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yes it does she she's going to get into her that's i think that's what the pirates need they need to get it into west and she needs to make smart passes and there's a foul called on trailer i didn't i didn't really see much go on there honestly no i didn't see anything either she must have just laid a little light slap on cooney and the official thought it was enough to call foul we need all the help we can get oh it's going to be a smell alcohol there that's got to be a foul that's a makeup call must be must be a hat and they get it up the floor really quick by wolf wolf makes the easy bucket uh 37 16 artesians lead four minutes left in the third quarter it seems like every time we throw it away they get an easy bucket yeah i know we're not so good at getting back on defense three-point attempt by wilkson man they need a rebound good rebound by west yeah that's what they need whittled their way in there grabbed the rebound was strong for the pirates and got us two points i mean i think that's their first second opportunity they've gotten all game as artesians have at least got five or six and now the pirates have the numbers but wilkes and loses control of the ball that was just careless careless turnovers right there by the pirates that's not going to get him back in the game no it is not walker with the ball at the top of the key passes it to her sister walker man she's quick with the driving first move foul called she took the freshman to the rack you know that was uh the pirates need to move their feet in front of her they just kind of slapped at it i think they watched film and they knew what to do walker with the attempt at a three-point play the free throw is up and good man the pirates are down 22 right now in the third quarter with three minutes left cooney to comer they got to get something going here holding the ball is not not going to let him win no does not oh should have shot it right there and here goes cooney with the open three but it's just off it seems like she's the only one who's been shooting i know she she has been pretty much she's the only one confident enough in this matchup to shoot right now yeah burn wilkinson that's about it artisans get easy baskets right there that's an easy jumper with nobody around her and the only ones on the board for the pirates are our seniors tonight yeah west cooney and wilkerson and the artesians have the 42 to 18 lead with just over two minutes left here in the first or third quarter man they need to bring the ball gosh good pass there at wilkerson and adams cannot get on the board but west almost wraps the reef they need somebody but west rebounding i would agree there i mean they're all just getting back but it seems like they get blown by and that would be four fouls on janae comer uh she's gonna get substituted out here i wonder if ernst thought she's gonna play today [Applause] and here we go cooney bringing the ball at the court ball movement by the pirates here looking for the open basket i mean they need one for west in the middle right there she's wide open one minute and 30 seconds left i think the artesian just one i want the girls to just stand out there and there's a drive by wilkinson that's a good drive that's a strong drive it was she went with a purpose and that's what the pirates need they need confident moves get into the bucket wilkson's first free-throw attempt up and in nothing but net this is a super low scoring game for the pirates you know what this is the lowest scoring game i think i've seen him play all year yeah i mean the artesians saw what the pirates weakness was and they did it but we still got a little time left in the fourth quarter still to here to go second attempt up and then pirates take a quick timeout here artesians with a 24 point lead over the pirates 44 to 20.
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we're in the third quarter with a minute 21 left and lane what uh what do you think the pirates uh you think this game is kind of out of their reach now or do you think they can do something to get back into it you know i don't think it's over yet um if they keep making threes and get back into it i think they're in it but the way the artisans are playing right now they're just getting easy buckets and they're just uh pressuring the pirates forcing them outside they're not letting them drive in which is smart by them but yeah i i don't know i don't know really and here's a stack at the top of the key some pressure by the pirates the artesians are they're just smart ball players they knew what to do and they they came in and they stuck to their game plan i think almost almost a turnover by the artesians here as the pirates pick up their their defense here walker dribbles back up to the top of the key the artesians appear to be trying to get something good oh no yeah that's going to be a turnover once they lay their hands on it oh they almost didn't even call that over and back by the artesians pirates ball 56 seconds left here in the third quarter let's see if the parts and get a quick basket here that'd be good for him and honestly just the basket before the end of the quarter to swing the momentum their way yeah good pass there's wilson three-point attempt and just off the front of the rim that's a tough scene for the pirates there i don't think anybody's hit a three besides cooney today yeah i think i think you're right rough shooting night for the pirates i mean yeah jump ball goes to the pirates here 40 seconds left and the pirates a little collision by both their teammates i don't think they really knew what they were running there and oh that about went in and there's a foul wilkinson i think that was on the ground yeah i think that was after the shot so we're going to be taking the ball out once again they've caught a few of those today i don't know i don't think i agree with that one yeah i don't think i do either i mean look like she was in the active shooting there ball and bound to cooney honestly i don't know if i would take the ball out we need some easy points here yeah we do skip pass to cooney back to wilkson another skip pass to cooney and cooney for three it's good what a three by cooney what a pass they keep hitting a couple more of those and they can definitely win and cooney really showing her true colors tonight she's coming out strong and artisans respond back with a three of their own and then there's a long heave oh just off kilter there the pirates need something they need to they need a score and a stop here well that's the end of the third quarter down to the fourth quarter the artesians have a 23 point lead 46 23 and just getting ready to start the fourth quarter here it seems like the pirates even do something good or bad the artesian score on the other end yeah i agree the artisans right now are just out playing the pirates they're hustling more than we are and just getting up and down the court quicker the game changer is definitely the 50 50 balls and the second chance opportunity points upcoming games for the pirates here we have the boys basketball team is in action on thursday at batesville um i don't think we'll be bringing that game live no it's just parents only but make sure you're watching watching or listening to the game it'd be a good one should be on wtre uh yeah they should be covering i think and then saturday uh we we will be back in action for the girls basketball game at home against jacksondale and i think the boys the boys also play on saturday at south dearborn jv starts at 6.
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we we will not be bringing you that game either i'm sure wtre or sei sports local will be bringing you that game though here's a quick handoff to number 21 walker a little push there by trailer walker to walker trailer to wolfe wolfe to william willing for three no good man what a pretty shock oh wes just look at that contains opportunity points by trailer she's all over the board tonight she has to have a double double she i would assume so i mean she may even have a triple double by the way she's playing tonight she's played a heck of a game almost like kayla's past there by ernst and there's a foul by wolf on wilkerson honestly if i were wilkinson i would just drive i mean it seems like every time she's drove she's got a foul wilson's terrific at drawing those fouls when she drives can't believe that's our only first she's she's been all over it tonight wilkson drives with the skip pass to cooney cooney with the quick shot just off target and that ball falls right in wilson's hands for another two points that's what they need they need someone else but wes going for the rebounds oh they should have stole that oh there there's a steal oh almost a steal right back shoot driving in it oh that about went in i don't know i know she just kind of flung that thing up there with all she could that was a crazy shot right there her arms were a little tangled up there she seems like she does that well she's always drawing fouls [Music] i think the pirates need a little pressure here though and wilson just off target with her first free throw there we are just under seven minutes left here in the uh fourth quarter it's 48 25 artesians up and in for wilson on the second free-throw attempt foster will enter back into the game for the pirates after a long absence walker dribbling up the court for the artesians pass it to walker and a deep three by walker just off target there and another and wilkinson stuffs the ball and wolf off target and wilkson grabs the ball man a couple girls getting feisty down there yeah wilkinson kind of appeared he'd been hit in the face there honestly i don't know why the pirates aren't man-to-man pressing or something they need to get the tempo going well we'll see what happens here after these two free throws by wilkinson both teams have played in the 2-3 all night up and in for the first attempt pirates hoping to cut this lead down to 20.
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just off target wilkson goes for the steal she knew where that one was going yes she did and she followed it quite nicely and and a wide open bucket just no defense there for the pirates i just gotta get back i mean that's lazy i mean there are two girls at the top of the key trying to guard one person there's no communication looks like from the pirates i mean they're not talking they're not they're not in sync tonight no they're not with a team of this caliber you have to have everything in sync everything on target you got to be in the game yeah they came ready to play definitely it would have helped if they would have knew ahead of time who they were playing and got a little better scout but i mean play a team like this you got to be ready at all times i believe that was louis as she gets i think her fourth i think is her fifth point of tonight she came in hit a three and then hit those free throws wilson swings it to foster foster to cooney oh pirates pause and play here a little bit ain't some backside yes we did cut though by cooney oh and there needs to grab that ball as she does they're super active on the defensive end right here they're kind of letting wilkinson shoot right there wait until she hits a shot pass yep skip to wilson skip to cooney that's something cooney and wilkson like to do is skip the ball uh to each other too long though someone's got to throw it up and there's a turnover by wilkinson five minutes and 30 seconds left in this quarter three-point attempt off trailer grabs the ball and dives into the bleachers that looks like it kind of hurt there yeah it's not a soft landing there no it is not cooney dribbled the ball up for the pirates honestly if i were the artesians i'd just slow the pace out honestly yeah i mean i mean the pirates they're they're playing with rt's and should be doing there they go finally wilkson finds the basket right there as our teams are calling for a travel she splits the d i mean that is great great ball handling right there by number 21 trailer and they have a solid team i i'd say they have a deep run this year i'd say so too um i'm not sure if they're 3a or 4a they're 4a so i mean there's probably some better teams up there with them i'd have to imagine yeah oh careless turnover right there yeah it's right through our hands of number 20.
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missed the ball that's lewis there emily jones it's emily jones there samuel are you sure yeah no apparently i can't read so that's my fault i was looking at the jv side man another turnover by the pirates this is just careless basketball and then another second opportunity chance point by number 20 or 33 trailer there i mean it seems like every time they miss i mean they're always there for the rebound well that's that's cummer's fifth so she will be out of the game here comes adamson for cummer cummer gave it all she had and just so happened she fouled out there you go sam sometimes it's hard for me to spit those words out yeah i feel you man the artisans they just they can flat shoot i mean yeah they can all the girls can can shoot the ball it's 53-29 with uh just over four minutes left here in the game good defense by the artesians though not letting the pirates set up anything spreading them out definitely they need something here cooney dribbles to the right side but it's not open so she crosses over and drives into the lane passes it back out to adams adams to foster foster drives in passes it to west they need a shot before too long and good rebound off target uh be strong with the ball west's not strong with it and gets it knocked away the pirates every time they get it seems like they're soft with it and there's a travel by trailer coach simpson trying to teach his girls what to do i mean they just they just haven't found anything tonight just under four minutes left in the quarter good screen there 53 29 artesians west silver but she threw it right to where the defense was and an ant won by trailer she has done it all tonight you know honestly though this has been a low scoring game even for the artesians honestly yeah it kind of has been but i mean they've done everything well though they everything right the pirates just are falling short right now trailer up and in three minutes and 39 seconds in the fourth quarter 56 at 29.
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pirates down man they need something wilkson ball swatted away i i i tell you the pirates have turned it over so many times tonight yes they have too many times careless there's a three by trailer what can't she do i mean i know she's done it all tonight [Music] marx uh jason simpson here trying to draw something up for the pirates trying to think of a good game plan well with not much time left uh yeah i think and being down by 30 i don't think there's much you can do here i mean there is something you could you come down hit every three you take but i still don't you'd have to hit it like every five seconds yeah the game's out of reach right now i mean 30 points down it's a tough loss though i mean but the artisans came in they played played well i mean we knew what kind of game we're getting ourselves into here the pirates they just didn't execute on any any level tonight but i mean they have pretty even scoring but trailer tonight i think leads the scoring here seems like every time our team touched the ball trailers scoring yeah i made that same observation i wonder what the pirates will do with the remaining three minutes and 17 seconds left oh nailed that one right on the spot man the pirates are just dribbling around right now there's a nice attack by two just up and out by cooney but she gets a reward that's that's what they need to keep doing the whole game but unfortunately she turns it over artesians come down good pass push it inside and just off that's a target by wolf definitely a tough shot here wilson comes in blazing oh this layup ball movement by the artesians man they cut well yeah they do man there's a foul called on wilkinson i'm trailer she's just a strong girl i mean they're still calling some tight fouls late into this game but i mean it was a fouls it's a plains day foul for the artesians trailer up and off the front of the rim here goes adam saves the ball for the pirates down to foster you gotta shoot it foster back to cooney do you think the pirates realize they're down 30.
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you know i think they're just kind of playing in the moment here and just trying to trying to do what they need to read on by adams you got to shoot that foster for three and it's good great shot you know i'm not sure why she hadn't shot all all night tonight i think that's her first attempt honestly it is i mean she hasn't taken very many and then trailer goes back to back to work cooney to foster foster wilson they need something here there you go attack wilson spins loses control of the ball she does not appear happy oh i don't know what the heck that was ball will go to the pirates you know i want to see a dunk here sam do you think anybody can dunk probably not honestly i mean adam's is tall she looks like she can touch room cooney dribbling up the court here she about got a back court foster with the ball at the top of the key shoot it oh yeah oh oh wilson dish is out foster another three-point attempt it's up and in [Applause] i think we found our niche for tonight i mean a little late there i guess it's better than losing by 40.
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oh yeah you ain't kidding there [Applause] uh claudia sims checks in for the pirates as wilkerson comes out the artesians put in their uh put in their jv it looks like yeah to finish out this game for him i wonder if the parts can get a quick steal here in a bucket with 40 seconds left in the fourth quarter well you can't be fouling this late into the game it's kind of pointless so the pirates probably aren't going to put as much pressure as you would expect onto them yeah but i bet they foul oh oh travel right there how can you fall down with a ball i'm not sure about that oh hey what'd i say that wasn't even a foul that was a ball out of bounds i meant turnover all right it is 61 35 artesians 15 seconds left in this game and this appears to be our last possession i think the pirates are just shooting right here oh come on shoot it um and as this game's coming to an end we want to remind you that thursday night the boys are at batesville watch it and saturday night we will back be back with you here at home for the girls basketball game against jacksondale and the boys will be at south dearborn that's all for tonight my name is sam bauer joined alongside lanes
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to order so this afternoon we'll hear from department of education who will be presenting their biennium budget uh before we get to the superintendent if we can just have early learning quickly present uh their budget and then we can move on to doe lauren are you there yes i am can i ask jordina ferreira to be allowed post access so that she can pull up our slides okay i don't think they want to cut it hold on i'm gonna recess so lauren go ahead thank you good afternoon chair de la cruz vice chair keith algeron and members of the committee thank you for this opportunity to present to you this afternoon i'd like to introduce two of my staff members who are joining me jordana ferreira is eoil's government affairs specialist and kalimo mohara serves as the educational specialist for our eol public pre-key program as requested i'd like to share with you bernie our agency and our entire early childhood sector has taken over this last year the challenges and successes we've seen and experienced have directly informed our budget requests when the state legislature established the executive office on early learning or eol it's because legislators understood how incredibly important a child's first years are to their success the most rapid period of brain development occurs during our first five years during this time children are adapting learning and forming important connections and an increasingly rapid piece which is unmatched to any other time in their lives investing in our youngest children is really a long-term relief package that addresses many of our social injustices and access to high quality early learning programs have has been shown to reduce crime reduce poverty and educational gap it yields higher educational payment and prepares our future workforce it all starts in the earliest years equally as important it's also a short-term investment early care and education provides immediate support to boy's workforce and is essential to economic recovery as it allows parents and caregivers to retain to return to work and produces jobs that help to stimulate our economy next slide please the development of young children is entirely dependent on their relationships and interactions with the world around them as children grow and develop they learn to speak walk smile and all the other big milestones for the people and communities who support them healthy quality relationships and interactions are critical for these milestones and the child's people next slide please in 2012 when the state legislature established the executive office on early learning it's because you understood that the state needed to invest in children during these early years many of you who are here today have understood and invested in our agency to coordinate and lead the state's efforts in early childhood you recognize that young children deserve the greater focus and investment by state government next slide please the state legislature tasked us with this charge when you created our agency in 2012.
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another one in a month um you know that's how it is I just can tell you from my experience my kids seem depressed they do need some even if it's at six you know feet apart they need interaction with other kids and I see a really big decline in their just how they are how they act and not only that but I say my kids aren't the top of the grade you know what I mean they they struggle already as it is so they're really struggling ever since since last year not to mention I'm a single mom um so you know as my co-workers can tell you when I'm gone to work it's at days at a time so I can't rely on my 15-year-old to make sure that my 9-year-old gets on her computer does her stuff because she has to do her own stuff you know what I mean I already put enough responsibility on her as to make sure her little sister eats in the morning or takes a shower at night and is okay you know what I mean so that's that's just what I wanted to express and I just know that there's other people you know other parents that I've talked to that feel the same so I don't know how it's going to be or you know I just wanted to give my opinion on that thank you thank you for letting you speakly I appreciate it all right the next is superintendent report oh excuse me uh Dr D another did you want to say something all right um my name is Sal I live in y my um I I three things I wanted to quickly say is I I did file by by the board has uh inspired me I suppose from Monday to file grievances more properly so I have done so today but I need to add to it and I have uh some documents to do that with uh also I'm gonna ask the board again if they would maybe consider putting on the agenda an item um pertaining to teachers requesting representation to the board when you're especially when you're talking about anything that relates directly to our staffing or monies that relate to us or anything along those lines uh I feel like we're being Mis presented and we're not accurate stories are not being told and things are not being accurately related to the board as far as I can tell um and I would I would think just on behalf of all the teachers we would like we would like to be represented more clearly and uh more properly with the board than what we currently are um I'm just going to hold my comments to that thank you you're welcome thank you all right Dr ding uh thank you madam president excuse me governing board report first oh do you have something I do have something just really brief I um I promised a document uh Monday night as I put together a document that had to do with um board response to public comments and I don't have that ready yet but I will get it as soon as I can to you thank you all right Dr D third time are you sure okay um thank you madam president um this has been a very unique 10 months uh for anybody in public education um we have people that work for the district are experts in teaching and administration and school law and school finance and things like that we're not experts in covid-19 we have learned a lot since March of 2020 but the other work still persists and in my opinion the other work is more intriguing it's much easier to talk to teachers about reading and math and supervision of children and talk about Co um but impact much of what we do uh I've had a couple meetings lately with other superintendents and County Health Department um some numbers that surprise me um there's a belief that school age children are not vulnerable to co U that is not borne out by data um the younger the child is the seem it seems the safer they are but just some numbers I thought you might be interested in between July and December 20th when we went on this winter break uh Pima County had 1410 cases of children with Co between the ages of 5 and 10 they had 494 cases between the ages of 11 18 so between the two that's 556 cases in six months been nine fatalities in the state students under 19 um from the covid um you may have watched on the 11th the Governor State of the State address Mr Guthrie just mentioned it um in Maricopa County they started vacc vaccinating teach Educators on the 11th which is Monday as you all know uh the 1A group is uh elderly and typically nursing homes and medical providers our school nurse got a shot because she's onea um educators are the second group 1B uh School Employees um he also talked about he talked about that in fact of doing that americ County not sure why americ COA County beat P but they did um I he addressed mental and financial challenges of the lockdown and uh I understand that one of the things that I like to tell employees is that we are still receiving we're stressed because of the virus and what's doing to people in a different way we deliver instruction but we're financially in the same place we would have been pretty much individuals not the district individuals where we would have been without the co if if I had Bob's Bar and Grill in Haw Arizona I'd be I'd be in trouble because i' had to shut it down I wouldn't have enough customers so I think we're and I appreciate the federal government uh supporting us uh and keeping schools uh at least online functioning and we're seeing different different Delivery Systems all over the country uh he talked about the Educators uh vaccination schedule and I'll talk about that a little bit more a little bit further on it's not as healthy for kids they didn't think as didn't know that's I heard him say this as it is for adults so I'm not sure all that and he talked about the challenge of online classes but he also said there'll be no new state money at the last board meeting the uh the board voted to modify the existing budget by $58,000 and that's due to loss of student enrollment state wide uh the state's lost 50,000 students uh from public schools because of the shutdown or some form the shutdown uh we hope we don't know this that if the co with the vaccination becomes controllable and students can come back as we open school up more and more um we hope that we will be able to uh see an increase some of the students come back uh that will help a lot part of the cares act that helped us provide funding last year carried a provision that said the state cannot reduce School budgets below more than 2% of believe it was below the 1819 budget if that's the case Arizona has a challenge I'm sure they'll be challenged uh by districts that when we lost the amount of money we did TD for example lost 13 million that's a lot of cash that they're going to be saying that the governor promised maximum 5% loss well for us it came out to be almost 20% and that's similar number to what other districts are facing so it's going to be interesting and I've talked with Miss Burns and we're trying to get some answers out there on school business officials we don't know sure what's going to happen I got an email today on the 20th we had have a webinar with a gentleman named Chuck Essex he's the former assistant superintendent from Mason schools for business he worked for ASO on school school business officials he's worked for the state department Chuck is a PhD plus uh a CPA he's brilliant with school Finance he's the best I know he also is very he'll answer my calls from Little La I respect him a lot he's been on a webinar I hope I learn more and so I wake up in the middle of the night and I thinking about finances so whole time um I want to thank new board members uh welcome to the job because for in it's a job where you're going to get a a bunch of thanks from the public all the time they're always going to be happy with you um but and I mean this sincerely I've had in my career uh various board members various quality board members I've been fortunate downtown AO and I always make a try comment about the only pay the board members are probably the most active volunteers in most communities and they are and I appreciate it it's kind of like town hall and so thank you folks for being being willing to be here a couple nights a month at least and help us do the job I've been told uh a couple places that we have email challenges uh we had communication with um an engineer with tabletop today and Eric cannot find anything within our system that's causing the Slowdown um tabletop cleared out 64,000 emails last night that and I don't understand technology all kind of but basically they were hacked in that slowed things down to snail's pace so hopefully that is remedied we don't know yet but I didn't want you to think we're ignoring that we depend on email way too much and we send one out we expect it to get there within five seconds and uh we're an instantaneous culture we expect to have lar St and have everything work and it doesn't always work but hopefully that happen it shouldn't impact if if if I'm emailing from home on my home email to one of you at your home email that totally bypasses the school email so those shouldn't be impacted but since it was tabletop and that's what we're worried about there's something in our system but har can find that he's looked at not not stud for two days we spent a couple days looking at so I wanted to be aware that the fact that we weren't ignoring those concerns I conclud my report thank you Dr D all right the next is the consent agenda uh may I have a motion that we approve the consent agenda I make a motion I'll second Mrs Duncan hi Mr Hopkins hi Mr C Mrs Robertson hi Mr gy hi all right let's moving on to um board action items the first is a classified resignation of Sharon Brer um she has submitted an email to Mr edin resigning from her position as a PRI professional from ouro school effective immediately um may I hear a motion to approve her resignation with the request move all second Mrs Duncan I Mr Hopkins I Mr pres I Mrs Robertson hi Mr bu hi and the next one is AI resignation par professional louisian uh Tores um Louisiana Torres has submitted a PA resonating from her position as a paraprofessional from the AO schools uh Louisiana's last day of employment will be January 15th which is Friday do I hear a motion that will um we will accept the resignation of Louisiana tourus I'll second this Mrs Duncan I Mr Hopkins hi Mr I Mrs Robertson hi Mr Goody and the next order of business we'll go to the business of the meeting is authorization to dispose of equipment and there are pages of ancient and I mean all capital letters agent uh televisions and uh printer and all of that and I none of them work do they no no um may I hear a motion that we um give the approval of the disposal of obsolete and unsafe equipment to be recycled I'll motion I'll second Mr Duncan hi Mr Hopkins hi Mr I Mr Robinson hi Mr got okay the next is approval of modified certified working condition agreement representatives from the certified staff have worked with the superintendent to modify portions of the board and teacher adopted certified working condition agreement the modifications focused on leave issues in the agreement the certified represented and the superintendent have signed this approve approval of the agreement this document is presented to the board for their approval of the modified total portion of the agreement and as a Monday night we went over most of this I'm sure at length and so may I hear a I have okay so um just I wanted to point out that the changes that we're making um they do have impact on the classified agreements and the employee handbooks as well so um I I hope that when those are next published those be reflected in okay and then um on Monday night's discussion it was agreed that if we were to make substantial changes to this document it have to S back to the we have to approve it again they've already worked really hard on it so I think we're all in agreement that we'd like to avoid that um so what I propose is that we address the outstanding issues that we can to the extent that we can without necess trading a review so I'm just gonna walk through a few of those things that we talked about on Monday night um so the first one is on page two so at it's it's one school day the last sentence says ensure that pars for Planned medical leave and professional days are submitted at least a week prior to day so this we actually didn't talk about on Monday because I missed it um but it it asks for a week prior notification for professional days but down on page nine we go to page n professional leave it says uh staff should have uh lead requests must be submitted four weeks for professional Le so on page nine it says four weeks and on page two it says one week so I think if we were to make any decision about this tonight it would have to go back to the teachers because that would be a substantial change of removing one or the other um so I suggest that we proceed with leave it as it is and proceed with the understanding that it will be that conflict will be addressed at the next revision everyone in agreement about that I would agree with that and then it's always at the supervisor discretion if if we're able to Grant a professional leave regardless of the time period as long as we have time to prepare for it we would we would grant that as well sorry to interrupt okay so um on page three this is the first one that it's a conflict with with existing policy it's two D um 2D is in conflict with existing policy and the existing po policy um it States per year and then the agreement it States per Deb um so I I think there was an agreement that we would attempt to correct this at the policy level so if we're all in agreement with that I suggest we leave it as is and with the understanding that will attempt to correct it at the policy level as soon as possible is that are we all in agree agreement about that I I think um not not just on these but I think most of these that we found were discrep I think we all pretty much agree that we're willing to go look at the policy to make sure because it's more of it's a big hindrance for the staff that to go back and sure yeah yeah um so that's the same for the next one Eric um it's it's slightly different from the policy this is um two two I'm sorry gement leave number four um same thing attempt to address it at the policy level as soon as possible and a gr an agreement um and then C let's see it's saying retirement and severance pay number 4 C uh same thing this is the third potential policy of conflict this one I say addresses as Poli I don't know that it's absolutely clear that it's it's in conflict with policy at this point but we should look at it um because it does cover from the same situation um so same everyone's in agreement that we'll look at that at a later date okay um and now we're already all the way over on page six um maternity leave so this there there's a conflict with the FMLA but I I do think this if we change it was suggested that we could just strike a portion of it but I think that's a substantial enough change that we we shouldn't actually do that I think um we should um leave it at is as it is and correct it at a later at a later date um because I think that would require teacher approval if we were to straighten it agement okay okay so page seven um so this is the first actual change that I'm proposing we're on leave days F this is about FMLA but the first sentence says sickly may be used for FMLA CLE is not related to FMLA and I think we can strike that sentence without it impacting the document anyway and it will be clearer and that first sentence is not it's not necessary because the rest of the paragraph covers the rules for FMLA so you want to take a second to absor it so what is the policy on sick timeon what is the policy on sick time is sick time listed in there so that they can be paid for some of the FMLA time uh I I don't have the agreement in front of me because FMLA has not paid time otherwise if they're not that was put in there years ago that was the original teachers wanted right I think I I think it's just a it's a confused word because it says sick leave and sick leave is actually paid um so it's not related to F MLA which is unpaid so I think we can safely strike that sentence without having an impact I think it'd be better to change the sentence to sick Le maybe used if if we're allowing them to take sick days for family medical reasons change it to sick leaves may be requested may be used with FMLA during FMLA well they're but they're they're side by side they're really not related you can use six Lea or you can use FMLA mam president the 10 years ago when this was done was to do what Mr Hopkins just suggested Mr Robertson is correct FMLA if we Grant FMLA we're not required to give any leave time but my understanding and I can revisit it is that it doesn't prohibit a teacher from using because rarely do they have six six weeks of uh cly recruit they if they want to be paid part of that they can if it's going to cost District way trying to help staff from typically if they have FMLA need there's also going to be some Financial impact on help I'll verify that when we turning before we strike to my understanding flma is it it kicks in after you've exhausted all your six time all your vacation everything else then the the employee can apply for flma and then they get additional three months of that but I've never heard of it being concurrent right way I'm reading it is it's written as it is so that people can take leave for any of the people the family members listed under FMLA if they have to take care of them oh so you think there's there's missing words there simply may be used for they they could use sick leave and then they could use FMLA in addition to their sick leave because if they exhaust their sickly they would still have all their FMLA time yeah because they would have used their sickly as paid time so they would still have their full FMLA days at that point but they could use the sick leave if it's not them that is sick if it's any of these family members listed in FMLA who is the one who said right it would be a choice at that point in time technically is what it would be so is that your understanding that that sentence family members that's been on the books for years and that's been that was that was the type of thing I can't remember what people said in 2010 or 2008 but that was the type of intent what Mr President Mr Hopkins talk to the point we Chang our doc I I I think that sentence is really unclear but it doesn't seem like we have consensus either of what the best way to handle it is um should we just leave it leave it as just leave it as is and then the St address that in future looking at it again as I'm reading it SLE may be used per FMLA is to me is saying sickle may be used under the same rules that apply to FMLA not that they are the same thing but but that's basically saying you're referring back to that list of family members who you can take days if that you to take care of them so that's to me I'm reading as per reading as per the list qualify you to take that time out except for so that even further complicates thing because because Arizona law family member is defin in a different way than F MLA so that's then that's even more confusing which one defines it more broadly uh Arizona W oh wow so do you all agree that maybe we should just leave leave that for now it's is that been used very often rarely us the last 18 years maybe three or four times and there's not been a question about that so people appear to us ofla andly appear to understand except for none of us are in agreement as to what it means even up here so but the users of the policy the users of the of the agreement tend to agree that not complain okay okay so moving on I think we we agree to uh leave that as is not to straighten it um the next next one is just below that G I think this will be really straightforward may be used to care for and that says a spouse a child or parent I would like uh to suggest that we strike a spouse a child or parent because that not only is in opposition to sickly for that is actually that exact situation is to find over here on this huge green chunk so I I propose that we strike a spouse a child parent and just um in its place right family member as defined in ARS 23 371 which is the green section that's fine yeah that's not a big enough change that would need to go back I don't think we need to I actually think it makes it more friendly for the employee if we do that that way is everyone in agreement with that okay uh let's see okay so we're getting there so under page eight p no personal lead to Grant be granted on the day before day after holiday break um this is still confusing to me I have looked it up and down and I it's to me it's not clear but I don't think this is a time to make a change to that because it would necessitate sending it back to the teachers for theable so I'm say we we uh make no change to that as of now agreed yeah M I have a question yes so we're being asked to approve or not approve this policy right this this agreement if there that many issues with it we're not the ones we're either approving it or not approving it we're not we're not making that policy I mean that was a a a deal between the teachers and the administration right yes so if it's not something we can approve we should send it back and and you it's not is it our job to to change all this I I think at this point it is just these swall things that we're doing to tr because this has been such a long process it's been it's been back and forth between the teachers and us and the administration um and I think it's much much better than it was a year ago uh and then these last things that are left um they'll get fixed with time um either at the policy level or in the spring when it's when it's looked at again are we making a lot of changes that the teachers would before us I don't think we changing anything I think we're voting on the document that was put before us by the staff that's my thought real quick so we could just we vote on this yes or no tonight yes yeah that's what we could yeah and a lot of the recommendation you're making fantastic I think maybe we could say okay these are the items you need to look at next time that you need to adjust before you submit it to us so can I just go go ahead so we're done we went through the whole document at this point we've agreed to look at the three uh sections that are in disagreement with policy to look at the at that at the policy level that doesn't change anything here the only thing that's that's changed is that one line that replaces a spouse a child and a parent with family member which we can do without sending it back to the to the teachers because it's actually a state law it's our job to fix that so then so we vote tonight we we need to say that we vote yay or nay on this with the with that with the discussed change so I'm getting there I'm getting there so with that understanding I'd like to make a motion to approve the document with the agreed change one little change um and that's it do we have a second I'll second uh Mrs Duncan hi Mr Hopkins hi Mr C i Mrs Robin Robertson I apologize hi Mr g i all right and the third is second reading of board policy FF name of facilities and this is the naming of facilities the D the district will consider names derived from significant geographical locations historical events or events of community in significance as well as worthy deceased individual who have been who have made unique contributions to the district and have been deceased for at least 10 years and what we wanted to do in this policy the word facility refers to any school building Administration uh gymnasium stadium and athletic field P playground and so what we would be voting on is to eliminate has been deceased for at least 10 years so Madam president I uh I have some comments on that I did this kind of an policy review of other school districts most have this policy the way we currently have it with the 10 years um requirement but actually a lot of them have changed this is just for everyone's information a lot of them have changed it um some to remove that requirement altogether um and many actually to reduce that to two or three or five years um I said the other night that I I see the value in waiting I think it it should say stand the test of time and um I I I already said this but I think it it to a certain extent devalues the Honor by rushing into it so would anyone up here consider changing it to rather than 10 years two years three years or five years no I think we just leave it as how we have it for the on the agenda tonight go that you guys no okay so and regardless of the outcome of the vote I think that this kind of thing requires public participation action requires public participation because the these are public structures and even though ultimately the board approves it um I hope that when it comes to actual uh nomination of of uh people to be honored with facilities but it's a process that is explained to the board follow whatever the policy says there's no there's no process in place know for it would be agendized at the if this passes this evening it'll be agendized at a subsequent board meeting names proposed so there will be a proposed process be board agenda with the proposed names up okay so so the community will not get a stay in this they'll be they can come to the meeting like anybody else make comments okay they had to say in November okay a lot of schools have like a public comment period ortion or they have a committee gone through this process have that has not been suggested any B until this point well I know that's what that's what we're talking about okay all right then let's just leave it the way that it reads um and we will eliminate from the naming of facilities um the 10 years there it is having been deceased for at least 10 years do I hear a motion I'll motion Mr Duncan I Mr Hopkins hi Mr kman is I Mrs Robertson hi Mr Guthrie I there is nothing else all right I know what you're going to say yes go ahead okay I have two requests for future agenda items we can't do that tonight I can't make a request it's not it's not a discussion we can't make the request because we haven't voted that it's going to be on our agenda and that's what I checked on I I believe I can make a request on any night because it's not it's not a discussion it's only a statement let's what difference does it make for a one meeting and then we'll be in the M dunan Mr and no we can't do three because that' be violation me email Mrs Duncan okay so so I I may not make an agenda request tonight no I'd feel much better if you did not can we can we get that put on the next agenda and then you can immediately after it's passed name what you need to have great yeah okay all right if there's no more further business I ad this meeting at 6:09 and you can either you want to take everything out
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never stopped good idea oh i thought i emailed you guys for clock yesterday okay you can get her on the phone if you'd like i don't think that's you're not using the mics are you no i'm picking up a room noise okay hold on let me try and turn this up okay can you hear us or hear me yeah i can hear you okay all righty then you're there we're gonna go ahead and start then good afternoon i welcome you all to this afternoon's special called china valley school board meeting with that if everyone wouldn't mind standing i 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 liberty thank you hi thank you call to the public call to the public is a time for the public to address the board they do need complete form we have one form we will be setting a three-minute time limit just as a reminder personal attacks upon board members staff personnel or other persons in attendance or absent by individuals who address the board are discouraged and i actually will be stopping any discussion at that point in time um what else do i need to say upon conclusion of the open call of the public the individual board members may respond to any criticism made by an individual who has addressed the party there is some so joanie you're up let me give you put my little timer on for you how are you guys today good thank you so i left the other night and i didn't wasn't able to be here but and then i understood you guys were going to stay close to february 15th we will be discussing it at the next board meeting which is february 15th the next board meeting you guys bars are open everything is open other schools are open they're doing fine why is our school continuing to close down i do not understand this for what i understand from what i watched from the left maybe some of the older people are a little scared i understand that because the most people pass away are the 70s or 80s i've done my research but you guys have got to open our school up for our kids this is ridiculous you guys have not opened because of the teachers not because of the children the children want to come to school there are some teachers that are elderly or scared or you're losing them or they're i don't know if they're getting fired or if they're just quitting or what but we have to keep the schools running you guys you think that the people that that are all voting down here don't have businesses don't go to the stores don't go out and eat don't buy groceries yes they're around people but you guys are shutting our kids down what are the seniors going to get out of this year any scholarships maybe a couple not much and what are going to happen to the seniors of next year if you guys aren't putting the children's education first you have got to make a decision quit being fearful of this virus and let our children go back to school i understand it's a tough time for everybody but there's also a lot of parents out there that have lost their jobs right now the engaging house and trusted is overfilled with mothers and teenage kids and kids because they got homeless they lost their jobs and we have a few here in china and we told i told you back in october 50 of the kids were failing do you think they're doing any better now you may have bought them caught up but that's where they're right back at you're not helping our children your job is to run this school and to make sure that it runs smoothly and yes safely but you cannot close the school down with our children in here all these people paying taxes how long has the school have been closed down since last year when coverage first came out look at how long these kids have found out schools talking about how many students you're losing i hear these guys every day i have the teenagers my grandson by the way is such a fantastic football player and has one of the best arms in the district for tino valley he represents chino valley he had an opportunity to go to prescott last year and he chose to stay here and he responded at camps every summer i'm proud of my jaden smith he's worked hard and he's got things in front of him that he'd like to do you guys are cutting them chances off you're eliminating the chances of these younger kids you think about every place that you go after you leave here every time you go in the store you think about where you go and then think about how these kids are being kept out of the schools with all these people paying taxpayer money now they can work out the other stuff but i'm going to tell you what these schools need to open you guys i don't care could be so serious it's so tunnel business that you're not looking at the whole picture because you're not looking at the whole picture and i come in and spoke with you guys and i do appreciate you volunteering for the board i do i wouldn't want to do it you know i have enough to deal with all the boys at my house but you've got to do something for these kids they've got to get back in school but you let them go to school how how long this year a month and a half you've let our kids go to school for a month and a half and you shut them right back down and in the meeting with all the parents they said listen and you know what you guys said you're right everybody's here do you think it's changed it hasn't changed so please change your mind so jenny again i want to thank you for your your comments and we will be addressing that our next meeting so thank you all right on to item five our curriculum winter sports stage at the july 7 2020 board meeting way back in july before school started the governing board approved three scenarios for reopening schools for the 21 school year these scenarios were for in-person learning hybrid instruction and the at-home learning um the at-home learning scenario did not allow athletics during at-home learning that was approved in july on monday um of on monday january 8th or i think that was actually a thursday the aia executive board voted to cancel winter sports for all aia schools on tuesday january 12th the ia executive board reconsidered their vote and approved continuing winter sports with modifications so when you guys made the decision to go into at home learning or continuing at home learning for the high school and middle school there were no athletics because they had been cancelled that day by the aia or prior to that day and then on tuesday that was reconsidered based on the conversation at the january 11th board meeting district stat and that had to do with our next agenda item district staff is recommending that cvhf cvhs athletics be allowed to continue during at-home learning the main reason is these kids as we learned at the board meeting are going to compete anyway whether it's in a club or in school-based athletics they are going to compete my feeling is that they will be competing in a safer way under aia rules than they would in other rules and part of that is there were modifications that were made that i believe i shared with you um supported an email to you regarding the modifications that are going to be required in order for these um athletes to compete and so that is the recommendation that i have for you is to allow winter athletics and we're talking about boys and girls basketball wrestling which involves both uh boys and girls and the spirit line part of that also marty yeah cheer we'll uh participate in if we can okay so there'd be a cheer also and then there are also limitations that the aia put on um the the sorry the spectators i believe it was limited to two per athlete um things like that so those are the are the modifications that were put in place along with a mass mandate um that were put in place um and it sounded like they were going to be very strict with those but that is going to be in a safer way than if they were just to compete in in regular athletics or club athletics sorry yes absolutely please uh i have the ai and i think it's more of a question to coaches is it practical to have the kids have to be wearing a mask during uh the entirety of the game and uh contest um i think that's i think you're right maybe maybe marty can direct that and maybe ask some of the coaches well i think allen had his hand up yeah i was going to say can we approach it please thank you no i don't think it is practical but uh the kids are willing to do whatever they got to do to wrestle and uh we've been practicing with the last couple days trying to get used to it and it's it's tough duty especially the last one because we're trying to figure out a way to keep it on our head and uh but we're going to do whatever we got to do because that's that's how about the kids that was easy well it puts the burden on you the coaches it does because you're going to have to be the bad guys i have to say that well when we haven't we've already we've been doing this for quite a while we've been pretty good about it we've been while we were practicing we so you know practicing with the masks up until now just the coaches had to wear the masks the kids had wear masks to practice but they didn't have to practice with them on now they got to practice with them on their brother right now come on down the road and i don't think that's practical i think it's actually unhealthy and i think it's probably unsafe but i'm not going to comment on what i think about it and uh but we talked to the kids and that's they want to wrestle and they we've been saying hey we deserve a this should be our choice and uh yeah hey it's your choice it's not vessel you want to wear a mask too so we get it we don't like it but we're going to do it so we can't see them and how about some of the other support that's in particular you know you can get really close to each other basketball for the high school um since this all started we've been taking more protocols than any would have ever imagined they have to get out of the car with a mask on they approach the door before they step foot in to get their temperature checked before they can do anything we at the point we're limiting to seven girls in the gym per square footage that's better than any classroom standards by far one girl at a basket and that's how we've been doing it for a couple weeks now we need to go forward because games are gonna competition's gonna be starting we need to get at least ten girls in there so we can practice or for the boys say ten boys again can you spill social distance to a certain extent we have been wearing our mask do we like it no but guess what it's the conception that we have made and they're willing to do that so basically all the coaching staff are saying it's tough but we will comply absolutely okay great thank you any other questions or comments anything really um strongly suggest that we improve this to happen i just feel like sports are such a big thing and it's a reason why we keep a lot of kids in school and i think that we'll lose a lot of families if we don't approve this and with aia reversing their decision i just think it would be the right thing for us to do to make sure that there'll be a lot of work in our district i agree and i think john said it best you know whether we allow sports in our schools or not they're still gonna compete somewhere um you know like i said we've taken enough away from these kids it all right well this is an action item would anyone make a motion please can i just make comments please um the first one is the requested action does mention cbhs athletics only not because the middle school seasons have actually either been canceled or will have been cancelled it was boys basketball um that's been canceled already and then wrestling was cancelled back in the in the fall so this would only um the request is that it only applied to cbhs athletics and then we can revisit it in at the next board meeting for uh middle school athletics and also um and also the spring sports for base for um for cbhs i see how things are um and then also there's i know that there's many concerns amongst families why the heck are we letting athletics go forward when we don't have kids in school and i think that um you know matt was had mentioned it uh you can actually have smaller groups and these kids are cohorted one of the which means that if something does happen if there is somebody that's positive we have a small group that we have to quarantine and a small group that's been exposed to potentially a positive case and not the 100 kids at a high school that potentially that um a positive child or even a positive parent a teacher sorry would expose a classroom in multiple classrooms things like that so it's it's it's safer because of the um smaller groups and the cohorting that is we're able to do with uh during these um practices and games any questions regarding that party can i say something yes please just kind of on a lot more restriction modifications this winter season than they did in the fall um in the fall we did have sports we limited uh we were uh we didn't have to uh at the time do a monitoring form as such uh every school will have to exchange one of these with the with the rival school and that she shows all the all the kids that participate all the coaches that are there this will help contact trace in case we do have any issues that arise so this is one modification there's also a return to play evaluation if a child is does get um this contract copied uh they will have to get the signed off by a medical professional so these are some of the things that are new to uh to this season um one other uh one last thing is you know we did a really good job with uh with um with fans last year or last year last season excuse me uh we limited each child to two tickets per per child or per athlete um this year the aia has put forward that it can only be parents or guardians so that will limit it even further it's not going to make a lot of people happy but it's definitely going to limit who's going to be at the get at the games so we could really cut down on who's going to be in and out of our gym um let's go get our gym but right now is all of our sports so there are there are some really good things that are put in place i just wanted to kind of highlight that because um it is quite different than what it was in the fall and uh they said if the ref if officials say that they feel like people aren't adhering um he will they'll walk out right then there and we will lose officiating from the aia which in turn will cause us to cancel games so we would have to make sure that we adhere to these modifications and marty um just so that um i know some of the board members were here and some weren't in the in the fall why don't you just describe even though that we can't allow spectators in the gym that there's still ways another way for for people to actually view the game thank you for getting to talk about that so we uh we had uh recalled that and through the nfhs the national federation of high schools they uh they gave us they gifted us two cameras one at the football field one in our gym and with these um with these cameras we're able to stream live stream our games so for people who can't attend or won't be able to they can purchase a i think it's a ten dollar a month or seventy dollars for the year and they could uh they could watch all their games uh anything that takes place on in the gym or in the football field so there is another avenue for for people who can't be actually in the game or in the in the gym at that time it's a shame that you have kids the parents haven't paid to watch the games is there any way that we could have this depart broadcast to our facebook page well uh the parents already are not paying to get into the games we haven't charged at all this year uh we haven't charged admission fee at all this year so um we took a big hit on that to be to say the least so uh the the price of uh of one uh membership for this is ten dollars it could be shared amongst all family that's the price of a game about to walk into a game anyway uh nfhs for the first three years um and then after that we we get um i think it's 75 percent of that okay so at least we are we're on a contract so the first couple years it will be through nhs nfhs gets gets that money but nothing's free right they gave us a camera so at least we have that option i took advantage of it and it really is good and we did have a lot of you know football i got i'll admit right now we had a lot of issues but uh just did the test and this week and it looks like we're all good to go for the gym so um i don't perceive that to be an issue this year marty did you want to touch on with that program it includes the visit the the road games oh absolutely thank you yeah so not only do you get to watch whatever we broadcast here but you can watch any game in the nation so whoever whatever um whatever team or whatever school has this program you can just log in and go watch you know if you want to go watch you know um you can watch page you can go watch um you know mesa high school it doesn't matter if you can go watch something in new york if you want to but as long as you have that subscription it's good absolutely it is a good pro it is a lot of bang for your buck for a 10 a month anything else all right again action item if you have a motion for approval please i'd like to make a motion at the china valley high school winter sports program all programs um conform in entirety to the aia rules regulations statements conclusions that have been made as of the 12th of january in their last their last board meeting all right all in favor be allowed to resume in your motion do i think all you said was in accordance with the aia requirements to conform to all of those yeah as well about the high school scenarios conform resume athletics and conform all right next agenda item is the use of school facilities by clubs this is a clarification from our last meeting this was discussed at the last court meeting as madame president said and due to procedural concern a procedural concern staff has brought it back for another vote it's the exact same motion i actually just took the motion that was in the minutes and put it right on here um now the only thing i i i spoke to uh madam president earlier today to kind of clarify things it was interesting so this was voted on on monday on tuesday morning there was a facility use request for a a youth athletic club that was not high school aged and i just wanted to make sure that that was you know that was a result and that's was allowed according to the motion because all that was approved was youth athletic clubs and i wanted to make sure that was the intent as well and so um i wanted to bring that up to your attention to make sure that that was okay discussion john you say the title was a youth athletic club but their kids were not youth no they weren't even well they were not high schoolers they were not high school-aged people okay they were younger or younger okay because i got guidance from you guys if you didn't want adults so anyone over that was out of high school was not allowed to use our facilities and there's there's town facilities that that could be utilized for that this was just younger than high school um that it was a baseball club that was younger than high school that wanted to use the facilities and i just want to make sure that was the intent of the motion that's all and the item did say youth the motion that's on here that's requested is exactly what was approved any discussion on that it seems like to be consistent we've allowed just about high school athletes continue should we take the same thing for the use of clubs it seems to me we were willing to make modification based on the old aia decision it seems to me that now that they have changed course this uh brings us back to the thinking prior to ai that that ai 88 decision of i guess a week ago um at that point in time i want to remind everybody it was our policy we were not we were not allowing any facilities outside facility requests based on the code environment so it seems to me you need to reconsider that and are you do you have the intention to reconsider all club activity or just to the high school that would be to the prior policy which is any and all um facility requests outside facility requests and free our decision or free when everything was normal whatever that was so long ago um pretty much anyone can request a facility correct as long as they provided the insurance and then there was a schedule of fees that they would have to um pay and sometimes those were waived if it was depending on the organization and if they could do it in kind type of deal but there's this policy that that allows pretty much anybody that wants to pay or utilize the facility as long as they meet the insurance requirements they were allowed so in my mind having it say allow youth athletic clubs covers that it does discourage the adult clubs but again there are other facilities for that so cindy you're saying that youth would apply anything up to and including high school age yes absolutely and i like the requirement that they have their own liability in turn questions yeah yeah because some don't well again that has always been policy and it's always been up to the administrative offices to administer that policy what i'm concerned about is that we're going to get into the business of approving or disproving all requests from here on end and do we want to be making the decision of who does not and who who does have access to our facilities well i think that our blanket approval of allowing the organizations is as far into the weeds as we would get and then administrators would make those decisions so well then then our motion it would be to open up our facilities to anybody to revert to the pre-covet facility usage policy i think we still need to have a youth term defined i believe mike is saying not just youth club sports um churches musicals theaters etc am i correct and that's not our decision right so we have to say that or the motion that's being sort of discussed and suggested here is that we revert to the pre-covert facility usage policy which in essence opens it up to anybody at any time or as long as the facilities are available and of course they have insurance policies is that really what we want to do may i refer back to you mr schult what what is your interpretation of this so the the motion that was passed on monday the way that i would enforce that would be it would be as it would be youth athletic clubs um that had outside insurance would be allowed to use the facility and it was not limited to just high school-aged kids it could be any age you know basically any group that tended to serve kids high school or less and um and it says in the motion only for practices so that means they could not have competitions or games or and that was what the motions said and i think annie made the motion at the time um and just as a reminder there is no control over number of people um i know the town we were talking earlier the town limits at the 50 um and or any kind of safety protocols that go along with that um but the way that the motion was is written it would be any youth athletic clubs would be allowed the way the motion was read and the only clarification john would need as i understand it would be up to high school age no i think that's i think that's clear in my mind the only reason this is coming back to you is a procedural reason and i just wanted to kind of bring up what happened on tuesday and if you want everything to be the same and that's how i will interpret it that's fine you just need to make the same motion if you want to clarify things and in no way do i want to bring every facility use request to you i would just go ahead and deny it and if it didn't meet two things if it didn't meet what this says or if we were outside of the pandemic and everything was back to normal and i'm comfortable with club sports right now youth club sports and keeping others out for right now um i think we need to have some control on some containment during the pandemic otherwise we're re back to just having anybody and everybody whenever they choose or whenever they're allowed it's my opinion i agree 100 my understanding is what we did we allowed any youth athletic sports club another question i don't think it's really an issue anymore up to high school age rent facilities according to our administrative standards period um youth med athletic clubs number two i feel high school age are you comfortable with that i think so as long as we are in the understanding that sort of when this condition coven sort of ends and i don't know how that will ever be defined that um we have to revert back to the people in politics of course yeah definitely to be readdressed at a later date that's a delightful process [Laughter] and and you know it was always kind of an administrative task on on that and it was my decision as a as the superintendent to deny that once we were in this situation it just the only reason it was brought to you was because of the whole athletic question and so that's that's the only reason what was brought to you on monday um correct correct and so um you know that's the that's the only reason and it's not my intent for you guys to get into the leads of of approving facility use requests because really everyone has the same right to use it if they meet the requirements no matter what they do as long as it's legal all right with that we need a motion to approve item 5b i move to allow youth at leading clubs to use district facilities for practices with requirements that the club has its own liability insurance all in favor do you want to be fined do so youth defined as up to up to and through high schools i'm youthful betty have a great weekend everyone bye annie thank you everyone
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the governing board meeting to order and we will stand for the pledge of allegiance i 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 liberty and justice for all is that what you're supposed to say okay all right and first we have a public hearing to discuss the potential boundary changes dr kellis thank you uh madam chair and members of the board members of cabinet this evening mr hicks will introduce this item good evening madam president pro tem and members of the board superintendent dr kellis colleagues and community members i'm proud to be here tonight for the public hearing on boundary changes as a continuation of the boundary change in middle school process started last year the boundary chain the following boundary changes are proposed to finalize for to finalize boundaries for the 21-22 school year these proposed changes are reflected on the map upfront and also at dysart.org forward slash boundaries webpage the changes are to move part of the marley park elementary school boundary into the countryside elementary school slash ashton ranch middle school shared boundary to move part of the luke elementary school boundary into the el mirage elementary slash dinosaur middle school shared boundary and to move part of the western peaks elementary cimarron springs middle school and rancho gabriela elementary school sonoran heights middle school shared boundaries into the sunset hills elementary school boundaries these proposed changes entail the final steps to complete the boundary and grade configurations addressed in last year and approved by the governing board in december the changes in grade configurations have carefully followed procedural requirements outreach efforts including public hearings social media web outreach backpack letters home direct email calls texts public notices and newspapers and a live interactive question and answer event so these are the proposed and these are the this is the public hearing and we'll hear any comments thank you so um at this point i'm sure it would be appropriate if there were any there's anybody in the audience who wanted to address the board regarding these proposed changes they would have time at this at this moment if you would so allow is there anyone that would like to speak okay all right now we move to item c1 um and this is an action to elect a governing board president dr kellis thank you madam chair members of the board members of cabinet each year by statute the first regular meeting of the year is set aside for organization the organization of the board meaning it's a time for the board to select a board president and a board chair the appropriate process would be to open it up for nominations board members typically are able to nominate somebody else or themselves our administrative assistant luisa will keep tabs of who the nominations are it would then be appropriate to ask anybody who's been nominated if they agree to the nomination and if they'd be willing to serve in that role we start first with the president position and then whoever is selected as president would then take the role from that point forward conducting this meeting and throughout the rest of the year including the selection process for the board clerk which should follow immediately thereafter once the nominations are made if there are no other nominations and the person or persons have agreed to accept those nominations as first president then the board would take a vote and the nominee with the majority of the votes would then be selected as the president the same process would then be followed for the board chair so i would turn back over to you to conduct the process okay thank you do we have any nominees for board president i nominate don densmore for board president a second sorry so we will vote on board presidency unless someone else has just to be cleared to make sure there are no other nominations okay are there any other nominations and then hearing then you can call for a vote and i'm would assume that ms stansboro you would yeah i would accept it thank you i agree thank you miss chapman all right so we will call for that vote i'm chrissy did so congratulations madam president thank you and you may now proceed to follow the process to select a board chair clerk clerk sorry do we have any nominations for board clerk i would like to nominate tracy sawyer st dale is the clerk thank you i hope i said that right tracy and i would like to nominate christine pritchard for clerk i accept the nomination thank you all right any other nominations okay i'll call for the vote sensor so procedurally because there are two nominations we're going to go with two votes the system only has one blank so we can't put two names in the blank so um we'll go with the first nomination and then the second nomination okay so we're calling for the vote then for the first nomination for miss pritchard so uh nomination was or i'm sorry for tracy and then if somebody um can second that if there's a second do i need to make a motion to do that your nomination would be the motion if there's a second so you should have on your screen to be able to vote so that would take us to the next nomination so the um nomination was made by miss chapman was dennis moore okay so the promotion was made by myself and she accepted and then we would need a second pull second congratulations miss pritchard as the board clerk congrats okay moving to item d1 the agenda form um the governing board um i'm sorry i'll make a motion to approve this agenda form consistent with governing board policy and temporarily suspend any policy with which this agenda may be inconsistent second motion passes madam president just as a point of order given that everybody's wearing masks sometimes it's hard for the the borders executive system to hear emotions in seconds so if everybody could just speak really articulately thank you for the reminder well she has to learn two new voices too right do we have anyone addressing the governing board tonight any call to the public okay so i can just skip down okay all right next we have um g1 the student update do we have a student update yes we do okay good evening board members dr kelly from cabinet my name is dominique and i go to dysart high school i'm a member of the district leadership council just yesterday our council met for a monthly meeting we talked about how we could bring awareness to issues on our campuses and how we would solve problems identified we're also planning a community service project by hosting a hygiene and food drive with valley voot valley view food bank to help those in need in our community in addition to this each site will be creating a video to promote the proper use of a mask wearing on our campuses we would also like to say thank you to all of our nurses teachers substitutes administrators and everyone else doing extraordinary work each and every day thank you very much for the update next we have item g2 superintendent update dr kellis thank you madam president um i'd just like to take a moment first of all and thank uh mr greece haber and mrs parachini for their leadership in managing the dysert student leadership council just for your information this student leadership team is comprised of student leaders from each of the four high schools so while each high school has its individual student councils there's a combined district-wide one and they meet regularly to discuss ways to help us ensure that all students and have an extraordinary experience so congratulations to you for the things that you're doing even in a difficult time also just for the board's information there's been some interesting events happening with the arizona interscholastic association and we are very pleased that one of our own jim dean is on the aia board and represents not only dysert but the entire state of arizona very well and due in part to his leadership the aia has decided to continue with winter sports and so we were very happy to see that and that's all i have to report anyone else have anything i'm sorry item um three governing board update we have any governing board updates they use the knuckle there uh i just uh wanted to make sure that uh appreciation was extended to all staff and all students um for coming back it uh um it's a difficult time for everyone but i am very appreciative of everybody's efforts um in making sure things get done on a daily basis uh i did have the opportunity because i know this was back in december but i did have the opportunity to go um visit a couple of schools uh with dr kellis with sunset hills and i think canyon ridge and um just uh visiting a couple of classrooms and walking around um just to see how things were going and um any board members are welcome to do that but that actually that was it because other than that it's been uh kind of quiet for the board i guess but uh i just wanted to say thank you for everything that you do on a daily hourly weekly basis to provide the education opportunities for our students that's it kind of echoing what's already been said but i think it's important still to repeat it first of all i just really wanted to thank all of our teachers administrators all of our staff members who came to work on monday your dedication and commitment to our district and our students is well noted and very much appreciated not only myself but i'm our our students our parents our community so thank you very much for that and then just to echo what dr kellis shared too um extremely fortunate to have mr jim dean with us as a aia board mob as a as a dysart employee first but definitely during these times as an aia board member mr dean never wavered in his position and fought very hard for our student athletes as he always does and i'm just very thankful that we have uh your voice on that board so thank you very much okay um just echoing what everyone else is saying just so happy that our staff was present and and ready to help our students learn on monday um i i know that things are very difficult right now and a lot of emotions are running high so just very much appreciated the dedication that's going on in dysart and mr dean on behalf of all the students and parents across the state thank you so much for your work with aia thank you next we have our consent agenda items and i will make a motion to approve consent agenda items as presented second seconded by ms pritchard motion passes moving to item j1 we have an information item for policy governance uh dr kellis thank you madam president members of the board and members of cabinet mr john crudo introduce this item thank you dr kellis madam president members of the board superintendent kellis cabinet and guests tonight we continue our policy governance and review of our board monitoring of adopted policies we're on section 7 the second half of the policy 7.33 through 7.67 tonight we do have two changes and that is to policy 7.35 and policy 7.54 we are recommending to you to add the wording on the bullet currently in our hiring processes we are required to call references obviously if the one first reference is has worked at an employer for longer than five years we just need to call that most recent reference if they do not the policy states we need to call three references we're bringing to you a recommendation tonight that if the first reference is not five years but the second one does total five years that we can stop at two instead of going on to the third reference so why are we bringing this policy and those changes to those two policies uh often we are running into situations where uh as we call the second reference they've been there for a long period of time so that third reference is obviou is sometimes very long 10 years plus and they do not recall um that person working there or it's changed there's been turnover and we stopped with five years on number one so we would just like the option to if we call the first reference doesn't total five years if we call the second and it does then we could stop at two instead of going on to that third reference if we call that second reference doesn't total five years we will go on to that third reference still as the policy states and with that i stand for any questions thank you any questions from the board okay all right next we have item j2 nutrition services update dr kellis thank you madam president members of the board and members of cabinet this evening as part of our regular updates to the board we are presenting information from nutrition services and mr ken hicks will introduce this item thank you very much madam president members of the board superintendent dr kellis colleagues community members thank you very much this is a great chance we were able to shine and mr paul stanley is one of our shining stars mr paul stanley so introduce to you mr paul stanley he's our food service director he does work for southwest food service excellence or sfe so we do outsource our food services we work really hard to make sure that they're part of our team and feel very comfortable so that we hope that it's seamless and people don't notice that we outsource that and so i will introduce mr paul stanley to do our nutrition services update thank you mr hicks madam president members of the board dr kellis and cabinet appreciate your time tonight the opportunity to present our nutrition update this evening so just to give you a basic overview of our department there's of course a lot of moving parts in our department but first and foremost we're responsible for all aspects of the federal food program that's offered to our students our stakeholders in our community this is as you may know a highly regulated federally funded program with strict regulations in regards to the nutritional content of everything that we're serving operations as well as financials currently we have 180 incredibly hard working staff in our department from our leadership team to our support staff in our office to kitchen managers and those working on site in our cafeterias fully staffed is about 230 employees the main component components of the program include breakfast lunch after school snack all a carton catering of course but at the moment we are offering more service models than ever to ensure we're meeting the needs of of our stakeholders and our community and our students in dysart um so that might include of course you know breakfast in a cafe uh curbside meal service with universal free meals catering services we have breakfast in the classroom growing minds meal delivery title one pre-k meal delivery all a carton of course our famous high school food truck is in operation as well just to name a few so uh currently we have uh we're serving about 18 000 meals per day and we're projected to serve anywhere between 2.5 to 2.7 million meals this school year so as far as our department goals you know as covid impacted our cips in 2020 we had to to make a small pivot and some adjustments to our cip this year just to ensure that we are aligned with current operations as we had sudden changes back in march of last year and and service models changed universal free meals were uh were offered uh starting september of this year um i think an example of that of one of our changes is the the goal of our free and reduced meal processing in our applications so since we're universal free meals at the moment of course we are not collecting free reduced meal applications so we want to ensure that we adjusted our cip uh to align with our current operations so goal one we want to recoup increase operational equipment costs so we've had substantial increase increases in costs due to the coveted pandemic just as we make adjustments to our operation to ensure the safety of our students and and our stakeholders goal too we want to really resume get back to our special events and local student programs uh by implementing additional safety and mitigation strategies so what i mean by that are our local programs that aren't required by the federal government the usda or the ade these are special programs that we do just for our students at the local level goal 3 we want to expand our recipe database really just to con to continue moving our program forward so we have so many operational restrictions right now we we never want to become complacent we want to keep moving this program forward and increasing student engagement so update on those goals we did receive 36 thousand dollars in awarded grants in october 2020 so that helped offset almost half of our year-to-date increases in our operational costs due to the the coveted pandemic goal 2 we did have our first event back in november so we had our third annual nutrition services election day where students were able to electronically vote on a new proposed menu candidate who will actually be inaugurated in our menus next week on wednesday so additional programs including roving chef pre-k mystery baskets stuco focus groups and surveys we'll start getting those scheduled out for february march and april of course with additional mitigation mitigation strategies in place and the goal three we have uh created through the r d process uh four new federally compliant recipes and so part of that was our nutrition services election day so we're really happy to roll out two of those uh new items next wednesday at both the k-8 and the 912 level so as with every department we've certainly had our challenges i think first and foremost has been staffing since march of last year so um we we began serving meals curbside with 40 fewer staff and and i can't say enough about our team and the dedication of our team who are out there you know last year in in april and may june and august 110 degrees outside and and our staff are out there ensuring their community are receiving high quality hot meals the simultaneous service model has certainly been a challenge so what i mean by that is is in conjunction with cafeteria service inside we're also offering curbside meal service for high school students or distance learners or the community at the same time so that with you know a reduction in staff has been challenging but i couldn't be more proud again of the staff for for really rising to the challenges as they always do a little bit of an inconsistent supply chain and product availability uh particularly last march in april we're seeing that improve a little bit lately but we're working very closely with vendors it has restricted what we're able to offer a little bit because we generally have such a wide variety especially the high school level will offer 30 different menu options and and we pull so much product anytime we we menu one item that it's it's been difficult to procure the the volume that we need and reduce local revenue so particularly in august when we didn't have students on site we had a drastic reduction in local revenue and what i mean by local revenue is the a la carte you know our snacks our catering services and things like that so that has a fairly substantial budget impact this year and then of course increased supply costs we are of course using you know a lot more sanitizer and disinfectant chemicals and keeping things clean and sanitary and so that's been a substantial increase in cost but but also with our transition into curbside and packaging everything for our students we've seen a pretty substantial increase in those paper goods and the because the demand is so high as restaurants are obviously serving more takeout supplies we're all pulling from the same vendors and so that's been a bit of a challenge as well so i i could probably give you five slides on celebrations but it was out of respect for your time we'll we boil it down to about four here so i'm really proud of the fact that since september fourth we've served over one million free meals um in dysart school district two you know our students our stakeholders but our community here around dysart as well we led the state in a very successful curbside service model beginning last year in 2020 and and we did that by offering hot meals to our students when a lot of districts were were struggling particularly with the the procurement piece um and a lot of other districts were serving cold sandwiches just kind of doing what they can and repeating items each week and we really focused on variety and really offering the best product and service that we could for our deizer stakeholders so we were so successful in this curbside model that we were recognized by ade and we were asked to create and facilitate estate training in regards to best practices for curbside service models our breakfast in the classroom federal county and claiming procedure has also been adopted by ade as a best practice and is now included in state training so anytime a school nutrition professional in arizona takes that breakfast in the classroom training they're going to see dysart school districts screenshots on there of our procedures and some of the materials we use in the classroom and then last but not least celebrate our staff of course um so we held our third annual uh hunger hero challenge in december and really proud of the staff for donating more than 3 000 pounds of food to st mary's food bank so these were personal donations by sfe staff and nutrition staff in dysart with the help of some some students in classrooms who jumped in on the challenge and really wanted to see that kitchen manager win the contest we had some help from them as well so i'm incredibly appreciative and and thankful for our staff for as always rising to the to the challenge and supporting our community when when they need us so with that we'll open it up should you have any questions well first off you're not paul stanley from kiss right the one and only the one and only your hair's kind of changed a bit that rock and roll lifestyle really took a toll on me with food right um thank you for everything that that you do and the fact that you had um you served over 18 000 meals per day and uh 2.4 projected for for this year um that's just totally amazing but the fact that you have 40 percent fewer staff is even more amazing and um it's it's not easy to continue doing what we're doing with some of our hands being tied but the fact that ade has come in and and celebrated what we're doing here is amazing so that's um a lot for you and your staff so thank you um what is the roving chef i heard so can you talk about that roving chef we we brought into desert actually in 2005 when we first started working in dysart school districts so and so that's a cooking class generally for the k-8 level students will come out of class will they'll work with the district chef or diet and dietitian and or a nutrition specialist i will go through recipes we'll cook it's a hands-on cooking class essentially generally we'll take a tour of the kitchen which we won't be doing this year but it's a really really fun platform just for that student engagement we talk about even food safety and nutritionals and and go through recipes make sure we're following a recipe to the tea and then of course we you know student surveys we always get feedback whenever we can so it's one of our original sfe programs that was brought into dysart in 2005.
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hello wildwood hello out there wildwood land happy new year happy new year nuevo feliz ano nuevo i don't know how to say it in another language but that's spanish if you know how to say happy new year another language besides english you can put it in the chat please mr miss estes this is our annual new year assembly 2021 can you believe it no and i've been waiting for this year for a long time yes you and many many people so happy new year out there on wildwoodland it's great to be together like this and today we're going to have a lot of fun we're going to share new year traditions from around the world miss oh thank you miss mastryani in japanese wow when you come on miss masteriani will be joining us in the broadcast booth and she'll have to say that in japanese in a beautiful language thank you so much ms estes today we have a lot to share as usual during this assembly all the great things that are going on in wildwood thank you thank you and so when you put into the chat of a different language we'll pop it in there thank you thank you ted and and so miss estes one of the traditions around the world uh that we like to celebrate is just this idea that we're welcoming the new year bringing in light and joy and we're saying goodbye to the old year and the things that we're ready to just get rid of so yeah go ahead when i was growing up we made sure to sweep and clean the house on the day before near years because we needed to make sure we made enough room for all the good luck yes we wanted all the energy of all the good luck to be in the house for january 1st so that was our new year tradition so we'll be doing that together here at wildwood in our own way and so people like your family had their own tradition and then in some countries they the whole country joins in for a tradition so should we get started please please okay so we i we want to let people know that a little bit later in the assembly if you have two pieces of paper and something to write with you'll be able to join us there thanks aiden we also people are doing a great job in the chat so the chat is for us to say encouraging things for the people that are brave enough to get into the broadcast booth with us and they're also to share new year traditions how you say happy new year in different languages so please use the chat appropriately okay so i think everyone knows how we start our assembly myself yes we do welcoming somebody yeah and every month it seems we get to welcome new students so ms catherine is backstage as normal and i think she has a slideshow for us to welcome three new students today can't wait to meet them let's see who they are ah look at that face it's like pudding i love it so this is brendan kaiser he just joined k1 with miss carol and miss maggie and i was actually in carol's class and he was doing what he loves to do which is make inventions make magic and magic potions oh i love it i can't wait to meet him and of course as you and i are cat lovers he loves his cats oh yes yes see somewhere around here roof is amazing at home i'm at school so thanks luke for saying that to brendan welcome to wildwood brendan and we will make sure you feel like you're a part of the community and then we have two brothers i can't wait we have wyatt clark he's in grid sixth grade yeah amazing my son moved here in sixth grade so welcome to the family wyatt wyatt is an avid reader he enjoys basketball and soccer wyatt also enjoys eating out playing video games and hanging out with friends and family oh i know so many kids who enjoy those same things welcome wyatt yes oh nice so welcome wyatt very cool and then he has a brother hello dakota known as miss jack's class in grade 2 and like his brother dakota enjoys basketball and soccer he enjoys eating out hanging out with friends and family and playing video games both wyatt and dakota attended jackson street school in northampton which i consider our sister school over there in northampton and wyatt actually was in middle school because that's what they do in northampton and now he's gets to be in sixth grade with us and be a leader so welcome to both of you we can't wait to get to know you better thanks for the shout outs and i know miss jack's class and the whole sixth grade have already started to welcome both of them all right let's move right along how about if we uh just take a minute right now to uh announce our shining stars yes let's announce yeah let me get to make sure i have that in front of me okay you want to go first i will because i love her her name is ayanna clark she's in fifth grade with mr owen oh hi anna i miss you so i wish i could see more of you you have really shown out with the i in star for trying my best ayanna has worked incredibly hard i've been very responsible about getting her work done especially math assignments every day at the what i need time which is win time she stays in the meeting to make sure she has done the work correctly and to make sure she turns it in some of the math we've done is really different than what students are used to but ayanna tries her best to understand it and always gets it done way to go ring in the new year ayanna way to go okay so we're gonna move over to grade two and miss her to miss riley's class amanda so these are things that your teachers have said about you so mr owen nominated ayanna so amanda always has a smile on her face and she's such a caring classmate at the beginning of the year she had a lot of challenges with math but she never gave up she worked so hard and now she has a lot of great ideas and problems solving skills and they love your teachers love hearing your voice when she shares with the class way to go amanda that's my girl chica has a great attitude about learning is she is engaged student she tries her best at everything she does and when something is tricky for her she always asks for help miss heard and miss riley see you she has grown so much as a learner this year and i'm so excited for her being a shining star oh okay next in art grade three and i think we actually might be seeing this third grader in the broadcast room later a little preview here gg gigi is doing an outstanding job in art she is bold listen to this fearless about trying new art make yes techniques she's making a lot of art during art meets and in her free time all that practice is paying off she's becoming a stronger more creative more passionate artist she's sharing these skills with her classroom community keep it up and i wanna am i get to share the sixth and fifth grade uh what a great thing yes yeah so these three students are going to k3 to show the k3 friends a couple of their exercise moves shout out to nina to maid and to be congratulations our sixth and fifth grade leaders thank you so much yeah so these are for all of you in the wildwood community who's uh tuning in right now these are workout circuits that um the fifth and sixth graders have created with mr b so if you need to have a little energizer get your heart beating you also can see these circuits okay finally the last one is a special shout out to an entire class otherwise known as mossy woods that would be a constellation a group of shining stars right a constellation yes that's right absolutely there were a few tech issues as there always seems to be in this online world and all of the students take their virtual job so seriously that when we the teachers our student has a tech issue they jump right into their jobs and help and support each other they'll do things like send a link make suggestions about what to do to solve the problem encourage people to try keep trying to solve the problem we're really proud of them and in the words of mrs moss i guess it's a made-up word to say way to go nice job and i mean this world requires us to be patient and to have support so i just love it that mossy woods is being a leader in their class for each other absolutely so are you ready for our first new year tradition i think here we go this one comes from spain and i told miss estes to bring grapes with her so in spain this is a true tradition you take grapes and the grapes represent you have 12 one for each month and the idea is you yes you got your grape i got my grape i have it there so you yeah so the idea is to pop them into your mouth if you get it into your mouth okay that's january good luck you get good luck for january 2021 february your turn um march comes after february what april may good june oh july i love it oh summer time is going to be so great august and then we will be in the new school year [Applause] valeria you do this okay october my birthday month november thanksgiving's gonna be awesome and december we'll be in together and waiting for 2022 here we go i can't miss oh yes all right way to go ms estes so that tradition comes to you from spain all right now miss estes i'm just looking over here and we're going to bring another we're waiting for mr k and i don't see him in the broadcast booth so i might text him but we're going to do another tradition okay yeah so this tradition is going oh here he is hi mister jay is your student going to join us mr k let's see i'm going to bring you up here ready everyone out there in wildwoodland let's welcome the one and only mr gay in third grade let me yeah um we are missing gigi we can't find her right now okay giving her a moment before joining but all right well here's what we'll do i'm gonna i'm gonna take you away while you keep trying okay go we're gonna introduce another tradition that everyone can petition participate in okay all right okay everyone are flexible thinkers nick we're flexible thinkers exactly we just change up it change it up we change it up we got this okay here we go so everyone out there in wildwood land you take a piece of paper oh there's gg geez she's here is she here yep be get yourself comfortable can you say we know that we can hear you gg with us all right he's hearing us all right so mr k you and gigi get to explain this incredible uh thing that you created can you guys hear me yeah i can hear you just fine gigi yes so when you're gonna gigi would you like to start and tell them a little bit about what metaphoridae was and how it it could become a traditional wow right can you go ahead i'm gonna get it okay [Music] yeah so at the end of the year our classroom metaphor is about 2020.
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school committee to order on wednesday january 13th at 6 30 p.m i will take a roll call vote so when i call your name just respond that you're present uh i'm gonna go with first names for this uh if that's okay with everybody uh carrie carey present uh holla hello um margaret present and thank you doug for being here and for all of the work that you've done so far and um i'm just going to turn this right over to you thank you for all the information that you shared with us yeah so uh what i think i'll do is this is that um you know i put together a document i think if we'll see if i can share let's see here all right looks like 200 screens yeah [Music] all right does does that present it all to you guys no no of course not well i have the google doc you shared the document with us last night yeah so i think the idea here is that um i didn't want to get too too far along before i had some pretty significant feedback from you guys about whether this was heading in the right direction so you know and and mark and i were chatting about this just a moment before before you joined and that is is that you know the big bunch of books that we traditionally done i didn't get a chance to put it together last last winter but i will this this winter um you know have a real depth of of information about how you know stuff works and it interacts and all that sort of stuff and you know the the problem i've always had with those is they're just so long and uh they haven't you know they have all the stuff you need but they're just you know no one's gonna read except for a few folks gonna read 40 or 50 pages so i thought one piece of this could be you know uh something we use year over year that's really a much shorter version of that that it sort of um gets to the the nuts and bolts of how the budget gets together and and i think gets to some of the points that were made when we were chatting last time which is about you know what things are how variable are some things how much control do we have over them um part of why i sort of put it in a grid uh you know a table format to sort of speak to each of those um components um and and to sort of you know lay out those pieces in a in a fairly concise but but hopefully clear way uh and then obviously people want to go into much more detail they can you know there's plenty of resources out there uh for for that but that that was kind of my thinking there and it you know and just i sketched a few definitions of beginning that would be something that even somebody who's kind of sort of familiar can skip over if they don't need to but in that section that goes into you know the operating budget the sort of expense side and the revenue side trying to lay out those pieces because that's how our budget's constructed is with those categories that we have you know regular education specifications and so on and so forth and sort of describe what gets lumped into that because you know even when you look at the budget book it has those sort of uh uh talent up subtotals for those different categories but it's not always exactly clear when you look at the the detail which go into which ones you know and i can be perfectly honest and say that when i'm putting budget stuff together and going through the details then you know i'm back and forth a bunch to say is that line in there or is it there you know that kind of thing because um and then likewise on the revenue side the idea being just you know go through the different types of revenue which ones we control or don't control you know um you know i think end is a super confusing area for folks um because it's i mean i think one of the critical things you know sort of one-time money um it's essentially uh remains from previous years uh so you know it's uh i'll i'll say in in my previous history with town meeting in amherst um somebody's like hey you know we put like 200 000 into this you know this uh into free cash every year why don't we just budget that into the into the budget it's like well because it doesn't exist until it gets certified for one thing but also you never know whether you're going to have any or not you know general you know i mean it could be if you had the sort of perfect budget where you had exactly the right expenses and exactly the right revenues you'd end the year with a zero and you wouldn't have any excess right you know that doesn't happen you want to be a little bit to the surplus side so you budget conservatively and that's part of the the narrative there that that i would want to put in is you know how does this get created you know the interesting piece also for e d for folks that you know the general public is that they're unlike free cash which can be unbounded in in the circumstance with with the regional schools that if it gets above that threshold that they have we have to give it back to the towns you know and that's important you know we can't stockpile it um you know there are some things we can do to kind of stockpile it but it requires you know action approval to do that so you know that's some of when we get into that other funding category like grants and special funds revolving funds those kind of things that's where you can kind of in a sense sort of squirrel away some money um usually you do it for things like capital um so you we have a capital stabilization fund um you know but again it's it's uh you know they're all prescribed and stuff but to lay those out in in simpler terms was sort of the goal here and then to go into more um you know sort of the second half of this for lack of a way to describe it would be more specific to sort of what's been happening more recently with us you know some history and some yeah and so that that's kind of where i want to go there and like with the ads and cuts i realized you know it would be better to really abbreviate that if they want to look at the detail of a given year happy to provide it but the the the idea of here's what happened you know in general you know the specifics of it are maybe not as important um i did want to distinguish on the and i did this in the chart and i hope that was clear to you guys there was there are changes in staffing where it's not the people have left but the who's paying for it changed so if we shift someone onto a grant well that reduces our operating um so i wanted to make those distinctions of of changes to fde you know they can sometimes be you can reduce fte but not have fewer people working for you um because if we get grant funding or like you know uh in the amherst budget last year we had um three staff that we essentially are gonna fund with money from umass um in the region it was like part of a person because it was like fifteen thousand dollars so that that's part of why those last two columns it's what you know because i think that last comes one that you know is what people i think more intimately care about it's like well who lost their job well that's what that shows is who lost or got a job as a result of ads or cuts and then i was gonna i haven't done it yet but i was gonna film in sort of well who was taking the hit here was it teachers was it admin and then i kind of looked everybody else into the other category which is you know all the paraprofessionals food service um clerical maintenance i mean i could separate those out if if we're interested but i think that's broadly you know those are mostly hourly workers is one way to think of it and not the sort of professional staff but if we think that i mean i'm open to suggestion on any and all of those kinds of of edits um and then one other thing that was we chat about last time was sort of the idea of inflation versus um potentially versus just how our budget's changed over the years um i can certainly plot that fairly easily i've got um the inflationary factor we use in our busing contract um i can chart that and then chart that against sort of changes in budget um and so you know sort of show that that's an interesting uh sort of overlay uh it essentially is a way of looking at sort of constant dollar charts sort of like if you set a metric of you know today is you know the basis and everything after that is based on that basis kind of thing but um so those were the pieces that i kind of put together to try to get started but i wanted some feedback from you guys if that's kind of the direction you were thinking of um other things you want to have put in there or not put in there or um you know i think this might be helpful the first part of it i think is helpful for anybody that's interested in sort of what's the school budget and how does it get put together without having to read 60 pages so i'm hoping to keep this to about four five um and then the the second half is going to be much more about you know this year's story for the regional school district and and sort of what's what's going on what's happening in recent history and then what's what's uh the heart of the conversation as we as we get into the budget season more more fully in the next few weeks so i think i mean i'll stop there and sort of see how you guys are feeling about this any thoughts you have okay okay um why absolutely but um i'm getting an oh i'm sorry um but i i i wonder if holla and carrie would like to go first if you have questions or comments i'm happy to chime in um so i guess the first of all thank you this is great um the one question i have is just in terms of you put the ftes into the changes over time and showing the reductions but it's a little um it would be nice to kind of have the fts and some of this wanted to be applicable but for example for regular education special education do do you have that like is that do are people assigned to i don't know does it cost i'm gonna get my lingo wrong but it like could you give us the ftes at the top with the regular education special education student support services and programs or is that just gonna gather into like a person i don't see a personnel one here i mean obviously some of the health insurance costs and things like that are gonna be you know anyway i'm just wondering if we could get because the change is interesting but it's also in important to know the change over you know what the denominator is a little bit and i'm wondering if there's a place we could put in that denominator for the change or maybe that's yeah because because we have all the changes which i think is really important to show like we've been making these reductions over time and what you're asking for is you know potentially would be equivalent to like how many five years of reductions um anyway i'll stop talking let me if i may just ask a bit of a clarifying question make sure i'm understanding correctly so you're thinking along the lines of sort of uh changes within particular sort of category areas um in the fde i think we've done that to some extent um [Music] does but i don't know if it gets his i don't know if it does it by you know like contract area like teachers and professionals versus admins versus i just don't recall right off top my head versus sort of budgeting areas i guess the tricky thing i'm trying to think of is so when we look at the to go back into the expenses or like go back to the operating budget and we see that we have regular education we have a description of what it's supposed to pay for and here it's like classroom so um there's the year to year availability and what the num would we be able to assign to that a number of people or full-time equivalents to that to that area of the budget you know i i think perhaps yeah because it would kind of help you see kind of like where because people are our biggest you know our best that's that's what we spend most of our money on and i'm not i'm not um i don't know i'm trying to think if it would help tell the story to have some people attached to it because i think that's um important for folks to kind of when they're thinking about budgets it's abstract but if you put you know like this one's this is where x number of teachers are funded out of right right no i i i hear what you're saying and i think yeah in that payroll section which is you know got the color to it the green and the blue i just picked colors um yeah i can look at how that's changed um you know and and see if i can put in um or i could i could structure the that in the in the sort of ads and cuts um instead of it doing it by sort of admin teachers other i could put it into the sort of program areas might be instructed it might make it you know we have to reorient the picture to sort of widen it a little bit to show that but but um but yeah that's certainly i think a piece of it because it's you know when we if you see you know if you look at the as it cuts list it says you know special education or you know not you know classroom or whatever um so we can we can definitely do that um you know another way we might get at regular education and special education is to look at the tr the oh um when i was looking at that actually took some of the data out and looked at and and there are a couple of charts in the fiscal year 19 or 20 budget i can't remember which one with some charts that show how much we're spending on regular education versus special special education and there are some figures about how the dollar amounts have also changed and that presumably would also correlate to you know what we're paying in salaries and expenses for those services because it has definitely changed yeah yeah um not that that's a bad thing but but it you know it has changed yeah and someone that's driven by you know for like the term uh clientele yeah well our enrollment yeah what your enrollment is well one of the other things is is you know this happens uh you know if you look at um you know selected populations within our within our school whether it be you know special education tends to affect uh sort of regardless of of category of people you know other kinds of demographic type categories other categories track uh more with uh you know certain let's say race ethnicity groups right so as you know you're you know as and i've looked at this over the time in the in the district you know sometimes if you look at percentages of things it's it's indicative of something other than what it seems like because you know um if for example uh you know the number of ell students the number of students may not change but if the total school population is dropped in other words if if the kids said it you know if we're dropping population none of them are ell students your percentage bll goes up and it goes up considerably sometimes so that's you know we want to uh make sure we're you know taking that kind of piece into account as we sort of demonstrate stuff but but there's no doubt that as you um you know sort of carry uh certain you know sometimes you do like a stack bar chart where like the height is the sort of how much did you spend in the different colors in the bars the size of the of the different categories um and sometimes that's you know instructed to see that um you know sometimes when you have too many different colors it's a little hard to sort of have but but certainly um uh you know i can i can look at those kind of those kind of charts um you know maybe one of those you know we could we could do it by fte but we could also you know potentially we could just do it by dollars which is i think what's traditionally been shown um you know the the the you know special education tends to skew um skew things a little bit because they tend to have a lot of like paras so if you have a lot of one-to-one paris mostly other pair you know we don't have professionals that aren't special education very often we have a few but not very many um so almost all of that block of of employees is dedicated to special education and so that that's you know um the nature of how we do that i mean that's part of how you deliver the service and it's you know how do you try to be cost effective with that and and and uh you know leverage the skills as best you can you know um and that's some of what's going to be part of this story as well is sort of how do we actually execute the work we do but certainly you know i can look at different ways to to try to get to or or draw um you know the information out in in parallel to what is above as far as how the budget is constructed that's that's a useful thing and i i think um and you know that idea of sort of fte over time which is part of why i did what i started with there i may change that a little bit and and certainly anytime you put a table of numbers up it's often good to put the corresponding sort of picture because it's a lot easier to process the information sometimes when you see it on a graph now you can you know you can mess with those and make things sort of look far better or worse than they are but but nonetheless um i won't i won't be deceptive on purpose um okay carrie oh i'm sorry carrie did you have another well i was just thinking i mean as we're talking about the special ed stuff and i um i think one of the things that's worth communicating and i'm i'm not this may be text i'm not sure how to do this but it's just like a lot of special education stuff we don't have control over so if somebody you know joins our district and and has specific needs we need to meet those needs and it's not something that we could potentially cut whereas to say some of the other and same thing with english language learners like there's there are all sorts of um and i think it's the right thing like i'm just you know all right so um well that's one of those things in the in this report control you know it's it's i think that's an area where in the in the sort of grid where we explain the the different sort of areas you know in the special education area and again maybe it won't fit nicely into that or it'll be too much sort of text to explain but it can be part of it may be part of the narrative here at the very beginning where i you know i just sort of basics of budget you know i was just going to talk about sort of the very very broad stuff but but it could be a place where uh if if it doesn't fit into the chart where we can explain that where there are you know the the it's it's the term is called faith free and appropriate public education and so uh explaining that and how that um you know dictates our choices at times um you know because it's we're required to make the curriculum accessible to kids and do the things we need to do to make that happen um and some kids need more help than others i'm kind of wondering if we could create um like a i'm just imagining a little um like temperature thing where it's like on one end is high level of you know flexibility like this is something like music programs for example like there's no i think they're highly important i don't think we should be cutting them i want to preface that but i would say like you know certain types of veg programs are maybe would be very um low in the like state mandates that we must pay for this whereas others would we could go all the way into a red zone with like things like vapes where they're like very you know low levels of local control and instead of trying to do it because i think what you're saying is like i think a lot of this is already in that really long document and trying to think about how to make it so that opens up the top page you can look at it and say like the big takeaway and if one of the big takeaways we want to have is like the school committee doesn't actually have a lot of control over reducing this cost area or this you know this piece of the operating budget so maybe we could either like the same way we have those color-coded circles for like yellow green red maybe we have some sort i'm i'm not a designer but you know yellow green and red like green we have uh you know this is very you know we can do away not that we should but like this is something we could potentially cut whereas with like special ed i think a lot of it would be like in the red zone like we can't actually make cuts legally red would be and maybe red's not the right color because it sort of implies a certain thing but but but i get your point is that yes um there are there are things that uh are more required and others that are less required and so when you you know once you've taken care of those required things you're you know the rest of the things you have more levels of control over is about your you know your philosophy right and your community uh values i think to put it bluntly for this coming year it's what we can cut you know these are the things we can't cut and here's what's left where we have to make decisions about what we're going to cut i mean that's really right or we may be right and you know the difficulty i think for some folks is is that you know um if you want to keep like for example the high school or the middle school too it's like if you want a larger you know if you want to preserve certain classes then class sizes going up is one way to do that and that doesn't mean you won't have still small classes for some of the more specialized things but it makes it possible because you shift how many staff you have in one department versus another that can you know i mean that can create some tricky dynamics between departments uh but you know that's that's why you pay for us a nice salary um in the principal um i see a note since we can't see holla she's put a note in here that she has raised hands so thank you thank you for doing that so can you hear me yes okay so this is my first budget go around i'm excited to be here and pardon me if this question is super rudimentary but when um dr morris talked about furloughs last night i assumed that the budget for this year we've already passed so with that money that we're accruing or saving to furloughs be not a surplus but applied to the budget we're looking at for next year um sort of so it uh typically when in an operating budget if there's money left over at the end it goes to e and d um and the the quark of e d is you know it's basically a savings account um the quirk is that they have to what they call certify it to use it um so it almost always creates a lag of a year between when you actually save the money and when you actually can spend it um and so we try to anticipate what our end will be and get certified and then utilize that because technically when we pass so last year when we passed our budget we we were using uh we have a contingency fund which is is just in absolute emergency we try not to spend that from e and d but then we actually used i want to say 515 thousand dollars of e d um that we're actually going to spend to make this year's budget work um and so that 515 000 is technically from the money that was declared by the state to be you know sort of in remainder or left over after the end of fiscal 19.
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i would like to call our january the 13th meeting to order as we gladys we lost your uh your sound there looks like we're standing for the pledge everybody to the flag of the united states of america indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you we should be a mute unless we're speaking i guess right yes thank you dr sam okay kate would you do the roll call uh joseph britton present rachel chaleski here kate canetta here gladys cooper here lauren daley here joseph de silva here catherine hodgson i can see you there on on the screen can you hear me now now i can hear you thank you um richard gennelly jamelle is out okay cath kathleen molinaro here uh albert russo here and amy spellino here ten present one absent thank you all we're gonna move on down the agenda uh dr sarah you want to take care of the recognitions dr sally you're still on mute got it thank you um on the agenda we were talking about the first thing on i don't have it in front of me and i don't have two screens is that the um the donation for the thousand dollars okay right cara no sir it's a recognition recognition and and dan donovan is here mr donovan is here all right dan go ahead good evening everybody uh you know after here we are again uh i'm talking about another accomplishment from danbury high school staff and students but uh i took uh starting to get a little bit smarter as i go through this so i took a page of dr sal's book where he asked me to come in and speak so what i did is i turned around and asked the teachers and the students to come in and speak and give you the first hand knowledge of what happened getting a little better at this but seriously uh we're here again to highlight another accomplishment by the dhs staff and students i couldn't be more proud as everyone knows this was a an election year and a a pretty tumultuous one but our students decided to step up with the guidance of miss spirit and ms cal to run a campaign to get as many registered voters as they can with do something dot org sponsoring them and they won ten thousand dollars for danbury high school and they're going to tell you all about what they did and how they did it but along with miss cal and ms spearden uh i see becca walking around her house right there and jake should be on here as well you're going to recognize them because they're your board of governors reps that come to meetings and they've been doing it for two years so you're familiar with them but i'm going to let miss cal and miss spiridon take over and tell you what they did so i mean i guess i'll i'll start first uh it was a collaboration of really three programs uh the board of governors the peer leaders and the deca program uh it started out as an a search to adapt uh to online learning as you know we couldn't exactly go out and do community service but the fantastic thing about it was when the kids were put into groups and they networked i was amazed that they were able to apply so many of the skills they learned across the curriculum and they were able to go out and get almost a hundred and over a hundred new registrations and they never left their living room um it it was a testament to their abilities to um communicate work with others in a team and work a car across the curriculum through our flex program network with family in the community outreach to other communities and then not only just to ask them to um vote but really to pitch what voting means in a democratic society and how important it is that we have such a valuable um a valuable uh uh gift in our community and they got such a great response and i i want to also recognize the media center who participated in a mock a mock election in the building and we're able to spread that all of the flex teachers who participated in encouraging students um to get involved uh i can't if when you are participating in such a big project it's not one person but i probably had over 150 students participating in in the project and i think if rebecca could give you some insight on just some of the things that she did and jake so i actually have what we submitted to the um to the the people at do something so if i'm able to share my screen i can show everybody what we did submit let me just go over that am i allowed to share my screen let's see yes yes i don't know let me hold on you should be all set i just enabled it just to so you can share okay perfect sorry i'm letting my dog out of the house so if i'm like getting up that's what we're gonna do okay let's see can we just let me know if you can see it all right can we see that yep okay yeah you're good back okay so this is what um jake myself miss spirit on his cow fury worked together collaboratively to come up with this presentation because we we had to submit this alongside um some questions that were answered um and we thought we didn't just want to be like everybody else and submit just the questions so we decided to submit kind of like a culmination of everything that we did um in the community just in like one presentation so they could go through it and look um just easier to you know grade our um achievements and whatever so oops can i what am i doing okay so we came up with objectives that we wanted to focus on so here you can see it says mobilize eligible voters in our community inform students on the importance of the voting process because we didn't just want to register people and then them have no idea what they're actually doing in the community so we we wanted to show how important voting is we also wanted to show we just wanted to get students involved on current issues and why they should be voting and how important it is in our community to vote um we did have messages that were spoken like either by carol she was an alum from dhs and she has over like 200 000 followers on social media so we had her um give out information then we had mayor mark give out information um so we had a couple people that were so we had 60 plus people actually were contacted um to give information and then we have instagram engagement so we had students posting on their social medias um you know swipe up and register and then that goes to their um so say like a student got somebody registered it would come up on their thing how many people they got registered through their link so it all kept track of which students were registering who and then um through this people were very quickly to you know swipe up register it took about 5-10 minutes to do that so then we did it on twitter as well so at the bottom you can see there was over 2000 engagements um 2000 impressions on tweets we had people retweeting us in the community um different political you know people in our community mr donovan um mayor mark people like that that were just getting out the information to our community and then we had kids make tick tocks that was also part of the um program to like make tick tocks whoever had the most creative tick tock won a um scholarship so we had over 65 tick tocks made i'm not going to show them but they were these are just a couple of what kids were doing either informing students on where they could vote in our community or how to vote or just creative things you know to get people involved so hopefully this doesn't play but this is a video of me that i put out during flex so a flex obviously is when um every student can be shown a message so miss cal and i and jake decided that i would am spirit on decided that i would make like an informational video on how to register so i kind of sat down and made a tutorial on how to register how quick it is and what you need to be able to register you know license of that sort and i kind of went over that because i figured students might not be educated on how easy it is to vote so i just wanted to put it out there how quickly and easily you can vote so over 3 500 students watch this video and then anyone who was 18 um by election day was able to register hello everyone if you don't know me my name is okay and then this was the mock election that we did in the school so if you guys are interested at all to see the results um this was the presidential results um house of rep results state house results state senate results um yeah and then the issues chart what students found to be the most important things in our community i found this very interesting very informative on what students may think are the most important issues going on and then i think that is all so this is what we submitted again to the how do i stop sharing i never use zoom stop yeah okay there we go there you go so that's what we um submitted to the do something and obviously we won from that so i just wanted to show what we did submit jake do you have anything to add you covered most of it but i just think that it was just really great to see like how far we could get this um i remember the number of people that we registered being at like 50 and then it went it's then it was over 100 so it was just cool to see how many people we could get involved like so many people got involved with like all the impressions on twitter and we definitely deserved the ten thousand dollars so do we have an idea of what's going on with the ten thousand dollars oh dr cell you want to spend the money already let it just earn some money it's all yours you always use the well any anything you want to share with any want to let us in on anything or what once we knew that we knew what we were saying um we are gonna buy um some sweatshirts for the key people the peer leaders did a lot a lot of work in the classroom and some of the bog people were gonna get to there spend a little bit of that money but i really i i can only say this is my 39th year of teaching and i have to tell you that from my heart i i'm always amazed how what what spirit the danbury kids have and how much they have grown over the years from the first time i came there to now then and they always step up i i can't even say how proud i am and how proud you should be of that of of their participation and their interest in their own community they did a really good job steph do you want to add anything um i mean i was just really proud like i can't even tell you how many tick tocks there were going around like ones that like even i just saw like that were retweeted by denver athletics or mr donovan or anyone and i was just surprised that how even though they they weren't there and they weren't in person they still managed to get it out and get so many people registered i don't i think the next closest person was like 30 or so registrations behind us so we kind of blew everyone out of the water the doctor sal to answer your question about what we're going to do with it once we received which you already have received the check now i uh i you know messaged rebecca and i said come on rebecca how do we spend ten thousand dollars and she really didn't have an answer right rebecca she said i have never spent ten thousand dollars before so we have um her working with the groups that ms cal mentioned and uh going back and seeing what they want to spend it on you know and then as a committee this is a real bright group of kids who who will make an informed decision on what they want to spend it on and we'll spend it on that you know with little as little as much input from me they ask me if there's anything teachers need they ask me if anything that's needed around the school um you know and they they also realize that you can't redo a whole bathroom for ten thousand dollars so that kind of went out the window real quick uh but they're working on it and we'll come back and let you know so so for the board um we've spent a lot of time with the portrait of a graduate and i mean a lot of time thinking through those attributes and attitudes we think would kind of define what a danbury graduate should walk away from their experience at danbury education and i got to tell you involvement in the community has been at the highest making connections and it's what these youngsters are doing um walking their shoes we're just hoping that we can make that embedded in the work that we do so as uh carmella just indicated they just rise to the occasion and it's such a critical part of danbury kids that i always hear the legacies that are left that we want to build it in so it's systemic so i just can just thank all of them and we're very proud of them and the money aside the money is the money but the actions the commitment the connection the care the civil consciousness wonderful wonderful job thank you thank you all thank you thank you dan thank you thank you for having us on thank you camilla thanks everybody um kate do you want to read the public participation sure thing the board welcomes public participation and asks that comments be limited to three minutes the public may offer objective comments of school operations and programs that concern them the board will not permit any expression of personal complaints or defamatory comments about board of education personnel and students nor against any person connected with the danbury public school system due to the unique nature of the covet 19 crisis and the limitations of technology members of the public who are danbury residents are invited to send brief comments and questions via email in advance to dps underscore public comment underscore boe at danbury.k12.ct.us thank you kate sanders you want to go over the comments or uh first parent uh first public participation is carol corcoran parent of a high school junior she said i am very upset that my child hasn't been going to school since march of last year when 95 of all other communities have been going every single community around us has been in school and made an effort to have their kids in school i pay taxes for my child to have the right to be educated in an actual school i don't think the board is listening to the community i don't feel like my needs are being met please don't listen to the few parents that want their kids to stay home allow them to stay home and allow all the rest of the families to send their kids to school i have seen my daughter's melted mental health decline her love for education disappear and her sleepless nights fro from too much screen time instead of learning from a live person the detachment creates detachment to the love of learning and to the emotional aspects of all things in school learning brain i feel my child has gone backwards and yet kids in our neighboring neighboring towns are going to school and moving forward we can sit on the sidelines and watch others go to school our religious and private schools in danbury are in school abitech immaculate ridgefield bethel brookfield are all in school many are in school five days a week why can't danberry it will never be perfect please push forward and manage this problem manage the issues and manage the virus our kids deserve first priority not the virus let the parents decide and give us all options please don't change your mind and give in to the fear when our kids need to be in school the message is clear we want our kids in school do it now and work the issues out while doing it our kids education and futures cannot be put on hold any longer our next public participation is melinda scott tonight i wanted to express my hope that someone will be addressing the big question on so many minds why now because it seems to me that returning to school in person now goes against everything that the medical experts and health department have shared here in previous meetings the the disruption of classes the inevitable disruption due to closures the end of consistent instruction the abbreviated time to deliver instruction and the potential risks all seem like good reasons to continue the way we are and i am just refreshing to make sure we don't have any other comments and that is it for tonight ms cooper thank you so very much santa and just want to thank you on behalf of the board you do an excellent job in bringing those comments forth each time we have a meeting thank you thank you okay let's do the consent calendar please i will make a motion that the board of education approves the items on the consent calendar exhibits 21-02-21-06 as recommended segmented by joe any question concerning consent calendar send in none would you call the roll call certainly joe britton yes rachel chaleski aye kate canetta i gladys cooper hi lauren daly aye joe da silva aye catherine hodgdon hi kathy molinaro hi al russo aye amy spellino aye pass is unanimous thank you the emotion is so past do we have an employee representative we do have gladys i'm sorry to interrupt uh we do have a a note on there uh for the accepting of a donation and i don't know who if we need to make a motion for that yeah we need to make a motion to i always thought it was included in the exhibit or the consent council it is not covered by that previous motion so i will introduce another motion to accept a 1 000 donation from the uncle bobby foundation to western connecticut academy for international studies in accordance with exhibit dash 21-07 second promotion made by kate seconded by also by the way that that was um this is can i just madam chair let me read something angela here is a former ais student from brookfield now attending wescon as a freshman recently chose to donate a thousand dollars to the school through uncle bobby's foundation named after her late uncle who died in november of 219 from cancer she said the school was chosen because its mission aligns with that of the foundation which wants to support organizations that promote education environmental awareness and humanity here's the hopes that school can use the money to support the arts environmental education or science for students we want to thank angela one of our uh as graduates thank you thank you dr sarah and and thank you for just jumping in uh when i overlook it uh and i know that we will be sending out a thank you letter uh thanking them for uh the donation uh there's still a motion on the floor yeah uh kate you were doing the roll call for the motions sorry uh joe britton aye rachel chaleski hi kate canetta i gladys cooper i lauren daly i joe da silva aye catherine hodgdon hi kathy molinaro hi al russo hi amy spelino hi motion carries unanimously okay thank you so very much is there an employee representative do we have an employee representative hello how are you everyone good evening hi aaron how are you happy new year to you happy new year to you and really that's all i want to say to everyone today is happy new year and to let everyone know um which i i'm sure you do know how hard everyone is working to get prepared for next week when we greet our wonderful babies next week we're excited about that and we're also just wanting to let um the community know how nea danbury number one focus will continue to be health and safety of our students and our school community at large and we thank the board for all the work that they've been doing to ensure uh as safe of a return as possible thank you aaron and thank you ward your continued work it's nice to see everyone tonight okay our student reps jake chris hello again so looking back on december the dhs baseball and football communities held a holiday toy and coat drive to provide for the less fortunate the contactless donations went well and hopefully someone's a little warmer this winter we won the ten thousand uh dollar scholarship for best community involvement as was gone through already on the fifth key club had a successful non-perishable food drive for hillside food outreach collecting 255 items in total we had our first snow day on the 17th a much deserved day to relax and catch up and before break after teacher recommendations were sorted through administration handed out hatter's heroes awards to the standout students who are valiantly deserving our taste of the day off continued as break began and holidays were celebrated and in the new year we wish upon everyone happiness and prosperity after a year like 2020.
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happy to hear your voice and voices the anaheim high school district board of trustees meeting of january 14 2021 is called to order at 2 35 p.m where's our present anne-marie randall trejo brian o'neill katherine smith anna l piercy staff has requested the following amendments to the agenda please poll item 7.1 on page two of the agenda our board student board rep is ill unfortunately so she will not be with us pull item 10.3 exhibit c on page four of the agenda and third replace exhibit l to reflect correct enrollment numbers we didn't lose 100 kids out of cambridge a little typographical error i think so it kind of changed a lot of them but that that makes okay do i have a motion to adopt the amended agenda don't move all right i have a motion in a second all in favor i okay i think you have to do run you have to do a roll call do i need to do a roll call on this okay and murray randall trejo hi brian o'neal hi catherine smith hi and i vote i okay public comments closed session items is there anyone that wishes to address the board of trustees regarding closed session items only at this time good afternoon everybody we didn't receive any uh public comment for closed session items today okay it is now 2 37 p.m and we will move to closed session
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good evening everyone it is 5 30 happy new year hope you guys are excited as i am let's go yes all right so first let's uh take up care of housekeeping miss michelle are you our translator for today okay so if anyone needs translation mr michelle will be here and do they go to a different room or they just stay here miss michelle okay got it okay i can't hear you but i think they can hear you so we're okay all righty so today we are going to discuss the next model so we talked about our last meeting that we were just going to go crazy and just come up with another model we emailed that to you guys for your review as we have promised and so tonight we are going to present to you the 6th and 12th grade model now again remember we're focusing on the model um we're not going into discussion so the pros and cons we're looking at our six pieces the model the implementation programmatic drawbacks programmatic benefits support staff uh to be allocated to support this model and any budgetary impacts now with that we are going to go on any questions before i proceed i love it we are ready we know this by heart so our objective today is to explore the sixth through twelfth grade option so as we share before um our why primarily is behind capacity as well as programs we know in o203 we've only had 20 of our facilities available fast forward to this year we currently have 52 of our facilities available and that trend is projected to continue here is just giving us the same overview of each school site this is the same overview for looking at just our middle schools here's the same overview for our two high schools azusa high school and glaston high school so here we are our sixth through twelfth grade model this would include five traditional elementary tk five one tk eight and two six through twelfth grade schools the implementation piece two how would this happen so in a 22 through 20 i mean 21 through 22 school year for schools one through three there will be no new enrollment so for that school they would only have grades one through six when you go to 22 23 the same trend as the other models a grade will roll off so tkn2 which is a transition to a new school and grades three two through six will remain 23-24 grades three will transition to the new school grades four through six will continue and this trend will continue all the way through the 25 26 school year where the schools will have fifth grade will transition on and the sixth grade will remain given the option to promote from their home school now going into with the new schools how that would look so school four will continue enrollment and they will have seventh and eighth grade and that's the same for schools four through five i mean five through six when you go to school i mean fiscal year 23 7th grade will transition and you will only have grades eight since those three schools will be traditional middle schools based off of this for the 23 through 24 school year on those schools could automatically be closed because there's only currently two grades at that school at this time now going to how it would look like for the new schools new school one through six for the 21-22 school year we'll have tk through six and that will continue all the way through when you go to new school seventh and eighth which will be the high schools they will have continued enrollment in the fiscal year 21-22 but when you go to 22-23 that will be the first year that they will have seventh grade on that campus so they will then have seven ninth through twelve and that will continue out all the way through 25 26 with the same philosophy of the other models the actual change will not take place until the 26 27 school year and then that's when it'll be a tradition uh not a traditional actual six through twelve school mr tasha yes ma'am yes sir i'm sorry just a quick nuance in 2324 eighth grade would appear at the school sites i'm sorry yes yes that is a correction yes i apologize for that and so here is exactly what our tree would look like if this was the model we went with our t k through 12 would look like tk through eight we will have five tk through fifth grade schools we'll have one tk through eight and then for the secondary level we will have two six through 12 now schools will pass it on to dr mitchell hello everyone it's very nice to see you all this evening um so this looks familiar to you um this is taking a look at the different programs that would be available in this model and so you can see that we continue to have a preschool at all of our tk through 5 sites we would serve our students who have an iep all of our students we would have a range of different services for all of our schools for our visually impaired program we would have school one and then we would also continue on with our sixth grade at one of the schools that's the sixth through twelfth school programs beyond our core we would continue at all of our schools to offer elective opportunities visual and performing arts and stem all students have an opportunity to participate in parks and recreation opportunities through the city we would have after school sports in the tk8 and then the sixth through 12th grade schools think together would be available at all of our schools before school care in all of our tk 5 and tk8 we have peer mediation which is one of our district initiatives that would be at all of our sites and then we would have our year long i see that is there we go year-long electives would be at our 6th through 12th grade schools so another slide this one is talking about some potential programmatic drawbacks for this particular model one might be that younger students are on a high school canvas another potential programmatic drawback might be smaller a smaller sixth through 8th student cohort at the tk through 8 school in this model there are self-contained classes and there are not traditional electives and you have smaller staff teams a six through eight self-contained eighth grade uh would uh students would transition directly to high school and another potential programmatic drawback might be the coordination of sports and pe facilities and having high school and middle school students on the same campus some possible programmatic benefits in this particular model might be parent choice of traditional elementary and a tk8 school larger elementary schools might mean fewer combination classrooms in a tk8 school you have a you have fewer shifts for students meaning they don't transition from elementary to middle to high school so they would just have just two locations that they would attend increasing student population increases collaboration for programs at sites there might be an opportunity for an elective wheel at tk5 and tk8 for students or there could possibly be a magnet specialty focus like for example school of the arts our class sizes remain the same larger schools do create opportunities for larger parent groups and another potential programmatic benefit might be that all current career technical education pathways would still be viable so for example we have pitsco labs episco lab at one of our sites right now so we would install those at both of the 612 schools good evening team um happy new year for those of you who have hadn't i don't have haven't had the pleasure of seeing um this 2021 i want to first start off by recognizing a error that i made yesterday at the board of education meeting um i inadvertently misspoke regarding when when i described the support staff table so as i was describing it i accidentally stated that the sites would receive additional six hours of a community liaison or six hours of a library aid or 1.5 ft on top of what they're already receiving when sites reach 750.
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eol works across state departments organizations and sectors for the comprehensive and integrated early childhood system for our state next time from this statutory obligation we remain true to our vision that every child in hawaii has access to high quality early childhood development and learning experiences which lay the foundation for lifelong well-being our mission focuses on collaborations and partnerships in order to achieve a solid foundation of early childhood development and learning meaningful supports for families and lifting up a stable competent and supported workforce again we address this by making connections leveraging resources advocating for effective policies and collaborating with partners to support quality programs next slide when we describe uel we like to think of the agency as having two branches of functions that interact with each other the first is to coordinate and improve the early childhood system as a whole the second is administration of a direct care and education program our public pre-kindergarten program i'd like to provide just a little more depth for each of these functions as coordinators for the early childhood system we play a critical role as you know the early childhood sector does not have a centralized authority as you can see on the slide the many agencies organizations and programs that support our state's youngest children in health education and care eol systems help bring the community together to improve our overall services to hold as young children and families we help to identify barriers and challenges as well as opportunities and successes that can be replicated next slides in addition coordinating the system which includes education and error our agency also administers our own program for children in the year before kindergarten the eol public pre-kindergarten program provides early care and early learning at no cost to families our program is known as one of the highest ranking public pre-kindergarten programs in the nation thanks to three main hallmarks well-trained and well-supported educators cost efficient and effective use of public funds and prioritization of at-risk and underserved children and families with even greater investment in 2019 by the state legislature and clear charges for coordination and administration of our program we began 2020 with high hopes but as we know 2020 had different plans for so many of us 2020 changed many facets of life in hawaii including our early childhood sector next slide we remember that 2020 started with a spotlight on early childhood and the legislature's vision to provide access to child care and early learning to all the boys three and four-year-olds next slide please but then the novell coronavirus arrived in hawaii in march and at that time everything changed by the middle of the month governor ige had announced a stay-at-home order schools and businesses were closed all non-essential businesses and activities had to stop some of the unsung heroes during these early days were early child care providers next time under that original stay-at-home order child care was deemed an essential business child care is a necessity for working families and fulfills an essential role in hawaii's economic recovery the disruption to the child care industry because of the pandemic highlighted the importance of child care on national state and local levels as millions of americans can't work without access to safe and reliable child care here in hawaii a number of private child care providers remain open so that our first responders and essential workers like those working to feed us and keep our shelves stocked had somebody to watch their young kids other private organizations like kama iona kids and ymca either pivoted existing programs or develop new programs to care for older children in kindergarten through sixth grade next slide please by may as we as a state prepared to open the early childhood sector continued as unsigned heroes the department of human services worked with the department of health the state legislature and the early childhood community to put forth guidelines to help providers reopen and expand caring for more children contracts and later grants were administered through hawaii community foundation to support providers with much needed funds and the department also filed for multiple waivers so that child care connection hawaii could be offered to more families and providers who needed help during this time eoel worked to support the efforts of our sister agency vhs through collaboration and disseminating information to community partners next time please lauren how many more slides do you have um we have 27 slides in total so how many more do you have sorry sorry jordina where are we at now okay maybe if you can move it along a little bit faster so we can get to the budget components sure jordana do you mind moving down um jordana can you show the slide number for this slide thank you so specifically as we've developed our budget we've prioritized one thing above anything else um this has been minimizing the greatest to the greatest extent the impacts to direct services for young children and our families for example our public pre-kindergarten program in other words young children and their families are number one and we understand while we understand the dire economic situation that we're in we know that the legislature is faced with the unfortunate task of balancing a 4 billion budget shortfall however we know the trade trajectory will get worse if it cuts to investments in our youngest keiki and their families are made when we talk about economic recovery and even economic development early learning programs must be a part of those plans as these programs support the current workforce by providing jobs and allowing working families to sustain jobs and financial security as well as our future workforce moreover moreover investing in the earliest years can help improve outcomes for our youngest children ultimately reducing social costs to the state in later years next slide please with this in mind we put together our budget which the governor has approved as a part of his package you'll see a little over 1.3 million dollars in reductions these reductions include decreases in eol's operating costs travel expenses for staff and elb members and reductions to the charter school pre-k program with respect to charter schools 775 thousand dollars was reduced it's important to note that your student to act 46 or house bill 2543 which passed this last session the state public charter school commission now has her view over charter school pre-k classrooms as such we're requesting that the remaining balance of 3.2 million be transferred from eoel to the charter school commission should this request be granted our adjusted budget from general funds will be five million seven hundred forty seven thousand seven hundred and twenty six dollars for a total of five million eight hundred seventy three thousand three hundred fifty four dollars i'd like to break it down a little further for you so if we can advance the slide budget on the previous slide currently funds 37 total eoel public pre-k classrooms 18 charter school classrooms now under the authority of charter school commission with a pending request to transfer funds and the positions needed to fulfill eol statutory responsibilities which include the administration of the ioal public pre-indirect classrooms next slide i'd also like to call out some of the items that are included in the budget that were appropriated by the 2019 state legislature through active 76 or senate bill 78 that piece of legislation supported expansion efforts both in our programs as well as in our coordinator role the state legislature asked us to expand our program by 10 classrooms all of which opened the school year and from the state same bill the legislature also funded necessary professional development and coaching supports offered through our early learning academy and induction program it also included funds to transfer existing feely public pre-kindergarten classrooms not including better title one over to eoyol the legislature also made a commitment to maintain 18 existing charter school public pre-kindergarten classrooms with four million dollars of general funds which replaced federal funds that were time limited and finally the 2019 legislature invested in the eol systems coordination and public pre-kindergarten administration with an additional six positions that have been critical to our agency especially through the pandemic only four of these positions required funding appropriations next slide please we wanted to break out specifically the only things that could be seen as additional requests in our budget it's important to note that these are not in effect additional requests but will allow us to continue serving children and families at the same capacity we have been first the appropriation for just under 250 000 restores funds for seven classroom positions they were cut last session because they appeared vacant on a report to the legislature and while these positions weren't filled with permanent hires they were filled with warm bodies and these classrooms have the capacity to serve up to 140 children these are classroom positions and therefore even if vacant or showing up is vacant we must have the position and the funding to open the classroom each classroom by law must have a teacher and an educational aide restoring these plans ensures that we're able to continue with the seven classrooms and finally we're asking for two permanent full-time teacher position talents we don't need funding attached to these and we're only requesting the physician counts thank you members any questions thank you lauren um so the last one the two permanent full-time equivalent teaching positions you said you need the position count and not the funding yes that's correct why is that the funds were appropriated through to eoell through sorry act 276 which came over in 2019 and at that time there were funds provided to transfer pre-k programs that were existing in the doe over to emojl although we had the funds that were transferred the positions were not included so those are the two positions that we're requesting without filing okay so you had the funds but because the positions were not obligated we you could not add the positions yes that's correct so lauren from the beginning of eoel we started with how many classrooms colleen can i ask you to address that question and compared to what we have now is basically what i want to ask we had we started off with um 18 18 classrooms one point i'm sorry it was 18 um 19 class 19 schools and 21 classrooms sorry [Music] lauren are you there yes okay so we started with 21 classrooms and what do we have now we have 37 classrooms okay so we've added 16 classrooms is that so in in the your forecast for eoel is are we um where we we planned to be um i think our original plan was to request for cip funds and additional classrooms um in the for the current fiscal biennium but given the current economic situation that we're in we're just trying to maintain what's already existing so all 37 classrooms are funded by state funds or any of these classrooms funded through private funds all 37 are funded through state funds and have we ever had the opportunity to add classrooms using private funds yes we do have classrooms on some of our school campuses that are funded by private funds and right now we have a partnership with kamehameha schools to do so how many classrooms is that colleen do you have that information i believe there's sticks currently but um one of them is privately funded by outside of ks i'm sorry can you say that again i didn't hear there's six privately funded classrooms currently okay so so kamehameha schools funds six classrooms and where are those six classrooms i would i know that it's at um waimea um um i would need to check on the other three i'm sorry okay so so could we get a breakdown of where all all not just not just the uh six funded by kamehameha schools but all of your classrooms where they're located what islands thank you any other questions okay thank you thank you okay we're going to move on to the department of education so thank you for your patience good afternoon good afternoon good to see everyone happy new year so aloha to the chairs de la cruz and chair kadani and all senators mahalo for your time mahalo for the opportunity to share with you our proposed operating budget for fiscal biennium 20 2123 i'm christina kishimoto superintendent of the department of education with me today is the department's chief financial officer brian hallett virtually i have all of my superintendents assistant superintendents and deputy superintendents on if we have specific questions to go into so i have deputy superintendent phil asuna basami assistant superintendent for the office of curriculum and instruction teri ushijima she started in november and we're thrilled to have her in that position assistant superintendent for the office of facilities randy tanaka assistant superintendent of the office of information and technology and technology services brooke connor assistant superintendent for the office of strategy innovation performance rodney luke assistant superintendent for the office of student support services heidi armstrong and assistant superintendent for the office of talent management cindy corvell so i'm i have four overview slides before we get into uh the budget specifically and so i am on slide three slide three is a department vision and mission um as requested at the end of the last school year and the start of this school year as you know this has been unlike anything that we've experienced before in the hawaii department of education and in this entire state leading through uh leading through during this crisis period has required tremendous effort tenacity and resilience to safeguard our core mission i'm deeply appreciative of the entire hidoe team for their tremendous efforts dedication and care in moving our school system forward during this disruptive and annoying time to ensure that students have access to learning within a supportive environment we've been intentional with an innovation approach to both the instructional and operations side of the department modernizing continuing the modernization of our systems and processes to focus on increased student achievement so while this health crisis highlighted areas needing improvement i remain committed to leveraging this opportunity to continue to modernize improve and move the department into the future our student success remains our central why why we teach why we lead and why we serve in public education if we turn to slide three you see just a highlight of some of our demographics the importance of the just overview of demographics is that we use this information to help inform the design of our programs and our equity of access approach without going through all of the data points here i will highlight that 52 percent of our students are students who are determined to be economically disadvantaged and so in a time period of crisis it becomes even more important for the department of education to continue to be not only providing public education services but to be a safety net to our families in need if you go to slide five you'll notice that i am also highlighting some changes and shifts in new metrics that we are using during the pandemic uh the work that we've been doing has been disruptive disrupted as you as you certainly know and our typical accountability measures such as test scores in-person attendance these are temporarily uh uh disrupted and so we needed to redesign our measures to capture the factors that are impacting learning today we've had to look at performance and accountability in new ways and in terms of looking at vulnerabilities that either are exacerbated or new due to the pandemic in october the board of education adopted the metrics or new metrics to monitor and evaluate the department's plans for reopening school during the 2021 school year the department designed an interactive data dashboard available to the public to visually track analyze and display key covert related performance indicators requested by the board of ed and these indicators are showcase three levels of data statewide later data by i'm sorry data by statewide level complex level and school level and it gives information such as quarterly student grades attendance learning models being used access to devices number of ppes at our school sites etc so this online resource will be updated as new metrics are reported it should also be noted that the increased reliance on technology on technology in new ways such as ensuring connectivity devices and additional supports for students adds to our ongoing costs created by the health pandemic many of these courses still not fully defined and we continue as we continue to evolve our designs please go to slide six in late september the department of health came out with its reopening guidance for schools designed by our state health experts to help us with decision making related to reopening our school campuses it outlined levels of community transmission of covet cases that would trigger certain learning models for schools to consider as a department we set statewide expectations around health and safety protocols but we recognize that decisions about transitioning between learning models has to be done at the complex and school level because student needs and conditions are unique to their communities the center for disease controls and conducted a local visit with us they were able to visit several our campuses at the end of to provide insight on best practices for mitigating the spread of covet 19 at schools some of the schools visited included campbell high dole middle waianae elementary and pu'uhale elementary they shared feedback and they indicated that they were impressed with protocols that are in place many of which they touted as innovative and something they would share with other schools and school districts a post assessment was provided by them which highlights areas that are working well and some additional suggestions that they have for us as well so in addition to the state department of health reopening guidance schools and complex areas are constantly monitoring the daily state case counts and are continuously planning for potential adjustments that prioritize the health and safety of our schools and we continue to monitor also the potential for upticks in our own community and and this is important to the financial discussion we're going to go into right now if we uh look even beyond our state lines at the national level as of this monday there are 90 million cases around the world of which 22 million are here in the us the states with the highest positivity rate as you've been part of those discussions are california texas and florida some of our own children are there in college our families are there in the back back and forth is something that certainly is part of our ongoing conversations the death toll in hawaii is 309 in the u.s it's 375 thousand and around the globe is 1.9 million because of covet so new to all of us is a global health landscape that has this type of impact on our day-to-day classrooms in school design and so we must remain flexible and responsive so we're gonna go to slide eight and review our federal funds thank you dr k so good afternoon chair de la cruz cherokee dani and senators brian hallett cfo for the department of education uh as as mentioned we are on slide eight i don't know if it wants to show that on the screen for those who are following along in the presentation so in light of the pandemic we've been very carefully monitoring targeted equity-based support for schools that are for and very fortunate that schools can continue to rely on several major recurring federally funded programs this list here on this slide shows the national level appropriations for title grants that we are receiving at this time based on the analysis we've received from the federal fund information for the states ffis for the consolidated appropriations act from 2021 that just passed the outlook for these sources is stable and predictable in fact there are indications of the potential for a slight increase in the neighborhood of approximately one percent uh for from current year funding levels so these funds are appropriated in federal fiscal year 21 to the us department of education and will be allocated to the state department of education for use next school year this list of course does not include the cares funds which we'll be talking about on the next slide so turning to slide number nine the carries federal fund re federal relief aid in late march 2020 the coronavirus relief and economic security cares act was signed into law providing 13.2 billion in funding for at the national level for the elementary and secondary school emergency relief fund the esser fund this is to address the impacts of covet 19 on public schools hawaii received 43.3 million from this fund and the department has been publishing a monthly report on our website on the planned uses and expenditures of these funds and the link is provided on this slide in late december 2020 with the consolidated appropriations act of 2021 which was signed into law when it was signed into law on december 27th it provided an additional 54.3 billion for the esser fund in january 5th the department was notified that hawaii would be receiving 183.6 million dollars through this program the board of education will be reviewing the planned uses of these funds at their regularly scheduled january 21st finance and infrastructure committee meetings and materials for this meeting are expected to be posted to our website by the end of this week just a few things to point out about these funds are the lap state for these funds are september 30 2023 funds may be used for pre-award costs dating back to march 13 2020 when the national emergency was was declared and allowable uses are broad and flexible which is very helpful with specific call outs in the new legislation around mitigating student learning loss preparing to reopen schools and improving air quality so we're going to turn to slide 11.
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i don't even remember hearing that until you just said something right now and one other thing um and i have not been able to sample it but trying to track down the um the food trucks i seem like i'm always late uh after they get there so i will work on my own uh time to try to follow it um but uh i i hear great things about the food truck and and the variety that uh it has so um again kudos to you and your department thank you very much i appreciate that and i will send you the food truck schedule it's gonna be hey i'll put it right here thank you i will share thank you again thank you oh yeah thank you so much for your presentation um i do have one question um you mentioned about being federally compliant what are those compliance measures that you're tasked with this year so there's everything from the financial aspect ensuring that we are fiscally responsible that we are operating cash positive is huge for them as far as the financial aspect if not the district actually has to pull non-federal funds to make up the district the difference so it's very important that we are always operating efficiently as far as you know operational compliance everything every thing that we do to serve something very simple goes through a complete menu process recipe development process we have to hit sodium targets a lot of nutritional targets on that even the way in which we serve in the cafeteria whether we're offering this we can't force students to take this but we have to offer minimums for grains and fruits and vegetables and and fall within certain sodium targets it can be very very challenging at times it is it is a highly regulated uh program and when you when you receive a federal audit i mean they tens of thousands of pages of documentation are reviewed uh during our state and federal audits wow so were any were any of those measurements changed this year or last year no there there was a temporary um halt to the sodium reduction target so we were supposed to step down our sodium over the years and they they put a temporary pause on that one of the the biggest changes over the last year is there was a ruling that allowed us to serve some non-whole grain items and so one of the changes um this year for next year is the removal of that um and going back to 100 whole grain so things are are always changing um certainly have to be on top of the new regulations especially in this last eight months or so with different service models right i just wanted to also add that my three high schoolers at some point have really loved the snow bowl but they add pickles to it for some reason so i don't know if that's a thing but apparently it is it is so that is that is one of our our most popular concepts at the high school level and and it's kind of a build your own we'll custom make it for you get to choose your chicken and mashed potatoes and all that so that for for the last four years or so has been one of our most popular concepts thank you great thank you it's just the name of the recipe so this was in this started in flagstaff in 2005 which was sfe's very first district partner dysart was their second district partner back in 2005.
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is this i'm just gonna read my metaphor okay go ahead um it says 2020 is like a llama spitting on my face yes thank you gigi so we learned that metaphors are things that aren't alike and except for maybe in one or two ways but are usually very different but you can use them to explain or to uh give a description of something else so in this case we describe 2020 by comparing it to things that it is not really like in real life and gigi perfect example thank you nick did you have the slide yes thank you so so this is an activity that you all did in third grade how fantastic and so we're going to do the slide show mr k do you want to describe it it's now great uh so this slideshow is just we we created slides out of our metaphors and you can see the full presentation on the third on the mr k's class web page where you can see all the students work but here are just a few examples and if you like it or you enjoy our farewell to 2020 metaphors then you can check out the rest of it over on our page go ahead nick all right here we go ready miss catherine oh gigi's was love but hated oh so the one she shared with us for the for the assembly was that 2020 is like a llama spitting on my oh yeah yeah but she had many many metaphors i see that like a basketball hitting my head miss estes can you read that me vom oh that happened to me once vomiting after getting off a roller coaster oh me falling off of a cliff into a waterfall oh gg me falling off a horseback ride while turning yeah that there was a lot in 2020 that really was really rough okay let's see another slide oh wills mr k you want to read that one from will sure 2020 is like a time out that you didn't have anything to do with yes it is i'm tired of this timeout uh 2020 is like getting bucked off a horse yes and it hurts it hurts it does aspen you're so right i've never been on a horse but i can only imagine okay let's see we got a couple more i think well 2020 is like a cookie mixed with snail slime disgusting and definitely not edible oh elena okay i think we have okay i think i think this is our last one for today this is ryan oh connie everybody was like watching grass grow because kovitz shut all the fun activities down boring and 2020 again was like being in a timeout for something i didn't do how true cayenne because i did not get to leave my house much oh mr k thank you and you can see the full slideshow at right at your website the mr k and miss courtney website yep you got it thank you so much for letting us share all right thanks mr k and thank you to gigi oh man those are creative so i felt it yeah so now we get to express a little bit about how we wanna and this is this is a tradition that's in many parts of the world for new year's you think about the old year 2020 and you think about the things that you really didn't like about it that you just want to let go and so you take your piece of paper i wrote 2020 on my piece of paper and then on the other side or the same you don't have to do that that's just the way i did it you just we're going to give you like 30 seconds to write down all the things that you didn't like about 2020 that you just want to say goodbye to okay all right so let's do that now starting now we'll do it for about maybe 15 20 seconds everybody get a piece of paper i have it and if you want to put it into the chat of course you can do that too that's right carlos we're going to rip it up here we go ready go i did not like coronavirus i did not like staying home i'm so with you i did not like not getting to see my grandchild deal i did not like not being able to see my mother-in-law oh yes i did not like not being able to travel oh i did not like not being able to see wildwood students and teachers and families in person i did not like missing all of our students so much all the time yes [Music] all right so it sounds like we got a pretty good list and i think carlos already predicted in some countries you rip it up some places and other places you actually in ecuador you put it inside a kind of a doll type shape and then you burn it safely of course with your family yeah i'm so with you jamie so let's just rip it up because i don't want anyone starting a fire in their home so don't do that ready one two three ah 20 20.
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