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the challenge is that's that singleton class it's one class that doesn't really care if you're working in your schedule so sometimes things can get off sequence so we do have a lot of students that participate in summer school health either in person or virtually through indiana virtual academy every year unfortunately tonight we don't have what summer school is officially going to be yet um of course we're waiting for to get closer to really finalize those things with just the general state of the world right now but as soon as we have summer school opportunities if that's something you want to continue in or work towards um you guys will be more than happy and more than welcome to sign up for that we leave fine arts on on this slide solely because we need to know if you're interested in fine arts on that scheduling worksheet that we did yesterday as well as the worksheet that we have today there's spots at the bottom that says are you interested in participating in band choir 2d art theater arts because these are great opport great extracurriculars great opportunities for students to get involved because not every student is truly involved in that career pathway programming not every student's involved in sports but we want everyone to be connected in some capacity at gemtown because we find the students that are connected they just do they just perform better academically attendance wise behaviorally because they're working towards something as community as a cohort of students so that's why it's really important that if you're interested in participating or continuing to participate in fine arts we need to know so we can make sure it's in your schedule for next year all right so on the back of that 440 sheet is what's called the graduation pathway model so the graduation pathway model to me is very exciting solely because students no longer have to pass those high-stakes tests to graduate our current juniors and seniors have to pass the isep in order to graduate which is truly terrifying i told students yesterday and they might remember i'm not going to say it now we have just a mass amount of students that are at risk to graduate not because they're failing classes not because they're not showing up to school or behavior problems but because we have a high stakes test that we're not meeting those benchmark scores on so luckily for us at gym town we are excuse me luckily for us across the state we have what's called the graduation pathway model so the best way to describe the graduation pathway model is buckets we have to fill a bucket so bucket one is the easy one that's your credits it's your diploma so every student at gentown is working towards a diploma so that's something that we're constantly doing we're constantly talking about schedules and classes and credits and making sure we're on track for that that's the one that students have that is the path of least resistance of knocking that out bucket two is employability skills employability skills has three overarching areas which is project-based learning service based learning and work based learning however in each of these fields there's multiple ways that you can satisfy that requirement i like to use work based learning because it's kind of the easiest one to kind of visualize for students but in work based learning you can satisfy that requirement by participating in an internship an apprenticeship on the job training a job shadow paid work experience unpaid work experience there's just tons and tons of ways to satisfy these requirements and that's why it takes some strategic planning and that's why we really do talk about the graduation pathways and the career pathways at gemtown because we want to make sure we don't miss out on things we don't want to get to our senior year and say oh no we haven't worked towards this yet so for bucket three that's our post-secondary readiness the easiest way to describe post-secondary readiness is something you can take out you can take from high school that's tangible that showcases that either college or career ready on the board and as well as in your on your handout there's tons of ways we can satisfy that so i'm going to try it out of memory remember all those things but it can be a test score which an act an s.a.t an asvab score it could be an honors diploma it could be ap or dual credit coursework a cte concentration a recognized apprenticeship industry certifications there are multiple ways that we can satisfy these requirements and that's why in our classes yesterday i kind of announced that all you know 30 kids per class each student could potentially graduate in a different way so while that is a lot of work on school counselors and administration to keep track of all that it is so relieving to know that we don't have to rely on a one-shot test each year uh it's a great question so the question was in case you didn't hear mr fletcher um was a student is not having the best time in spanish and was wondering if that is a requirement for high school um so actually we can get a little nitty gritty with this so if we go back to our core 40 sheet and first folks at home i hope that you can see this on that bottom left hand corner there's what's called directed electings so directed electives are three different ways we have fine arts world language or career and technical education so while students are encouraged to participate in things like world language it is not a requirement for graduation so what would i would i encourage families and encourage students that if that is something you're not interested in to continue in high school that's okay so that worksheet at the end that scheduling worksheet that we're going to collect that's a working document that we can look at so if spanish isn't something you're interested in just scratch it out that's totally fine and either what we'll do is we'll reach out if we have questions or concerns or we'll still have that front loading conversation one great example is is everyone needs to take pe and truthfully the students that have the most fun in pe are freshmen because they're just living it up so that might be a class or a history class or a science class we might load you instead instead of that world language one local decision that was created was that students cannot earn an a plus for alternative pe the rationale behind that was is while it is a supplement for physical education it doesn't always meet all the standards and all the core content of the in-person class um so unfortunately the highest grade you can earn for aspe is an a these are great questions and i kind of like this whole qr code thing all right so moving back towards that bucket three and that bucket too one reason why we kind of push career pathways at the high school is because by working through these pathways students can actually satisfy employability skills and post-secondary readiness by just participating completing and working towards those classes so so at ginson high school we have four different career pathways each one has kind of a little different branches and avenues but for overarching things so actually in your folder there is a brochure i hope that you guys have found that so in that brochure it's going to start to navigate that four year plan a little bit better for those class sequences so full disclosure i could probably talk about each pathway for about an hour but that's not worth any of your guys's time just because i get jazzed up about it doesn't mean you guys truly want to hear it so i'm just going to kind of go over it very briefly and with just some little bit little examples but of course if you have additional questions please reach out we can hope to provide that further clarification so our four pathways at gemtown high school are health sciences engineering and manufacturing business marketing administration and liberal studies so those four pathways we're gonna we're gonna take each of them and segue through um actually in the brochure there's about a paragraph of kind of information about just a supplemental information in case you forget this conversation or forget this presentation you can take that home so our first oh excuse me shouldn't have jumped ahead so our career pathways are intentionally planned so there is a specific class sequence there is college and career focus like i said we're working towards that employability skills and post-secondary readiness as well as applied work outcome driven experiences so that applied outcome-driven experiences that's that junior and senior year those are things like the career center work based learning apprenticeships capstone courses that really take what you've learned as a freshman and sophomore and start to really address that area so instead of sitting and getting like we're doing right now i'm just kind of lecturing you guys are listening and hopefully retaining this information in these career pathways it's more hands-on you're addressing problems or and working towards solutions for either a community partner or a business so these are great opportunities that students should definitely take advantage of so our pathways are supported by the folks up top so we have the elkhart area career center ib tech is our dual credit partner local business partners our governor's work ethic certification all these areas definitely we couldn't do career pathways without them and truly we probably wouldn't want to do career pathways without them because we'd be kind of doing to do a disservice without these people behind me well on the screen that's what really gets these programs really involved and invested because you're starting to see how what you're learning is applying to the real world there are many times i have conversations with students who's like why do i have to learn this how is this going to help me with life after high school and i have to say i don't know man that's what the state says we have to do but think about it we only have to knock out these gotta haves and then we can start to really focus on what's good for us and these career pathway programs really highlight and really showcase what's going to help us after high school all right so starting our career pathways we start off with principles of biomedical science so our principles of biomedical science and our engineering pathway are both through project lead the way so the key word and project lead the way is obviously project so students are truly looking at hands-on experiences to solve real-world problems in their class a great example for principles of biomed is that first week students are going to get a project and they're going to get a dead body dead bodies in air quotes it's not a real dead body but it's a fictional character that as a class or a small group you have to find out how did they die so through this class you're doing experimentation you're doing dissections you're really applying the skill sets that it's going to be needed to be successful after high school in college and careers um so mrs harkins who teaches our project lead the way biomed sequence she would always describe it as grey's anatomy and not that you're gonna watch grey's anatomy or it's really truly like that you don't solve a case every day but what you do is you're working it's not just diagnosing the patient and moving on you're looking at all the facts all the information and applying all the skill sets to get that answer healthcare especially is our next pathway so actually mrs fredwell has helped out this year and working on with our health sciences one and two students as well as midterm so obviously i failed to bring her up here but she may drone on a little bit so i'll just keep it short and sweet so health sciences the best way for us to describe it is that nursing not that students that aren't interested in specifically nursing can't find great skill sets in these classes but a great example so on the third class the third year three healthcare specialties actually it's a little longer it's colon cna so students will work towards that cna licensure while they're in high school that's pretty impactful because all of our courses we have work-based learning or other capstone opportunities so just think to yourself if nursing is a passion for you and you want to go out and help others or work in a hospital or in other medical fields maybe that senior year once you've got your cna license you might be out in the real world doing the work so you're not just sitting and getting in class anymore you're going out and applying what you're learning maybe at a community partner like hubbard hill who's just on the road who's actually asked us on many occasions if we can run a similar program because they have a need so that's one way as gemtown we can help our community by them helping us so they give us a place to provide this experience and we train we train a workforce for them so if nursing or healthcare is in your career pathway i really encourage you taking a risk on our health science so our next pathway is our engineering and technology so mr slayball actually champions our engineering courses so it all starts with our intro to engineering design so like i talked before how project lead the way is more than just sitting and getting i'm a great example is what we had last year so our last year's sophomores our current juniors actually designed and created all of the door stops for our building so while that is like okay great how is that impressive that doesn't impress me what do you mean so in intro to engineering design they learned how to use cad for cad programming so then the students were able to 3d print and create door stops that weren't going to be rough on our doors so yes it's very much easier to just cut some two by fours and stick it on the door but our students saw the need that our doors are brand new we shouldn't tear them up yet we need to think of a way to critically solve that problem so that's what they did for a unit they learned the standards and the skills by creating something and it wasn't just one shot they had prototypes they tried to mount they worked around the building got feedback so you're truly applying what you learn in these pathways our current students in our engineering design development are working with hoosier crane i can't exactly explain what they're doing with hoosier crane but essentially what i've been told is they're looking at schematics or other projects and they're finding more streamlined ways to address these issues because as we all know in the real world time is money and if we can find a more efficient way to do something or how we can cut down costs that's a benefit for a business and hoosier crane has approached gemtown because they've seen the things we've done we've sent interns over there before you know they're welcoming and they want us to help them because they want to have that workforce they want to give a student an internship or a part-time job summer work so they can perfect those skills so they come back to bogo and elkhart county and keep us going so deca is first the question was if i choose a pathway i'm just going to say a pathway outside of business can i still participate in deca the answer is yes the challenges of course is that for deca in a way to be enrolled in the class or excusing the club is you have to be currently enrolled in a business class so that's just to give like the introductory to kind of the process we actually have a very successful deca program at the high school very state recognized so that would be the quick answers you still have to have some sort of business knowledge to be in it and so that pre-req would be to be enrolled in some sort of business class not necessarily however and we'll talk more about this with the liberal studies but our pathways at gemtown they are they do seem rigid but our liberal studies piece which we'll talk about so i'm going to address that question if this request you can remind me of that when we hit liberal studies all right so our advanced manufacturing sequence mr slayball also teaches this so that's one challenge with our pathways with gemtown is it's that small small school so we have less staff and therefore we might have as many class offerings um so one of those business partners that i touched on very briefly is elkhart area career center so our students at gemtown are very familiar with that that verbiage one great thing that we like to say is we send almost half of our juniors and seniors to the career center every year and that's a huge deal for gemtown i see some head naughty from our from our students at the high school who are attending the crucial they would say the same thing the career center has over 70 different pathways gentile high school has four so if you don't see yourself necessarily fitting in a pathway which we'll talk about liberal studies the career center might be that saving grace so why bring up the career center now is because for our manufacturing construction pathways we can't unfortunately offer every class so we have what's so what we do is kind of offer the prerequisites the introductory classes for students to be successful at the career center and this is a great example for manufacturing one and two and construction trades one and two at the career center one great thing that i like to talk about for the construction trades is i have a current senior that's in that class and he is at the career center but he only attends actual class one day a week i think it's on fridays so from on monday and thursday he's actually going out on a job site and they're building a house so the career center amplifies that project-based learning for students very hands-on and that's why i think a lot of our students take advantage of it because they don't want they want to have as much on the job can't get your hands dirty experience as possible so one of our last pathways that's more scripted is business um so going back to that deca question so business and deca go hand in hand deca is kind of the business club at the high school um so they go on different competitions and they promote to state level they get nationally ranked and it's really great um so you'll probably hear more and more about deca in the fall when we bring when we buy our clubs and sports and extracurriculars to um this kind of meeting in the fall but our business pathway is the longest standing at gemtown it was created far before pathways were cool and it will probably be long after they just the state changes it again so the business is so broad i mean i'm just looking around and i can only imagine the amount of different career pathways our parents and guardians are involved in my guess is you guys might fall into a business type thing so just off the top my head i'm thinking of like accounting and marketing supply chain management retail investment banking all those things kind of fall into that business world one great thing about our business sequence and of course with our other ones is half day programming so students in the business world can take advantage that junior and senior year because they've learned the stuff they've really learned how to be successful in that business environment they might go out and work either through like a program like startup moxie or an apprenticeship work based learning on-the-job training because we feel at gym town that's the most valuable lesson we can teach you is to get out in the real world and experience it and we don't want to push you out the door and say you have to do those things but we want to support you on that process too because it's hard to jump into a job or a career but it's easy if you have a such you know cheerleading encouraging along the way adding that additional support so a good example of one of those classes or excuse me opportunity to take advantage of is startup moxie so startup moxie each student will create what's called a passion project in that project they find out what's so important to that student and then they work on it we have a current we have two current students that are involved in startup moxie and one of them is trying to create a restaurant train for elkhart county so they're meeting with business partners they're they have a mentor they're really trying to address and adapt a business model to present to investors essentially so how great would that be to be able to put your name in elkhart county because you're involved in these half-day programs all right liberal studies so the question that mr putcher had received was is there a stem pathway and while stem is just science technology engineering and math i would say the easiest answer to say we don't necessarily have a stem but we do have an engineering pathway what's what what is great about gentile i mentioned it before is we really only need 40 or 47 gotta haves to graduate we have almost opportunities to earn credits in high school so what we can do as a group and as the students if you remember who's the most important person in that education path for you every student should be like pointing to themselves like they are we can meet with that student and family and talk about what our life after high school goals are because remember at gemtown high school we begin with the end in mind because we know where we want to be in the future we set and work towards goals so if we really see ourselves at purdue university for engineering okay great we can work through that pathway then maybe we need an advanced science advanced math courses and these are things that we can substitute in for that core 40 as well not to go on a long tangent about those types of things but in the core 40 under science everyone has to take biology everyone has to take icp chemistry or physics but then the third option is an additional science course so students can maybe take an ap physics and an ap chemistry it's really up to the student as far as what courses and what experiences they want to obtain while they're in high school so liberal studies also goes along that line of what experiences you want to have in high school so students full disclosure i looked through your guys's worksheets and i had a lot i had about 25 students that chose liberal studies and there was a few themes involved with it education law enforcement fine arts education so all of those areas we can help taylor so i asked the students yesterday i said we don't have criminal justice at the high school but do you know who does and a few sheepishly would kind of say career center like yeah the career center does so what we can do is if law enforcement is truly our passion that's where we want to end up we can do our best to set us up to have room in our schedule to attend the careers in our junior senior year but we just have to be strategic about it because if we have five classes we gotta have to graduate and we only have four slots in our day at the high school we can't go to the career center because we got to get those gotta have for graduation so that's why it's super important to think critically about our credits think critically about what we want to do after high school and how we can take positive steps in that direction liberal studies is kind of that piece as well so the example on the board the example in the brochure is education as a high school and as a school system we want to we want to create the next generation of teachers and principals and counselors and nurses we want to be able to push you guys out into the real world so you can come back and teach the next generation so while we don't necessarily have an education pathway we can get you started to give you the experiences so you can be successful in those other part half day programs junior senior year for education so our example we use we maybe you're freshmen you take child development and interpersonal relationship learn what it's like first for students and children to grow up as well as how to communicate effectively with them maybe as a sophomore we're taking courses like ap psychology or sociology learning how society and human behavior interact so then as a junior we might take the risk and go into the career center maybe we're involved in early childhood education or education professions and as a senior we say you know what career center was been fantastic it was phenomenal but i want more so maybe you don't go back to the career center and continue that maybe you jump into maybe an apprenticeship or a cadet teaching experience these liberal studies pieces can be truly tailored to you but we have to help you along the way we need to we don't want to get a year behind and not prep for that for life after high school all right so so in our folders there is this worksheet so this is our schedule request sheet that we will work on and we will actually submit before leaving today as i reminded students yesterday we were going to do this it's pretty much the same thing we talked about yesterday so at the bottom or see let's start at the top so at the top of course is our name one of the most important fields on the thing is your name please put your name on it i can't stress that enough put your name on it as well as your diploma type the diploma type is fluid it can change so that's something that we'll continue to review and edit and that's not something we're set in stone today like i said we're all working towards at least the core 40 and then our honors diplomas or the core 40 with so we're not behind by any means by not taking classes next year so that middle section is our class requests so those requests are skip or excuse me they are scripted it's a template for all students so there might be things there's an asterisk by algebra 1 for example because as a reminder students have to pass that proficiency test in order to move into geometry additionally we're going to have you guys circle or check the career pathway programming so once again there is a in your brochure there is the different pathways as well as what we talked about today so using those brochures those resources we're going to go ahead and select our pathway yes so the question was do you have to be an algebra one this year to take geometry next year yes algebra is one of those gotta have classes for graduation and geometry actually builds on the principles of algebra one so in order to be successful in geometry you need that those that proficiency um those skill sets for geometry so all students will be enrolled in algebra 1 if they are not currently enrolled or have not met a proficiency level for that so on the bottom of that worksheet once as again as a reminder because we're going to collect that today we need your depart we need your name your diploma type your career pathway and then make sure if you're in a fine arts or you want to continue in fine arts please put that down i don't know if you're a great singer i don't know if you're involved in choir at this time so you need to make sure that it's listed yes the question was can you do both academic and technical honors yes you can do both diplomas like i said they're both honors distinctions they have similar criteria for both the challenge of course is though that we have to make sure that we're planning for that because a good example is the career center is one of the easiest routes to earn a tech honors diploma so we have to make sure that is something we're thinking about and working towards as we get into high school the question was can you take pathway requirements as part of summer school they no unfortunately we don't have the availability to offer our pathway classes during the summer our partnership like i said we don't know exactly what summer school options are at this time we'll have it as we get closer to the end of the year but our summer school options are typically tailored for remediation either if you failed a course or didn't earn a qualifying credit in an honors diploma or for students that might want to get ahead to maybe in like a class such as health so the question was what if the student is not 100 100 sure in a career pathway my recommendation was to think about it and solely kind of ponder what life after high school looks like so the reason we're asking guys do this today is it is our attempt to build what's called the master schedule so if in the master schedule we have every student in this room wants to do a business class we're obviously not going to run the other pathways because we're going to prep for more students going into that so if you're unsure of what path you want to be in just remember that this is something that can change those intro classes are electives that you can take throughout high school and we're not going to be behind necessarily in those pathways if we opt if we're currently set on business and that's the class we want to do but we get into those business classes we're not a big fan we can go into a different pathway of interest that's something that we can still do and we'll still have time for in our high school career it just takes some doubling up the question was tailored towards what would a pathway be for an author or a student that wants to do graphic design so i would say liberal studies i would say liberal studies because either of those areas don't necessarily fall into our scripted pathways once again liberal studies is something that we can tailor to each student so that's something that we can sit down and plan for and while we might not have an author class we do offer things like yearbook so you're writing narratives you're reaching out to businesses you're putting ads in newspapers so that's something that can help build those skill sets of working with others working with publishers um it's just not necessarily in the the easiest life so that's something that we can think critically about and think creatively about we just once again we just need to know so the question was of course if there's going to be this slideshow sent home and the worksheets available um so what we can do if looking at mr pletcher i'm sure we will do is we'll probably do a voiceover presentation um so one of us in the office will go through this presentation it will be rather quickly though but of course that's for you know at home you can pause it and things like that but we can send this information home to parents and students the one thing though is the brochure will not be sent home um at this time we'll have to reformat that because that's formatted in obviously a brochure type so we'd have to reconfigure that but all that information would be presented as well in this slideshow so the question was asking about army basic training and if these different military branches give out high school credit for that um i can't answer at that time at this time so only because every branch is different it depends on how it's coded if it's coded through a college just going through a high school so unfortunately for that individual that family that had that question just please uh remind us as we get closer to that junior senior year um because things did obviously change on the meantime but to continue moving forward i am going to pass the slideshow on to mrs dean but of course if you have additional questions please use that qr code and we will get back to you and address the group if necessary thank you okay thank you everybody for being here tonight just a couple things regarding medical and health um you all have the gold form and we would like you to carefully fill that out and turn that in tonight based on the information you know of your student right now any medical or health anything that is like asthma seizures food allergies um major chronic like diabetes we would like to talk to the parent between now and the beginning of next year and sit down or over the phone talk to you there's certain forms that need to be filled out for those types of chronic illnesses also if there is nothing please check at the bottom of the sheet no no known allergy or no known medical condition or anything like that so we know that you looked at all of what's on there don't forget to put your student's name on there don't forget to sign it if your student needs medication during the school day or will need medication during the school day if it is a prescription we will need the doctor's permission and this parent's permission so don't just send medication to school with your student um because it's we have to have the paperwork done before we'll give it if it's uh over-the-counter medication it would just need to be the parents signature and the form filled out and we have those if anybody wants to pick any up tonight if you're going to the doctor between now and the beginning of the school year we do have some forms that can be filled out at that time for next year and now i will introduce our athletic trainer carl landis and he's going to talk about the athletic forms right in your packet also is uh the athletic physical um which is required by the ihsaa for um athletic participation so those are required after april first so if you get a yearly physical exam if you could i know everybody is kind of different on different days but if you could get that done after april 1st then that is sufficient for next year's athletic participation all right so um in the past we have had athletic physicals here at the school but with the pandemic that has happened and through the ihs double a this past year waving physicals for athletic participation the physicians in the community of elkhart county and south saint joe county have put out the proclamation that they are not going to participate in mass physicals so those physicals have to be at your doctors this year so we are not going to have a physical um night uh this spring um for that for that uh for filling out those um those athletic physicals so we are requesting that you go to your healthcare provider and get those physicals done um now those can be you know those can be your doctor nurse practitioner physician assistant anybody can those three things can sign those um so the other thing the other part of the packet is your consent form so you have in there a informed consent which gives us permission to treat if your son or daughter gets hurt in athletic participation it also gives us emergency information that we can contact you by if they're away at a at a at a sport and you know they get hurt and you're not there so we can also get treatment um you know as expedient as possible if so if needed the other part of that the other half of that is a sudden cardiac arrest and a concussion form that is by law through the state of indiana that athletes have to have that on file so all these things have to be on file before an athlete can participate in practice so we have certain days that we start practices um in the year for fall sports winter sports and stream sports if those are not on file um your athlete cannot participate it's a risk management issue basically um so they can't participate in practices and sometimes depending on the year and the time frame if they don't get so many practices in they can't actually compete in games so that's why we want those forms done and turned in as soon as possible so once we get those forms then they're cleared to participate and cleared to practice i do not believe that that is the case you know there's no physical requirement it's not an issue sanctioned event so i don't think it is recommended any other questions all right okay moving right along here it is really important for us to have up-to-date vital information for your student if we ever need to contact a parent for a health issue or if we want to contact you to talk about grades behavior any of that thing any of that stuff we need to make sure that that stuff is all up to date in your packet um you should have this information if you could please just double check um to make sure that it's correct so that we get the correct information into renweb for those of you that um [Music] aren't familiar with renweb that's where we kind of house all of our information about our students it's our management system for student information and so uh we do attendance and grades and all of that stuff parents who do have access to it many of you probably already access it and we don't foresee any changes in the immediate future with any of that stuff so again please review and make sure that that information is all up to date if they make changes if you have any changes you can leave that with us on your way out and then that way we can start updating our records okay okay so we are winding down the evening didn't take it that terribly long i hope you appreciate first of all i just want to say i appreciate your flexibility i appreciate you sitting on these uncomfortable benches um it's one thing to sit on a bench when you're watching a ball game it's a little more exciting it's a little more difficult when it's just a sit and get so i appreciate that we just wanted to make sure that we could spread out a little bit we're still trying to do our part with the pandemic and so we appreciate your help there if you have questions or any kind of other comments or concerns you can always email us here here's our email addresses for myself mr stout the counselors the nurse if you had any confusion about anything tonight please let us know and then there is that qr code for that final survey and in closing before we close out and i kind of cut you loose tonight i just want to say we are really looking forward to having you all come over to the high school and be the freshman class next year it's going to be a fun and amazing ride parents we are looking to to create a really strong working relationship with you all and we look forward to continuing that keep your eyes and ears peeled next august we're going to do some additional orientation activities where you'll actually be up and about in the building and you'll get to explore some of the other activities there are to have at the gym town here guys drive safe have a good night we appreciate you all thank you very much for showing up um
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all right so even based on the last two months we're still going deeper into i can't say deficit but we're getting farther down i might my symbol our surplus is being further reduced based on current trends since january first so my preference would be to i i wish you hadn't even increased it up to 60 i mean you want you know the details of what you need to buy and stuff but my preference would be to keep it as low as possible until we have conversations with the town council about you know their concerns because there's just a lot of question marks there in in my opinion well if i could just jump in on that i mean we approved the budget for this year to address particularly this year a lot of critical items that fuel instructional resources that we've been able to try and curtail uh up to this point and i i'm you know we're certainly conscious of not you know we don't want to be frivolous of course you know we're we're trying to fund the things that we absolutely need to um to your point tim i i understand and agree that you know particularly coming up on a large town and board budget presentation that were more sensitive to that and i think that's what you're saying i don't think you're saying don't spend any more money and you know but we need to be re just sensitive to it yeah no i mean i try to make the point you know the details better than i do yeah we're meeting student needs but like you know sometimes i mean it's things like ceiling tiles no no no no it's you know it's a stapler you might want a new stapler you don't necessarily need the new stapler you understand what i'm saying that's where i'm coming from not the ceiling tile that's you know had a water leak and it's falling down i get that um but every time that bumps up from 40 to 60 and it just it just looks we've got to slow everything because there's so much going on not just the covid numbers and medical trust fund the school modernization everything else just to try to keep anyway you understand that thank you um and the last thing i'm wondering about uh this just came to me from uh sustainable cheshire they're talking about electric vehicles and i know you've mentioned this before to me then so i'm thinking you probably are going to know this aside from the regular yellow school buses whether they're long or short uh we have the schools do have another dozen or so vehicles but ten vehicles you're talking about the school owned vehicles yeah school and so they're those vehicles but correct me if i'm wrong those are those are more like minivans or even vans they're not passenger vehicles per well minivan might be a passenger vehicle but do we have any regular like four-door sedan passenger vehicles or anything like that we have well we have several hey clerk for a second guys i i appreciate this but we're on the financial report part of this meeting it's probably best something we talk about during superintendent update i mean i'm not sure how to sway it i just want to keep this moment because we've got a lot of stuff to get through okay okay but any other questions on the budget before we ask for anybody else on questions uh sorry adam andrews uh hand is up yeah andrew go ahead vin could you just what what is the state getting from the federal government one point how many billion 1.1 billion and cheshire is going to get 1.9 million over four years 1.09 1.0 so how is that math you know is there who's getting this gigantic sum of that billion dollars if we're getting a million over four years well i'll start to answer the question and i see jeff smiling um so the allocation of the um really of all the funding that we've received um including sr2 and the american rescue plan is based on title one funding which cheshire does not get a lot of because of our affluence so if you look at some of the dollar amounts actually i have them under the american rescue plan you'll see that you know this that will use meredith meriden's going to receive about 24 million in under the american rescue plan uh west haven about 22 million hartford 113 million danbury 25 million new britain 56 million so all the areas where you would expect that title one funding is higher are receiving significantly more than cheshire you know our neighbors southington um is about four to five million as is wallingford right jeff yes sorry that's like button only pinning somebody not yeah southington's 4.6 million and wallingford is about 5.2 million dollars okay thank you you're welcome i had a question go for it uh thanks to andrew for asking that question i had similar question and reaction but um hey it's better than eighty thousand dollars i guess right so well i guess we'll take it uh that being said uh regarding the rebate that we're receiving approximately two hundred thousand dollars from cigna is that is it is that just a board of ed sheeran is that or is a town that their share as well is this just or is that our piece of that that's that's our piece you know the total is about um 400 000 okay so our piece is about 250.
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21 um assessed to full value that comes from uh the uh publications by the county that's correct that that pretty much comes from the state it comes from the state tax of appeals they put it out yeah they put it out annually um for each county and what that really does is they they try to um bring the assessed values that each each city among uh each counties have on their tax roll to a true value um you know just the the point is that we're not making this number up uh if you go on to the county uh assessment you'll see this exact number on on website which with mr thomas evans is saying that it's basically generated by the state and every county has read uh on their website that describes that um the next question and maybe more from mr uc uh we're going to get i don't know if they're going to call care hers money coming in but we uh we've been kind of notified but we don't have any official uh notification uh so we can not put that figure in our budget so when that time comes how we're going to use that money we'll have the budget it's not going to be in the budget that we're going to send to the academy because that i don't think i'm going to get an affirmative letter uh that you're getting x amount of dollars so uh just want to confirm that mr uc yeah so i've tried to focus on this presentation on just um budgeted items uh so it doesn't really include any the esser funds or cares funds um not only because we didn't get them yet but they're going to be designated for specific um for specific things that for compliance reasons um and also the presentation doesn't uh have anything to do with the referendum either i'm just trying to show just the operating the annual budget right i i just wanted to make sure the public understand that you know they've seen something we're getting 28 million dollars in pairs of money always going we don't officially had that money so and until that happens we cannot publicly shine a budget that's that's kind of what kind of emphasized there uh and uh i i think just also um uh my i calculated our proportion of the tax level number i believe it's around 46 percent it may be a little lower right now of the total budget county and and the city and the library and us we're about 46 in many towns that's uh 50 or higher of your total uh budget that you're getting in your in your estate taxes and the other thing i would ask enough for the near future if the administration um could give us a updated war chart in terms of uh i know you had one i think last year uh doctor wrote but to show that and the positions that are there so i think that's a good piece of information uh to have uh in our back pocket uh again i want to thank the staff to do a terrific job uh getting this information and this is the most comprehensive story that i've seen since i've been able in terms of presenting to the public so uh there's a lot of detail in there and it's a little overwhelming sometimes but there's uh detail and they're very useful and again thank you uh mr president and i'll do the best of my time thank you mr daley are there any other board members that have any questions or comments okay seeing not again we thank you uh very much uh mr russia mr thomas tavich and um miss uh thank you mr president uh thank you so much okay we'll move on all right the next uh order of business is uh commit board committee reports um i again asked my uh colleagues to please just summarize their reports and don't read them word for word for um the public and just to get a general idea of what our what our committees were like um so we have quite a few today so to keep them moving if you could just summarize them as briefly as you can uh first one up is uh transportation food service mr casper okay uh board members present four meeting that evening was my selfish chairperson mr james daley mr fahimo avadrabo and mr jim smith administration present was dr danny reportozzi mr martijan mrs genina kusalevich mr eric thomasevich and ms liznick number one purpose of the transportation and food service committee so president smith discussed to the administration the purpose of bringing the transportation committee back and adding the food service component to the committee he explained that this committee will provide a great benefit to both the transportation and food service departments of the district overview of the transportation department mr casper had inquired about the current overview of transportation department ms nick discussed with the committee a brief overview of the transportation department relating to the number of buses on hand the number of students being transported in district routes and how safety protocols are addressed also she informed the committee that currently the district contracts transportation routes for students being sent out of district by northern regional education service commission or in some instances the district pays aid in lieu of transportation mr daley inquired about having administration put together a cost analysis to determine if it is beneficial for the district to transport these students being sent out a district rather than contracting with an outside vendor administration will look into whether there will be a cost saving to the district if the district transports these students being sent out of the district mr thomas cevich and ms nick provided information related to the committee about the current process the district performs annually for the replacement of old buses and vans mr thomasevich explained to the committee that the district currently purchases three buses and three vans annually through a five-year lease purchase agreement in addition three buses and three vans have been used for about nine years of service getting auctioned off every year current issues a space at the transportation yard miss nick addressed to the committee that the biggest issue affecting the transportation department is the current amount of space at the transportation yard the committee discussed possible options to address this issue b need to expand the amount of buses ms nick explained to the committee the potential need for additional buses and drivers for any future route times changing relating to pickup and drop-off times at certain schools and for the current spacing of students on buses related to the covet 19 safety protocols she estimates about nine additional buses will potentially be needed mr thomasevich informed the committee that the administration might be able to use sr2 funds which is also known as cares to that the district was recently awarded he had reached out to the state office of fiscal and data services and the county school board administrator to get clarity if the purchase of these additional buses would be allowed under the federal grant number four current staffing in the transportation department president smith acquired with administration relating to the current staffing in the transportation department and if there are any current staffing issues ms nick informed the committee that there are no current staffing issues and the transportation department has been working well with current staff on hand and everyone has been doing a great job he runs my report thank you are there any um are there any questions from board members okay mr canola i saw in there that said we're looking at uh purchasing nine buses um but i know coving six six or nine thanks okay nine yes she has nine yeah take that committee okay either way again but what i i also saw was that we've been rotating buses out every nine years we put them up for auction i know that uh with kobe being here we didn't run our buses very often so i'm wondering if instead of purchasing new buses you just forego the option for this year and use those buses in terms instead of going out and purchasing something doctor mr kenobi it's a good point one that has been brought up with with the administration um as you know um there is an administrative team working right now on a uh administrative and team of teachers working on a possible revamping of the elementary district schedule and as part of that proposal if it does come to fruition you may need the additional buses plus the ones that we sell because because of cove but so that's still in the early process of we're trying to figure that out but we may want to keep we may want to keep all those buses and buy the additional and just for the record we were since that meeting we were able to confirm that we can utilize the cares funds for very welcome news yes sir yeah mr casper we can just get a clarification from uh from transportation i believe she said on the on the committee report that it was you know i thought she told us that she purchases six new buses every year we do we do purchase the three buses and the three vans but she had suggested nine additional that's what it is is that in this current budget it is not however um that's where the cares funds is going to come from i didn't come in okay okay of course if the board approves we're not even there yet yeah in the very early phases of discussion okay anyone else all right we'll move on to the next report which would be the finance committee um mr daley okay uh the mr president keeping the minutes of the finance committee are much much less detail than the presentation we were all given to by the public so uh there's nothing in the minutes that is not in that presentation and the predictions uh a little more uh detailed than that and the only thing i would ask is possibly the administration uh post staff presentation on our website because it's a quick presentation and anybody wants to see in detail it's fantastic so it should answer anybody's question on the budget uh very easily it's very detailed and i'll remember i do have to read one thing uh board members president besides myself is mr cadilla miss beltran mr smith administration president mr jim and mr thomasovich and the meeting went from 2 30 am to 30 excellent report mr daley are there any other board members that have questions about the finance committee minutes if not we'll move on uh miss danny next is municipal alliance um so municipal alliance met on march 11 from six to seven thirty uh board members present for myself uh jim daley family and jim smith the district administration was dr arbitozi um and eric tomasovich the assistant nba city council members were william gibson lauren murphy and rosemary pino and city administration was nick villano city manager attendance roll call was taken um by mr mossovich and um mr valano was took the city commissioner's side um so the items of discussion the referendum presentation dr overtozzi provided a presentation to the city council members and the city administration at the municipal alliance regarding the upcoming 168 million bond referendum on april 20th 2021 dr robertosi discussed the projects included in the referendum and the importance of those projects um he provided a general timeline for the referendum from the vote on april 20 2021 um hold on a second of when the work is expected to be completed including the estimated start date of the projects and when tax bills would change dr artosi outlined the finance um the financing aspect of the referendum with the state covering almost 55 million and the impact of the on the average assessed home in clifton um dr alvarez completed his presentation outlining the voting information for the referendum mr velano recommended to the committee and the administration to emphasize um to the community of clifton that the athletics projects that are included in this referendum are included in the 55 million dollar state aid dr artosia also emphasized that the athletic upgrades account for less than 0.9 percent of the total project costs councilwoman pino inquired relating to what locations the voting be held at and how the community will be informed about the locations dr arbitrozy explained that the voting for in person will be open at six locations school five school nine school twelve christopher columbus middle school woodrow wilson middle school and christopher and clifton high school um dr ritozi explained that the information for voting has been posted on the district's website and there will be more information sent to the community in the coming weeks relating to the referendum and voting councilman gibson inquired relating to the district's plan in providing the information to the senior citizen community about the referendum dr albertosi explained that the district has currently sent out postcards and another postcard will be mailed out in the coming weeks also he mentioned that the district has put the referendum information in the clifton magazine dr artrozzi asked the city council members and the city administration if the district can place the referendum voting date and information in front of city hall mr valano approved the request to place the voting information in front of city hall mr daley explained to the city council members and the city administration and district that the district's preliminary budget for the 2021-2022 school year and the impact that the funding that these projects would have on the future budgets if the of the district if the referendum does not get approved dr arbitozi asked if the city council members and the city administration would like to have him and a board member present and prepare a presentation on the referendum at the upcoming city council meeting the city council members who are members of the municipal alliance committee and mr villano were in agreement with having dr obertozen a board member do a presentation on the referendum at the april 6 2021 municipal uh um i mean um at the just the council meeting um tennis court projects uh miss danny asked the city administration about the status of the tennis court project at robinhood park mr velano informed the committee that the funds for the transport project at robinhood park is through community development block grant cdbg and the city is in the process of obtaining the necessary funding mr smith inquired about the possibility of expanding the current amount of tennis courts to the five courts needed for tournament play at the clifton high school rather than the robin hood park mr villano explained that this portion could pause a cause could pose a challenge due to expanding the courts into city property due to the historic preservation process the municipal alliance committee will bring the tennis court project and possible options back to athletic committee for further review and discussion the municipal alliance committee will discuss with the city um at a later date whatever we come up with in the athletics um 2021 safe and secure grant mr valano discussed with the committee about the safe and secure communities program funding for the state fiscal year 2021 will be 32 that's a 50 reduction from the prior year dr robertosi explained the importance of this program within the district and the district's desire to expand with more law enforcement personnel temporary storage of district buses mr abu dhabi discussed with the city the district's current issue with the amount of space for district buses at the district's transportation yard and the possibility of utilizing the city's dpw site for temporary storage of district buses a shared service agreement if needed mr vellano explained the city's dpw site is almost at max capacity but it can accommodate about five to six buses for temporary relief if needed five handicapped spot at school two mr smith inquired with the city about the possibility of adding a handicap parking spot to school too mr velano will look into the possibility of adding that spot to school too status of development project at the distillery property on paulson avenue mr abu drabo inquired that with the city about the status of the development project at the distillery property on bolson avenue mr velano informed the committee that the development project is at the planning board stage annual meeting with the city with the board and city council uh potential mr smith discussed with the city the possibility of setting up an annual meeting a committee of the whole with the district board members and the city council members to discuss concerns within the clifton community mr villano expressed to the committee that having an annual meeting with both district committee members and the city council members might not be able to be done but he'll look into it parking and traffic issues at school 16 mr abu drabble discussed with the city um the parking and traffic issue at school 16.
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and one last question on the supplemental kobe cost for next year that you shared so i'm sorry excuse me again a little dry hair um uh the budget we sent uh to the to the town does not include that supplemental budget that's just the operating budgets roughly 3.8 million dollar increase we know right hundred thousand dollars just for short the reserve account the rest is you know more or less keep the light sign items with contractual obligations people you know very you know the the needs not necessary ones we also coughed up 1.2 million dollars after we sent the budget to the town last year around this time to help you know our share with uh you know covet impact the town which i understand has been some that's for let's call it you know uh four almost five six million dollars and now based on the essr one and two funding that you listed there if we incur all those projected cova costs next year we're still about six hundred fifty thousand dollars in cost that's not represented in an operating budget right so i know it's too early to say what if but you know i think we're going to have a budget workshop with town council and beginning of april um i'm sure things are clear then but i guess um you know even if we did get the fully funded budget of 320 million dollars uh we started to find 600 plus thousand dollars potentially to pay for those code expenses so i i don't see a win in that scenario with the additional cost they've identified well we do so that 600 000 doesn't include if you were to take the million 000 you know would you know actually give us 400 000 additional availability but you know again the funding is designed for the next to through 2023 and and you know i i would say two things tony one i don't think that where we are now with the vaccine and and the direction you know in which we're moving in terms of you know people getting sick at this point i'm not sure we'll need all those covert related expenditures that we identified and we we identified those back in november you know before the vaccine started rolling out so those costs might look different is my point we may not be expending as much on you know the ppe and the disinfecting but you will be allocating money for educational services that we didn't identify back then no i understand i know it's more of the high-end estimate and but i think you just answered a question in my mind too as i was thinking about that million nine um i know andrew mentioned over four years so is that situation where you know we'll get that money the beginning of next school year and we can use over the course of two or three years or we get it in chunks over the course of the next few years i'm not sure that works i yeah if it works the same way as the first sr allocation we request it as needed you know you do have to keep track of your expenditures and it basically serves as a reimbursement so that's really just specific to cover costs yeah and they're pretty broadly defined you know they'll use words like learning loss um technology purchases you know certainly ppe disinfecting you know bus monitors isolation room monitors there's still you know that we need the details especially on the american rescue plan um there's i'll be at those there's a superintendent's conference called tomorrow morning at 8 30 a.m that'll be on that i think i'll hopefully shed some light on that great yeah and again thanks for answering that detail vincent that's all i have to do thank you tony um so as for me um i'll begin with the uh the line items for um employee cost um there was a a change there of a hundred and ten thousand i was just wondering kind of what happened there yeah if you look at benefits to employee salaries i think yeah some of the detail on that um you know that has to do with the anticipated cost for um substitutes uh and unemployment actually that particular 110 000.
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mr abdullah will ask the city administration if there's any possible options to eliminate and correct the parking and traffic issue at school 16 mr valano informed the committee that this issue typically would involve the county but mentioned to the committee to have a dish to have the district come back to the city once the district's engineer have prepped the area and prepared the necessary designs for improvement to the parking and traffic at school 16.
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you know our unemployment cost we budgeted 25 000 and our unemployment uh comp is going to be about 135 000 this year as our estimate so you know we do we do expect savings in the instructional assistant line secretary custodial lines because we're not incurring additional hours like we like we would in in the normal year so that's why you see that offset adam okay um so uh and tony almost got there but um the 250 000 for the rebate does is that going straight to our um medical trust fund yeah somewhere else the way it works is it's it will go to the reserve fund okay and if you look at the at the medical benefits report there's a there's in the upper section where i show funds that are being received like our stop loss interest and prescription rebates it'll fall there as a as a credit basically okay so that windfall could theoretically uh be reflected in well i'm sure it'll be brought up at our budget hearings in april it's because we had requested 1.8 technically we would we could request 1.6 for our medical benefit trust fund and remain the same proposed uh funding level for next year a replenishment level correct well i'm sorry well no well all right the numbers aren't exactly right but yeah what i'm saying i do and i just want to i want to be really careful with that because the 1.8 million dollar increase essentially all that does it gets expected claims in line with contributions you know it's not designed to rebuild the medical benefits reserved so you know whatever we end theoretically if we increase our contributions and the claims are as expected next year whatever we end with in our reserve fund this year is what we'll have at the end of next year but right and i remember there being some conversation in the budget process about well you know our budget would go up even more if we did try and like basically re-pad that account but things like this prescription rebate help you know 250 000 is a good it's a little bit you know going into that and we can ride out the next few months and see where things stand hopefully there i mean if they come anywhere near the fall we'll be concerned but uh it's not trending that way right but um the the balance that you're showing that 900 000 balance is that reflecting the 250 000 or not no that didn't come in by the end of february okay it you know you'll see it in the march balance okay um and lastly um you know a lot more schools are um opening up uh especially a lot of the large cities now are i think hartford announced they might they it sounded like they were going to go a full open or something to that effect at the end of this month um so i was wondering and jeff if you're going to cover this in your report that's files stop right there you are yes okay well so any so let's say we did something like that or if you're going to speak to that is is that cost of a full reopen that i remember there was like a 90 000 line item for furniture reallocation all that stuff is that all baked in already or would there be an additional cost because we weren't anticipating going a full open no we're okay most of the furniture moving cost has to do with us pulling all ancillary for not desks but ancillary furniture out of rooms um file cabinets and all desks or tables and things like that that we had to do predominantly from k to eight okay um but yeah the major cost i think been touched a bit on is the the tents this spring that's that's the the greatest cost but it provides so much uh confidence for dining uh that's that's a big area you know we're not seeing spread in classrooms it's really when masks are off out outside of the school system um and we don't wanna invite that during lunch so as we bring more kids back the tents become that much more critical right um and then finally so uh with the cdc are i'm sorry with full open uh potentially around the corners that mean the cdc is about to change their social distancing rules or is full open in quotes meetings full open as far as whatever the cdc will allow with social distancing well it's interesting you know the cdc there have been uh recent reports about six feet distancing not really statistically being any different than three feet distancing and the state has always said from day one you know that's a recommendation it's part of a suite of mitigation strategies six foot social distancing um you know vin mac mentioned vaccination is part of that suite for our at least for our staff uh or 16 and up uh masks are a critical component to those things so it in our schools we've never said you must be six feet apart and in many cases we we haven't been um at the high school where kids are older and they express more vapor because of their size and things like that we it's it's like working this balanced equation so we're you know sensitive a little bit more to spacing and the fact that another mitigation strategy is cohorting when you're with the same people all the time you can't do that at high school because kids are switching classes um so we do put more of a premium on spacing at the high school um and so that's that's one thing that we're considering and i'll touch on that a little bit in my report about how we are transitioning back and how that plays a role but the cdc doesn't look like they're going to be changing the uh the the recommendation to three feet they're they're gonna stick i think with six feet is the recommendation is part of that overall suite understood okay uh well that ends my line of questioning uh does anyone else have any questions unanswered i think so everything is finance related actually i mean from my perspective that's money involved um with regard to uh vaccinations um do we do duven or jeff or anybody else do we know we're sorry there's a lot of yelling going on here um do we have a sense of who's paying for the vaccinations is it insurance companies and really what i'm getting at here is you just mentioned the vaccinations go down to 16 years old they could go even lower than that at a certain point and not getting into the discussion about whether a parent wants their child vaccinated but simply there probably would be a lot and i'm wondering do we have a sense of whether it would be somebody going to is it is there many people in cheshire are probably questioning who pays for vaccinations my understanding is the federal government they they made mass purchases from moderna and pfizer johnson and johnson to you know is a public health intervention during the crisis and so that we're not getting billed for the vaccinations okay and okay good that's all i wanted i just want to make sure that kids can get vaccinated if they're eligible for it that's it right well we're working with um and i'll talk about this in my report okay mr chairman that concludes the finance report hallelujah thank you adam up next uh planning committee mr martelly sure thank you very much mr chair so um we had the planning committee meeting of the whole back on march the 11th um a lot of what was discussed there i'm going to go over in the update for the school modernization committee so instead of rehashing the entire meeting that we all sat through for three hours i just like to touch on some of the high points of that meeting um the survey i discussed the survey results for those of you watching at home um which is overwhelming support in the community about 86 percent of all respondents in favor of some form of school modernization or another 95 95 of the community understood what modernization was and what the goals of and the objectives were for the plan moving forward um one thing the survey did not touch it is what the overall costs will be to the average taxpayer or to the district as a whole um so that's still something that we're working on um i went through the different scenarios scenario 1a and 2a um and then alluded to a scenario six which was a creation of two new elementary schools which was still going to be refined which i'll get into in the school modernization update um that meeting on the 11th came right after the district had and some of the planning folks and members of the school modernization committee had a meeting with the office of state construction grant and review and at that meeting there were some new items that were touched on which i'll also get into but namely the size of the proposed sixth through eight middle school was a bit of a concern that oscgr had as well as the size of the elementary school that was proposed at 800 students um which would be the phase scenario 1a and 2a um other than that if there's any specific questions again i have a pretty lengthy update to get into of our meeting last night which i'll try to be concise with as well so if there's any specific questions about the planning committee i'd be happy to address those thank you mr chairman yeah i think we had one of the attendants on the board so thank you for attending that nozzle lengthy meeting but uh it's a very important project i'm sure so we're going to hear more a little bit later on that um up next was policy mr grippo again uh thank you uh so for policy let me bring up the minutes here um we met on march 2nd um the first part of the meeting was we reviewed let's see one two three four five six uh different policies that had not been reviewed since 1996.
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any questions mr president if i may uh midday thank you for reading that it's actually not any questions i was there but just in correction to the uh memo that was read the uh handicapped um the handicapped parking is actually at school 15. mr smith i'm correct not school too and then also just to reflect the bus we're discussing about moving also in the back area of school 15 which is supposed to be used as a playground but there's about six seven buses parked there for storage and that's where the question of the tbw is to get them added there so the kids don't have to mine the buses and play on the other side of the lot this way they're able to play um and then if we can um talk about um down the road of the engineers i believe that the uh the school 16 parts in the tennis courts we have to take a look and look at is there a time frame as danny of when we would look at those what do you mean um well probably when you mean with municipal alliance no no for the engineers to come out actually that may be through administration not through you i apologize yeah yeah i mean um i have without administration and facilities could that should uh come through them okay thank you all right also just a big just to piggyback on that uh school 15 buses the buses that are there are not buses that are operating in our our fleet right now they are buses that are going out for auction so we're just waiting for the auction to send those buses out so they're basically just storing on there in school 15.
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to me that's like yesterday but i uh failed to my uh math skills uh can remember how many years it is that's 20 something years so a long time um all of these uh policies just need to have the uh the director of management and personnel title changed to uh chief operating officer um and uh and or refer to current titles that we use within the system it was moved that these policies 3170 300 33 26.1 3540 were all moved for a first reading unanimously by the policy committee um after uh we reviewed those policies um we had several other policies for discussion um we reviewed bylaw 93-25.43 which is attendance at meetings via electronic communication this is one that we have visited and tabled several times in the past um i had i had it added to the agenda again for this particular meeting because i wanted to report that both i and mr chairman peregini had been talking to local legislators uh to um encourage them to change the foia law so that we could continue uh electronic uh communication meetings especially at the subcommittee level because as of right now the only way that we can have a meeting like we are tonight is through executive governor's executive order so we are assured that the legislators will work to have have the law change this session but with no guarantees and we the policy committee agreed to uh table while we awaited feedback um we uh reviewed policy number 5117 which is uh school attendance areas um uh superintendent solon uh wanted to review this policy uh with the board so we had a better understanding of policy and procedures um in reference to redistricting um and he reviewed common requests uh that occur uh normally whereby if a student uh moves across town or or uh let's see common requests uh receiving special services outside of the school district or a family who has moved within cheshire but out of their area district uh requests for area waivers must be made and approved on a yearly basis so i might just read that instead of summarizing um so uh he just wanted to sort of review that uh so we were all aware of those types of requests um finally and this one we we had a little bit of a discussion on was about non-resident attendance um [Music] uh dr solin reviewed this requirement with the committee um and i'm just going to read here he explained there are certain times when non-resident students are allowed to attend cheshire public schools tuition-free such examples might be a family in the process of moving to cheshire or a grade 12 student who has moved out of town and who would like to finish his her senior year um and we wanted to to sort of talk about this subject because um with the historically we have not allowed out of state district students to attend on a tuition basis mostly because of accounting issues uh with the increase in elementary enrollment um he would not consider allowing tuition as students in the elementary grades but uh may consider it at the high school level where we have additional capacity currently and was considering opening up a lottery of up to 10 seats to out of district high school students um the members of the committee that would be myself mr white and miss hallon uh expressed concerns uh about this especially uh perhaps even potentially charging full tuition um to uh out of district students for a public school and um uh dr solon said that he would review um what uh there are other districts who have uh uh piloted this type of program in the past and he was to check to see what sort of solutions they had come up with uh and mostly i wanted to bring that to the board's attention as um it's something that dr sullin is considering um and if uh i know that uh we all had concerns uh sort of unintended consequences of a program like that um and so uh again there was no action on that policy just that it was uh uh meant for public uh discussion um are there any questions in relation to the material that i have covered uh secret adam i i apologize while you were talking i was trying to find the actual bill number about um the ability for boards to continue uh meet remotely and foia i can't find it that came up during i i i apologize i thought i'd mention this back in january that came up during a cave legislative breakfast that uh was had for our for our uh region number and it wasn't our wraps a bunch of other reps i think up near denver talking about it i am and i reached out to some of our local reps and give them a heads up and uh they're certainly supportive you know once that language is finalized we'll we'll see it but you reminded me to check in on that and see where that is i haven't heard anything more but something like the bill number i'll forward to the rest of the board so you can look at the details but that was it great thank you um faith you had your hand up first yeah regarding sacred heart students um i assume clearly that they would not be the cheshire students going to sacred heart who are losing their positions because they would just we already get reimbursed from the state for those kids or we would get our reimbursement for those kids um ecs funding correct when they come back well we don't we don't receive ecs funding on a per pupil basis um that's uh a formula that uh evaluates the number of people who live in the community and income and what the uh the uh taxable property is in the in the town what we're looking at here is you know if you're a student who grew up or lives in cheshire resides here and went to sacred heart or any school private school we haven't had a lot of kids come back from private schools to attend cheshire high school and they can do that this um what this consideration with respect to tuition is that students who do not live in cheshire exactly could pay tuition um that doesn't impact our ecs funding either that's a flat fee that is paid to us by the individual it's our whatever our tuition rate is to attend and i you know my recommendation is that you know we wanted to put that out on the table something we're looking at something that we would consider but i really don't know that we need to discuss it in earnest you know until we we determine what our budget is and you know make some decisions closer to the end of april that's my recommendation okay all right then i'll we'll pick it up later then okay just put it out there food for thought let you churn on uh turn around a little bit and then we can talk about it or not at the end of april good deal thank you yep mr white thanks thank you adam yeah i just wanted to add um i didn't have only like administrative concerns with uh charging tuition to out of out of district students i just philosophically i don't like the idea of public education charging tuition it's that simple as well as other concerns that's it thank you are there any other comments or questions uh seeing none that concludes the policy report thank you thank you adam uh up next uh is our school moderation committee update the andrew and ann and team i think we have a lot to talk about so uh hand over to you andrew on the end what's up sure and do you want to kick it off you want me to do it and you can clean it up you know my internet has been blipping me off and on so i'm going to let you take it just in case i get booted out again sure all right well let's get right into it so last night we had a rather lengthy meeting um i just want to remind everybody that when we started the process we started with about 12 different scenarios some of which had sub sections of each of those so you know countless options we started with we are down to about two preferred options tonight i'm going to go through three and then two and then let everyone know about a vote that we had in case you didn't get a chance to see the uh the meeting last night as you might have been out celebrating st patrick's day like some of us wish we were but got work to do so i'm going to present my entire screen let's make sure that i can do this share all right all right we good i can't see you so give me somebody yes all right so here we go so since our uh planning committee meeting back on the 11th um these scenarios have been updated um on the 16th by coliers with some other numbers and some items received from slr so back to scenario 1a which this scenario is pretty much off the table as of now this was a scenario with an 858 k through 6 elementary school to be built somewhere in the northwest quadrant of the town with the renovation of dodd as phase one of the initial project um with initial estimated district share and the low end of about 80 million to the high end of 98.7 one of the large issues with this was the amount of redistricting that was going to have to be done district-wide um many thought that was too much and i'll get into the actual redistricting that slr has done based on scenario six um as we move forward here so scenario two a which is the creation of the new six through eight middle school on a site to be determined um and then the building of a new we were calling it the new chapman which would be a k-5 elementary school either on the chapman site or on a site to be determined with an estimated student population of 515 students so phase one just to recap is a new middle school with a projected eight-year high enrollment of about 11 but more like 1200 students with a new elementary school to be built either on the chapman site or somewhere else about 515 students phase one estimated district share would be a low of 102 million with a high of 124 million dollars scenario six which i'd like to really draw attention to here in phase one would be the construction of a new elementary school somewhere in the north end of town maybe on this chapman site maybe not the chapman site and a school somewhere in the south end of school maybe on the norton maybe on the not norton's property both of these schools would have an eight year high enrollment of about 660 students on average with a low district share of 71 million dollars with a high district share of 86.6 million i'm going to stop there and see if there's any questions about the three options that are currently the final three options which are now refined down to two options before i get into the actual redistricting report which was received yesterday by slr which shows how the two new elementary schools in the now north and south will take on the student the increased enrollment and then with the redistricting with highland and do little schools never mind i think i stopped sharing but i can't tell i just wanted to oh i'm sorry i was i wanted to see the um i'm so confused uh i think 2a yep give me one second i bring that back up sorry no you're fine okay that's six that's six so here's 2a that's 2a okay so that's the three middle school on site to be determined and a new elementary school and the reason for that um catherine is the six through eight middle school even after taking the sixth grade students out over the eight year enrollment projections there still won't be enough room in the elementary schools to take the bump in the projected eight-year high of the enrollment so in necessity it's the d and either a new chapman or additions district-wide something needs to be done in this scenario it is calling for a new school to be built um with a projected year high enrollment of 515 students and jeff i don't know if i don't remember off top i had what is chapman now how many students in the three high threes um let me pull you the exact number i'd rather give you the and take me two seconds go ahead i'll be right back with you okay so kevin do you have a specific question about this uh no i just wanted to get a sense of i don't know i can't like absorb numbers and retain them like that well that's looking up number let me do this let me forward this um spreadsheet from last night the whole board so you have it okay because we just saw it last night sorry they had a chance to i'll do that now always i mean i knew i didn't see exactly i just didn't have six obviously but yeah the exact number is 322 right now okay to get that the exact population at chapman 322 32.
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so we're looking for another option of storing them somewhere else until the walk should they auction those buses off so that's uh that's where that discussion came from thank you standing anyone else okay uh mr canova so i have a few questions here so give me the buses so going back to what we were talking about before with buses is that three additional to the three that we would let go this year so therefore we would have six is that what we're saying right because if every year we're watching off three we already have the ones from the you're prior they still haven't been auctioned off that leads me to believe we have six currently right of the nine three and three all right so it's really only three then technically we need to purchase if we keep all these i'm assuming three and three three and three are there those are the three and three that are that we have in the budget so she's just asking for she's asking for an additional three buses that's what i'm saying yeah so that number of nine not to three if we decide to keep everything so you only have to really budget for three but if the other thing comes to fruition the the handicap that we talked about at school 15.
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okay any questions on the three scenarios before i go on to the redistricting can you show can you show six again sorry not a problem oh so i got that i don't see anything though it's there so eyes are bad down in front of me also faith if you have questions if you can't see him um i know i'm curious why is it that the middle school in 2a or the elementary school in 2a is running it six i meant sorry i'm looking at the square footage numbers and maybe maybe not enrollments are around the left-hand column um you know what never mind never mind i'm sorry uh sorry never mind no it's okay and if if you have i mean i have them all all the numbers right in front of me so if we go through the discussion you want to just ask me and i'll i know the number okay okay so one of the large issues with the large elementary school in 1a was the amount of redistricting that had to be taken that had to take place in order to move the students around in order to do that so that led to a lengthy discussion about going to scenario six so we asked slr to come up with how the new redistricting would take place for that so i'm going to jump into that can everyone see it yes yes yes okay so i'm not gonna read all the scenarios this will be this will be provided but for those um who are watching at home so this is for scenario six um which maintain the pre-k through six model configuration so this is going to grab the bump in the elementary school enrollment so this is pretty much the methodology as to how the current functional capacities of the elementary schools showing that over the eight year target there's going to be a bump and how in order to how best to redistrict the dis redistrict the schools in order to put the students at the new north and south elementary school so here this map is showing the existing districting for the schools green is highland elementary school which basically stretches from the north to the center of town to the eastern side norton school in the south do a little school along the western edge of town up to the northwestern corner and then chapman school in this pinkish color over here on the uh right hand side or the east side of town towards meriden so scenario six assumes the sixth grade remains in the elementary schools d'arcy school chapman and norton school buildings are all closed and two new elementary schools are constructed with about 680 students each one school in the north and one school in the south the darcy pre-k program moves to highland elementary school which will be handled through some capital cip projects and just i mean i can't see y'all so if anything comes up and you just just jump in so for scenario six for the new north and south elementary school the redistricting looks like this this area of town out towards marion road towards waterbury and then along waterbury road goes from highland to the new school in the north and then a little section from that's now doolittle school will also go to the north school this doolittle school roommate will remain this portion here center of town here will be for highland elementary school and then this area here go from chapman to the new school in the north so chapman is this new school and again in a spot to be determined somewhere in the north end of town this area here which is now um norton will go i'm sorry which is now highland we'll go to the new school in the south so the south end school will cover this whole green area here let's do a little so it kind of it splits the the town up i think in a little bit better of a kind of a four slice um and again this is subject to change as we move forward with the planning um but the goal as slr put it is they wanted to try to keep you know neighborhoods cohesive as they are now going to the same school and not splitting up streets and trying to keep like parts of town together as they move into the new schools so here is the productions um so i mean some people think that the schools are too large as they are which is definitely a discussion that we could have um so the peak enrollment over the next eight years i think this is the most important column here um so you have the new school in the north at 630 the new school in the south is 663.
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is that something we could just do at all schools is it just painting the blue lines and putting up the the sign i think that every school should have a handicap in space yeah um mr kanova this was specifically i believe they have a handicap space in their in their parking lot for the faculty it's maxed out so we felt that in front of the school it's a one-way street there's plenty of space in front of the school that if the city could put a handicap spot out there that that would allow any visitors coming into the school to be able to park in a handicapped spot since there would be nothing available in the faculty lot for them but if i made mr smith that's actually um if we look at handicapped that's actually a good idea combining both of your discussions that yes we happen to see it passing by school 15 and we broke to the city council but maybe mr kanova does have a point where if through you to the superintendent if we could make sure we have enough handicapped parking spots um at every school then maybe we can go back in this whole line and say well listen if you're willing to do it there this is what we're looking at too going to all 23 buildings that we have if needed of course but this particular joe was brought to the city council because it was street parking it wasn't because of the parking lot uh the parking lot as mr mr smith said it was an overflow that's why they're using those buses from the parking lot and putting it into the kids uh playground area so which also gives an overflow of handicap and there's maybe about 300 feet of empty dead space on that one way in front of the school so there was about a good amount of space where they can fit two or three handicapped spots when they come back to us okay so that's why you went there that's why it went to municipal yeah and uh the school 16 traffic due now i'm i'm familiar with school 16 but i don't know how the flow works in the morning i know they have that long winding i'm assuming they pull into that long landing they could drop off and then continue down the path and they there's like a circle somewhere in the middle and then an exit i don't know what shall they come in or out of um but is is the issue with people waiting to turn into there or is that just congested so first of all the issue at school 16 uh luckily i don't have to drive in i walk in so i'm seeing it as a parent um coming in right so when you come into school 16 first of all there are about three different rows trying to get into the lot in the morning it takes me about a good 25 minutes just to drop off your kid from the entrance to the exit point of that roundabout now but that's what you're talking about so that's congested first of all but what i was talking about is there's a railing going parallel to away from mount sorry away from montclair onto your right-hand side going towards clifton there's a railing on the right hand side parallel to the school now cars while they're waiting for their students their their kids they park along that rail now remember this grove doesn't have any sidewalks so when you park a parallel to that rail you're talking about two and a half feet maybe two feet between your left mirror of the car and that yellow divided line so what i'm what i'd like to do what i'd like to see happen and i've been talking about for a while is there is an easement coming down of a hill in front of school 16 which is uh also across from that circle you were talking about yeah if we created some sort of easement to create a jug handle where parents can pool in at least if we can bring it over in a little bit it'll help us cause of not have an accident because to be honest walking i've been hit i'm sorry i've almost been hit a couple of times just walking across from there or walking across the street so there really isn't so imagine a car on your left-hand side a car on your right you really only have the divided line in the middle as cars are going around and weaving in and out um and that is a county road so we technically can't do anything north kansas city so what mr valano said is that okay guys you want this create it pitch it and we'll carry it so that's that interim for safety can we can we have people pulling that law instead of having them let out on that main road there so that'll be through obviously administration because school 16 what they do is and again they try to do the best what they can with what they have from a parent standpoint as i see it but obviously that'll be through administration because i know that the law is closed after school because their lots are already full because they already have cars in there and that would core more that would cost them cause more of a congestion with all the cars already parked remember school 16 is a small school it's a small lot and i seen that there's become more of an overflow and that's why we're having problems i think with all our schools i can safely say as a resident and as a parent as well is that a lot of our schools are being over our overflow so when you take a small school congestion that parking lot it'll take forever to get out and forget about getting in i think that's why they block it off so we need to start thinking i believe outside the box about school 16 then again i'm not trying to target 2016 because my kids go there i'm doing it because again yes they go there as a parent as a board of vet member because i see it every day and i see them more since they started but you know there's the wood there's the trees behind it there's that are fallen there's there's the lack of parking in front of the school there is between the driveway between holster and school 16.
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um and then doolittle at 612 and then highland still remaining as largest school in the district at 774 students um so darcy's dars highland school will grow with the addition of the pre-k program to the 775 students um but overall they're saying that the elementary growth will be spread across the four schools to try to balance out the student population good uh oh are you telling me about the talk i heard you oh there was a bruiser a giant inhale um okay okay so um if i recall the the effect on the district for the large elementary school like the redistricting effect i believe was something like 40 percent of the district would need to be redistricted yeah the um uh plan 2a which is the sixth rate middle school redistricting would be was i think somewhere around 18 to 20 percent if i recall yes so what is the percentage effect for uh plan 14 14 14 wow okay andrew yes can those boundaries be fudged even one way or another to even further reduce that highland population yes i mean they could be as we move forward with the planning and as the schools you know are being developed um yes absolutely they could be okay that came up last night too um and it's gonna be kind of a case-by-case basis as the schools are built but i mean are you saying to cut down from 14 to like a 10 change um well or you're talking about the enrollment i'm talking about the enrollment sorry just that if people are concerned with that 774 um it you know it you look at and you also look at the the functional capacity of the other you know the other schools it's possible that perhaps we could change the boundaries just a bit to reduce that highland population and um give them a little bit more breathing room i don't know just a thought but so i could answer that a little bit i think faith okay so yes the answer the short answer is yes that can be done but the fact is is that highland school is already built and it holds room for that many students so we're not going to not fill it to its functional capacity yeah and looking at it i guess the real stress is for doolittle i mean they're the ones who yeah shoot up pretty quickly the effect on when ann said that's gone on and also jeff craig from wrong and andrew but also moving pre-k to highland right um pretty much again so whatever comes to the board which i'm sure andrew and him will talk about his options you know just you know jeff and timor and go through and figure out specs and see what fits where but you know during i remember during our lscgr meeting they emphasized hey if you're gonna move pre-k around their behavioral uh programs special ed don't skimp on space so if um we'll see how moving pre-k to highland and top of the high enrollment if that you know is gonna work right way but it's not just the enrollment highlands also the fact that we move pre-k there on top of it uh then we're really maximizing what that space was built for and you know again the the atheists were test fit but when the specs are written for the pre-k for highland then we're going to figure out okay is there space to accommodate that we don't want to move something that's adequately sized now to something smaller and highland i'm not saying that's going to be the case because that would be found upon by old cgr so but i think they're definitely going to hold the boundaries um but that's something we'll have to discuss as we talk about these options when we get them right and so and if i could i mean so when the meeting was held with the oscgr um i know we discussed at the planning committee meeting but there was a lot of discussion about that last night and you know they're not going to kill one of our plans on arrival so if we go in with a 1200 student middle school or an 850 student elementary school we're gonna have to prove to them as to why that's we think that's the best way for our district and how as they're tricked with weighing in from you know all of our programming needs and whatnot um why we think that's the best way to go so it's not to say that a 1200 student you know they would rather the the middle school be 900 students but if we go with the 1200 student middle school and we come up with a plan as to how we're going to do that if it's paused if it's different floors in order to and to prove that that's the best option for the district um so with that being said there were two very important votes that were taken last night by the school of modernization one of which there was there was a motion that was made to take the um i don't want to watch this to take the option to a which is the new middle school and the enlarged chapman school off the table all together after much discussion it was a 11-2 vote to leave the middle school plan on the table and to go to the town council and also to come to us with a preferred plan prefer a recommended plan and then a second plan um so to come with two different options with costing local tax uh implications etc fully fledged plans in order to present both items out and one of the things that you know tony could report on others that were at the oscr meeting they want to know what the public input is so smc really feels as if you know we should come up with two basically phase one scenarios to show um what's you know that it's been thought out put it out there in the public let the public discuss it and really weigh in on how everyone feels that it should move so we don't just come in with this is our one plan and that's it um so i i can't speak for everyone there but i feel that that's a better approach i definitely voted in favor of that um because you know i've gone through this as i said before there's been so many options on the table there hasn't been this one idea that's just jumped out to me and said this is the way that we need to go so i feel that you know we've done a lot of the research we have the numbers we'll have even more numbers we have the redistricting we have all these different details um and we're a town of 30 so there's a lot of other people i think that are out there that have opinions we want to make sure that we're able to provide them with more than one option um the second vote that was taken which was what is going to be the preferred option to go to the town council and to come to the board of education um and the option that was selected to go forward with as the preferred option was option six which is the creation of the two elementary schools in the phase one of the project um so that was a ten to three vote um and you know i voted in favor of that of that plan um and just from seeing all the different details that have been put out there um i think that i don't want to say just based on just based on all the discussion that i've heard i feel that that's where we should start with this whole process um and it's under the 75 million dollar number which keeps ringing in my head is what the town council is going to tell us that we have which i have no idea if that's the actual fact or not um but the local share would be under 70 million dollars for those two schools um and so we'd have two brand new elementary schools and which would leave us with highland and do a little school um and we would close darcy and close the two other oldest schools in the district so i think that talked enough perfect yeah no angel's great so so there's the preferred option and the secondary option i preferred the the recommended option that the committee won last night was the six opted six secondary option is the 2a with the middle school so you know and i made it you know i i made the comment that um and again it was decided uh even before we got option six a few weeks ago or what to actually send the town council and back then and i think this one when jim beach was still chair when the vote happened was to send two options you know give give give folks um options to choose from and i made a point last night that uh given the the the cost of these projects you know and again it's not our initially our number one purview to cause these things certainly as a factor for us we're going to be definitely getting into educational specs um and really how this impacts our student community you know has a lot to be discussed there but there's got to be some compromise i think because both pla again it's not just fake one that's usually where that's we're going to start now your plan but these plans are the whole long term plans for all of the schools in phase one through phase n uh knowing that we got always one for immediate needs um you know cgr is looking for that long-term plan as well so we take that whole car you know i think andy threw it up on the um on his computer i think both plans were like you know from 400 to just under half a million half a billion dollars so so when you look at all these options i guarantee we're going to be discussing the town council you know what they feel is you know going to be um affordable for the town sequencing spacing of projects we're going to talk we thought it'd be good to give two very good options for everyone to chew on and i keep getting a lot of feedback it's probably me and my speakers i apologize and uh yoga argument two is i think hopefully these already two options that move forward and again uh i also voted against removing the sixth grade middle school because you know there's a lot of merit there and you know it's something last bored looked at i think it's still viable and there's no bad option here um just want to put that out there so there's no meeting next week cardinal correct andrew i think there's a the meaningless meeting is the 29th of march yeah and um you know ann was there too but i'm pretty sure that the committee is going to deliver a report on 4-1 to town council i i think either going to do a via presentation or give materials ahead of time and i think at a subsequent time council meeting you know the town council chew on it for a few days and maybe in that first week or second week there'll be more uh formal discussion because i'm sure we'll be there too but they're definitely going to deliver these plans to the town council on april 1st um so a couple things if the idea is to submit a couple of different options put them out there you know get public input get you know find out what people are really thinking about it to me it is i don't understand this concept of a preferred option and the backup option and i think that that is um sort of stacking the deck i mean either you just put them both out equally we you know the smc supports both or uh you know don't bother with the second one you know i mean it's kind of a false kind um a false choice and so i i i'm sure that the committee would like to i guess stand behind one or the other but i don't that that is inconsistent with the idea that you're just going to let the public you know weigh in on both and i think that the public should be presented with two equal supported options that's one thing number two i think anybody who thinks that there's going to be a phase two after this phase one anytime soon is being completely unrealistic when you look at how long it's taking us to get to a phase one which may or may not move forward i cannot imagine how how when the community is going to be willing to absorb another you know whatever it is 100 million dollars um so to me looking at this you know when i think about it i want the best the best bang for the buck here and you know i know you know i probably sound like a broken record but a 16 middle school um is going to benefit the entire student population you know over time in cheshire um i get that we need to absorb an enrollment bump in the elementary schools but that can be done with an expanded uh chapman i think the two new elementary schools you know maybe i'm not thinking about this correctly and i and if these things come before the board before the town council decides that's another thing i have to i have to say um you know maybe there's a compelling reason to do the two elementary schools i'm not hearing it yet um as opposed to the um middle school and uh and one new elementary school um and the idea that this is going to go to the town council first and they're going to decide and then it's going to come to the board of ed is completely lopsided to me you know the board of ed is theoretically the body that has a bit more expertise on this um type of issue and you know it's not just dollars and cents it is really what is best for the students of cheshire and putting it in front of the town council and then saying okay let's see what they say and we'll see what comes to the board after that is you know you're taking i believe um the board's roll out of it completely and i i've never understood why the town council was the be all and end-all on this thing it should be the board of ed saying yes this is what we have decided you know this is our preference how about that and then let the town council weigh in on whether it's something that you know they are willing to put to referendum i sort of know how that will play out but um catholic if i just chime in that is not the case the town council is not going to decide the option for us so so i i apologize but um so remember their chart their charge of smc delivering plans to the town council and to us and i mentioned a few meetings back and almost every meeting that once the town council gets this report they're going to chew on from a financial perspective we're going to chew on it from educational perspective and we're going to come together and figure out what makes sense so i i would hope that by the time we're done chewing our options and get the world educational spec programming and all the merits of both options and which one is better we do pick one and go without the town council and let's see what they say to it but they're not going to decide which one for us that's false tim uh thank you andrew uh catherine sounding like a broken record i appreciate it repeat repeat repeat it's difficult to get you know to to remind people what you're thinking so i i personally appreciate it and respect that you do that so thank you um uh and yeah so with regards so i kind of have two different questions and they kind of go hand in hand um with regard to the question is really about citing and it just struck me as we were sitting here tonight i didn't i didn't see the last meeting but with regard to norton one of the things that the superintendent had voiced concerns about was access so i what i heard him saying jeff correct me if i'm wrong but in essentially what i heard you say was norton does not have good access for an expanded facility for an expanded building so start over and knock it down and do something farther and back is that a good part of why we would even talk about new construction at norton when we look at parcels in the south and town i think the access piece at norton is still unresolved that is a huge hurdle to clear if we can at all um so i wouldn't want to say definitively that's what will occur i think that's that's um an aspiration at this point but not uh nothing far from concrete okay is it but it access was a real issue with regard to normal absolutely now pretty much every one of our buildings but you know if you were to um add 150 people to the building at norton you're only exacerbating the existing problem where we have to go to the church across the street et cetera for pickup so you know there is an access road at the rear of the property that cuts into the neighborhood behind norton a sidewalk yeah and and in that access space um you know there's a hurdle to clear getting through there too if it's even something that could be further developed like paved for uh for busing and things like that okay so you've actually so you've actually thought about so what i was thinking was yeah but that's that's only a sidewalk it's nowhere near a road right um right now it's not a road no it's just a sidewalk basically when i say that like three feet wide or something like that but then i was even thinking beyond that i mean pretty much you have houses all around it i mean somebody may want to sell and you could end up just accessing through another part i'm just putting it out there in terms of citing i don't know that because i think that norton is a is a fairly nice facility is my simple point um yeah and relatively yeah relatively speaking norton is is not uh not the worst of them that's for sure but if i could add tim the reason why norms looked as because of the flat land that exists in the back of the site right i mean and if i could add and it's just my opinion it's hard to balance having a neighborhood school in the town of cheshire with having great access so if you want a neighborhood school you know unless all the schools are cited on route 10 or in the industrial zone in town there's not really a great neighborhood location for an elementary school um you're going to deal with pick up and drop off you're gonna deal with those times 180 school days out of the year that are going to be congested um so yeah okay no no no and i understand that it's just you know even just from a traffic flow perspective in one entrance and out another like on the other side i i don't know i mean i don't mean to get into that conversation i just wanted to make sure that that is part of like what is considered by school modernization that access alternative access is something to consider yes that i mean that's been discussed and also you know as we move forward if this this is going to be the plan and whatnot they're going to do test fits of the school and how it would fit on that site or another site in the south end of town so also if i could add colliers did put together um a list just a parcel list of available properties that could fit for a school for the for either of these schools um we don't know what the parcels are we just know what the average acreage is um in town so as we move forward in the process we don't want to identify any parcels specifically other than town-owned land thank you andrew thank you um uh several questions um firstly kind of to piggyback on what what katherine was saying did the smc assign a definition to what preferred means because it seemed like there was a robust debate um smc didn't want to remove kate the uh sixth or eight middle school option but then voted to have a preferred option thereby making the six through eight option a lesser option so i was wondering if if there was any thought behind making one a preferred one or not was that it was it as far as information gathering or focusing on the detail for the report that's due in two weeks or or or what was there and then secondly before any of you answer um has the analysis for the ci for the renewed cip projects been done for 46a because just off the top of my head if you're not if you don't have to do improvements to norton or chapman anymore that would seem to be like there would be a significant cip savings there that could be either saved and or diverted to other projects like perhaps a renovation of uh our board event headquarters uh hummuston the hummuston building or something like that as is that all i mean i wasn't sure if an analysis analysis had been completed there sure i'll i'll try to take this one um so for the present for the preferred versus the second option um it wasn't necessarily discussed as to how that would be portrayed the way that i saw this is that option one or option six that we'd be going in would be more um be more refined would have more supporting information on it and that that was our recommendation for as the first project to move forward with um but there wasn't a formal vote taken necessarily as to how that would be handled um so the way that i saw it is that when we put together the deliverable to the town council that's going to have that's going to be stated as our preferred option with the most documentation to support the reasons why but then secondly for if you look at the if you want me to reshare this but in scenario six it does now carry money for hummuston um so it's looking at a total budget there for a renovation in the low end and then a renovation in the high end of 12 million dollars for hummus in school but then correct me if i'm wrong i don't believe that all the cip numbers were taken out i mean the 4.4 million on the low end is you know right now we've got three and a half million in the capital plan for five years so that's a little bit that's an estimate that's a little bit higher which i think we need because our five-year capital plans the mission is not all-inclusive um and the 12 million dollars is you know as as chuck warren collier said it it's an estimate at a very high level based on swift square foot you know square footage of this building so it's it's intended to serve as a range and and uh kind of a guide as to what the cost might be oh okay thank you are you good at him uh yeah yeah i'm fine now everyone was quiet i was like oh was i okay no i'm good thank you okay uh faith i think ann's had her hand up a while oh and i'm sorry i and it's starting to fade and go ahead i think she's frozen now are you frozen ian okay maybe she's good and has a question we know she has a question frustrating let me achieve that green dots are showing does that mean it's like a statue all right go ahead all right just real quick just from my own perspective and and um going way back to when smc started could could someone restate for me the mandate given to smc i want to make sure what i remember is in line with what the mandate was so there is a mission statement um i would be faith you're really let's say as i recall it was to come up with a plan that um benefited the most the most students um or something to that yeah there's a there's a there was a specific which i could dig up i you know it wasn't the benefit of most students it was more from the the it was um because a comprehensive plan that tries to address as many of the facilities needs as possible while you know keeping you know fiscal cost savings in mind but the town council is definitely you know was looking for you know if um if you only had one scenario to do going back to katherine's comment about you know you stop at phase one do not present a plan that if all you're able to do is phase one for a short while uh and like other phases depending on it that would fail right because you know you want to make sure that you try to get as much you possibly can get done in phase one while you're trying to build up the rest of the plan so they were looking for a comprehensive long and short term but you know they're they they also want to see consolidation as much as possible you know taking buildings offline where it makes sense to do and they want to see you know taking savings from not doing cip projects and save the operating costs and shutting our buildings to funding those plans so they're looking for [Music] in the biggest impact in the school construction project cost minimization decreasing the footprint and then you know utilizing those savings okay okay thank you i just want to make sure i know we all have this those of us undermines that have that missions that charter will sell tonight i have to dig it up i can get back you have it you said no i said i have i just don't have it in front of me okay and we all i mean i can just go back to to the town website um the other thing i just wanted i knew vin would find it and he's got it uh here it is there we go hello vin did you find that on the website yeah this is from the town's website because they changed the town website i know it's insane oh thank god they changed the website they modernized it yeah okay um okay all right thank you um i'm gonna take a picture of that and i'll go back over it and and um the other thing is that you know when we first got our recommendations you guys went through and did a scoring system which rated all of the options available um and that's how we got one a and two those guys those plans each contained a score and effectively um that was a prioritization system um just with a numerical value attached so um you know just to to say you prioritize now six over two perhaps maybe you do go back and take a look at it and apply a metric or some kind of you know rating system to it to see if it if it actually works out um as opposed to just a um sort of qualitative this one sounds better um but you know have some numbers attached to it just a thought um it might satisfy some of the concerns that you guys are stacking the deck or anything like that faith i completely agree with that and i'm gonna talk while i'm here because i might get looked out again i completely agree with that because we have lost sight we're trying to move so fast right now i feel it's my feeling um we have forgotten that we did prioritize these according to a rubric and one of the parts of that rubric was how it will affect the community as a whole and when catherine was talking about the middle school really reaches all of the entire community for three grades at some point when when the kids get to those grades that's that was one of the that was a major consideration when we were looking at um these projects other things like safety and um uh you know there were other other aspects but that was one of the major ones and we have not done that again and i will say that i did not vote to prioritize the two elementary schools over the middle school project for exactly the reasons also that catherine said which is because what we really need what the state has told us is that we need our community to speak to us to to look at the two options if that's what we have and to vet it for us and we need to hear from them we need to hear from them about these two specific um projects and to say that one is preferred over the other by the school modernization committee it it's in in my opinion it doesn't that does not sit well with me i want to look at both of them still objectively and um and we talk about you know having the neighborhood elementary schools well that two elementary school project over a middle school really makes the our elementary schools bursting at the seams it makes them bigger whereas a bigger middle school we're missing out on an opportunity to have a middle school that services the entire community of of our students and we have an opportunity to make a program that is so educationally sound so 21st century education and so forward um moving that it astounds me that we are not looking forward we're not looking we're not taking the opportunity to really think about that and my feeling is one of the reasons we're not is because we're starting to talk about dollars we're starting to talk about how this is going to impact the the taxpayer and quite frankly the taxpayer has had a free ride in this town for 50 years they have not invested in the schools and it's time we need to now we have eight school buildings that all need some updating and we can't do it all at once but um i don't know my feeling is still that we're starting in the wrong place by making elementary schools bursting at the seams to take care of that enrollment problem when we could have 21st century programming for all of our middle schoolers and and at the same time eliminate that burden on our elementary schools i'm off my soapbox now but um i'm sorry to say that because i feel like in our meeting last night we we started to lose sight of some of the things that we were looking at more carefully before and talking about just throwing throwing things aside because you know we have a new option we have a shiny new option on the table um i really would like to see both options vetted by the community thank you thank you yeah too it so remember again uh we lose sight of what smc is about too so you know there's 13 members um 10 decided to move the two elementary schools forward for a number of reasons like the size in comparison with the bigger middle school like the smaller elementary schools two brand new modernized buildings taking more buildings offline so you know from my perspective there's certainly following the guidance given by the charter et cetera but again it doesn't take away option 2a so i expect both those to come to the board of ed and the things that smc cannot do nor shall they do is figure out which one is best for cheshire based on programming that's superintendent's responsibility and our responsibility so that's where we get a chance to make the case uh for either option whatever that is and when we talk about why one is better we need to quantify that i've heard a lot of qualifications in the discussion about sixth rate middle school i have an idea of what the educational priming could be but uh there's four new members on this board that have really no idea what that is six years ago we gotta refresh that and i think when we talk about that and if the elementary schools comes as an option the specs around that i think people pay attention parents will know what it means i'm a parent and as a parent a kid's in school sells adam we know what it means to us for our kids oh sixth grade middle school i get it he had as many pods and segregated and you know the concerns of having six to eight eight folks on the bus are mitigated i don't see those details redistributing oh i live on this street oh i see how the maps are gonna impact me uh so that kind of detail the smc can't do so it is up to us at the end of the day so again where it comes forward comes forward um i'm in favor of doing that rating for option six i think it makes sense i think it's doable in fact uh you know i'll give chuck a heads up that you know they came up tonight it's worth while doing um but cost is a factor for them uh it is an audience but again i i i i'm not trying to put my rules so i'm being realistic here again dr sullin his team us we're gonna decide which of these options is best for cheshire public schools and so get ready because uh honor on april 4th we begin the same report and i talked to jeff a little bit yesterday about this you know we're going to be looking forward to our details on what programming means all these options and and get into it and absolutely yeah we're going to have i'm certainly not going to uh make a decision on this in a vacuum these discussions will be public i want to find a way to get our cps community at the very least involved uh so they know what we're talking about what the specs mean uh and we need to have their those folks weigh in it's really not much different than last time uh the good news i think is because there's not a rush to get a grant application in in june we have time to do this um and you know do it before referendum so again nothing's over but uh good points anne and faith and you know andrew i'll ccu but you know i'll uh just let chuck know hey maybe we should let's let's rate this thing and see how it falls in because that was criteria there that i think we need to look at so that being said again i uh i i think we have some really good options i agree there's one chance to get this right um because either one is a big investment both from of uh funding and you know education and a change for for our kids in in treasure so uh we all hear you we'll carry this message back the three o's will carry the message back to smc for sure so so thank you for everyone chiming in thank you andrew thank you okay we're about halfway through so up up next is uh other standing committees we have none uh approval of minutes uh in in our packets and i think that jen that we have minutes from the meetings held february 18th 2021 and march 4th 2021.
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so maybe we need to do an assignment or we need to do some sort of projection or something about all our schools and see how all parkings about all our schools are going yeah we should be thinking outside the box i know there's specifically a couple of schools i know 15 was one of them uh i know we visited woodrow wilson they mentioned i know that five was one they were talking about even in uh facilities there was supposed to be some sort of like bus from the back end yeah so i don't i don't really know what's happening with any of those i think there's like you said a lot of these schools that uh that need some some tlc when it comes to the traffic and parking and whatnot there could be something bigger than the report that we have or something we could do some other submitting gets formed to to sort of deal with this so then if i mr smith to use the superintendent and two facilities maybe we can bring this you know knock us down to facilities and have facility committee take a look with mr marcion and the superintendent yourself uh to see what all are the oil schools look like and if there is some tlc that we need to make sure is taken care of um i mean if we're going for a referendum then maybe at least on our end internally we can look at what the parking looks like and what else we need to do not part of the referendum but beyond in the future what other projects we need to put on our list if that works for you mr smith yes absolutely uh mr conover yep okay ms password you had a question uh no i don't have a question i have a comment um school 15 was never resolved with the traffic issues uh that was just it went it just went into the abyss and also school five uh we were there was supposed to be somebody that was supposed to talk to the county about putting the cut in in front of the school on valley road it wasn't behind it was on the front end because the buses blocked the traffic on valley road on the side of the school so that they have plenty of room in the parking lot the parking lots were flipped they can push the parking lot back put this cut in the buses can get into this cutting and alleviate traffic going on on uh valley road that was never addressed either so i don't know a committee needs to be formed to actually go also school 11 is a hot mess um the traffic down the one way people are triple parking you can't get through so um my my recommendation to to you to the superintendent is that every single school with traffic has to be addressed if we need to get the police involved as well uh there's got to be some kind of relief for the parents thank you if i may miss smith i don't think we need to create another committee i think just if we can through facilities we already have committees going so i might as well just carry and go through the proper procedures but i agree with ms bastard about and but agree and disagree agree that we need to look at him but this degree is not just the ones with traffic i think we need to look out with all of them uh across the board when we don't revisit this again um just um okay so we'll send that to the facility president yes i i just want to say that we have you know always talked about that um a municipal alliance and then what the cops do is you know they they do try to they they tick it and um but unfortunately like we just go in a circle with that um we tick it and then it's you know uh lessens it a little bit and then i mean we've always had the traffic issues and we're always bringing them up to municipal alliance and then when that happens you know officers go and they ticket the parents you know which obviously causes a lot of mayhem but you know does work but then it it just comes up again i mean it's you know so um you know i do think it's an issue but it's just something that has always just been going around in a circle okay so ms smith committee yes ms bashford i'm sorry thank you um yes it's always been an issue but there's a new police chief in town maybe uh he can come up with some solutions i think it's gonna have to be many different things it's gonna be have to maybe traffic flow maybe car directions maybe cut ins maybe moving of lots whatever it is that it has to take and including a ticket blitz it has to be a full frontal force of every element involved in order to in order to make this work it's not going to work with just a band-aid approach once and for all it has to be looked at then the committee has to keep on top of this is because 15 always is a major issue for years school 5 has been a major issue for years and school 11 has the parents came to several meetings to complain about it so we need to we need to really be on this as a whole thank you okay anyone else seeing none mr education is okay these next the minutes of the march 11th 2021 committee the education special education committee meeting please unmute mr casper oh you're muted mr casper i always do that thank you okay so education special education committee meeting uh took place on march 11 2021 the attendees were myself as chairperson mr smith as board president administrators in attendance were dr robertosi mrs kusalevich miss rotolo mr doctor and miss rogers the guest was miss rachel harrington number one chs student events mr doctor and ms rogers mr doctor and ms rogers gave us an update regarding planned events for the 4chs the senior prom is currently scheduled for june 17th 2021 to be held in a socially distanced manner at the castle catering hall this will be an indoor event seated at tables without dancing this follows curtain health guidelines with which may change the junior class was surveyed and there will be no junior prom this year senior class day and senior week activities were discussed with plans being developed academic awards and senior athletic awards ceremonies are currently being planned to fit the current health safety and gathering size regulations these are being planned as outdoor events preparations are underway for in-person graduation for the class of 2021.
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what anyone like to make a motion and then we can have a discussion adam you make the motion is there a second captain seconds seconds any discussion or changes to those minutes seen as there are none the motion is move the cheshire board education approve the minutes from meetings held on february 18th 2021 and march 4th 2021.
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contingency plans are being developed due to changing criteria options for several smaller ceremonies and for a full ceremony are in the works to be finalized as state guidelines are released action informational special education update by miss rotolo ms rotolo spoke about upcoming activities for students and nurtured heart approach training for staff she discussed parent training and learning opportunities all which are sent out via our district distribution center peach jar miss rotolo discussed a number of special education referrals for students from preschool to grade 12 for the school year an open meeting called coffee with the supervisors will be held on april 7th for parents to drop in and meet with the supervisors of special services the meeting was adjourned at 4 59 p.m respectfully submitted by mrs kusalevich does anybody have any questions all right now thank you mr casper next we have the say county school boards association miss benford yes um the state county school board association met on march 15th at 6 30 it was virtual uh the meetings opened by myself followed by the flags through an introduction of the current state county school boards association executive committee the report from the uh new jersey school board orchestra was submitted by dan sinclair immediate past president dan sinclair gave an update on the nominations and how they were picked uh but i'm gonna it's very long i'm gonna kind of condense it uh he the one thing i want to focus in is that say county school boards association is in the process of calling for uh officer candidates to serve three positions president for two years first vice president and second vice president all for two years deadlines for filing a petition is april 15th all boots will be notified weeks prior to the election of the slate of officers the nominating committee will select um all are encouraged to consider volunteering it is a rewarding experience and a good place to start um there is a nominee there is five people um mr doctor um laurie feinstein gave a welcoming to the committee uh he hasn't been on zoom all year with us but he made to this march meeting um he talked about um how it was a year ago uh on tuesday of this week that uh they went remote and then on today actually the um governor told all schools to go remote so we've been in this a year uh none of us dreamed about it he continued about how he's proud of the board of education and that he really um is proud of the teaching staff superintendent and the school staff uh he wanted to talk about the resolutions that went down to the state and he feels that um the governor made his decision to move teachers up on the list of vaccinations because of outpouring of support from various um districts throughout the state of new jersey um there is um there's going to be um a article in the school board notes uh published about uh different ways uh other uh all different districts are vaccinating or are trying to get their stats vaccinated so maybe when we get that we can publish that so other people can see it's a really good article um there is a program that's going to be on the 24th and anybody can go to this it's the public schools labor management collaborative and it's going to have many uh powerful guests of are on there they're going to have the um the u.s secretary of education the national education association president and he's hoping that the commissioner and the governor of new jersey will join in and they're going to talk about pertinent issues that are going on in education so i encourage everybody to look at school board notes with a link that they will be published in that as well um he talked about the budget um he talked about the american rescue plan and then he he talked about um that we are the state of new jersey is number one in u.s world and news reports and he wanted everybody to everybody that are on boards to extend to each member thank you for making that happen so from dr feinstein thank you to everyone frank casper uh we're putting on his and i'm proud to say that clifton and butler are the only districts that have submitted a name so far threadlines march 31st so one of our students is going to be honored as an unsung hero by the new jersey school board association in the swing at the may meeting at the passaic county meeting um from the field kathy hello reported about read across america and about house membership to look forward to next year hopefully we'll be in person to do that and she reiterated again about the importance of doing the superintendent's evaluation and that make sure that we are set done by july first um the legislative update was from uh chris jones from the sea uh he reiterated what dr feinstein talked about the um about on the uh on the budget and other uh bills as well the keynote speaker was on the legalization and history of the overview of the law of marijuana uh by um from a floor firm and then we had a presentation from his colleague caitlin klischka uh play a pilsner sorry from the same thing on from the same firm on the uh policies and procedures in the school setting the powerpoint was sent to you earlier in the week i hope you get to look at i release uh bringing that um those policies and that information to our policy committee um to make sure that our policies are in place to protect the distributed possible liabilities and that was at the meeting ended at eight o'clock any questions okay thank you no questions okay thank you miss password we'll move on uh our student representative here to give his report uh max rubin we thank you for being here and you have the floor thank you mr smith hello everyone it's good to be back at school i'm i'm going in person tomorrow and so far it's been pretty awesome um it's nice getting out of the house and even though it's a lot less kids than i'm used to it's still nice being in the school building um so i just have a few updates um first off i mentioned last week about the mental health survey that was conducted so the survey is finished we had a total of 440 responses across the high school which is a small minority of the high school population i'm pretty sure there's around 2 500 kids in the high school and we only had 440 but that's still a decent amount um and i'm going to have a meeting with mr doctor the student assistant counselors and fellow csu executive members tomorrow afternoon to discuss further mental health strategies and ways we can improve the mental health of clifton high school students and even just clifton students in general across all grades i want to thank mrs basford for sending me the eye on mental health document um i read through the document and there was one idea in particular that i really liked that i'm going to um that me and the other csu members talked about how we can do it ourselves a similar idea that was presented in the document we're going to bring it up during our meeting with mr doctor tomorrow so yeah once again thank you for sending me that document it was really insightful um the referendum citizens committee oh yeah i just wanted to quickly um just plug in the website just in case uh people are still struggling to find information on the referendum you can go to the clifton schools website on the home page of the clifton schools website there's a link in red bold at the top of the home page and um it's it says clifton votes april 20th you can click on it and it sends you to a website with all of the information that you'd want to know on the referendum the vote is april 20th so um i would ask everyone to spread the word about voting for the referendum also if you're 18 like myself i'm 18 now which is pretty sweet you can vote for the referendum and if you're 17 you can even register to vote for future votes um in the future um and the link to register to vote is voter.svrs.nj.gov register that's voter.svrs.nj.gov register to register to vote and i would recommend all students and recent graduates if you haven't registered to vote yet you should do so as soon as possible and if you're 18 you can vote for the referendum um i always just plug in sat testing just in case anyone's listening the future dates are may 8th and june 5th you should register as soon as possible seats may or may not be available at chs and speaking of sat testing i wanted to quickly mention uh there was a digital resources website that me and some other csu students helped formulate together with the media center staff at clifton high school and it's a website that has resources for studying for acts sats ap exams and just various other uh normal coursework uh classes there's a several youtube channels that you can visit there's also six different test prep websites on the website there's over 45 hard copy test prep books and and over 45 ebooks and there's instructions a video on how to purchase or not how to purchase because it's the media center on how to take out hard copy and ebooks in the media center specifically test prep ones if that's what you're interested in um and in order to get to the digital resources website you can go to the clifton high school website go to additional resources and then go to there should be a link under additional resources wait a minute okay actually i left out something it's clifton high school website then go to the students tab so students tab then additional resources and then it says digital resources and test prep for students and you click on that and then you're you're in the website um that's that's it for this week um i wish everyone um happy st patrick's day i know that was yesterday i hope you all had a good seeing patrick's day uh and one more thing i want to plug in is the chs morning show has been celebrating uh its national women's history month and we've been doing um we've been celebrating that a lot especially throughout this week we've been highlighting various important accomplishments and amazing accomplishments of women throughout history and we've been doing that on the morning show um and in general um we're just trying to spread awareness you know making sure making people making sure people are aware that it is women's history month it's it's important i think it's often overlooked so yeah um that's pretty much it for this week and i will see you guys next board of ed meeting max thank you very much uh as always for a very informative report we appreciate a great deal and uh everyone should get to go on and watch the morning show i don't know what day but max really put his skills to work and uh was mobile um on a scooter i believe giving uh his morning reports that was uh that was pretty neat max thank you thank you mr smith all right anything else no that's it thank you so much again being here thank you okay on to um public recognition this portion of the meeting is open to the residents and on residents of clifton the purpose of addressing any subject matter pertinent to and or directly related to the operation of the clifton public school district residents and non-residents are requested if in person to sign the register provided for its purpose all speakers are asked to state their names municipality and subject matter before speaking comments are limited to five minutes per person issues raised by members of the public may or may not be responded to by the board all comments will be considered and the response will be forthcoming if and when appropriated your questions may or may not be addressed by board members the board asked that members of the public be courteous and mindful of the rights of other individuals when speaking specifically comments regarding students and employees aboard are discouraged will not be responded to by the board students and employees have specific legal rights afforded by the laws of the state of new jersey there's no responsibility nor will be liable for any comments made by members of the public members of the public should consider their comments in light of the legal rights of those affected or identified in their comments and be aware that they are legally responsible and liable for their comments okay our um we'll do our in person uh first and then we'll move to anyone that is uh virtual so um mr bruciak you have the floor first thank you hear me thank you dr robert tozie thank you president smith vice president abu dhabi and the rest of the board for allowing me to speak tonight and i just want to thank everybody for helping to get the schools back open on march the 9th and i want to know why the kids aren't allowed in five days a week why don't parents get an option to have their kids go to in-person learning five days a week what's what i've been told is that the deep cleaning occurs monday tuesday thursday and friday and an extra deep cleaning on wednesday occurs why can't the same deep cleaning occur on a wednesday as well or on a tuesday evening so that the parents have an opportunity to send the kids to school in person five days a week and please correct me if i if i'm wrong and why are classes only open until 1 pm if it's because you don't want the kids to eat together in the gym or cafeteria they could eat in their classrooms like they do with their snacks every day as well we are trying to i'm asking for the board to give parents an option to have their kids have in-person learning as much as possible the clifton clifton schools has time to lobby do lobby campaigns to float a bond for 162 million dollars and they have time to talk about the traffic patterns going in front of schools but they don't have time to strategize how to get the schools open for longer for those in person to have the kids give the kids an option to go in school in person longer i heard from two parents this week that the last six or seven days that their children have been in school in person have learned more in the past six days than they have in the past month so these are the high risk kids there are so many high-risk kids in this district and when there are neighboring districts including new york city who have who who have an option to go in-person schooling for five days a week we need to make every attempt to do that over here in clifton's district as well so i'm asking everybody to do the best they can and again thank you for allowing me to speak thank you and god bless america have a good night everybody uh next uh we have uh llama strolling her way down you sure you want to see me there we go all right good evening to everybody my name is laurie la lalma and as you know i'm the president of the cea i have a little smorgasbord of different ideas for tonight so first i want to thank the board the executive team dr robertosi for the air purifiers they are phenomenal we are very happy to have them and thank you for using that from the esser funds we still have concerns over the increase of the kobe cases and i know that it's not within the district but it's the community so what i'm asking the community is to really think twice use your masks stay social distancing so we can continue to protect our kids their families and our staff any of us i don't care if it's dr robert tosie and and everybody in the district i really wanna choose from what they're doing in their classrooms the paraprofessionals the nurses and i don't wanna miss anybody child study team custodians counselors secretaries we've all worked hard and it's and we're a family and i think that's the important idea here now people have been mentioning learning laws but i think we're forgetting something important our kids and our families and our staff are surviving as uh a global pandemic so the things that they have learned the things that are new they've done a great job granted there is some learning loss but they have overcome they've learned [Music] did all these phenomenal activities in the building their principles have been helpful they've done a great job the vice principals the supervisors so we're all in this together all right now the next thing would the board write a letter to the commissioner for to not do the standardized testing i know all of our unions together have sent that down to trenton and have forwarded to dc so i think that's an important thing i would like to work with you on that if you did want to do that all right oh school 11 they had their referendum um last night and the kids and the adults learned more about the referendum and the kids played games and the hsa really did a good job so i just want to let the board know all right rutgers labor management so we've been in this program for a little over a year now and due to covid we haven't really met we met twice right dr robert so um this meeting that we have next week dr robert tosie and i were asked by saul rubin's mr mcmillan governor murphy nea president becky pringle and about 400 other people so we're really putting a great positive light on all of us here i really want it so important and the last thing i know mr daley we're fighting against public education so i bought two books one for the board of ed library about it it's from a professor nancy mclean i was in a workshop with her over the weekend and phenomenal and the other one is for the administrators so when you have a chance probably sometime next year but if we can read it and we can chat about it i think it would be a very helpful thing to understand how important it is now to protect public education we have the koch brothers we have alec and they're really doing bad things to public it so i really if you have a chance i purchased them for you so you can read them otherwise that's all i have tonight thank you miss thank you for the books okay now we're going to move to um are virtual callers um mr mountain if you have anyone to admit to the room or anyone to the mid to the room yes we have three uh brian illy and then jaxel and then daniel mello so all three are already admitted okay okay uh brian um milly you have the floor brian looks like brian's been connecting to audio for some time so there must be an issue there uh or they've walked away okay so i would suggest moving on to jacksonville next okay jaxel you have the floor if you would state your name uh municipality and subject matter for record please and i apologize mr smith as soon as we were talking about it jaxel has left um so next up is daniel hey okay daniel you have the floor if you would please state your name municipality banner for the record andrea casa 206 is 8th street okay okay go ahead ma'am okay good evening everybody uh first of all thank you for all the efforts to make a possible the updating in the buildings i really appreciate that um i have a couple of questions for the board and some concerns one is that the district distributed a flyer about the lgbtq inclusive curriculum workshop called cycle of power and privilege and this was sponsored by the clifton education association even though i'm aware about the new law the mandates to teach lgbtq curriculum in the classroom signed by the governor seems unfair that other groups more vulnerable don't get the same kind of attention and resources aspiring of an autistic kid i'm fully sure fully completely sure i never received a flyer distributed to the entire district with the sponsor of the clifton education association to promoting inclusion of autistic kids or a worship open for teachers in the community about autism according to the state data the lgbtq community represents 4.1 percent of the population of the entire state 51 percent of this group are whites however one in every 32 kids in new jersey has autism hispanics are the 20.9 percent but not hispanic history curriculum are gonna be teach blacks are the 50 of the population but not black history in the curriculum and i'm not talking about assemblies i'm not talking about celebrating one month i'm talking about that lgbtq community curriculum is going to be taught in the classrooms systematically and i would like to request the board of education to uh do a workshop or create a referendum and the excellent way that you're doing to educate and and promote the referendum for the updating of the buildings in the same way is very important for uh parents to have a better understanding that this is gonna happen next year it's a law that are teach our children are gonna be uh taught about this uh new curriculum and i wanna see if the if the board of education can provide this um workshop for especially for parents to know exactly their rights to review and dispute uh in case that they have a company with personal beliefs or religious beliefs because obviously there is like a conflict for many religious groups over here and i i'm it caught my attention like i said because as a parent of uh an autistic kid i never i never thought so something in in this incredible massive supportive way for this group there is a vulnerable group and there are there one in 32 and yeah it seems unfair to me to be honest that the clifton association at the the klingston education association is getting uh put in this and i understand this is nobody's fault i understand it's a law and i'm not saying that the clifton board of education was doing it but yes as a resident i would like to request that you pro somehow create a forum or a workshop where parents can learn about their rights and learn about what is going to happen about this lgbtq curriculum next year thank you hey thank you uh very much next we have um miss uh auroch can we uh shut that laptop off now since we don't need it thank you um miss aura are you you have the floor are you in the room all set can you hear me yes we can all right good afternoon everyone i just finished dinner with the bunny for our elementary students so it's part in the background i'd like to say thank you for everyone who came to visit the schools for read across america i know a lot of our students did enjoy the all the unfamiliar faces and put face to names that sometimes we talk about them in our classrooms so thank you so much to all the commissioners and the administration who did virtual read-alouds to our schools and our students it was much appreciated i also wanted to thank all the parents and families that are attending our events this month we had um our special ed department did a pride event that they did uh create your own book scene and so they had a bag full of goodies they had paints play-doh they received a free book so our special ed department thank you so much for doing a pride event with us uh like i said we had dinner with the bunny today so we had 400 meals uh deliv handed out for our clifton families uh sila will be doing a spring planting event in it got moved from march to april they will be doing an april event and also uh school 17 will be doing a stem kindergarten night for our upcoming events so we just wanted to say thank you so much for everyone for participating during this time as a pandemic and we hope to see um everybody else out of our next event thank you and have a great night thank you miss our i appreciate you all your that you do thank you so much uh miss mao and anyone left in the waiting room nope that's it thank you mr mr smith you know i'm looking up close okay motion to close public portion by vice president albert drabo the second second second by mr rawad okay we will now unfinish this we have none we'll now move on to uh education administration okay we have um ea 1 through ea six yeah one revision of the 20 20 20 20 21 calendar school year approval uh ea ii approval of summer school agreement between clinton board of education and northern regional county educational services commission uh ea 3 acceptance of the 2022 2122 new jersey department of education preschool preschool expansion aid ea for acceptance of school-based healthcare solutions network incorporated grant phi ea 5 abolishment of regulation ea 6 attendance report do i have a motion so moved second is there any discussion see none roll call mr awad yes miss bassford miss beltran yes mr canova guest mr daley yes miss danny yes mr casper yes mr abedrabo yes sir mr smith yes motion carries right next under personnel we have p1 regulation p2 retirements p3 leave of absence p4 amendment of leave of absence p5 amendment of maternity leave of absence p6 amendment of appointments p7 increase in salary p8 increase in salary p9 additional appointments 2020 2021 pbsis team members p10 athletic power professionals p11 commentary requests p12 substitute appointments and p13 personnel appointments can we have a motion to move the group motion so moved by uh vice president abu drabo second by miss danny gotcha any discussion i have a question yes i have a question uh on on um the one for the uh cafeteria renovation is this just to move the money for the is this just to put it changed it on the long range facility plan is that what this resolution is that that is correct um but we're not in f at the moment i'm so i'm sorry i'm so sorry my screen moved dog never mind so what happens when you come late all right any other discussion seeing none roll call mr awad yes miss bassford absolutely yes miss beltran yes mr canova yes yes mr daley i see him saying yes miss danny he said yeah yes mr casper yes mr abba drama yes mr smith yes motion carries okay next under finance and facilities we have f1 adoption of the 20 21 22 preliminary budget f2 approval for joint transportation agreement 2020 21 school year f3 able to proceed with school facilities project cafeteria kitchen renovation chs f4 approval to establish a maximum travel expenditure amount for the 21 22 school year f5 certification of budget line item accounts january 2021 f6 financial reports january 2021 f7 modifications to the 2020 2021 budget january 2021 f8 use of facilities f9 claims list move the group go move so move by second by ms basford any discussion i have the question about um the cafeteria renovations this is to change the uh long-range facility plan the monetary amount have to go on here because we approved it before but shouldn't it state that what we're spending again just quitting that so this is so you are correct this is to amend the rlrfp um we're not at the bidding stage yet so once once we go out to once this state approved and lrfp is amended we'll eventually get the specs together go out to bid and that's that's when we'll bring it back okay do we have a maximum that we're going to spend on this project the budget estimate was one eight to two million so can't we say not to exceed in this i just feel more comfortable when there's a monetary thing no because we have no idea what the bids are going to come in at and um obviously the board can reject any bid that comes in if they don't feel that it's um i just i don't feel comfortable okay thank you all right anyone else yeah mr canova i have a question on f2 f2 doesn't really have any content there everything is to be determined exactly it's to be determined to um use the sussex county cooperative if need be and then if any routes do come up then um they'll come back to resolution okay um mr smith to that joe's question why can't we be usually when you um put resolutions to have some kind of dollar amount because you're moving funding so can we put not quick seed well at the moment we're not approving funding it's just to join the sussex county joint transportation co-op so if we don't get if we do need and get a route then it'll come back to resolution for um all the information so why don't it just when it had the chart because it confuses a lot of people dude because i can see what joe can say because you see a dollar sign right then and there you think that there's money associated to it so you know if we're just approving advice you know the whole thing so i'm just confused just of how the the table is in the content of the resolution but i'm not understanding i think just movie i think she's saying rather than having a table you just just worded to say this is to approve to have a discussion with the co-op and then when we have bids and she's thinking about signing the total confuses people so it's more of the layout than the contest no because it's just right indicated it says here that program to transport eligible student on the following route comma avery indicated it's blank we should not be paying a position that's blank with dollar signs i'm sorry if that comes out and at the rate of if it's a resolution that says we're joining i'm fine with that i mean this is just the way we've been wording it forever i i mean we could make it we could word it anyway we'd like but if any route comes up from now until june we will illustration i'm sorry yeah i'm just asking the board are they okay with the way the warning is now or do i want administration to reward i mean there's no line item and there's no budget attached so we're not writing checks to you know we're not writing blank checks to people who aren't even on this list there's nobody on this list so we're not writing checks to anybody and if a round comes up but maybe miss vasper has a point that if we just remove the table i mean again i agree and disagree i agree that it could look confusing but i also disagree that there's no line and there's no line item there's no route number there's no school there's no contract it's blank it's blank and it's the resolution is speaking to the um of it could be filled in somebody can handle something in this and it goes into record and then we didn't approve it because it didn't have anything in it it's just not good to have something in it that's mine mr smith i have a recommendation that i saw this issue we can build the chart and end the resolution after the program so we'll just read resolve that the clifton board of education approved point transportation agreement with sussex county cooperative transportation program done so you're just improving us to join the transportation agreement and then any routes that we may potentially use with them will be on a future board resolution that's correct mr smith mr daley i i i just found out that our superintendent has mind reading uh talents i have the exact same suggestion as the superintendent i'm i'm okay with the superintendent's suggestion okay are the uh are the um first and second of the motioners uh okay with that change okay uh with those changing uh roll call please yes so f one through nine mr awad mr yes miss danny yes mr casper yes mr abdrabbo yeah and mr smith yes okay we move on to the next portion of the meeting is board member comments uh this day the day we start with uh mr daley okay thank you mr president um and i like the speakers who came up tonight uh i like to also um thank um the [Music] but the people who did a budget presentation tonight um including mr yusi and miss kusulevich mr summersever again a great job um it is a woman's appreciation month and if you're looking at some i don't know how many people have seen it i've watched the movie several times uh i would suggest one of the things you might consider looking at is hidden figures it's a terrific story and i think everybody should watch it it has to do with a number of black women who were originally employed by uh nasa and they were uh highly skilled uh mathematicians and and uh they were they had to overcome discrimination in the workplace but it's a it's a really movie story that's one of many many things you can look but that's that's one of my favorite uh on the covet issue uh as stated earlier uh this this is a group effort you you know everybody has a responsibility here including and especially parents so uh please please this is not over yet and we'd like to get over or advance as soon as possible so we can all mix and mingle like we wait like we used to but uh there's still some time and effort that needs to be into this uh to make sure you're not spreading it or bringing it around so uh that's the responsibility of our parents and individuals too you can't be irresponsible so we're a master whatever you have to do get your vaccinations uh so we can get out of this uh predicament sooner than later uh wish to wish everybody a happy st patrick's day which was yesterday and on the other side of my heritage tomorrow is saint joseph's thing and it's when you eat fair fattening cakes at least that's how i was brought up so uh with that i'd like to wish everybody a good day and uh and see you at the next week thank you and don't forget referendum on april 20th we'll get more at our next meeting thank you mr daley next uh miss danny uh yes okay hold on a second here um okay so um i'd like to say thank you um to all the speakers um max thank you for that information on what's being done um for women's history month which is obviously the month of march uh missa la lama thank you for fighting the uh good fight i also wanted to say from last meeting um you know congratulations on the governor giving you a call i was really feeling it with my arm being broken so i just wanted to make sure i i you know told you that um this week and um you know thank you mr alam for always trying to get the word out and trying to help out and you're in the fight for um education um students and staff and everyone um thank you miss kusalevich and mr lucy for your presentation i'm always very informative um [Music] and uh i wanted to say you know hope everyone had a nice um saint patty's day enjoying some corned beef cabbage um i know i did um and um i don't think we have a meeting before so happy easter to everyone good friday those that celebrate [Music] for the spring break that the students will have stay safe you know families just consider where you're going and know which areas you're going to again i was listening uh on the news and i know they said that you know everything that we've done could potentially be undone with a lot of the spring breaks so you know just um you know be safe in what you're doing be conscientious you know observe the rules that you know social distancing the masking and things like that um and that's all i have for this evening thank you thank you uh mr president i'm also going to keep this uh brief um like always i'd like to start off with thanking our retirees for your service to our district enjoy your retirement as much as you can i'd like to thank everyone for coming out tonight i was taking some notes i'd like to bring back to committee so this way we can look at take a closer look at them i'd also like to thank all of the administration for putting together a a great budget this year with a zero percent increase um so hopefully we can have our taxpayers uh get a little break um and i'm also i would also like to take the opportunity to thank mrs lalama as you continue to um push our help push our education forward in clifton and lastly i'd like to wish everybody a happy easter if you celebrate and a happy passover have a good night everybody thank you uh mr casper mr awad thank you mr president i'll also be keeping this brief uh thank you mr lama for attending today's meeting in person um i also was brought to my attention through social media um you know certain students and parents concerning um hygiene products for the female students and our our uh our school district you know that's something really great that someone actually brought that up and uh that's something you know maybe we could discuss with the administration in the board if we're able to you know help in that certain department i also want to just you know spread a message of love you know love always conquers hate no matter what the situation is you know we um we are a nation full of uh foreigners coming from different parts of the world and you know uniting together is more important than dividing um you know love and uh love and you know peace will always you know conquer and that's pretty much it you know that's uh pretty much my comment for the evening thank you very much thank you mr wad miss bassford uh yes good evening happy st patrick's day to my family of mcbride's uh my sister traced them all the way back to their heritage in brooklyn i had a great great grandmother that uh that uh lived a very rough life her husband was struck by lightning and died and uh it was a very interesting story my sister's putting together a book so i'm glad i could do that happy saint joseph's day to the people in my family that celebrates celebrating joseph say i don't i'm not italian but there are people in my family that do because they're they have uh italian heritage happy saint uh happy easter on april fourth um i forgot mr usey to abstain uh on the check number two zero two three three um i'm sorry i'm a little out of sorts but today's a really rough network and i had to work late that's i couldn't attend um every day should be national women's day it shouldn't be once a month uh one month of the year it should be every day we should honor the women but being at this is national woman's month march i'm going to put my my my um my word of uh thank you to every woman regardless of what you've done this past year to get through this pandemic whether you had to be at home for a stay home parent learn how to um become uh not not only um a height person but learn the platform of zoom and every other google meets and every other kind of thing that we put forward to you to the to the people in the grocery stores and the nurses and the the women the women health providers and our own nurses that are working every wednesday the vaccine site every woman every teacher every every kind of um different career that's out there it should you should be on it every day not just one month a year and i thank you for everything you do it has not been easy um saturday the 20th marks the day that i went virtual for a year uh like dr feinstein said in his minutes to our in our meeting that tuesday the uh the governor last year it marks a year tuesday that we went virtual all schools and uh some people think we haven't come far but a lot of people don't know the day in and day out of what it takes to do what they do it's not easy to go from in person two days a week and then bring the students to um remote two days a week it's a really rough rough setting and i really want to applaud our teachers and our staff and our administration for doing what i consider a yeoman's job so thank you very much from the bottom of my heart with that being said and have a good one bye thank you next miss beltran okay i'll keep it brief as well tonight um i would just like to reiterate uh the need for the referendum we need these improvements uh for the town for the children for the future children this is a unique opportunity that we have to get a portion of the money back from the state and even though we are getting money through the cares act and everything else we this money is not going to be enough to cover all the improvements that we need in order to set our teachers and our students up for success i would just like to take a moment to remember all the lives that were lost this past year here in clifton and throughout the state and throughout the world frankly as we move forward is important to remember the past and those that are no longer with us i hope everyone is staying safe and continue to do so hopefully with the improvement of the weather and the mass distribution of the vaccine the virus will start to calm down and by next year our children as well as our staff will be able to look forward to a more normal environment and that's all i have for tonight thank you thank you miss belle john mr canova uh first of all i just wanted to wish everybody a happy biggest day thank you to miss miss beltran for my uh festive st patty's day mask um i want to thank the speakers for coming out uh special thanks to uh mr uchi tomaskowicz and uh miss kuchulevich on the the uh report um i'm glad to see more uh technical rules put into the budget this year i know we have our one one initiative and with all those extra laptops there's extra oversight into the itune infrastructure so i am glad to see that after the budget a big highlight that it um of this budget is again speaking to what mr daley said is that it's another year that we're coming out at a zero increase it's actually a decrease you know based on how it was presented uh of 11 and and that just is a testament to the group and how hard they work at this budget and making sure that um you know there's no pork in there and and that we have a nice tight budget for for our students and our community [Music] the one other thing i do want to highlight is that as you know we've been underfunded for a very long time and slowly the pendulum is moving in our direction this year i believe it was somewhere around 52 million that we're receiving from the state where in previous years it was only 26 million so it is slowly getting there and that is the work from uh from this board and from advocating uh with the community and coming out as a community as a whole and standing up for what we deserve so that's slowly getting back to where it should be i'd like to see that continue to go which means that we we can't take our foot off the gas but we need to keep uh pursuing there and that ties into our referendum because it's it's that predicament that got us here and i know everyone keep keeps pushing it and i'll say the same thing is this is an opportunity for us to take some of that money that they haven't been giving us and get it back in and through our aid through a 33 discount on our referendum so it's very important that uh anyone who is of age gets registered and uh and we get out to vote um mr lama uh thank you for all that you do i know you mentioned one thing about standardized testing i'm on the fence with this one um i think that as a whole people believe in their minds that you know if we go to some standardized testing it's going to be difficult and it may show numbers that are unfavorable but i look to the positive these things so i think that throughout all this we're going to find certain nuggets of information where there are success stories and we want to magnify those who want to find out where they are and the way to do that i think maybe may be through standardized testing where you you find out that in some cases and scenarios that students actually have done better than they've done previously so because i guess it's because you know the technical nature of me i'm a sucker for data but looking at the data i think we can find those success stories and uh and hopefully branch out our online world so while we're stuck lying because of a pandemic maybe this is something that it will be the future maybe um you know as individuals continue to work for home from home and essentially high school is preparing you for the workforce and for college i think that that is an integral part in what you do i think everyone here works from home a majority of time now at least uh or or did work online on a computer for a majority of the day doing research et cetera because that's just a function of many people's jobs so i think there is some lightning in the tunnel there i think there is some like to be shed on on some positive things that could be happening there so i would like to actually see some standardized testing to see where those things are um school reopening my daughters are ecstatic the school's reopened uh very happy to go back they said they had a great time in the classrooms they felt safe they wear their new masks they even wore new outfits um so they're very happy with that and st jones as we call we call it name day basically uh and we all need our zeppoli that's how we our little cream puffs so uh how do you say joseph's thank you mr canova vice president abu jabba thank you president smith uh [Applause] through you into the administration um president smith if we can just follow up on the school 16 and the tennis court engineering and the handicap and all that you know we talk a lot of stuff about in committee but i think the the hammering the stuff home with the follow-ups are going to be very important to make sure that committees are not are not just only um having discussions and conversations but also hammering the issue home and making sure what we do discuss are actually meaningful and not things that are not meaningful they are meaningful but we follow up make sure things get done on that retrospect thank you to the administration uh superintendent robert tauzin your in your administration and always making sure that our committees or committee beings are being run uh smoothly and and our agenda points um are brought to the attention of the full board also thank you for the the presentation of today that is a lot of a lot of numbers and information to be put on i think was 18 powerpoint slides um so thank you for that to my colleagues on the board there is a diversity committee um on march 23rd 2021 on tuesday as you all remember this committee started out as the superintendent's committee but now is comprised of board members under president smith's administration this year if you can't make it i believe it's myself commissioner um casper and commissioner beltran who are on it um if you can't make it please let me know as max ruben mentioned um and i think we've been quoting max ruben a lot over the past few months great representations of the students but i'll add live a little bit as we celebrated black history month we are now celebrating women's history month uh these months come and go and we should be celebrating diversity every day and all diversity whether you know looking and making sure that there is equality for in diversity to me is gender race cultural religion disability all communities all differences and make sure that there is not a glass ceiling for anybody whether again anybody in the community no matter background no matter color no matter beliefs um [Music] i am nobody i'm not better than the next person the person next to me god has created all of us equally um and we are god's children i know this is a public entity but those are my personal feelings so i'm gonna leave at that um on that note um as somebody else mentioned there's not a board meeting before these next couple things i'm gonna mention but happy easter happy passover happy ramadan ramadan mubarak to our muslim community um and i just asked that we all respect each other we've seen a lot of hate crimes on the rise i've been reading a lot about lgbtq a lot about women a lot about asian americans a lot about disabilities a lot about various communities and i think just as others have mentioned on the board let's learn from our mistakes you know we talk about saint pat we talk about saying jealousy challenging the irish came here in the early 1900s late 1800s more than early 1900s and they faced a lot of hatred from various communities but now we're celebrating the past day saint joseph's day because they fought through the strife of what they went through but yet we still are not learning from our past and the only and the history is our past and we need to learn from our past and understand what the future is becoming to bring so it's more about love and passion it's more about respecting each other um thank you to all who reached out to me regarding my surgery on tuesday and of course last but never the least besides my wife and my mother and my sister the apple of my eyes happy birthday sixth birthday to my daughter uh we went to cafe neo today that was my promise i made her in the morning and we went to it and she said besides cloven is probably one of the best birthdays she had just me and her eating her crepes so [Music] love you babe and uh thank you that's my comments thank you vice president abdraw um i will be brief as well i'd just like to uh again thank mr using mr thomasevich and miss kusalevich on the great presentation tonight i hope the public understands um what a tremendous job this is to run a district of this size um with this type of budget with this type of funds and money and to have um mr uc and his team uh put together this uh budget presentation for yours tonight um under under certain some conditions we uh we truly appreciate your uh dedication to all of you putting this together it was not easy um i thank all the speakers that came out tonight and uh speakers that uh spoke virtually the board is always interested in hearing from the public so uh please continue to um to come to the meetings or actually uh come to the zoom uh vice president abdramba myself and superintendent uh um on the first week of school um i called dr robertosi and asked if i could go and visit some schools to just welcome the kids back uh to let the staff and all of them know on behalf of the board that we appreciate all that they do and the great job that they're doing in the schools from the top administration down to the teachers and the custodians and everyone involved in the school we we just wanted to uh just welcome everyone back extend uh our thanks um and uh everyone was very appreciative and thankful to the board um and i've asked dr robertosi we'll continue to do those visits uh and we'll hopefully get to all the schools so i thank all the schools for um inviting us in and um showing us the great thing about your school and um also some things that we will bring back to committees that we found in in walking those schools so i thank everybody for that uh board members if i can remind you all if you can't make a committee meeting if you just kindly let me know uh this way i can have someone fill in that spot and uh if there's any board members that wish to attend the committee specifically to present something to that committee or um whatever you could just uh ask me uh and i will um if uh there's an absentee or whatever we can fill in uh you with that as well um vice president albert rabbot i was just going to mention we uh had surgery this past week and uh we hope that you're recovering well and nice to see you here tonight and uh you join danny now on the uh walking wounded of the board um so we hope that you all uh recover and can get back to us uh very soon so that will end my comments dr robitozzi mr smith i wanted to thank you first of all if i can piggyback on what you said about the teachers um i just would be um would be rude if i didn't to all the board members when we walked around everybody mentioned that we passed on a sentimental you all are colleague board members and they want to thank you very much for the air scrubbers they really do appreciate them and they wanted to make sure that each one of you actually knew how much it meant to them so thank you okay now the board member comments are over dr rotozi thank you uh mr president uh commissioners community members i just want to take a moment to thank all of our faculty staff and administrators on a successful second reopening of school um you know so many people have worked so very hard to open up schools and to keep them open and um i believe our schools are safe despite the number of cases we've had over the last two weeks so i sent a letter out to the community today and i want to just reiterate some of the points that i made in that letter in the last two weeks since we came back to school we've had 37 individuals uh that's positive for coping that has resulted in 167 students needing to quarantine and 31 staff members needing to quarantine since reopening our schools march 8th we've had to place two schools on short-term closures and one school on a four on a short-term closure that turned into a 14-day closure so i'm asking begging reminding everyone that we cannot do this alone everyone in clifton is responsible for keeping everybody safe otherwise we may face additional closures i don't want that to happen it is i want to keep our schools open i anticipate keeping our schools open but to remain open we all must adhere to the critical mandatory protocols that the district has in place consistent and accurate reporting of the daily covet 19 screening for students and staff members keeping students home when their children are exhibiting any symptoms if you're awaiting a test if a family member is positive or a family member is waiting a test please do not send your dial to school staff members don't come to school if you do you are putting other people in jeopardy and a positive test on your behalf causes a ripple effect that that affects so many other than having the quarantine and at a place like clifton high school there's only so many teachers that we can quarantine before we have to shut down because we don't have enough supervision for our in-person students so please very very important also with the upcoming spring break we want to remind everyone about traveling there are quarantine guidelines that was sent out my from the cdc that was sent out in my community letter i today propose to tell anybody what to do or where to go i would just ask that if you are traveling please do the right thing and follow the quarantine guidelines i am happy to say that many of our staff members have already been fully vaccinated and i'm comfortable in saying that the vast majority of our staff who want to get the vaccine at the very least have an appointment i'm very comfortable in saying that we've made a ton of progress in in helping our staff and many of our staff members have done it on their own uh but we've also the district has also helped through the clinton health department and through our partnership with hackensack meridian health so that's helping and so there is light at the end of the tunnel but we just we can't give up now we can't let our guards down now so please everyone thanks to our business administrator um mr uzi mr thomasevich mr kusalevich on that presentation tonight you know two years in a row here that i'm superintendent that i've seen this board with the zero percent increase to the taxpayers and that's not because of me that's because this board has consistently looked out for the taxpayers of the city of clifton you could have raised the our budget two percent with a simple and and most districts do they can raise it two percent without a public vote in fact this district the board could have raised the uh budget by a lot more if we use bank cap six percent without a public vote but this board has always been fiscally responsible so that goes along to where we need your help with the referendum zero percent increase actually a decrease in taxes but we really need this 168 million dollar referendum to pass for the critical needs of our district and for those of you who would like more details on the projects uh voting information financial facts and faqs please go to our website www.cliftonk12nj.us vote just search for clifton public schools it'll take you to our website you'll see a ton of information about the referendum if you have a question that hasn't been answered at a board meeting or the community forum or that's not answered the in the faqs on the website you have an opportunity on our website to type a question you'll get a response in a reasonable amount of time some sub questions that might be a little more difficult might take a little research to answer but you will get an answer and finally i want to remind the public that there will be in-person polling on a tuesday april 20th the polls will be open from 1 30 to 8 p.m the polling locations are school 5 school 9 school christopher columbus woodrow wilson and clifton high school you can also find information about voting the mail application forms on our website thank you very much and have a great night thank you dr robertosi okay we'll move on next is a new business any new business yeah two things um i i just wanna i wanna bring this to you mr uh smith through to the attorney um we voted in january on january 21st 21 on uh f 11 and it was the designation of meetings so my question to you uh madam attorney is that when we have a change in the calendar does it have to go on resolution including the time once can you hear me okay once the uh once the the board adopts the calendar uh the schedule of board meetings in january usually at the organization meeting and advertises it but then the board can change the dates of meetings throughout the rest of the year provided that they advertise the new date um similar and and in fact that's what happened with this board meeting that was originally scheduled to have been on march 25th and at a prior board meeting there was simply a discussion that we needed to have this beating on the 18th so that the budget could be preliminarily approved there was no resolution that i can recall to change the meeting date so it really just the requirement is that the public be notified within at least 48 hours um that that there's going to be a change in the meeting date or in the meeting time it doesn't require a board resolution so um the question is that if we are going um that's one question i had because i couldn't make sick time i emailed the superintendent and the board president i have heard back from anyone on that so i can't make six o'clock on the first time it's just impossible i'm trying to work on it where to get changed i really wanted to attend so i was excluded from that information so i hope somebody's going to brief me on what happened in the executive session because if my worry was that it was sitting with the boat on i would be excluded from the discussion so that's something that i'm worried about the other thing i have an issue is that um there was an email about bond shirts i i have an issue with that i don't think we should be buying shirts my question is that if we are going to buy this church i will be paying for my own so could you please tell me what it costs i do not want to take any kind of um like that and it's just to me it's not no need for it thank you thank you any other new business all those in favor aye we will adjourn thank you all have a good night
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all in favor please raise your hands it passes unanimously thank you uh correspondence i think we have one correspondence that we unfortunately i dropped from the last meeting i didn't even catch it um i know it's talked about uh quite a bit in curriculum so catherine do you have any correspondence to summarize for us tonight um actually i was going to turn this over to jeff since he's also got some covid19 uh emails that came in so um and i think that faith already you know addressed the letter from mr bester so no she did not so we need to summarize that letter into the record was it was request for mr best that would be summarized at the board of business meeting sure i can i can hit we do is as uh catherine said we have mr buster's letter um and then a few other items that came in today uh i know that is um it was talked about during the curriculum meeting mr better bester talked about really the history of smarter balanced assessment asked questions about our interim assessments again addressed and i think faith pointed out on our curriculum committee meeting we go into great detail at that our 10 minute mark about the smarter balanced assessments and how cheshire public schools utilizes that information and how we engage with interim assessments to determine how our students are doing as well as the amount of time committed to this which is really pretty small within the scope of a school year versus relative to the value that we receive he talked about um the the document that has put out about sensible assessment practices um and then you know again that talks about the interim assessment blocks and he's concerned about teaching to the test and i know that we've already uh spoken to this issue today uh mr bester and the other comments the the full email of course will redact the emailers um email address will be in the minutes of our meeting we received an email from parent jessica jessica zenowitz today she is asking can we have the school schedule exist addressed how can half days keep being added and then sudden changes to tuesday thursday not fair to parents who are working and hire i hired a sitter to cover wednesdays every email that's written by dr solon says he understands the difficulty this is for parents but clearly he doesn't some of us work out of the house and just can't be home to cover half days it's impossible to keep up with the ever-changing schedule i had a child eligible for the smart start program and can't have her attend even though she may need services because these could continue next year as an educator in another district i think the time with students is so much more important at this time of year and more than more professional development like to know what the professional development is that they are doing specifically and how it's benefiting our children this crazy amount of half days needs to stop just to address that very quickly first of all smart start is not a special services program so uh people you know you who are interested in that preschool program um anybody can apply for that but i believe we still have a waiting list for that program it's it's quite popular through darcy school you can contact them for more information the march calendar was already dense with early dismissals for parent conferences during those parent conferences people are dedicated teachers dedicated to providing updates to students our update to parents on how their students are progressing unfortunately uh the couple of half days that we added one was around the vaccination schedule actually was a change to add a half day so we really didn't tweak the the schedule much and it was tuesday thursdays already dedicated to the parent conferences at the elementary grades so i i absolutely do appreciate as a parent as a parent who doesn't live in cheshire and have had to deal with a lot of schedule like my kids aren't in school um frankly half as much as they are in cheshire um i can appreciate you know what what it means to have to adjust your schedule all the time and it's terrible but we we are abiding accelerated learning professional development to help our uh teachers and students uh and as i think you know we heard earlier in the meeting our students are performing actually in many cases ahead of where they were in past years so uh that's a that's a testament to the value of that professional development what it means to our teachers and students um email from stephanie galeno and by the way i'll follow up with uh that parent tomorrow uh a email from stephanie galino it's going to my attention dude the coveted accommodation the children now having lunch first in recess after to my understanding eating and playing doesn't always max when done soon thereafter i've heard that many children are having stomach aches including my own after eating lunch and having research so that's directly after is this something that would change for the future and the weather gets warmer or is this a set order of operation and schools have a discretion to change at any time thank you kindly for reading the email on stephanielino and frankly i i will have to pass this on i just looked it up real quick and that would be a norton school question uh we don't dictate from central office when students eat relative to recess but i will tell you that um the vast majority of times have been kind of past practice to have recess then lunch um and i don't know if something specific came up at norton so i'll ask uh miss grillo to reach out to miss galena and i do know the tents as i said earlier in the spring will provide a lot more flexibility um another email from gemma williams-nussbaum uh i have a couple questions related to quarantining next year in remote learning uh with the weekly early dismissals that have been added throughout the school year for teacher professional development again i think there's the sense that the uh profession the early dismissals over the course of march and i'll show the calendar in a bit are dedicated to professional development actually most of them are dedicated to parent conferences at the elementary grades that were already in there and so we are doing a lot of conferencing but because not uh parents don't it's every single day that parent conferencing is going on you may just assume that it's related to professional development but i hope that all the additional training time is not wasted next year i imagine there will be need for student teacher quarantines close contacts from copen positive cases will the district continue to provide students with tech devices to access remote school as needed for these quarantines do you anticipate that next year we will also require so many early dismissals for teacher training and support i'm also interested to hear that this what the state releases for guidance about remote learning days for weather i personally felt that only two snow days was a shame for the kids and adults alike especially those parents having to manage their child's learning on remote learning days thank you for reading um and all you're doing to juggle the complexity of this year and next i this was an early earlier one today so i had the opportunity to respond i indicated thank you for your email continue to provide technology to all of our students regardless whether or not they have the quarantine next year of course if they do they will be better prepared as you point out i don't anticipate needing the same number of early dismissals next year i certainly appreciate the hardship it creates for parents but it was necessary and necessary evil to provide as much in-person learning at as high equality as we could this year the state has not yet provided guidance on whether or not we can use remote days in place of snow days next year i know many people are eager eager for that guidance if the option is available i will survey our parents and staff to make a well-informed decision i'll also share those results publicly i hope all is well with you and your family thanks again for the email so um that covers our correspondence for this evening thank you katherine and jeff uh hang on well i think up next is the much anticipated superintendent's report tony i i certainly appreciate you giving the introduction that it's on the uh the superintendent's report yeah lots happened in the ronkovic so i no i i know i'm just blessing the jobs i i like to give to try and create a little energy in the room when we do this presentation and overview so i'm going to give a quick overview of where things stand [Music] there we go so for today again i've talked about the sweet suite of consideration mitigation strategies um no one silver bullet but we look at a number of different things vaccination being the most recent um what we've seen lately and i want to be very clear for our board in the community is an uptick in students and anybody in the community frankly uh contracting covet and to the point where we've had discussions about is there a variant because it seems to be a little bit more frequent than it has been an uptick we're not making any connections to school 99 times out of 100 frankly it's a a family member gets sick and then the student ends up getting sick and we find out and um but this is the current data the the data frankly overall is still low but um just this afternoon after after i update this each morning we're going to have to quarantine about 50 students at cheshire high school because of two positive students that had close contacts and activities outside of the school so it outside of the school day the academic schedule so um i really need to remind our families in the community to practice these mitigation strategies they're not just for the school day but mask wearing spacing from others washing your hands those things are so critical and become vaccinated if you can if you're eligible because that's what's really going to help prevent further spread and well we can see the light at the end of the tunnel we're not through the tunnel and i just want to remind everybody of that critical fact that being said what we have seen is a significant swing to more people electing in-person learning so after the you know a couple of weeks after the holiday we were at 25 remote learners now we're at 21 we have 169 fewer remote learners today than we did um at the end of january so uh people are migrating back and we think that's that's very important and it hasn't at all contributed to the spread again we're not seeing in school spread between classes individuals and classes or anything like that but um it is important to get those remote learners back quick update on vaccination progress um i really have to give chest for cat a shout out they've been unbelievable uh we had about a hundred cps employees vaccinated prior to uh the formal vaccination schedule just because they had excess availability and they would we would work together and we got a lot of people over before uh the the formal day which has been very helpful on march 9th we had 373 teachers and ias predominantly vaccinated that was a huge day for us in the health and welfare of our students in our community 133 individuals vaccinated today and those were predominantly subs cafeteria workers and transportation the 373 teachers and ias in group one are scheduled to receive receive a second dose of moderna on april 6th unfortunately you know again i know that this is a real hardship for people um but we're looking to have a remote learning day on the 7th which is already scheduled to be a half day simply because you know the the data that we have is indicating that way i didn't originally plan this but given the fact that our substitute pool has significantly shrunk because a lot of our college kids have made that transition back we don't have the subs to cover the rate of illness that other districts are experiencing with the second dose and i the worst thing i can imagine is us clustering a hundred kids in the cafeteria together for a class because we just don't have subs to watch it uh to watch their class and then trying to call people that day to have their children picked up and you just can't plan for that so we're gonna try and um you know tomorrow i'll be making an announcement to our parents first of all to maintain those mitigation strategies but second that we we have to make this adjustment our schedule on the seventh i'm not worried about learning loss um through that remote day i mean again we've had more in-person instructional time than pretty much anybody in connecticut at this point and we wanna and we have the data to indicate that our students are doing quite well with the professional development that our teachers have received so that's not the fear of mine the fear of mine is creating a super spreader event because i just don't have subs to cover it the second group that was vaccinated today will receive their second dose on april 15th which falls during april break and we are pursuing the possibility of a student vaccination option for families for students age 18 are 16 and up again pursuant to state guidelines and we're meeting with chespercott to discuss how that might look i've also had conversations with local area superintendents to be able to offer this as a collaborative effort through hartford healthcare at the wallingford mass vaccination site at the oakdale theater if we can't work out something with chesapeake or we may be able to work out something with chesapeake and invite those surrounding towns as well so we're all partnering together to try and make our community safer and healthier for our kids and community and so we want to be able to provide that option for our families the emotional impact i have shared this this pretty obvious i guess point with uh our staff but you get wrapped up in the day and and just trying to get day to day and you kind of it gets lost on you and it's powerful to realize that we have about 850 remote learners if and that includes students that are temporarily quarantined right now but to think that we have about 800 students that if they stayed remote through the end of the year they will not have gone to school for 17 straight months from march 13 2020 to august 2021 and when you think about that that's really powerful and it's hard for students it's so critical we we focus so much on social emotional learning it starts with uh physical safety then it's emotional safety and belonging is so critical and so it will be a focus of ours over the coming months to identify these those 800 students connect with those 800 students and invite them back in before the close of the school year we'd really like to see them get back into the building and reconnect with school because if not if we wait that full 17 months it's that much harder for for students who have been out and disengaged to return so one of the things that we're doing is working closely with uh social services uh marlene and i were already planning a summer return to school um activity for remote learners to try and re-engage them with school if they haven't been back because it can be anxiety producing and we hear that from families to to return and we're working with social services to help us with that effort they you know just connected in with them today and michelle picarillo and social services they are amazing and they they're always so supportive of anything we need and this is no different so i just wanted to make people aware of that too what is cheshire high school doing moving forward i single them out because that's the only school that um has not been full time all year uh we've been adding students i know faith talked a little bit about this from the curriculum update but 331's receiving in person four days a week uh 239 of those were added after january 1st and we just recently surveyed all parents to assess interest in coming back more time what we're doing is prioritizing struggling learners at the moment and really we're looking at bringing significantly more students back next month as i said the the teacher vaccinations will be administered on the sixth which will make our students safer the sixth is also the first day that um those i think it's 45 and under uh are can 45 and over excuse me can access the vaccine with 16 year olds right it might even be on the fifth as well so we're um sensitive to that and trying to make sure that we can get as many students in as we possibly can for the affirmation affirmation reasons as well as just being better instructionally we do continue to plan to hold wednesdays for remote learning to make sure that we can continue to facilitate our our education around health and well-being but the more students that we get in for remote the from remote the less likely we are to continue that so hopefully by the end of the year we have five days full in uh all day and a lot of the districts you hear that are going oh they're going in you know in person five days a week most of them are doing half time or many of them are doing half time i don't really consider that all in we want our students full day every day as long as we can do it safely i think tents will be a big step toward that vaccination another big step toward that so before too long hopefully we're there just to touch on april travel guidance um it's currently an executive order which they're hoping to transition to just a recommendation for tomorrow and it may have even been breaking news today i don't know but uh it was the recommendation that travelers out of state self-quarantine for a period of 10 days when they come back from the state that they were in you also have to fill out a form all of this is on our website but um that looks like it'll become a recommendation tomorrow and that if it's a recommendation we will not enforce the recommendation for our students and staff it's it's simply just too hard to know and um you're i think you're crazy if you if you feel like everybody's gonna self-disclose that they traveled and it's just too much to navigate so we're asking people to again be safe and smart and do do their best to maintain public health um the schedule adjustments this is for the remainder of the year so april 7th already a half day we're now looking to make that remote learning for all grades for the day um and again there's no decision on remote learning in place of snow days and just to show you our calendar here real quick uh here we are in march like these days the today was a remote conference day conference day so we've had some of these conference days and pd's already built in uh the 31st was an added early dismissal for um for professional development which is oftentimes planning for synchronous learning as well because we still have as i showed you before 20 percent of our students are remote learners at this point and so we're trying to balance that as well so the uh the only addition here is that the only change is that april 7th will become a remote day for our our students other than that we're keeping the schedule as it is for the rest of the year and hopefully that gives a lot more predictability for our families to to be able to get through the end of this school year that that is my covet update i also would like to uh really quickly hit on a few marquee items this month march is board member appreciation month and i just want the community uh may not i mean here we are at ten o'clock after meeting uh three hours last night i know that our board members often experience rose petals tossed at them in the streets and stuff expressing the uh the adulation for the job well done uh of course that's a little tongue-in-cheek but i i want to express how much i appreciate the amount of time that you put in to improving the educational experience for the kids in this community it cannot be overstated the amount of effort that goes in by each of you on the screen and how much that is valuable to have these diverse perspectives and opinions and to debate these issues together that's what american democracy is about and um it's really for the betterment of our kids so thank you very much um as such yeah thank you marlene and vin and um we have small token gifts for you uh when we're able to see you hopefully soon in person two other or three other really quick things um this was so extraordinary i really wanted to point it out um today maura atro and don inaudi from darcy school were asked to present for the second year in a row to yale university nurse practitioner students on early childhood development when yale invites your team in to speak about our knowledge and education that's a massive feather in the cap and i can't think of two people uh that could represent cheshire better than them and so kudos to to donna to maura to everybody at darcy that's a tremendous honor and i'm sure yale got something out of the experience today also i want to just recognize a few of our students ishwara benzie juliana destante and isabella del rosso they presented their culminating presentation for the yukon natural resources conservation academy project recently they used one of our a remote classrooms that we put the the audio system into uconn was blown away by it and what they did for their presentation was they're going to along posts on the the farmington trail the cheshire trail you they'll be qr codes where people can scan with their phone and learn elements of the the nature in the area and i just thought that was such a neat idea to engage people in the outdoors particularly at this time um and i know you know technology and outdoors don't always mix but this it made the perfect uh marriage here and congratulations to those students for doing such a great job and this is just a funny little anecdote from luther miller who's the our director of transportation he passed this on to me he said just a side note i had some physical therapy last week and was wearing my treasure shirt and badge two individuals in the waiting room one from hammond and the other from another town i shouldn't have named him told me they think cheshire has done a great job keeping schools open and the kids learning then the physical therapist from another town also expressed the same opinion i haven't been this popular since i was a teenager so i'm glad we could do that for luther and it just made me laugh i thought it was very quick i thought i'd share it with you and that's it for my overview this evening thank you jeff questions or comments from board members i know adam had one oh i'm sorry uh yeah he did pop up first in the comments and then faith uh thank you um i just wanted a uh a clarification um on the uh uh we'll call it super spreader event with the the isolation of the 50 high school students to be clear um was that uh because i know that athletics has opened up and and i know they're taking a lot of precautions there was this due to a school sanctioned athletic competition or was this due to something else not to my knowledge and though and there were two different uh events that yielded the 50 individuals okay but it was an athletic related like so not smart as we know it's been yeah not to mind it wasn't not to my knowledge it wasn't tied to a fox there was a there was one school-sponsored event it wasn't athletic though um was actually the play uh so you know if one individual is positive it can be very tough to identify six feet 15 minutes over the course of two days um and so i think we have a number of students there that are unfortunately quarantined as a result well i hope it works out for the play i hope both groups recover quickly yeah show must go on adam that's right they will find a way those are some dedicated kids thank you yeah faith head um god i thought you just said the plague with the team you eat like okay um real quick um super is severity the illness with coven or what how how bad are the kids um do we know i mean is it i'm just curious and and it's it may not be did i just lose everybody you were breaking up a little bit okay okay i'm just wondering how severe the infections were in in the uh yeah i i you know i don't just discuss um the impact of medical situations on students but i will tell you holistically um children of that age group at the high school level um the the fatality rate is next to zero and um you know i'm not a doctor to be able to tell you long-range impacts not that sort of doctor anyway but um the all the accounts that i've had of any student who's been um identified as having covid have been relatively mild the other thing that i understand is that with the variant it is much much like more likely to spread and less likely to be um severe yeah as the mutations occur particularly as more people get vaccinated will be in a better place but um to my knowledge you know the the health of the kids is okay at this point um and it's just a matter of quarantining and and taking care of them yeah and i i think that's what we hope and expect the virus will do is just kind of fizzle that's a great word okay so okay um i had an a a comment earlier and it's just that it's just a request and i know i should have raised this when we were going over the calendar um is it possible to put in another shape another color or something to mark ends of grading periods because i know i was looking the other day trying to find it on the calendar and um couldn't and it's it would be helpful i think for everybody just just a suggestion sure interestingly enough i i don't think we've done that in the past because with snow days they always get changed um and it you know can be confusing i i think schools tend to keep that more on their calendar particularly you know i know at the high school with exams their end of marking period is different so the end of marking period is different at the middle elementary and high schools that might be a little confusing on our already kind of confusing but maybe we can have a supplemental calendar with that and we can explore that carol and i can talk about that tomorrow okay and last but not least i do want to give a shout out to juliana desanti who is my neighbor and we are blessed to have her next to us and she is just one amazing kid end of yeah great job thank you thank you tony uh yeah a few questions comments with regard to remote learners um yeah that is the the uh emotional concerns it's a real that's a real concern for me i'm closer you know i have a i have a first grader and a preschooler and that's probably a little bit more on my mind it's not probably it is a little more on my mind than say high school so one thing i'm just this is really intended as encouragement to parents um you know starting going back about a year i had i had initiated just reaching out to parents um to connect kids to have some conversations you know last year it was even worse but i mean there are still i mean worse in terms of no one in school but there are still kids who are not in school and so i just encourage parents to think about reaching out to other parents connecting the kids and what goes through my mind more so with the younger grades is that we do have people who move into town particularly particularly for the schools and they're going to have kids their oldest kids in kindergarten or first grade they don't really know a lot of people um and so i i just think that that could be useful and the the one uh request sorry the one request that i have for um for the schools is you have uh is it possible to send out like uh distribution lists of parents just to the just to the classrooms themselves like phone numbers or emails i mean i think i've gotten some of those emails so it's just something to put out there as an idea to you know reach out to the the teachers the classroom teachers there and if that's something that they would normally do and then just hey uh just so everyone has contacts if you want it just to make it easier for people to make those connections um yeah i'm gonna defer to marlene on this one yeah tim i think what you're talking about darlene at the elementary level yeah can you hear me can you hear me i can okay yes um tim i i think what you're talking about is so important for people to feel connection connection in the community connection in the school um the teachers cannot give out those um email lists or those um you know just name and address lists but i know this was very successful at chapman and i'm sure at other schools too the ptos have been great with hey if you want to sign the birthday list put your name address and phone number here and then you're by signing this you're you know you're giving us your consent and we'll would they specifically tell them we'll share this out with the class so they're really great about doing that so if they're looking for that i would suggest they they reach out to the pta or pto in their school yeah we can we can the thing is yeah so i mean some parents might take the initiative but it's kind of just coming from a different perspective the parents who are not taking the initiative are not connected or not aware of these things they're busy whatever it is but they're their kids their kids could still use that connection sorry i'm going to move on jacob we're meeting with all of our principals tomorrow we can bring it up with them so thank you thank you yeah that that's going on yeah with regard to um with regard to the number of students who at the high school who are attending four days a week um i thought so i thought you said tonight it was probably about 400 who are going four days a week and like in march but then i thought last month you said as of march 1st it'd be close to 700 students going four days a week i just want to be clear on the numbers like how many say on march 1st and expect on april 1st we have we have that 339 i think it is that go every day on top of that we have several hundred more who are going two days a week so on any given day there are more than 700 kids in the building okay okay okay and do you expect to have more kids do you expect to have that number increased for say april 1st did you do another one of those emails who wants to come yes yeah so mary um actually has already tried to pull students back based on a need so she's bringing more students in and i think is um you know we transition into april what she's trying to do is figure out we have some rooms that are physically just very small and for those classes where we have kids and this is what is so painstaking there when we're trying to figure this out for those classrooms that are so small we have to try and find an alternate location for that period where they can have more social distancing so that's that's what takes us longer at the high school to kind of work through that um and we'll let those you know we'll have the teacher maybe meet with them there or half the class goes someplace and they're remote almost for that period it it's kind of tricky but for us to maintain social distancing that's what we've been doing in order to bring more people back sure no no no i have every belief that you're trying to the best the best that you can while keeping the rules in place thank you for that um yeah and and going back to the question i had mentioned before so i don't know if this might be better for vin but basically um there's a group here in town called sustainable cheshire and they reached out to me it was today they were asking about electrification of town the town fleet including the schools so moving from you know the the gasoline engine over to electric cars i have an electric car they are here they are real but generally speaking the heavier the vehicle really like a school bus for the most part you just can't do it right now they exist but it just costs way too much money the economics don't make sense but the cars do and so what i'm wondering about in relation to the request of sustainable cheshire is within our fleet most of our fleet is school buses and we're not about to electrify electrify them this year but we do have other smaller vehicles that we own um then you're saying maybe a dozen or so there are they buses or do we have any passenger vehicles and and when would sort of be a replacement cycle for any of them yeah so the what we have of vans um a few pickup trucks and then we have i believe it's three type two which are the smaller buses a capacity around 20 you know 20 students so that's the board of ed's own vehicles and then obviously there's deco fleet which is large buses small buses um which we could work with daco you know when when electric buses you know become a reality and and you know we know that there are some in the works some pilots and some funding available you know those are things that we'll certainly we're willing to pursue um as far as the replacement cycle on our vehicles is you know as they age out you know they're no longer repairable that's when um you know we we will replace them so you know i don't know at what point you know a van you know which we're using for student transportation when those electric vehicles become you know available and cost effective for us but we'll certainly keep that in mind as we go forward and you know i know we've heard from you know we jeff and i have gotten you know some emails but i don't think it was from the sustainable cheshire group so if you want to afford what you received on um you know i'll certainly weigh in when i can and just keep it in mind yeah they basically and this is for andrew too i'm thinking maybe at some point the next few months like a planning committee agenda item but they they're making presentations they're trying to make presentations to towns about the options that are out there i i i replied to him and i said you know right now i just don't think the technology the economics are probably just not going to make sense but they want to put a plan in place um the uh or they'd like you know the the schools to put a plan in place so the only thing i'm gonna add to it um what you just said we do have a few pick a couple or a few pickup trucks and this is for you and it's for the broader public as well the pickup trucks are arriving this year they they are actually getting put out there fully electric pickup trucks so uh commercially available so anyway that is it thank you thank you tim and i think adam had one last quest i had a question um yeah just a quick question um so with the now seeing that the the vaccination schedule for the teachers it looks like um teachers will be fully vaccinated by the beginning of may is there any point at which you would uh man mandate a full reopen with perhaps a medical exemption like maybe there was a parent or a child who could not receive a vaccination for whatever reason where they could maintain their remote learning but for the most part we would you know achieve 95 98 reopen by you know the beginning of may because of the vaccine if we assuming we maintain high vaccination rates uh in town yeah that's a good question uh first of all i can't mandate students to attend in person per state uh executive order right now uh there i have to i didn't know that i didn't yeah i have to provide remote learning and the vast majority of our teachers a significant number of teachers will be fully vaccinated by the end maybe middle of next week the almost every single one of them that elected to be vaccinated will be fully vaccinated which means i received my second shot in two weeks after that's what the cdc is defining is fully vaccinated now so those people the va like almost everybody will be fully vaccinated by april 21st so you know that that's probably a time where at that point we're we're really trying to bring in as many kids as we can particularly if we can initiate an option for 16 and up to be vaccinated it'd be really nice to for those family again this is not a mandate but for those families a lot to elect it i would love to see our kids vaccinated before proms and graduation you know i just think that's a real game changer for families to feel more comfortable to have grandma at graduation or grandpa or somebody who's medically compromised i you know i i i'm so hurt by the lack of opportunity to connect our community and our kids and our families and engage them in the things they love to do over the course of the last year that you know i wouldn't say i'm desperate but any chance we can to provide greater normalcy in the in the high school graduation experience is certainly part of that prom is certainly part of that for our kids i want to try and do it so i know more of esposito from chesapeake feels the same way and we will do whatever we can to make that a reality for our families if they choose that's great news thank you yeah great thank you since there are no more questions number seven all business we have no old business animate we do have new business three motions as relate to the healthy food certification uh before we get into the motions uh we have these in our packets there's a short paragraph but jeff or or van you want to give the board a quick recap of why we're doing this and and what the statute for for this entails for us yeah i'll pass that on to mr massiana thank you okay i'll give you the 50 000 foot overview so every year the board uh is required to make a decision and determine whether or not we will um agree to meet the connecticut nutrition standards which you know we have been doing here in cheshire for many years and we certainly recommend that we continue to do so and the three motions although they're kind of complex you know that once you get through the gibberish it's pretty straightforward you know the first motion is that the board certifies that we will participate in the healthy food certification and meet the connecticut nutrition standards this applies not to reimbursable meals because those do meet the connecticut nutrition standards they have to this applies to snacks and a la carte items that are sold so the first motion is just the board certifying that will participate and then the next two motions are exemptions to food and beverage that enables any fundraising activities to not be required to meet those exemptions so a simple example at the concession stand you know when there's a football or other game they can sell soda we can never sell soda inside our buildings we can't do it inside any of the vending machines that we have but the exemptions allow for fundraising and other groups to sell those items on school property there is a monetary component to this by participating in the healthy food certification we get an additional 10 cents per reimbursable meal you know added to what we receive in terms of aid and that amounts to roughly 30 000 per year is what we've been averaging so that's the uh quick backdrop of healthy food certification thank you vincent and what we do is we'll uh we'll go through each motion if there's any discussion each motion will just follow all that so um and will anyone like to make the first motion motion number one catherine thank you mr chair sure um i uh the first motion is move that pursuant to cgs section 10-215 f the cheshire board of education certifies that all food items offered for sale to students in the schools under its jurisdiction and not exempted from the connecticut nutrition standards published by the connecticut state department of education will comply with the connecticut nutrition standards during the period of july 1 2021 through june 30 2022 this certification shall include all food offered for sale to students separately from reimbursable meals at all times and from all sources including but not limited to full stores vending machines school cafeterias culinary programs and any fundraising activities on school premises sponsored by the school or by non-school organizations and groups period thank you catherine is there a second oh and seconds she had a handful uh any construction faith yeah uh tony you said that uh um not tony sorry ben you said that um we get thirty thousand dollars in reimbursement under this program how much does it cost us to meet compliance i mean it really doesn't cost us anything to to meet compliance because there are certain requirements we'd have to meet you know like the sale of beverages they you have to meet the connecticut statutes for the sale of beverages in schools so you know i really can't attribute a cost to doing it and if there's any additional cost for the food items you know that's included in the in the pricing you know for the food items we sell so it's passed along to the consumer so to speak i i mean i've already made my position known regarding state mandates um and this is one of them i think we're smart enough to know that we are not going to feed unhealthy children food to our children nevertheless i understand that it's state law and until the law changes we must comply um but i'll be quiet now thank you okay thank you faith any other comments tim thanks tony uh yeah just really quick the way the way it reads i'm trying to understand it says you know food given to students so as an example you have uh rotary does uh pancake breakfast students might be there but i think it's more coincidental it's more of a community thing does it apply to groups like that the this is for this is for like a pto fundraiser type of thing not for a regular adult civic group well it would apply to and that's where the exemptions come in it would apply to any event that's held on school grounds so that's why you need the exemptions so that you can have those pancake breakfasts or sell items at concession that don't meet the connecticut nutrition standards thank you i know i've said this in the past i'm sorry tony but you know the food service you know school nutrition is very technical the amount of details around what um items meet the connecticut nutrition standards are intense i can send the board members the link to the website where the the lists are available and they're updated and changed constantly so there really is a lot you know to to this and again it's all in the interest of making sure that we're serving products to our students you know in this case on snacks and olive cart sales that are good for them so you won't see any fried potato chips but you will find that there's baked chips and you know we do have cereal available but you know it's going to be all whole grains so there is a you know a technical element to this but it is in the interest of providing healthy stuff for our kids thank you any other questions uh for for sake of saving time i'm not gonna reread the motion uh but all those in favor raise your hands all those opposed one opposed uh the motion passes thank you second motion would someone like to make motion number two adam chairman thank you i haven't spoke i haven't spoken in well over five minutes so i figured motion number two uh move that the cheshire board of education will allow the sale to students of food items that do not meet the connecticut nutrition standards provided that the following conditions are met one the sale is in connection with an event occurring after the end of the regular school day or on the weekend two the sale is at the location of the event and three the food items are not sold from a vending machine or school store an event is an occurrence that involves more than just a regularly scheduled practice meeting or extracurricular activity for example soccer games school plays and intergalactic interscholastic debates are events but not soccer practices play rehearsals and debate team meetings are not did i read that quickly the regular school day is the period from midnight to before 30 minutes after the end of the official school day location means where the event is being held and must be the same place as the food sales end motion and here again seconds any discussion on this one seeing as there are none all those in favor please raise your hand all those opposed there's one opposed the motion passes thank you motion three this is for beverage exemptions who like to make this final motion okay i'll do it oh you do it okay all right uh move the cheshire bar education will allow the sale to students of beverages not listed in section 10-221-q of the connecticut general statutes provided that the following conditions are met one the sale is in connection with an event occurring after the end of director's school day or on the weekend two the sale is the location of the event and three the beverages are not sold from a vending machine or school store an event is an occurrence that involves more than just a regularly scheduled practice meeting or extracurricular activity the school day is a period from midnight before to 30 minutes after the end of the official school day location means where the event is being held it must be the same place as the beverage sales any is there a second and seconds any discussion okay all those in favor please raise your hand thank you all opposed there's one opposed the motion carries thank you everyone we're a motion passer thank you i have no update uh the only thing i want to mention is uh i'll read the upcoming meetings uh before we adjourn but uh again if we jeff mentioned earlier it's board member appreciation month day week that's it let's be recognized thank you i do want to thank all all of us on the board all my colleagues it's uh it's been one heck of a a year and going and i think everyone's been doing a fantastic job very much engaged i love seeing the the uh respectful debates and and everyone's so again thank you it makes uh easy for everyone uh the other thing i want to say is there is one last modernization committee meeting this month before uh the options are presented to the to the town council on board of it my ask of you and again i take this and it's a good nature ask it's nothing um issue wise ann andrew myself you know we we every meeting and even between meetings i know the three of us in some way shape or form are you know given information to the committee from the board we're sharing our perspectives we're starting to share the feedback tonight my ask is if you can email the monetization committee um with any questions concerns or other things you'd like to see uh being considered for the presentation i think hearing from all of us um especially before they wrap up this month will be huge uh you know they've been added what we've been at since uh 20 late 2019 a lot of information and it's hard to um you know watch a three hour plus meeting you know and and try to get through i understand that but based on what you heard tonight everyone's bought some really good points and concerns and opportunities i think it's worthwhile for them to hear it and if you have time to share what you said tonight i think that would help tremendously we'll certainly bring those to the table next uh the next meeting but other than that before we adjourn um the next meeting with policy on tuesday april 6th at 6 30. we have curriculum april 19th at 7 o'clock and the next boardroom business meeting is april 22nd uh that being said i would like uh planning committee to entertain possibly holding a meeting to review that report at smc after the first and you know maybe before to our board meeting the 22nd that could be worked out after um just a reminder that april 2nd is good fridays uh schools and office will be closed spring break well it's already spring uh april 12th and 16th is spring break all schools are closed and lastly may 31st memorial days and schools and offices will be closed as well that being said thank you um is there a motion to adjourn i'm sorry tim you have a question yeah just just really quick uh personnel i'll probably be planning i'll probably be uh scheduling a personal committee meeting in the next month um and then uh second of all for andrew or for vin have we heard back from michael saum about solar carports and should there be something like tack it on to a planning committee meeting no answer nothing necessary right now but i just want to mention that yes michael some did send some information i owe him a call back but we'll be ready for the next planning committee meeting okay thank you i'm sorry tim i wasn't uh i was chuckling earlier i just it it was nothing uh so thanks my personal meeting i i assume it's because we're kind of in the closet school year we probably start planning for some activities we gotta do related reviews and things like that so thank you for for saying that uh that being said is there a motion to adjourn faith is there a second catherine sorry she's quick all in favor good night i passed you nancy thank you everyone uh especially our administrators and staff and carol mike i appreciate um we all appreciate your time good night guess what busy day tomorrow stay safe
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good afternoon and welcome to the joint committees on education and committee on agriculture and environment this meeting including the audio and video of remote participants is being streamed live on youtube you will find links to viewing options for all senate meetings on the live and on-demand video page of the legislature's website this zoom meeting and you too youtube live stream event will include the 3 o'clock pm joint agenda for the committee on education and the committee on agriculture and environment the 310 joint agenda for the committee on education and the committee on hawaiian affairs the 315 joint agenda for the committee on education and the committee on higher education and the 320 and 321 pm agendas for the committee on education in the unlikely event that we have to abruptly end this hearing due to major technical difficulties the committee will reconvene to discuss any outstanding business on monday march 22 and a public notice will be posted on the legislature's website i'd like to take this time to remind our testifiers that due to time restrictions on our hearings we will be limiting testimony to one minute per testifier per bill for the people participating remotely all testifier audio will be muted and video disabled until shortly before it is your turn to testify when i call your name staff will unmute you and your time will begin after your one minute is completed staff will mute you so that we can move this hearing along in an orderly and efficient manner thank you so our three o'clock agenda jointly with comedian agriculture and environment we have one item house bill 767 hd2 relating to the farm school program moves the hawaii farm to school program from the department of agriculture to the department of education establishes a programmatic goal for the department of education that that at least 30 percent of food served in public schools shall consist of locally sourced products by 2030 creates an annual reporting requirement and to testify we have randy tanaka department of education randy are you there hello sir kidani members of the committee chair gabbard thank you very much for your time we have submitted testimony and willing to answer questions that you may have we continue to dedicate ourselves to using more locally produced products for our students and thank you for this opportunity you next to testify phyllis shimabukuro kaiser hawaii department of agriculture i'm sorry board of agriculture phyllis are you there good afternoon cheers kidani and gabrielle morrison on behalf of the department of agriculture uh we will stand on our testimony noting strong support for the pharmaceutical program and offering some comments thank you thank you more micah munipatta testifying for ulupono initiative good afternoon jared kidani chair gabbard members of the committees michael munica here on behalf of the uberpony initiative we'll stand on our written testimony and strong support of this measure there are some recommended amendments just to tighten up some of the gold language we hope that you will consider making those amendments and we do appreciate the chairs looking to streamline some of these bills i know that there's been quite a bit of support from this legislature to to move on farm to school and we appreciate any consideration of bringing some of these bills into play and that one in particular we're looking into is potential regional preference as far as farm to school movement going forward thank you very much cheers thank you micah next to testify brian miyamoto for hawaii farm bureau good afternoon chairs kidani and gabbard vice chairs kim minnichiar and members of the committee's brand new motor here on behalf of the hawaii farm bureau we'll stand on our written testimony and support thank you thank you brian next to testify laidy bernal from hawaii farm to school hui laity aloha maika ko laidy bernal a local armed louis coordinator also representing hawaii public health institute and the obesity prevention task force collectively over 60 organizations across the islands we stand on our written testimony and support with the recommended amendment to maintain a program within the hawaii department of agriculture as well as the hawaii department of education thank you very much for your support of pharmacy school thank you ladies next to testify john garibaldi for local food coalition hello chairs vice chairs and members of the committee john garbaldi with the local food coalition we'll stand on a written testimony on strong support and also want to voice our support for gulu kona's amendment requesting a geographic uh preference thank you very much thank you john that concludes the oral testimony we have a number of written testimonies members and um sure gabbard do you guys have any questions for our testifiers yes chair uh i have a question for ulu pono good afternoon yeah micah you mentioned in your one of the amendments was add as measured by the percent of the total cost of food could you just elaborate on that please yes chair um this is just looking to i guess solidify some of the language around the goal we feel that if it's sort of left open-ended there's going to be interpretations that may not get to where farm to school is trying to get by establishing it as an overall percent of total food costs you are addressing the entire meal itself and price are purchases that are made for food itself as opposed to concentrating on one particular category whether it's like the main dish or the side vegetables or the fresh side when you do it a percent like that you actually only encompass a smaller percent of the total meal so we're looking at you know making the biggest impact here and you know by our calculations with some of the the pilots that have been done on kohala mililani and the island of kauai we do feel like the 30 can be attained thank you mike thank you chair thank you members any questions okay if there are no further questions called recess welcome back to the joint committee on education and committee on agriculture and environment and we are hearing house bill 767 hd2 the committees have discussed this and the recommendation of the chair will be to pass house bill 767 hd2 with amendments to remove on page 2 line 14 the words and other institutions as this program position will just be for farm to school we'll also note in the committee report that in order to achieve the goal of 30 the doe should employ multiple strategies such as geographic preferences in procurement inclusion of food hubs and other localized strategies members questions if not chair boats eye chair votes eye on house bill 767 house draft two senate draft we're going to amend it to a senate draft uh chair votes i vice chair vote side center de la cruz is excused senator canooha hi senator favela madam chair with five members one being excuse your recommendations adopted thank you this concludes this hearing you mean you have an opinion okay go ahead and share gabbard thank you chair okay uh folks same recommendation for aen any discussion i'll go ahead and take the vote on chair boat's eye vice chairman shihara is excused senator ocasio hi senator rhodes all right senator fidella all right that is that everybody yeah okay uh the measure passes thank you members thank you this concludes this hearing okay sorry thank you and welcome this is the comedian education and committee on hawaiian affairs for joint committee meeting to hear house bill 753 hd1 relating to school impact fees to testify we have randy tanaka department of education randy please vice chair kim aloha we stand by the testimony we have submitted and stand by to answer any questions if you have aloha thank you randy we have william ayla jr testifying for department of hawaiian homelands mr eyes uh first of all thank you cherokee for scheduling this bill we stand in strong support in this bill and believe that it will it highlights the fact that the department already houses many charter schools and [Music] is contributing to the education of the significant savings now can be applied to the development of additional lots for awards to get beneficiaries thank you very much for consideration thank you mr isla members of education committee are there any questions for these testifiers i have a question senator vice chair kim mr aila what is what how much are these uh fees that you expect to save i know it might be variables but it will likely be in the several millions of dollars because and it depends on where um development occurs but one example is there's a hundred and sixty lots in homestead on maui the school impact fee of 5 373 per lot times 161 lots is 800 600 865 000 um dollars and uh it's close to 900 000 just for one development okay thank you question for education who's that randy tanaka randy so wendy when you folks do these impact fees do you give any kind of credit for the whatever contributions they may make in the case of what um the hhl is saying senator from what i understand the way the impact fees were created was to help subsidize the building of new schools right and that's the equation is based upon either land or cash contributions to the to the cause of building the new school um that's my degree of understanding of how the the formula was created i cannot start the center oh no when i was on the console and we did these unilateral agreements and when there were impact fees for affordable housing or impact fees for schools we would look at equivalencies if you want to call it that or any other contributions that they might be making that would in fact lessen some of the impacts because they're they're making up for it in some way so i wasn't sure if that's something that also goes on at doe that you know taking note that whoever is building the homes if in fact they are contributing in other ways that addresses some of the issues of education educating our students in those areas that the fees could be lessened or or waived um your correct senator of recent history what i have seen is really two two factors land of cash other contributions uh other teacher housing is a discussion we're having with another developer right now has not been in recent times added to that formula but we are now asking for other other uh opportunities or assets that they may have willing to let not necessarily cash okay that's something i think that that discussion should take place and we should be a little more flexible as we look at these impact fees absolutely thank you thank you for the questions members chair uh do your members have questions yeah i have a question sure go ahead senator phillips oh sorry come on no no no go ahead well the only concerns that i see going forward and i understand the breakdown of the new development of maui um but in the complete region her unit her uh on how much impact he's gonna spend uh in that area by [Music] we need to get our beneficiaries of hopes but it will start to accept it in the first place so uh maybe uh for many of them others develop and expect the same expectation as saying that we're discriminating against uh and i'm not sure if maybe randy um if you know if there's any provisions for that going forward i'm sorry senator if you can repeat the question the question is uh if we do this bill and then we pay impact fees because we know we need to get beneficiaries on all the hawaiian vote uh developments i want to stop the other developers are asking for the same consideration going forward on their impacts senator i expect we will get that question but i think our relationship with the hhl and their objectives and their mission to provide more homes for our community especially the hawaiian community is a different perspective most of the the things that we have gotten through the impact fee has been land so this exemption really goes towards actually building the homes we need that dhhl has been working so hard to do going forward the deals are not all the same but i do expect and i would if i was them i would ask how come they got the deal and we we didn't get the deal but i think we need to take that on a case-by-case basis thank you i just figured i asked that now at least we have that on the right going forward knowing that without an agreement um what is the cause and why we are working foreign thank you thank you any further questions from members of hawaiian affairs excuse me yes um add a comment until i ask questions or so it's not that the department isn't contributing the department has contributed for many years in giving gratis leases to a numerous charter schools on dhh land so the department has been in a sense contributing to education into facilities of the doe the charter schools are part of the dod and i just wanted to make that that clear that it's not it's not it's not a free lunch we are contributing to the education of public school students through charter schools thank you for clarifying that important information follow-up i'm sure senator kim has a follow-up um again so randy wouldn't it be a lot um fair in the sense that there's a some kind of a metrics which would consider other types of contributions and how that relates because you know providing leases on land for charter schools may be more than what you're asking for the five thousand could be less right and as far as what kind of credits a developer would get and we want to try to i mean yes we want to make sure that there is homes for our hawaiian population but we want to make sure there's homes for everybody that lives here right so the developer any developer can claim well if i don't have to give you land i could build more houses on that land and therefore have more homes so if you know if that's going to be the argument or one of the arguments then we need to have something that is systematic applies to everybody so we don't get into a discrimination lawsuit of any kind and so i think it's imperative that d.o.e does that and that these kinds of exceptions are not actually put into this measure but you folks have it and that they can receive a credit and they might receive more of a credit that could be applied to another parcel because that's how we do it in the city so um you are absolutely correct and my predecessors had begun that thought but didn't formalize it we are in the process of formalizing and creating a metric so we're all on the same page when when this occurs and there will be a continuum of development especially in the kapolei air going forward so our our plan by design will be to give those elements uh some weighting uh towards how the how the impact fee is measured currently the it's primarily in terms of land or cash but we will work on that absolutely okay that's just troubling that is not part of your testimony and this is not something that you know you're informing us and taking a stronger active lead on it so that would prevent these kinds of legislation that will continually um exempt one one group of people versus another so um understood understood point well taken thank you is it uh canada casio yeah chair thank you i have a question i'm just thinking are there any other state-funded agencies that are that act as a pass-through for these impact fees senator not i think too that i just wanted to make a note that as we see more and more uh multi-generational families coming into developed housing already and i see that a lot in mililani our schools are becoming overcrowded and there's more of a need to build more buildings or uh you know double depth or buildings and that there's no impact fee at all coming in so it does put a big burden on on the state as well as a department of education to figure out how we can do this and and have the correct um schools amount of classrooms that we need for for our students so that is a problem also if there are no further questions and we'll go into recess welcome back to the joint committees on education and hawaiian affairs we are we have deliberated on house bill 753 hd1 relating to school impact fees the recommendation of this chair is to pass this house bill with amendments the amendment is to insert a sunset date on the exemption for dhhl properties for three years also inserting language that will expand the eligible uses of school impact fees similar to what is found in part two of senate bill 468 members questions if not chair votes eye chair votes eye on house bill 753 with amendments vice chair was both with reservations senator de la cruz please excuse senator canujo aye senator favela senator fabella you're unmute can hear me now yes yeah reservations okay reservation marine chair four members president uh your recommendations adopted thank you thank you juan affair same recommendation um vice chair kyo and kaloli are able to take the vote i was i don't know obviously maybe he's not present i can take the vote okay so um he's there miley i see him oh okay okay vice chair no colonial take the boat please can you hear me yeah okay yes yes okay hb753hd1 passing with the men miss shimon bokoro aye vice president senator castillo aye ihara is excused senator favela care preservation adopted thank you very much thank you many things adjourned thank you for joining us this is the joint committee on education and committee on higher education we are here to hear senate concurrent resolution nine and senate resolution 8 convening a task force to address implementation of hawaii state law corollary to title ix in light of recent changes to federal title ix regulations to testify beth shimmer shimmel fenning for d.o.e and otm admin my name is beth schimel fennig i'm the director for civil rights compliance branch of the office of talent management i'm here testifying behalf of dr christina kishimoto thank you for this opportunity we stand on our written testimony and support thank you testifying next is jennifer rose for the university of hawaii jennifer good afternoon chairs kidani and mercado kim and members of the committees um i am here on behalf of vice president govaya and okinawa we stand in support of this resolution and have provided some comments i'll be available for questions if you haven't thank you thank you next to testify yonggi overly for aauw of hawaii yankee please good afternoon teresa dhani and sir ricardo kim and members of the committee my name is yankee oberli i'm the public policy chair for aauw of hawaii we are we stand on our written testimony in strong support thank you for the opportunity thank you next to testify nora balo testifying for the everly voice every voice coalition hi madam chair not present thank you next to testify and achua individual anna doctrine chairs vice chairs and members committee my name is anna and i'm a student at the university party at manoa i stand by my written testimony scr9 um i just wanted to be saying that i really believe that this resolution and this task force would move forward the movement to prevent rape culture from advancing on college campuses and i think it helps us to move beyond being reactionary and instead push to upgrade many sources of sexual and gender-based violence on college campuses like uh making performances thank you we have no further testifiers we do have several written testimony also members are there any questions for our testifiers and senator kim you have any questions okay we are since there are no questions we are going to move into the next item on the agenda which is uh joint again with higher education and education and for those of you just joining in the meet this meeting including the audio and visual video of remote participants is being streamed on live and youtube and uh in the event that we are abruptly interrupted due to technical difficulties the committee will reconvene to discuss any outstanding business on tuesday march 23 at 3 pm and a public notice will be posted on the legislature's website scr 89 this is urging the university of hawaii systems and department of education to include training courses and curriculum related to the mechanics repair and maintenance of electrical vehicles hydrogen vehicles and other alternative fuel vehicles in their programs um is just an scr we don't have an sr on this okay just the sdi first to testify scott glenn from the hawaii state energy office in support aloha this is kirsten baumgardt turner i'm here for scott glenn in the white state energy office thank you kirsten please proceed and members of cheers committee the hawaii state energy office supports this resolution we acknowledge that programs to prepare and train the workforce to participate in the growing alternative fuels vehicles sector are needed to support the continued successful adoption and operation of these new technologies and we acknowledge the work that the university of hawaii is doing and feel that this is supportive of their continuing efforts in that direction so we appreciate the opportunity to testify mahalo thank you kristen uh erica lacro from the university of hawaii community colleges comments june chi from hawaiian electric chairs vice chairs and committee members my name is jean chi with hawaiian electric i would stand on our written testimony in support of this resolution and also provide suggested ambitions for consideration to also include courses curriculum and training for electric vehicle supply equipment or ev charging stations in addition to electric vehicle maintenance thank you for this opportunity to testify thank you very much we don't have anyone else here in on zoom to testify we have written gotten written testimony from about nine other individuals all in support uh any questions members of hre or education committee any questions no hearing not did you want to go into breakup or just go into decision making i don't have any questions so you can go into decisions okay well go into decision making you want to start off with um the first one scr9 and sr8 oh okay so for scr9 and sr8 the recommendation of the chair is to patent the chair of education it's the past with amendments inserting the amendments to match abyss to the amendments made in hcr 12 hd one okay cr8 and rcr9 yeah so scr8 and sc sr8 and scr9 it's friday i'm sorry toss it amendments to pass with amendments okay chair votes i okay we're gonna take the two resolutions together sr-8 srs to pass with amendments the chair is voting i the vice chair will be voting i senator de la cruz aye senator kanuha aye and senator i'm senator favela it's a friday afternoon guys with five members all present all voting and affirmative your recommendation for both resolutions is adopted okay for these uh scr 89 urgent i'm sorry oh sorry okay so higher ed you got it i have it okay you take it that's why we don't usually have hearings in the afternoon you guys are acting like too much too many people within the uh and d.o.e [Laughter] no comment okay okay so some recommendation for the committee on higher education to pass with amendments chair votes eye chair votes i vice chair votes i senator agueron excuse senator wakai excuse senator favela misha is adopted madam chair thank you very much so going on to now scr 89 uh the recommendation is to pass as is that was simple right here's the yes i have okay you guys wait oh that's right okay so recommendation for scr 89 recommendation is to pass unamended chair votes i haven't shared you both sides yes vice chair votes aye senator al goran excuse senator wakai excuse senator favela measure the doctor okay now it's your turn oh so for the committee in education same resolution chair bosai jeff mozar on scr 89 vice chair any members on the higher education committee uh voting with reservations any member voting negative if not all members president voting i your recommendations adopted thank you and that concludes this hearing have one more right thank you for joining us this is a 3 20 p.m hearing on committee on education 3 20 p.m friday march 19th in room 229 to hear house bill 613 relating to education makes an emergency appropriation for fiscal year 2021 for elementary and secondary school emergency relief fund esser funds monies received by the state from the cares act to testify brian hallett from the department of education brian please hi good afternoon cheridani vice chair kim the department offers comments on this measure we have them in writing and we stand by if there are any questions thank you next to testify mitsy higa hawaii state teachers association hi aloha chair kidani um speaking for corey rosalie hawaii state teachers association we stand in strong support as you know there has been much delayed confusion from the department of education regarding the fact the spending of carers act ser funding and even now going into the american rescue act which we don't know how it's going to be spent yet thus we support this measure because it will solidify retaining our teachers which is the most important thing that our students need along with the supports within the school and our district level who support our special ed students we need all of these things and we need to retain them first as that is what is best for to focus on studying student learning and achievement thank you thank you next to testify shari nakamura testifying for hey coalition yes aloha fudani vice chairman kim and members of the committee sharing here from coalition i would like to stand on our written testimony in support of hb613ht2 and offer a suggested amendment for your consideration thank you for this opportunity to testify thank you members that concludes the oral testimony we do have several written testimonies members are their questions regarding to house bill 613 if not uh recess i met him chair we were now into the breakout room is the only thank you welcome back to the committee on education friday march 19th 320 conference room the chair is recommending that we pass house bills 613 hd2 with amendments we are adding to page 4 lines 1516 to read as follows and who are employed at the school level in the classroom we're adding the language in the classroom and we're also defecting the date to july 1st 2051 members questions if not chair votes eye chair votes eye on house bill 613 passed with amendments all members on the hre committee anyone voting in the negative anyone voting with reservations hearing none eu committee i'm sorry your committee did you say did i say higher education committee five members all present voting and affirmative your recommendations adopted thank you that concludes this hearing we have thank you for joining us on the committee on education friday march 19 3 21 pm agenda conference room 229 first on the agenda is scr 100 and sr 77 requesting the department of education to provide free menstrual products to students on all hawaii public school campuses to testify heidi armstrong department of education hi good afternoon sharoki dani and vice chair kim heidi armstrong from the department of education testifying on behalf of superintendent kishimoto the department stands on its testimony for scr 100 the intent of this resolution would absolutely support our students however to implement this proposal additional funding would be required we did a preliminary estimate for year one costs which include the dispensers receptacles and supplies and the estimated total for this would be 1.3 million dollars the recurring annual costs to provide free menstrual products is estimated at about eight hundred and fifty three thousand dollars per year the cost for replacing these pads every year was derived by using the total number of girls in grades 5 through 12 which is 52 643 in all schools this includes the 5 902 girls in the charter schools and the 46 741 girls in grades five to 12 in our doe in our doe schools estimating that they would use two pads per day five days a month ten days or ten months a year and estimating the cost of the pad at 14 cents a pad that gave us our total of 853 for 853 000 for recurring costs the department supports this effort and recognizes that logistics need to be addressed but an appropriation would be necessary to make this a reality and i thank you for this opportunity to testify thank you assistant superintendent armstrong next we have courtney hamakawa department of education hi madam chair she's not president thank you next laverne moore testifying for hsta hello chairperson speaking on behalf of corey rosenly president of the hawaii state teachers association we strongly support the resolution it will move toward providing free feminine hygiene products in our secondary schools what is happening is many of our students stay home because they cannot afford the sanitary pads what this does is it brings gaps in their education in order to better service our students we need to provide the products they need in order to be successful in school the hsta strongly supports this resolution thank you for the opportunity to testify thank you laverne next we have nicole's liverens for hawaii health and harm reduction center hi madam chairs he's not present thank you next we have nikki and me for my movement hawaii vice chair kim and committee members my sisters and i started mighty movement hawaii to end period poverty in the state we strongly support the resolutions and stand by our testimony we're a native hawaiian and we have seen and experienced firsthand the struggles that many locals face when i was 12 growing up on hawaiian homelands in waimanalo our mom died leaving behind five children my youngest sister ended up in foster care and we lost touch it breaks my heart to know that she was without our mom or us and she would not have a safety net in the family she lived with or the schools that she went to especially when it came to period care because of it she missed school and her health and well-being suffered we're finding out through our work it's still happening today that's why we stand behind every menstruator because no one deserves to feel any less or suffer unnecessarily because of their biology or family situation mahalo for all the work you do and thank you again thank you next to testify michelle pandry an individual hi madam chair president thank you jamie kapana hi thank you my name is jamie and i support sci 100 because i believe that period products should be free in all public schools students shouldn't have to worry about the shame of not being able to afford a basic necessity i know that you don't know me or my story but growing up i had an unstable housing situation which made it difficult to get something so basic menstrual products none of my schools that had it and i couldn't ask anyone we need to end the stigma and take care of our students how can we do this by offering these products to students for free how amazing would it have been for schools to provide these products to students without this shame so they feel safe seen and understood thank you for taking the time to hear my testimony thank you jamie next sarah miliana laughing aloha chair i'm going to yield my testimony to my elima students go ahead and get it started alana nice and loud i'm mute good lima afternoon active school this is very important to me because children deserve equal education but children and teens miss days at school because their families cannot afford these necessities lastly i want to thank senator kirwani for meeting with us on march 5th to talk about the issue thank you ashanti hello my name is student of the lima intermediate first i would like to thank representative caruso for helping us for their first year first first bill last year and for helping with the resolution today this particular concept today is important to me because having emotional products both close by because of your people without their period unexpectedly thank you thank you go ahead rizzell nice and loud hello hello i am a seventh grader from elima intermediate activist club pets should be a school supply because band-aids and pencils are like pads and are similar to each other and i don't think that menstrual products are less useful than band-aids and pets thank you rizz go ahead bryce lee good afternoon my name is bryce lee rio i am in seventh grade from the luma intermediate and i think men and boys should not be scared or avoid periods because it did not happen to them and also i would like to say santa claus for helping us with sb 966 although it didn't pass thank you bryce lee finish us go ahead elia hello my name is i am in 8th grade thank you chair for having us providing free period supplies in schools will fight stigma no one should be afraid of periods it's natural mahala for your time thank you chair thank you students aloha members that is the end of our oral testimony and we have at least 50 other written testimonies all in support of this measure um let's see i have a question for um assistant superintendent heidi armstrong fees my senator hi heidi you noted that it would cost 1.3 million the first year because you need dispensers and i'm assuming you're going to put these dispensers in restrooms yes and so for this for that estimate um we didn't include every single girl or gender gender neutral restroom in grades 5 through 12.
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[Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay i called to order the workshop for the bullhead city elementary school board on friday march 19th 2021 at 6 p.m uh roll call corey burgess here amanda amen here charlene diaz here all right we are only missing jeannie borland and brandy dubois dr stewart if i can get kim to start flashing up some some policies for you okay so we're still in the whole section that has to do with the school board section b of the policies and most of these are probably things that you won't have much change in so i figured we can kind of blow through them there are a couple um that i'm i'm asking you to re consider some changes to when we put them on the agenda next month um so anyway um i think if you you know we're on bdd right now right okay um so if you don't have i'm i'm just gonna kind of go through them unless you want to stop or you want me to tell you something about what that i think we need to consider i think the only time we really need to stop is if there's changes that you're making okay or recommending okay let's just go through them so all right so next one kim please i don't see any particular need to change any of this with committees you know you can have advisory committee committees anytime you want i don't see any particular need for change in that school attorney this just authorizes you to hire an attorney and i will tell you that most of the time we use the prepaid legal services through the trust i don't remember any time since i've been here that we've actually used the attorney outside of the trust fund you know the trust agreement on behalf of the board next one please same with consultants okay so this is the first one that i'm recommending a change and that's because at your uh at your january meeting we moved the meetings to the second thursday and uh so you know when this one needs to come back officially next month on your agenda for that change this very much refers to the legal part of executive sessions how we run those and i don't see any particular reason to change that one okay this one talks about the minutes for that meeting we we do these things this is an exhibit actually the the only thing that i'm going to say is that i've directed kim that on to recrea to create a new version of that document that corey reads when when we first get into executive session and to add the piece that's roman numeral to so that when we get into executive sessions since there are no public minutes of the cat we do record them we don't do any written minutes so i'm just going to have her create one of those for whoever is running that meeting to make sure that we say the date the time the place who's there and which part of the law we're using to help to hold that executive session and then that other little statement that needs to be read so we're going to implement it there's no change in it but i just wanted you to know why it's going to look different if and when we go into executive session this is an exhibit also and it indicates pretty much that we would have to post a separate posting for executive sessions so eb and ec are are both kind of just how we do this differently we post we post correctly every time we post so i'm recommending that we remove these two and so that can if you all are okay with removing or any more policies or exhibits or regulations than we absolutely have to have all right okay so i would recommend the same for ec and then relative to ed i would recommend we keep it at the time if you want to leave it as e d even though we're doing away with b c b and c we can do that or we can renumber it as make it as e b but i think it could just be left the way it is kim would you go back to that one please okay the reason uh that i'm recommending you keep this is this is the template for the letter that would be sent to an employee who's going to be discussed in executive session or might be discussed in executive session and we do need to inform employees if we're doing that so we don't want to do away with uh with you know this thing okay thanks kim um i don't see any problems with bed uh this is the this is the policy that tells us what must be in our postings and how we need to post we do these uh we follow this uh this procedure okay so i don't see any particular reason to change that and i don't see any particular reason to change b-e-d-e-a we do this already it's kind of superfluous but it's okay to leave it as far as i'm concerned once again these are more specific situations um i'm i'm thinking that eb ec and ed can all go away they're just very specific wording for specific situations and i don't think we need to have specific wording when we include it in our posting anyway uh ee however we have to do this so this is a certification that we have in fact posted out front and on the website and so whenever kim posts she grabs whoever happens to be around to witness that she has posted sometimes it's me sometimes it's the gals in the front it just depends on who's available right at that moment and we need to keep this document uh ef let's see this one we need to keep because if we have as we had in the first semester an emergency meeting we need to follow the the rules for posting an emergency meeting and and then this is the follow-up to the emergency meeting so this is the one that once you've had an emergency meeting you have to post and essentially post what decisions were made at that meeting okay so i think we need to keep that this is the one about the agenda and i opted to recommend to you that we make it look like what our agenda has been looking like rather than change what we've been doing so so you can see the recommended changes there to just make it look uh to represent what we actually have been doing okay and again that will be on the next agenda i have no idea what this means i have no idea why we even have an example that has to do with the arizona commission on the environment so frankly i'm recommending that we remove that one let it go away yes sir i thought so too but there are too many references specifically to that and and there doesn't seem to me to be anything in it that is any different than what we're doing in the other exhibits relative to our meanings so it just seems to me to be superfluous i'm like you i read it about three times and then i thought and i don't get it it doesn't make any sense okay and then um uh this one is fine uh be dba i think it's fine there's nothing really there that's not what we don't is not what we do you know don't do we do these things and it's just telling us how how we're supposed to and is that the last one yep whew yeah okay ten minutes whoo-hoo it's kind of fun kind of fun to blow through them that fast right cory did corey sold 60 tires while we were going through this that's right i wish went back to work all right staffing yes staffing okay um kim would you would you put this document up so the people in the audience can see it and so people on i'm not logged in hold on a second okay so i wanted to report to you the situation with staffing and give you some background prior to the item in the actual meeting agenda that has to do with uh capacity class a pack class capacity so that you had some understanding of the fact that i didn't just pull numbers out of the air and that i wasn't just trying to think pie in the sky that i'm looking at the students the number of students we currently have enrolled in our district making sure that we're going to do everything we can for those same students for next year and still build in a little room for kids who are coming back and since we came back from spring break they are coming back interestingly enough we have families that seem to have thought that when the governor closed schools in march that kids didn't have to enroll or go to school at all particularly when we came back in the fall that's what parents are saying when they come in to enroll their kids at our school sites who have not been in school all year well the schools were closed what were we supposed to do the schools were close okay so we're we're already seeing some of those kids okay so those kids are not included in these numbers at this time unless we had gotten a hold all of our offices called all of the students who were who were no longer with us this year tried to contact every family for kids who were not with us to verify that yes they had transferred because we had lists of kids who had transferred to verify are your have your kids been in some other online school so they made notes of that okay that's fine you know you had that choice are your students coming back to our school district next year yes or no you know is that what's your plan right now and then anybody that we had no idea where the kids were they tried to call all of those numbers and contact those families multiple times frequently the phones were no longer in service or emails were no longer you know functioning or whatever so they got a hold as of as many as they could and of the students that uh whose families we got a hold of those kids are included in this count okay the kids who are not included in this are students that we couldn't we couldn't even get in touch with anybody okay so um and so it's our current students plus the few students whose families they could get in touch with and that's why the total number that you see on page two of this is a little higher than what is in my board report tonight of how many students we have enrolled because we have found some of those kids okay so i wanted to make sure that we were taking care of the kids who are currently in our schools either in person or virtually and and that meant that in some cases we were overstaffed and in some cases were not overstaffed for next year so you can see the the planning here we can account for 233 seventh graders for example you know moving up from sixth grade we can account for 275 8th graders and so on so looking at our current staffing for fox creek and bullhead middle school i need to tell you that there has there have been some positions that have been used incorrectly uh certainly for the past two years and those positions are title one positions so each of those sites has a title one math teacher and each one has a title one language arts teacher and in some cases for resource special ed those programs are supposed to be compensatory those are supposed to be programs that are supplemental to our regular education program so in other words a student who qualifies for title 1 services in language arts has a language arts class and then is supposed to get additional assistance with title one these two sites have been using those positions as regular classroom positions so in the case of bullhead middle school they actually were understaffed for what they should have been and we're making do with what they had for fox creek it was working last year but it also is part of the reason that it wasn't the best and as you can see i'm recommending or i've i've essentially dropped one seventh grade and one eighth grade position in addition to moving those two positions to where they should be and what they should be doing so when you have in school particularly in a junior high when you have two title one positions they become equivalent of a special so it adds to your you know your ability to to place your kids outside of the core classrooms so we're correcting those those situations in both of those sites um okay so we're looking at um you'll notice in the in the agenda i'm requ i'm requesting capacity of 27-28 for seventh and eighth grade and 25-26 for fifth and sixth okay the lower number is the one that i used to staff the schools the extra number the the number that's one up is the wiggle room for kids coming back or kids moving into our community and then if our classes get much bigger than these we want to we want to freeze them at these levels if we can but for every extra kid then we're going to be taking a look at at what number then do i look at adding a teacher and that means one of the things you all are going to be thinking okay well how are we going to pay for any added teachers so when when i send you the um actual you have in front of you i think yes you have in front of you our proposal for esser for sr2 and uh the reason this was not ready for you for tonight's agenda is that all of the webinars and everything that jen and i have participated in they kept saying uh well you can maybe use it for this and you can maybe use it for that but we're not sure it was yesterday at noon that i participated in a webinar from dc that very clearly said here's what you can use it for and essentially only i said there was only one thing we could not use them for so then that meant that we could start making a plan we had in mind what we wanted to do but we but we couldn't really go there when we didn't know okay so you'll notice that on this uh that i gave you in for sr2 and this will come to you formally next month but because jen and i just did this this morning literally this morning the salary so you can see that we're looking at funding those transition classrooms that we've talked to you about with esser funding and we knew we could do that anyway because that's absolutely related to covid and then i've built in to this salaries and benefits for 13 additional possible additional teacher positions so that if we go beyond our capacity by a certain number of kids that then we can add those teachers and we're not hitting the m o budget for it and it is in fact related to covid because we wouldn't have had the drop and we wouldn't have had the disappearing kids who come back if it weren't for covid so we're we're safe with that is it 13 or 26 13 for sure for the transitions and 13 possible which would be the regular classroom people if we need to add classroom teachers okay um because i i thought it would be short-sighted if we didn't figure out a way to fund those possible positions okay so uh on this on this document uh that kim has up you can see then if we go with uh if you approve our our capacity numbers you can see then what we have open for open enrollment requests okay any student who is currently enrolled in any of our schools on open enrollment whose parents completed the form for next year prior to march 1st as they were supposed to do will be will be rolled over so any current students are covered if their parents filled out the form so we're talking here about additional the ability to have additional and you will see lots of zeros and lots of low numbers because i've planned i've scheduled this really tightly because i didn't know what funding we would have okay so then you have the three elementary schools on the second page and any of those numbers for anticipated enrollment that has a star next to it includes transition kids so one reason i gave you this form tonight it was not in your a packet but i gave you this colored form was so you could see how many kids are actually scheduled for those transition classes okay so i have the class numbers there and then and then the class average class size for the classes that are non transition so it looks a little different than the than the white form because the white form takes into account all of the kids and this one shows you how it breaks out i've also color coded the by various budget streams because i'm not sure that board members have ever really had a handle on you know how how we fund different positions and i want you to be able to know you know where where we get the funds for a lot of these positions but the light blue ones are the 13 transition classes that are in this pla in this plan okay so um desert valley numbers look like we need to add four positions uh four of them four positions will be paid for with uh s or money but one of those four will be an el position because they have 48 el kids and those kids have to have an additional 75 minutes a day of el instruction on top of what's going on in their classroom right now it means that the regular classroom teachers are having to shorten the rest of their schedule by 75 minutes to accommodate those students in their classroom so this will be a pull out for next year for el and it pretty much will keep one teacher busy full time to to because you can only you can only put kindergartners together you can only put first graders together you can put second and third graders together in an el class and you can put fourth graders they have to be divided that way unfortunately the people who make these regulations don't schedule things in schools and so they don't have a real good handle on what that does to scheduling and what it does to schools i can't imagine what what happens in smaller school districts so that's kind of a big background thing if you have questions about those either of those documents i'll try to answer them any questions it doesn't look like it awesome i thought you all would have lots of questions about these it's nice to be able to be moving forward and it's yeah and it's nice to be able now to have some numbers when you're looking at at this one it's nice to have some numbers that i can start working on our current m o budget and and start getting some of that get ready to get that balanced because of the esser money it's really nice that's all i have on that sir all right so with that we need to have a motion to adjourn the workshop my motion to adjourn the workshop i'll second it all in favor hi hi i'm ed amen hi charlene diaz some of you are adjourned we have about seven minutes before our next meeting so [Music] so [Music] okay i called to order the regular meeting of bullhead city elementary school board on friday march 19th 2021 at 6 30 pm uh roll call corey burgess here amanda ayman here charlene d is here we are only missing genie borland and brandy dubois item 2.3 citizens present uh the citizens president would please sign in the back so we know that you're here and if you'll join me for a pledge of [Music] of the allegiance states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty thank you item 2.5 the call to the public this the time the public may speak to the governing board regarding issues within the jurisdiction of the governing board and subject to reasonable time space and mana restrictions as the governing board may establish comments will be limited to three minutes per individual unless specifically waived by the governing board at the conclusion of the call of public individual members of the governing board may respond to criticism made by those who have addressed the board may ask a staff to review a matter or may ask that a matter be placed on a future agenda however the governing board cannot take action on matters that have not been noticed in advance as part of the agenda uh we have the two submitted do we have any additional no all right we have two that were sent in by email i will go ahead and read those our first one is from addison scott my name is addison scott i go to fox creek junior high and i was recently informed on the new schedule and about how we are now eating lunch in the cafeteria i personally believe that we should not be able to go into the cafeteria due to covid i feel that there could be a high risk of students getting covered due to the fact that almost all eighth graders is in the cafeteria at the same time it's honestly a better idea for us to stay eating in a third period class at the original time we started at due to the new schedule because of the change in lunch most classes get shorter class times and this causes teachers to not all get the same lessons for each class we should stay in our classes for lunch because i personally feel that feel i personally would feel very uncomfortable sharing a cafeteria where we eat food and we all take our masks off at one time without the eighth grade because of we could spread covet faster thank you for your time sincerely addison scott our second one is from brooklyn harvey i think we should stay in our classroom in the third period because it's really no point in us go to the cafeteria we can't move we have like no time to eat lunch and we eat lunch so early it would just it would be it would be better just to eat in the classroom plus we're not at such a high risk if we're going if we're going to go back in the cafeteria i'd rather go back to normal and i know we can't do that when we can't do that so when we should just stay in our third period classroom for lunch it's better because we can talk and actually get to eat lunch longer and not so early so in my opinion i feel we should just stay in our classroom because our cases will also just get higher at the school and we will have to do online again and i don't want to do because i can't learn online it's so much harder item 2.6 adoption of the agenda should we get a motion to adopt the agenda submitted a motion to adopt the agenda as submitted i'll second the motion all in favor aye corey burgess i'm amanda ehman aye charlene diaz saw moved item 2.7 the superintendent reports dr stewart mr president board members you have a building report financial report and enrollment and attendance reports presented the couple of things that i would like to add in updates first of all we've already talked we talked in the workshop a minute about esser but sr2 our sr1 funds are spent and they're essentially done so sr2 is the one that finally we understood as of yesterday what we could do with it and that's 4.6 million dollars and so you have a an outline or draft of what we want to do with those funds wrapping up this year and through next year the american recovery plan was approved by congress and signed by the president a week or so ago we're calling that sr-3 and the webinar attended yesterday had all kinds of names for it but sr3 was one of the names that is possible and it is supposed to be over two times s or two amounts so we're looking at we we anticipate it's going to be in the neighborhood of 9 million dollars so i just wanted to kind of let you know that i'm kind of dealing with lots of commas right now and actually it's kind of fun i don't know that any of us have ever lived in any minute in education where we've been able to say we have some money to spend to play with and i don't mean play play but i mean some money to to let us do some things that uh we've never been able to do before so um we're kind of happy about that i would also like to let you know that we have resumed the district has resumed participation in community community events lance went and represented both districts at the winter expo our district is scheduled to be represented at the kids expo next week and at both of those uh in both of those settings in any similar setting that comes up we are uh handing out and and politicking if you will really pushing tax credits and handing out those documents and explaining those and i know that at the event the winter expo and and lance had at least one other uh employee from the district or from one of the two districts helping and they were really spending time talking even with snowbirds about the fact that you know there's somebody helping support your kids in whatever district your grandchildren and your children live in and uh and there's still some advantage for you to be helping us so they handed out at least a dozen forms to people who were interested in at least considering supporting us so that was a good thing we are holding a vaccination clinic tomorrow it's a drive-through clinic in front of uh in front of coyote canyon it's funded of course by the state you know by the arizona health department it's being organized and run by the county health department and the people doing the work are national guards people so it'll be open from eight til noon tomorrow and it is a closed clinic so people had to sign up but it's for educators in in the in the community and um so we'll you know we're happy to be able to host that for our folks thanks any other questions thank you item 2.8 donations uh once again our community has stepped up and helped us greatly uh we have one year access to foundation personal finance middle school um uh desert valley received a check in the amount of 770 uh from the blackboard giving fund your cost forward middle school check to the amount of 35 from north carolina for blackboard getting fund sunrise elementary 136 tooth faces two brushes 362 toothpaste 136 toothbrush covers 236 packets of dental floss five hard covered dr seuss books 2 000 paper masks and 24 bottles of hand sanitizer from river city united way estimated about 500 our community has always stepped up greatly and helped us in so many ways and we truly appreciate all the dating for us item 2.9 board member updates we have any information for board members they need share you can have meetings so we're going to get there all right item 3.1 um i'd like to move that we had approved the consent agenda agenda as submitted but i'd like to pull item 3.6 from the consensus window and i get a second oh second which one are we pulling out i'm sorry 3.6 uh you need to you need to vote on that yeah all in paper favor aye corey burgess aye amanda aymond aye charlene diaz adam 3.6 returning voice i would like to move that we offer contracts and work agreements to the employees listed and that we direct the superintendent to find funding to offer contract signing incentives for returning and teachers with this proposal that we have in front of us this could be something we can have her look into and see where we can apply it but that's where i'd like to use some of this money definitely i'm good with that so can we have a second yep i have a second um so moving on to new business 5.1 policy b dc board clerk dr stewart this was one of the policies you reviewed a month or so ago and mostly reviewed it because it was not in our policy book and we have been in fact doing it it is a first reading so there's no action tonight all right that's good item 5.2 exhibit gcoe evaluation instruments uh mr president board members as you know we've been trying to update our evaluation instruments and uh to make sure that they are consistent with job descriptions and what it is we expect people to do and this is the proposed uh job i'm sorry evaluation instrument for our director of special services i like that distinguished provision so it matches our others yes and i did go through in any of the other ones that we had presented in the past and a couple that we haven't yet presented to you and made sure that they all use the same vocabulary did we with the ones in the past similar to this were we able to work on the points we did work on those and um and and did the math and uh the math comes out okay if if i drop that fourth goal so that there are three goals so what we so we used that instrument i used it with the principles this time but also explained to them that you know that even if they even if they had a fourth goal we've just factored it in but if it's only the three there it works out and so i've dropped it for the future and uh yeah so thank you yeah any other questions on 5.2 no i move we approve item 5.2 is submitted i'll second the motion all in favor aye corey burgess aye amanda aymond aye charlene diaz saw move item 5.3 job descriptions dr stewart as you know we're trying to update these just as you're going through the the policy book we're going through the job description book and trying to update them so that the job descriptions match what we actually have uh expect people to be doing in these jobs amanda notified me that she had some questions about the the piece at the end of these that talk about number of hours and number of days per year and whatever and so we may revisit that but but i also worked really hard on those to match what it is we need to put in our in our payroll system uh the calendars that have to go in there because then the payroll system automatically calculates what people get paid and then and then there are a couple of things coming in some legal changes that i had i wanted to take into a into account but amanda's points are well taken what messes us up a little bit is a four day week and truthfully if you know if people are only working a four day week and they're an hourly person eight and a half hours doesn't quite get it it's really eight and three-fourths hours but the truth is we really want folks to work you know a 40-hour week and uh and for some of our classified people what they do is they work four tens so i've got and we leave that up to the principles to kind of decide do i need my health attendant for four tens or do i need my or in a week when we have a flex friday do i need my health attendant here for four hours on friday so maybe most of the time the health attendant works four tens but some weeks the health attendant works fewer hours monday through thursday to work those hours on friday so and since we've left you know given them some leeway to make those decisions i had to come up with a number that just worked that equally you know 40 hours a week so that's part of the reason for some of those just saying eight hours a day and then you want to look at how many days a year there there are but you know you're always welcome to come and we can talk about specific things and and those kinds of things so tried to make sure that this matched the work calendars and matched um uh anything else that we're doing so that it all matches the numbers all match across the board yeah the concern i just had is um because i know like and i can i can speak for myself and i'm not exactly sure what everyone works but seven to four is a nine hour but you have 30 minute lunch so it's eight and a half hour days so if we're working an eight and a half hour day and then now they drop down eight hours a day and you take that little half hour and you add it on to extra days and they're gonna be working days where there isn't students or they should normally be working so my concern was only that if they have to still work seven to four um you know they're working a little bit extra and and this is just the classified a couple the certified because there's admin in their instructional coaches and things and i mean you know i even the transportation director i look at that one and i'm thinking i know how much they work absolutely i know how many hours they put in absolutely now spreading it over extra days saying that they work less days per hour which we know we don't they work a lot of hours a day absolutely not being counted so i'm just worried that if we took something like uh i think i just pulled up the transportation director my concern was we got 1840 hours for 230 days at eight hours a day that works but if you go back to the 8.5 that they're probably and i'm not i don't know that they're currently working the 8.5 that's adding 13 and a half days to their schedule yeah just concerned with that absolutely and i and and actually that person came and talked to me and we talked about the issues that for that very reason but one of the things on the work calendar because and she totally understood this i said i know you work way more than eight hours a day and you know especially mondays through fridays but i also i mean monday through thursday but i also know on those weeks that we have flex fridays you know you still have to work those days you know i mean we can't have transportation running and not have somebody in charge and and i said so i want to make sure though now she's a salaried person but this applies to hourly people i want to make sure that if there's if they have if they're supposed to have enough enough days and hours that um that they don't miss a payday like miss a payday for for thanksgiving week miss a payday for uh the two weeks at winter break so on the payroll calendar it looks like they're working those days but we know that they're flexing those days into other hours you know other days and um uh it just it just seemed that the the cleanest way to do it was just to put the eight hours absolutely absolutely absolutely it's going to be a little bit of a nightmare trying to keep track of it but if somebody's going to keep track of it and verify i'm good i just don't want them to have to work more days than they normally would no and work on you know when we have exactly a couple days of thanksgiving exactly but we have no students right how is that working right no no no no no no and i will tell you one of the things that came up particularly with transportation that i find kind of interesting um both the director who is you know a high school employee and and our person who's the assistant director their contract or their work agreements say start them like july 13th and end them the second week in june now i'm thinking you know when i was working on this i'm going okay you know they're entitled to a month off but the thing is we have summer school going beyond the second week in june so does the high school district right so are we gonna let those buses run and not have a director there i don't think so um and and we're going to have some things that need to be done in july before people before drivers and people re report so you know so just putting an arbitrary beginning and ending date like that it doesn't work very well either so we just talked about you know the fact that okay this may say this but we know the reality we know what we have to do um uh i'll tell you just kind of another and i'm not telling you something you don't know office people in schools the two weeks before school opens and the first two weeks of school and the last week of school in the school year there is no way in the world that they can do everything they need to do in 40 hours a week it is impossible okay but neither can i schedule them for 60 hours or 50 hours or 45 hours or whatever in those weeks and so in their schedule we know we just we build in some flex days so they're not going to work red fridays you know the first few rest they're not going to work those fridays they we don't need them there on those fridays they don't need to be there but we know they're going to put in the time elsewhere but i don't know that i can write the job description in such a way that it says they're going to work eight hours on these days and eight and a half on these days and nine hours and no hours and we just kind of needed a level level playing field there and so you know i'm not trying to make excuses or anything it's just how do you word that to make it work and i just had to find probably a way that's in the industry if you will in the work world that makes sense in the yeah normal verbiage that's all it is dr stewart is that um keeping track of that is that going to be the employee's responsibility to do that yeah and historically that's what we've done is that the employee keeps track of that and and shares that with the supervisor and so you know so that if so when that secretary works 50 hours in a week keeps track of those extra hours those extra 10 hours the law says that you're supposed to either comp that at time and a half or you're supposed to pay time and a half for those 10 extra hours if you comp it it has to be in the same pay period well i'll tell you those two weeks before school and the first two weeks of school is two pay periods and you're not going to get anything comped in that time it's just not going to happen but we still make sure that we that we do that and that we confident time and a half okay so they keep track of their time we keep track of their time and every and and they work it out okay it's overseen by their direct supervisor they use that flex time i mean they can use it whenever they want that's as long as it's approved as long as it's approved yes and i don't want to micromanage that i mean you know yeah and i'm not there and they know they they know um and and i other than having been in the district for many years i kind of know this but um having other than one situation in all the years that i've been in this district there was one situation where that was not handled very well and it wasn't a classified person it was a certified person who took way advantage of all of that and um uh otherwise i think people are honest and that you know they're they're honest and they're going to take care of it as long as a supervisor is checking on it so no that's fine i mean because i know we put in a ton of hours and i hear you i just wanted to make sure that they were able to receive that yes yes absolutely excellent and this way we can make sure they don't miss a payday either right all right then uh 5.3 i make a motion that we approve uh the job descriptions as presented all in favor aye corey burgess aye amanda amen aye charlene diaz and you'll have a whole stack next month too item 5.4 privileged contract with abm march 1st of march 2021 to july 30th 2021.
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[Music] hello eagle fans and fans of today's visiting team no matter where you're watching from today welcome to the contest i'm brian reese principal of columbia high school and it is our pleasure to bring you today's contest on our social media channels while we are looking forward to fans being able to fill our bleachers again we are happy fans from columbia and our visiting communities can continue to follow their favorite teams in the meantime just like when fans are physically at the game we ask you to keep online comments respectful and supportive of your team and not against other individuals or the other team remember to display good online sportsmanship and be a good example for your community we encourage positive comments thank you again for joining us and enjoy today's event good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the highly anticipated 2020 football season here at chs in a year of so much uncertainty we weren't sure if the season was going to happen but tonight it's finally here week one of the ihsa football season is finally underway and boy is it a perfect night for it out here tonight pretty nice night for it um coming in i didn't think we were gonna have a season this year but lucky enough we got everything going and we got guys out on the field getting ready for the game and we're here absolutely alex slummer along with jared germain as always in our third or fourth year doing this and this is a first for us we have never had cameras we have never had the production that we have but we're excited about this we've got cameras set up on the field we've got cameras up here we got a lot of good stuff coming at you this year and uh we're really excited to do it um some of us are a little bit more nervous than others but i think we're gonna get through this tonight i think mr nickerson's got us set up here and we're gonna have a good year together jared yeah i think we will uh i'm ready i'm ready to go it's eagle football i'm just ready football like we said didn't really know what was going on this year but we finally got to the season and uh we're gonna have a pretty good year we got a couple guys coming back in our roster this year we got some big name guys london little absolutely highlights that more so than anything else but we've got some guys coming back we've got some quarterback battles we'll talk about a little bit later on and we'll have to go through that kind of stuff and we'll see what goes on but we got i think 17 seniors this year um so yeah they come from skilled players big guys down in the hand in the grass too so um quarterback battle is going to be between dominic vaguely and kylan mclaren the south florida senior respectively probably should both get see some reps uh early on in the in the season one is a sophomore and one is a senior that is mclaren being the senior and vaguely being the sophomore but uh coming in i mean getting both reps i mean if you get them both reps in the beginning of the beginning of the season uh later on in the season you can see where that can lead you and see who's playing better and plug them in absolutely oliver's oliver schroeder he's going to be our one of the guys on defense linebackers that's going to have to step up for us as well as garrett poulter kyle jackson on the line mason kohlenberger grant matheny owen brewer just to name a couple guys and uh we've got some big linemen this year um but to go back to the skilled players on who to watch london i think is going to be our big guy that we need to watch this year yeah over the past what is he's a senior now so over the past three years he's been he's been a electric player one of the most electric players that columbia has ever seen probably a top top 10 columbia player that we've ever seen so without a doubt london little uh definitely makes makes coach horner's job a lot easier on the field so let's definitely look out for him it's going to be interesting how he's going to use him this year last year if you remember week one big 98-yard interception return for a touchdown that took him a scooter game that was 14 or 21-7 at the time and turned it into uh 28-7 and sealed the deal that game was a lot closer than you think but that he's just got that ability so uh it's gonna be fun to watch him this year we talked about coach horner he is entering his 20th season this year as the head football coach and uh it's unreal 20 years he's the longest tenured coach that we have here at columbia and it's going to be fun to see what he's got going this year for him so yeah coach coach horner's always ready for football so if you speak to coach warner you know you know whatever uh foot there he is right there coach horner uh you know he's always ready for football season and he's always ready to get his guys out there on the field and ready to go absolutely you see on the film here giving everybody a fist bump you know it might only be a six week season but that doesn't matter he's going to be a great coach for the players and he's going to take as serious as he ever has his 20th season this year 141 wins 59 losses he is the winningest coach the longest ten year coach and his seven 705 winning percentage is second to the great jerry jermaine he's got 93 wins in the conference nine conference championships and i would say the majority of those are probably undefeated in the last decade yeah i would say so 14 playoffs appearances he's only missed four times and when he did miss him he was only off by i think a game or so 14 and five and season openers uh we'll talk about that a little bit last time he lost was when we played morton and that was a close game that i believe we lost real late in the game it was like a one possession it was i remember that game i think that was my sophomore year maybe my junior year i think it was my sophomore year though um morton was a great team but looking back at the season openers 14 and 5 that's a pretty good record because if you look at it the first and last games of the season are usually not a conference game so it's usually picking up a game like muscuda only i know we've played in the past some other teams like i can't even think of any other ones but there's been some big schools out there in the beginning of the season that you got to be ready to start off and get ready for your conference conference play absolutely we talked to coach herner a little bit ago and we're going to be talking about some skilled players when we interview him but who to watch this year who do you got on defense do you think you're going to want to watch uh jay mistler is a coach tremaine said jay mistler is going to be a guy that's really going to step up this year he's going to play a little bit linebacker play a little bit on the d line and also oliver schroeder who is also a big guy to watch for who's going to be playing corner so he'll be leading the secondary back there and running the defense talking a little bit more about offense too as you're watching here dual threat quarterbacks out of both of these guys they can both run they can both pass they can they're both smart they got to watch nick horner the last couple of years as ahead or as the starting quarterback got to learn a lot from him but both these guys like i said quick they can move both have strong arms can get the ball all around the field and it's going to be exciting to watch those two guys play so coach horner's interview that we talked about earlier asked him who he thought was going to be the big player who we should watch and we asked him as well how is he going to get ready for a season whenever he only had two weeks to go that's a big thing exactly you have a full season or a full preseason to get ready this year it's only two weeks though i got to have something good right off the bat we're going right into goal line offenses as we get done it's game on i need you to be great today all right everybody let's go [Music] be great today you hear me make him play nice got it we got a new system here we're not used to it yet oh we'll get there we're getting there though we'll get there pretty nice night though for some columbia eagle football what do you get what are your expectations for tonight we'll talk about them a little bit later as well but what do you think i'm thinking redbuds usually a team that likes to come in and run the ball and keep the ball out of columbia's hands because columbia's always got a couple athletes that can make plays at any time so i think if redbud can run the ball they might be a little bigger than us just looking down there on the field but i think it should be a very uh good battle and a physical one all right we are ready to send it over to coach horner's interview we're not ready to send it to coach warner's interview here in a minute we will band is making their way out to the field right now we got the cheerleaders out it's going to be a different year as far as how everything's going to be set up with all coved restrictions guidelines that we have to be placed this year limited capacity is one thing that we're gonna have to worry about this year and uh band gonna be separated from the stands usually they're sitting up with the students and everything up here in the stands so coach warner had these couple words to say before the game tonight coach warner welcome to your 20th season at chs head football coach in a year that's unlike any other how do you prepare for a season in two weeks compared to a full off season uh well fast and furious that's for sure uh just you know i think we do a lot of the same stuff that we've always done we just have to simplify things and uh you know you really you certainly don't have the same playbook that you have uh week one during the normal season but from an offensive standpoint point and try to get the a lot of the main stuff done that you that you need to get done and you know hope to god that the kids will put in some time in the off season to be in shape and you know defensively the same way you just condense it and and uh really got to be i think you got to be effective in practice that's the other thing that's really important so you know practices have got to be very regimented and you got to know what you're doing no dead time good to go and uh you think you got to that point this year as far as what do you expect you keep it all pretty simple this first game or do you got some some that we can see later on in the game or how do you do that well i mean i'm not going to give away too much stuff but you know yeah i mean we're going to stay relatively simple well i think especially with the fact that we only have two or three kids coming back both sides of the ball that have some experience can't give them too much to do or you know we want to be able to do a a small number of things well rather than a large number of things only okay so you know i think we'll be okay but we're going to have to stay simple in the first series to try to let the guys kind of get the uh get the nerves and everything out settle into the game and and you know kind of go from there so coming back to saying that you got a couple guys coming back this year uh big question mark nick horner was the quarterback for two years uh this year he got two guys and colin mclaren and dominic vaguely that could both be quarterbacks what do we expect are we platooning is it going to be one guy's mixed show or how are we going to handle that yeah i think i think they'll both see some action tonight without question um you know i think each one of them brings something a little bit different to the table and uh because of that you know certain things will require one guy to be in certain things are required that we've got to be in and you know if one guy gets hot maybe we stay with him so it's going to be kind of a feel thing for me uh tonight for sure on in that regard i appreciate it coach good luck in your season and let's have a good year appreciate it thank you thank you so that's the offensive side of the ball now we gotta talk defense what do you got for the defensive keys of the games if you talk to coach germain at all this week so uh speaking with coach ferman i see him quite a lot if you haven't if you haven't guessed that but um three keys to this week is first one is definitely swarm tackling the more more hats you get to the ball i mean the more the more damage your defense is going to do the more white hats you get to the ball you're going to you're going to make make a lot of plays i mean coach coach remains defense is usually always ready always ready to play always nose nose for the ball football so that's always a big thing another one is just having sound fundamentals just getting to the ball wrapping up form tackling and getting nobody hurt because that's that's a big thing also this year because we don't have a lot of bench guys this year i feel like so if we have a lot of injuries it's going to be tough to come back from that and then the last one is just bring the juice i mean it's the first game of the year you're playing in in the spring it's it's going to be a lot different but it's football so have fun with it bring the juice you got six weeks you got nothing to hold back i mean i don't know why you would hold anything back in a night like tonight you couldn't ask for better weather in april or march sorry you couldn't ask for anything better so the big question what's your prediction for tonight i'm going to go six eagles 34 six eagles how about 34 13.
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ladies and gentlemen to fall sports 2.0 i'm youtube dallasians and next to me i have none other than thee liu kane it's luke how's it going pretty good how are you not bad not bad it's finally time for everyone's favorite sport around here football i know a lot of you guys have missed this sport and it's so have i but it's finally here and what a way to kick it off we have east long meadow taking on amherst island will get the kickoff to start the first half it's a little weird football in march absolutely i mean you guys just had your hockey season so interesting and for those who do not know lou caines is a starter for or i can't say started because of talking you have four lines so everybody's starting sorry he's a center for island windows spartans hockey team for those who weren't at the game like myself how did the beginning of the season go we were all right we had some uh had some bumps in the road but pretty good season i guess you could say absolutely so onside kick recovered by iceland meadow and they'll get the ball starting at their 46 yard line first and ten starting corning back from their own 45-yard line will be none other than conor obidou the sophomore backup quarterback last year under bean this year he'll be a starter here you go huh [Music] who is it sorry what are you saying about greedy okay never mind we're good sorry i've got people in the back of my ears staring at me saying things that aren't to me run there you go gonna be pushed forward for a gain two yard gain will look about to be a second and eight chilly friday afternoon i'm already cold and i've been out here for less than five minutes um i came prepared for someone i know you can't prepare more prepared than me oh yeah i don't have gloves so but [Music] amherst was a three line three defensive lineman front sending four pass caught going for more down at about the 36 30 we'll call it the 37 yard line be enough good enough for the first down first and ten eson meadow in enemy territory that was pretty good vision for a first down yeah if you could not hear that macarini the announcer for the stadium connor obadou passed to landon robidu for the first down look at that robodoo connection two wide one backfield they're gonna fake it oh pass dropped and for some that may not know about this new eson metal offense last year the head coach stepped down from the team reasons to be unknown and came up came a new head coach and a new offense along with it welcome to the air raid offense a much more heavy offense that some of you guys that i've heard before complain about the run heavy offense they've changed to pass heavy offense as we see it here pass cod to preston longo gonna run taken out of bounds looks like he will be short of the first making it a third and less than one yard so third and about inches here and they'll they gave him the first they'll correct it to a first down play action they'll decide to use the run gonna be brought down at about the 25.
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