so it is is long overdue like tony said that that you get recognized for all your all your hard work and all your leadership but it goes to show how humble you are because this is one of the few awards i remember you getting over all these years yet everybody else that works with you gets all the accolades so that speaks a lot to the type of person i would really appreciate it and congratulations and hopefully more to come yep hopefully thank you okay um just to piggyback on pat as we look ahead in the years to come leaders are those who empower others and that's exactly what you've done with all of your administration with the entire district dr gay um if your actions inspire others to dream more learn more do more and become more then you sir are a great leader we are very grateful to have you as our fearless leader to especially in this past year it was a rough one we're so grateful to have you at the helmet and navigate not only the district but the community through these rough waters you deserve this award and many more for your outstanding leadership it's been an honor to serve with you and to help serve the the entire 230 community so thank you thank you okay [Applause] the reflection of the whole board and this is they have to give the someone something to the superintendent but it's really a reflection of all the work you guys do with the board staff the administration the students the community i mean i feel so blessed to be able to be here for so long um maybe longer than most people maybe some point you know i love being here and uh i i i'm honored when they when they share this with me i didn't share with anyone else i just i don't think the principals even knew this you know i just kind of they didn't know no i just charlie saw this this came out and you know just keep this under your hands and i guess you didn't she did but i appreciate the climate well again well deserved and well overdue and we are very proud so thank you for what you've done for us okay then i think the next item is public hands none none okay then we will move to academic spotlight i believe derek smith if i'm correct yes is that mine and um derek if you'd like to introduce what is going to happen yeah thank you thank you dr dave you guys hear me and see me okay yes sir yes sir got it thank you uh thank you dr gay uh you know what a great honor congratulations a great honor but greatly deserved so uh you know much much much accolades to you and now you know just really a great honor and i hope to celebrate with you sometime soon so uh good evening everyone excited to be here tonight to talk a little bit about uh hybrid instruction and share some of the great work of our teachers in hybrid learning this year at sandberg so i i think it's almost one year to the day from when i zoomed in to a board meeting for an academic spotlight from nashville to share some of sandberg's work related to the district 230 pillars of quality instruction i i think some of those ideas will come up tonight but uh one year later we're now facilitating a lot of meeting and zoom and and i definitely hope that next time i'm able to pop into one of these meetings and kind of hang out in the same space with everyone so um i had the opportunity this week uh to collaborate with reese mcintyre and some of our teachers at sandberg and our goal was to invite in some of our sandberg superstars as i like to call them and share a little bit about their experiences this year in hybrid learning so we're able to visit some classrooms we're able to have some conversations with them and those conversations were really guided by uh four framing questions or ideas uh the first being we wanted to hear a little bit about some of their hybrid learning instructional successes so what's really gone well this year instructionally uh secondly what has been maybe a challenge instructionally that really became a success or was really powerful for students once they were able to kind of implement it in their classes third what would their students say is their favorite part of their hybrid classrooms this year and then the fourth idea was really future focus looking forward so uh what instructional moves or practices that we were able to cultivate or develop this year will endure beyond this school year and really benefit our students and our classrooms moving forward so i'm going to have carla advance the slide and play the video so we can share a little bit of what we learned in the hybrid learning format a lot has had to change now is the time where teachers are really having to be creative and flexible i've had a lot of success with some tech tools like jamboard like online polls like paradec even some tools embedded in canvas that allow me to create kind of engaging learning for students even through the screen i think the greatest successes is the ability to take risks but there's also challenges that go along with it sometimes it doesn't quite go as planned and having those students you know supporting it is really important so when i do talk to my students like hey this might be the first time we're doing this i need your help along with this lesson we're kind of all in it together the students continue to learn and grow because they're so resilient in their efforts it feels still like a classroom community i think the students still feel part of the class connected to the class of responsibility to the class just as they would if they were all 32 of them in the classroom at the same time you know for me something i constantly want to work on is the technology piece i love the in-class learning i love seeing kids i love seeing their faces and learning things like flippity.net creating jeopardy games using whiteboard.fi using those elements that i'd never used before became fun and became interesting become engaging became an opportunity for me to be a learner i still think it's very very important to be able to allow them to have some cooperative learning because it's a life skill it's important beyond high school they need to learn to do that but getting used to that again creating that climate creating that culture in a classroom so very very important and then you're able to do more things from it something that we've tried really hard to maintain is kind of that innovation in creating activities and engaging work for students that still highlights those three main modes of communication that we find so important to increase student proficiency levels i think students enjoyed class discussion they enjoyed the classic ability to talk about ideas discuss their own experiences of what they've seen in through their educational lives in all these unique circumstances i think the irony is that the most enjoyable parts were the the parts that we valued so much prior to this hybrid situation if you had to ask my students what their favorite part of my class is i think hands down they would say the gamifying aspect of the classroom they love playing online games like gim kit look it flash card factory quizlet live whatever it is they're always so engaged they all have that competitive nature that they love and it's a great formative assessment for me at the middle or end of my class period on any given day i might run one of those games to see their understanding of vocab or content or check their understanding on a tense that we're learning in spanish and i get that feedback immediately i think we're definitely making a big push towards blended learning this environment has gotten teachers out of their comfort zone luckily i was familiar with canvas and kind of part of the blended learning cohort but i think there's going to be now this greater push towards blended since that's kind of where we kind of are even though i had kids for an entire semester one of the assignments that uh that i i learned from this was starting a sentence with i wish my teacher knew i got to be honest with you the responses i got were amazing i shed a tear on some some of them some stories i never knew my kids knew that they shared and it gives me chills to think about it's those connections with kids it's understanding their story relating with them and that shouldn't stop in this i knew that it was going to be important for me to connect to students on a more personal level to get to know more about them i'm trying to get to know more about them trying to create kind of a vibe in a class that feels comfortable to them where they want their voice to be heard and create a connection with their classmates that maybe they wouldn't get in every other class that they're in during the day [Music] so much to celebrate in that video each time i watch it i'm more excited and proud of our teachers and our students so i love the fitted footage of victoria emily and dave staying in their classrooms like really getting after it instructionally they're they're teaching they're standing up they're looking at the students that are online they're providing instruction to the students that are in the classroom and all these things are happening simultaneously so i could probably talk about the elements of the video for an hour or so uh good news i'll streamline things here but just some takeaways for us to celebrate but then also to think about uh as we progress moving forward in our in our progression and transition so uh the first idea is that the the hybrid framework has helped us forge even stronger connections between technology and quality instruction i always say that instructional technology is at its best when it helps us amplify instructional practices like the d230 pillars in the video you heard emily dave ashley and george share some of those practices in the video and how platforms like pear deck and others have helped them infuse those strategies into their classroom so it's really exciting to think about how good instruction and technology will be even more powerful and more influential for students in district 230 moving forward second takeaway relates to the idea of expanded learning opportunities chris milo talked about different learning frameworks and the blended platform and how different learning opportunities are changing the how when what and why of how students are engaging with with the content that we put in front of them in our classes and we'll definitely carry those opportunities with us in the future the last idea the one that i'm thinking a lot about is uh this idea of connections and community that um every one of our teachers when we asked them uh what was some of the most powerful things that they've done this year they talked about the connections they made with students that they've been really explicit with uh how they've connected with kids and maybe employed some additional strategies to make sure that they were forming those close bonds with students we've heard that from our student advisory groups they've been effusive in their praise of how our staff has prioritized relationships and getting to know them as students in hybrid learning so many times those connections have been forged between students and teachers when they've never actually been in the same physical space together and i think that's truly a point of pride and something to celebrate it's crazy to think that hybrid learning may help us do an even better job in the future in forming positive relationships with students that impact their d230 experience so it's an idea i've shared with staff sometimes in trainings and workshops that just having a good relationship with a student has an effect size of about 0.6 so can that that relationship can really have a positive effect on the student's learning so students learn more history they learn more math or they learn more science when that positive relationship is there and i think our students are going to benefit from those types of classrooms and experiences moving forward in our conversation with victoria phillips uh one of our english teachers she shared the plato quote that necessity is the mother of invention and connected that to how she's grown this year as a teacher in our hybrid framework and i think all of us have done that throughout this school year the urgency of now has helped us implement things that we didn't think were possible nine to ten months ago and it's really cool to think about how what we've invented in these challenging times might help us improve instruction and learning and our district overall moving forward and all this is a result of what we've been able to do this year within hybrid learning uh so i thank you for this opportunity to share some of our teachers great work with you tonight i look forward to any and all opportunities in the future to come back and share more and gosh darn it i hope i'm doing it in person at some point so thank you very much thank you daryn does anybody have any questions for derek all right great job thank you sir we really appreciate it it's great presentation and we do hope to see you in person soon i'm in thank you very much nice job derek take care derek thank you thanks dirk all right moving on uh our next uh item up is the uh public hearing date for the transferring of funds so mr laval that's correct yes we um uh are transferring some money to um from the ad fund to the transportation fund and that necessitates according to the school code um holding a public hearing which um we'd like you to consider doing for our february 25th board meeting so that's the action we'd be interested in uh your consideration of tonight page 37 okay so i need a motion please i moved that the school board adopted a resolution setting the date for a public hearing to consider the transfer of 500 000 from transportation to the education fund second okay motion made by remember dalton seconded by member gracias to set a public hearing date for the movement of funds from transportation to the education fund any comments or questions for john okay then let's vote yes yes yes yes yes yes yes the motion passes john next is the transfer of interest yeah so we discussed this uh of course in our building finance um going way back to when our 2020 bonds were issued and and part of the plan was to pay the first interest payment uh from working cash uh interest and so this resolution will be transferring some of that uh working cash interest to debt service for the payment of our first interest payment rather than extend additional taxes to the you know the taxpayers so it's using some of our existing funds to cover that first payment of the 2020 bonds okay can i have a motion please will the school board adopt the resolution and transfer interest in the working cash fund service fund second okay motion made by member of sullivan seconded by member hardik to transfer interest from the working cash fund to the debt service fund any comments or questions for john all right let's vote yes remember murphy peterson yes remember yes yes yes yes yes the motion passes okay next is the acm removal bit and is that you john or dave are you gonna do that i'm going to do that one yep all right dave hey good evening everybody good evening good evening hey on uh on wednesday january 6th at 11 a.m we received bids for the 2020 acm removal at andrew and sandberg the work includes the removal of asbestos insulation on all the existing roof drains that we're going to be doing in preparation for phase 2 roofing project the roof drains are located in andrew's main gym pool area second floor west gym and several storage rooms on the third floor sandberg roof trains are located the main gym north and south eagle gym balconies storage room on the second floor eagle gym tennis hallway and the eagle gym electric closet and in the trainer's room we sent seven contractors the bid documents we received three bids the bids for this work range from 156 000 to 192 1800 the work will be done june 1st through june 7th 2021 the lowest bid for this work was cover mediation a bit of 156 000.
freshman jenna goose added in three as well as heidi murphy and finally harley gantz added in five a very well round well-rounded team win over the baseball bulldogs basketball team looking at the records and talking to pete hughes this could possibly be the first meeting between the columbus east olympians and the cathedral fighting irish so can we see the lady o's finish this regular season on a seven game winning streak we shall see here tonight in the orange pig join bartholomew consolidated school corporation's team as a substitute teacher or a bus driver bcsc will help you become a substitute teacher by covering the cost of your background check sub license and offer a hundred and forty dollars a day as a bus driver you will be offered full benefits retirement contribution match and pension 183 days of work per year guaranteed first shift hours and a potential thirty thousand dollars a year if eight hours are worked the best part of both of these positions no weekend or evening hours work on bcsc's school schedule and make a difference in the lives of students every day to show your interest in becoming a substitute teacher or a bus driver fill out the form labeled become a substitute teacher or bus driver at bcseschools.org [Music] welcome back we want to give a huge congratulations to our jv team as they picked up the win over cathedral winning 36-23 a fantastic season for the jv team as their season came to an end here tonight most of them will be moving up with varsity so congratulations to the jv team on a fantastic season so underneath the minute to go before tip-off so i will once again send it back down to dennis pierce for the national anthem and the introductions of the starting lineups good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the orange pits here on the campus of columbus east high school and the home of olympian basketball is this evening we proudly present an ihsaa basketball game between the olympians of columbus east high school and the visiting irish cathedral high school and now ladies and gentlemen at this time we ask that you please stand the privilege of this game was made possible by those who have fought and continue to fight for the freedoms we enjoy let us honor and respect their efforts in our country by gentlemen removing their caps and everyone standing in attention placing their hands over their hearts as we proudly play our national anthem [Music] thank you and now i'd like to introduce your starters for tonight's visitors the cathedral irish four katie brummer at guard a 5-3 senior number 13 nyla bingham at guard a 5-7 senior number 23 clara lee and it forward a 5-10 senior number 32 mia finn your head coach for your iris lisa finn and that is your cathedral irish it's time you know what to do get up on your feet let's introduce your starters for your columbus east olympians at guard a5 sophomore number 14.
the enrollment is up here over three well over 300. so this is our our issue that we're seeing more of with our persistency rates increased birth rates people selling homes uh new homes you know being built um our numbers are going up so this year when we had a lengthy history of reducing staff um and still being able to maintain our classroom ratios we're in the reverse boat this year as our elementary enrollment is increasing so we have added two additional teaching positions and our ratio has gone from 17.8 students per teacher to 18.3 even after adding two teachers because we're adding so many students across the district so our class size trend data this just shows that the the ratios are pretty static over time and that's something that our our families really hold sacred and i know our board is proud of the high school level you know we're 17th out of 21 dergby districts in terms of number of students per uh teacher it's not um an area where we're we're overstaffed per se so some of the enrollment conclusions are that you know birth rates are higher than they've been in previous years we're averaging 204 births over the next three years of enrollment so people born in 16 17 and 18 in cheshire we're averaging 204 births the five years prior we were only averaging 176.
as you recall at our last meeting in december um there was a discussion of this item that was brought on from council through kathy griswold and um kathy and i and other commissioners drafted a letter to council which is one of the action points from the last meeting and it was sent out to the commissioners i think one of us should actually put it up on the screen i think i have it right here just so the public has an opportunity to see it [Music] here let me um let me see about sharing my screen okay well the host is disabled participant screen sharing uh check it out okay galen would you want to put do you have it available do you want to put it up on your screen or if i put it up i can't take notes on legister the actions on it all right well i'll put it up then okay here we go so it's a very simple letter um during our discussion um it was clear that there are both transportation disability and environmental concerns so uh the letter was sent to city council and also the transportation commission and the commission on disabilities and the environmental commission was copied so um let's see kathy do you has there any been action any been any action on city council on this matter to my knowledge there hasn't been any action and i apologize i miss the december environmental commission meeting it followed a closed session on gelman and i had action items as a result of that closed session but i will follow up on it next monday unless i don't know if if lisa dish has has taken any action i don't want to duplicate anything she may have done um i didn't because um i i felt that you understood it better and it was your initiative so i didn't want to steal your work oh okay no that's the one and again yeah i i apologize for missing that meeting i think we can all agree that the dioxane plume is a higher priority at this moment but i i will follow up okay thank you kathy thank you but that is uh and we'll wait to hear what council decides to do about this matter okay are there any comments or discussion i don't see any so we'll move on to the next item which is the energy principles resolution this was a resolution that was presented to the commission several months ago and uh this is missy uh received our input and other input from other parties and she revised her draft resolution and uh and submitted it for uh for our consideration um so is there uh do i have a motion for um discussing or for considering this resolution uh from rob detum a second uh john mursky um all right so let's see let's shall we put it up on the screen i can do that again hmm steve the resolution itself is at the bottom there we are right there so steve you're muted okay um so um um i don't does anybody um wish to make a comment about this no uh bob needham i i think that you know they've done a good job putting this together at the office of sustainability and innovation they took our uh input from the last time and incorporated it nicely and um i'd be in favor of moving this resolution forward as it's written great okay any other comments no seeing none um do we have a motion to uh all those who accept the resolution and um want to pass it on to council for their consideration say aye hi hi lose your hands um any opposed any abstentions okay the the resolution passes unanimously so galen uh we should we should send this report to council so the next item on the agenda is our report to council which i've been struggling with for the last couple of months i'll put it back up on the screen here i think uh you know i had created a shared document and then passed it around i had comments from several commissioners it's a bit of a as you as you uh as you know our bylaws this is written into our bylaws that we're supposed to have a report to counsel um annually um my understanding is that this was originally uh written in uh in 2010 or so when matt naught and city staff had started the dashboard about that we've seen in the past couple of years that's fallen by the wayside after the a20 initiative took off so [Music] first of all i want to make sure that this so so this um action in our bylaws is a bit stale and so i think i think revisiting the purpose of the document would be the first thing um so i'm hoping that some of our council members may be able to give us some guidance about what kind of information or report would be useful to counsel for council's consideration um let's see if i can put this up are you asking for that tonight are you asking for us to go to council and ask um i think i think it would be good just to start um with uh if kathy if you or lisa if you or kathy have any comments i think we'd all i'd appreciate hearing them um otherwise we can table it and think about it more i would recommend that we table it or postpone it but i can take an action item to look at what the transportation commission did as a model okay and and i believe just for clarification this is separate from the list of legislative advocacy items that this commission would want is that true that's correct yes okay because there was yeah um the way it seems to have been envisioned was it was an annual report to both to counsel about what progress had been made on the metrics that were written down in the dashboard in 2010 for the first sustainability plan that the city engaged in i think we should defer to john mursky because of the word metrics well um i've had um i've had some discussion with missy about this because a20 of course is putting together their own metrics for their own goals so my concern was that um the goals in 2010 um were around issues that are not really uh part of the a20 plan such as clean air clean water natural features and so i think it would be and these are still of interest to the community i think and to this body in making sure that we're making some progress in these areas we're in clean air you know clean water and natural features at least potentially local food whatever has fallen outside the purview of a20 so um so let's see are there any uh anybody wish to make any comments or observations kathy well just i'll repeat i'll take a look at what the transportation commission did and then if if lisa is willing the two of us can can maybe talk about it before the next environmental commission meeting does that seem reasonable yeah okay you know that seems reasonable to me because i i don't this would be a useless exercise unless council really finds it valuable so i think if you all can can just provide some initial guidance you know not anything final but initial guidance about what what council might find useful in this report okay um any other comments um lisa yeah i just wanted to say that uh from the meeting where we did discuss this um i came away feeling like it was sort of an enormous amount of data gathering that we were kind of imposing on ourselves and i'm not sure that that's the best use of this mission's time given that we have a lot of um you know you're working on the construction and demolition ordinance there are other features of things we want to do and so i i would rather not see the commission being obligated to perform you know something that's something like an inventory or something like that it just it just doesn't seem it doesn't seem it seems like a distraction from the work um so i think if i'd be happy to to put my head together with kathy's and figure out what this report to make it a little bit less burdensome because probably this data exists in other city reports and why we should have a research project to gather it i'm not sure so speaking like the professor i am that's appreciated um okay well that's the first step um um yeah and so um sorry are there any further comments or discussion um seeing none um we'll move on to the new business um let's see commissioner mitchell has submitted a resolution for notice of violation of government sciences um let's see rita do you want to discuss this resolution yes hi um i um you should first i'm sorry we should first have a motion to um to discuss to bring this up um kathy and lisa okay remember first in a second so uh all right let's proceed with the discussion rita all right thanks um this item has actually been discussed and passed by city council as acknowledged in in what i wrote up um and i did have a chance to talk with um lisa and kathy about it briefly so i'm submitting it to council um kind of has a i call it a belt and suspenders approach in that council acknowledged that um that there is one four dioxin that has been found in the municipal storm sewer system um that leads to west park and has initiated a move to support the water resources commissioner in taking action on that based on a permit that he's responsible for and so this is just to say the environmental commission agrees and so we add our voices to city council that's the the rationale for bringing it forward it basically uses the same language that city council did and the only thing that i really added in addition was acknowledgement of the original passage by city council and um a second resolve that says let's pass this information onward to um responsible parties in the city and elsewhere okay well let's see why don't i try sharing my screen with this um so people can review it [Music] so um since council has already acted on this um we're just concurring with council and the resolve clause seems to this seems to be what the resolve clause is saying right so um okay so um any um the floor is open for discussion please um raise your hand if you would like to make a comment uh cathy uh yes the history of this is that card the coalition for the remediation of dioxane remediation of dioxane yes it's getting late um was discussing this and has discussed it and there was some question about whether um who had responsibility for filing the violation and so we decided rita and i had talked about it actually earlier in the day i think rita is the one that recommended the resolution uh but we passed a resolution at card to sort of give evan pratt more support in doing this and so we've got the card resolution which is a very detailed technical document and so i worked with abigail elias to really streamline it and to take out all of the technical information and then it passed uh at council at our last meeting and so i i think it's definitely appropriate again if the environmental commission is functioning in an advisory capacity to provide this advice and support to council it would have been better to do it before council voted but it was a timing issue so now is good too great yeah thank you kathy let's see um i can't see everybody so speak up if you wish to make another comment hearing none uh discussion is closed um see do i have a motion to vote on this from kathy a second from lisa um all who approve of of this resolution notice a violation of government sciences please raise your hand or say hi any opposed none um any abstentions i hear none okay so um this resolution passes unanimously um so galen would you please have this forwarded to city council okay thank you so the next item on the agenda are reports from committees um let's start off with um with the solid waste committee um let's see i will say that uh we have two working groups i'll remind people of this i'm working on a construction and demolition ordinance i've identified a broad stakeholder group and i've been having more informational interviews i think where i am right now is that um i think there are two things necessary at this point one is to up we need some basic data um basic marketing data so i'm working to write a a grant proposal uh with uh to to help fund gathering of data this is basic marketing data uh in other words what uh how much construction and demolition debris is created in the community and uh and there's been some experience with led construction because led um one of their criteria is his diversion of uh construction and demolition debris so recycle ann arbor has had some experience with this over the last several years um at their caliber uh facility on jackson road and so i think um the idea is to basically just get um some basic data on the scope of the issue on the scope of the challenges and then um review this with a stakeholder group in a in a meeting and um begin begin writing up an ordinance for the cons for a bandage and construction and demolition here in ann arbor it's likely that we'll have to i will have to include the county as a whole to reach those volumes that are uh and reach the kinds of economies of scale that we're looking for so i'm in conversations with theo egermont at the washington county about this as well so this is where the construction and demolition ordinance stands at this point um let's see um lisa dish do you want to talk about the zero waste working group yeah very briefly maybe if you um aren't sharing your screen we can see each other again oh my gosh yeah so the zero waste working group which might be up for a name change just to have consistency um with the a20 plan um but we'll talk about that at our next meeting um we are going to work a little bit differently than than some working groups work in that we're going to have members of the public in the working group so not necessarily restricted to members of the environmental commission and between steve and me we have both uh we both recruited a number of people and uh i spoke to someone today i spoke to sam today that you and he has social media expertise web design so we could we could be part of what ms naples was talking about when she was here about the volunteer effort for education and outreach and i am really hoping that we could do a pilot for multi-family recycling and or compost probably recycling or recycling and compost not andor um and i'd also like to see if we could get funds to scale up the effort that jan wright did and jan wright and a group of large group of volunteers did in the old west side putting out flyers and stickers on people's compost bins so they knew what could go in them because that was very successful and in my opinion there's a lot of folks who don't know how much can go in their compost bin and so um if we're talking about you know if if it does end up that we decide to um extend residential composting throughout the winter it would be great for people to have a really good idea of how much stuff they can put in those bins um particularly if we want to link that to possibly a reduction of trash pickup so um so this group is going to take a fair amount of direction from staff around what priorities would be helpful to them given what staff priorities are but i think we also want to do what we can what actually ends up to be manageable in terms of pushing to the things that have been raised by several of the people who called in and several of the people in this group have raised issues of consumption really the broad principle of sustainable consumption came up several times at this meeting and that would involve reuse you know buying less and then also um you know then the basic thing of just putting less in your trash and putting more new recycling and composting so this group has a has a lot of energy and a big agenda so we'll see um where we get ourselves and i think we would also be looking for grant writing expertise and i would be looking for people to teach me how to do that i write other things but not grants so um because i think there is money to do this and i think that anything that we wanted to do as a pilot um we would it would be we would be much easier it would be much easier for us to realize it if we could raise some money so um and uh gabby is yeah gabby's still here we should talk about if you want to be on this to represent to help represent the multi-family um voice or if you can point me to some folks who might want to do that and lilly happy to have you weigh in there as well i just picked on gabby because she mentioned it when eileen was here so did i forget anything no no i don't think so um let's move on to natural features chris hi steve thanks um uh the group meets tomorrow at noon um and three things around the table that are pretty good um version 10 of the first batch of amendments to the udc are there for review tomorrow we've finally really matured our thinking about how to make the changes that we're making um it's uh we we have invented as many wheels as we invented in 2000 one two and three in terms of the language and approach and as i said to you at that time we were concentrating on vacant land in the city we still had a great deal of it and the whole not the whole but a very substantial portion of what we've been doing is converting our thinking to the entire city and its developed landscape as well as vacant land and building in terminology and perspectives that will help educate people about sustainable landscape second thing on the table tomorrow is a summary of the important changes a draft version of that that we're suggesting in this step one and then the third thing on the table is the latest revision of the landmark inheritance tree list so next time i see you uh you may um have some of these documents in your hands to be again to give us feedback about i'm hoping anyway i'm sorry that there's a long delay with holidays and uh small bumps on shoulders and things like that but uh we're getting through it finally pretty happy camper about it okay thank you chris um [Music] how about the pollinators work group oh yeah um i can speak on that um so far we've just established like a mission and a general timeline we're building on the work and allies that were established by the pollinator subcommittee in 2018 so a lot of our work is about educating residents about native plant species and the value of pollinator biodiversity we're considering potential citizen science programs and just looking at different ways to get out meaningful information about pollinators we're also looking at developing verbiage supporting pollinators and habitats to be included in uh nap's five-year plan or their five-year goals um that they're renewing this year um and at the moment yeah we're just in the early stages we're reaching out to our allies and looking for projects we can support i think we have a meeting set up with nav and adoptive park um yeah and we'd like to schedule a meeting with galen to talk about potential support from a20 ambassadors okay thank you lily let's see how about water let's see i think um i think this is something that um is still on the back burner but um i think microplastics is something that might be worth following up on so um i think otherwise um you don't have any actions going on in that regard um let's see do does any did bob do you want to say anything about it no i don't haven't had a chance to do anything yeah it's been busy it's been a busy few months for sure okay so um so other commissions um let's start with planning shannon yeah in terms of what is relevant to this group um i think the biggest thing is that we're i'm going to get into kind of zoning speak here but um our our former planned project um category is shifting and we're trying to streamline the way that people can move buildings around sites um to have some flexibility and one of the things that we are going to be allowing people to do is if they have a very sustainable building then they get some more flexibility basically they get some flexibility with height and they also get some flexibility with um with um uh with parking um so uh the the the big thing that they would have to do is to be able to have 60 of their roof covered in solar and they have to have the capacity and the infrastructure on their site to have their building be 100 electric notice that they didn't say you have to actually make it all electric but you have to have the capacity there one of the things that we are realizing is that there's a there's a lot of different ways uh to heat buildings and that um that there seems to be different systems for different arrangements and types of buildings and that there are we're still educating ourselves a lot on on what those systems are and i think frankly the whole field is in flux and developing very quickly and so um planning staff felt like it wasn't appropriate at this stage to me to mandate that they have to be all electric um but that they need to have the capacity to be that way in other words their electrical panel is set up that way all their conduit is set up that way um uh and that if they felt like it's important to get this out the door so that we can make sure this didn't happen and that we can change it if we need to but that um that's where things that's where things are going we just noticed like with a project that came through on main street called near north that they did mostly electric in terms of the the this was a bunch of attached um condos and all the ones on the inside they could get to work but the ones in the corners they couldn't and so it's it's giving some them some flexibility to be able to try to um to make this thing work over time uh so that's kind of where things are the other premium they're not premium but the other um so you either get uh flexibility with with the sustainability piece or with affordability and so those are the two big objectives that we're going for um but i felt like it was important for this group to hear about what the what the sustainability piece was with that so that uh language has been approved and it is heading towards city council um and then uh the other piece uh commissioner apple isn't here tonight and we approved um a new piece of parkland that is across from gallup park across gettys road the ruthvin area and nature area and that's where um miller's creek comes through um and so the city's purchased that and it's going to be adding that to their their park system um and then we went over like this the um the cip and stuff like that so those are all things that you know obviously have an impact on on um on environmental issues as well in that when you are doing your capital improvements planning um they sustainability is a big chunk of how they filter and prioritize projects and so the a20 that whole effort has really had an effect on how they they have it go through their whole filtration system of how they prioritize things so um to that end you know it affects this group to a certain extent and but we approve that and that's heading towards city council and city council has all of its work cut out for itself between now and may to figure out how to review all that and make sure that all that all that happens and gets done in time for our for our fiscal planning i guess the only other thing i would add is that it's not immediately relevant to this group it's something i just feel like is really important to um to pass around is that there was a group from the university of michigan that did a presentation on racially restrictive covenant mapping and what that means is that um i know when i bought my house which is just west of west park in the deed it said right there in black and white that you cannot have negroes as part of this neighborhood and you can enforce that now there's been all kinds of legislation but it's sitting there written written into our deed and this group uh through the law department and the um architecture department are mapping all of the neighborhoods in ann arbor that have those restrictive covenants on them so that we can start to face the the discrimination that is part of you know liberal ann arbor um because that went on for years and years and years and um so uh it's a really interesting effort and i guess i talk about it here because i think in the next several months there's going to be outreach to be able to get people to be able to report what their deeds say so that we can just start to get a better sense of how what that really looks like spatially across ann arbor and where this history is and i think it's going to be important for people to participate and so i want to put it out there as a way for people to be able to really dig out that file folder to look at your deed and see if it's in there because they they are going to be taking information and trying to map that um so i just wanted to put that out there also as something as we are trying to um be much more aware of equity issues and things like that and and part of part of that is looking at our own past um and and that's definitely a very real thing that happened in natabra for a long time so i guess i'll end there okay thank you shannon um so let's see mike is absent um so we won't talk about parks thanks for uh mentioning that ruthman purchase and uh so energy john yes if i may i'd like to comment briefly on some of the other reports first of all i'd like to plant a seed to natural features and pollinators we've talked before about recognition as a tool in getting people to do things also obviously education and one of the things that's done in the historic preservation area um is that the city has a an award um they make awards every year for historic um preservations and renovations and i would like to see and i don't know who would take this up maybe it's this commission that's why i wanted to plant the seed that we think about a similar reward for renovations of properties um so that if people renovate their property and replace turfgrass and plant trees and put in natural prairie and things like that that they get an award and if there's a new development that goes in that there be a similar award and we give those awards every year hopefully they get some coverage and hopefully they then also get other people in their neighborhood and across the city to adopt similar practices so i don't know where um does anybody have an idea would would that start with us or with um who would who would take up something like that as an idea any volunteers oh we'll add it to the list john for me we'll add it to the list okay good we can talk about it tomorrow i like those ideas okay good ones yep um i'm shannon to um your comments i have one um process question so it sounds like um planning commission took um action on something that's a pretty significant energy measure in terms of new buildings and all electric i'm not aware of any communication between planning department planning commission and the energy commission on this matter the concern that i have is it sounds like it's a step in the right direction the question is whether it's a little tiny baby step and we take that baby step and we don't take maybe a bigger step because i think we have to realize that particularly for larger developments once um you know significant investment is made you know even in home appliances you know those appliances are going to be in that building for 10 to 15 years if somebody's not going to replace those in certainly not in a rental unit um same thing with you know a boiler in the basement or big hvac units on the roof those are going to be there for 20 years so by taking what we think is a nice little step in the right direction we're still creating a huge loophole for capital investments that are going to go in and they're going to stay there for 20 years and so i would ask that maybe council think about um consulting you know i don't know there's a few people on commission or former commissioners like wayne appleyard that are fairly familiar with this but i would ask that maybe council defer action on this and look into whether there's something between a full requirement which i agree potentially has an impact on affordability not so much for the developer but in terms of operational costs but something between the two extremes of a little baby step and the step of mandating all electric so i wanted to um to share that as far as energy commission first of all i wanted to thank council and inform the rest of the commission that um at the last meeting the um ev parking ordinance was passed um and so um that will be going into effect um thank you very much and um we want that obviously to be something that um is successful um and so we're working on a part on a developer's guide for that to make that easier not that there's a lot of complaints about just throwing out an ordinance and you know having it impossible in terms of permitting and interfaces with dte so um we will be working on that and by the way an interesting announcement um today general motors announced it will be carbon neutral by 2040 and it will stop making internal combustion vehicles by 2035.
we estimated this work would cost 180 000 after reviewing the bids with the lowest bidder and our asbestos consultant i recommend this school board award the 2020 one acm removal to cover mediation for 156 thousand uh we've worked with cobra mediation and a few different projects at school in the past and we're very happy with their work okay can i have a motion please i hope that the school board award the 2021 acm removal at andrew to cover mediation else of illinois in the amount of 156 000. a second motion made by member murphy peterson seconded by member dalton to award the asbestos removal contract to uh acm removal any comments or questions for dave i have a question the question itself just references andrew was this for sandberg as well yes sanborn again andrew correct i was about to say that yeah i would prefer just for the way things on our days if um we um amend it and someone reiterate it with the samurai andrew okay sorry all right go ahead i can do that thank you okay okay i'm going to amend that motion uh i move that the school board award the acm removal at andrew and sandberg high schools to cover mediation else of illinois in the amount of 156 thousand is it 600 156 000 even oh there's two typos then yes sorry correct we have i attached the bid results it's it's 156 000 even okay got it all right all right so the amended motion has been made by member murphy peterson and seconded by member dalton okay do we have any other comments or questions on that okay good catch kate okay then let's vote yes yes yes yes yes yes so the amended motion passes okay dave any uh facility construction updates um ms dalton covered all of our uh projects very well if anybody has any specific questions on any project i'd be more than happy to answer them but other than that um yes everything's been covered very well okay any other questions for dave all right thank you sir thanks dave all right uh then uh we've got some motions that we have to uh make from our exact session so uh pat but actually you're jumping ahead we still have to do i know want me to um i was going to do those and then whenever you went back yep okay something around i wasn't sure yeah we're okay i was school board approved the adoption of board policies seven one hundred seventy three hundred sixty three hundred sixty three sixty 310 6340 490 480 and 4150 second okay motion to hate by member of sullivan seconded by member murphy peterson for the personnel action no no no no this is your pal i'm sorry he's got page 46 that's cool we're good he has all the right numbers are the right colons and i'm looking at the wrong line that we're good at all right that's fine sorry i was looking at something else yeah and all right okay we're okay we're okay we're okay it's for the policies comments or questions all right let's vote yes yes yes policies are approved motion passes pat emotions from the exact session i do okay i will school board approved personnel action including staff co-curriculars licensed staff deployment leads of absences support sent leaves advances and resignations second okay motion-based member of sullivan seconded by member murphy peterson to approve the personnel action okay let's vote yes yes [Music] yes motion passes school board approved the out of school suspension for the period of december 5th 2020 through january 5th 2021.
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don't forget you got to multiply that out by 1.5 to see what the real actual enrollment is and now we're back over 300 instead of it 265 adding those you know 40 plus individuals our enrollment particularly at the elementary level right now is poised for substantial growth and i've kind of just gone through the data that uh has had milan and mcbroom who are professional demographers come to this conclusion um and so what we're facing in the near future um next year actually at darcy is that we are over capacity enrollment so i've talked about the fact and i met with the doolittle pto last night that we're gonna have two kindergarten classrooms coming back to do little and what does that mean it means we're you know collapsing classrooms potentially putting people on carts the worst case scenario being that we're we're putting up trailers for kids to go to school in which um you can ask norton and anybody else highlander those are not what we want we worked really hard to get rid of them at chapman many years ago because they're unsightly expensive and uncomfortable but you can see again in the next couple years not only will darcy be significantly over but chapman will ultimately be over capacity as will highland and ultimately norton so the biggest driver as i've said in our uh our budget this year is medical benefits and again i think this is the easiest way to just boil it down uh our projected run rate for this year was we budgeted 725 000 thinking our expected claims would be 800 000 a month um as i mentioned earlier it's really astonishing that it's 1.1 million a month nothing to do with covid this isn't something the board could have seen coming um nothing that actuaries saw coming um so i i'm not you know i don't think anybody here deserves blame um but there's volatility in this market and so um you know at this point what we need to do is make sure that we can fund at a claims rate that at least keeps our uh pool where it is and i know adam's had some thoughtful comments on that and we'll touch upon some of adam's questions and and uh in a little bit but you know what we've just recommended for this year in order to keep our pool where it is which frankly is low um we would recommend a 900 000 uh a month contribution there which is a substantial increase to where our budget is today and that's really at the heart of this you know large budget increase that nobody wants to put forward but i think is um you know educationally and fiscally uh sound as it can be um you know different avenues in which we invest in our school system and our community i just went through a lot of the operational budget school modernization is an arm really unto itself that another um you know committee of 13 people are driving um the other one being capital budget and i know unfortunately i wasn't able to attend the planning committee meeting before this meeting because i was in another meeting but i know that our planning committee met just as a quick overall um update you know what we had proposed for next year was a 5.2 million dollar capital budget you see spread across various buildings in uh in our community uh and i'll you know allow certainly time for for vin to elaborate on that a little bit in a moment so key takeaways uh the pandemic is a wild card and it's it's not considered in our operating budget but again we've received you know very good news there that um resources will be more available to cover the things that we hopefully the things that we need like tents and um you know human resources in terms of our cleaning crew and things that we're required to have like a monitor in the building to watch students that have been identified as potential coping positive students um we're required to have somebody that does that but it comes at a significant cost and this budget is driven by insurance it's about 50 of our overall increase uh the rest of it is is maintaining current services and again i think we provide an outstanding value for the community so you know what about meeting students needs post covid that's a question that's come up within the board and also within the community we had one email from um burnham uh hitting that point you know uh the way that we're planning right now is you know we could always add more staff i mean in our in our previous budget this group the board has recommended adding staff to support math and other interventions um but you know if we're talking about meeting the academic and the emotional needs of students post covid adding an individual or two to each building is not going to be what gets us through this it's really a full-scale commitment by every individual in the building to our sdl uh to that effort to our sel skills and our awareness as well as you know to our effort to accelerate our curriculum and i know marlene's uh done a great job uh with kevin and our academic folks uh presenting on that to the curriculum committee but more importantly getting that down to the classroom level to support our students and making sure that they have what they need to be successful and i feel pretty good about that the standardized testing costs and commitment was a um a request from mr bester and he wanted to know what is it costing uh the the town to provide uh s back testing to students and the s.a.t and the ngss the answer there the short answer is nothing the state provides all those testing supplies uh really it's online now so it's basically just online access really for the for the most part for that um our curriculum isn't designed to um you know to just do well on the test our as i said earlier our curriculum is focused on teaching kids to be complex thinkers and we feel like if we do that well our kids will do well on standardized tests or anything else that we put in front of them and i think that's kind of proven to be the case over the last several years but we we don't dedicate you know lines anywhere to to s back or to anything like that the cost the medical benefits i think i just uh certainly went through that process i went through why uh you know that that's being recommended and i think the board is actually very well group versed as a group on that that topic we've touched on it quite a bit and a lot of insightful questions um why why these increases in the face of massive unemployment again you know i think cheshire is like eighth lowest unemployment in the state of connecticut and is consistently that way um but i mean that doesn't mean we shouldn't be sensitive to financial increases and this is you know a process that sure this is our third night here but there have been painstaking hours it wasn't easy to request 5.2 percent after having 1.17 on average over the last five years i certainly very much respect the the difficulty in this decision in this process and um i you know have full faith in the board to make a decision that's best for our community in our school system um to move forward and then you know there were a number of special education questions that came out of the other night so at this point i'm going to stop sharing screen and turn it over to rob and ann to address a myriad of those questions that came up and also um to uh you know again just turn it back to adam uh mr grippo and the board for any questions that that you may have okay so i'll cover some of the questions that were asked from the other night that we were looking for some additional information on um so one of the questions that came up was about chronic absenteeism and whether or not we have a large is spent are there a larger number of students that are receiving special education servicing services exhibiting chronic absences compared to general ed students and i was able to pull that number those numbers up when we look at chronic absenteeism we're looking at nine at least nine absences or more so at this point in time as of today from the start of this school year till today we have 82 students that are part of our general ed population that fall into that chronic absenteeism category and we have 51 students that are from our sped are special ed population so those are the numbers when it comes to that so far so far this anybody have any questions about chronic absenteeism any further questions about that they want me to answer before i go on to the next question uh robin just for clarification um when you say chronic chronic absenteeism is that excluding if perhaps uh their family member or they or they themselves were coveted positive do you deduct that this is like so some sort of other category that's unrelated to that kind of absenteeism like if they had to quarantine or something right um i did this i did pull the data through powerschool and um i would have to consult with scott conway who does our um does a lot of our data input and in works with powerschool it didn't look to me like it teased it out um but it so i'm i it could very well include those days that they're quarantined but i do know that we have a process of identifying those students that are out uh we use a different code for when they're out on quarantine but i'm not sure if the program would have pulled that as an absent because it's just a different kind of absence so that i can i'll have to follow up with scott on sorry about that yeah it does sound like it it is kind of teased out by assuming the codes were being used properly that sounds like we are using codes for coven and um and so i would think that just a regular absence would have been pulled but i would want to check and double check and make sure sure um faith you had a question yeah just to confirm so it's 82 students who are chronically absent and are sped students nope it's it's 82 total right general education students 51 total students with ieps and special education services so the total is 133 if i do yeah good job um and then how does that compare to previous years um that i i don't have that data to compare it to right now in front of me i don't have that right right if you could you get that just so if we could see if it is an anomaly for this year um that might also help with um adam's question yeah sure perhaps so okay thank you okay the next question that was asked about special education had to do with we were talking about the new mandate that says that requires us that students who qualify for an 18 for those transition years from 18 to 21 now it's through their entire uh 21st year so we are exiting them out at 22 and the question was how many students over the age of 21 are we projected to service next school year so what i was able to look at was this current year we had we have six students that either uh that have already turned or will turn 22 that are in our 18 to 21 or 22 program at this time so there was a total of six students three of those students were students that we exited because they had turned 21 and we then had to bring back so we had to bring them back in back into their programs and continue to provide them with a an appropriate program and then they aged out at some point some part of this school year i know we had a street couple students age out in december so there are a total of six this year next year we'll have two students that we will now have to carry through to 22 that will turn 22 in the next school year and those students can age out it could be anywhere from one month into next school year to the very end of that school year it just depends on where their birthday falls and when they would turn 22.
so some people might say well you know that could be earlier but i think what's clear is now in 2021 the writing is on the wall so in terms of any developer or anybody that's thinking of putting in massive investments in fossil fuels and things like that um they the the writing is on the wall that they need to re you know reconsider what they're doing um as far as other things that the commission is doing we had a presentation on energy delivery from a commissioner that works for consumers um showing how the grid works um where the different parties are in the grid and also showing the degree to which fossil fuels really are dominant not only in terms of electrical supply but if you look at all energy sources including you know for vehicles including for industry um it's it's you know eye-opening how um really we are completely um what's the right word um reliant on fossil fuels and how much fossil fuels have to be replaced so if you're interested you can go to the legistar and look at that presentation we've got a couple of presentations coming up that i think might be a very broad interest in the february meeting so this builds on the energy delivery presentation we will have a presentation on municipalization there is a group in ann arbor called ann arbor public power that is formed to promote um the idea of municipalization as an alternative uh and you might remember in the 820 plan that what's favored there is community choice aggregation that will require legislation at the state level municipalization does not but it has um its own really really tremendous hurdles we're hoping to be able to bring in some other experts to talk about what some of those other options might be like cca or others um there's a utility expert in lansing that i've been in communication with and i'm hoping that that individual be able to talk at a future meeting so there may be a series of meetings that may be very relevant for the path that the city takes going um going forward we also considered the same energy principles and passed the same resolution that we passed tonight at the last meeting and then lastly we um agreed with osi that we're going to focus on um five project areas one is um electrification we're going to start initially with home appliances and looking at what we can do there to really drive and promote electrification starting with cooktops and ranges um electric vehicle strategy what's the next steps now beyond the parking ordinance we're looking at developing an energy concierge service um so imagine you know a hotel you're you've gone somewhere and you need advice and you have an idea of really what you want but not much more than that um we think that this is really necessary an enabler for almost everything else that we want to do in the energy field other than some of these big things like you know where we get our electricity but if you think of you know you want to replace your furnace and you want to know what the options are you want to replace um whatever it might be you want to improve your envelope who do you go to what incentives are there and so on and so forth and right now it's there's only informal networks and unless you're tied into those informal networks you have really nowhere to go really nowhere so that's we're going to work on that we're going to lower on trying to improving solar accessibility for lower in middle income residents right now you know solar tends to still be a fairly um expensive proposition um and then we're going to be doing working on a series of energy education we've done some of that in the past but we really want to start to step that up so that's what's going on with the energy commission okay thank you john yeah go ahead shannon yeah can i just respond briefly to what you were saying he had that very discussion in fact lisa brought that you're you're pro probably word for word what you said um so we did definitely have that discussion um i i think it probably wasn't characterizing it quite right i think it's not even really midway between the two extremes you were talking about i think it is closer to the to the you know going all electric route but i think it could probably use some tightening up to further define what that is um because it's like i think the planning commission would say it is unacceptable to have gas ranges like it's not like that you know it's more like the feasibility of how to truly heat systems when there are some things that are still pretty mushy in terms of what's the best system to use and how it models out so um but the language isn't that tight either you know in terms of kind of where that that continuum is so um please know that it was discussed but it i would look forward to some further discussion i think at council about that perhaps to see if it's possible to um to see what it means to tighten that up or to have mr leonard kind of say what what his intention was and how they might be able to uh to negotiate that or how to even pitch it to developers they have to meet with planning first thing so that they can kind of say this is what we're talking about here not like you know you just have your dte capacity thing there and you do everything the same you know so um there might be different ways to handle that but i just wanted to respond to that so you so you had some sense of what we what we discussed okay um yeah thank you shannon so uh report from council let's see i don't have anything that we haven't already discussed okay um lisa do you have anything i can't think of anything because you already know that we passed the floodplain ordinance and you know that we passed the ev ordinance yeah and i can't think of anything else and i just wanted to very briefly say that um regarding the racial covenant mapping project another cool thing about it is that it would permit us to do overlays so to look at where which parts of the city are best served by infrastructure for example and that those kinds of questions are very relevant to the sorts of projects that we're doing now in solid waste and in a20 and i know that we'll see a pattern to the places that have restricted covenants are going to have better services and places that didn't won't and so we can address some of those and this this project can help us address some of those inequities so it is both sort of eye-opening for people to know that yes ann arbor like every other municipality in the us had racially restrictive covenants but that it it is actively informative for the decisions that we are currently making now about where to make our investments thank you lisa so um the chair um i don't have anything to say right now um except for one thing and that is that to remind people that on part of the eagles effort to boost recycling in the state is a program they call next cycle and there is money available for small businesses the focus there is on generating small businesses that are local that use recyclables as their as their starting materials as their feedstocks for a manufacturing process so i just want to say that that's out there it's not something the city is responsible for but there are opportunities for business and job creation locally here there is money available from the state to do that if you can find a way of taking the local recyclables and making a commercial product out of it um so report to staff okay um really quick i have one thing to report um our h20 ambassadors are entering the project phase which they'll begin on uh february 10th uh for those of you who have projects um please or want to be uh or have projects that you would like consider please enter it into the spreadsheet that we have it's in an excel spreadsheet that's been going around and also another way to entice some of our ambassadors to pick up your project or get excited about it uh we're creating an opportunity for you to record a pitch that can be played for them so um that's something that we're really looking forward to we have a real diverse group of ambassadors and they can handle low-level and high-level projects and that's our report okay thanks kayla so so gail in that regard would you mind sending the url or distributing the link for that spreadsheet yes to the commissioners okay thanks you're welcome so uh the next item on the agenda are action items and i only have two and that is that our council representatives will consider um the value of an annual report on the state of the environment and the other one is that galen will send out the url for the project listing and um and project description for the ambassadors um for the a20 ambassadors so the next schedule meeting is february 25th 2021 um the next item on the agenda is public commentary we have our second period of public comment uh this is an opportunity for persons to speak for up to three minutes please call 1-888-788-0099 and enter meeting id 973-1841 this information is also displayed on the video feed city staff will select callers that have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of your phone number in order to electronically raise your hand to indicate your desire to speak please press star 9 on your phone you will hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area and mute any television or background sound so that we may hear you clearly please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments be patient there is a delay of up to 30 seconds before the connection is established and again please call you can call 1-888-788-0099 and enter meeting id 924-5796-9823 do we have anybody on the line yet galen uh there are no callers at this moment here okay well let's wait um um another 30 seconds oh do you have any callers at this point no but yeah we have a hand up from uh councilmember griswold let's see kathy yes kathy um i just want to thank staff because they're moving towards having recurring meeting ids for zoom and what that means is the environmental commission will have the same meeting id every month and so we won't have to be scrambling and looking for that new unique number well thanks kathy i i see a lot of people nodding i yeah i'm becoming somewhat of a zoom expert from having caucus meetings and and realizing you could have a uh a personal meeting id as well as the regular meeting id for a given meeting and so this this is it sounds minor but it's really going to streamline the process yeah it's happened tonight so yeah okay thanks kathy thank you so um is there anybody on the line galen uh there are no callers okay then well i uh i call this meeting adjourned then at 9 23 p.m thanks everybody thank you everyone you
second motion invaded by member o'sullivan seconded by member murphy peterson to approve the student discipline comments or questions all right let's vote yes yes yes yes yes yes motion passes oh i'm going to score to prove the settlement agreement with the parents of student 2004 is presented second okay motion made by member of sullivan seconded by member gracias to approve the settlement agreement let's follow go ahead i meant to mention this earlier go ahead i just want to double check the student id number can we find out for sure that it's two zero zero four i don't know if kim has that handy if she's still around yeah that is typically two zero out of the year two numbers of the year so maybe two four two three or two two i just wanna double check that i'm available i'm here pat that's um we don't put the student id number in there that's the that's the number that lisa uh yeah okay the kind of more the case yeah yeah it's not the student no it's the case okay okay sorry that's okay any other questions okay let's vote yes yes settlement agreement is approved okay dr gate um good it was really uh we did the personnel we did the policies they i would have covered um there's really um you know i think uh as far as the general assembly a lot of things i shared with you guys already the first 101 and 102 now is in session 101 is general summit's over the new one started they're calling for a very abbreviated spring session they keep cutting time down keep cutting time down so um we've been very active in trying to deal with some of the bills that are being brought forth that affect schools um actually i believe that i'll be going to springfield next month i think it is doesn't it and i i think i'm actually physically going to be there with isa board of directors to make some movements that are going on because we're very concerned that they're going to really abbreviate the amount of time they get there and um that concerns us at times when things are done quickly you know so as you've seen you've heard things about graduation requirements you talk about extend today evidence-based model funding you know there's a lot of things on the table there was a i think 5 000 bills in education they brought them down to a couple hundred but we are on top of that that's all i have sir okay um so then uh at this point then we will go to board comments and uh mike sure um i think we had a good meeting tonight guys i think we accomplished a lot congratulations dr gay i would have said something i just don't like to be repetitive in those but we appreciate you know i know i met dr gay at rotary which is charitable i've been at uh events with them talking to business leaders which had a little bit through the school in the education but i think that just goes to show you how he puts the community above and beyond everything lastly thank you everybody in the room um on zoom call people not on the zoom call they reached out over the last couple weeks it really meant a lot thank you thank you okay mike you're welcome i hope you're doing okay oh yeah thanks pat uh first happy new year everybody technically you haven't seen each other since before christmas um but other than that just again congratulations to jim and everybody here um you know jim would say that we're all we're part of a big community big family um so jim gets all the accolades as he well should but uh a lot of people are responsible too and he'd be the first one to say that so congrats again and uh see you in four weeks okay kate uh jim um i'd just like to add that all the things that people said about you i you know are all true obviously and the the achievement and the award is uh very very well received or well deserved but um the two things that two words that come to mind when i think of you is respect because you respect people and people respect you and integrity because you are a man of integrity and that's something that is a wonderful thing to have as a superintendent and someone who is in charge of our district so thank you for that and thank you for your constant constant support of everybody that's involved in our area thank you kate what's up i'm just a happy new year i think that there's some positive on the horizons here with the rollout of these vaccines i understand there's a glitch here at the beginning but i think once they get it rolling um we will be much closer to getting back to a more free life and hopefully we can bring the more kids back in and we can have more meetings in person uh it's been difficult but again i have to say what i said before great leader you held us they held the ship together and we managed much better than uh our fellow educators in chicago okay we we've made great strides we were ahead of the ball game with our hybrid learning anyway even today there was uh some of you might not know there was a power outage at stake high school and so there was an emergency all call and about quarter to eight this morning to put everybody hybrid okay so i'm sure there were some people already on their way to stag maybe even just getting to stay for zero hour but we could easily jump back into hybrid without losing any time or instruction time so um there there really are some pluses that came out of this horrible experience the international phase but i think our district really stood tall so thank you again dr gay honestly for for all of your uh palm leadership it was a rough one and you did great so thank you dave um yeah happy new year to everyone and uh jim i i certainly am not going to elaborate uh more so than everything that's already been eloquently said by my colleagues here but uh you are a true leader and uh this is uh termed a a uh you were superintendent of distinction award as i understand that the official name of it and i think that's appropriate because you are certainly distinct from all of your colleagues you have kind of steered the ship and we do appreciate all of your leadership and your integrity every single day with that um thanks thank you all right sue um i spoke my piece earlier um we are um very fortunate to have you uh and happy to have you recognized and we will save the next round of settlements a little closer to the end of june yeah absolutely and i just want to um recognize the hard work that's going on in the district our teachers our support staff down to our food service and then we can look at our administration and the team coming together and supporting the various levels for learning this is a difficult time and it's been a long time it's getting drawn out and some of us are getting a little tired of the same old same old but there is light at the end of the tunnel we're starting to see a beam of light and so i just want to encourage everyone to continue to stick to it our students have been um real troopers through all of this because there's been a lot of disappointments and now that we have some sports on the horizon and some more virtual theater and music those are things to look forward to so just want to encourage everyone to stick to it and we will be back to semi-norm sooner than later and so doesn't want to recognize all their efforts during this difficult time thanks sue um you know seeing the presentation that there gave tonight was great um because it did show that you know as a few of you already said there's there's a lot of positives that have come out of this year and hopefully positives that we can carry forward as as we move ahead and and i think everybody's learned a lot um and uh it also brought to mind a conversation that that dr gay and i had uh it was late last week or early this week they all blend together as we both say all the time um but you know we talked about you know all the issues that are going on in chicago and all the problems they're having and whatever and then you come back and look at our district and uh yes we had some bumps in the road and things weren't always where we wanted them to be in there were disagreements and issues but somehow we got our teachers in the classroom in september we got our students in the classroom and we basically have been in the classroom since september we've given our our kids the best opportunity in an education they can get under the current circumstances our teachers our staff everybody has been has been tremendous and uh you know again uh you know when when you think about 230 when you look at 230 there's a heck of a lot of positives that happen here and there's a lot to be proud of and it's not by accident it is not by accident and it's just again i said it before i'll say it again it starts at the top and you my friend are definitely the reason we get to where we are and you've got a great support team behind you um and we are so fortunate to have the people we do in this district because you know we are a leader and we are innovative and uh i'm proud that our students get the best education they possibly can and our teachers understand that the most important thing is to take care of our students and so for that i thank everybody and uh please accept know you know happiness for you because i know that that you uh you are probably embarrassed a little bit from asking lisa likes knowing how you are but uh once again uh thank you let's end the meeting with uh with the hearty congratulations thank you everybody and hopefully next yeah and hopefully next month maybe we'll be in another level that we can open up the meeting and maybe have more people here physically so that would be a great thing and with that i would like to entertain a motion to adjourn i'll move second okay motion made by member heartache seconded by member gracias to adjourn do we have any question no can we vote please happy birthday lisa yes hbde [Laughter] happy birthday lisa yes many happy birthday yes happy birthday youngster yes and with that we are adjourned
clara lee got her hand inside and knocked the ball out but olympians will keep the ball on their end of the court grand gravity passes in the corner to robert she fires up a quick three and off the mark and a great box out there by eli to get the rebound courtney fields brings the ball down and passed it off to lee fields has it inside to finn and she turns it over and stolen by gravy who is averaging just under four steals a game she gets one early here in the ball game she's stuck in the corner but passed it off to saw bachmann at the top of the key looks to the corner to gravity fires up to three up and nothing but net corinne grivey gets out in a fall she did not sit a three-point basket in tuesday night's contest i'm sure she's happy to see that one fall here tonight early in the first five to two is our score the olympians lead right idea she finally gets a hold of the ball but off the mark that is number four kate brimmer one of the key players here tonight sage drives hard and could not get the layup to fall great defense there by the irish and through the hands of bachmann will be cathedral basketball with 5 19 remaining here in the first quarter looks like 23 lee will be taking it out for the irish throws it up and they get it in fields looks to attack floater over gabby dean and a great bank shot there for courtney fields ties the ball game excuse me does not tie the ball game up a one-point ball game olympian's lead and rebounded by the irish the pass little out in front and a turnover by cathedral olympian basketball looks like irish will come up with a zone press here early the olympians haven't seen a press here in the orange pit for quite some time as they're gonna get across the timeline with no problem as sage has it on the right throws it across court to grivey in the corners roberts fires up a three in the corner was in and out but a strong rebound by sage stahl could not get the shot to fall but gets her own rebound and gets that second attempt to go in sage stall with four points here in the first quarter olympians once again in their zone look have they had the most of the season here and sage stall quite a bit of steals early on and she gets one there as well three on two fast break gravy open for three and hits back iron but a strong rebound by gabby dean could not get the second chance shot to fall and rebounded by the irish coming up on 405 here in the first quarter number 23 dribbles in the sides and eli has it kicks out the fields for a three off the mark but a strong rebound by finn could not get that one to fall looks like it was blocked and fields fires the close jump shot off the mark bachmann with the rebound to gabby dean up to sage stall we had the numbers there for a minute but great hustle there by the irish to get back and set in their zone down inside to gabby dean great finds and a great shot there for gabby dean an assist from corinne gravy kern gravy just under five assists and gabby dean just over eight points per game in a time out taken by the irish with 3 30 remaining here in the first quarter [Music] so welcome back we are live here at columbus east high school will be cathedral basketball with 3 30 remaining here after the irish took a early timeout and their coach did not look too happy with their performance here so far the olympians in their 2-3 zone look got a good look but off the mark and blocked by gabby dean leads the state in blocks with 4.2 a game and a tip pass and a turnover by the olympians two on one fast break and great find and fires up the shot and no good that has courtney fields tried to draw the foul but couldn't get it and great defensive pressure there by the irish and gets the steal and courtney fields ends up getting the shot to fall gives her four points on the night and corinne gravy throws it deep to sage and will be a charged call taken by number three darren eli she got on that right block and set her feet and took that charge great job there by cathedral as number 23 lee brings it down and passes it off to grimmer bremer fires a three up and good three point basket katie and maybe roberts tries to answer back with the three up and good maylie roberts her 38th through made three-point basket on the season she's shooting 42 percent from beyond the arc and that is really good and she answers there to give the olympians a 12-9 lead and that shots off the mark and rebounded by sage gets it to grivey and throws that ball away and a turnover committed by the olympians looks like austin craig will sub in for melee roberts and mia finn checks in for the irish a very good first quarter we've seen here by both teams and gets it inside his fin great job with their hands by the olympians as fields has it passes it to number 23 that is cara lee answers with a big three cuts excuse me ties the ball game up gives lee her first points of the night gravi across court to sage stahl bachmann has it back to grivy on the left wing bachmann at the top of the key allison craig dribbles the ball out it looks like cathedrals and a zone defensive look coming up on 120 here in the first quarter tie ball game allison craig drives kicks out to grabby for three nothing but net goes in for corinne gravy gives her 34 made three-point baskets on the season six points both coming off a threes here early for gravy coming up on a minutes here in the first quarter 15 to 12.
so i kind of looked at some other numbers too um next year our qu program is going to have a total of our our life bridge to life program is gonna have six students we're projecting six students in there and our community um community program is projected to have four students in there um so in that and within those groups there'll be students that will age out we're looking at two students that will age out next year um just another one thing to look at or consider is right now at our high school students that who potentially um qualify for those transition years right now at the high school we have 22 students that are in a program right now and if they continue with us they will will end up in our qu programs or our community program um in it over the next couple of years five out of those 22 students will become senior our seniors this year and will then enter our transition programs next year so it's just to kind of get an understanding of how those numbers work so it's not necessarily the concern is not necessarily that there are an additional two students that we are holding on to it's two students or three students as we progress through the year that we provide another additional year so it's another additional year of costs in the in case of when they're in our programs in our um in our district it may mean that i have we have to hold on to if that student has a one-to-one then we now need to hold on to an additional one-to-one to make sure that student is covered so it's an additional year of of a one to one for that student also that student that adds to our numbers and our therapies so because in many cases these are students who require a lot of services a lot of intense services and so they usually require therapies like ogpt and speech so it's it's those although it's a small number it's it becomes an additional cost because of this the staffing and in the supports that they needed you put transportation on that and then put on top of that if it's an out placement that the student requires and so now that's an additional tuition that has to be paid for another year so i'm hoping that answers that question anyone have any questions about that yes tim thank you um yeah sorry if i missed it what's the cost of do you have an idea a ballpark on the 18 to 22 additional years that we provide the service and does the state give any funding toward it or is it just an unfunded mandate uh well they no there's no additional money that's being provided because of that mandate it's still it's still this you know we still get the same funding through our idea grants and um and through our budget so what happens is um the the cost of it it will depend again if the student is is being educated in district or if the student is being educated out of the district and in and out placement so as we said the other night our out placements um a tuition cost for an outplacement can run anywhere from sixty seventy thousand dollars to two hundred thousand dollars and so it depends on the intensity of the students needs and the programming that they need and the supports that they need so if a student is if so now you're looking at that additional added cost in district the additional cost would be if the student requires uh paraprofessional support so if that student was aging out at 21 that releases that paraprofessional that worked with them and we now apply that paraprofessional to work with an incoming student it's a cycle but now holding on to students longer it may mean the need of having to increase that or pull that from elsewhere so i i sorry jeff i was just going to say to be clear too that's a federal mandate it's not but that's not a connecticut issue that's that's part of idea yeah okay okay and it's but there's no funding associated with it well ida funding is provided to uh the states who in turn you know provided that money locally and yes we we receive ida funding but that's considered part of it and i i think you know your point is that since this ruling that it went from 21 to 22 there's been no additional funding to cover that extra year which obviously sets us back a little bit locally okay okay and just to be clear on the out placements so when when you were talking about placements i was thinking of like up to age 18 and i've seen the list before i think there's some like down up in vermont maybe down in new york city the really expensive ones but i was thinking about when you said 18 to 22 i was thinking what do you consider quinnipiac because i thought is is quinnipiac out and out placement or that's in-house quinnipiac is our program it's it's our transition program located on the quinnipiac campus yes so that is that you know for our students that we many of our students needs can be met through our quinnipiac program the two quinnipiac programs in our community um community to life program that right now is housed at the park and rep okay okay thank you okay so um let's see the next question that came up for special ed uh let's see the question was what is it that draws people to cheshire for special education um and so you know majority of the phone calls that i get from parents seeking to move to cheshire uh or the phone calls that we take within the pps office or department or even the supervisors you see them in most cases they are looking at our specialized programs um they're often looking for supports that are not currently found in their in their current district um in our districts i think our district programs are attractive to parents because they have we have similar supports in our programs that that you find in and out of district placement because they are located in our district the students then have access to um their peer models they're within the community the school they're part of the school community as well as part of our community at large and they are in with their neighborhood friends and um it also um within the school building itself so as they make progress they and they and as we determine what the least restrictive setting is for them if they're able to enjoy um go into classrooms with the other peers then they're able to um have some interactions with those with those peer models also the advantage of having the programs within district is that when they're ready to transition to a less restrictive environment then it's usually less disruptive for the student coming back than it is for a student coming back into the public school from an outplacement so i think that is something that's attractive to parents to know that their child when they're ready to transition back into a jet more of a general ed setting or a resource room setting or a less restrictive setting that it can be done right within our community in our district the other attractive thing i they find in our programs is a small student-to-adult ratio and so that's another piece that i often get asked you know what's the student-to-adult ratio so because we're able to it really and as i was saying the other night it's those resources in those programs that really first of all help our students make the progress that they make is the most important piece of it but it's also it's the appropriate supports for the student based on their needs does anyone have any questions on that so so that's my take on why they come here because jeff always says it's not the night life well you know thank you for covering that robin and um marlene i you know i like i said i tried to give an overview a summary marlene has more specifics on some of our questions from the community thank you this email is from john bester i would like an itemized estimate of the costs incurred by the district for the administration of s back in grades three through eight in the 11th grade statewide sat as well as any costs associated with the purchase of test prep materials equipment and technological updates i understand that such an estimate neither accounts for instruction time loss for students nor the time expended by teachers and school administrators for this essentially non-instructional endeavor in other words what is the budgetary cost incurred by taxpayers for mandated s back and state s.a.t administrations i agree with faith ham and we've got to fight back against unfunded mandates i would like to suggest that the members of the board of ed explore its many options and consider whether it should speak out and perhaps rally other board of boards of ed to push back against federal and state education departments that require discriminatory invalid and unreliable and still controversial testing protocols that lack purpose and usefulness in helping teachers understand student learning needs and parents better understand their child's progress unlike any other year this year is crucial for test suspension and that students have received a wide range of instructional methods and no one can account for the different impacts that remote hybrid and in-person in time of covered learning will have on test results additionally how are students in remote learning going to take these tests while maintaining standardized protocols and protecting privacy concerns as our students continue to cope with the social emotional stress of their schooling experience it is incumbent upon educational leaders to seek ways to decrease these anxieties rather than simply stand firm in order to check a bureaucratic box there is a grassroots movement calling on the secretary of education dr miguel miguel cardona to suspend testing for this current year although it may feel as a heavy lift the cheshire board of ed could begin to fight back against these this unreimbursed testing mandate and ask sde to request a waiver for testing 21 and call for the suspension of s back and statewide sat for the 2021 to 20 21 22 school year and beyond thank you we have another letter from mary burnham i would like to express the concern i have regarding when students come back to school after covid19 is over what supports are built into the budget to assist teachers with a variety of issues that i suspect may occur because of remote instructions and additionally the emotional stress covid has placed on all children i suspect there will have been a loss of educational instruction and therefore the loss of some of the goals that children will have needed to have met and may need more assistance and time to catch up i also have concerns for the children coming in from birth to three who may not have been identified or certainly didn't receive the kinds of interventions they should have received therefore there may be more children than anticipated that might need ieps and or additional supports are these concerns addressed in the budget i would also like to express my concern about having s-back tests this year administration of s-backs will be time lost for instruction that we desperately need additionally i'm not quite clear how children will even take the test if they've been doing remote learning these tests only add more stress to students as the board considered requesting a waiver for this year mind you i completely support john bester's statement regarding sbac and sat tests the least the chil the cheshire board of ed can do is request a waiver for this year mary burnham cheshire connecticut that is all thank you very much marlene um and i know vin uh had some responses to questions that came up uh throughout the process and some additional birth information that tim's been clamoring for it finally came through so they'll share that too okay thank you good evening everyone welcome back to the finance committee and budget discussions so yes we did get from the cheshire town clerk's office the number of births for 2020 um and i'll keep you in suspense for a minute nasdaq had estimated 199 births for 2020.
great job by the olympians defensively here tonight and just like that at turnover committed by cathedral will be olympian basketball we'll have caitlyn crothers check in for gabby dean with 54.3 seconds remaining here in the first quarter gravy brings the ball down for the olympians sage saul tries to force a pass there but it will be knocked out of bounds by the irish will stay on this end of the court for the olympians gravy takes the ball out and a turnover committed that is stolen by fields courtney fields for the irish two on one fast break hits her teammates that is eli and missed the fast break opportunity there to get points on the board katie brummer picks up her first team's first 38 seconds on the dots remaining here in the first quarter gravity uses the screen set by bachmann gets it in the corner is allison craig gravy picks up her dribble finds bachmann back to gravity she's going to fire up a three and a little right there but rebounded by sage and gets the shot blocked that was finn mia finn with the block and cathedral is heading this way fields gets inside floater shot off the mark but offensive rebound and off the mark with three seconds two seconds can also craig get the shot off and it will be cathedral basketball with .7 seconds remaining one thing i noticed the olympians are letting quite a bit of offensive rebounds here early on and that was one thing batesville did very well on tuesday night's matchup was getting offensive rebounds not sure if they'll be able to get a quick shot off here and they do not so there we have it our score the olympians lead by three over the cathedral fighting irish 12-15 and i will send it down to our columbus east cheerleaders [Music] so there we have it after the first quarter the olympians once again lead 12-15 karin gravy leads all scoring early on with six points coming off both three-point baskets and leading for the irish is number two courtney fields with four basketballs looks like grabby will put on a little bit of defensive pressure here in their half court set i'm sure we'll fall back to their zone look and feels gets it picks up her dribble and gives it two katie down inside right idea just a little strong on the pass and stolen by caitlyn crothers and the olympians look to push the ball down the court sage stahl looked to dribble to her right but passes it back to grivey uses the screen set by katelyn allison craig dribbles back to her right gravity to caitlyn crothers pump face looks to attack inside and a turnover and a steal for courtney fields and the irish as mia finn jump shot hits the rim and rattles in for the senior gives her her first points of the night here in the second quarter and cuts the lead to one up high to carruthers back inside to gabadeen backdoor great job there by sage stahl and great job by gabby dean keeping her eyes up and finding her teammate and gives gabby dean the assist sage stahl ties the game high points wise with six had four in the first quarter fields tries to fire up a three and long offensive rebound by the irish but off the mark and gravy passes it all the way up to sage stall in a hard fall taken by stall and that will be a foul on the irish by number 23.
so this is the last count of the year uh milan mcbroom who had done projections had projected 205 so it looks like the cheshire residents over performed with 221 births in 2020 so that is up above you know both sets of projections that we had you know and i know that jeff you know explain the um you know the one and a half multiplier there so that you know would clearly put if that same factor holds true that would put us above 300 well above 300 five years from 2020. so you know i guess that's good news um but i did want to share that and i you know i apologize jeff i wasn't able to share this with you before the meeting so you could have explained it so i got the break break news vin congratulations that's good you know we talk about the fact that the birth rate and those things you know they they obviously impact our budget but you know the data that we've shared this evening is evidence it's positive it's it's evidence of a thriving community it's evidence that that people want to live in this community and i think that's all positive stuff um and you know obviously there's a fiscal implication for that but you want to live someplace where people want to live it helps our home values in a vibrant community and so that's those these are all good things okay thank you so i do want to share my screen um and answer a couple of the pension related questions that had come up uh the first was actually a question from tim according to my notes and that is if the cheshire pension plan you know allows for buyouts for our participants in the plan and our finance director for the town jim jascott is is checking that um he doesn't remember having that provision uh but what he does remember definitively is that we've never done a buyout of any participant in the pension plan so that's the answer to that the next questions we had several questions around the investment composition of the current pension plan so what i'm showing you on the screen hopefully everybody can see the uh this bar chart at this point yes yes thank you jeff so this bar chart um was the target allocate asset allocation as of june 30th 2019 what i'm showing you comes out of the actuarial valuation report as of july 1 2019 which was performed by millerman who does the actuarial evaluations and recommendations for the town pension plan so you can see here the the target asset allocation was 39 in u.s equities stocks 26 in non-us equities and then 30 in u.s interim bonds and 5 cash so that was the target as of june 30th 2019 what i'm going to show you is a snapshot of the car the actual allocation as of june 30th of and you could see that i apologize it's not in the same format but the idea is the same so the percent of the total portfolio and the portfolio is 71.3 million as of june 30th 2020 is equities were 60 and fixed income was 39.3 so a small portion was in cash actually 8.4 percent is under fixed excuse me fixed income cash so it's roughly um about 60 percent equities somewhere around 30 percent fixed income and the remainder in cash and other investments i do want to point out this 71.33 million dollar number because i'm going to show you um in the next piece of information which i have to scroll to okay so this is again the milliman report this number here these these two numbers i'm going to talk about but july 1 of 2019 the market value of the of the assets were 45.6 million and so two years later there were about 71 million dollars which is what i just showed you so the the assets are up substantially from the two-year ago period the reason that this is dated is we have not gotten the updated valuation report so this is the best information i can provide right now but the purpose of this particular slide i wanted to show you here was a question that mr grippo asked you know what is the percent funding of the pension plan's obligations and so as of july 1 2018 based on this 44 million dollars in assets we were funded at 83.9 percent a year later even though the assets didn't change we're funded at 74.1 percent and you might be wondering what the reason for that is and the reason goes back to one of the things that we talked about which was in 2019 the um recommendation from the actuaries was to reduce the rate of return assumption from seven and a half percent and it was uh approved by the council to use a seven percent rate of return assumption so these same assets would only provide a funded ratio of 74 again this this point at this point in time this data is dated you know based on the growth in the assets it's probably higher than that but i you know i'm certainly not going to take an attempt at guessing or projecting what it is we'll wait till the valuation report available which i'll share but um you know that's that really answers the the pension related questions so i did want to get that information in front of any in front of everybody and what i will do is you know take the data that i received and send it to the board members in pdf form um and there's there's 41 pages in the actuarial report so you know if you enjoy numbers like adam does then you'll probably enjoy seeing this information the last thing that i had to present and i'm going to go back to sharing um you can see the par chart jeff yep okay so now now we're back to medical benefits and i know we've talked about medical benefits a lot jeff explained uh reiterated kind of why we are where we are with medical benefits but at the last um the last meeting that we had of this particular group one of the questions raised and i said i would obtain is you know what are the you know what are some of the large claims drivers in in this current year that we're in for the plan year so this is from july 1 through december 20th so six months worth of claims and what this shows is claims that are over 25 000 and it's by type and i i do want to preface and explain that the information that i received from cigna on this is de-identified i do not get employee or determined names it's just it's it's disaggregated so there's you know no information related to a particular individual that i'm able to see and so what you'll see here is cancer claims and this could be you know most of this is treatment and the the cost of drugs used to treat cancer which includes immunotherapy and radiation etcetera so 23 of the 2.9 million dollars in claims over 25 thousand dollars were related to cancer bone-in joint includes things such as spine knee um you know hip you know replacements um or or any kind of orthoscopic type surgery that's about 22 percent 622 000 items related to you know gastrointestinal you know ear nose throat eye endocrine organ issues you know 487 thousand 17 percent heart related issues arterial or blood related issues with 438 000 childbirth and fertility were 321 and you could see surgery not necessarily scheduled surgery some of it is emergency surgery was 264 000 um counseling and rehab services were about 570 excuse me 57 000 and we did have you know one covid case that exceeded 25 000 at 32 598.
picks up her first team seconds sage stall comes in shooting 74 percent at the free throw line she is 25 at 34 on the season as the first one is up and through for sage stall melee roberts will check back in for allison craig 6 31 remaining here in the second quarter sage stahl goes two for two at the line gives her 27 made free throws on the season and gives her eight points total in tonight's contest see if cathedral can get something going here the olympians are doing a fantastic job earlier in this second quarter as they get a wide open three-point basket in the corner and long and rebounded by finn and blocked by gabby dean the cathedral irish keeping it great pass there by courtney fields great move and a great pass and the assist goes to courtney fields and the basket goes to eli for the irish she's at the line for one it's a great job there by courtney fields to penetrate inside and find her wide open teammates with leah bachmann checking in for caitlyn crothers the foul was on gravy her first team second 604 remaining here as eli's at the line for her free throw and off the mark and rebounded by bachmann and gravy looks to push the butt on the court fires maylie roberts back to grabby back to a three-point ball game as it was at the end of the first quarter the end of the first quarter was 15 to 12.
over on the right side you could see that we had a total of 45 claims that were over 25 they totaled almost 2.9 million dollars the average of those claims was 64 364. i gave you a little bit more detail here so the claim uh the lowest claim in this group again over 25 000 was 25 813 the highest so far is 253 148 you know claims of a long-term nature such as cancer treatment you know will continue to accumulate over the course of the plan year so this 253 000 will probably increase in some cases so of the claims that we have here these 45 claims only three currently exceeded the 175 000 stop stop loss limit which we insure and so we'll receive reimbursement on three of those claims and the reimbursement will be a total of 144 thousand dollars as of the december 31 report um we had 35 000 estimated so it is a bit higher and this last piece of information just what it tells us is that um we have 2.9 million dollars worth of claims that were 25 000 or more and that represents about 44 of the total claims that we've received this year which are 6.5 million dollars you know one of the things that we've we've talked about you know not only this budget year but prior budget years is that you know medical claims you know they're not controllable and they're not predictable and we are in a period you know this year which started in the last claim year but it's continuing this year to be high claims it's not um you know the largest claim in that pool is 253 000 so we've got a lot of claims that are 25 and up that add to a you know 44 of our claims that you couldn't account for that is above the norms that we would typically see and i could tell you just from looking through you know the claims again the identified that you know most of these are things that you you would never be able to predict no individual knows when they're going to get sick or get cancer or you know you know need to have bypass surgery so that that gives you just a little bit more insight as to what's driving this claim here i know it doesn't answer all the questions as it relates to medical and the last thing i'll leave you with is that you know we have a two-fold problem one is that you know we know that the claims are higher than were projected you know you know by cigna and our insurance broker and two we were funding you know into our medical reserve at a lower rate than expected claims because we had a healthy reserve so that's those are the couple of things that i had that i was able to address this evening and again i will send out the information to the board members that i just explained thank you jeff sure i mean i think that just reiterates though what i said about you know you can't fault the the board or the you know this is when you look at our history these claims are extraordinary and they're and they're way outside of the norm so you know this no nobody that is making these claims wants to have them as you can see from the the issues that were just identified and there is volatility so tim i know you had a question thanks do you have any of this data for uh you know year on year the first six months of prior years i i don't have it and um just the board of ad the information that we have because we we do um you know work with the town i'd have to have that separated out um and i can get you know information broken out in different ways through tom kwalczyk our broker from usi so yeah i mean i don't know how much time it would take you i mean you know if it was quick that's one thing if it's going to take a while then i'm not going to ask for it right now but what i'm thinking is if we could identify a trend and something that you and i had discussed i think in a prior meeting which is although we don't have any as far as i know we don't have any sort of uh screening or testing anyway baked into any of our contracts right now you did mention that there's different ways to approach that which would be either a carrot or a stick so the stick is probably something that would have to get the contract but the carrot might be something you could act on right now and if we see a trend over the last three years you know if you implemented something at a you know it might be a low cost to us and a high benefit to the to the staff it might i just feel like it's something that would be worth considering because you know if we keep on this trend then our budget again next year gets blown through it gets blown out pretty quickly thanks again we've seen as we've seen in the past hopefully you know it's certainly not a trend it it's the five to six year anomaly that we seem you know to suffer from so i always call my fingers when it comes to claims to be clear so when i'm talking about a trend i'm not saying that the trend might go up for that million dollars a month but within that you have it broken down into smaller categories we i did we may very well in a second in uh like with the g within the gi category you may see that going one way astronomically with other things being relatively low i don't know i just think it's i always find it interesting to see what the trends are but that requires time so that's here um ann and faith both had questions too yeah so thanks uh ben um then you mentioned two things that are very important use about these medical benefits reserve fund and that is that it's not in our control and it's not predictable and it seems to me and i've been talking and i hope that i don't sound like a broken record but i've been talking about having these a special revenue account that is that we're not allowed correct me if i'm wrong that we're not allowed as the board of ed to have these rainy day funds set up but the town is and insofar as we're part of the town's budget um it seems like the medical benefits reserve funds shouldn't be part of our operating budget but should be something that we can share with the town and have a special revenue account that um because it is unpredictable and it's um it's busting our budget this year and keeping us from advancing with instruction and education which is what we're in the business to do so i'm wondering if um you can maybe answer this question or maybe you don't know is the town seeing um these unpredictable medical reserve funds also or is it just us on the board at bedside no the the town is seeing a similar pattern although and i talked to sean kimmel the town manager about this a couple of days ago you know they're definitely seeing the same trend although it eased for them over the last uh four months so their trend isn't quite as steep as ours but we you know we are putting our heads together and we'll do a you know presentation comparing notes and we'll share that with the board as well as the town council because the you know sean is has to increase his budget for the same reason next year as we do not as dramatic but he has to increase his contributions to that medical benefits reserve fund both the town and the board side had very high reserves and both sides were making contributions below the expected claim rate but it just worked against us and again we don't even though there's not direct coverage expenses that are you know driving our high claims it doesn't mean there isn't you know secondary effects of the pandemic that are causing some of these um claims and they're identified in the categories that's you know that that we receive that are reported by cigna but there may be something related to the pandemic that's that's helping to spur this on this year well we get it seems to me that we get hit so hard in this area because we are personnel driven i mean that's our business right we have people um so uh i don't know i i think we need to put our heads together and um figure something out because as you said this is not something in our control it's not something we can predict from year to year that's all i had yeah if i could add something to that uh i honestly don't know what could be done with another reserve fund in the town the town already has a reserve fund um and this process is not new for the border vet i think when i first got on the board we saw similar trends if there is a reserve you know it's a town uh it's a town reserve so let's say i'm knocking on wood at the jinx ourselves but let's just say over the next few months um you know this fund gets depleted because claims do come in higher and we can't find the money in our budget to finish out the year we still go back to the town and ask for additional funding to pay for claims that's i don't know if that's ever been done before in the operating budget year we've had years where we've ended the the fund i think one year was 200 thousand dollars not mistaking it was pretty low and the town council funded another extra 900 000 for the next fiscal year to shore it up it tends to happens but it's all coming from the same pot the the concern i have is you know it's feasible to have just in you know i'm sure in the tom books there is one medical reserve that they track for both sides but if there was one pot i um i would think that if we didn't have four million dollars per se as uh or let's say eight million dollars in our medical reserve account and that's not an operating budget you know we wouldn't see that in operating budget so therefore our budget would be less but we would think that hey by not having that money we would get more towards other school things like analytics in terms of positions everything gonna happen because it's all come from the same pot but i like the idea of somehow you know again this has been incredibly unpredictable um some other school district has seen this i don't know how many i thought the two it would be nice to have something on the books that's not the town reserve fund uh that's always there but something specifically for the town and school to tap into if we reach a threshold um it's worth talking i just yeah i i don't know how to avoid this you know it's right we just can't predict this and it was very good for a number of years uh and i hope the trend stops but yeah i'm curious to see what sean has to say and maybe uh if we meet next week you know we'll get some more details on that but i i just wanna ways to get healthier and and hopefully this subsides but i don't know i don't know anymore can't predict that tony i just would add one thing i know that the town has a rainy day fund but it's my understanding that you could set up a special revenue accounts for specific things so we have we talked about that actually for the turkey specifically for medical benefits yeah and that is true back in 2012 11 we were trying to establish a special reserve found with the town to capture ticket sales and other things from the turf field to use towards future expenses well that was perfectly legal as it was not but it's possible okay thank you sorry just a little history uh faith go ahead um then i was taking notes could you just clarify did i hear you say that we're continuing to see this level of claims in january or is it did i make that up no no no i i don't have january claims information yet and you don't get you don't get it you know like flash reports or anything no through the month okay um all right um because i was just curious um you know i mean if if the majority of these are cancer claims that you're talking a minimum of six months with it with a standard chemo so i mean these could go on for a couple of months possibly just we may not be out of the woods it would be nice to think we are but um it's just it's it's still out there so um go ahead what i was going to say is you know some of the the cancer claims if they started in the last plan year and they continue into this year you know some of them will run you know after the person is done with their treatments they do run out so you know my point is they don't all start in the plan year some can some carry through you know from last year to this year so we'll see yeah yeah um so then this is just a comment um you know i'm looking i i just was curious um with regard to the return of the um of the retirement fund i know you don't manage it um you're just the messenger but i mean if you look at something like calpers um you know which is i think with the standard that a lot of people hold up um because it's so huge and i don't know what connecticut is doing what the teachers are doing but they're looking at rates of return of 12.4 in 2020 8.4 over three years 9.7 over 5 and 8.4 over 10.
19 to 16 is our score great pass and a great job there by both of the teammates sage stalling gabby dean as earlier gabadine found sage stall cutting in this time it was the opposite sage found gabby dean and gabby deem with four points here tonight and fields with the baseline jump shot no good and offensive excuse me rebounded by grivy gravy comes in averaging just under five rebounds make that 4.9 to be exact and she gets one there coming up on 505 here in the second quarter looks like cathedral will go into a man look here defensively as gravity dribbles to her right with her right hand passes it off to saw on the right wing she dribbles sue her left great defense there by the irish and stolen by the irish that's number 32 mia finn and she will get the difficult shot up to fall sage saul tried to take a charge mia finn with four points and a timeout taken by coach brown and the olympians with 4 42 remaining here the olympians up by three so we will have a 32nd timeout once again we 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noticed here early courtney fields does a great job seeing the court a true definition of a point guard she's had quite a bit of good assist here as well as four points for the irish 408 remaining here in the second quarter 21-18 is our score gravity picks up her dribble finds roberts a give-and-go concept and corinne gravy with their first points here in the second quarter assists from maylie roberts grubby comes in averaging just over 16 and a half points for the olympians fields fires up a three nothing but nets and gives her seven points here in the first half back to a two-point ball game melee has it on the left wing gives it to bachmann inside as gabadine spins turns and draws the foul and she'll be at the line for two gabardine comes in shooting 54 percent at the free throw line she's 13 for 24 on the season with four points here tonight looking at five and six as the first one was along there gabe dean had two points in the first quarter and has two so far here in the second and goes 0 for 2 on the free throws but a great hustle play there by maylie roberts to get the rebound and the olympians will get a second shot here to get some points on the board and increase their lead here as the olympians lead by two with 310 remaining here in the second quarter which team is going to have the momentum going into halftime is it going to be the columbus east olympians or your cathedral fighting irish we shall see with three minutes to go here gravy has it on the right wing gives it to dean dean gives it back to gravity bachmann has it great ball movement so far by the olympians and great defense by cathedral doing a great job switching on off maybe roberts for three looked good from here but did not want to fall and will be out of bounds cathedral basketball will have number 23 clara lee a senior comes in she has three points in tonight's matchup so far can cathedral tie the ball game up or take the lead on this possession we should see courtney fields fires up at three she hit one on the last possession right in that same spot an offensive rebound by number 23 clearly and forces up a shot and draws the foul she'll be at the line for two maybe roberts picks up the foul her first team's third all evened up with three team fouls for each team here tonight as a free throw up and good for clara lee we're gonna have sophomore heidi murphy check in she hit a three and tuesday night's contest and goes one for one for clara lee gives her four points here one point ball game up high to bachmann and she'll draw the foul cathedral fans not happy with the call but bachmann comes in shooting 76 percent at the free throw line she's 51 for 67 on the season see if she can go two for two here she's scoreless here in tonight's contest as nothing but net gives her her first points of the night and her 50 seconds made free-throw on the season a game she's sure going to remember is the championship conference game against genius county as she scored 22 total points and could not get the second one to fall so one for two at the line for leah bachmann back to a two-point ballgame coming up on 205 here in the second quarter fields has it dribbles to attack inside and a carry turnover committed by the irish a quick whistle there by the rev i agree that was the right call so olympian basketball can they increase their lead they've been leading the whole night so far as bachmann has it looks to throw it up high to gabby dean right idea just a tad bit too high yabbadine did have position on the defender just too high for gabby dean it's pretty hard to miss a 6'4 center as gabby dean is listed on the roster here but things happen as that was a turnover once again committed by cathedral 135 remaining here two-point ball game 24-22 is our score gravie looks to use a screen set by sage stall picks up or dribble and sage stahl goes hard in make sure that wasn't a steal hands it off to gravy shoe dribbles to her left heidi murphy looks to attack inside down low to bachmann splits the defender hits gravity at the top of the key up and no good and the long rebound goes to the olympians great hustle there the ball kind of bounced around but a turnover committed there and courtney fields is going to have an easy two-point basket to tie the ball game up gives her nine first half points so far for the senior courtney fields she was also one of the key players that we mentioned earlier in the live stream and she's making her impact here early bachmann forces up the shot and no good and rebounded by number three darren eli coming up on 30 seconds here in the second quarter let's see if cathedral will hold it for one last shot and take the lead going into halftime i'm not mistaken the cathedral irish have not led in this ball game so far let's see if they can change that here to end the first half as feels gets it reversed layup no good and rebounded by eli but great defense there by the olympians and turnover committed once again by the olympians and a timeout taken great job by the coach to get the time out right before the buzzer went off with 4.7 seconds so be a full-time ounce careless turnovers by the olympians giving the cathedral fighting irish some breathing room here to either tile it up excuse me to take the lead it is tied up so i will send it back down to the columbus cheerleaders [Applause] so there we have it our tremendous columbus east cheerleaders so once again cathedral did take a time out looking to draw up one last plate in the first half with 4.7 seconds on the game clock looks like number 13 bingman checks in she was a starter for the irish they get it in with three seconds two fires up the shot off the mark and there we have it folks all tied up at 24.
i like a very conservative estimate but if we're not getting this shouldn't we i'm just saying it's maybe rhetorical trying to find a better fund manager somewhere i'm just curious here well the i'm not on the pension board but you know from what i understand the pension board does do a very good job and you know i didn't quote any performance data this evening although i do have in the package of information i'll send over it does include performance data for one year five years um 10 years so you you can take a look at that and okay yeah i'm just kind of i'm just looking now the the current quarter there's some you know very high returns you know well over 20 percent but um i'll send it to you and take a look okay and then last question um and i don't know if you've had a chance to do it i had asked about the comparison of cost per pupil of general education student versus special did you get any information on that i wasn't able to um find the time to get that done yet that is on that is on my list thank you we'll get to it okay just curious thank you yes uh tim go ahead hey thank you adam um yeah we did just for uh for anybody who's watching then correct me if i'm wrong but the way the pension works just to be clear on this is we have a pension manager the pension the pension manager does what the pension board tells them to do the pension board is appointed they're they're appointed officials by the you know uh by the town council so if anybody is interested out there in town uh just keep that in mind that there's a possibility of getting on the pension board to uh impact these things or affect these things uh so there was um i just want to highlight i've heard you know in the past in the past few meetings i've heard about with the costs or you know the costs are not controllable we have fixed costs and stuff like that i want to distinguish between the costs and the rates in my opinion the rates are fixed by contract we as a board could collectively reduce or increase head count by doing that we could change these the costs what we need for the budget i'm not advocating for that i think i personally based on my own household experience with my daughter i i don't think the kids i think what the schools are doing you're marlene monumental efforts in trying to make things happen but the realities of technical difficulties and things like that i just don't believe the kids this year or last year are getting 100 out of a normal year um i'm not i'm not advocating for any reduction in head count at all but i do feel like it's on the board we do we do have control over the costs associated here we could make changes if we wanted to that's that's my that's my simple point thank you you already caveat we don't have control or medical claims no matter how many employees we have those claims are unpredictable so if you had 300 employees which is 600 you can still have high cost claim layers it depend on nature and employee the health and in the so i'm not sure what you meant in terms of frame of reference for controlling the cost well sure but i mean logically speaking if you had half the number of teachers you'd probably have closer to half the total medical cost jeff how many teachers have reduced over recent years due to enrollment drop where are we today compared to seven years ago down about 30 teachers 40 teachers i think that's a really good estimate if you give me a minute i could get the exact number but the thing is our staff has been reduced no not fifty percent right and that's right as we're being reduced to claim going up so it's just a yeah point taken but we're talking about relatively unparticular claims for very special you know serious procedure codes that's all um katherine go ahead yeah i couldn't find the chat box so just sort of to to address tim's comment i understand what you're saying that um you know we could make a decision to reduce uh without regard to the medical benefits and the insurance costs but you know the cost of educating our children can be changed if we wanted to reduce staffing with the result that there would be larger class sizes and i think that we as a board historically have you know will do almost anything to avoid that outcome and um that is always in my view going to be the very last thing that i will ever want to look at in terms of you know saying that we can really modify um costs because that is a pretty critical factor uh it i think to our students success um so while i understand the economic argument i i don't want there to be any sort of misconception let's say um on the public that you know it's you know we don't have a really good valid legitimate strong reason for staffing at the level that we do and you know it's and you know as tony pointed out it has gone down over time as enrollment has gone down it's never a one-to-one thing because it doesn't work that way and um the needs of various students may not reflect you know just a straight enrollment drop so um but i just wanted to kind of go out there make sure people were you know understanding that while you can cut heads as much as you want you know we have made the decision that that is never going to be something we look at first it's not something i look at first um but i get it you know i understand what you're saying as well so um okay sorry that's the end of my speech thank you catherine um i guess i'll i'll chime in now um uh so then i have a couple questions obviously i sent you an email today uh with some of them um to begin the the budget book i i think the the budget book said that we had 15 retirees last year is that our ballpark around there is that correct well let's assume that it is um as part of their um retirement package um or let's let's say in general uh when it when a uh an employee of the educat education system retires do we continue their their uh medical benefits or um was there something specific to last year where did we extend uh their benefits for several years or anything like that you're on mute then thank you here we go um and to confirm there were 15 teacher retirements last year and we did offer an incentive where the teacher could either keep their medical benefits uh for a year at the board's cost um or they could take a cash payout and i can pull the numbers as to how many decided to stay on our medical benefit plans as a general statement teachers can stay on a medical benefits plan at their cost until age 65.
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zone is the place to be alrighty ladies and gentlemen welcome back we are awaiting the start of the second half here all tied up at 24 looking scoring wise for the visitors the cathedral leading irish basketball team courtney fields leads the irish with nine points and darren eli with four points kate bremmer with three carla lee with four points and mia finn with four points as well and looking at your home scene the columbus east olympians corrin grab you with eight six of those coming in the first two of those coming in the second sage stahl has eight points as well four of those coming in the first and four of those coming in the second leah bachmann has one point coming off a free throw in the second quarter gabadeen has four two of those coming in the first quarter and two of those coming in the second maybe roberts has three and the three points came on a big three in the first quarter and we also want to give a huge congratulations to corinne gravy she's moved up in the history books at columbus east high school putting her third all time in scoring history and she's still continuing to strive for that number one spot i'm sure that's in the back of her mind i'm sure that's a goal of hers before she graduates good thing for her she still has one more year so at the start of tuesday night's matchup she was fifth and she had scored nine points in that game and put her all the way up to third so i'm sure she's looking forward to keep inching closer to that one and as well as her teammates cheering her on and motivating her to get that record what a huge accomplishment that will be for corinne gravy to put your name and after all four years of all the hard work she's done so congratulations to corinne gravy third in school history and scoring and she looks to continue to keep it up most importantly we have a thai ball game here in the orange pit quite a bit of turnovers committed by each team here tonight i'm sure that was one of the halftime adjustments each team needs to make it's turnovers not being able not committing as many of them whether it's traveling or throwing it away just too many of those by each team for each team to either have a chance at taking the lead and quite a bit of missed shots down low for the irish and personally i'll be straight up honest i think the irish should be a few points ahead but just great defense by the olympians down low in that 2-3 zone look with gabby dean does a great job and her teammates as well so we are coming up on 120 here at halftime so we'll take another short break and when we return we will have lady o basketball here on the bcsc youtube channel 30 seconds is on the clock until we are starting the second half let's see which team has made the best halftime adjustments here once again this is the first time and was talking to pete hughes before the game to see if i could get a year that these two teams have played each other and he says from the time he's been here they have not played so he says there is a chance this could be the first time each of these teams have faced each other in the regular season that was due to some teams canceling in each team needed to pick up a game so this is a kind of last minute pickup and we have a good game so far so i'm sure each of these teams like the competition each team has to offer so we are underway here start of the second half thai ball game all up at 24 as each team will flip sides here so the olympians will be going left to right and the irish will be going right to left as gabby dean misses her first attempt but gets the rebound and gets the second one to fall gives her six points in the first points here in the second half yabadeen comes in averaging just over seven points a game excuse me seven rebounds a game just under eight points a game as a strong rebound there by sage stahl and there we have it a turnover committed by the olympians here early in the second half 7 15 on the clock once again we want to thank you guys for tuning in to tonight's live stream as cathedral gets a good look but off the mark sage stall with the rebound and up to melee roberts and a turnover committed by the olympians and that was stolen by number 13 for the irish gets inside is mia thin and tries to force up a shot and no good will be out of bounds irish basketball 6 43 remaining here in the third quarter the irish looking to keep excuse me the olympians looking to keep their winning streak alive and the irish are looking to bounce back after a loss in their last game multiple offensive rebounds there for the irish and katie brimmer gets the two-point basket there gives her fives and ties the ball game up at 26.
but then they have to then they have to drop off unless they were um teachers that were pre-1986 where who weren't paying for medicare and we do have a few of those remaining on our plans that we got a small supplement from the teacher's retirement uh board for but they'll have to stay on our plans you know until they come off okay because like i'd uh be and thank you uh for the claims detail um because that kind of sheds light a little bit at least for this year it'd be interesting to see what the claims detail was for last year and perhaps the year before that when we had a we we had a very good benefit surplus or a trust fund surplus um it seems to me that um at least this year that the two well at least one of them was was or two of them were age-related uh which were um the uh the joint the joint replacements and the endocrine um usually those things are are more age-related um and especially with joints that could be you know a one-off let's say a knee replacement or a shoulder surgery or something like that um and so i i just you know hopefully those those are tend to be more one-off but the the the andrew can poor enderkin portion uh we know is expensive and i just wasn't sure that you know at least according to our our uh uh our salary projections it appears that you know like a lot of our teachers are in that top uh top step portion which should then allude to that uh that our teachers are certainly more experienced and or older um and so i'm just wondering as far as the trend goes um are we to ex expect these kinds of expenses going forward uh because i am i am concerned that uh we aren't properly reserving uh correctly and i don't know if this trust fund is meant to be a reserve in in that type of definition or if there's uh if the uh the stop gap is meant to be more of a reserve and we're just kind of caught in the middle right now um i'm just you know i'm just trying to figure out you know how we should uh fund uh this going forward so i was wondering if you had any comment on that well i mean what comes to mind adam is you know the the cycle that i i showed and you know i don't want to bring up the slide again but i showed the slide that you know every four to five years you know we wind up in this situation where we have to make a large increase to the contributions for medical benefits because of the pretty much the same situation where we had a large reserve we were not funding our claims in line with what was expected because we were trying to draw down the reserves and then you have a high claim year and then when you have to make up that run rate right where so this year was saying we were contributing at 725 000 we're expecting claims at 800 now we want to start contributing at 900 000.
as sage stall has it picks her dribble up and gives it off to her teammate roberts and gravity dribbles to her right looks inside maybe roberts pass it down low to gabby dean strong take there gives her four points here in the third quarter makes that eight points on tonight's contest that was a strong hard take there and a double dribble committed by the irish turnover and looks like we're not 14 caroline klein in four the irish and allison craig and for the olympians and gravity dribbles to her left and clears out traffic gives it to stall at the top of the free throw line down inside to gabby dean draws a double team and a turnover by the olympians mia finn drives inside great ball movement there but blocked by leah bachmann and a foul called on the olympians gabby dean picks up her first foul teams first we'll have courtney fields check in the senior guard with nine points here tonight and a few assists as well mia could not get the first shot to fall and blocked by you know who gabby dean great job there by sage stahl mia finn picks up the foul will be her first team's first sage has it looks inside to gabby dean draws the double team back out to gravie hesitates gets inside and could not get that one to fall and rebounded by fields we're gonna have a two on one excuse me three on one fast break and she finds her wide open teammate number 23 clara lee gives her six points on tonight's matchup gabby dean spins inside shoots it and off the mark and the irish look to push the ball up the court all tied up at 28.