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and so there are a new comment parent asked about where i call curriculum compact thing in terms of oh yes sure so um it's a great question so there were some questions around you know what art will folks pick up in the spring where you left off how do we know you know what is it that students will be experiencing in the fall so um our curriculum team have sort of analyzed the parts of the curriculum that we feel that um were necessary so if the if if a student was in grade three um and there were some really key standards that needed to be addressed in order to be successful in in grade four that those were front loaded at the beginning of the year and that we would prioritize uh this the most important standards to make sure that kids had a solid foundation as we as we move on so um still at grade level expectations but weaving in and spiraling up uh priority standards that are critical for for learning and are foundational for success to move forward so um we are making those adjustments um the first couple of weeks of school you'll see way more social emotional connectivity activities um getting kids oriented to the digital environment uh making sure they understand what their expectations are in a digit as digital citizens so you will see a lot of front loading work um and community building and uh norming with students in the beginning which will pay dividends down the road when it comes to being able to have more efficient meeting times at their schedule time so that's what you can expect um across and i know this was a real concern with the with k5 um [Music] could we ask the questions please oh sure okay we're going who has the rachel yes rachel yeah this is um it's great to see a schedule but it's um very structured and uh it like causes me anxiety just looking at it because um it doesn't build in any transition time for you know if you're talking about the little ones like go you know having half hour break or blocks and how you know moving from one to the next and just so right so you have to so the teacher will be so the classroom teacher will be with the students so right when they log in from 8 30 they'll be they'll be working so they'll have that one teacher for the first block in the in the in the morning and so the teacher will build those those breaks and transitions in to get to get students to the next place um we talked a lot about um moving students through so having the special area teacher come into the classroom having the link that's in the classroom and the teacher shepherding the students to um to get to where their special area teacher is going to engage with them and then transitioning back so rachel to your point transitions especially with k12 are are some of the more most difficult uh things that we need to work on um this is a generic schedule sample um and and that you know at the youngest levels that those transitions are taken into consideration i will be taking with the teacher so um we're gonna we're gonna start off with as much structure as you know as we can things that we wished we had in the spring um and we're gonna reevaluate every couple of weeks to make sure that it's working make sure kids are not getting lost in the in digital space and that we're connecting with students and so that's really the the most important piece about front loading is making sure that the kids are still with us um and if it takes a little bit of time to to ensure that that's the work that needs to happen so it's really not about you know if we don't have students following what we're teaching on on the on the front end uh you know we're we're not going to move forward so um this will take it might be a good transition time to talk about a little bit about what you're going to do about the k kids at that point the kindergarten ranges okay sure so there should be a letter going on if it hadn't already gone out um and i'd have to double check to see if it went out um but we're going to be doing a kindergarten orientation uh rachel with some of these things in mind so we were originally going to have um not have the student not have the kindergartners start with everyone on the full day but come in over the course of september 8th 9th 10th and 11th for sort of individual orientation appointments um sort of like a a boot camp if you will to learn with the parent to understand how to connect to these environments how to log in how to navigate where to find the google classroom and to have it do a little bit of a walk through so a letter will be coming out inviting uh notifying parents that there will be orientations during that week and then the schools will reach out individually to set up those appointments so we so we're you know again taking the time to front load those things that you know if the students aren't connecting then it's all for nothing so yeah so we do have a plan to do that i just don't know if the letter went out so i can double check on that okay thank you sure man i'm sure i have a question yes mr disney yeah real quick i i i like the very much like the schedule i like this the notion of synchronous learning i think that's going to work i think kids are going to need that this kind of goes back to a question i asked in in the winter because when we were first doing this during the spring about kids logging out in the middle of the night kids being on early in the morning and late at night knowing you know how appropriate it is for kids and how are we dealing with all of that i think you were the one who pointed out we legitimately have kids who may not be able to log in during you know at a particular time of day because they may not have helped or they may be in a grandparent's house they may not have internet service or whatever how are we dealing with those those kids didn't disappear since the spring how are we dealing with them because this sounds like they have to be on from 8 30 to 12 give or take yeah if you chose distance learning you opted into that you volunteered for this you better be on but you're now volunteering everybody for it i believe we need to be on distance learning now for safety but how do we deal with that well you know i think i think one of um you know one of the things that was difficult in the spring is that um frankly not everybody was doing live instruction so um you know when when you have a live lesson and when you are engaging students and and there becomes an expectation that they're you know that we log on at a certain time and that we're going to be engaged um you get you get a better turnout so um in many cases we had a work that was um sent out asynchronously um and it almost kind of uh created a situation where stu where students are like well i don't really have to log in till later or i'm not going to get this to later i'll just wait till my parents get home to help me out with it um and so we you know we definitely had it was very random right so the day we dragged out it was kids were logging in at any time and completing work teachers were trying to respond to kids from the minute they woke up till so late at night to make sure that they connect so to your point that you know we still have kids that it will be difficult to attend to a specific schedule um and we're going to have to find ways to reach to reach out to them we do have a lot of independent practice support so we have imagine learning we have ixl for new mercy and literacy we have something called raz kids and these are programs that are adaptive practice so even if we can't quite get to a student during the day we can at least make sure that they are are on and logging in and doing those practice things that they've most kids have been accustomed to they they know how to get to those and they can do their practice independently until we can connect with them we do have some additional time you know built into the day where we may be able to connect with students but um you know we'll have to you know create come up with uh you know some some additional alternatives to to reach our kids who may not be connecting um you know there's always going to be a a group that that will not connect or will sporadically connect and so um the outreach that we did in the spring i i thought was phenomenal our folks were relentless at calling parents calling connecting with kids creating meetings and setting up times that that work for students so i don't anticipate that that outreach will stop um in fact you know i think we have a very committed group that is kind of whatever it takes to to reach our kids in the community to make sure that they're connected so no doubt this will be this will be tricky so the minute you put a structure in place it becomes an expectation so um you know we have to do our best the alternative has been a little bit more free-flowing which created other issues as well no doubt i just want to make sure that we're not setting up a situation where a student who can't legitimately can't mom and dad both work the children are at grandma's house or at a friend's house without internet service or without any assistance or whatever and they can't log in in the morning i don't want that child absent because they're not they can't log in at 8 o'clock in the morning or 8 30 in the morning for reasons beyond control especially if they're k123 you have been a whole lot of independent discretion so i just want that kid to be absent or missed because they can't be on are the synchronous lessons being recorded so that a student can catch up on a synchronous lesson later so so we do have one of the things that we um that we were happy to be able to secure um again very you know uh recently we do have uh mini lessons um that are already pre-recorded that the teachers plan to to use in some of the hybrids so so while they were in school we had pre-recorded lessons uh from from our some of our curriculum partners where students can actually still see those lessons so we do have ways to get the curriculum to students and at the k5 level in particular our our coaches are supporting um a lot of the lessons and so they're doing a lot of pre-recording also so they're building resources for the teachers to use so there's still there will be a good deal of pre-recorded resources um that that teachers would plan to use alongside a live session with kids and so those are still be available and now we'll have to find um have to find a flow and a pattern to make sure that those are delivered to students who may not have checked in during the day so are we holding kids absent if they're not on in the morning so they'll be marked they will be yes they will be they will be marked they will be marked absent so the plan right now i'm sorry if i didn't understand that that question earlier about the absence um right now i find it a little troubling that a child who can't log in at 8 30 in the morning for child care issues is going to be marked absent because they're only allowed certain number absences for the year sure if they log in at any point during the day okay excellent nevermind you answered my question yeah i'm sorry i'm sorry yes yeah so they have a pretty wide window to check in and of course continue to i'm sorry if i if i miss the spirit of what you were i probably asked a bad question thank you no it was good okay any other questions or again this is a sample schedule the individual buildings um are are working to create these blocks and they're spaced out differently in every building every grade level there for example their win and esl time will be at different times because the teachers have to service all kids so um you know this is just an idea of of the type of structure and the amount of time students would would be attending uh thank you carol uh carol my question is and we've heard it over quite a few discussion about some parents saying that um they just their kids are really not into the distant learning that one teacher uh where there might be two children in the house or one going to one school uh that teacher is is more engaged and more up to uh the lesson plan versus another one and i don't know if that's true but that's what some of the parents are saying and you touched on the early training what are we going to do and i know everyone is working hard to do their best and they have were thrown into the situation in march and what type of training are you going to provide for teachers that we can still sort of have everyone up on the same level and then hopefully we won't have to hear those remarks sure so thank you i'm glad so it's a great question um you know i just want to preface my response to that by saying that we haven't physically met with our teachers since since march um so everything you know all of their training as well has been has been virtual so and virtual is different um but we have uh we did do quite a bit of of training in the spring through our super users they were amazing with helping our super users were on dps employees that had a high level of technology skills and were willing to share with other colleagues and so we identified about 130 of these folks between the elementary middle school and high school level that offered uh that offered to do workshops um and tips and tricks and so while some of that skill building helped with smaller engagement strategies and smaller ways to organize classrooms the overall there really wasn't a vision in the spring for how to approach blended learning how to approach interactive lesson design and so that was the missing piece and so now that we have our staff back we have um prepared for them uh blended a blended learning training course so it's an actual full course with lessons and opportunities for collaboration and then we're giving folks time to plan along those lines so um how to make lessons more engaging how to make them interactive how to build more collaboration strategies into lessons um so that students are are less passive in those lessons and that they're and that they're actively engaged in the learning and so it'll be a work in progress we are just getting our folks back they returned uh today actually and we had sort of the first meeting of uh where all this is going and so they're learning alongside one another and you know i had a former teacher friend made a comment about um i'm approaching the year like a first year teacher again like i have to keep an open mind and you know be open to the learning and so i thought that that was um really stage advice to to everyone is that we open our minds to a new vision um and i have to say too you know not to belabor the point but we you know the blended learning and use of digital tools to build interaction engagement and lessons is not something that we should be thinking about just for this pandemic in this situation it's really how do we leverage digital tools now that we're in almost one-to-one situation to um to instruct students differently and to engage them differently and to build some student agency in the way that they um participate in their own learning so you know we're excited about that um you know my approach with this and the approach of cabinet is that we have an opportunity to make some lemonade out of some of the lemons and to move instructional practices forward not just for the pandemic but but for danbury to move it forward for our district thank you we have any other questions to uh carry for board members if not could i i'm just going to change it up real quick um sandy could you come back and do that comment it might affect what carol is putting forth to us sandy yep i am here thank you my apologies there were two comments i'm sorry three comments that had come over but they had been marked as read already so i did not catch those and then we had two comments that came after i finished would you like me to read all of those um i mean i do like do yes yes go ahead we're here to sort of inform the public and so they can listen to the uh instruction go ahead um you got it so we have melissa fox um please address the following questions in tonight's board of ed meeting will the food service distribution continue or will snap benefits kick in again last week a mailing was supposed to go out to all families no one has gotten anything did the information not go out please go over in much more detail what a day of learning will look like and will teachers still be working from their classrooms uh steph abdullah i'm writing this email because i believe our children should be on the hybrid model distance learning did not teach my children anything and my honor roll now incoming freshmen really struggled also i do not think elementary students should have to be logged in during school hours because many parents like myself have to work how can i work and be home to help my child with distance learning i do not need child care as i have a 15 year old and a 7 year old but my 15 year old can't help my seven year old while completing his own work please reconsider having the elementary children log in during a certain time and maybe allow all assignments to be due by the end of the day so parents can work with the students and still be able to work also i don't understand why our high school students aren't allowed to continue conditioning when they were when there were no incidents since they started in july caleb schlissel how will commitments to extracurricular activities be maintained there are a variety of students who are greatly disheartened by the indefinite suspension of all activities especially robotics given the intricities of danbury high school's robotics program there are a plethora of limited but suitable ways in which the organization can continue to thrive regardless robotics is simply one example of a club that could function during covid how will judgment on the status of specific extra curriculars be administered what is the reasoning behind preventing smaller groups of students to meet under social distancing measures is there a plan for evaluating the safety of extracurriculars in the future extracurricular activities comprise an extremely significant facet of educational experience and they must not be ignored when making decisions for the 2020-2021 school year uh cynthia little my son has been playing football ever since he was seven years old he loves football throughout the years playing football taught him accountability accountability discipline life skills and teamwork he knows in order for him to play football his grades have to be at a certain average so he works hard to keep his grades up so he can play football with his teammates please please let football continue the season all the coaches are taking all necessary precautions and safety for our kids and for their families as well please don't take the season away from our kids they need this and the last one kathy snow i'm writing tonight not about the decision to begin school entirely virtual but rather about high school competitive teams other than sports specifically the robotics team at dhs and before i begin please understand i'm a huge proponent of sports as my son is also an athlete my plea to the board of ed and school administers is this allow non-athletic teams and clubs the same ability to meet that sports teams have been given i know everything is on hold regarding sports conditioning for at least two weeks but when they are allowed to begin again the same consideration should be given to our teams the district has said in the past how much it tries to achieve equity and equality when it comes to things such as school funding i want to ensure the same level of equity and equality is given to its own students when it comes to teams during this covid pandemic please let students on all teams practice train and compete both on and off the field the physical and mental well-being of our children is critical during this trying time thank you i am done thank you sandy okay nick are we going to continue carol yes okay um so i'll try to be brief a little bit more brief on the rest of the slide so uh i spoke a little bit about the blended learning training and i think that's one of our most critical uh that we can offer our teachers in uh understanding what those lessons need to look like to build engagement um there's a significant amount of safety and health related training that was covered uh today and i believe part of tomorrow are related to our reopening plans sel and trauma training so we have social emotional readiness units that were prepared by ed advance at the state that we intend to draw draw down strategies from as well as the trauma training that kelly chuchas has provided the district and folks will be engaging over the next couple of days and then training on various other supports and resources such as edgenuity at the secondary level that'll be a little bit further out in september that will start a few weeks in as far as technology and devices go i'm going to let gina jasmine uh speak a little bit about sort of the technology work that's been happening in the background and and all the work that's been going into that thank you kara uh so we're gonna continue our device distribution as we did in the spring based on our survey data we have approximately 15 or 5200 students who have chromebooks from the spring we had them keep them over the summer so um it didn't matter what our model looked like in the fall they would be ready to go and that includes if a fifth grader is going into sixth grade they would just use the same device that they already have so they don't have to come pick up a new one um the the difference is that over the summer we received the rest of our windows laptops from the connecticut partnership and um that distribution is slated to start on tuesday every uh 9th or 12th grader in danbury public schools will receive a windows laptop in turn they will give back their chromebook that they used in the spring any new students or students without devices will have a schedule based on their school so each individual school will be sending out a notification for distribution could be as early as tuesday and will be for the rest of the week the kindergartners part of the distribution for them is going to occur during their orientation so when they come to school for orientation they will receive their device they will get to log in they will get to see google classroom and all while having uh the support that they need right there um this year is a refresh for the dhs teachers and so um throughout the fall the dhs teachers will all receive a new macbook and in addition the state had a everybody learns initiative that they rolled out um at the end of july and i found out yesterday that we were awarded 936 new chromebooks which should be arriving sometime in early november and 11 137 internet vouchers as part of the initiative so what that means is that families who um have come forth or identified themselves on the survey as not having in adequate internet will now receive a voucher from comcast to have free internet for one year so i'm very excited about that because that was a definite struggle that we had in the spring and a big concert of ours for um getting every student connected gina it's show to solve a quick question is that 1137 internet vouchers or 11 137 because you said 11 oh i'm sorry one thousand one hundred and thirty seven right thank you yeah thanks okay you're welcome are there any questions on the technology before i move on okay all right um and so i just you know folks are always concerned how are our services addressed in in this distance learning environment uh one of the benefits as mentioned before with having a structured schedule is that special education students will receive individualized schedules for their live instruction via google meets so any related services will be addressed through that esl services will be more easily delivered in the structured schedule as well once all of the schedules are finalized so um having those structures enables us to access uh students a little bit more easily and predictably is kelly doing this section yes so um just to specify a little bit further is our special education students will receive a unique schedule um which will outline all their special education and related services all of those services will be done in a synchronous or a you know virtual meeting between teacher or related service provider and on the student these will be done in small groups or one-on-one depending on what is in the student's iep what we will attempt to do is schedule around the um instruction that is occurring um at the k5 level for example in the classroom so we do not want to pull students from their reading or math instruction in their first grade classroom for instance but we want to make sure that they get the extra support and help that they need let's say um in reading uh through their iep goals and objectives at a different time so every single special education student will have a google classroom page um at the pre uh pre-k through fifth grade level all the related services will be on one google classroom page to streamline the places that students need to go at the 612 level many of the special education services are done in a co-taught model where general ed and special ed teachers are working together that will continue in a virtual environment and students will have individual google classroom pages for each of either the special ed or related services that they receive um and so we are really going to scale up the amount of synchronous or in-person live instruction via the computer that we're doing um and we were very uh successful at doing this over our extended school year um summer school program um so we're going to continue to build and grow and similar to all the points that cara has previously highlighted through her slides all the special education related services staff are participating in the blended learning professional development the social emotional learning they will be following all the schedules and guidelines as outlined um by the general ed teachers and then layering in the additional support and services that our students need and the esl services will operate very very similarly where students will receive their in classroom instruction in their general ed environment plus any additional services scheduled around that time any question from board members to kelly seeing that is the additional presentation uh there's a few more slides gladys i could okay i'm sorry about that uh just to move through uh parent-teacher conferences that are on the on the current schedule i'm sorry the school calendar we will still continue to to hold those during the week that's indicated on the school calendar they'll be virtual we're going to have a schedule set up around that we need some time to work through some of our current startup issues and then we will get to um how we will structure an approach to um inviting our parents in for the parent-teacher conferences virtually um ann mead is i believe on this call as well she was going to talk a little bit about the parent and family supports that we have in place before we do that um could you go back one one slide uh i'm not sure where it is one thing um parents may be wondering about the um the sa the sats you might want to comment about that also i in terms of the question about teacher you're a scientist or how that may be impacted can you deal with those two please karen yep can you say that last part again sam i said the sats one and secondly the assigned teachers that they're getting and how they may impact it returning from the hybrid uh yeah i do have that piece in the last fight a little bit when we talked about that yeah we talked about the challenges but in terms of the sat right now we're evaluating our ability to um have the sat and psat we're not we we have a practice sat in the middle school that we decided to um to postpone or eliminate for this school year we'll roll that forward for next year it's just too difficult um to pull that off in terms of the high school we're having conversations about how to do that and do that safely so that we give kids a experience um and have the opportunity to have those scores but again a lot of this is is all related to some of the conversations we had earlier at the beginning and so um we will uh update parents on on how we're going to proceed with satpsat thank you you're welcome and i'll address the question at the end sal about the uh the teachers yep that's on everyone's mind thank you good evening everyone thank you for hanging in i think this is a a long presentation but full of information that will help um all of us as well as our families um so our first piece will be a the family school agreement we talked about this when we were still thinking about the hybrid model this is an agreement that will help us develop an understanding of expectations that will support student success such as parents checking in daily on their child their children's distant learning as well as what we're doing in our schools to prepare ourselves for the remote learning and what families can do and one of the big calls for over the past few weeks and through the family surveys that we've run is helping families become educated on the best way they can support their children so we will be running several different workshops in many different languages about setting up and navigating the google classroom we feel that as some one mentioned earlier before we need to start off from the very beginning with that for a parent who may not have no knowledge up to the parent who has done some of that navigating it with their child um we want parents to be prepared um to be able to help their student so that will be one of the offerings we'll also be offering some communication strategies um both for families and for teachers it's embedded in some of the teacher pd that communication between the parent and the child and the teacher what we found in the spring when we were doing distance learning was paramount to the success of of the instruction that we had we'll also look at some curricular program training around literacy math and science so parents can become more familiar with what the curriculum is and how to support their children and then we'll talk more about in another workshop about supporting learning at home some things that they can do to set up and we want to make sure that families have the technology as gina said as well as the internet um connection and the supplies that they need to be successful at home on another note we'll also be offering after school tutoring through our priority school grant and our 21st century learning grant by certified teachers um at the end of their day we have many that are willing to support students um either they're in their class or enrolled in the after-school tutoring program to be able to support their learning i'm proud to say that we changed a little bit on the website today on the home page of danbury public schools to put up a whole new sheet on community resources we will be moving some of what is in the home page over to that page and making it a little bit easier to navigate for families to be able to get things that they need from community resources to ebt cards internet services training online in multiple languages and things like that and lastly we are working on a full day care option um working with ed advanced to do something at the pal building uh final details will be coming out later tomorrow or on friday as well as we're referring parents to 2-1-1 which is our united way run info line here in connecticut um there's about four or five programs right now that are offering other alternatives for full day care for their children um who need it um and so we recommend that you call 2-1-1 to be able to secure where those places are they also give you um can give you your choice whether it be a center-based larger care or a family childcare home so um i will entertain any questions but um i wanted to be brief um because of that i think many parents uh are really struggling with this daycare we need to spend a little time talking about what we're trying to develop although it's not finalized but i think we have a more obligation to try to work with our partners and reasonable care by providing facilities at no cost cleaning up would you talk a little bit about that right so we're working with at advance which is our regional education service center out of litchfield in danbury to provide a program at the pal building for about 54 students again social distancing use a mask all of those health features will be employed during the day as well as supporting their distance learning where dr sal and the board has also offered schools to have small group of students in them during the day in groups of 10 to be able to support learning as well that we are donating the facilities which is helping us keep the cost down but at advance would be running those programs as well we believe it will be about 50 to 55 a day for care care for kids will be able to be used for those families that are familiar with that uh will also be in collaboration and talks with the united way through their alice fund to help support families who may be struggling financially to be able to gain some scholarship dollars so we are aware of the need that our families have we recognize that this is a really a tough time for our families to be able to um survive and work through all of these things and so my team our elp managers my parent educators and family educators that i have as well as our liaisons are there for our families to support them they're an integral part of the delivery system to make sure our families get what they need so please feel free to reach out to us and ask those questions we are at osborne street but we're asking that you called us for appointments for individual meetings and because there's an area of expertise for you the comments made from from from high up is how can you open up the school and say that it's not safe and one and safety could you comment why this is distinctly different okay so if we were to open up a true hybrid um hybrid model in our schools um it that entails children waiting at the bus stop with other children entails riding on the school bus more movement during the day once they arrive at school we're talking um in this model that we're proposing um groups of 10 children cohorted during the day probably three groups in the school using their own separate classrooms or the gym or the cafeteria so the numbers are much smaller they're not having unfortunately the opportunities to um mingle with other groups and this is following the guidance that we've been using in our early childhood centers and we have found that that works but it's a very different and modified program than what you would see in a normal in school day where everyone was there thank you can i say ask a question glass gladys oh go ahead i just want to ask a question um so ann um so as far as these supports for parents the communication strategies the you know curricular program training support learning at home how will this be done will these uh parents be doing this virtually or will they come into the building you know at osborne yeah it'll all be done virtually um at osborne right now we're trying to protect the staff that's there that are all essential workers at this point in answering phones um planning for buildings sites and facilities so we're protecting their health so all of these workshops will be virtually i've been in communication with many of our other district family support providers and directors and they have had good success with offering all of these workshops either on using a zoom or google classroom it also gives the parents an opportunity to experience what their children will be experiencing in real time so it's a it's a sense of comfort to the families um and then we'll we will pre-record them we will also bar gently borrow some other uh videos that some of our partnering districts have used to have those up there for refreshers so there'll be a large kind of a cafeteria plan of different trainings that parents can take that they need we'll also include some social emotional things looking at depression and suicide with our children and some things like that um that parents have asked for okay it'll be in the three languages yes absolutely great okay great thank you good okay cara unless there's any other questions of you this is i know for the board because you've been asked and all of us we're gonna work diligently kim has been helping us figure out how we can work with some of our groups to do notifications so that we could support parents and keep these prices reasonable um so you have my word on that that we will continue working on that go ahead karen so uh two two kind of major challenges that we have moving forward that you know we're still working on and we spend quite a bit of time discussing um moving forward is how you know as as we we clearly had a plan in place for hybrid and had to make a quick shift we have assigned students to the teachers who they would would have been assigned uh if they were coming full time in person so those students will start off the school year with a school with a teacher in their uh homeschool um however uh you know given all the uh challenges that we have ahead of us ahead of us and decision making um knowing that there are program selections that there are staffing ways to staff differently and that those some of those staffing assignments may need to shift some students may not continue with the same teacher they start off the school year with so that is something that we'll have to evaluate as we as we move forward um things that uh like enrollments leaves and any accommodations that staff have asked for all play a role into you know how these decisions will be made so we'll make our best um our best effort to keep t students with the teachers they are assigned to in september um but knowing recognizing this is a very unusual year and that there's a lot of movement um happening uh programmatically and with staff and that we will organize those adjustments um as we as we can um the other issue that it's not just danbury that's that's facing this but um a lot of the programs um and licensing and software and things that we've purchased and use are we're a little behind on in terms of integrations and uh rostering and scheduling um that has recently changed i'll get classic example is edgenuity that we've that we've partnered with um every country every every state in the country is trying to access ingenuity at the same time so um getting technical support getting questions answered um and things like that have been very slow going um they just uh are beyond a level of saturation that most of these companies can handle so we're working through we don't think we'll be too delayed but um just know that if every you know if ixl isn't up on day one or edge annuities not available till week two that that's you know we are working through those and um you know we are we have a timeline we're working through that but there's definitely some delays and and instances when it comes to technology acquisition everybody across the countries is trying to secure the same technology and programs at the same time in the same couple of weeks before school so i just wanted to point that out that we're working through those and uh oh okay and these were uh i think some of these items were uh addressed at some point social media kevin do you want to comment on any of these yeah so so one let let me just say to the board and for the community um the the team has been working behind the scenes responding to all of the questions that were that that was shared tonight for public comments uh we made sure that we incorporated um incorporated those responses in the presentation this evening but i also want to make the board and the community aware that we will have the q and a's available on our district website and then also on our district's social media pages and so some of you know some of the areas that you heard this evening questions about social emotional support supporting families with child care you know what happens to my my child's school schedule pre and post remote learning um you know most of those things have already been well documented in the presentation tonight um but again we will also have it available in a q a comment on the website in social media so the um comment uh for the board you may recall i think one of the things that um that i've been struggling with and bringing bringing the youngsters back to in-person learning um it's gonna be different we knew that it's not normal so you know my goal was to try to keep things as normal as possible so the interscholastic sports are something we've supported we've had the we've had the parts because of the medical conditions and that will be re-evaluating however the clubs and other activities as part of the what we do at the high school or in the middle school where it's appropriate we intend on having those clubs operate we that's some degree of uh normalcy for our youngsters many of them are depending on them so um you know barring anything unusual which i would know we expect to have those clubs that we've had in the past so for that um that is a given and that will happen the extracurricular activity is predicated on cic regarding what they do and how they do it but we will closely review all of it and then make the decision for the best interests of our youngsters i don't know care if there's anything else on there that so i i do i do yes i do have one thing i just want to point out you know that this is all still relatively new um and i just want families and and and parents to exercise patients with the beginning of the school year exercise patience with the teachers um and and and you know have some um you know give us a give us some time to get started um our teachers are working very hard they're walking into a tremendous amount of training coming up in the next week or so and uh school starts very very soon after that and so like i said we are we're working through some things but um we are going to be very patient with with students and families and we're just asking that you do the same with our teaching staff as well as we get up and running thank you okay um that that's all i have uh there's any board members have any quick questions we had a lot of information brought to us tonight and i hope some of the answers some of the questions that we had were answered uh i just want to take the privilege by being the chairperson just one thing i want to do and it should be quickly i understand that we have three council uh members that are here and i would just like to ask them do they have any question i would allow them one question each if not then we'll move on gladys i appreciate that i will respect everybody's time you guys are great thank you for having me gladys uh same for me i really appreciate the opportunity to be on i had a lot of questions that that were answered tonight so thank you all for the hard work that you're doing i want to just say thank you as a healthcare professional i am immensely proud of the team that has worked on this and think that you've made a very tough decision and uh congratulate everybody on the work that they've done nobody's going to be happy but you did well thank you no thank you um if there are no other questions or comments i would just like to remind the board um our next scheduled meeting unless it's an emergency meeting is september the 9th okay and i would certainly like to thank the leadership of the board of board members uh for always having questions and when i go a little astray they support whatever we're doing uh to make sure that we have a good meeting and that we sort of understand what we're doing as board members uh and other than that i would hope that everyone will have a safe labor day and please be safe protect yourself and protect others and thank you all so very much i know this was a long meeting but to me it was worth it to make sure that we get out the information uh that we need to get out to pence so without anything else dr sale you have any last minute comments no i appreciate um you know uh you're taking the time to um diligently go through this and ask the questions i think um take us in a position to inform parents and you've got our commitment to continue that we'll continue communicating with with all i think at the next board meeting we will update you on the building safety the budgets and things of that nature i think that would be helpful as well but i do thank the board and the community for taking the time and their due diligence and in in letting us know what their feelings are but i assure you those are in our mind and we will work to a successful resolution to many of them and we hope to get back thank you thank you dr saleh and your staff thank you all um i need a motion to adjourn this meeting it's about 8 30.
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i can tell you exactly what was happening and all the emotion and how it impacted me as a teacher and and what i did with that and life's really never been the same since then and i don't think life's ever going to be the same after coven but we're learning through it and our teachers are like actually enjoying this time in the week so the next slide please so this isn't separate from thinking and writing and communicating it's all combined and so she's using microsoft teams as a platform for sharing and it was kind of fun because mr watson-hauser and i were talking about some of the similar similarities between elementary and secondary and how they're approaching this but i think it's kind of fun to step back and say yay something's going well so president keller members of the board i'd like to highlight something that mr dolan and the staff at sussman middle school are doing where they're using a program where they're giving small lessons on the wednesdays to all of their students and they've called it shield and so as you can see student hour for individual emotional learning and development and they started this last week and so they're once again going through some social emotional components with their kids on a school-wide basis and allowing them to have some opportunities to once again talk about some of the issues that they're going through next slide please so this is just the first one that they did last week and as all of you are familiar with stress we are taking a look at that and defining stress for the kids and having them put that within their own words and once again these are all the teachers spread out in terms of a certain period and that's what they're dealing with all of their kids going through so the first one was to explain stress next slide please once again just trying to help them identify and i think when you're doing this it's finding similarities that you're not alone that if you're feeling these kind of things there are a lot of people that are feeling uh these kinds of things and once came with mrs richards and i were comparing we thought wow that's very similar to a lot of the themes that were happening from her examples are the themes that are happening uh with us as well next slide please so they talked about masloff's hiring hierarchy of needs and how we are supporting them on the bottom two but how can we help them support themselves and grow through this hierarchy and it's introducing these students to these ideas and so hopefully we're continuing to work with them to get up to that blue self-actualization peak next slide please and i what i really liked at the end here is how they finished this first lesson was tell us what you want to talk about so some ownership from the student perspective like hey i'm concerned about maybe i need to talk more about anxiety or continue on with stress or what other topics and so this is going to be continuous theme at the campus about how they can support the students whether it's remotely or whether it's in person and so just another example i think from what our district is doing in a wonderful job and and kudos to the teachers and mr dolan for helping put together this program to support the kids there will this spread to the other campuses you know each principal is looking at different things individually we're looking at something yes it has been a theme not this week in our board comments but i think two weeks ago that the social and emotional learning was a big deal for our parents and so i just want to make sure that all campuses are going to get something or work towards something yes and and when we when we meet as a group we share our ideas because some the counseling departments have stepped up with canvas pages and different things to provide resources and different structures so we do like to share and steal from each other any other questions go ahead and listen um in the comments today we heard about ppe not being available could you speak to that a little president kaler board member wilson yes i'm going to ask uh dr fowler to come out here so that he can address some of those questions um and he's in the back and has been made aware of the concerns so i'll have him switch places here so that he can speak to that directly president keller members of the board would you repeat the question i'm sorry there were some ques did you get to hear board comments at all yes i did and i was actually i was surprised by the comments there was a couple related to ppe and so the only item that i'm aware of that we haven't received was plexiglas which we did have a supply of plexiglass but that was limited right now so we did get plex glass installed in all of our front offices and still working through some of the local areas to get more but that was one area but that doesn't really fall under the ppe i know wipes were limited although we did receive a supply of those this past week and so um we're really stocked in all the ppe areas face masks mass as we know the teacher boxes that we went over a while back we have all those supplies in and those items are being deployed um so i wasn't um and i'm not quite sure what that meant but they said sanitation station hand sanitizers so we did have those set up with the hand sanitizer um on tables and sites and then um just this past week also the purell um ones that attached the wall had arrived so i think we have um a number of those that have been distributed and so that's in processing and we're continuing to reach out and and gather more um ppe and so we do have a supply in all of those those key areas so i do think you know maybe a month ago there were some areas that were looking for excuse me but our supply is uh you know stocked thank you so in reference why we're talking about supplies so the box that i we saw at the last board meeting all the all the teachers will be having those in her clap their classrooms the supplies that are necessary president killer mr tovic in fact yes the box um was a a temporary we actually have a special it's a blue bag with a higley logo on it that is going to house all of those and they those were and are in process and being delivered out to the sites and put together so yes every single teacher will have those all of those items and um and we're you know gonna keep those replenished and working with each sites to make sure that you know all of those supplies are replenished when they they're needed so if we have the box do we have a guidebook so this box isn't just sitting on my desk then like does each school have guidelines like what's going to take place and what you need to do at certain times and because i haven't seen any guidelines any guidebooks yet as far as what what needs to do yes in fact um president keller mr tobich there's um individual information in that box for the teacher and then i know each individual site has detailed plans that they're putting together and then we're working through through with our custodial staff as well as far as training with our high touch custodians which we appreciate the board for supporting those positions that we're adding as well and so yes that's all in in process we had a conversation about additional staff is all the staff in place right now for the maintenance that we asked for in reference i think we were asking there you were saying part-time and i think mr glover asked an orphanage to part full-time employees we're so uh have we brought additional maintenance staff onto each one of our campuses so we're prepared they've been hired president kaler mr wintovich i know um just in the last couple days that decision um was made in terms of some staff what we were finding is some sites were having difficulty hiring the part-time position and so what we have done with some flexibility is allowing sites that have currently people hired as part-time people allowing them to take that part-time position and make that a full-time position and so that um process a number of sites had already hired that part-time position but there are sites that we're having trouble and so that they've um and that we've given them that flexibility uh thanks to our hr department and so that's that's in process so i would say about half of our sites have had somebody and then the others are looking at probably current people and looking to move them to full-time positions so if we're looking at opening the schools on september 8th we're still not there yet in reference to staffing needed for for the maintenance good evening president kayla members of the board dr thomason my fellow colleagues and cabinet um board member tovic if we're looking at september 8th as a reopening um they will be transitioned and ready because as dr fowler mentioned we've already hired a number of them and the other sites have opted to now look at increasing their current part-time employees that they already have encumbered to full-time status so they'll shift the full-time status if not this week next week one of the question um where are we at on the filters are all the filters in place president koehler mr witovich so we have received replacement filters and so those were installed in all of the classrooms that were in occupation now and then the additional filters are are on order and arriving in the next week or two and so as soon as those come in those will be replaced as soon as they arrive and so so you know that's in process i i'm going to piggyback off that mr watovich that i think you know our teachers and our staff not everybody watches every board meeting they haven't seen every detailed powerpoint that we've presented they haven't heard everything that we've heard and we soak it up and we kind of take it all for i take take advantage that we know what we've decided on up here but i think it's really important that our teachers get that time for training on classroom expectations when it comes to the cleanliness and the disinfecting and again i'm all for those videos i think videos are a great way to um you know just i'm very visual so um if it gets to the point where more of that needs to take place i would be all for that president kaler oh thanks um so it looks like we're moving on here pretty soon to item 7.2 and just to my fellow board members you know i would just say you still have time to look at the numbers to watch our neighbors and we would still have time to meet that date if we if you all were intent on that date you know a recent national poll says that one in three educators now say the virus has made them more likely to resign or retire early you can feel their anxiety in some of the the letters we heard today you know i think there's it sounds like there's a lot of if if this does happen to pass it sounds like you all have a lot of work to do and i would encourage you to go out and talk to people in person uh to let them hear and see and ask and say the things that need to be said because what i don't want to happen have happened is for us to be the next j.o combs you know that here we go everybody's coming back 100 percent but uh you got like 60 teachers not showing up today so then what does that do to those classrooms so i think there's some work that needs to be done and i don't think it could be done uh via email uh i think i think it would be wise for the cabinet to go out and and to listen to our teachers and talk to them and talk about some of the numbers and i i think i do think looking at higley's data just the higley school area i mean to me that was very enlightening and uh that helped me think about things differently than i had so i you know i don't know what's going to happen on 7.2 i don't know but there you go thank you mr glover i guess one other concern that i've heard uh repeat about since we're talking about reopening schools is this 14-day quarantine for a student can we just talk about for a second maybe elementary and secondary just putting some parents at ease that we've had lots of students in the past that have had to go out for a a long period of time for various reasons illness so um some of those questions i've always said refer back to your principles but in general i'll let you guys kind of take we we provide the education materials that the student needs during that time i mean i'll let you kind of canvas is now up but just to put those parents minds at ease that there is a plan in place for those if there was a quarantine situation president kaler members of the board yes that's very important part so one of the things that we've been talking about and we've talked about it several times is the understanding that this this this is a different different approach this year when it comes to attendance and being the fact that if you don't feel good or for any reason we want you to stay home if you uh if there is the need to quarantine obviously there's going to be the need to stay home one of the things that is an ongoing part even when we return to in-person learning is canvas is going to be a management system a portal that ends up being a place where you can go if you are out to get your information or assignments or tasks no it won't be like what would it there won't be the live instruction like there was when it was in remote learning style but if you were out the lessons or or activity or assignment will be posted so that your student can continue to get information and can continue to work while they are out so it will be a place that we continue to use even when we are in person we may use our canvas learning management system more than we had before it will be a versatile platform for in-person as well as at home it'll be a way that we communicate with each other and turn in assignments and those things so the uh right now it's the primary vehicle for how we're connecting it will continue to be an important vehicle for home to school connection monitoring what students are doing and how they're doing it so again it will be an important part of what sustains thank you for that any other questions for mrs reese go ahead oh thank you foley that's a a good point and i know canvas is new to elementary but the high schools used it more middle schools used it more more than elementary but not as much as high school and that's the same thing that's happened in the past when a student's been out for any reason whether they've been sick that they've had access to their assignments and and everything in canvas and in addition to that i know with our teachers that if we have someone out sick they'll be communicating with um whether and when i say sick whether they're quarantined whether they're ill whether they just need to be home i know our staff will be communicating with them to make sure that they understand the assignments that are in canvas and if there is any questions and and will be available for them and i appreciate the comment about this is very different this year for attendance several years back we had h1n1 the swine flu and uh if you had the swine flu you had to be out of school for 10 days and um it hit our district we had kids that were out um and it was it was the children that actually was the at-risk group and so we at that time did not change our attendance policy i unfortunately had a child who got the swine flu and i continued to receive letters from the district about truancy because he was not permitted to go to school for 10 days so anyway i i appreciate that i hope we have made those changes so electronically these letters don't go out because that's frustrating but it's appreciated that we're encouraging any time you don't feel well stay home attendance is okay yes the only time you will be contacted is if you didn't let us know your child was out sick and for how long your student would be out sick because we need to make sure that we need to know that we report that for obviously we report it but you will not receive attendance letters before after missing so many absences that has been suspended and again going back to the conversation earlier tonight it's really important to remember that um just again if you don't feel well stay home that doesn't mean the world thinks you now have go but it means you're being responsible for monitoring your symptoms and and hence we need you to do that um and an event that you do that we need to be in communication and confidentiality is important but it helps us help keep everyone else safe so that we can communicate appropriately so this will be a this will be a new navigation for us as we return and when we return and whenever that may be the health this we're going to be navigating living through a we're still in the middle of a pandemic until there is a a a vaccine so health and wellness and will be an ongoing theme that we're going to have to navigate together i do have one one question in reference to back to the health slides if i remember right on the health slides on the notification the teacher wasn't part of that plan and reference it looked like it was hr the nurse on staff on site the teacher even though they're in the classroom since they will be always wearing a mask or they're always going to be secondary and yet they'll see children in their classroom leaving and not coming back and they'll get an email a day or two later wouldn't the teacher should be on the front line as well as the hr people so they can kind of keep an eye on the rest of the students if they see any other symptoms in the classroom to keep them part of it i mean i'm just kind of concerned why the teacher is not since they're on the front lines and they could help out hr or any of you the nurse in a minute so i was kind of concerned on that one president kaler and board member tobitch i understand that concern and it's been brought up a lot and again reiterating every weekly conversation that i have with the health department just on their webinars and daily conversations i have about reiterating the confidentiality it is across the board a consensus that teachers while are able to know that they sent their student to the to the health office and that that student went home they do not need to know why at that point if they're identified as a primary contact they still will not know by who they will know that their primary contact of a positive case but names reasons that they went home down to signing out for why a student went home are all staying confidential if during the school day the teacher took off her mask to get a drink of water in the classroom or did something like that then she would be a primary contact correct because the mass came off but not for 10 minutes 15 minutes you know who knows i mean if they need to sit down if they eat lunch in the classroom or something like that they're taking the mask off for more than 10 minutes i mean i'm just i completely understand what you're saying and i and i hear your your fear with that but teachers are not assigned to be on that front line of a confidentiality and knowing why a student went home they'll be notified if their primary contact just like anybody else would okay and again these aren't our rules this is above us this is this is above us but i understand you're concerned the nursing staff comes in with a spiral full gear on and there's the teacher sitting in the classroom with the mask okay i mean but let's let's help the person on the front line here and i thought the more the more we work together as a team we can get through this i mean that's that's my concern and i understand it's not it's not it's it's above us but and and mr tobits we all know and i've and i've had this conversation with dr foley that a student their their privacy will not remain private not in this community and and that's just i'm just being real that as soon as there's a case and a student goes out and then another person hears about it it's on social media or snapchat with the kids before we even hear and that's just the nature of our community and i and i don't mean that in just a terrible way it's just the reality that very few things stay private and i think sorry dr foley and i think i have two schools of thought on that and i i agree and i think if our teachers know um and i'm thinking more secondary um then someone comes into class and says oh so joe's got coveted and the teacher's like yep not realizing not thinking i i mean it it's just a response and i'm not trying to say that they're irresponsible or anything like that but it's hard to look at somebody and say well i'm not at liberty to discuss that with you and then at that point someone looks at them and says okay you don't have to you've said enough but my other school of thought on that is that would they not always be a primary contact because we will not we've already said physical distancing in our classrooms is not possible and like mr rotovic brought up earlier is they are not going to be able to note know that they spent 15 minutes within six feet of a kid and so if they're in that classroom then they're moving around whether if they're at the front of the classroom the kids who sit in front they're going to be less than six feet now they'll be more than six feet from the ones behind but would that not based on those guidelines just because they were wearing a mask would that not make them that primary contact correct if they were wearing a mask they are not a primary content even though they were less than 60 even though they were less than six feet you know mrs reese referenced that too as you're mentioning that we're going to be going to the teachers in that classroom to ask what students were not wearing a mask on that certain day so are they not going to be your primary contact because they're going to be the person that can tell you if they were sitting around a certain student who was not wearing a mask that day you're going to have to rely on the teachers as the primary contact in that classroom correct president keller and board member watovic i think it for me thinking about this it goes back a little earlier when we were talking about everyone being aware of what's going on in the education for the students and the teachers and i have to say that i really hope there's not a student that is not wearing a mask for 15 minutes without some sort of redirection and some more education and importance of wearing that and what that looks like so that would be part of the working together and making sure that we get that education across mrs wilson all right i just have a little statement and i was trying to figure out where to put it so i think right here is the good time to say it uh today we are here again talking about reopening of schools i would venture to ever to guess that every one of us up here has read countless emails spent hours researching articles thinking and praying on what to do today i personally have cried reading emails from parents teachers and staff on both sides of this hotly debated issue i understand both sides mental health is real covett is real i never thought when i was gathering signatures to be elected to this board that i would have to choose between someone's physical health and someone's mental health and that's what we're being asked to do i emphasiz empathize with both sides today i'm reading that people have lost someone i get an email and i read that someone a family member has been lost to covid the next email i'm reading is about the mental health of the kids teachers staff and parents that need that personal contact i get an email one moment from a nurse begging to go begging us not to go back because the hospital bed rates and then i get an email from another nurse begging us to go back because of psychiatric hospital bed rates we have divided our community i said this before and i'll say it again whatever decision you make is right for your family make it and it is the right decision please don't judge others for their decision we don't know what they're dealing with safe means different things to different families and different people some thinks it some feel it's safe to go back and some do not please don't judge it's okay please continue to show kindness and show your kids kindness matters thank you very well said beautiful thank you mrs wilson any other questions or comments about reopening of schools before we move on i am trying to delay if it doesn't show okay here we go well we have to do a vote here so 7.2 is the vote on reopening schools well 7.1 is now complete we're moving to 7.2 i was going to make it right now can you wait for that one is that okay okay so i make a motion that the governing board approves the return to in-person learning teacher-led classroom instruction to begin on september 8 2020 if the public health benchmark metrics continue to be met second questions comments concerns the um i do have some questions one is the certified staff was made aware of this on tuesday i believe yesterday at which point they were asked if they had any questions or concerns to discuss them at that time if we're making a decision today how can some i'm not even aware of any of these questions that these teachers had or concerns um anywhere i'm sure i do have some questions like like if a teacher needs to be out in quarantine are we going to pay their sick leave for them i mean those are some of the things that are taking place so just to find out what if where we're going to be at with the questions that the teachers had yesterday how are we even going to address any other questions if we were going to ask this decision right now i know mr tobich we did cover that in a meeting but again i go back to not every teacher has watched every meeting and even though we live it every day and we have the information i don't know how much we have no it's not it's not about watching the meeting the principals had a presentation when they read to the teachers this at that time the teachers were asked if they have any questions it's not about watching a board meeting it's questions that the teachers had at that time so who's addressing those questions that those teachers had for us to move forward on september 8th and how are we going to get to that by september 8th i'm sure questions would be how are the teachers are going to be getting paid who's going to train them how are we going to set up the classroom are you giving us release time to set up our classroom some teachers have not been in this building since march and we want them to open up are we going to get are they going to teach online in the same day teach online that evening go into the classroom i mean where are the questions that the teachers are asking who's going to answer them so we get these in place okay if somebody can tell me that all right i get that maybe okay president kevlar board member watovic so one of the things we had a meeting with our principals on monday first we had a meeting with them first to say one that this was a board item that we would be talking about that i had put together the video for them for the slides that would be discussed so that they could share with teachers because we wanted them to we wanted our teachers and our employees to hear about and not be caught off guard by by this agenda item we talked with our administrators about once an in-person date is returned a night they have been working on these for a long time these play books these understandings of what it looks like on your campus what are some of the things that you're going to do some of the hr related issues but but providing that some of the health issues obviously have continued to change that have been formalized over the last several weeks so once that date is determined we talked about how important it is knowing a date um whatever they that might be then we'll begin to provide some time with teachers to to outline what does that look like for their campus um as well as address some of the questions that administrators got our following up with our administrators today was some of them had questions concerns and wanted to vent or voice their frustrations which we wanted to hear some of them were encouraged to email they were also encouraged to make comment the specific questions we obviously would would work with our administrators to make sure are addressed in their training for their site the recording of the health training that would be part of we also are going to look to find ways to give some teachers some additional time and finalize what where and why that might be but again as soon as there is a determination of a date we can finalize what that might look like for our teachers so again um we're really wanting to to to understand what those questions and concerns are so that we can respond to them appropriately i do believe a lot of the questions that they're going to have will be answered by some of the protocols or the quarantine question i mean how many dates are you available for so that we can help answer those things because and this thus far their energies as they should have been have been on remote instruction and they have been spending hours learning all their new management platform and engaging their students so i think it was once the date is finalized or when we have that providing additional training on what does that transition back to in-person learning look like and in the meantime we've been finalizing what those documents protocols videos will look like so that principals can figure out when and how to do that for their staff and providing some kind of time for them to uh be prepared for this transition um you know as far as the september 8th date that i'm that we're talking about um personally i would be comfortable if if we did go with the september 8th as a recommending but as i said earlier you know this as as people were saying cherry picking and bringing different things together i want to see the fact that we're going down the numbers are going down so when these students and staff are coming into this building on september 8th that the numbers are going this way okay so i would only be comfortable if we had a board meeting on thursday september 3rd at seven o'clock or whatever time so we can see at that point at that point the report that says hey the stats that show tomorrow thursday down next thursday down i would be okay knowing that that we're going in going down and instead of saying okay all of a sudden you know we're looking at opening school on september 8th and bang there's a problem out here you know we can we can grab it in time and not open up school if there's something really happening in one of our local communities that we can continue online say oh okay let's grab it back and see what's going on it's just that's just my thought on reference to that well mr ritovich um as we discussed kind of over the the last friday in our executive session how much work is going to be involved in making this transition i hear you and i think that as as board members we need to [Music] look upon ourselves make sure we're looking at the data make sure we know what we're watching i i know i i review it daily for multiple reasons and i think that if we're looking at those we'll look at them tomorrow i know that based on the daily trends it's going to continue to come down and and we'll see what dr foley and her team has seen and that's why they recommend because we're on this continuous downward trend and i'm not okay with less than or with five days of pulling that plug one the amount of time that it's going to take and the work in the background making all the changes switching students to the online the in person switching the teachers and for our families because they have to plan as well and they need to make arrangements and whether they work in their home out of their home if there's transportation things like that and with five days notice if we let me clarify if there is a major change within our covered numbers that is absolutely what would need to happen but i wouldn't want to plan on saying well we're not going to give the full go ahead until the third and so i think that as board members just as we said when we initially met and obviously when we initially talked about it the data that we had in the arizona department of health dashboard we were looking at july data because there's almost a three week lag and so it was really old and so that was part of that discussion and so i think if if as board members i know our teachers are looking at it i know our administrators are looking at it i think if we continue to monitor it and if need be i think we pull an emergency together emergency meeting together to only pull the plug instead of saying we're going to plan to have a meeting to make sure it's good before we go ahead i i don't know any if if this passes and the plan is the eighth um i don't think any board member would have an issue coming together if something went horribly wrong between now and then to have an emergency meeting to pull the plug and we'll have to deal with that but to say that that's kind of when we're gonna really make the full decision i think is is too hard i agree with what that's what i meant to say okay it wasn't to have the meeting to say well let's if we continue no no that's what i want to say exactly what how you transpired it is to is to go with the eighth date but let it be known if there's any red flag comes up between now and and that eight that we're going to come together to to have a conversation that that's what i meant to say okay so we're on the same page so meaning if those numbers on the third are way yeah crazy and it's an issue then kind of in the background we should make ourselves available okay because it sounded like you're asking us to schedule a meeting for that day and that's when we would really kind of give the go ahead and that's why i was saying i was not okay with that i think as long as it's in the back here that says hey if there's something happening that we're going to come together it's not just written in stone saying oh it's going to be the eighth no matter what no no it's not going to be the eighth no matter what we're going to take a look at what's happening and if there are some things coming out there then we'll get the phone calls and at that time that's what i meant okay go ahead mrs wilson president koehler it does say in here if public benchmarks metrics continue to be met so just to help you out greg it does say in the recommendation from the superintendent's associate superintendent did you have something sad well i mean we we have to agree on what makes what equals a green check mark though too oh okay i was going to say i you know all along i've wanted to look at our local data and when we had our meeting and i brought local data then i was accused of making up my own numbers but using their numbers just in our area and knowing that our area was not trending the same as glendale and and maricopa county and so um i hear the comments about cherry picking um these are all whether it's from the county or from the state these benchmarks have always been recommendations and they've never been requirements and knowing looking at our area and now looking at the surrounding areas gilbert public schools and their returning um in a hybrid model but on september 8th mesa is moving towards that and sorry me so they're more they're in the red in many areas around them and initially that first week when we were our own yellow item and everywhere was red around us everyone was concerned because we have people coming from gilbert when a different gilbert zip code was read and those numbers have dramatically dramatically decreased when we look at some of the the numbers we went from a 6.31 to 4.8 percent and we went from 63.3 cases per 100 and we dropped that by 50 in a week in our area so um our surrounding areas have also improved and based like i said i tracked the information daily and they're going to continue to improve um because what we look at today and how our numbers have trended down for the last couple weeks what our numbers are today aren't going to show up on our report for almost two and a half weeks and so we've continued to trend down so um i i understand people's comments and i and i get it and we're still using the same numbers we haven't changed the numbers i hear you mr glover we're applying one metric in one place and not in another and i think that we have i've supported returning in school and i think that the numbers have continued to improve which further supports it like mrs wilson said we hear from both sides all the way around we will hear from from one doctor and say it's absolutely time to get these kids in school it's what they need to do and it is safe and then we will hear from another doctor that says are you out of your ever-loving mind about thinking of returning these kids to school so there there is no clear defined um line or or place so it is very very divided but um i think with our like i said our data is weeks old we continue to improve and i think that our failure rate of our kids within our district is very high it's very clear that they're struggling we need to to get them in front of their teachers and that we had discussed multiple dates and the eighth was what made the most sense with all the work that needs to be done behind it and i know people say just wait until fall break because then you have that time to do it fall break will be a natural break for any cases that may come up because there probably will be some cases it's that's going to happen and so that will be a natural quarantine if you will from school anyway and so um so i think that i think it is time for our kids to go back to school and get into that new routine yes we'll have a natural break but then i think that mentally then they will be more prepared even after fall break to return go ahead mr glover um well i thank you for your passion um you know the eighth doesn't make sense to me in case anybody didn't figure that out but um but that still doesn't i know how you feel about what what's green to you but you all need to i mean before this before you make this vote i really think we should be clear on what equals agreeing because if we do have to go back and you do have to tell people because things went backwards what are we going to base it on so i would like to maybe hear from you all of what you guys think is green or yellow or red because you might have to make those decisions yes mr glover i um i appreciate you asking us all for that clarification and i do believe when it goes back to what metrics that boards can look at it was very clear that once the maricopa county gave us clear direction of higley we could use those and so i think it's important that we are looking at all the data that we have before we make a decision and again it is it is a two-week lag i know people are saying well we should watch for queen creek we should see what happens with you know north gilbert ala and things like that but it's still going to be a two-week lag it'll be it'll be a month before we see anything from that area so i'm with you mr witovic i want to watch these numbers i'll be i clicked last week i was on my computer all day just looking at refreshing those numbers and watching them and i absolutely am going to watch them and i i understand mr glover your concern and i and i love your heart and your passion for hearing our teachers and i think we all echo that we love our teachers we we love our staff and i want them to feel as safe as they possibly can returning and that word safe has a vast vast meaning i cannot guarantee safety of my kids or my teachers that is the reality of this and it's so hard and i don't think there's a single one of us up here that wanted to sign up for this or thought we'd ever be sitting here having these discussions and this being thrown on our laps and so i'm just gathering all the data that i possibly can i'm listening to the experts and i'm just trying to do the best i can by the students the teachers we have the option which i'm so thankful for that we do have an option if it's not in school learning we do have it is anything perfect no not right now and so i i struggle i do know um we've had a lot of kids on our campuses we've had sports going for weeks and weeks all summer long we took one week off was it mr la three three weeks total off otherwise the students have been doing their practicing and they did in phases um by what aia um you know encouraged we've had ed on our campuses we've had now we have support services on our campuses so it's not that our campuses have been complete you know totally shut down we've had things happening on our campuses and things have been going really well and even for those school districts that open it sounds like things are going really well and i and i hope and i pray that that's the direction that we're headed and again if anything is not perfect right now this is not perfect i welcome any other comments you know mr glover in reference to your question i want this to be done right okay i don't want to see what other districts around us have done with as a free-for-all and it's just a mess everywhere around here um i want us to to do it together i want i want the safety of our teachers i want them to be okay i want our students to be okay and i want our administration to be okay and i just want this to be done right and and safety to be involved on this and and i guess reference the the eighth date you know reference to this i'm gonna be watching these next two thursdays believe me okay so and if something's by next thursday on that third not then then we're gonna be having a meeting so so i'm watching here okay i'm not just gonna blank and say okay we're gonna go back to school everything's fine no no no no no i'm gonna be watching this thursday and and i know all of us are and and so that's that's where i'm more comfortable with that knowing that at any time we can pull back and and see what takes place because that gives us another two weeks in reference to that too as well thank you mr whatevich i think we're all on the same page on that and the other thing is is that september 8th it does give our behind the scenes employees who are going to be working around the clock all weekend to do the split and we had a lot of information on that last week and it is a huge job and so um the eighth did come up not just for the benchmarks but for also that extra day for those behind the scenes and again having the conversation with our administrators and our teachers and trying to find some space for them like you said mr witovich if they don't if they haven't been in their classrooms we want we want to give them that time i definitely want to try to do whatever we can to provide that time for them to come in um so yeah again it's not perfect okay so with that we will vote all those in favor aye aye those opposed nay motion carries four one and with that we are going to take another little break thank you president kaler though before too late i just i'm not i'm not going to say anything ranty crazy just for uh mr lots nicer and for the parents that now have to plan and make some decisions there's a lot of comments and concerns about particularly electives at the secondary and i know we had talked about um you're you're trying to figure out the best to to do the most for the most kids and uh people i think in the community have made some assumptions that you know there's not there's no possible way that x could be offered and i don't think that's true i don't put words in your mouth but they can contact the school you have a plan you're doing the best you can maybe you could talk to that while people are thinking about this if that's okay with thank you i totally agree with you mr glover president kaler board member glover yes we are absolutely making sure that um if there's an elective issue please contact your school there's flexibility that we have is everything going to be offered probably not however we can work together and really those numbers and that's where we really need to shore up who is the people who are planning on not returning and that way that could help us because the more people are there the more makes it easier for us to get a teacher to have that class and so there's some things that we're not on the list that we're hoping to be able to add because if the need is there we're going to provide it what happens is when it becomes that individual one-off student or that sometimes that's where we're going to have to make some hard decisions but we're working that and we're meeting with our principals and mrs martin's right now to work on some of those hr issues behind the scenes also to figure out where we can merge student need teacher need get it together so that we can make it the best for everyone as possible and so yes and i think it's just really good i know we're still going to continue to get a lot of emails from our community but very specific questions that you have please email your principals they each site i know has worked really hard on a lot of different things that they can answer because if not i'm forwarding the email and it gets forwarded and then you'll finally get your answer but a lot of our principals have this information so again those concerns but i know we're still going to continue to get lots of emails and i welcome each and every one thank you okay welcome back um dr foley wanted to have a little comment and then we're going to move on to our athletics update president kaler members of the board what i want you to know is that we will work immediately with our administrative team to also create some time for our teachers we may need to we'll finalize what that may look like so that teachers can have a few days here where assignments may be more independent on those last few days so we can give more time for teachers to be able to transition transition with the state now that we have a date we will work to figure out how to operationalize this to work as the best that we can to give more time for teachers to prepare for this transition so know that we will we'll work immediately with our administrative teams tomorrow to start figuring out where and how and why and communicate that as quick as possible thank you we definitely want to make space and time for our teachers to prepare and they are vital to us in that so thank you for that and we appreciate them very much yes thank you mrs mr lotson heiser get it right getting better thank you president kaler members of the board tonight we're going to update you a little bit more on what our plan for athletics is moving forward and i need to put a caveat on there like many things there's a lot of different factors at play and there's a lot of different things that could be changing there the al aia while they have you can go ahead and go to the next slide please well the aia has not currently changed the timeline for fall sports there are a lot of discussions that are continuing to happen right now and i'll be honest with you there is possibilities for some of that to happen i don't know where that's going to go we've had some districts within the state that have postponed their athletics until they return to in-person learning which could be october and since they are on people's schedules and they are playing that that could have a direct impact on our scheduling in different things those are still questions that are out there and i don't have specifics on them i've got to be involved in two different meetings the last two day one with all the district athletic directors in the state with the ai and then the 6a conference when we looked at football specifically and we don't have answers yet one of the reasons we don't have answers yet is that there's a sports medicine advisory committee the meeting for that is tomorrow they're supposed to make recommendations to the aia executive board who is then meeting next tuesday and we hope to have a more direction at that time so in our last meeting i said hey i wanted to come back to you and tell you what the plan are i'm still kind of on hold on a few things okay but we are planning and preparing for different scenarios to play out as you can see a golf spirit line started on the 17th cross country swim and dive started this last monday i know we had a big golf tournament today out at las colinas and so those kind of activities already started our out-of-state sports or the sports that have not had a chance to start practicing are continuing using their summer protocols we're continuing the current health and safety protocols now these are for our high school sports next slide please our middle school we met with the east valley conference and i think the overriding theme with that is sports are important at our middle schools and they're important for the culture of the school and they're important for the development of our students and and our coaching staffs as well and so right now the goal for the east valley conference is to try to fit four different sports seasons into three starting in october what that means is we're going to shorten the length of the seasons and we instead of playing ten games we're probably looking at six and then doing a shorter tournament as well and so the goal in this is once again to continue to provide those opportunities we're going to follow the con consistent pattern of what's always been first quarter will be the first group out of the batch it's going to be a little tricky because breaks happen and so there might be a time when a team takes a couple weeks off because more winter break and then they might come back for two weeks or something so we're still working on that specific schedule within the evc but the goal is to provide the opportunity for all the students even in a shortened year starting in october mr lawson heiser i'm sure that gives a really difficult time for coaching just because if they overlap or they're going to try to keep them all separate we're going to try to keep them all separate so one was can we fit the other ones in and we felt like so many of our coaches do multiple sports that we really didn't think that we could overlap them so much so truly the first quarter is going to be the maybe the first six weeks of the second quarter would be where we play first quarter sports and kind of go from there and chunk it so that we still have those opportunities next slide please so once again an update on our health and safety data coming from our high schools and the participation uh when you know the students that have been on campus i do want to point out when it says the number of participants that did not attend a schedule day due to illness i i need to give kudos to our to our families because if there has been an incident where someone thinks that their primary just maybe thinks they contact the coach and they don't come or if they're not feeling good they don't come and so that's been great and so that's communication and with uh you know jillian fulton our nurse has done a great job of that open communication that when there is questions are concerned we are looking into it and making sure that we're following our protocols so it's not saying that we missed had six kids miss a day because they were sick it is just out of concern and caution for what we're looking at but i'm very happy with um the process that our coaches and sponsors are doing on our campuses at this time mr lutzenhauser real quick on that that doesn't mean six different kids either because you explained this data a while ago yes can you go through so that it could people understand the numbers really it's practice sessions so we missed six sessions so it could be one person who missed three well they'd count for three up there because we're taking it daily and we're looking at it daily so we don't individualize and say one student it's how many practice sessions have been missed and honestly that's not six kids i'm pretty sure that's only two kids but they just miss multiple days next slide please so when we start looking at i just kind of want to frame our conversation about what it looks like when our events truly start to happen now there's some issues that we're going to talk about one of them being transportation and this is something coming up when we talked about the rest of the schools in the eaves valley how we do it and we understand that we will be providing transportation but at the same times parents might be feel more comfortable allowing either their student to do their own transportation or them transporting themselves so we're working and we will provide for you a more very specific form that parents will sign and turn in that would allow their student to either drive themselves to the competition so therefore they're not on a bus with everyone all of the time or the parent will drive them and provide that transportation and you know a lot of times when we talk about teams and buses when we have a large number of kids we'll try to spread them out as many buses as possible but if a parent doesn't feel comfortable that's not going to limit them from going to the event participating in the event in conversations with the high school athletic directors we're also looking at our schedules and if there's a possibility for us to change where we're not driving to the west valley to compete and we're keeping it locally within the east valley that is a priority for us right now because we do understand those transportation concerns when we talk about cost-effectiveness of transportation please understand that traditionally our our transportation is paid for from our gate receipts from the people who come to our games and so you know we we manage that budget very specifically that that that's what pays for it so we know we might have a little bit of a challenge this year should we have to have reduced number of people at games and at the same times we want to add additional buses if necessary to transport our people and so that's something as a district we're looking at the feasibility and what other different funding sources we can look at to continue to provide those options for parents go ahead mr um well on here on the right slide hang on yeah i'm on transportation all right thanks so it says that the form must be completed prior to a student using private transportation yes uh could the coaches bring them with them i mean if a parent doesn't you know doesn't take the kid there or doesn't sign in and they just show up to the event to pick them up could they sign i mean is there any reason why they couldn't sign that form that evening uh no it just needs to be turned in like typically after a competition or something they get released directly to a parent after way or anything like that maybe i'm misunderstanding the question so hit me again i mean so if it says the form has to be completed if if uh if a parent's going to take pick up their kid so so to pick up the kid after the game that's kind of a different process coaches normally have a sign out sheet no this is more they're not going to even ride the bus with the team to the game and so all right all right but those so it's not limited to the other all right that's fine i'm sorry mr glover i thought you were asking if the coach could drive the child and i was like absolutely not no that's what i heard no it's a parent picking up a kid afterwards i just want to make sure that they could you know that that we don't make the kid ride the bus back i i just thought that was unusual so okay no okay yes misreading on my part okay go ahead go next slide please so there's something that i think is really important that when we talk about athletic fees and this question has come up from different sources especially considering last spring where some of our seasons were cut short and so i wanted to just talk to you about the athletic feeds first of all they are board approved and so you guys have approved the fees and the amounts already and we will not be asking you to change those amounts or do anything like that how we look at the fees and what it goes toward i kind of use the term it's front loaded all right we know that we're going to have a lot of expenses for a season that happens that's why we determine the amount that we need from the fee a lot of this is not based upon how many contests because we are already looking at coaching stipends or additional coaching styles that were added coming out of the fees we're looking at equipment that we needed to purchase coming out of the fees we're looking at a lot of things that will happen regardless of if the number of competitions is going to be limited and i think there's some confusion because i think sometimes people are used to maybe in the club world or doing something else hey if i'm going to a tournament then you know we're paying that fee or hey we have three games this week there must be that kind of cost associated we've actually got that all built in and ready to go and and so that kind of stuff comes out of different pots most of the time we're funding that but the athletic fees really are being structured to this equipment to the uniforms and these additional coaching positions and so i know that there were questions last year about the refundability of fees ours were tax credit we know that tax credit is non-refundable this year we've given them the option to say when you pay your fee you can say tax credit or not but we still want to stay up front to people that that really athletic fees are not refundable because athletic fees are part of what we're building in to pay for that season up front we know we're going to have that costs and i think it goes to the fact that there's a lot of different times when kids leave on their own accord because they might not want to finish a season or finish an activity in that and and at the same time we're still paying for the coaches to be there we're still paying that equipment that we bought them whether they were there or not and so i just wanted to open that up so that you guys understand when some of these questions or concerns come to us really that's where that money is going toward and it's not based upon a number of games situation and and people have questions coaching stipends before oh you know if the games get limited i i want you to understand and wholeheartedly for me i think our coaches when you look at hours spent versus the amount of money they get on a stipend that they when i was a head basketball coach i didn't make minimum wage for coaching i knew that as well okay and so i think when we have opportunities to continue to support our coaches and attract and retain quality coaches it's important to have that consistency of coaching stipends as well thank you for clarifying that and i think most of the um situations that came were just it wasn't communicated properly and it wasn't um a better word it just wasn't communicated correctly i think from the beginning and so there was a lot of miscommunication and a lot of misinformation it's important that um that that the parents have the option tax credit or not tax credit i love that that that's on our online even kev group page now so that's awesome and then um also knowing that just because you are in a spring sport doesn't mean that those fees just go to spring sport correct like that sometimes those have been we try to minimize the cost so we have to i don't know spread out the the monies because maybe volleyball needs this this year and soccer needs i mean it's not just all that money that from soccer goes to soccer is that correct uh on a small scale okay because we really do try to funnel that fee and that's why fees are not you know we try to be appropriate for that amount there are some times when we have to do that and it's a practice honestly where i want to be able to take those fees and put it toward that group you know and not have to spread it out as much as possible and i think i want parents also who are listening to understand that if there's a financial need and if this fee is is causing a hardship from your family please contact your school we have sources and ways that we can help and support you privately these are not public matters and so if there's a need please come talk to the athletic director talk to the principal come and talk to me we'll figure out a way that i do not want to limit someone for participating because of my financial need that is not what the goal in this is president keller and thank you for clarifying so there is a difference between our athletic fees and club fees yes so these this is the 150.
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right i'm right because i know it's changed i believe yes 150 that they pay for their sport correct not any additional fees they may pay to a booster club which in some cases within i believe cheer and within band where there are competitions that that money comes out of the booster club not the athletic fees so this is the direct football games basketball games soccer games things like that so there is a difference and so if a club does have other fees then they need to be asking their boosters also if it's in addition to that 150 what their process is yes that's absolutely correct because there are clubs and different things that do decide to do their own competitions that are not necessarily through the aia how we schedule them and yes those are additional things that families have to support in that way but that's not part of this set fee for athletics okay so hosting events is a big ongoing discussion that we're having and i made the slideshow presentation last week and i tried to outline different scenarios that we'd look at because i think there are a lot of different facets and factors to go into what hosting events first of all we're looking at the fall season in reality we're looking at two major ones we're looking at football games and we're looking at volleyball games okay our golf people can physically distance watching the golf tournaments okay and then we don't charge attendance for those our cross country matches our parks the same kind of things we're not managing crowds from that relationship our swim and dive right now swim and dive i don't have a lot of answers for because there are a lot of pools that aren't open yet and so we are still very much in the process and we haven't gotten guidance on specifically how there's a proposal out there that the team swims by themselves at the pool while the opposing team swims at their home pool and they time them individually and compare the times and that's how they determine what it is because there might not be enough pools or to be able to maintain space within it so lots of different proposals that are out there and it hasn't been solidified as soon as that happens i'll be able to share with you in the superintendent's report some of these next step things that are coming out of the aia and what they're looking at but when i looked at looked at hosting events i think there's some going to be some non-negotiables about what happens and the number one is the masks are going to be required there is the ordinance if you're going to come to one of our events we're asking that you have to wear a mask and you know when you look at it from this perspective if i'm a senior athlete and i've done so much work and i'm finally going to be allowed to play why would i want to have people put us in a position that there could be an outbreak or something like that and now i'd lose my own time again and i think that that's something where i know that the state north to us has already opened and you know utah is playing football right now and these are examples of how they're communicating with their community about masking out because they don't have the same rules we do there's no requirement yet at their games they're asking for all mass to be there and i think that that's very important we will be able to stream our volleyball and our football games so if you are not comfortable coming to the stadium or to the gym they will be streamed through the nfhs we have some we have a little glitch at williams field right now because we're under construction and so they're bringing in a new point-to-point contact to make sure we have the ability to do that we will be testing that next week and so right now we're practicing those things so that they're called pixel lock cameras so that those things work so we can stream all of our events we will be using a touchless online ticketing process it's called go fan in our meeting today we confirm that all of the east valley school districts will be using go fan so even if you're traveling to another event you'll be purchasing your tickets through go fan we do not anticipate having a ticket gate open we will need for you to have the tickets purchased and brought and you show it on your phone we swipe that you've gotten in then you can get in so in terms of even exchanging things money or anything like that with someone for the ticket gate it's going to be through your phones and through this app called go fan okay and and i think that that's going to be an important thing for us and i know miss you know bermuda always talks about how are we telling people this right how are we getting that and so we as high school athletic directors myself are working on what the plan is to communicate so that our families know ahead of time and they don't show up on that first night and go well i've got a 20 how do i get in you know it's this is the process this is how we're going to do it this is what we want to do looking through this idea of our online ticketing through go fan the concession stand once again it goes to selling prepackaged foods so that tray of nachos might not be available like it has been in the past and different things but just from a health safety conscious effort looking at that with concession stands i put the caveat on there once again the governor and the aia there could be changes that could be coming up that we don't anticipate and we will communicate that directly when we do i looked at three different scenarios our first scenario was if we're still in remote learning then basically we're going to follow and track what we're doing within our schools about the plan would be what we're doing with our fans so if we were in remote learning we do not have kids back on campus then we wouldn't have fans and so that was our first scenario the second scenario is if there was a limited return to campus or partially that we would look at doing a limited number of participants coming in fans at our events and um there's a way through go fan that you can actually assign specific links to students id numbers and send it to them so if i want to say any participant and the reason why i use the word participant is because we know at a football game it's very important for the marching band to be there and it's very important for the spirit line to be there whether we have fans there or not so they would get that option and their parents would have the link so they could come and watch that and so that would be a way that we could limit the number of people that are there we're looking into additional seating at volleyball games when you go to a volleyball game traditionally only one side is pulled out pulling out both sides of the stands allowing people the opportunity to social distance once again we are requiring masks if they cannot social distance and then if we were in the limited scenario there are family passes available we would not be doing the family passes we feel like we would still need to be very restrictive about how we sell tickets and and how we're managing that scenario three is if we are fully open and in-person learning and please remember when we look at timelines i know we just had a vote and we're looking at the eighth provided all of the metrics are going in the right direction our first game if we look at volleyball would be on tuesday the 22nd our first first football game would be on for the freshman level september 30th with the first varsity football game occurring on october 2nd and so that's even a little bit more time than it is for us to do that return and so when we look at this this idea of fan attendance right now and and you know this is where i would love to have feedback and i'm we're not asking you for vote or anything but feedback from you to not limiting that fan attendance more than the capacity of what our stadiums are we are looking at football field bringing in additional portable stands whether it's purchasing them for ourselves or renting them from others because i do want to have the ability for people to spread out as much as possible truth be told i have not been to one of our football games and so what i hear is that they're very very popular events and then we have lots of people there especially the williams field higgley game and so i know that there's going to be a lot of want and need for people to do that and that's part of our community that's part of what we're doing together and so if there's ways that we can put up and and have to get additional funding so that we put up additional stands or portable stance what we can do is the things that we're exploring right now to be able to do remember we're still going to live stream and so if that's a concern we're still going to have that but then we would look at family passes continuing to limit them to four members per pass looking at the passes just so that once again we still do have some control measures put in so we do know the number of tickets or the number of people that we're expecting and so i think this these are ongoing conversations we're having with our neighbors because it also affects what happens when we travel to someone else and so right now all of us are putting together visiting team protocols so that we can clearly communicate with each other truth be told the districts are different levels some people are fully open ready to go it's kind of like school some people say right now no fans and so those are communications that we have to do from an athletic director standpoint from a district standpoint so that we're communicating with that together thank you mr lotzenheiser and i'm glad it's you and aia and our athletic directors making all these scenarios and decisions and things like that we really appreciate everything you're bringing to us and i know again it's fluid ever-changing mr witovich in reference to the universities why does the aia different than what's happening with the universities are they looking at different numbers or something i mean why i i mean i hate to say the benchmarks okay but but what what are they looking at that the aia is or what i'm just a little confused here i'll be honest with you uh president kennedy board member tovic i don't know the specific answer on that one i you know i i probably read the same articles that you read about why the pac-12 made their decisions and things like that and you know i can only think of scope of thing bringing a hundred thousand people and uh or 75 000 people into sun devil stadium might be a little bit different than bringing you know 5 000 people into our stadium however i i don't know i know within the aia there's they surveyed and said where are you guys at as communities who want to come back and we know that that sports is a very passionate passionate area and a lot of people say like get us back now i know i know a few parents have senior football players who like this is this is it and so making some of those decisions and and i i think those parts of it go and go into what's happening here but i can't i can't tell you it'll be it'll be very interesting to see what the sports medicine advisory comes out and then truly what the executive board for the aia if they make decisions because honestly they could tell us based upon this we're going to push football back for three weeks well we're a member of the aia and we will do what they tell us to do in the conversations there are a few districts who have postponed their fall seasons they might be looking at doing stuff within the spring but it's very much on this similar to open schools the local level and we get told that quite a bit thank you appreciate that any other okay we're going to move on to our favorite part of the year i look at mr glover [Laughter] [Music] 7.4 we are on so we are going to discuss and may consider action to approve the arizona school board's association aspa draft 2021 political agenda and direct the district's delegate to the asba delegate assembly to represent the board's determined position thank you curtis anyone anyone bueller thank you dr thomas this is the typical silence this is the silence and i i hope you've all read through this i think we have uh talked about it in the past as well i think we're all in agreement and support asba and what they do for all of our students across arizona president canada yes dr thomason a general reminder that it is virtual this year yes we don't even have to go in person and that's clear in october now they moved it usually it's the saturday after the law conference and they moved it all the way to october okay do i have a second well well and may consider action to approve so i i move that we approve back to 7.4 please thank you i moved that we approved the arizona school board's association draft asba draft 2021 political agenda and direct the district's delegate to the asba delta assembly to represent the board's determined position i will second all those in favor aye i am really thrilled tonight and now oh i see we're going to name the delegate mr glover not this year huh you're bowing out yeah i've come on yeah with the bang i won't be here next year anyway so somebody else can uh all right why not can i nominate it's not a nomination this is a volunteer or voluntold position okay this is not i like to nominate mrs wilson because i didn't want to see him second this is an honor this is an honor to be our delegate i think we're gonna get thrown under the bus here guys i feel like the bus is running me over a couple times with both of you mrs wilson and i are already going to the law conference i will be at the law virtual so we are doing it will be very fun because it always is very fun i think some other people are going as well dr foley i think maybe in attendance mrs martins maybe sometimes so yes i will be at the law conference so then you'll be all locked up to uh make decisions on our on our agenda here wait what is it the second it's october 17th oh i was like it's after it's after i was gonna complain that i was on fall break but i can't even use that all right i'll go i'll do it i'll do it i make a motion that i amy kaler it sounds can you make the motion please mr witovich you make the motion second amy kaler going we are being very informal right now i will make the formal motion okay because darlene keeps excellent minutes and we're probably confusing her at the moment mrs kaler yes please mrs christina rhys i move that president amy taylor attends on behalf of the higley unified school district the arizona school board association delegate assembly second all those in favor well hang on a week i will be your reserve backup in case anything happens how's that mr glover [Music] oh i appreciate that okay all those in favor aye aye motion carries i'm going to the delegate assembly i know you're all jealous all right we're moving on we have some housekeeping 7.6 i move that the governing board approves 162 220 and 30 cents for carpet and flooring replacement at higley traditional academy and gateway point elementary questions or comments all those in favor aye aye motion carries 5-0 educational services i move that the governing board approves a not to exceed amount of one million two hundred and sixty two thousand seven hundred forty dollars and forty one cents to maintain the district-wide substitute teachers second questions concerns all those in favor aye aye aye those opposed motion carries 4-1 you didn't want to have another conversation about that okay just making sure 7.8 i move that the governing board approves payment of 195 454.64 to public consulting group for the fy18 overpayment second questions comments all those in favor aye aye motion carries five zero i move that the governing board approves one million five hundred and ninety one thousand four hundred eighty three dollars and eighty five cents for the purchase of student devices device warranties and software scripts subscriptions to support the one-to-one initiative second questions or comments these are these were already on order and we're just approving this tonight so the i know there was a comment earlier that do we have an arrival date or did they arrive they're here thank you that's what i thought all those in favor aye aye aye motion carries five zero i move that the governing board approves an additional 84 486 dollars and 40 cents for the purchase of canvas and studio cloud licenses for distant learning questions comments all those in favor aye aye motion carries 5-0 special education day schools that the government i move that the governing board approves the not to exceed amount of two million five hundred thousand dollars for special education day schools all those in favor aye aye motion carries five zero and we're going to have a weatherization project i move that the governing board approves the final payment of three hundred thousand forty seven dollars and six cents to sun valley builders for the coronado elementary weatherization project it looks great all those in favor aye aye motion carries five zero okay future agenda items we still have a lot coming up i know that we've had to push some things back because of opening up of school items is there anything anybody else would like to add to this list i just mentioned last board meeting i'd like to see us set up some type of program or even have discussion on be kindness i think after all our community has gone through we need to all come back together so some type of kindness program would be a wonderful idea for us i'm hearing from a lot of our pto's already that whatever date that was going to be chosen for our back to school there was going to be quite a festive reentry we do want to honor everybody coming back and let them know how grateful we are but i agree with you we need to come out of this kinder and more united as we did in other times in our lives um that we had tragedy occur we did come out stronger and more united and i wish that for higley and i and i do hope that we can um do that mr rotovic as well i do like all the signs that are in front of the campuses i don't i remember there was a name that sponsored it i can't tell you who did it but doc okay dr foley knows who um and i was just very thankful that they put these nice signs up just to remind us to be extra kind as we're walking into those front offices so thank you to that company president caleb board members one of the things we're going to be kind of doing this is a moving forward together higley moving forward together so we would love to provide uh updates for you along this theme that that looks at building our community together as we navigate this together moving forward love it great thing president caleb yes dr johnson those were donated by um by horse man of course former board member mr little in his mr russ little yes thank you mr little okay i know that there is um i just want to shout out to mr tom blodgett he um tweets our our um meetings he stays up late for all these crazy board meetings town council meetings and um he's always listening to us so um here's your little shout out mr blotchett thank you and with that i move that we adjourn second all those in favor all right president members of the board i i did hear back from the incredible uh principal mr jeff armstrong on the funds that were donated to coronado elementary school yes and so those donations were donated specifically for gifted in special education online instructional programs and additional backpack sprayers in progress related to covet 19.
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to order um i'm going to read a statement first of all welcome to the august 27th 2020 electronic meeting of the environmental commission this meeting is in accordance with executive orders from the governor to affect social distancing and mitigate the spread of the covet 19 virus we intend to conduct this meeting similarly to an in-person meeting however please be patient if there are technical issues public comment will be very telephone only to speak during any of the public comment opportunities please call 1-888-788-0099 again that's 1-888-788-0099 and enter meeting id number 924-5796-9823 that's meeting id number nine two four five seven nine six nine eight two three this information is also available on the published agenda in the public notices section of the city website and on the broadcast of this meeting on ctn channel 16 at t channel 99 and online at org www.a2gov.org watch ctn okay so um would you like to do the roll call yes sir okay uh just one second [Music] okay uh commissioner graham uh commissioner skinner commissioner needham here commissioner uh smith for council member smith president council uh commissioner slavic commissioner apple appeal commissioner gibb randall your commission uh council member banister here commissioner callie work here [Music] uh chair chairman uh brown commissioner brown commissioner overpay he's needed oh he's here okay uh commissioner commissioner mitchell commissioner singleton i'm sorry commissioner of puna dia here oh great okay that's roll call right um so we have a quorum yes we do all right thank you galen so the next item on the agenda is the approval of the agenda um i have two things um that i'd like to suggest um i move that we first of all the approval of the minutes is entered twice in the agenda i propose that we uh accept uh the approval of the minutes after the public commentary now this is uh within our in our bylaws this is what the um what the agenda order is um stipulated so um i moved to strike the first instance of the approval of the minutes from the agenda and i would also like to add one item that we were going to approve we were going to elect a vice chair at this meeting and so i would like to insert that after the approval of the minutes of the previous meeting that would be the first public commentary approval of the minutes and then add the vice chair um election um is there a um a motion a second second i'd like to also add um agenda items for the next meeting that was not so if we could consider all three of those yes john please go ahead so i second i second all three okay so uh what was your what was your um agenda item it was just i'm on the agenda there was nothing on there for agenda items for the next meeting oh that's on the printed agenda now oh it is okay it was not on the original one sent out okay great yeah it's right there okay all right so um so it's been seconded all uh approve all who approve of the amended agenda say i raise your hands hi hi any any vote anybody says no okay uh it was approved unanimously so um the next item on the agenda is the special presentation so uh first time first up here is missy staltz is going to present on goals and metrics and the sustainability dashboard matrix it was established you know how that's evolved so you have the floor missy amazing well it's good to see you all i'm gonna share my screen here i hope you're all enjoying a cool night uh it's pretty pretty stinky and gorgeous so uh commissioner brown asked me to talk about the sustainability framework and to give context i was an ann arborite when we did the sustainability framework so i don't have the legacy of being a staffer that was working day in and day out on it i have more the courtesy of being one of the people on the outside that was pushing for it so bear with me if you have a lot of questions about history some of you have more detail about the the nitty-gritty kind of process than i have that said the sustainability framework um is a framework that the city undertook and it was part of a movement that was happening around the nation at the time led largely by the star communities program where we were trying to think holistically about sustainability so there were 16 overarching sustainability topics that came out of the framework they were grouped into four thematic areas and they're shown on the bottom of the screen and those were climate and energy community land use and access and resource management and sustainability was intended to be sustainability in its purest sense a big broad umbrella of sustainability so this was done and created by getting lots of input reading lots of city plans i believe 30 or so city plans were analyzed to understand their priorities and objectives and there was some input into the process and eventually this was adopted and it actually became a policy guide for the master plan so the framework itself this is what it looks like right so you've got those plans that provided input and then it fell out into these various categories you can see here and i realize this is hard to see i'm assuming most of you are fairly familiar with the sustainability framework i'm going to highlight a few things in there the sustainability framework also provided input into the climate action plan but not everything and that probably makes sense because the climate and energy goals were the ones that were the most important and and pertinent to the 2012 climate action plan that the city produced and so here uh the subcategory so that that overarching was about climate energy and then the subcategories or thematic areas were around energy both sustainable production of it and conservation and then sustainable buildings so this kind of lived in the plan itself and was slowly moving forward the sustainability framework also helped inform things like the city's capital improvements plan and was often cited in resolutions that were brought forward by staff but i'm going to kind of say it sort of stopped there so i heard all of these great things about how the sustainability framework had been integrated into the cip and then i joined the city and saw what that looked like and it was really valuable at high level but lacked a lot of the detailed substance so here's what the sustainability framework also had with it it had these goal areas we talked about those 16 goal areas the four broad thematic areas and then it had these indicators that we were supposedly tracking to demonstrate progress well here are a few things so this was always meant uh to be overarching an overton guide for the city in terms of the policies and programs that we move forward a dashboard was created but i think you all know it was rarely maintained and rarely feels fairly generous most of these things were not tracked and i will argue i don't think these are even the right indicators in most situations so we have this really great process that came up with really good thematic areas really good goals and sometimes good indicators and sometimes not it led to a framework that really honestly has been disproportionately used some units use it some units use it to kind of elevate their work to say look we're in alignment with the framework some uh i'll be honest i have no idea when they talk about their alignment with the framework like i can't see it but it's used kind of in discourse disproportionately and it's not institutionalized candidly in the city so i have talked about this with many of you um it was something that i was concerned with too when i came to the city and then of course we made commitments around carbon neutrality and that sort of took a lot of it took all of our attention i'm not going to pretend that it didn't take all of our intention in that rapid time frame we had to move forward with carbon neutrality so i've been thinking and talking to the city administrator about what a revised approach could look like and where we are today so bear with me here this is also impossible to see but what it is is the city is doing priority based budgeting right now it's our first pilot into that process and we created this matrix now this matrix might look pretty familiar to you if you are able to read anything on the screen because we developed it based on four inputs we had done a resident survey to understand resident priorities the sustainability framework was one of the major inputs into this we had an organizational strategic plan and then we had our consultants who do priority based budgeting also give us some input when you look across this framework what's powerful about it is everything in the sustainability framework is here so i worked um with tom crawford when he was the cfo of the city and we led the process to integrate these things what i like about this approach now is we're actually making budget decisions based on this so eventually again we're in a pilot right now staff um actually gail and i were were some of the staff that went through and actually ranked it's pretty amazingly tedious everyone's budget in one of these areas so we delegated staff to a certain area there were criteria and then we had to go through and say how does this align with our goals around environmental stewardship and the individual units ranked themselves we ranked um and we compared and contrasted and we're that's where we are in the process we are all learning how that's gonna more fully inform the city budget but again i like that it's going to lead to some informing of the city budget which feels far more institutional than the framework that never really had that time this also is informing a new city strategic plan that we hope to launch when we determine who our new city administrator is uh that feels like the right time to really have this kind of collective community conversation about where we're headed we are working on dashboards we are a long way off and i think we need to own that and we need to name this this is not going to be done this year this probably won't even be done next year because we're talking about every unit of the city and automating as much of this data as possible so we have work to do but when it is informing our budget and informing our strategic plan then it's institutionalized and connected so it's a lot easier to be evaluating performance based on these metrics and so it becomes another thing that is kind of par for the course of how we operate as a government and it's integrated into work plans because we have to track on it right when it's part of the budget you have to track on your budget performance and the outcomes from your budget and so again this just kind of rounds out the conversation so let me just end by talking a little bit about 820 especially from the office's side when you look at this this is the sustainability framework we've got a20 i don't know if you noticed i think four things went away a20 touches on almost every single thing in the sustainability framework not all of them directly but almost all of them indirectly these are the areas where a20 is very clearly grounded and in alignment with the sustainability framework so even though we might be kind of uh evolving the framework itself it still lives and it lives because this is the plan that guides everything that our office is going to continue to do and what the city is doing because a20 is also in that uh that priority-based budgeting matrix so our guiding metric is going to continue to be greenhouse gas emissions that has to be our guiding metric with the audacious and beautiful goal that we have around carbon neutrality but that doesn't mean that we're not going to have other metrics so right now we are this is drafty i'll be honest we're working with lots of departments to figure out the various metrics that we're going to track and we are working with i.t to automate these metrics looking at things of course you're going to get a greenhouse gas inventory update at one of your future meetings it's hot off the press i know the numbers but i'm not going to share them just yet it looks it looks great but we have a lot of work to do so we're going to continue to use that but we also want to be able to identify how are we doing with local renewable generation what are our land use and transportation metrics look like in terms of ridership walkability modal shifts what does it look like in terms of the average commute in and out of the city what are our material use and diversion rates are we really making progress towards a circular economy and how do we know what really are the deep meaningful impacts and metrics that demonstrate the progress we want to have of course there'll be things like counts uh that we do we talked about this today counts do not make me feel warm and fuzzy but they are a metric so how many uh neighborhood ambassadors do we train how many emergency kits do we give out of course how many resilience hubs but once we get these hubs up and operational we can start talking about more meaningful metrics how many people are using them and how what's their experience like in that facility so that is a whirlwind take takeaway to say as we're well honestly in this moment we are evolving the sustainability framework we do not have the time um or the staff capacity to track all of those metrics and i i honestly can't i can't do that and make the deep meaningful progress we need to make on a20 and i also don't think they're the right metrics out the gate to be tracking so we'd have to go back and do an entire new process to figure out what they should be that was fun uh questions john thank you for using your hand icon sure uh thanks for putting this together missy i think this is something many of us have been asking about for a couple of years now so appreciate the time to dig into it and your honest assessment of where things are at and where you hope things might go with kind of the new plan that that you laid out i see how that aligns quite strongly with the goals and objectives we've set up for ann arbor but i'm wondering what your thoughts are on how we might be able to use that to benchmark against other communities that was one of the advantages of the previous plan and the link to the stars communities and i'm just wondering what you what your thoughts are about that with kind of a new approach going forward thanks yeah that's an excellent question and it at this point it depends on metric by metric so we certainly benchmark in terms of per capita greenhouse gas emissions performance on renewable energy generation or waste diversion so we're able to do it metric by metric but we don't have um we don't have that overarching framework and honestly i'm not sure that we would based on where we are right now we're looking if we go to the priority-based budgeting framework we wouldn't do lead for cities yet that's not saying we won't it's just saying in this moment where we are sprinting at beautifully audacious goals i don't feel the pressure or the necessity of pausing that work to do this benchmarking in this other space thanks okay any other questions well i i have one missy i'm i would just like to have a launch i don't expect an answer today that i would i would expect to get i have a discussion soon within the next three months about what you see the role of the commissions to to be in helping um generate these metrics and um helping to track them as well i know part of the original intent of the sustainability dashboard was not just to track progress that the city has you know uh to see if it's improving based on its budget expenditures but also how we are comparing to other communities as well so i don't know if that's so the only answer i wanted today was what do you think what's your first take on what that uh you know on is that still a goal or useful yeah it is it is useful it's very useful uh to understand how we're performing compared to our peers generally speaking though no one is doing a fabulous job right like we're all sort of figuring it out so it's useful but it's it's not the penultimate metric right like all of us performing poorly doesn't make me feel good so i think we're trying to figure out how we can benchmark and learn from peers and understand our performance and also push the entire field right so that we're all we're all moving together because that's what's necessary in most of these metrics and steve to your first point i actually will offer right now we are just about to form an internal work group to really unpack those metrics around a20 and more depth h20 has metrics right like it says what we want to do what we're trying like we've extracted all of those and now we're figuring out the automation right like how are we going to get this data because we don't want to have to have it be a manual enterprise every three or four months how do we automate it so if anyone from the commission is interested in joining us we would welcome that support i would say if you want to let galen know please please join us in that journey okay that's good all right i think i'll i think i'll volunteer for diversion yeah right now but um all right well thanks missy if there's no other questions for missy um it looks like bob's got one yeah oh sorry you covered a lot of ground really quickly and i i honestly got a bit lost um so when you were talking about um you know taking until the end of next year maybe um at that point do you envision that we would have a new dashboard to replace what's currently there with you know metrics that we can actually live with that we think are smart um for all the goals and including including the ones that don't directly relate to eight to zero or is that or is that what you were saying is too much to take no no you're asking a really good question and thank you for that additional clarification commissioner needham um actually what we're doing is rolling out metrics as we can get them so we won't have a full package of metrics for example uh the the police department is working on updating their metrics right now and reporting those more transparently we have work to do on those metrics but that's there's already a dashboard that's up for those metrics around safety and so we want to keep rolling them out we just won't necessarily have the comprehensive suite of those metrics for a bit longer so it's it's actually in the middle right like we're gonna we're taking full accountability for all the climate and energy metrics you'll have those soon the others may take a little bit more time yeah uh commissioner mitchell did you wanna you okay hello um hi missy um so i'm kind of into the nitty-gritty of questions and just to understand the um the slide on the carbon emissions could you just explain the actual emissions versus weatherized sure sure so we have both when we do our inventory we look at absolute emissions and then we weatherize those emissions excuse me so we can do a comparison you know for example this is going to be a warm summer and so we would expect that air conditioning rates are going to be slightly warmer for people and we're home more so we would normalize that but it doesn't matter because we need the absolute number as well so we run both of those different scenarios um yeah and you should i mean that's a really good question thea is going to come present to you guys at a future meeting and give you the inventory results and you can i'll prep her to give you both the weatherized uh information and the raw okay so it's more like a standardization yes that's right and that's just so we can compare like did we peak like is this your anomalous in some way or not and so that way we can say actually no it was just incredibly hot so yes we consumed a lot of energy but that is also because of this variable versus oh no like something broke somewhere in the system like we have a we have a leak in the system and we need to plug that leak totally different solutions to those problems thank you yeah okay any other questions i have to speak up i'm sorry this is the last time i'm going to talk about metrics and i mean it i'm not gonna talk about it again um i'm speaking as a resident um it is impossible as a resident to go to the city website or to go anywhere and to find out how the city is performing and i'm addressing this primarily to chip into ann as in effect board members representing the city residents and holding the city accountable for how the city performs and whether it achieves its committed goals and whether it provides positive outcomes for the residents of ann arbor and it is impossible to go to the city website and figure out how the city performs there are individual data points there are safety metrics for one year you cannot find trends in terms of safety metrics policing metrics fire metrics um there's it's it's really just a joke and i'm i just cannot believe we as residents and the city council as a board accepts the city's reporting we spent hours several i don't know if anybody here in this group spent hours in a metric subcommittee making recommendations in terms of how the dashboard could be improved in terms of metrics related to environment and energy those have not been adopted those have not been measured this is really i've had it i'm not going to talk about it again but the rest of you if you accept this from this city it is really pathetic um yeah i share your concerns john and i really appreciate you uh with being the one of the key leaders calling for this um in the previous years and i tried to amplify that voice and and and talk about it every chance i get and i'm frankly similarly mystified um that it hasn't come forward so um i have two months left on council i'm wrapping up loose ends and john or others could you give me a specific where to start to try to wrap wrap something up on this in my last two months because i'm not clear you it's thank you john for mentioning the work that the com you committee did or a report or something but if i had something point me in the direction and i will bring a resolution or do what i'm i'm just not sure i'm i'm frustrated like you it starts with leadership it starts with council it starts with the city administrator it starts with department heads in terms of holding themselves accountable and being transparent in terms of their performance and delivering outcomes to the residents of ann arbor period it does not come from the bottom up it does not come from anywhere else it you know the city needs to know is it meeting it goals if not why not how does it how does it perform compared to benchmark cities i put together a list of benchmark cities provided to the previous city administrator where we could then benchmark a performance against the average of those performance seeing the range nothing was done on that really it's it's just appalling i mean there's no business in the world that could survive the way the city performs there's it's just it it's yeah i've had i'm not bringing up the subject one more time in any organization it's the rest of you that have to drive this if you want the city to be a great place to live then you need to demand this there's no yeah i've had it all right um in the interest of time um brian stiglitz has to uh has to leave by the uh by 7 40.
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get in there testing testing one two three just doing a test here we're about to begin streaming the columbus north columbus east soccer matchup tonight thank you for tuning in ladies and gentlemen the jv match is just finishing up here and we're testing this stream thank you all for tuning in tonight we are again going to be joined by director from columbus express soccer tai smith he's going to be announcing tonight and i appreciate you guys tuning in to the stream tonight tonight is being brought to you by bcse sports we're glad to get the opportunity to live stream the northeast matches when it comes to the boys and girls soccer as well as volleyball and then friday night the football game so we're going to go ahead and take a break ty will be back here in a little bit thanks for tuning in tonight good evening and welcome to richard y soccer complex and david greenfield for tonight's boys version of the crosstown clasico between the two one in one number 18 ranked columbus east olympians and the one one in one columbus north bulldogs uh good evening this is ty smith director of coaching at columbus express soccer club i will be the play-by-play commentator tonight for tonight's match between the columbus east olympians and the columbus north bulldogs both teams are in basically rebuilding phases um east is trying to replicate another year after a 17 1 and 3 2019 that saw them end in the semi-state against eventual state championship winning zionsville and columbus north is in a rebuilding phase right now that is looking to improve on last year's 2019 campaign we have about three minutes until kickoff player introductions and the national anthem stay tuned we're going to take a quick moment to thank our sponsors [Music] thank you for tuning in to the crosstown clasico between the columbus east olympians and the columbus north bulldogs tonight's matchup features a top 20 team in the columbus east olympians versus a rebuilding group of columbus north bulldogs the matchup also features two coaches making their uh coaching debuts again um just time with different after a couple couple years off as head coaches josh guncher and andy glover will be taking the reigns of the east and north programs respectively guncher takes over for brad barber who has since retired after a 17-1 and three campaign in 2019 gunsher previously coached at hauser and has been the top was barber's top man for years helping shape the teams at east glover a 2012 and state championship with a 2011 runner up returns as north coach after a two-year hiatus stay tuned for the starting lineups good evening this is ty smith director of coaching at columbus express soccer club i will be doing the play-by-play for tonight for the crosstown clasico between the columbus east olympians and the columbus north bulldogs let's take a look to see what has led us to this spot with both teams four east they boast a 2-1-1 record with wins over floyd central and bloomington north a loss to number 9 center grove and a tie to number 14 indianapolis pike east is ranked 18th in indiana based on the indiana soccer coaches association poll north they are 1-1-1 with a 3-1 win over southport a one-goal loss to number 17 avon and a tie with bloomington north both teams are going to be looking to improve upon seasons last year for east that's going to be quite difficult to do after a 17-1-3 season one of the best seasons if not the best season in school history that saw them fall in the semi-state to eventual state champ zionsville east is going to have to look to reply on veteran leaders corbin hatcher branson young and ben romig in the back to provide a solid base defensively for north they are looking to rebuild and implement coach andy glover's style of play tonight they are going to need to create opportunities from the middle third to the final third to be in this game as we start east is in the white with the orange numbers and north will be in blue with white numbers white back to mendes intercepted by hatcher hatcher quisenberry intercepted by jorge avila avila inside of johnson out to mendes mendes finds white inside of johnson looks through williams that's going to go out for a goal kick for the starters for east looks like they are going to be playing in a 4-4-2 diamond sophomore pete corden takes over the reigns from a veteran goalkeeper a year ago he will have a front line of weston romine a junior corbin hatcher ben romig and adam ware in front of him protecting the back four will be branson young a junior with ben silva kevin sanchez alberto sanchez playing as three advanced midfielders logan klein and chris quisenberry will be looking to provide offensive attack for the olympians quiz and berry was a third team all-state selection last year and klein a all-conference forward a year ago for the bulldogs they're going to be playing in a 4-3-3 colvin iorio an all-conference player a year ago he will be the man behind the back four alex cordova and matteo mendes will hold down the outside back positions with eduardo cordova and jorge avila playing centrally a young trio of midfielders sophomore anthony johnson and freshman aiden whitley and ian jackson provide a promising middle three for the bulldogs and front runners christian cardoso another freshman jesse white jesse williams and nathan white will round up the lineup adam ware makes his way down the right side and provides a service into the box that will be cleared out by avila ben romig moves forward he's going to be looking to implement his long throw on this east will use this all night long for any final third throws and treat them as set pieces they're dangerous a year ago and they are a great weapon to have if you have somebody that can throw along jackson step over looks back connects inside nice and tidy to mendez mendez to white white back to mendes confronted by klein from behind up regained by roman romain inside to young young finds kevin sanchez sanchez in the half space cuts back inside looks like johnson clipped him that's going to be a free kick for east a little chippy as expected for any rivalry game it'll be a key match-up how do the youngsters of north handle the veteran midfielders from east east veterans play right up their spine they're going to be looking to frustrate those three youngsters in the middle four north corbin hatcher on the ball hatcher an all-conference performer a year ago looks to find ben silva in behind intercepted by aidan whitley whitley resets ball finds white back out to where adam ware right back touches by eduardo cordova looks like he's going to draw a free kick where is a senior relatively new to the game quite impressive athletically started playing in the spring of 2018 was a former football athlete decided to give soccer a try and has developed into quite a promising prospect that it's looking to potentially play at the collegiate level chris quisenberry on the ball for east ball driven in the box ben romick's free on the back side miss hits the ball will go out for a north goal kick colvin eye oreo co-mvp for columbus north a season ago puts us back into play off of romine looks like a north row entering the final third whitley down the line to white and corydon will regain possession for the olympians kevin sanchez does well to bring that down play out of it very nicely done roman clears long both teams settling into it couple good patterns but not able to really create any opportunities yet as the game draws on expect more opportunities to come as both teams get a little bit more stretched out cordova down the line that is eaten up by where alex cordova jr he's recorded one assist on the season he has brothers with the other center back eduardo cordova um quite cardoso into the box looks combined with white intercepted by romine the cordova brothers both provide a high level of athleticism and toughness to the backline of the bulldog both welcome additions to andy glover's group ian jackson looks like he's going to be taking this kick for the bulldogs jackson only a freshman um plays on a very highly competitive 06 columbus express team that competes in the great lakes conference at the highest division oh header by white picked up by corydon well done both ways cordova inside to johnson johnson back out east will regroup adam ware textbook throw in down the line looking for kevin sanchez johnson clears picked up by quisenberry back to young young looking for space going to be intercepted by mendez a little bit of pinball advantages for sanchez well done by iorio a lesser keeper may not have gotten to that ball but colvin iorio shows why he was an all-conference performer a year ago ayorio launches into the north attacking half romine over white jackson flicks young intercepts well won by eduardo cordova a little battle between alex cordova and kevin sanchez alberto sanchez to restart play psych adam where to restart into alberto sanchez alberto down the line and earns east another deep throw looks like the referee wants to have a chat with one of the linesmen while we while the refs converse both coaching staffs are mainly mo made up of former east and north players for josh gunter's east olympian gunter a former east athlete he's assisted by buster kopis nathan klein caleb glass israel arena and the outcast israel javier lara well done by iorio for andy glover's staff chris morlock sam lavelle derek stewart all earned letters as bulldog athletes with david greene the namesake of the field starting the north program back in the early 80s and brian morales a seymour graduate making up whitley in the half space looks to have a crack deflection looks like that's going to be a north corner always dangerous when opportunities are taken in that 18 to 25 yard range right in front of goal as you'll see just a little glance could be a game-changing decision jackson drives the ball in well done by corydon comes out of the traffic with that gordon only a sophomore relatively new to the game as well has been playing for the last few years has stepped in nicely to his role this year got his first career shutout earlier this week against bloomington north where evades whitley but runs into cordova is going to earn another east throw back and forth play by both groups right now set pieces becoming more and more prevalent for the outcome of this well done by sanchez sanchez looks to connect down the line out of bounds whitley turns out gonna look long for white that's well played by corbin hatcher hatcher can't connect with where hatcher probably one of the top center backs in southern indiana if not all of indiana has had a very good career at east as a three-year starter christian cardoso another promising freshman for north weaves through looks like that ball just got across the line that's going to give north another corner east deep throws versus north's corners jackson again on the ball for north cardoso in front of corydon seeing if he can disrupt the goalkeeper ball in oh sneaks by everyone that's going to stay with east for east they are led in goals by chris quisenberry this season with four nathan or logan klein son of nathan klein he is the leading uh playmaker with two assists on the seasons corydon has recorded 15 saves on the year with one shutout for north jesse williams is the top goal scorer and assist man for the bulldogs look for him to try to play with a little bit of flare into the attacking third also aiden whitley has recorded a goal and an assist on the year for them kolvani oreos yet to get his first shutout but has recorded 28 saves on the season hatcher from the midline real mind in an advanced position looks like hatcher is going to pump it long driven intercepted by whitley willie finds cardoso cardoso turns faces it's like he's going to try to play jackson good back pressing by quisenberry klein lays out alberto sanchez alberto a little toe poke gonna be picked off by mendez whitley to white white back to mendez mendez looks to find johnson's gonna be picked off by sanchez dangerous ball well done by sanchez quisenberry regains possession looks outside confronted by cordova quizenberry tiptoes by ball dangerous ball in the box intercepted by north poked out of danger by jackson north is going to have to do a really good job to con to control klein and quisenberry up front clintonberry is very nimble and klein is a great finisher if he gets in front of the net hatcher inside the young young out to where ware's got space ball is a little bit too slow where plays long no troubles for i oreo well won by young nathan white flicks inside of jackson jackson's attempt nathan white has moved from the back line a year ago where he's an all-conference performer for north to the front line where he's transitioning into a new position and he's taken quite well to it why a big big sturdy presence great ball from jackson it looks like the linesman is going to wave it off side but great look in behind to christian cardoso white has an absolute cannon the backs of east are going to have to be very cautious of how they defend him anywhere inside 30 yards because if he is able to put something on frame it is likely finding the back of the net cordon resets four east he's gonna play long off the face of jackson jackson young jorge avila coaches at north are really high on avila avila was a kid that has really blossomed into a solid and sturdy player over the last few years a couple subs for the olympians number five a sophomore cam trueblood he's going to step in and play as a holding player for branson young and looks like alejandra saldivar is back out of out of retirement from taking a year off the senior look for him to have a little bit of creativity in the final third saudivara replaces kevin sanchez looks like looks like east will rotate quiz and barry into the midfield and let salvar play up front ball bounces out ben silva has a crack at it it's gonna go out to where where combines with klein klein dispossessed well done by cardoso finds a hi jesse williams well done good back pressing by kevin sanchez true blood plays long it's gonna be picked up by iorio at this point probably the starters nerves are gone a couple of the subs probably a little bit nervous want to get into the flow of the game rivalry game everything's a little bit tighter than it needs to be probably but we're starting to see more patterns we're starting to see a little bit more flow to the game mendes back to johnson johnson looks inside where intercepts back to johnson into jackson jackson confronted by romine whitley header looking to play the back line not going to beat where sanchez intercepts clears for east there you see a little bit of the athleticism by adam ware went in the header there for a clearance sanchez clears long avila's gonna connect inside to jackson jackson plays back to johnson johnson to whitley alice helen chadovar dispossesses him and earns a free kick for east we're at 21 minutes and 34 seconds remaining in the first half a 0-0 score between the olympians and the bulldogs pretty evenly matched two teams that should be expected to compete for a sectional championship this year white looking behind looks like east has changed a little bit romine is now playing as a holding player and cam trueblood plays in at center back romig goes out to the left back ben romig played a year ago starter for east semi-state team primarily as one of the two outside backs looks like we're gonna have a free kick for north coach gunship disagrees with the klein logan klein he he wants to know what the call was ref is not in for discussion jackson on the ball jackson doesn't beat the first defender and now east is on a counter quisenberry heavy touch intercepted by avila avila does nice to connect to jackson jackson gives it away out to white true blood a little sloppy for both teams right now and north regains possession and looks to settle down williams out wide to cardoso cardoso left footed ball to his back post well done by pete corydon gordon does a great job there picking that ball out of the air from a approaching nathan white well done by alex cordova mendes plays forward off the head of romine williams and cardoso a little miscommunication klein tries for the flick well read by cordova cardozo inside to williams williams poked away by romine finds johnson johnson to williams williams tripped up by sanchez we're going to play on williams has a crack oh gordon off his line a little bit but good thing he's six foot three can still grab that ball good rip by jesse williams well won by johnson not sure about that but referee will call it back looks like ben romig's going to join the attack for east off of this free kick for hatcher and stopping the clock looks like both teams will get a water break so tonight the boys the boys are gonna play but last night it was the ladies and north came away with a 4-1 victory jenna lang kj ely alexis mckinley and claire livers all tallied goals for north lauren barker with three assists ruth federally scored her very first goal for the east olympians as they both groups will look to rebound in the coming week during this water break we just want to say a quick shout out to all of our sponsors for making this live stream possible thank you for the hundreds who are watching right now live and maybe you're watching this later on thank you so much for watching all this is made possible by our partners at ruoff mortgage the title sponsor of our streaming this fall as well as the scoreboard sponsor ovation technology group also special thanks to first financial bank columbus wealth jolie development and jolie rentals also special thanks to overhead door of south central indiana because of our sponsors we are able to live stream the varsity games for the girls soccer game last night boys tonight and then we'll be doing the columbus north columbus east football game on friday thank you again for tuning in and now back to ty smith thanks josh looks like east will restart play coach coach glover chatting up with the bulldogs it's like branson young and joe deckard have re-entered the game for east deckard making his first appearance for the night deckard a junior will be looked to connect passes and keep play moving probably in the middle of midfield young the young household uh this week is conflicted dave young and ej young they are the girls coaches for north what branson young is the starting center mid on the east boys team so i'm sure that mrs young was wearing blue last night and orange tonight good crowd out here at dave greenfield at the richard y soccer complex again tonight always spirited rivalry game between north and east don't see any couches out tonight though roaming to look to play deep off the throw in hopeful ball towards the back side quissenberry takes a touch by johnson bodied by cordova quisenberry stays up plays inside avila intercepts finds cardoso cardoso looks long is going to connect with white and north's going to hold it up with williams williams out back to jackson jackson gives the ball away to east well done by north trying to transition realizing numbers were not in their favor laying it back unfortunate and unlucky with the last ball romig to play back in for east looks long whitley will let jorge avila deal with it avila i really like this kevin sanchez kid good feet busy got a little grit to him he is a nice player for the olympians where confronted by cardoso and he's gonna where's going to regain possession regain play for east where down the right side looks like hatcher is going to dismiss that and play central well done by whitley young tries to shoulder flick intercepted by johnson johnson trying to find white picked up by true blood out wide doromic romig from confronted by mendez tiptoes pass mendez roaming into the final third good tackle by avila it's like jake jake hofflick a sophomore he will enter the game for logan klein hofflick very pacey player he's going to be looking to make diagonal runs in the area and create havoc in the box for east cleared by avila young another shoulder clearance picked up by whitley whitley one of the promising freshmen for east or north excuse me cardoso step over final third left foot oh just over the bar well done by christian cardoso another promising freshman whitley jackson cardoso all freshman joining midfielder anthony johnson who's a freshman starter last season a good core of attacking players in the middle of the park for north um lilly very dynamic player good to touch able to hit a big boy ball um he's going to be a quality quality player over the years for north and coach glover hatcher well done white brought down not sure who the ref's talking to but he's told somebody to keep the commentary down hopefully it's not me where draws another foul adam ware might be sore tomorrow looks like ben romig's asking the east bench if we can play with a little bit higher tempo hatcher another family that had uh players in the girls game and the boys game sister kylie got some minutes last night in the varsity contest for the girls aiden whitley sister lauren whitley played last night for the bulldogs mendes and quiz and barry's gonna pick that off looks like we're gonna have entries from two sophomores and a junior joe hefner is gonna come in for ben romig and trent liggett making his game's debut for bulldogs will holiday subs into the middle of midfield for north holliday is a very reliable passer he's going to look to keep play simple um and he very rarely gives the ball away unless i jinx him right here she connects wide to cardoso and where is going to win it commentators jinx sorry andy williams william turns rolls looks plays a ball into the box cleared by true blood north will take a throw in the final third willie in the jackson jackson back hills out to car cordova picked off by sanchez sanchez looks along to hawflick hoffleck steps over it not fooled by eduardo cordova willie back to jackson jackson to whitley whaley out to cordova cordova clears looks like he's gonna pick find the foot of holiday holiday big touch looks to slip in liggett but picked up by mendez mendes into the final third cleared by true blood that will be a north corner from the other side now first opportunity for north on this side of the match 11 minutes 37 seconds remaining in the first half looks like whitley out to take the kick for north zero zero all tied up between the olympians and bulldogs ball in and sanchez clears jackson finds holiday holiday tackled by quisenberry and east has numbers running forward hofflick from quisenberry avila gives chase offlick tries the meg intercepted by avila avila forward to williams williams holds up has liggett running inside well done by liggett like it holds up spins out tries a chance over cordon was about six yards off the off the goal line but that ball was a little too high good idea by trent liggett row mcgree enters and fan favorite number 19 brody kopis enters the game cope is a senior as you can hear the crowd chanting and cheering for him is an absolute fan favorite out here all the kids and all the students love brody copis cordon plays big flicked on by young mendez finds saldivar south of our awkward tackle looks like he got maybe boots across the head by will holliday and that's going to be our first booking of the match high school means player ihsaa has a rule that if a player gets a yell card they must leave the field which is not the case in all fifa approved matches so anthony johnson will re-enter for the bulldogs hatcher played long it will be a north goal kick hi oreo to restart ariel plays long misheaded by deckard finds williams picked off mendez diagonal ball looking for cardoso well done by romick jackson takes like an outside the right foot opportunity just goes wide a little collision with ben romig holiday re-enters back home feels like he's going to give aidan whitley a break holiday johnson plays long intercepted by romig holiday picks it up deckard connects inside of sanchez he's got front runners looks looking into space for copis cordova gives chase copis opportunity's just going to find the hands of colvin eye oreo seems like if east breaks a line and finds an advanced player in the midfield those players up front for east whether it's a two front a three front they are trying to get forward well done by the north back line to handle that in three on three situations branson young out of the air hoffleck settles finds decker decker to saltivar salvar outside the foot looking for a half flick looks like avila's going to get there avila mendez mendez plays long williams touches right connects with liggett holiday diagonal ball inside johnson over sanchez cardoso johnson hopeful touch inside takes a touch looks like it may have come off of a hand from east no call by the referee we're going to play on east dodge is a bullet there avila dis misplay that no var at the bcsc live stream so we will not replay that looks like mendez frustrated plows hawflick good little flick by anthony johnson to get in the ball get in the box create a little opportunity for himself and may or may not have been handled by an olympian but we're gonna play on it never happened hatcher plays long ball in won by holiday cardoso in a pocket of space settles to liggett he's got williams running ahead of him ball's going to be a little too central corden's going to pick that up gordon looks at where says he's going to play long players up and in flicks on avila's gonna clean that up jackson maradona's outside gonna draw foul from deckard well done by the freshman it's like both teams are going to open up blue north fullbacks getting into advanced positions jackson plays long looking to target mendes and that's going to go out of bounds for a east goal kick five minutes remaining in the match quizenberry and number three alberto sanchez enter for east taking off hoffleck and saldivar coach glover having a little chat with ian jackson jackson one of the promising freshmen for the bulldogs plays for the columbus express oh six orange team it's one of the higher quality teams in the midwest a key player in their success it's like jackson's going to get a break and aiden whitley is going to re-enter for the game mateo mendez's throw a starter a year ago has secured his outside back position very athletic kid brings a lot of toughness and pace to the back line of the bulldogs throw again finds whitley willie tries to flick on read by deckard four minutes remaining this zero zero contest cleared over the lights by young liggett rainers to mendez mendez misplayed confronted by alberto sanchez it looks like the refs gonna bring that back a little extra curricular after the play gives north a free kick in a dangerous area and looks like east is going to hold their line at the top of the 18 with a big gap to play in for north ball into the mix because it's going to find cordova williams williams uh just wide almost beat coryn with the header dangerous look for the bulldogs ben silva a sophomore midfielder also a dual sport athlete one of the uh better basketball prospects in bartholomew county he's going to step back in for east and give kevin sanchez a break corydon also a dual sport athlete basketball player he plays long quisenberry flicks on to alberto alberto looking for brodies finds franz quisenberry quisenberry 1v1 well done by eduardo cordova copis finds alberto swarm of blue it's going to poke out the quisenberry quisenberry toe puck saved by iorio quizzenberry has an uncanny ability to get through tight areas and come up with balls that seemingly doesn't seem that he should be getting creates opportunity after opportunity for east off of broken plays so quisenberry to take the kick ball driven in looks like it's off of copis a couple of o's tumble over each other ball rolls by the back post two dangerous opportunities in the last couple minutes neither find the back of the net we're at one minute 30 seconds remaining in the half between the north dogs and the east os cordova off of iorio's punt goal kick wide joe hefner he's going to collect four east decides he's going to play it out mendes into williams williams unlucky touch finds hefner hefner quisenberry looking for copis in behind one minute sniffed out by cordova hatcher looks like it's gonna bounce up get him in the hand if it wasn't a foul we're gonna have a free kick about 26 yards out for north 43 seconds remaining notice there are no there is a running clock in this match once it hits zero time is stopped unlike the international game once it's zeros across the board there's no injury or stoppage time whitley on the ball east puts a wall of four looks like there are some north players and advantageous positions for them whistle blows 20 seconds 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investment in the columbus community when it comes to developing youth soccer it's because of him and his team that many of the kids are out here performing at such a high level so thank you to ty and everyone at columbus express soccer club we're having a great time so far tonight it is zero zero and ty will be back in just a second to give us a little bit more commentary on the first half and maybe what we can expect in the second half tomorrow as some of you may know we're going to be having a another columbus east columbus north game the bulldogs will be taking on the olympians at max andrus field the football crosstown rivalry game will be going on friday night we will also be streaming that for you looking forward to that hopeful that the the weather will pass us or at least not get in the way of a great ball game i know that we look forward to all these columbus north columbus east games and you know it's already a crazy enough year with covid19 and grateful for the opportunity to be in school and also to be on the different fields that are available to our student athletes so special thanks to all of our administrators all of our teachers all of our coaches staff members students families community we can't do this without you so we need to be extra vigilant when it comes to wearing a mask committing to physical distancing doing everything we can that if we feel any symptoms coming on that we either stay home and or go to a doctor it is truly a community effort that we can be in school as well as be on any of these different fields so we need you to do your part and we are in this together i'm going to go ahead and turn this back over to ty and i appreciate you all one more time checking out this live stream brought to you by ruoff mortgage they are a title sponsor for all of our fall streaming as well as our scoreboard sponsor ovation technology group also just another quick shout out to columbus wealth to first financial bank jolie development and jolie rentals as well as overhead door of south central indiana thank you all for tuning in and looking forward to another great half here at david greenfield at the richard y soccer complex thank you josh we are about a minute and 40 from returning to play let's look at the stats for both teams north holds a 10-4 advantage over easton's shots but east holds a three to two advantage over shots on girl goals colvin iorio has three saves for the bulldogs while pete gordon has made two saves for east will holliday found the book for an aggressive tackle in the middle of the park you'd have to think that both teams will look to take a few more chances on target and be a little bit more aggressive in the final third recapping last night's crosstown clasico for the ladies north beat east four to one with goals by jenna lang kj ely alexa mckinley and claire livers ruth federally tallied her first career goal for the olympians player of the match offensively went to claire livers and allison craig and anna limata earned the defensive player of the match for east we are almost underway here another beautiful evening at david greenfield at the richard y soccer complex jesse williams on the ball for north like no big changes lineup wise for either team in fact starters for both groups back in looks like the same system and shape and the second half is off whitley controls looks long and that's going to be played out by hatcher hatcher deflected by williams out to romine jackson romine bodies off white williams down the right side fakes out cuts in fakes back out pushes it down the byline service and that's going to earn north a corner pretty good job by jesse williams there creating space getting off of service jackson to take the kick you have to think white who is denied one opportunity out of the air is going to be a key target for this and we're going to come out not sure looks like cardoso was being handsy with pete corden back there we're gonna come out with an east free kick corydon big brother of legendary danny corden as middle schooler at st bartholomew cordova silva klein to quisenberry to alberto eduardo cordova clears to white white settles looks to combine with williams williams gets a toe on it out to where deflected by cardoso duel header with romeg and where jackson works down the left side confronted by silva gonna play combined with cardoso where picks it up gonna give north another throw in the final third williams down the byline stood up by where pull back down the line tiptoe looks like branson young's gonna slide through concede a corner worth quite a few corners this evening showing that they're getting into dangerous areas putting pressure on the backs usually from wide areas jackson looks like it's going to be cleared out by romig quiz and barry in the first the second ball and the next ball he's gonna earn a throw off of nathan white roma rome romine not romig weston romine another dual sport athlete for the olympians wonder if he listens to this he will finally join express soccer club in the spring cordova looks long he's got cardoso in the area cardoso takes a touch cuts back to his right well done by where finds williams though cordova fakes plays inside to williams williams stood up by romig and cleared out by hatcher corbin hatcher veteran center back he knows nothing fancy about putting a toe right through it and get in and out of there better safe than sorry mendes gonna get another north throw williams goes outside cuts back inside well done by roman romine klein looking long for quisenberry quisenberry gives chase cordova decides not to play back he's going to play out gunsher coach gunter could have done me a favor and moved romig and romine to opposite sides of the field that would be very helpful i get the most both the sanchez brothers but these two i'm getting hung up on ball long hatcher gives chase jesse williams shapes the field forces ball inside that's going to be won by jackson jackson looking for whitley is going to be picked off by young quisenberry he's in quisenberry touch inside of the box avila chasing him down quiz and bury the backside picked up by i oreo those are the type of broken plays i'm talking about with chris quisenberry he has very high speed he gives chase when you think that you have the ball one and you relax he's still gonna press he's still gonna go get the ball very dangerous to deal with puts a lot of pressure on those backs cardoso and just got attacked by a horse fly up here next year bcsc complex inside the nice press box won't have to worry about that avila klein presses hi oreo picks it up the edge of the area sanchez flick header negative silva in the half space connects looking for a quiz and break question barry touched by cordova draws it foul and that's going to put cordova in the book eduardo cordova he's going to get a booking he will have to leave the field momentarily looks like senior jake gilliam is going to enter 15 first time jacob gilliam gilliam also relatively new to the sport started playing a few years ago um quality athlete is usually plays in the front half of the field for his club team but plays in the back the back end for north this year provides some depth at a center back position with some athletic prowess out of the air quiz and barry to serve hopeful ball well done by iorio is caught out luckily his backs cleared it out oh cordoso on balance but bounces off silver fortunate to regain the throw cordova looks long it's not on he's going to play into johnson unlucky bounce quiz and barry picks up attacks of space gilliam into the game wins his first tackle bromine down the line for sanchez sanchez tiptoes by whitley looks like mendes slides it out of bounds east deep throw romaine's going to leave it for romig look to see branson young or logan klein targeted on this for the first ball or maybe the second ball depending on the toss romig into the area won by gilliam gilliam getting some action after just appearing ooh western romaine dangerous ball any ball from a half space a wide area to the diagonal back side is always going to cause trouble for the opponent's back quiz and berry draws another flower it's starting to get chippy out there and always appreciate the comments from the students some of them are looking to get their free license quiz and barry strikes gonna curl out of bounds relatively quiet crowd sam larkin a senior and nathan imlay a sophomore enter as front runners for the bulldogs lark in an all-conference selection last year as a center back and i'm lay a young attacking player who earned a varsity letter last year for north look to see i'm lay and where compete and see who wins the athletic battle klein down the end line looks inside alberto nope wants a penalty no ref says we're not we're not playing that tonight gonna give you a corner instead alberto still pleading his case starts laughing probably knew that he was overselling it can't knock the hustle though quiz and barry to take the kick romig gets in looks like east is gonna crowd the keeper play towards the looks like a little extracurricular activity in the box um we're going to re replay this east with a little stack at the near post in a man marking system that's going to bring more bodies in front of the keeper rome extends to the backside it's not going to beat the first defender whitley clears he plays long larkin gives chase where faces up where takes a touch wide looks like larkin made enough contact to disrupt where and whitley tosses it in ball into the final third where he's gonna give larkin and the bulldogs a throw got a couple athletes right on the line gotta get those photos for the yearbook larkin finds i'm lay i'm lay steps inside he's gonna lay it back to johnson johnson stands through a tackle takes a rip left foot gonna be a little bit wide good connection with uh larkin i'm laying johnson there just mishit it a little bit it's a good look for the bulldogs corydon flicked by jackson finds alberto alberto with the megs it's on tonight and klein looking in behind gilliam's going to clean that up plays back ty oreo oh off of larkin larkin flicks to white white's going to touch by romine he's got i'm laying in the middle up looks like he just misplayed the cross cordon easy work there good job nate corden plays long flicked off of cordova gilliam pressed by quisenberry decides he's gonna just give it to east two uh a little bit contrasting styles out of the back north looking to get their outside backs a little bit more involved than east east is gonna keep typically three at home which allows north to play they're two of their three front runners a little bit higher you'll see with east they're dropping in one of their two front runners to pick up first second balls and then have another opportunity in branson young tiptoes inside looks to combine with alberto a little bit outside great ideas by the olympians there to try to break pressure in some congested areas i oreo mendez off the neck finds white white connects inside to jackson jackson flicks inside the ref decides to get in the way of johnson johnson recovers plays out to whitley whitley back inside to johnson johnson intercepted by alberto kevin olay around mendez and mendez is going to probably nope not it's going to avoid a booking there probably is deserving of one just take this stern lecture instead little cheeky play by kevin sanchez earns a free kick by east hatcher into the box won by gilliam white looks inside the larkin picked off by romig club teammates romig again well done by avila jorge villa interesting trajectory and uh development over the course of the years they predominantly a unsung hero in the midfield and coach glover has handed him the reigns to play as the center back and he's getting rave reviews from the coaching staff so it's really nice to see a good kid like jorge avila stepping in and earning his time as a senior not a better player out there not a better kid out there larkin looks like jackson's gonna flick a ball inside done done by silvas i'm gonna clear out great catch by ball boy ben stevens look at those hands and eduardo cordova re-enter the game 25 minutes remain in the second half of tonight's crosstown clasico between the bulldogs and olympians we are at a zero zero score line larkin touches down the line let's it create against roman roman pokes inside to jackson jackson laid back to mendes mendes hopeful ball picked off by silva bulldog's starting to play a little bit whitley into jackson jackson out wide to mendes mendes hopeful ball back in same thing silva intercepts back to quisenberry confronted by avila now we have space klein gives chase space odd man break unlucky by east cordova does just enough to break up the counter situation again we for the bulldogs it's going to be really important how do they handle the two front runners and the third man running for east in those counter situations romine and looks like klein is going to earn a free kick from a foul from mendez quiz and barry just on the edge of the box two-man wall for the bulldogs quizenberry on the ball a little bit surprised we don't get somebody like corbin hatcher in on these quiz and barry takes a shot on goal pushed over the bar by iori i'm not sure iorio saw that coming wide area it looks a little bit like it should be a service assumingly um quizzenberry had a crack at it and not too bad of an opportunity quiz and barry's gonna take the kick from the other side this time but iorio did just enough to push that ball over the bar quiz and barry duffed by sal davar it's going to come out to young young down the byline slips falls into salvar ball in the middle of the box kline just wide great opportunity and look for east branson young keeps the ball alive bounces through logan klein in front of the net just a few inches wide would have put the o's on the board but we play on i oreo plays long over the head of whitley silva gilliam young does well there coach glover instructing the boys in blue to let's get the ball down and let's play a little bit eduardo outside the football it's going to be picked off by young but larkin picks it up whitley sizes up silva is going to play inside looks to connect with johnson picked off by sanchez eduardo settles down pressed by quisenberry plays long hatcher miss clarence picked up by alex cordova cordova combines with lark and larkin and we are going to have this ball is going to be brought back to the edge of the area after the play looks like romig fouls cordova about 21 yards out just in front of the goalkeeper's left hand post if i know anything about aiden whitley and ian jackson they're gonna be rock paper scissoring to see who takes this one looks like jackson threw a rock and whitley threw scissors jackson over the ball let's see if the the time spent on the training ground has worked jackson over the bar wasted opportunity by the bulldogs but still in the game jesse williams and christian the youngster will do better i'm laying larkin sub off for north quality minutes up front for them created a couple opportunities williams back in and cardoso jackson just a freshman he's got a promising promising career ahead of him very excited to see how he progresses from his freshman through senior years and beyond jackson picks it up right on cue tiptoes outside gets his head up cuts it back looking for somebody to play with a little bit on an island right now he's got mendez mendez back into jackson jackson settles with the chest puts a dangerous ball into the box cordova settles tries to center in front jack williams not ready to run cord corydon will pick it up 1920 remaining in the match of this 0-0 contest between the dogs and the o's cordova plays out adam where to [Music] water break tonight time for a water break no it's a little breezy up here it's probably about 10 degrees cooler at warmer on the field level we're going to take a quick break and hear from our sponsors thank you once again ty this is josh burnett bcsc communications coordinator hope that you are enjoying this live stream crosstown confrontation between columbus north and columbus east ties doing a great job representing both the columbus express soccer club but also commentating this game it's very obvious that he knows these guys and girls very well has gotten to know their games and i know that i'm personally enjoying just all the commentary that he's been providing us and i hope that maybe you're a long time viewer and passionate fan of soccer and you're used to great commentating like this but i know personally i'm enjoying getting to know the soccer game more and more through ties broadcast tonight i want to say a special thank you to our sponsors ruoff mortgage ovation technology group columbus wealth first financial bank jolie development and jolie rentals and overhead door of south central indiana thank you for tuning in to watch this game between columbus north and columbus east and i'll correct that just for you ty this is a match and thank you for checking out tonight's live stream action back to you ty thanks josh with 19 minutes and six seconds remaining in the zero zero contest adam ware will restart play both teams giving instruction looks like flynn keel is going to enter the match for the bulldogs a left footed sophomore very versatile player he's going to take a run at right back where with his textbook throw in to klein and jackson heads down true blood puts his foot through it and iorio will restart the play flynn back over to the left side he's gonna say that's probably where he needs to be keel first touch of the match doing what he does connects passes out to whitley whitley picked off by saldivar jackson looks like he took a knock there we got williamson out on the left flank dangerous ball in looks like he's gonna the linesman's gonna bring that back williams was offside i have to think both both coaches instructions have to be can we settle down can we string together some more passes um for for east they want to keep playing on the counter they want to keep trying to play off of klein and quisenberry and bring other players into the fold for the bulldogs it's can we build and get the outside backs involved in higher positions where we can play a little bit more conservative with more players avila well done turns inside of jackson jackson out to cordova cordova looking to play into whitley giving away picked off by true blood avila to klein a little bit of the bouncing ball right now stood up by johnson logan klein 13 goals last season four east quality attacking target man for eos where restarts fall in it's like jorge to gilliam willie does well there bringing it out of the air confronted by deckard williams looks to bring in cardozo got an overlapping holiday unfortunate by cardoso whitley will pick it up though olay brings it back out to jack johnson johnson stood up by sanchez johnson wins that whitley well he's looking at he's getting a little bit more confident as this game is going on you start seeing him with some more pullbacks a little tricks and some flicks cordova earns a corner for the dogs north relatively small group on the field right now um gotta think gilliam's gotta get involved in the mix on this corner whitley to take it cardoso had the last one whistled back by confronting corydon see if he can be a good boy and willie must do better there gotta give the boys a chance restart with east east coming off a match this week with bloomington north where they earned a 2-0 victory coach guncher was quite liberal with his subbing expecting a intense match with the dogs later in the week north been off since their saturday evening match with avon johnson just outside substitution for the olympians joe hefner joe hefner reenters the game half daddy quality quality outside back solid player very reliable cordon duff's it's going to be picked up by holiday holiday finds whitley willie touches sizes up deckard's gonna play the other way out looking for keel a little too much whitley and keel a little bit of north soccer royalty seth quill i believe flynn's father is the all-time leading scorer for north of not mistaken and aiden whitley's father dane was one of the first mr soccers in indiana so and they are being coached as an assistant coach by dave green the man that coached both of their fathers so neat little story line i'm sure that there's some dinnertime stories shared between the whitley's and the keels about coach green over the years dave green indiana hall of famer namesake for this field it's been involved with the program after a hiatus and coaching at hanover college with the women's team with hanover college women's soccer coach jim watts williams touches by he's got to look to release the ball there stood up by trio of olympians whitley down the by line tiptoes by where where regains and it's going to be another north corner 12 minutes and 55 seconds remain in the match still in a 0-0 deadlock looks like aidan whitley on the ball four north fall into the backside keel sorry that was jesse williams hey we have an eye doctor sponsor for this i might need to go can't see it on the other side of the field cordova touches in it's going to be picked up by corden it's like we're going to draw a foul on the edge of the box eduardo cordova alex cordova as well tiptoeing getting forward coach glover instructing eduardo and jorge avila how he wants them to defend again east very dangerous on counters looks like quisenberry is going to enter the box east treats it like a corner will he drives the ball to the backside christian cardoso off of a ball from aidan whitley gives the bulldogs a 1-0 lead with 11 38 remaining in the match cardoso i believe first career goal one he will always remember let's see how east responds gunshot not pleased with the call leading to it great ball by whitley better header by cardoso and puts the dogs up one to nothing cardoso looks inside intercepted by true blood roaming down the line quisenberry sizes up gilliam looks inside double team by johnson cleared by avila hatcher steps forward gilliam plays along cardoso flicks on joe hefner is gonna clear it's gonna give north a throw set pieces number number of corners given for north finally capitalize on a free kick outside the box freshman to freshman connection between aidan whitley and christian cardoso is the difference thus far looks like we're gonna sub ian jackson's gonna re-enter the maybe not maybe eventually hatcher to true blood looks like ian jackson's gonna re-enter the match on for the bulldog number 16 ian jackson anthony johnson's going to come off and get it probably get a quick quick break and re-enter for the dogs williams deep in the corner confronted by hatcher hatcher knocks it out patrick barking at his backs bulldogs number 11 nathan white nate white enters the game nathan white state champion fifa player esports fifa championship smashed everybody brought home columbus express the esports title which we are so proud of kevin sanchez re-enters for alejandro saldivar one of my mentors as a young coach when i was coaching in college he said most one goal games are decided by wing service and set pieces and no true statement tonight thus far looks like klein or quisenberry klein is going to be put in the book now as he sprints off wing service and set piece decide a lot of one goal games and we've had a goal that is a little bit of both wide set piece is the difference thus far klein in the book third booking of the night adam ware enters where tons of pace one of the better athletes in columbus looks like the linesman and the sender are going to dispute the call but the center is going to overrule east toss klein looking to re-enter the match after his yellow card joe hefner is going to come off look for east to be a little bit more urgent despite having eight minutes left still plenty of time to get back into the game if you ask my 2007 boys team they know that teams can score two goals in a minute and i'm still bitter about it so bromine the snag by ball boy parker gribbons young express player with a very bright future i oreo flicked up by holiday deckard willie's going to play play wide to cordova pressed by where where forces the giveaway cleaned up by true blood in decline he's starting to play with a little bit more pep in their step where carrie's down the sideline barked by romig connie left on an island with his teammates does tries to find somebody the east players instructing ware the speed merchant to push the ball down the line and advance the game hi oreo in no rush and the refs noticed the refs really noticed and we're gonna stop the clock iorio plays long young holiday battle for it it's going to come out to white white large frame well won by hatcher hatcher another one looks like we're gonna have a throw in for north gilliam to take it quiz and barry playing in more advanced position klein's going to drop underneath seeing if he gonna alter the plan for most of the match where quizenberry was dropping into the midfield ball in the corner looks like that's going to go corydon's going to restart four east he's going to want to play quick alberto sanchez going to re-enter for joe decker sanchez back on for the olympians been very impressed with both the sanchez brothers i like the flare that both of them play with quizzenberry cordova court cordova's versus sanchez brothers that would be a fun battle to watch the root and physicality of the cordovas and the flare of the sanchez is well done by jorge avila slides through looks like that's going to bounce off of quizzenberry the ref rules for a goal kick on for the bulldogs for the first time number nine jesus hernandez jesus hernandez is a senior he's going to make his game debut he's going to play up high and nate imlay is going to step in as the left back ayorio plays wide easter regains control sanchez heavy touch out of bounds four minutes remaining christian cardoso spearheaded goal is the difference thus far and adam ware 70 yard run looks like intercepted by cordova like to see east settle down a little bit there's still plenty of time no need to rush into issues i'm way looks to switch through avila avila not comfortable plays it out three minutes 23 seconds remaining in the match where looks like it slipped out of his hand it's going to be headed by i'm lay it's going to ride out for an east throw and we're gonna and clock will stop brody copis gets in number 19 ben romig to take the throw cam true blood comes off looks like east is gonna throw [Music] all of their backs forward they're gonna hold with hatcher 1v1 at midfield with williams romig waiting on the refs whistle ref doing his math how many players do we have we got enough we got too many let's play paul bouncing in bromine deflected off of klein unfortunate could have been the tying goal good look a little unlucky by east hi oreo it's gonna play short to whitley whitley takes a touch plays long gonna sneak by where for an east throwing in front of their bench hatcher sprints over to grab it where chuck's down the line whitley miss cleared gonna pick up with alberto alberto gets a little extra with eduardo cordova quisenberry touches down the inline little extracurricular and that's gonna be a booking if not not certain of what happened we saw a little collision but we got eduardo and alberto both are going to take off for their yellow cards i'm sure that the refs gonna stop the clock and add a little extra time on to the clock the first foul was on eduardo cordova that warranted a yellow retaliation by alberto sanchez brings the second he's gonna add put us at two minutes and 20 seconds quiz and berry in a dangerous area looks like north is going to hold a line at the 18.
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okay can you hear me i can hear you ernesto okay thank you so roger are we are we reporting something back or just a journey we're reporting back okay and i can pass it over to you for that what was that i couldn't hear i i was muted i wasn't letting me speak um shall i report right now uh hold on i just wanted to make sure that i am passing it over to you so we okay we do have our quorum here so we'll return from closed session back to open session here at 7 48. thank you for your patience everyone um so i'll pass it over to mr ruiz for um a report back from closed session closed session agenda item 3.03 superintendent's evaluation a motion by member quintero seconded by president beccarano to approve the final annual evaluation for the superintendent for the 2019-2020 school year that motion was approved by a vote of three to two with members marquez and chavez de sentine there are no further actions to report okay thank you so thank you everyone um we will return next time for our regular board meeting coming up in a few weeks have a good night everyone and we will adjourn at 7 49 p.m thank you thank you can i ask a quick question did we have to do roll call when we came back i was i wasn't connected right away so i don't know if you guys did it or not can you hear me just know uh we um identified that we had a quorum and at this point we're adjourned so thank you i i i didn't get to connect right away and i had to ask the question thank you okay thank you have a good night you too bye
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second in the car so she's not answering after her hopefully she can get on out i think we should let everybody in know after we're already in the start [Music] no wait uh let's have the board members okay how do i oh there we go you're unmuted okay thank you we were just wanting to remind you to tell the board members that they have to change channels in the bottom in the translation uh to change to the english channel okay anyone listening in english has to specifically put or anyone listening at all has to specifically put english or spanish correct or else you're not going to be able to hear anybody else correctly in this meeting okay yeah only during the case when interpreter yeah like that time when i was sitting there staring into space [Laughter] i think you guys set me up for that you're like what i can hear you carlos how are you good you sound good by the way i was commenting on your microphone it's high quality it's good quality sound oh it's a headset one it sounds very good yep yeah it's good uh yeah that's what i'm that's what mine is mine's a usb or mine is usb or the other connection but i use the usb um okay i'll i'll do that in the beginning and i'll just pass it over to you okay right okay carmelina okay yeah i see her there no we're saying do we let everybody in already i think we are yeah well i was just asking but i saw somebody helping anyways oh maybe no she she told us oh okay um and then also a reminder uh trustee pejerano that when you guys come back from closed session to give us a couple of minutes to um set up because i have to um set up the interpreters again to be interpreters so that we can get that going before we start the meeting it's the reminder to actually ask um mr ruiz if we even or dr barr do you know will we have to come back will we have to report from closed session okay yeah even if you just say nothing to report barely hear you dr bauer dr bauer make sure you click on interpretation and select english channel oh sorry there it goes okay no we just you just need to adjourn the meeting and if there's nothing to report you need to say nothing to report okay so we'll have to come back okay yeah and maribel who um who's going to be the uh what do you call it the moderator or the the organizer and of closed session um isn't it um dr barr no i think either i have to be one of the board members oh one of the board members i guess you guys one of you guys okay so i could do it mighty bit all right so then i'll make you when we get to that point i'll just um make you uh the host okay of that meaning okay thank you welcome just to let you know after can we emu trust me please thank you so we have two board members right mr rose uh make sure you are on english channel click on interpretation and select english channel i mean that well nevermind so do i have to do that every time no every time in the meeting okay once limited dr bauer do we have any indication about any other trustees i'm trying to check my texts and i have not received anything i'm texting them okay i called on trustee marcus and she did not answer the phone to ask see if she needed any assistance but she didn't pick up so okay well we just need one more and i just texted um trustee chavez um so so trusty king turtles in coming in okay can we mute him after i'm having trouble meeting him but she's checking in okay trusty quintero are you can you hear are you is the camera working is you're muted right now i don't know if it's on our end or yours oh there we go okay is your camera working this month trusty quintero okay and then we'll just wait till like one more minute to 5 35 and then we'll get started trustee cantero just a reminder make sure you are on an english channel click on the interpretation being the english channel we were not able to hear you clearly all right thank you you know what my agenda just closed on me give me a second uh where did it go i did my agenda close here we go okay okay so uh yeah we're here okay so we have a quorum so i'll call the meeting to order tonight at 5 35 welcome everybody for tonight's special board meeting um on august the 27th um before anything maribel can you please take roll today is a special board meeting of august 27th 2020 at 5 30 p.m members of the board in attendance president enesto vergerano here vice president member linda chavez he's trying to connect maribel uh that's what she's texting me member dolores marquez members of administration superintendent dr bauer president okay thank you maribel so uh we will start with our pledge of allegiance so in this time of zoom if you're able to stand please join us in the pledge of allegiance and if not um you can do so as you're seated um i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation thank you okay so we before we get started with um our public comment if we have any uh i just want to have ms i guess mr carlos tripoli one of our spanish language interpreters just give us a quick announcement since we've changed to um a new way of having our interpretation done this is something that everyone will need to get used to each month so mr tripoli can you explain briefly the process that we all need to do regardless of language my pleasure is for all the english speaking uh audience there is the english and spanish selection for interpretation for english speakers please make sure that you click on the world map or the world icon and select english and also make sure also that to mute the original audio if it's in spanish but it's in english make sure that your settings are in english thank you okay thank you thank you both um so then as i mentioned that's something that we'll need to do at least for the foreseeable future as we use this um platform and this function we'll need to get in the habit all of us of selecting our language before the meetings so thank you everyone for that um at this point we can move to item 2.01 request to address the board so this is the opportunity for any members of our public to have to share their public comment for the item agendas tonight um item 3.01 um so you we will have we'll have the timer up maribel if you can get the timer up and each speaker will have two minutes um for public comment and at this time i don't know how many speakers we have but customarily in order to try to keep the flow of the meeting we we've gone with what our our guidelines tell us with 20 minutes per item but we'll see how the flow of this goes if that's okay with the rest of the trustees okay so that being said um i guess are they all coming through you mr gill um yes sir and they're the ones okay so maribel do we have the the timer available all right thank you and mr gill who is the first speaker um welcome when the clock when you begin speaking and your microphone is unmuted your two minutes will begin good evening board of trustees and superintendent bauer my name is emiliana swanthania and i'm calling as the executive director of somos mayfair a proud partner of the alum rock union school district i'm calling on item 3.03 the evaluation of a public employee superintendent dr bauer in support of her continued leadership of the alum rock union school district we all know that we are in unprecedented times and right now we need steadfast leadership and continuity to guide our students and our families through this crisis she has been known to be expansive in her vision working with partners throughout the county and in my 15 years of working with the alum rock school district with various non-profits i've had my share of working with different superintendents who have led this district and it wasn't until dr bauer joined the team that there was an opening to actually build strong foundations and partnerships with other people within the community this has yielded under her leadership and with these partnerships great financial and in-kind resources brought into the district we see an increase in after-school programs enrichment programs technology early education social emotional and restorative justice family support in the form of family resource centers and the growing dual imagine dual immersion programs with the recent addition of the vietnamese dual immersion program with your partnership as a board you've also been able to move ethnic studies have taken a bold stance in cutting police contracts and restored accountability trust and fiscal responsibility we now see award-winning schools and programs and stronger external relationships and better partnerships now i'm not i'm not one to say that more work cannot be done but in a time of crisis that no one knows we must be stable and continue to work together to address the persistent racial and social justice inequities that are inherent in public education um that are not one leader alone to address thank you very much thank you mr gill do we have other speakers yes we are one brenda zander house okay missing vegas when you begin speaking um your two minutes will begin hi good evening members of the board and superintendent um i know that today you guys will be evaluating our superintendent and i just want to say thank you for everything that um has been uh done with uh covet 19 it's been a really long process and just a lot of uncertainty um i don't envy your guys's job right now as this is not an easy thing to do and to grade someone when we don't have really a lot to um to see like test course because everything happened right before testing so um i wish you guys the best and just one suggestion is you know keep uh i don't know if we can see it or how does this work but if there is a possibility that maybe we can um share with uh maybe a brief summary at the end of the board meeting i would appreciate it and you guys have a wonderful day thank you mr gill any other speakers yes we have one elsa gonzalez okay miss gonzalez when you begin speaking your two minutes will begin good evening members of the board my name is gonzalez i want to emphasize that i am here as a parent representing my um two students that go to the district um i would like to echo that we need a stability now more than ever um i know that as a parent i've been one that is always coming here looking for collaboration transparency and communication and um even though it hasn't been perfect but dr bob will bring that to the parents it brings a space where parents can talk to her it brings a space where she has at least an ear and it has bring a lot of spaces where parents feel that it has change has made in our schools as always we are looking to look we're looking forward to keep on working collaboration keep on working on communication and transparency and um but not more than ever and especially during this pandemic and when we need cons constant um um consistency um we would like you to take that in consideration as a parent of the limb school district thank you dr bower for all your work and for the constant communication that you have with the parents in that community have a good evening thank you mr gill next speaker do we have another one next person is veronica okay veronica once you begin speaking your two minutes will begin [Music] i can't see her here is she unmuted can you hear me now oh yes okay great good evening for um um rockport and superintendent elijah bauer um i wanna also echo that of the previous speakers um i think right now we need a lot of stability and as we have asked for transparency and collaboration and dr bauer is working towards that and definitely really appreciate that so we want to make sure that we continue on working i am talking about you know as a parent as a community member community organizer and um thank you dr bauer for working and making slight changes and we can see them and we're seeing them so thank you for that and thank you thank you mr gill next speaker oh you're muted mister i don't know if you're saying something there are no more speakers okay great well thank you everybody for your public comment tonight at this time we will recess to um our closed session board members there's a separate link that we will click on to get into closed session and then we will return to adjourn the meeting or if anything is needed to be reported back i will say any anyone want to get i'm going to say 90 minutes um that that's where we're i think what we'll be shooting for in terms of finishing the process that we need to do if there are any changes i think we have the ability to have someone come back and report updates don't we dr bauer in case it goes beyond or we're early um is that does that sound all doable mr ruiz yes that's right yes how about we say an hour because if we say 90 minutes people take that up say an hour and then if it takes a little longer then people can provide an update yeah that makes sense okay so it's 5 48 so let's say really quick um when i i schedule these meetings so whenever i'm in the if you guys are in closed session i can't come back into the open session until you guys are done with closed session just to let you know so we can't let the audience know that well maybe could dr bauer or someone else come back uh no actually nobody can get back into the meeting because i since i scheduled it and since i scheduled a closed session two um there can't be two meetings going on at the same time and zoom we had the same issue last time if you remember how about if we say sorry how about if we say 7 15 this way it gives us not 90 minutes but i'm going to go with 90 minutes let's just stay with 90 minutes um i mean otherwise we can go back and forth about how this will go um so we will be back in 90 minutes which will be uh seven what is that seven i'm ah seven twenty okay we'll be back as by 7 20 and uh just to make sure dr bauer maribel that let's make sure we have a conversation about how we said set up the meeting next time so that we have the ability to report back updates to the public um and we don't have to try to guess it like this okay so we will return at 7 20.
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so um thank you uh first of i just like to say that i share john's concerns commissioner mursky's concerns and i think this will be an ongoing discussion um and with the new city administrator coming on board and the new council i think it's a good time for everybody to reflect on this and try to see what might be possible in the future going forward so um um thanks everybody so brian you have the floor um all right thank you for for inviting me i'm going to try to share my screen so i'm hoping or that you're able to see my screen now can you confirm that that's the case yeah okay um so i have a few slides um and also able to answer some questions um a little bit of change in gears here to talk about on the city's pfas management strategy i think you've probably seen a little of this before but probably the hottest topic right now is is that the state has just passed um and this slide says draft but they're actually now um enacted new maximum contaminant levels for seven different pfas contaminants or compounds and this slide illustrates um what those mcls are and where the city stands in terms of its most recent measurements associated with these in drinking water so um you can see where we're well very well positioned because of the work that we've been doing over the past several years to address these compounds in drinking water we're non-detect for five of the seven and even the other two um you know we're in one case uh five orders of magnitude lower than the mcl and the other case about two orders of magnitude so the work that the city has been doing um over the past several years has positioned us well um to address these new regulatory requirements and whatever may be coming down the road the initial focus um which is pretty consistent with what's been was happening at the federal level was the focus on just two of these these are um probably two of the compounds in pfoa um that are the probably the most common in products that we use many people use every day and they're the most prominent in terms of the data that exists on health impacts and initially these were the ones that the federal government was going to be taking a stance on potentially regulating so we developed their own metrics around these two compounds um we identified a goal of less than 10 parts per trillion combined and that remains more stringent than the new mcl's in michigan has put in place um so again we're striving for what we have saw by seeing looking around the country on that what's happening elsewhere um in the u.s canada and the world in terms of what are the most stringent standards um that any um have put in place and we wanted to achieve that um and that has been our goal um you may have seen this chart before um the blue line is the huron river so that's our source water and the source of pfas in the city source water it's not coming from our ground water but a surface water and you can see since 2019 um you know over the last year pretty much regularly non-detectable levels of these compounds based on the changes that we've made in modifying um how we both operate and the material we're using in our carbon filters there's one little blip that we had earlier this year we're talking about such low levels of these compounds that um the risk of contaminating a sample just by what a person um you know may be using in terms of soaps and conditioners and things like that um can potentially contaminate a sample so i much into that one little blip that happened earlier this year i think we've been doing an outstanding job of meeting our and exceeding our performance goal um this next slide looks at total pfast so we're not just sampling for these seven but we're stamping for 26 different compounds based on a state approved method and you'll see that again blue being the river and orange being the water they sort of trend together up and down um and you know we're moving maybe depending upon you know what the levels are about half of the pfas that that's coming down towards us in the river so you know this is probably where i would be wanting to focus and looking at in the future um you know we have um there there are a lot of these compounds the health data is being very you know being slowly developed so we're learning a lot more about more of the compounds that we're that are in our source waters um we don't have a lot of information on what those health impacts are um but i are in our source water or getting into our drinking water so i would like to see more of a focus on watershed protection and figuring out how we can get these things out of our um you know out of the environment because it's a lot easier to address dealing with it at the source than at the end of the pipe which is what obviously we're doing at drinking water treatment um all that being said we're involved in several projects um with several universities to look at what we can do what technologies exist to remove these from the water um you know carbon filtration has been around for a long time and um it's successful removing some of these but not all all of them um so we're piloting some other technology that's what the picture is is an ion exchange pilot system um which has resins which exchange the pfas um anions with um a different anion and it is more effective at removing some of the shorter chain on pfas which is the some of these that are more difficult to remove with granular active faded carbon um and ones that we really don't have a lot of information on in terms of what their health impacts are so um we're trying to position ourselves with understanding what technological um tools we could be potentially adding to our toolbox in the future um as we learn more information about health impacts associated with these compounds but um i feel like that we're again we're well positioned i think we're investing in the right things and and we're part a part of the leading edge of developing the knowledge based on how to deal with these chemicals um from a drinking water perspective so that's what i wanted to share um if are there any questions gabby you have a question um yeah thank you brian for the presentation um i was also wondering you know there's a large focus on the drinking water um but how is monitoring going in terms of like using the huron river recreationally are there different guidelines for um what is considered safe for like swimming and fishing and those types of things um there are different guidelines and um you know the the state has a lot of information out there on contact that's appropriate for recreation and there's currently still a do not eat fish advisory on the huron um based on the levels that are in the fish samples that the state has collected um huron river watershed is also another good source of information um they have a lot of good information on pfas so the real risk is um is is ingestion so recreating in the river um is not something that is is that we're telling people that they can't do we do have um we do have signage posted at deliveries for example so people can educate themselves about the source and really the risk in the river is the foam because it tends to concentrate in the foam so when the water is like cascading over a dam it can aerate itself and the phos can concentrate so um pfas foam looks a little bit different than river foam but our the recommendations that we're saying is is you know wash your hands that's like the same with kovid is hand washing is really important we actually have hand washing stations um at deliveries so wash your hands you know before you get out of the water and you're eating food or something those are the recommendations that currently exist in our best practice so um you know i don't know when the fish advisory will be lifted they're something that they're continuing to look at um i think that the that they're they're optimistic that maybe it won't be you know years away but these things are persistent and they're in so many things that it's not good that rapidly so it's pretty much background even once we address some of what we know is our prime sources you're you see this in everything you see it in you know the soils and in this compost and it's pretty much everywhere uh john you have a question and then rita yeah brian thanks for that update i'm wondering if you could speak to what looked like kind of the rebound after the carbon filters were installed in the spring of 2019 and if that's just kind of what you expected or kind of what's going on there because it dropped significantly but then it's like went back up again on the pfast totals slide um let me pull that back up yeah i'm i'm not sure that we can explain that we've been looking um and trying to talk to some of the folks who you know we know are the significant contributors to the pfos in the river wix and wastewater treatment plant is one of those um so you know at some point in this time frame um the one of the dischargers who was probably one of the primary sources to the huron is tribar put in some treatment at their facility um and we don't have a whole lot of information about how they're managing their carbon but it's possible um in terms of its capacity to remove total pfos and there they were pretty much focused on pfos which is probably means that it is one of the compounds that is much is the most easy to remove using carbon so what we're experiencing with our carbon is is that the carbon will probably take out pfos for several years without having to replace it but some of these other shorter chain carbon um compounds will break through the carbon in months so in terms of a total pfos you know they probably put it in it was probably removing a lot of different things and then over time these other compounds that they're not as concerned about began to break through they're managing it for pfs os solely because that's what their regulatory um um and pre-treatment requirements are completely built around the drinking water side of it is moving much faster than the waste water side so on the wastewater in the breaking water site now we have seven compounds they're still looking at one or two on the wastewater side so um we're trying to get alignment and working with the state to say hey you know we care about more than just pfos and pfoa you need to be looking at these other ones too and i think that's the advocacy part of it that um i think would be a good role for you know the maybe the environmental commission to weigh in on is to help advocate for getting these compounds out of our watershed even the ones that aren't currently regulated um that's what i am advocating for thank you um marita you had a question and then john thanks brian um so i have two questions so i'll just start with the one on the total pfize so it dropped in 2018 and i assume that's because of pinpointing the tribar company is that correct or was there something else related no that's i think that's the main reason for the drop in 2019 okay and um is there communication ongoing with that company or other companies upstream of ann arbor about what's going into the water how do we know what's what's going on on that upstream side um the state has a program where they're monitoring the source water um we're also continuing to sample so we know you know twice a month we're collecting samples from our source in our finished water so we know what was coming into the plant and what's leaving um the state is is monitoring some locations upstream in the huron as part of their own sampling program and there's continuing to look for sources um wix and wastewater treatment plant and tribar have their own monitoring requirements because you know one is a publicly operated wastewater utility and the other one has a pre-treatment permit so but again you know they're focused only on the ones that they're regulated for so it's just the pfos and pfoa i believe um not these others so they're not doing a total pfas analysis like we are so part of it is that's what we're trying to you know we would be advocating is that we need to be looking at more than just these two and we need to hold them accountable for trying to put in treatment that will address the broader scope of these chemicals part of what i'm asking is um are there other sources so there are some other sources and the state has um trying to think off the top of my head um i can share some more information with with you maybe after i can send it through um galen and you can share it but there is other sources upstream tribar is the most significant source but there are others there are other smaller contributors yes okay all right thanks my other question had to do with the educational information and um i just wondered um i've been at the barton dam recently and up on the the barton blind and i don't recall seeing signs there um are there where where are the postings primarily and could that be expanded just for general education um it could be expanded um there we've put signs at deliveries there is some signs um at the base of barton dam well i missed it so [Music] um but yes signs could be added so if there were some strategic locations that you thought were important we can work with our folks in the parks department to get those added right okay i'm thinking of near the docks okay okay thank you um john and then shannon john mursky ryan thank you very much for the excellent presentation thank you very much for the excellent performance thank you very much for presenting data in a trend chart where it's easily understood performance against the standard where we could clearly see how we're doing where we could generate the kinds of questions intelligent ones like the one that john asked i really appreciate it and you've done a great service and really providing great drinking water quality to the residents of ann arbor thank you very much thank you shannon i wanted to expand a little bit on the recreation piece and the signage um my office is is near argo and i still see lots of people fishing and i'm just wondering i would assume if it's an ingestible issue that um that fishing would not be a great thing but if you could talk more about that and i would just say that on any given day i probably see three people fishing in that area so somehow either they're choosing to ignore what's there or it's just not quite loud enough for them to see so if you could talk a little bit about that that would be helpful um you're getting out outside of my area of expertise um but i guess my the only comment i would have is you know there along the huron angling is a big issue so it's something that we've been talking about with the the state and catch and release is still okay so um i don't know um if there's additional communication that we need to get out on that topic or not um it sounds like from your perspective maybe we do so i can i can talk to some other folks in the city and find out what we can do to maybe better communicate that um i think again here on what river watershed is another you know group that's pretty active in communicating about what is safe and not safe to do run um so they might be a good partner to to help they have a lot of people use them as a resource for information and i i think just um you know in addition having some signs around in places where people tend to do it um i think would be helpful um so that they just understand that you know catch-and-release is probably the way to go i would imagine i don't know i'm again making a leap but i would imagine eating the fish if you're supposed to be not ingesting the foam that you know it probably gets concentrated by them and you know things like that so um i think it just needs to be a stronger message over there so people understand what their the risk they're taking what and and again i'm not paying so close attention to understanding if they're doing catch and release or if they're actually taking it home and eating it but um it does go on a lot on a regular basis so um i just put that out out there thank you um any other questions for brian yeah oh you know i i just want to uh reiterate what shannon just said i also want to say thank you brian for very nice uh presentation discussion um i complement her by being down in gallup all the time and there they are definitely fishing and they're not releasing some of them and i get the feeling uh of course it's uh folks who probably have a problem getting enough food on the table given the economic situation i've seen this a lot out west uh where the lakes and rivers are often contaminated mercury and other pollutants from coal-fired burning so i think we should definitely put up more signage i assume they know and they're not going to you know they don't have to wear the wherewithal to not get the fish but nonetheless maybe they don't know i haven't really noticed signs but i'm not looking hard thank you okay i have i i made a note i will i'll report back to you all with um what what additional work we can do to address the comments that you raised thank you very much okay one last question from mike apple uh not a question but uh just those sign signs that do exist were put in the parks by the watershed council initially so parks themselves i don't think it has done much signage for uh fish advisories but the watershed council has been very active and are the ones who've done it on behalf of parks or has at least let parks know that they were doing it in the past uh so if there's a tree to shake it might be the watershed council first yeah we we regularly meet the watershed council county health and the city so we we are all aligned and we're working together well i will communicate with all those folks um um if you're not aware we also i mean i heard the con conversation about the metrics before i started and from the drinking water side um we have a monthly newsletter that we put out called quality water matters you can see it at qualitywatermatters.org and we're trying to do that is communicate about what some of the issues are that our customers are concerned about um particularly to water quality so you will see some some metrics and some third monitors about how we're doing certain things so you weren't aware it could be a resource for you thank you okay um all right well thank you so much brian for all the good work and um job brian thank you you're welcome we'll move on to the other uh so let's move on to the next item on the agenda which i was going to talk about the federal and state regulation and uh what's going on in other places so i'm going to start sharing my screen let's see there we go okay so um just for a quick review um pfos stands for perfluorinated alkyl substances or polyfluorinated alkyl substances um what this wow what uh so what are for perfluoroapple substances well basically they're things with their molecules with multiple carbon fluorine bonds so this for example on the left are the chemical structures of pfoa which stands for perfluorooctal acid because there's eight carbons in here and p phos is a similar eight carbon chain it's perfluorooctyl sulfate so most of these compounds have either an acidic function here a carboxylate or a um or a sulfate so the response you know the the health effects of these have been known by dupont and 3m since the 1970s since the mid 70s and of course the patents have run out it's been illegal since 2015 to manufacture either of these compounds in the united states but it's still people are uh but you're still allowed to import them and put them into products um so the industry response has been to just make different kinds of molecules that uh uh you know instead stay a step ahead of the regulatory agencies so uh gen x is a compound that's uh a replacement for the ones on the left it's a smaller compound as you can see a little bit more complicated it has contaminated the cape fear river and caused a lot of problems with the city of um wilmington north carolina which gets its water you know from the cape fear river uh this was from a kimworst plant in north carolina which was um which was supposed to notify the state about its containment and production and containment of gen x but uh somehow one one office of the epa did not communicate back to the state office of epa so this was a a total case of neglect for um something like six or eight years um and then the second compound down here pfvs it's something um that's also even used as a replacement in firefighting phones and other other uh commercial products so again these are um pfas is just an umbrella term there are total of some almost 5 000 synthetic chemicals that have these multiple carbon fluorine bonds um the response of the epa only responded back in 2004 or 2005 or so where they set a a not a regulatory standard but just a public health advisory level about 70 parts per million for the combined pfos and pfo act and still at the net at the federal level these are the only pcos compounds that are regulated and they're not really regulated they're just health advisory levels um so however michigan as brian mentioned michigan just enacted uh mcl levels or regulatory levels for seven of these pfas compounds i just said earlier this month i think it was august 4th um so as of august 4th the state has regulatory authority for those southern pfas compounds um again the pfoa and pfos they've been manufactured and sold in the united states since 1943 uh and they can be measured in blood worldwide these compounds have been in the environment since the 1950s and they have been accumulating and they have they are persistent the their central property of all of these pfos compounds is that they are persistent both in the body and in the environment uh because it's unnatural there are no natural carbon fluorine chemical bonds known and so none of us have evolved the mechanisms to either detoxify them or eliminate them specifically from our bodies so they principally been used in consumer products such as scotchgard and firefighting foam by the military especially and a lot of contamination sites nationally are found in um airports and in training facilities that were for training firemen to extinguish aircraft fires it fires and fuel fires again their their main property their main threat is that they concentrate and persist in body tissues unlike a lot of chemical contaminants they do not partition into fats but they do partition into blood and liver where they're recirculated within the body um and there's another thing is that they are difficult to measure parts per trillion these are nanograms per kilogram so it's the equivalent of putting a drop of one of these p class compounds into 20 olympic swimming pools um so they're they're presenting analytical challenges brian alluded to you have to be careful how you sample things because they're on many gloves um they can be found in parts per trillion or more than parker trailing level part for trillium level and on gloves clothing such as waterproof clothing um you know hush about these shoes that have been waterproof um they're also very very difficult to destroy to actually actually to adequately destroy any pfas compound you need to incinerate it above 1100 degrees centigrade and you need to do it in the nitrogen atmosphere there are no incineration facilities in the united states that are licensed and that are regularly monitored for these conditions there are newer technologies there are grants grant proposals out there for requests for proposals for destroying fifa's compounds but as yet there's no really good technology to do that uh the next slide here i'm just showing a a quick graphic of how states have responded to pfas um over here at the top the us epa is still not regulating pfo and pfos but that some of these compounds are supposed to be our others the health advisory is that the sum of these compounds in drinking water should be less than 70 parts per trillion um california has acted many of these other states have acted wherever you see an x it means that the sum of all these compounds has to be less than 70 parts per trillion in drinking water and these are the michigan standards that you can see for comparison um so but again these are only a handful of the 4700 p fast compounds that are out there um now the circular economy of pfas is that you have point sources but um and they all come from industrial or these afff for firefighting foam point sources and they're they contaminate surface and ground waters uh there are hundreds of um fifa states recognize the igla uh egle now in the state of michigan state of michigan has been very aggressive more than many other states in testing for pfas and they tested first for drinking water and then their attention had once that was taken care of they focused on wastewater treatment plant effluents and groundwater and ground waters that are not near sites there are known contamination sites that where people are not withdrawing drinking water from those groundwaters and then also there's a concern with biosolids what i'm going to talk about next so in the state of michigan here industrial plants are are allowed to discharge their wastes into wastewater leaving generally municipal wastewater treatment plants um if you eagle has a pretty has been pretty transparent about this if you look at the impart website it contains a lot of information so um so the states looked at all wastewater treatment plant effluents for those for those that have industrial pre-treatment permits um ann arbor is one of those ann arbor has an industrial pre-treatment permit i think but mostly because of the university because there are no manufacturing plants here in michigan anymore i mean here in ann arbor um another source of contamination is through commercial distribution because for example scotchgard um you know nonstick cookware that all ends up in the landfill and landfill leachate generally contains high levels of pfos coming from the solid coming from these um solid waste and they end up in the wastewater as well um in ann arbor what's generally done is there uh our land old landfill uh the the leachate from the landfill is diverted to the sanitary sewer so it runs through the wastewater treatment plant and vents into the surface waters of the huron river um but uh a main concern right now are biosolids and compost and the their contamination mostly comes because fifa are already in the food chain but also because you have substantial contamination from p faucets and fast food wrappers and other food packaging materials um the only way that we're going to stop this from happening and uh and is by reforming the federal toxic substances control act to invoke what's called a precautionary principle which has been used in europe for some years and what this means is that you're not allowed to manufacture and distribute large quantities of a new chemical until you have actually tested them for human health and in many cases ecological health as well so the united states is the only advanced developed country that does not that accepts a manufacturer's statement that substance is recognized as generally safe before they're allowed to manufacture and release it and moreover that uh these are all proprietary compounds and proprietary mixtures that they're not required that are up in our trade sequence so they are not it would take a lawsuit to find out what actually pfos compounds are in a particular substance that's being sold on the market now there's quite a bit of fifa in cosmetics as well um but it's it's mainly entering the food chain through um you know through fast food wrappers and other food packaging but meanwhile all that stuff ends up in compost and biosolids as well and these biosolids are oftentimes spread on agricultural fields so where the plants will take up some of them to some degree and others will be bleached out of the biosolids and the agricultural fields onto surface waters so just briefly what are our local key flash sources in the huron river the major point sources brian stieglitz already said it's from the wixom the tri-bar cleaning plant number four in whitson and there's two other plants up there that have uh released pfas via norton creek and uh and that's what triggered the uh fifa's alerts in the huron river uh and some fish were tested in kent lake in the kensington metro park and that's what prompted the fish advisory because they had very high levels of pfas and i i should also say that these fish advisories will likely last for years because of the persistence of pfas in the environment and in living tissues so it's going to take i've been told it will take at least two more years um for the fish for the pea faucets that's in that was measured in these fish to come down to the level that's uh the fish advisory could become lifted another there are several groundwater sites upstream of us that could eventually leak pfas into the huron river one is the brighton thermophile site another is the chrysler scio intro site that says even here on river drive the state is monitoring they have ground water wells where they're monitoring the plumes of pfos that are coming from these sites they will not likely provide a significant source of pfas contamination in the future even if they do leak um and then there's the landfill leachates there's several landfills upstream with us that have uh have contaminated ground waters that are gradually migrating into the huron river so um but the thing that we all have to remember is that most exposure worldwide for pfos and pfoa which are the only pfas compounds that have any um real data in humans is that most most people worldwide that are exposed to pfloss and pfoa 70 percent of it comes through food ingestion and this has been going on for decades um it's mostly an aquatic fish and invertebrates oysters other seafood again it's mostly tends to concentrate in liver and meat so i've been telling people or whatever you do you might want to stop eating liver um especially fish livers for those of you that are fond of sushi and then um and then dairy products um generally 25 percent of exposures come through drinking water but this is something that can be more easily contained and more easily monitored and contained about roughly five percent of exposures occur through fabric dust where that's inhaled um you know dust from carpets and other fabrics that have been treated with fifa's um in terms of these newer pfos compounds it's um it's hard to tell as brian was saying they're monitoring a set a subset of all these pfos compounds but uh igloo just did a study of plating plants and they discovered that indeed the plating plants have replaced their fifos containing um products that they use in these chrome plating plants uh p-flats they're no longer using them and uh the monitoring data seems to indicate that however um some of them have no pfas and the substitute products have no pipots in them but some of them have another efos called 62 fts which is generally which is um not always monitored but um i believe that that's in the uh set of the compounds that brian is testing for so this is something we might expect to come out of these plating plants in the future with 6 2 fts so um just to highlight the problem is that there was a study uh some eight years ago by now in a voice water sludge in sweden and you can test for total pfas because there are 4 700 compounds in these individual compounds are very it's very difficult to measure them at the part per trillion levels there's a way of getting a measurement of how much fifos is in a sample by using an assay called extractable organic fluorine assay um which will tell you i'll give you a rough mass balance of how much phos is in within a particular sample without any without measuring the individual ones and so a large proportion of these extractable growing organic fluorines measured in these wastewater sludges in sweden were unidentified and that that means close to 87 to 98 percent in the wastewater and 87 and 91 percent of the sludge which has turned into bio uh biosolids so it's um so whenever we look at these total amount of pfos um that's a misnomer nobody is ever measuring in these massvec acids nobody is measuring the total amount of pfas what they're measuring is a subset that they think are likely to be there but again none of them except for very few of them um have any regulatory backing to them to any clean-out procedure so the priesthood and precursor compounds make a significant contribution precursor compounds are compounds that are degraded in nature and in the body to p phos or pfla so when you tend to get smaller uh perfluorocarboxylic acids during a wastewater treatment process and um and the amounts of unknown key fats have definitely increased in in swedish wastewater from 2012 to 2015 when that study was published so um i think the next little last slide here is as everybody many people are aware how the city tested the pfas content in its compost and the finished compounds at its compost facility there's other data coming out from linda lee's laboratory she's a professor at purdue university and she's published several papers where she's analyzed composts and uh packaged biosolids for pfas compounds and um what this is telling us is that um if you look at compost that just comes from leaves grass in the backyard yard waste in other words you have a far far very little contamination of the compost from fifos compounds however if you look at compost that includes food waste and compostable food service wear which the tragedy here is that it's good to have these um these um um you know these food wastes because they they're high in nitrogen content so the resulting biosolids are are much better fertilizer than just adding um the leaves and grass and backyard compost which tends to be low in nitrogen or high in carbon however what you can see here is that the uh and the compost our facility were sampled on october 25th and 2019 come in roughly in the in the middle of what's seen in other municipal compost um down at bottom you see uh and even higher levels of pfas that are in commercially available biosolids that you can find bagged in stores such as home depot blowers and other stores so you should be careful buying compost and biosolids that are bagged that are offered for sale in these um you know in these uh gardening store outlets um you'll see that there's one outlier here now these samples were all uh uh reported under conditioned condition of anonymity because nobody would willingly give a sample to the professor for testing if it was going to be published if if what their levels of pfas in their product were published so these are all it's unknown what these um what these biosolids are except for one they're really large outlier here um this is milorganite which comes from the city of milwaukee's um municipal wastewater treatment plant so milorganite um is definitely higher than um than many other compo uh biosolids that are offered commercially on the market so the last slide here is just that i provided for you or just key information sources if you want to know more about key thoughts but there is but just to cap this um there is there is still no regulation of pfas by the epa there is uh the state is regulating them for drinking water uh but there are no standards or regulatory authority for pfas in either biosolids or wastewater treatment plant effluent so that's the next thing the state is working impressively on and i'll just want to say finish by saying that the state impart program has done a very good job uh they have very dedicated staff there that have um that have uh pursued this contamination as um as very properly um with the budget that they have um and that their michigan is actually head of most many other states in the regulation of fifa so that's um that's all i have to say so i'm going to stop my sharing and i'll answer any questions um um okay um shannon um if you could actually go back to sharing your screen closed out we're trying to figure this out and go back to the slide that shows the composting graph yeah could you just point out where i'm i'm a little confused about sort of where ann arbor is in this graph oh okay well the total okay the total pfos of them they measured the entire thing is the ann arbor results basically is that what you're saying um if you sum up all the 26 compounds that were measured in the compost of the sum of the pfos compounds come out at 31 parts per trillion and so the arrow is pointing like i guess i'm a little confused by the so our our facility is this top chunk and then the lower oh no no no i have not plotted any of the ann arbor data here like can you see that cursor can you see my cursor yeah yeah yeah yeah so for example for this municipal compost uh this right here is the total of the pfos because at the bottom it says ann arbor compost facility sample and so this is this is not like a summary of what this graph is okay i was confused all right that's yeah that's misleading i'm sorry um this is where that total for ann arbor comes in i see that's the gray line is where we're all within that okay so up here so you see where we're we're basically showing up in the middle of where other at least these um compost were measured okay and so um you had you had made a distinction between fast food packaging which you had said was you know pretty intense in terms of um some of these chemicals in it but then you would also also talked about compostable containers and so i'm just what i'm wondering is are essentially like are they made of pretty similar things should we be thinking about um what we allow to go into our compost in terms of food containers that's that's my question it's like i i don't think that anybody like that i don't think of going to mcdonald's and think i can put their stuff in in our compost bin but i do look at things that i get from you know a local store that has a compostable cup or or something that has you know zucchini in it or something like that that says it's compostable should we be thinking twice about putting those kinds of compostable containers in our own compost facility and i say this as somebody who um you know as a landscape architect i spec that compost every day in in the work that i do um for soil building capacity and so i would just be very curious about what our facility is and should we be thinking about um shifting or or you know how we um [Music] how we say who gets you know what what gets in and what doesn't get in yeah no that's an excellent question um i have been trying to follow up on that with some of the um some of the you know um supermarkets here that offer you know containers and so i've been doing some my own investigation about that first of all nobody's really testing for those except um if you go to the environmental working group as in the ngo the environmental ngo the environmental working group and they've had they've acquired quite a lot of funding through hollywood celebrities and so they have done a very good job as well as the ecology center here in ann arbor these are the leading um and and i should say the silent spring institute and um you have web and in that last slide i have um links to their websites so you can there's a limited amount of data because of uh that was obtained by these ngos there is no government organization that's been because there's no regulatory authority nobody's coming tax dollars to measure these things okay okay and then my other question is like do we have i'm sorry sounds like you wanted to continue so you can go to those websites and see how they've ranked different people um different stores um through sampling uh you know of things taken on various packaging taken from various stores nationally what i have noticed is that most of the high-end stores here in ann arbor their takeout containers do not have pfos in them but um some of them do have a plastic that does not break down um you know there's they're made out of paper board but they're always aligned if you see the insides have like a very polished looking surface and those can be um in one case they are like um one supermarket here offers their takeout containers have a polymer which is a copolymer of ethylene and acrylic acid and that's not readily broken down so when those things are composted those plastics are still there as polymers um but they're a smaller amount and they're not it's hard to tell what's going to happen with them over time yeah um and then my other question then i don't know if you know the answer to this or not is i was under the impression that our um you know a wastewater treatment facility produces biosolids for fertilizer and things like that i don't know if you know that and if you feel like again it's it's just it's just concerning to kind of hear that we're trying to do they're the right thing with some of these ways of handling compost and stuff like that and do you feel like any information you have will um allow us to self-reflect on some of our own procedures within the city and and affect some of the you know ways that we get to our goals um with with these items because you know it i know it's there's a lot of pros and cons all these things i'm just wondering if you have any information on um how we handle our own i feel like i had heard that there are biosolids that come out of that process but i'm not sure if you're aware of that i know that you're you're way more aware of all those issues than i am in terms of how waste is handled in the city in that way yeah i mean i think this deserves a bigger discussion in the commission um i'm we don't have time for it all today but what i can say is that um you know the law uh biosolids have been spread on agricultural land for for decades um the only thing they're required to test for heavy metals and sometimes in several a handful of pesticides i believe um but they're generally uh they're only required to test for heavy metals so uh i think it would be um i'm working with some engineers to try to see if we can sample some things upstream with us especially and maybe do what the environmental working group has done and what silent spring institute has done um you know to try to do some fun and testing by an ngo to try to see where um you know where um i would i would my my intuition tells me though that ann arbor is not a particular problem a bigger problem is going to be the wastewater treatment plants that have industrial pre-treatment permits which are definitely contaminating nearby solids with ann arbor has not been flagged as being contaminated because we don't generate we don't have a point source here you know and within our within another there's no point sources that have been identical we may have some upstream potentially coming down to the huron river which then we're drinking and you know goes into our food growing and all those sorts of things yeah so okay all right thank you for for that okay let's see i can't see everybody here you can you can leave the presentation if you want i just wanted to understand that graph better thanks this is chris graham what is the the particular pfps fertilizer that's so completely out of line with everything else oh well you see the um the orange color here is p foss mostly and this blue color is p f h x i think so that is mill organized oh really we'll organize that comes from the city of milwaukee's wastewater treatment plant which i do really like to use and a lot of uh there's it's particularly high in pfas but again i can't say what these other ones were and and where the fuss is coming into their wastewater treatment plant to their wastewater stream somehow well yeah because they have industries that are um you know they're dumping their wastewaters into the municipal wastewater treatment plant all right so so you know that's being tracked here in michigan um so you know uh so i'm working with the sierra club and other ngos to try to figure out on what we can do to help finance on some of this some you know testing that will actually tell us because eagle is not going to have the funds and it doesn't have the regulatory authority either so you know it's just um that's the central problem here is um you know like our wastewater treatment plant um they if they have the funds and they have the um the courage to test their own drinking water it will happen but there is no regulatory authority in order to test your drinking water um until like earlier this month where we're municipal drinking where people are required to test the water for beef off and of these ones that are very low in pfas or p p f h x a content do you know what they are no i do not i'm still investigating that as i mentioned i mentioned earlier that uh um that this study was only possible because of the um you know the the samples the samples that were provided um were done um under condition of anonymity that after if they were if any of this data was published that um they were not to be identified so these this paper does not identify the sources but i've heard um anecdotally that this large one is from the lord from several people very interesting um all right i can't see anybody's hand or anything hd this is john mursky i really appreciate the presentation i appreciate your public service and the work you're doing for the sierra club and your presentation today um so thanks a lot um i have um one question in terms of our exposure as human beings to pfas it seems to me one conclusion that one can draw is that a vegetarian diet is would is is better better than one that's heavy in dairy and meat and aquatic life it seems um if that's 70 of our exposure um and we know that there's also other benefits in terms of health and also in terms of impact on greenhouse gas emissions is that is that a valid conclusion oh definitely you know um you know the only um there are several studies have been published over the last 10 years about plant uptake from people you know from biosolids that were split on sprouter and agricultural land um these heavier these um a larger fifa p phos compounds like pfos and pfoa they generally bind to the soil pretty tightly and the plants do not take those up but they preferentially they will take up some of these smaller chain compounds like pfds the fbi pfhxaa these smaller these smaller um compounds will be taken up by plants some some of them um they do not concentrate them particularly one of the one of the reasons why the industry switched to the smaller compounds is because they do not buy to accumulate as much as the longer chain ones but they are still as persistent so um what i've been telling people is yeah plant-based diet is is better um you have you should be more careful about eating fish which is unfortunate um freshwater fish but mostly seafood um you know you can measure there's quite a lot of pfos in the blood of um of inuit the anyway you know and other populations that eat a lot of seafood in japanese so um so you need to minimize your um intake of these foods and try to eat as much of a plant-based diet as you can and one thing i should say that i neglected to mention is that just this week jeff irwin introduced a bill um in the state legislature that's called center bill 1072 which is a bill to ban people food packaging in michigan and yusuf ravi is submitting a similar bill on the house this week so um um there are there are a handful of states i think it's somewhere around six or ten that have already done this they've already banned the use of pfos and food packaging uh washington the state of washington was the first i think their ban doesn't come into effect until next year because you know they they've needed to delay to allow to allow people to adapt to that regulation and change their supply chain hey steve i have one other um conclusion i'd like to offer and get your reaction to it you talked about the difference between us regulation under tosca that's the acronym for the toxic um compared to um the equivalent program of um called reach in in europe and um my my conclusion or proposed conclusion is um you know we hear all the time how um all these regulations um are onerous um but none of them um well when when people make that that conclusion they're not thinking about the externalities and in the sense the the tragedy of the commons where these things can just be dumped in water or dumped in in compost or wherever the case may be and if you look at at reach in europe it's not like reach and all of their uh regulations have sent their economies into total um you know disasters where they you know they're they're they're just absolutely not able to compete on the world stage anymore because they have um regulatory systems like reach is that is that is i is that reasonable um i don't know you don't know no um if i if i understand you right um you're asking if this will american industry manufacturing yeah those are these rules well yeah yeah my mother-in-law worked in the chemical industry for years and worked overseas in switzerland for what's now part of basf and um one of the areas that he worked in was in related to reach regulations and my understanding is is that you know that's been in place for um a decade or more if not longer and um they seem to their economy seems to be able to operate at a high level um and they're um able to do so while protecting um their residents from contaminations like these that are bioaccumulative and that are um that are very very long lasting and it just seems to me that you know when we hear all the time that regulations um will kill the us economy i just i just don't understand it when i see economies like europe that are highly competitive and they're able to control substances like like these yeah oh yeah well i can't speak to that with any authority but my uh but my um i can give many examples about why that is not generally true you know it's uh people resist raising the bar for the for their industry but uh all that does is allow the more um the more irresponsible players in the market to compete you know to compete to to to compete and get a higher profit so i don't understand i don't understand why people won't impose a floor you know just to be responsible and make sure that there's an even playing field um but you know you know there was a problem disposing of gen x to pfas compound gen x in holland now the netherlands had a problem they they couldn't dispose of it so they sent it to north carolina and north carolina was supposed to send it to a landfill in new mexico and so some environmental groups found out about that and tried to halt that whole process but it's not clear what happened ultimately steve i have a question yeah this is rita um since the we currently encourage people to put food waste and other compostables in our compost we're now accepting things that here in ann arbor that are not really so great it seems like do we have a plan for how to move forward with that or we're going to kind of hope that that the legislation passes and do our best to support it or what do you see as like next steps to deal with our part of that food waste and compostable food service where well supporting that bill to have defaustpan and food packaging you know you'll never get the pea pots out of the food waste we're eating it and we're throwing it away so there's food waste but you said that it didn't accumulate as much in at least in in vegetable type food what food if i heard that correctly and then there's the packaging which i assumed was really the greater source is that right yeah so i'm just wondering if maybe we should say temporarily hey everybody don't put your packaging in the compost yeah we can say that um there's no uh we can we can educate we can communicate that to people in the community it looks like at least the high-end um supermarkets around here have already done so you know they've already pretty much reduced the pfas from their food packaging but it's the fast food um it's the fast food operations that are the main problem so i think what we can do is we can take the data that's been generated by an environmental working group and other ngos and try to publicize that but i'm not sure how to publicize that yeah it just feels sort of ironic that we've all you know that we've moved to this greater composting and in a way we've got a problem that we'd rather not have yep it's going to keep going on until we can get some kind of federal reform so um any other questions um we should move on shortly all right so i'm going to stop sharing my screen here and i can see everybody and so the next item on the agenda is public commentary so i'm going to read my uh i'm going to make a statement here uh this is an opportunity for persons to speak for up to three minutes please call 1-888-7888 and enter meeting id number 924-5796-9823 this information is also displayed on the meeting agenda and video feed city staff will select callers that have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of your phone number in order to electronically raise your hand to indicate your desire to speak please press star 9 on your phone you will hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area and mute any television or background sounds so that we may hear you clearly please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments and be patient there is a delay of up to 30 seconds before a connection is established so um so galen will get the uh any request for public comment steve i'm gonna wait 30 seconds and then um i'll let you guys know um but i don't see anybody right now okay if there's nobody in the queue nope no one's in the kill okay well let's wait another 10 seconds then okay the next item on the agenda is uh um the approval of the minutes of the july meeting um has everybody had a chance to look at the copy are there any suggested changes or revisions of the minutes from the july meeting i don't see any hands raised so do i have a motion to accept the minutes i do i have a second okay john callaward first and seconded by john mursky all who approve of the minutes say raise your hands anybody who does not approve raise your hands okay it passes unanimously uh we'll move on to the next item on the agenda is uh is a vice chair um as you all know susan hutton was our vice chair last year and she left the board in may she cycled off the board in may uh during our hiatus from the code with 19.
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hello everyone hi hi jim how is everyone good well jim hey jim frank great job last night it was a night we had um the city recreation had uh drive-in movie night at uh saint andrews church how'd it go jim good we had about 60 cars nice where they capped it off at and uh everyone had a great time my kids loved it yeah i didn't even know about it was there was there advertising i think the city did um hear the location very late uh last week i conf they asked if i could get search for them and i i i got the church but um the initial flyer i saw it was a tbd yeah they were afraid that if they go back too far that the screen they wouldn't have seen the screen but i think you could easily see the screen from you know where we were talking nothing i think you could see the screen back there yeah it was fine yeah if they do if they do it again we could put the word out too and it might get get more people they're thinking of maybe hi um since they're not going to be able to do their traditional halloween parade this year uh they're thinking of doing maybe that again with people decorating their cars or something like that okay once you're done jim once you're done i'm gonna start the meeting okay i'm done okay that means be quiet call to order the august 27th regular board meeting please stand for the pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with justice and liberty you may be seated attendance and roll call of board members mr abu drabo here miss password here miss beltram here mr canova here mr daley frozen mr daily are muted he's frozen i think yeah i think he leaves lagging a little bit okay mr casper here mr becenti mr smith here miss danny here next order business mission statement the mission of the clifton school district is to in an open and reciprocal community partnership is to provide all students with a quality education to develop the skills necessary to become literate lifelong learners who are responsible and productive citizens contributing to a democratic society in the never changing world next order of business is the reading of the open public meeting statement the new jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right to the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting their interests is discussed or acted upon it accorded with the provisions of this act the clifton board of education has caused notice of this meeting to be publicized by having the date time and place thereof posted at the city clerk's office clifton public library administration building senior citizen nutrition center on cable tv in the local press on the district's website and mailed to presidents of parent-teacher organizations this meeting will be tape recorded in accordance with policy 0168 there are no recognition and award presentations next order of business is the adoption of the minutes of the july 23rd 2020 regular meeting and executive meeting and i have a motion motion by mr smith second by mr abu drabo any revisions steam none roll call mr abby drabo yes miss basford yes mr mrs beltran mrs beltran miss beltram you're muted if if you are trying yeah sorry no it was another part of the story just ran back oh good mr canova yes mr daley yes mr casper yes mr priscilli yes mr smith yes miss danny yes motion carries next order of business is the adoption of minutes from the um august 10th 2020 meeting the special meeting can i have a motion no move motion by mr smith second by mr albert drabo revisions see none roll call mr abu drabo yes miss bashford yes miss beltran yes mr canova yes mr daley yes mr casper yes mr pacenti yes mr smith yes miss danny yes motion carries there are no communications and announcements next order business is the first reading of policy and we do have some policies 1648.03 restart and recovery plan full-time remote instruction and 5 600 student discipline code of conduct there is no presentation of reports from administration advisory committees and special committees next order of business is board committee reports and we do have a few excuse me miss danny i did want to give an update uh under the presentation of reports if i may or i can wait until uh prior to public recognition that's up to you no go ahead you can give it under this part because it is still reports from administration advisory committees and special committees so we'll start out with you and then we'll move to the more specific school board association meeting thank you i just have a brief update good evening uh commissioners and members of the community who have joined us tonight at this board meeting last week at our town hall meeting the board and i announced that we would begin the year remotely and this decision was made for a number of reasons but most importantly because of the major uptick of covet cases in clifton particularly among school-aged children and guidance from the clifton health department as of a week ago there were 38 confirmed cases of covet 19 in children between the ages of 3 months to 9 years old and 147 cases in children between the ages of 10 and 19 years old over 30 of those cases were reported in the previous seven days the concern is if that were to happen while schools were open i have no doubt that the spread of the virus would have been much greater among classmates school employees and student and employees families and it would most likely cause us to be forced to close or possibly even have worse consequences since last week's announcement that we would begin the year remotely i have received hundreds of emails regarding the decision some are in favor and many are against it many want our schools open and i get it please know that i have truly listened um and read every email i've tried to respond to every email or at some point times i've had to ask my staff to help assist in their responses because i couldn't keep up um but please note that i truly have listened and understand all the concerns that that people have and i too share in this frustration of not being able to reopen safely at this time you know this pandemic along with a lack of leadership and guidance at the state level where they have left these life and death decisions up to 600 local school districts has created monumental challenges for all of us particularly superintendents and particularly of families of school-aged children it's caused a rift in our community among those with differing opinions and unfortunately it's become overly politicized the whole concept of one clifton that i had been pushing since june has not become a reality because of this decision but it is my hope that we can still unite as one community with one clifton at the heart of all decisions being made even if we have differences of opinion and i hope that we can at least realize that the delay is the safest option right now for the health and safety of everyone i assure all of our parents students and the community that we will not stop working until we can bring all of our children back to our schools as quickly and safely as possible please note we are not delaying the opening of schools indefinitely we have a target date to reassess conditions on october 1st and i strongly believe we will be able to open up our doors on october 12th i think it comes out to 21 school days that we're delaying i know that is not the best scenario but for now it is the decision that has been made and i will do everything in my power to make sure we open up on october 12th and finally um at last week's town hall meeting we had a special guest mr foster who's the executive director at the boys and girls club and he made an announcement that the boys and girls club would only be offering aftercare to those students who chose virtual instruction and needless to say that announcement caused a lot of concern with our parents and members of the community who were counting on aftercare service upon our return to in-person learning so in response to the needs of our families and after consultation between the district the boys and girls club and department of health i'm happy to pass this message along as a public service announcement for the boys and girls club that we can and will be able to provide after-care services in our schools when school reopens the concern was the mixing of pods of students and busing issues we address those issues the modified proposal will be to serve up to 450 students at our 12 school site locations and the main boys and girls club would remain reserved for pods of the remote learners after school care would be offered at all schools except number 4 and 16 where the boys and girls club does not have a license so they never offered aftercare there the students would be served in socially distanced groups with four to six pods of students at each school site and up to eight pods potentially at school 17.
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it's like a man marking system for north east has a lot of players central and towards the back side quisenberry is going to look to slide this ball he's going to look to slide this ball probably in what we call the corridor of uncertainty between the edge of the six and the penalty and recent developments it looks like eduardo cordova had his second yellow he is going to be sent off and north is going to have to play for the remaining 2 minutes and 20 seconds a man down so coach glover's got decisions to make how do we take who do we take off to play with ten it's unfortunate nothing malicious about either card with eduardo just playing hard but coach clover thinking through his decision looks like sam larkin's gonna leave the field and north is gonna have to play with 10 for the remaining two minutes looks like quisenberry restarts north man down ball into the box where it's like romine second chance gonna be deflected picked up by iorio well played both sides always helpful you got those six street keepers which east and north boasts both have ayorio plays long picked off by young fireworks sure to be in these last two minutes whether from the fouling or goal scoring variety jackson restarts after a young foul jackson it's gonna be picked up by holiday young presses through it's gonna go off of him throw four north it's like jesse williams and corbin hatcher are going to battle down on the down in the edge hatcher two hands into the back's gonna draw a foul for the dogs similar area to the goal see how north handles it with one minute left looks like no urgency to take it jackson on the ball looking back post for nathan white white volley is going to go out of bounds for a goal kick for east 53 seconds remaining corydon looks to pump it long whitley wins the header where back up willie again romine back in the middle well done by will holliday romig controls pushes forward pressed by white does enough finds young on the left side long young tiptoes by gilliam looks like two dogs involved there what will happen with the clock we will stop the clock on 20 seconds left let's see if coach gunter's got something straight from the training ground they have worked on moments like this set pieces in dangerous areas looks like quizzenberry is going to be on the ball and corbin hatcher is going to get involved for east sam larkin it's like he's gonna have to come in for jorge avila who picked up a card there corydon doing his best emmanuel neuer impression playing in the attacking half circle 20.1 seconds left in the crosstown classico we will not go to overtime if this ball finds the back of the net which it does chris quisenberry equalizes with 16.8 seconds off of the free kick we are at 1-1 with 16.8 remaining wide service and set pieces deciding factors in one goal games we've got two wide services from set pieces east one north one 16.8 seconds remaining in the match what a finish by quisenberry curled it to the back post snuck it by iorio all the east traffic in front great finish and north will attack white 12 seconds left ware puts his foot through it pumps it into the attacking half what a response by east knew there would be fireworks in the last two minutes was not disappointing a lot of dejected fans in blue a lot of excited fans in white great finish by both groups expect to see both of these teams competing for a 3 a sectional championship which will be held at the bcsc soccer complex and likely if one of the teams in blue or orange comes through with that they are gonna be very dangerous team to see in the regional semi-state and beyond rivalry soccer matches to recap the evening and aidan whitley service finds christian cardoso for the 1-0 lead for columbus north but a chris quisenberry free kick with 20 seconds remaining equalizes it and we leave david green soccer complex at richard y david green soccer field at ritual soccer complex with a 1-1 tie between the number 18 east olympians and the columbus north bulldogs we're going to take a moment to thank our sponsors and we'll come back with player of the game wow what a finish tie that was amazing just to see the end of the game you are never out especially in a crosstown clasico as you called it thai when it's north and east you are never out great job by both teams tonight what an effort i'm really proud of just all the hustle throughout that match i want to say a special thanks to our sponsors specifically ruoff mortgage for being our title sponsor of live streaming this fall as well as ovation technology group our scoreboard sponsor thank you to columbus wealth thank you to first financial bank to jolie development and jolie rentals i'd also like to thank overhead door of south central indiana because of these sponsors we are able to both live stream these games but also and equally as important be able to recoup some of the losses that because of covid19 and the capacity restrictions that we unfortunately have to administer you know we had a great crowd out here but normally it would have been two three four five times larger and so because of our sponsors we are able to give a hundred percent of all the proceeds that were given by these sponsors back to the athletic department so thank you so much to each of our sponsors ty let's go ahead and talk a little bit of our post game awards first of all we're going to go ahead and give our columbus wealth offensive player of the game award to whoever you think is most deserving obviously we had two great goals tonight i'm going to let you choose however you'd like to do that so who's our columbus wealth offensive player of the game i think coming in to the match chris quisenberry is on the minds of every north player and unfortunately for north they forgot about him for the last 20 seconds so uh quizzenberry's clutch free kick um equalizes it four four east he is the attacking player of the game for east defensively i was very impressed with the organization from the north center back particularly jorge avila he was very solid in all of his 1v1 opportunities he anticipated very well he kept playing in front of him and i would have to give jorge the nod for defensive player of the game great match between both teams really excited and really interested to see what the sectional draw is going to be hopefully they're on opposite sides of the bracket because i want to go on a saturday evening in october and i want to watch the dogs and the olympians play for some hardware so great match thanks for everyone coming out here's josh and just thank you one more time to ty smith director of coaching at columbus express soccer club uh it's a just a awesome to be able to collaborate with him to have him commentate the play-by-play of this game man what a game 1-1 20 seconds left thought the bulldogs were going to be bringing home the win but because of mr questonberry wow we've got a tie and i wish that i knew how to do instant replay you'll have to scrub back through this after it's done live streaming what a play at the end of that game thank you one more time to our sponsors thank you for tai for commentating the game and we look forward bcsc and bartholomew county columbus community to bringing you another great live stream tomorrow night max andrews field the football game between the columbus north bulldogs and the columbus east olympians it's going to be a great game and we can't wait to see you there thanks for tuning in tonight
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thank you everyone and um board members we can go into the meeting now thank you you
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pandemic so we we should have a vice chair so i've heard uh let's um i sent out an email earlier so let's uh i'm the floor is open to nominations raise your hand if you want to nominate someone by john mursky i'd like to re nominate rita mitchell um rita indicated her interest in serving and i think she'd do a great job i've been working with her on the natural features committee and she's done an outstanding job okay any um are there uh let's see are there any other nominations okay do i have a second i think i need a second that's chris graham seconds that nomination um so let's vote on um on electing rita mitchell as a vice chair of the environmental commission um all who approve raise your hands okay all who are opposed raise your hands okay it's passed unanimously uh congratulations rita thank you thanks everybody thanks john and john and chris bravo bravo yes i'll share some of the information i have that you might need i have to take over this role thank you all right so uh moving on uh regular business um every did everybody have a chance to review review the proposed bylaw changes i'm not sure where they came from and who made them i was hoping to get an answer from city staff about that galen hello i'm gonna have to check with chris frost on that oh okay but you know to me they all looked uh uh they all looked proper proper and good and they they were clarifying i thought and so um i know did anybody have any other comment or objections to the bylaw changes uh rita i had just noticed as i was reading through them that there was one that that looked to me like there was a word missing and it wasn't i am the edited section um and i'm sorry i can't even find my own copy right now but it was section 3.27 and it looked like it needed a word um like clean energy or produce it said produce clean and it didn't say clean what um um and so it just looks like it needs a check okay big deal yeah would you just communicate that to galen sure okay okay thank you i have a procedural question um well first i should uh acknowledge that i did not read the bylaws so um shame on me but i do have a question in terms of um what were you um how we handle this is there supposed to be a first and a second reading of this um typically like with resolutions and things like that there's um a first reading in one meeting and then there's a second reading um where we then finally vote is that um what we need to do in the case of these bylaws does anybody know i think you're correct but i was hoping i didn't have to read the bylaws out no i don't think you have to read them i just present them in the meeting and then we can then finally approve them um in the next meeting and i think it would be helpful um with maybe this is already in the document read if you've read it is there a side-by-side comparison that shows um what was what was crossed out and what was added yeah yeah okay it's not side by side it's integrated integrated okay go ahead bob yeah it's really clear and these changes are not substantive at all it's it's really just cleaning up language and personally i don't see any reason to wait to vote on them if others aren't comfortable moving forward um i'm happy to defer but um i i i feel ready to make a motion to approve them as submitted john callaway weren't there some questions though about the commission composition and not being reflective of what we're currently at i don't know steve didn't you raise that in terms of the youth membership yeah it needs to have there's no mention of youth members in there so that's a deficiency right there so um does everybody feel like we need to have more explicit you know definition of the responsibilities and the roles of a i don't know why we would approve by laws that don't mention youth commissioners when we have a youth commissioner that's participating in this meeting i know i know so um i've already yeah i had down i was gonna wait until everybody else had said something before i brought that up but um i think i think uh it will definitely be it was worth having a discussion here and so this counts as the first reading and so let's have uh let's um i'll communicate this to the um for reader and i can communicate this to galen and let's get something uh a copy that has these commissioners in it as well and then we'll uh we'll read that at the next meeting in september okay these were being handled by chris frost i think right in the attorney's office yeah yeah yeah so i i would um if you all have any comments send them to me and um and including you read i just send them to me and i'll compile them and i'll send them to galen and uh and uh and uh and he can decide who to send it to probably chris frost okay steve it's chris graham here i saw you do some discussion about standing versus working groups and when the natural features committee came to the environmental commission it was prior to that a council committee called the natural features ordinance committee oh and it came originally as a standing committee so we did have one it i don't think it matters when iota and not having to do public the public process maybe is easier if we aren't but um we did have at least one standing committee i think there was another on toxics um back 10 years ago or eight year 10 years ago anyway um so morphing to our committees being predominantly or completely working maybe make sense but it is a change from past history okay um yeah this is the first i've heard of this so um let's um [Music] so um thanks for bringing that up chris so why don't we table that to a future meeting and but um you should just continue doing uh what you've been doing have you been doing public sessions anyway yeah i know we have announced they're announced and i'm not sure we have outside participation very much in the zoom era but right right okay well i'm sorry i did i wasn't aware of that okay so um the natural features ordinance is a standing committee as uh defined by our bylaws by our current and future bylaws well i think you've changed it i you know the whole process now is natural features working group and that's fine i don't i don't raise this as a request to change it okay i i'm simply saying that uh you did have two standing committees i think and uh probably not having them works more smoothly okay though without an annaber news i'm not sure i you know stuff happens when we don't know about it i don't i'm not happy about that circumstance yeah yeah okay well this is uh i think this is worth keeping in the back of all of our minds i mean i think yeah yeah we want to we want to be as open and transparent to the public as we can be well that's why i'm raising if i'm raising a question at all it's the difference between the two committees standing committees have to be public meetings working groups don't have to be yeah but uh the working groups do not make any decisions there's no voting in a working group it's just designed for uh compiling information and digesting it and making it putting it into a presentable form for the full commission i don't remember standing committees ever making independent decisions yeah everything came to the commission okay just just briefly from the energy commission and i can shorten my report later but we have six working groups um no standing committees um in the past sometimes josh um put them on legistar so they they were announced in the public domain so people could participate we had residents um serving on on the committees and all of the work that we've done um heretofore at least has gone through um other commissions for example like planning commission and then through city council so there's been ample opportunity for public comment and for public input and in at least one case uh in the ev charging group you know we reached out and had meetings with dte we had meetings with developers so i think chris's point is correct that working groups are a lot easier to work with and we still can ensure that we're engaging with the public and ensuring that we're inserting public comment into the overall process okay yeah um all right uh any other comments about the uh about the uh structure of the working groups and the rules or committees okay so let's move on to the capstone project for the c students um just a quick update um because my uh my recollection is that uh we're supposed to just give a ten thousand foot summary to uh pack by september 1st and then he'll do some um circulating around the seas department and see um see what needs to be flushed out i already did send around i think everybody right uh contact information on who to get in touch with make easler yeah i think i everyone got that right yeah yeah yes i think i did my job really a lot earlier than i thought simply because uh nate was eager to get going but he's the man your time on the master's projects yeah yeah we did get it and the natural features committee has one uh assembled and ready to come to you okay but it goes to nate not me right right got it yeah that's the perfect time to do it and uh you know if it has to it might have to be done remotely whatever ones we have this year we'll see how it goes so keep that in mind too right now with the governor's guidelines our students can get out and do do field work uh they can also do uh human subjects work uh so there's quite a bit we can do our research enterprises is going pretty well for grad students so but i can't guarantee anything and it all depends on this this virus thing i've heard about yeah yeah and we're about to really uh have quite the experiment going on now yeah indeed okay so it sounds like so we're on progress with the capstone project proposals and um so chris you'll just you thanks for sharing um the one that you drafted and you'll send it to me geisler and um if there are any others uh they'll send them to matt geisler within the working groups after some review with the working groups okay so the one we have goes through the natchez natural features committee tomorrow and if it comes through there intact then we'll forward it on okay great um any other um any other comments on capstone projects at this time okay um stop need him sorry uh yeah just real quick just a heads up that there is another potential one in the works i did write to nate kiesler and ask about um just uh exploratory email of whether the subject of microplastics in the huron might uh be well suited to a project and he said that um dr stultz had mentioned that possibility and he thought the huron river watershed council may have as well so some combination of entities may come up with one on that topic too okay it might be worth reaching out to susan hutton i recall her mentioning in the previous meeting that there had been some measurements of microplastics in in the iran river and that the levels were okay yeah um so let's see so chris you want to the next item on the agenda is the natural features tree protection ordinance get us through the drafting and now let her comment for you okay all right so this will be really quick we are um working to review the udc for protections of that applied to site plans that would protect heritage trees landmark trees and any trees that we we determine are registered trees for various reasons we are literally crawling through phrase by phrase of the documentation and making the changes that that our group feels are appropriate um so we are i would say a little more than halfway through what we need to go through um and i'm we've been um having some great success i think with the group but but it has taken some dedication to having a basically a weekly meeting so that we can do what we we need to do um john and chris spent a lot of time reviewing the document prior to this um and got us set up with some original kinds of edits and now we're just going through and with everyone who's who's wanted to be actively involved um to put it together so um i don't have an estimate yet of when we'll have a final product um i think we're going to have a little bump with the labor day weekend coming up um but but i expect to move ahead and uh you know another month maybe um coming close that's what i would like sorry commissioner mitchell what group was that again that's the that's the national features working group it's the one that you've been helping us um galen with setting up those weekly meetings and we're working on the heritage tree ordinance okay thank you um shannon rita in the in the last i i struggled to kind of find the last draft and i i found something from chris but it doesn't have the list of trees that's in that um and i'm just wondering if there's any way that you could send that around i'm sure well wear those things against each other because i'd like to be able to take a closer look but obviously that's a big piece of it is sort of understanding what you're what you're right you know what your thresholds are for things yeah so right now you know it's really it is really literally a drafty document that's full of notes and markings of where we've ended and things like that so um just to be sure i get you what you want you do you want the draft document as well as the list of trees i think it would be helpful just even if it's full of you know replacement stuff and things like that that's what it is that's totally fine i okay i understand it's a messy process to go through this i'm not expecting anything finished but i'd love to just take another look i know kristen went out a while ago a while ago that i looked at but just curious to see where you all are with things and then again the list is the big thing right um to understand because obviously that's the thresholds that you guys are are regulating too you know so if you could send both that would be awesome i will do that so but just to let you know we have really not addressed the list yet it's been prepared but we haven't addressed it as a group at all yep yep but um just even if i just you know know where you all are headed or whatever then that would be that would be helpful so to be clear shannon we have not especially answered your question about whether we deal with just native trees or we deal with all big trees okay well even even just that just knowing where you guys are with it i i want to just give a more um kind of more thoughtful response that goes through it a little bit more carefully and so uh just having the whole thing there at in the state that it is knowing that it's just you know midpoint i totally get it i just still would like to be able to um to be able to look at it a little bit more carefully so again i totally understand that it's still evolving and and things like that but i would just like to be able to um know where you all are at this at this moment in time so a key piece of where we are is that there's a second set of amendments to the udc that would protect all trees all large all landmark heritage and register trees in the city not just those in a site plan process that is to say to disturb a tree a heritage landmark or registered tree you would have to go to city hall and get a permit and just how to trigger that process um my our original idea was to work through the grating permit and tighten that because the key issue about losing big trees is compaction of soils under them which happens all the time around house expansion projects for example or parking lot parking area expansions and to that end if we only address native trees in that there are a whole lot of planted trees native or otherwise that people would miss on their neighbor's property if they were cut down or killed by a construction activity that's goes on unpermitted so so are you saying that you can't like that you can't remove a tree on your own property if it's a certain size if it's just because up to this point obviously anybody can you know it can be a huge tree or can be a small tree you don't have to permit with anybody in order to remove a tree on your property and so you all are saying if it's a landmark tree or a heritage tree that you would have to go get a permit to be able to um take that down and then do we haven't gotten to the second ordinance that grew out of the packard road deal the first ordinance is to amend the provisions that govern site plans right when they're required but we're losing a lot of trees across the city and wonderful big old trees whether native or not on single-family house expansion projects um ignorance among contractors who say oh god no we're not going to hurt that tree but of course then they drive all over the roots and the tree gets hurt there's a great deal of education so they're there are two parts of what we're trying to do to protect the bigger trees in the city the first part is site planning process and that's easier but we're trying to load the load the weapons uh in definitions and so on and and amending the what meaning our tree list that's that existed for 30 years um in order to get to the second step which is a separate ordinance for individuals on single-family lots that aren't going through the city permit process in any other way that they would be that's a second step and it takes one a lot of pre-preparation with contractors and excavators and three guys and to know they they have to be able to distinguish what a landmark charities and registry is and then they have to know they need to go get a permit when they enter somebody's property and i'd like to just say that for me it's sort of like triggering that culture of appreciation of trees that we'd like to see across all properties regardless so that's kind of the direction i'd like to go and i think that our first one can start the conversation um and i was talking with um councilwoman banister today about potentially even going in an educational route in the direction of of educating the community about the value of our our big trees and to do kind of like i like the way we've approached the the pesticides and the turf grass like let's let's learn about what the values are and let's let's start getting education now to turn the tide so that maybe we won't have to use some such a big stick or anything to get people to keep their trees it'll work i think more or less like retention requirements work and that permit works in terms of the individual the residential stormwater permit is that what you're referring to exactly and instead of trigger being triggered by a 200 square foot or larger condition to impervious surface it would be triggered by any vehicles or work being done that requires them going off impervious services in other words a grading a grading permit of that soil erosion control permit basically well it aims at preventing compaction of soils right but that gets triggered by the the control permit by any permit by any action that that causes is likely to cause compaction of soils then you have to bring a drawing you sketch in that says here are there trees on the property and here's where the drainage system is going to go and here's where we're going to dig trenches and here's where we're going to drive around behind a house and how we're going to do it and how we're going to protect trees all right so i'm curious to see i think it's i think you're going to experience pushback oh gosh we got it the last time we tried 30 years ago yeah i think that yeah we the whole game plan is to design the ordinance but then go out and work with the excavators and the tree guys and the landscape contractors and get them really on board about but i think that residents too would be you know if you're there's going to be i think there's going to be push back with this too well that is a permit no again i know i get it but if i have a big oak tree overhanging my house and i cut it down because it's over my roof and it's a 30 incher then i'm going to have to plant 20 trees on my property i don't know how the mitigation will work but you see what i'm saying though it's like that that's you you may i'm i'm predicting some serious pushback on this i guess is what i would say just somebody who's in the industry i think your prediction is correct but we'll see how the political tide pushes i think it would be great to have the conversation though you know and also to promote the culture of trees so and i think you have the background to help us support that as well yeah no i i get it it's i don't next year we'll get into this okay thanks for the update well yeah many times it usually requires a controversy to get a substantial public discussion about anything doesn't it so um okay did you wanna uh do you think that uh when do you think you might be ready to bring this to the commission for a vote maybe early next year or the amendments of the site plan portions of the udc for this purpose sometimes fall oh okay so uh what about october uh i don't know i'll say maybe on that one that's my my guess that would be the first yeah so we're talking about december 3rd i think it was probably yeah instead of thanksgiving okay well maybe a draft by then maybe maybe uh you know i think it's worth sending it up to the whole commission and let comments happen before we say okay we're we're ready to send this on to planning commission yeah okay so let's put it on the december 3rd agenda all right okay let's see any other discussion about the natural features tree ordinance i don't see anything so bear in mind as i've always said to people to say yes we have a natural features ordinance no we have a whole set of amendments to the various development ordinances and all all of which now are packed into what's called the universal development order so we're amending pages in this 240 page thing which is an ongoing process that shannon knows very well about every single planning commission meeting there's another set of amendments okay nothing stands alone anymore right so um so we'll move on to the reports from the committees other commissions council and chair um versus administrator and council um the administrator is not here about council commissioner banister yes um councilmember kathy griswold was gonna join us and i um but i will paraphrase what she was gonna say um she is working on amending the udc chapter 40 about height of vegetation uh and obstructing the sight distance for pedestrians and bicyclists and cars and so that it has been sent back to the transportation commission for more review um but we she and i wanted to check with some of you all to see if anyone has a special interest or expertise in helping us set the optimal height level for vegetation in the right of way at the side of the road um because for the optimal level for sustainability so like right now it's 12 inches and it's the resolution on the table is going to 18 inches for grasses and so far the the chapter 40 udc is mainly on grasses so we would like to expand it to other vegetation at the side of the road and so we're looking for input on what the other vegetation would be and we're looking for input on what the optimal optimal height level like maybe 36 inches is fine as long as it's away from the sight distance of drivers so i'm paraphrasing this is really count kathy griswald's main area but we were hoping um that maybe uh chris graham or others of you that know about uh the height of vegetation blocking visibility you know we're trying to set the optimal level levels for both sustainability sustainability and visibility for public safety i understand mike uh yeah i'd say that there wouldn't necessarily need to be a limit unless it were causing a visual obstruction and uh that's always been i think a common sense approach that's never been codified in terms of law and it would be nice to have that actually written down there are plenty of places where there might be a hill on the shoulder uh where for cars that were that are parked where the uh the vegetation is already or the sight lines are already blocked regardless of what vegetation is is on the curb so i'd say that anything that looks at short limits uh opens up the potential for uh you click fix battles between neighbors that may or may not appreciate somebody else's choice of landscaping so anything that can be done that can open up uh height limits or reduce height limits uh and take a more common sense approach where uh you know visual sight lines are actually the problem as opposed to a measure of of height of vegetation off the ground i would i would strongly recommend just because when these little uh battles start between neighbors about vegetation that's a lot of city staff time that ends up getting involved in potential for enforcement about tit for tat type things so uh yeah uh if if a if a height limit can be reduced altogether then i would i would recommend that i think i have a question for mike and maybe shannon and that is should this be directed um the changes propose changes at the udc or should it be directed at the orange book which governs the public right away the udc is basically private property which is already set back from the road or crossings or whatever the case may be and it's really obstructions that are in the public of right-of-way that are probably of the greatest concern i mean both might be but it seems that there needs to be at least um a an equal focus on the orange the so-called orange book as well as the udc um and since the udc covers private property that's set farther back maybe any restrictions there would be less restrictive along the ones lines that mike talked about than ones that are in the public right away could either of you comment on that shannon so it all comes down to sight distance from cars pulling out of driveways and there's calculations out there but very few people are ever going to do that all based on the speed of the road and the distance from you know the the back of the curb line and i would just say that um it it is a concern um i've you know i this this spring we went out and did some measurements for a project that we were doing along carpenter road a bunch of bioswales in the right-of-way and um we followed the the you know the guidelines but it's like wow when we went out and measured exactly and and really looked at it we were blocking views and this is on carpenter road in front of home depot i mean it's like you don't want to mess around with blocking people's you know safety that that's a big deal and so we ended up lowering things um and so um i think there are very few places in ann arbor it's like there's so many driveways that are really close together that like safe distance is just always an issue and again it's it's this whole formula and this big triangulation thing and i doubt that anyone's going to do that and so mike i kind of respectfully disagree i think it'd be a lot easier to just say it's a height and then it's just way more clear for people because different cars have different heights and it all has to do with like where you are in your seat how tall you are and looking out of the car and it's just you know that's that's pretty difficult to determine and i i get it that it's like it really should be around that i just think it's really difficult to be able to um to govern with that as something that feels pretty relative based on individual cases we've always used 18 inches you know maybe two feet you could get away with um as kind of general guidelines when people are putting like rain gardens in the right of way or things like that but it needs to be measured from the top of curb up so sometimes with rain gardens they're lower and so people can get away with you know that but i think being clear about where the measuring point starts is really important and that there should be some sort of overall statement about what mike is getting at that like i would advocate for a certain height but that but that any sort of obstruction in terms of safety is really you know that that's a that's an issue so um it it is i think it does belong in the in the orange book though um you know the orange book is a little weird because not every citizen has the orange book yet we many of us mow in that area and and manage that area as if it's our own yards and so it's a gray area i think in terms of that so i think it does belong in there but it probably belongs in some other much more easily findable um you know place for people to be able to refer to different codes um and i i do i get where mike is coming from because people have used this kind of thing to be able to say i basically don't want native plants in my neighbor's yard and and i don't agree with that i think i mean we do those designs a lot and um but we do need to be super careful about safety as it gets close and so i think like what john was saying you know back behind the sidewalk there's a lot more freedom that you can have um but that once you're reaching that sidewalk point and you're in you're in the right of way that there probably should be some you know very clear safety regulations around that you could probably get a go up to i think 18 inches is sort of a broad thing out there but i think it'd be worth sort of measuring frankly to see if you could get away with 24 because maybe you could you know or maybe you can get away with 30 you know so but part of it depends on is the road going up or down and you know things like that too so you want to stay pretty safe because if you're on a hill and something's going up and you know that could affect things as well um so i guess that that that's my that's my take on it personally and uh the only other thing i'd add here is that uh it was probably in 2004 or 5 that the city changed some ordinance to be able to allow tall vegetation in the right of way in the first place and that's going back and i have no idea whether that was based on the udc code or whether that was based on the orange book code but i do remember that it was back uh when gene kurlberg was still on city council because she participated in the committee that was doing it and they decided on a height that was appropriate for right-of-way vegetation and i think it was 30 inches or 32 inches and it also had some sort of strange uh wording in it like 32 inches over the course of the year or something like that which gave some people some flexibility for being able to cut things down seasonally which was also nice if you have a grass landscape that sometimes gets a little taller than that okay um chris uh difficult this is really difficult um i've had multiple clients get in trouble with their neighbors about wildflowers and not three feet tall they just don't like them and they use any pretense they can to try to get it mowed and it's not very cool result well i mean in my neighborhood the main the main thing is that uh you know the city's planted large trees heritage trees and landmark trees are going to go right away so there's probably a minimum branch height somewhere in the code as well yeah yeah but it's a tree trunk that really blocks your your view coming into an intersection so how does the city handle that they they don't but it doesn't take up the entire thing and so if you think about a car you know behind something like that it had to be a pretty skinny car to be able to block the whole thing a row of dense trees all the way along that's different than one trunk i think is the way that it is seen and then the code says that for a tree in the right of way you need branching above eight feet that's the way okay so in other words you could have like a tall pompa you could have a patch of pompous grass that's like 10 feet tall as long as it's not more than like three feet wide well no i think that's what is you know um council member bannister it's getting at and in fact i can think of a spot in water hill where somebody does have that and is actually kind of unsafe um so it's it it's at the right point in a curve and it's like you can't see who's coming around it you know so i think eight foot tall things that are really wide do get in the way you know so okay great thank you very much and i'm this will be recorded so i'm sure kathy and i will review it again tomorrow so thank you so much well thanks sam um it looks like uh chip isn't with us anymore so what about um the staff it's time for the staff report yes okay um hang on one second let's say this okay on this tuesday we hosted our first uh you know i want to get the right verbiage we hosted our first uh virtual neighborhood associations and community leaders uh sustainability meeting we had about 16 folks in attendance it was a good uh meeting we uh covered um h20 we cover um solarize uh also we talked about grants you know uh for neighborhood associations and also uh the ev bulk buy so um ev bike bought by so um that was a pretty good meeting and hopefully we can do it quarterly okay and that's it that's it okay thanks thanks galen uh so the next item is representatives of other commissions park advisory mike let's see and parks news uh the cascades are being closed to tubing starting tomorrow uh to increase social distancing and keep people from spending a lot of time close together down there uh in other parks news uh the stream rehabilitation project in huron hills is going to get started this fall so what was once a ditch that ran through both sections of the huron hills golf course will be turned into a meandering stream with wetlands a lot of habitat improvement uh improvement and flood control improvement um and that's that's the good and exciting news um we've had a lot of challenges with uh with covid and pools and things like that but uh hasn't everybody where's the stream in here in hills uh it's on both sides it's on the uh the hilly eight and it's on the flat ten as well and then it also runs through the uh the uh the neighborhood to the to the east side of huron parkway as well just a little clarification on that one uh that's um because that's a project that we're working on in our office and there's base flow at on the side that is flowing between um here and uh here on parkway or is it no here in river drive and the river but there is not base flow between neighborhood and the hilly section up above um it's basically you know when it rains um and so uh that will be more a series of kind of wetland rain gardens in that section that will be more actively flowing when it's taking storm water from the neighborhood so there won't be it won't be constantly flowing all the time all the way through just at that bottom flatter section and then it will be flowing um in the hillier part um during storm events basically okay are there's greens that are charging the upper part as from over ridge and correct yep so we'll be taking the the storm drains that are coming through there um and then it also was a natural valley that probably had sort of um intermittent streams my guess are you know i mean during you know back when it was all intact um i don't know that we know that for sure um but it's not it's it's much more constant flow coming in the lower part than it is in it'll dry out in the upper part lower parts groundwater yes and and wetlands from across the road and that little neighborhood over there okay um energy energy commission um so a couple of updates um first of all we welcomed um our two new youth commissioners and we also have a new normal commissioner so we have three new commissioners on on the energy commission secondly both the lighting ordinance and the ev charging ordinance that uh the energy commission and its working groups have been working on both received unanimous votes of support from the planning commission and are now moving on to city council thank you for all the work the planning commission did on that i mean they they were really really thorough in their questioning and review um and i think hopefully they have a good chance of passing city council our last meeting was a working session and as i mentioned we have six working groups um but to be frank not all of them have been all that active recently um we want to start those back up and also recruit members of the local community to serve on those as both of those other two working groups that worked on lighting ordinance and the charging both had substantial residential support and what we're doing right now with the working session is um we've had an action item tracker and we've expanded that action item tracker and aligned it with the a20 plan so now we have all different kinds of light items of potential projects what element of the 820 plan they correspond to i should say strategy and actions and then we're asking commissioners to indicate whether or not they're interested in serving on those project teams whether they're willing to lead the project team and to suggest people in the community that can serve on them um we also have uh from the 820 prioritization matrix an indication of what priority level those projects are in terms of aligning with the a20 priorities and we're going to be reviewing all of that in our next meeting and deciding which of those then we really focus on there's a lot more possibilities than what we want to take on um and to pace depending on interests and the number of people willing to work on those we'll boil those down to i don't know maybe five or ten ten projects or something like that and then the last thing i was elected chair in the last meeting so i'm now chair of the energy commission and but will continue to serve as liaison to the environmental commission that's it hey thanks john uh planning commission yeah um so uh thanks for mentioning john the lighting um and the eb ordinance and i would just like to give a shout out to sally owen for first coming before the environmental commission probably over two years ago and this is a citizen that just had a bonnet about this and really cared about it and just poured tons of hours into it and i really admire what she did and i just would also like to encourage anybody who's watching in our vast television audience right now that you too if you care about something and you know it's it's going i mean i'm i'm i'm hopeful that it'll get through city council and i just um i think it's amazing that she did that and um that you know one person has the power to change uh something in a really powerful way like that so i just would like to acknowledge her um the next piece is that we passed the viridian project which is over on platte road uh next to county farm park which is uh very environmentally i shouldn't say the planning commission passed it i had to recuse myself um because i've been working on the project so the planning commission passed it um and it's a it's a highly sustainable project that is all net zero all electric buildings many many innovations in really interesting challenging ways i think they've challenged a lot of city codes too which has been i think a healthy process to go through you know for the city as well um and uh and it's going to be exciting to see it um it kind of moves through the system and and see how how things um how things end up with city council so it's encouraging to see developers uh wanting to be able to take on these kinds of challenges and um and be able to muscle through the system out that way so um we'll see where that goes but it was exciting to be able to see that move through the next step okay yeah thanks um thanks sharon so the working groups um let's say the solar waste working group didn't meet last week um we will meet uh next week and i'll send out some emails before then um see the uh natural features working group we've already heard from them we've been working on the ordinance um is there anything else chris uh no steve it's those two things are um taking up our time okay i'm sure yeah and you've um and we've integrated the uh pollinators working group with the natural features working group while we're starting uh and water committee also maybe all right the first discussion happened about integration and we'll see how that all works okay and um and uh water bob yeah i mean we we did as chris says start the integration discussions um don't really have a membership of the water working group now so it's a good time to integrate from that perspective i mean we do have uh things happening uh for our next agenda which is coming right up here um on the agenda anyway so but um next next uh next environmental commission meeting we will hear from jerry hancock about the floodplain overlay district ordinance as well as from the huron river watershed council um updating their watershed management plan okay all right thanks so um the next scheduled meeting is september 24th and we reach our second public commentary so let's see public comment this is an opportunity a second opportunity for persons to speak for up to three minutes please call 1-888-788-0099 and enter meeting id number 924 this information is also displayed on the meeting agenda and video feed city staff will select callers that have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of your phone number in order to electronically raise your hand to indicate your desire to speak please press star 9 on your phone you will hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area and mute any television or background sound so that we may hear you clearly please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments be patient there is a delay of up to 30 seconds before connection is established there's no one for public commentary okay so um the last item on the agenda is items for the next agenda i think bob has already mentioned um two of them um are there any other suggestions for agenda items um and lannister yes um i am hoping it sounds a little unrealistic but i am hoping to bring a tree ordinance in in anticipation of the tree ordinance and um so it would just be something along the lines of of kind of like rita mentioned with the integrated press management where it's trying to tell people education and outreach and the culture of appreciation of the trees and the compaction of the soils around town and um and trying to bring it not that it's a bunch of tree huggers but from the 20th century but bring it into the 21st century that these trees are multitaskers in our um in our sustainability and there was also uh you know the new york times article last weekend about how redlined neighborhoods um have less trees and a lot bigger heat islands and a lot more unpleasant summers and so it's a as we know it's an equity issue and all that stuff so i was just i'm pulling together all my loose ends and one of my loose ends is um a resolution for council in advance of our finishing our work on the uh natural features working group so pencil me in for september 24 on that and uh i'll see what i can do okay how much time would you like for that well i don't know yet is the natural features group meeting tomorrow at noon yeah i'm working yes so at this point it could be from three minutes to 20 minutes okay great okay julie noted um any other suggestions all right well um i declare this meeting adjourned thanks everybody thanks for your time good job steve thanks everybody see you on september 24th bye bye
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by hosting these pods at each school site students would not be co-mingled between schools or on buses and kindergarten would also be served at the school sites to the best of our ability we're also going to make sure the students who are in aftercare are also in the same class during school day so as to avoid again more mixing of the pot so it's some good news to share for our parents who were counting on that aftercare um some good news and an otherwise summer of bleak news if anyone has any questions regarding aftercare please don't hesitate to contact mr foster the executive director of the boys and girls club thank you miss danny that's my update for tonight uh dr arbor chose did you just want to um clarify um just what is the pods that you're talking about just pop what are yeah the the pods is just uh another name for a group of students we want to keep the same group of students together as opposed to mixing groups of students to the best of our ability obviously the more groups of students we mix the more potential there is for spread and if one student or staff member is diagnosed with the coronavirus it makes it easier to do the contact tracing to determine who the people have been in contact with so that's that's what the terminology is thank you dr arbitrosi asks can i answer that question was danny yes mr armadrobo uh these paws and after using utilizing our building to make clear to the public is that going to be something run by boys and girls club or by our personnel this is completely uh run by the boys and girls club utilizing our facilities as has been done for the past i'm not sure how many years certainly long before i got here so it is not our program which is why um if if anybody in the community has more specific questions please reach out to mr foster i was just happy to be able to say hey we're gonna we're gonna be able to have it because as of a week ago there was going to be no aftercare in our school so i'm happy we were able to resolve that issue because our parents were counting on that thank you miss danny uh mr casper the morris and passai county school boards association meeting okay so we uh we have a more specific county school board meeting on the 13th of august uh it was called the order at seven o'clock we had uh miss irene lafarr president of morris county sba and ms judy basford president of passaic county sba welcomed all to the meeting miss cortello uh the nj sba vp for legislation welcome everyone to the meeting as well as ask um asked us to visit visit the njsva website for all of the upcoming events that they're holding uh mr michael vidal talked about a virtual workshop as we all know now uh uh workshop is now uh virtual in october it'll be running from nine to four on october 20th through october 22nd 35 live sessions will be provided daily and um it will all the sessions that they have will be recorded and will be able to be downloaded for one year just in case we miss them and it gives us all an opportunity to earn more credits as school board members um dr alan mcmillan dr angela allen macmillan discussed the updates from the nj department event and the nj department of health the department of health has come up with a 25-page guideline or checklist for districts to follow for opening the governor has uh been very responsive to the needs of school districts who may not be able to open which is outlined in executive order 175.
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uh there were some questions that had come up about transportation and staffing dr mcmillan explained that some districts have asked parents to drive their students to school staff and staffing will be taken care of by policy set by the school board there have been teachers who may not be able to come in due to underlying conditions some districts may also provide child care for staff members bringing staff members may be able to bring their their children to work with them which may or may not be tuition based and many district students will be placed in cohorts to reduce the spread of the virus chris jones provided a legislative update the supreme court had unanimously agreed that the bond act to borrow money is constitutional the new budget will be released on august 25th 2020 based on the state's new projection the second amount provided to districts is what um we will begin we will be getting charlene peterson and cathy hello our field service representatives provided updates from the field some dates to pay attention to um one had someone just passed on 8 18 there was a training called leading in uncertain times uh governance one will be provided over three evenings starting august 26th for those who need new uh new board member training uh october 7th uh there will be a new board candidate training uh the importance of setting our district goals was also brought up we're able to virtually set our new goals for this new school year and we may also provide retreats remotely um that can be set up through the field service uh our fuel service representatives and then there was time at the end where uh the members present had the opportunity to discuss their school reopening plan and our meeting was adjourned at 8 45.
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does anybody have any questions thank you mr casper um madam vice chair basford uh the policy committee yes thank you um madam president uh the clipton board of education policy committee uh met on august 11th uh the policy committee began at 5 30. attendance were myself um board members joe canover and frank casper commissioner uh smith was excused from the meeting for medical reasons um dr robitazi uh was also president uh mark teigen gina kushalevis and mr ross the agenda included the following policies se1648.02 remote learning options for families this is a mandated policy and the committee recommends the following selections and changes a b section b1 insert the number 14 before the calendar days b section b2 select the first second and fourth options with the fourth option to include inserting the number five before school days and adding the end of the opt and adding the end of this option the phrase and after review apparent request on a case by case basis as circumstances permit c section b6 to include the number seven before calendar days d d1 insert the number 14 before calendar days e section d2 select the second option which reads at the beginning of a marking period and after conclude consultation with the principal or designee and director of guidance to ensure attainability of academic credit should a change be approved and as circumstances permit considering availability of classroom space social distance requiring requirements student seating and any other federal state or local requirement ordinance and or directives f section d2 select the fourth option which is to read within five school days after receiving written approval by the of the principal or designee after review of the parental request on a case-by-case basis as circumstances permit considering considering availability of classroom space social distance requiring student seating and any federal state or local requirements ordinance and or directives g sections d4 select option number one the second uh policy the committee then discussed was recommendation to the board to amend policy 5600 code of conduct by adding two of the new categories the um which is violation of health safety and security guidelines this infraction will be letter s under category 1 letter z under category 2 and letter v under category 3.
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