatic difference in the assessment scores there. Um, where perhaps even more telling is the student has from our math teacher who's been working with the student has become far more engaged in the process. Again, reluctant at first towards the beginning of the year. Why do I have to miss a study hall with my friends to do more math? I don't like math. Um, but has really actually started seeking out our math teacher um on their own to just say, are we working today? Are we working today? So just seeing that level of engagement improve and and the grades as well is really encouraging. In terms of next steps, um Jen and I are currently working um with a consultant um to create an MTSS manual for VHS. So um like we said before, we're new to the process this year. We've changed it up from the previous year.
So one of the things that described uh that was described I mean throughout today just in the celebrations is what are we doing in terms of professional learning 80 about 80% of what is in the grant talks about capacity building not just with our teachers with our staff with our parents with our students and that is definitely sustainable as you see connecting the dots in the classroom outside of the classroom the English learner roadmap the California standards for the teaching profession that's coming um coming forward you know that we're going to be looking at and of course braiding of all the the s the school plan the language that is in the language in the SPSA it describes the community school work the annual progress report which is what the state is asking about community schools that is being connected to what is happening in the school it's driving the LCAP it's bringing um the work into what is currently systemwide districtwide that's how we are looking at braiding uh through um the coherence features sustainability what are we doing to to look at our staff members that are tied to to this grant and those are just a few actually that that's the list of the the staff members there.
I love that. The MDCP kala was also last week um held at Victor Valley College. Amazing, amazing representation. Proud of Apple Valley Unified um both Granite Hills High School and Apple Valley High School. They had every CTE teacher attend even if they didn't have students or people recognized. So that says a lot about um the support that they provide. Gretchen Pratt's in the audience, Bill Hogerman's in the audience. um th those people go above and beyond in a regular basis to get this done. Emily Cornwell is um the other one that is out and about making sure that those kids from Granite make it happen. So very proud of them. Um I was also able to go to the Capstone event at um Granite Hills High School. Mr. Nelson attended it as a date with me. Um I was running between multiple events, so he brought dinner and I ate it in the car on the way.
Is that correct? 2026. 2026 being returned to their funding source or pass any vote or take any action other action thereon. Both the community preservation committee and the finance committee recommend the town so vote. Mr. Lad, uh the reason for being 2026 is several years ago the CPA uh approved uh funding for an original project. Um and so this is an add-on to that project. So we kept a similar timeline for completing the project. Uh so that project um has if you're not familiar uh we're looking to build a bark park dog park along Memorial Drive across from the middle school. Um and that site now has full budgeting as we've talked about all night about inflation costs. This also covers the entire site improvements for that project um and gets it to its completion by the end of next year. Thank you, Mr. Lad.
So ultimately they're an important supporter of the effort um and they should be recognized and the public should have a more accurate perspective as to what we do. So to me, it's more of like, hey, maybe speaking of retreat items, we've talked about this before, Trisha, having a website, having a more clear understanding of who we are and what we do and better communication and all that. As we regroup as a board and we have new staff, we should keep an eye on things like this and perhaps correct it. I I'm not sure what we can do now. It It's already been printed. So, to me, maybe the best thing we can do is like make some suggested edits and figure out who who printed it in the paper and maybe like, "Hey, FYI, here's a more accurate version for next time." Something like that.
Um, and our goal with the manual is really uh to create a process that can say run itself, but um so it is it's more uh you know uh more outlined um and in an easier process for everybody um everything from you know really laying out identification and progress monitoring and uh interventions and all of that. So that that will be wonderful once we finish that. We we're still in the process of working on it. Um we hope for continued development with that NCFF consultant again next year is our hope. Um we will continue with staff development with a tier one intervention some executive function skill development and again um our staff really learns a lot from each other works well together um and we find you know when we come together we come up with with great ideas. So we'll be continuing that um to our own research on that and then expanding beyond like Jen said as our first year um we we wanted to start small and do yeah we wanted to start small do well and and keep it manageable um and uh next year we'll be working to expand it to other skills as well.
So how are we going to ensure that this work continues? There's already great work happening across the schools that have staff members connected to um the 5C's as one example different um staff members across the school. So how are we ensuring medical billing was medical billing was described as a by our counselors amazing work that our counselor social workers there uh therapist uh speech plus many different ones and I'm not going to continue the list that medical billing reimbursement is upwards of $4 million that's bringing in revenue. So how are we connecting that work? You know that that's already work that is happening across the district that we're already tapping. um our community school coordinators are using their certified uh certificated training that is going to help u re reimburse additional uh dollars to our district. Uh and then and the AIM partnerships finally are scaling.
Um last night was a special ed prom. so fun. Um they do it swip it switch it off each year between both high schools and the students just love getting out there and dancing. Um and then after that I was able to attend our first annual student champions um awards. This was a endeavor between High Desert Premier Academy and Phoenix Academy. They went through training and um multiple staff members took on a student champion. And so these were kids as little as TK all the way up to an eighth grader who these adults checked in on, made sure that they were doing okay. And what a game changer. The family showed up to celebrate alongside the um staff that supported their students. One dad said, "My son has never received a recognition and he's finally gotten a recognition and he's working hard and we're excited for him." So, those are the things that I I think are um really outstanding that are happening and we're going to continue that.
to allow discussion. I entertain a motion the town appropriate up to $60,000 for the Ashlin Bark Park site improvements and that to meet this appropriation sum of $60,000 be transferred from the open space and recreation account from the community preservation fund balance with unexpended funds as of December 31st, 2026 being returned to their funding source. Do I motion? Discussion. Hi Carara Terrell, three Hillale Place. I'm the president of the Ashlin Dog Park Committee. So, the Ashland Bark Park Committee is a group of volunteers who have been working continuously for almost 10 years to bring a dog park to Ashland. In 2020, the town of Ashland allocated a parcel of land on Memorial Drive between the Upper Charles Trail and the solar panels to be the home of the Ashland Bark Park. The Ashland Bark Park Committee has held numerous fundraisers at the Corner Spot Farmers Market and with local businesses.
Yes, I have I have I have it here in front of me. I don't think anything in here um is uh trying to put the planning department or the planning board in a in a bad light. In fact, I would think just the opposite. I think this thing comes out once a year. It's a very general description of what different departments do, including the library, the police department or right on around the planning department. Um, so it's not um, frankly, I frankly I have other things to do with my time than to to track down exact wording in this document. Um, so that is not something I'll be pursuing. Um, and uh, and I'm good with I'm good with what it says. It's a general description for the public. I don't think we need to go it's not a bylaw. I don't think we need to go into crazy detail that someone didn't use the right wording.
Any questions? It was a great great presentation. I had so many questions and you answered all of them along the way. So um really really really good uh especially the executive leadership skills or executive coaching skills whatever you call that very real world. So uh what percentage of kids do you think we service through the different tiers? Yeah sure sure so um tier one is usually about 80% of our kids fall in the tier one. 15% about fall kind of in that or 15 to 20 fall in that tier two tier three range. So just thinking of exact numbers this year for reading um for K through five we service 94 within tier two or tier three but that is not technically 94 kids because it is a fluid process. So we do have kids that go from tier two to tier three the next cycle then we're like oh they're doing amazing let's move them back to the tier two.
This is important because I think this this calls out the fact that community schools is not just a community school coordinator or community school teacher. It is the coherent way we do business in Anaheim Union, right? Not just the 15 schools. Granted, the staff members are really important, but there's systems that have across the district, across the years, 15, 20 years that we've we've been connecting the work to, right? So, it's not just we're starting in year three of the grant. We are connecting the work that has been um you know, presented or present on our schools um for a number of years. Scaling is important and but and I know that that's important to our board, that's important to our westside schools. Um it's important to the work that we are doing. So, we're we're tapping the um current staff members that exist. We do have three in particular, and a shout out to our NEA grant.
I did have a parent say that um Mr. Cranston, I don't know if he's in the audience, but if Mr. Cranston um is going to get a phone call or she's going to visit because they need to replicate it. So, we did create a little bit of drama for some of the other principles, but it's a good thing. Um next week is the ice cream social. are excited to celebrate staff um certificated um teacher week this week and as I've been out doing longevity awards um I have reminded everybody that the thing that they exactly what you said Mrs. Buchanan is people don't know their impact. They don't know their impact for years. There are kids that will tell teachers how important they are to their face and they will create a relationship and I'm looking at all of you that are um sitting here as teachers on both sides.