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the original language in subsection b specifies that dhs and uel collaborate to identify the need for child care and early learning in geographic regions of the state and allows for public partners to assess provisions and data elements needed to meet the benchmarks set forth in the act allowing public partners until the 2022 legislative section session to revise subsection b would be greatly appreciated as it would help public partners make more informed decisions regarding the data elements that can and should be captured and to identify any barriers which may exist in our review of house bill 1362 h21 we also found that there are conflicting dates therefore within our testimony we've proposed language to address this thank you lauren next to testify robert peters chairperson for the early learning board bob please thank you chair gennady and the cheers learning board appreciates the legislature's continued efforts to expand access and opportunity for early learning to our keiki and families and particularly for recognizing the need to make amendments through hb 1362 given the impact of coven this past year the early landing board supports stands on its testimony supporting the intent of hb 1362 hd1 offers comments and one proposed amend related to facilitating the coordination of moving act 46 forward thank you for this opportunity and i'll be available for questions if needed thank you bob next to testify yvonne lau interim executive director for hawaii state public charter school commission yvonne please thank you chair vice chairs of the committees thank you for the opportunity to provide our comments on this bill we are we stand in strong support of the provisions in this bill that establishes an early childhood education stipend program and we ask that rather than allowing the commission to exempt our native hawaiian language medium early learning programs that they'd be also allowed to use in their own language and culture-based assessments and provide the data that the kindergarten readiness assessments are seeking to capture thank you for the opportunity to provide this testimony i'm available for questions if you have any thank you thank you yvonne next to testify why ali ali's are so not testifying for kamehameha schools why ali ali please for the opportunity to testify we testify and support with conan we are asking that this committee consider adding uh apps for coordination purposes to enable act 46 to be successful in its implementation and we also look forward to continued collaboration and private partnerships private and public partnerships to make not supporting happen and thank you for the opportunity to testify thank you ali next to testify shari nakamura director coalition sherry please aloha chairs vice chairs and members of the committee my name is shari nakamura director of ka coalition hey a supports the amendments to act 46 laid out and hb 1362 hd1 in particular we like that the detailed language has been added regarding the kindergarten entry assessment or otherwise referred to as kea and that a definitive effective date has been set the statewide kea along with prior early learning program attendance disclosure can help inform stakeholders can help inform the state on how well our early learning programs have prepared our children to ensure that we are on track to implement the kea by july 1 2022 we make suggestions in our written testimony thank you for this opportunity to testify thank you sherry next to testify kathleen allgeier for hawaii children's action network speaks stephanie please uh aloha chair kadani and chan network speaks specifying in support of this measure um we think that the provisions in this bill are necessary to move act 46 forward and i just want to highlight a couple of sections related to restoring funding for the preschool open doors program that was cut in the budget bill and then also for dhs program staff to ensure that they have enough staff support to implement the measure as intended thanks for the opportunity to testify today thank you kathleen members that's all the testimony the oral testimony we have we do have a number of written testimony members of the education committee are there any questions that you have for our testifiers senator kim please aloha i do have um two questions on page two of the bill line 12 well starts before that which will show immediately following the completion of a certificate degree or license program the stipend recipient shall provide early education early care and education services directly to children from birth to five years old are we starting from birth this question is for i'm not sure who can answer this for is that the intent yeah is this for lauren this question i believe that that section is specific to the early childhood stipend program which does go from which does include people who educate children from birth through five years of age so can you explain how the education program works from birth there are different providers across the field who support who provide support services to young children and their families that start from birth what education programs do they provide to a child that just was born well the programs include early care and education so it includes family child care providers home visiting providers those who are providing center-based care as well although i believe this bill is specific to increasing access for three and four-year-olds there was also the stipend program which is included in in a different bill that was inserted where the language was inserted into this is there is there certain requirements anybody can get this for a newborn baby it's for people who are interested in going into the field of early learning or taking coursework through the university system okay i guess i'm just confused about i know this for early learning i know it's like you know kindergarten preschool three to four but seeing that from birth i'm a little confused as to i'm not sure why um this this stipend bill is included in this particular bill but the stipend bill um the purpose of the stipend bill is to increase the workforce of early care and education providers across the field which includes all ages from birth through five years old okay i have a question for the attorney general when we talk about collection agencies who exactly are they collecting these funds from based on the language the bill i believe it's the educators that qualify for the stipend and that have to repay it for some reason and foreign may be able to speak to that as well so we're just suggesting i apologize for that you have a hard time understanding what you're saying so in essence if i'm if i'm if i get the stipend i qualify for the stipend and i don't get the stipend then who am i collecting it i'll go to a collection agency to collect it from who the state um so the i believe the collection agency is going to be working on behalf of eoel and it's my understanding if the recipient of the stipend doesn't meet all of the program requirements they may be required to pay back a portion of it and so the collection agency would be going after essentially those those individuals oh i see to repay the freedom yeah so we were just wanting to make sure that they are um they were adding language to allow that to occur under the framework of the collection statute okay i appreciate that clarification i thought that they were going after the state because the state wasn't paying them the stipend but it's the other way around okay got it thank you thank you members further questions [Applause] does your members have any questions um i don't believe so um no we're good thank you thank you um terry fushijima are you still there yes can you um just briefly explain to the committee why you're requesting the full implementation that will be pushed back to july 2023 yes as our workforce has met and we've been looking more deeply into this we know that one piece would be if the rfp process if we're to to seek a product that is ready to use um if um and also there's and we've been doing some exploring if we get a product that is ready to use we anticipate that we will need to have some modifications and some development for sections of it because of for to meet our kaipuni needs for the hawaiian immersion schools and that is an area that we need more time to take a look at more carefully so that we do a good job thank you um we're going to call a reset can i ask one more question senator so you're asking department is asking for 1.5 million dollars approximately for this program for the stipend um the cost that we are requesting in our testimony is for the actual tool the instrument and the first year of implementation is slightly uh harder but we would also need to take into account the modifications translations to accommodate the hawaiian language version and also looking at approximately two days per teacher for adequate training to administer the kea properly so that's it it's a estimate at this time based on the information that we have so the 1.5 million is estimate but it doesn't include the stipends itself um it does so um approximately it's 350 000 uh for the instrument the tool if we use um something typical to what we've been uh looking at what we've been seeing that's out there and annually it would probably be about 300 000 to continue the um training for two days would be roughly about 400 000 and the biggest question is how much it would cost to complete the translation and the development of certain portions of the kea that may not be appropriate to simply translate if we were to look at the essence of what those areas are trying to measure and have it appropriate for the hawaiian language so you're asking for appropriation of 1.5 approximately okay thank you thank you um i think maybe uh if we can have wai ali ali from kamehameha schools to talk a little bit about what kamehameha schools provides for this program also might be helpful thank you senator did you want me to address specifically public pre-k yes sure so we are working with the department of education in the office executive office of early learning on a multi-year agreement specifically in hopes to expand public pre-k across the public education system and so we have we are funding a handful of schools at the moment and we're hoping to work through some funding issues and barriers that we're having in order to enhance the partnership that would allow us to even more so uh why ali ali do you have um that that dollar amount off hand recall and or how many classrooms we we are hoping we can fund up to three million dollars over the next five years thank you very much members further questions if not let's go into recess welcome back to the joint committee hearing for the committee on education and committee on human services we are hearing house bill 1362 house draft one relating to access to learning recommendation of the chair is to pass with amendments and the amendments are as follows and clarifying preamble language noting the need for longitudinal longitudinal tracking of education and workforce outcomes of students taking the ag the ag recommended amendments to the stipend collection program on page 33 line 14 adding section 13 to the sections being amended adding section 13 from act 46 amending hrs 27-7 to clarify inter-departmental data sharing through the statewide longitudinal data system for the purposes of evaluating outcomes through early education to workforce on page 35 subsection b we will be reverting this section back to the original bill language on page 35 line 14 we will be deleting 2023.
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so as commissioner jackson mentioned we are going back into 2020 and are reviewing those last week we had our first review process meeting [Music] with the deputy chiefs and the city attorney to basically what we did is we had the process that we developed in in our hands and we did the review part of the process so we came up with a few little bugs and tweaks that we're doing and i am putting those tweaks in the process now once that document is finalized um we'll forward that out to the full commission also so you'll have an you know an understanding of what it is that we're doing what that the information managers are working on so it was like our our pilot our test run um we are now able to access body cam video remotely we are able to see um uh reports remotely we're able to see some things without redaction but we're limited right now to three information managers per case and so there are different three different people on different cases between all of the people who were reviewing and so we had to kind of work out the process of making sure that you know person a got the you know body cam footage for their case but person d did not get that and that person b was reviewing different cases and so we kind of worked through some of those glitches found a couple more and are have i think pretty much smoothed out the process i'm sure we'll find a couple more glitches as we go along but it is getting much much smoother and so this is the most efficient that we have been in terms of a getting information that um actually gives us enough depth of information and um having it available remotely and all of those of course were challenges um you know security challenges and lots of lots of challenges we had but it's um i think worth the difficulty because going forward commissioners will be able to do this remotely from their homes which makes sense because um you know if people are working nine to five they may need to review cases at midnight and probably the police department does not want us you know in their um their building at midnight trying to review video so um it's um it's been a little bit challenging but it's been a good process and it will certainly serve commissioners well going forward so we're happy about that any questions about that process or i know you've heard about it before a little bit but okay so moving on to new business we we we have spoken and um a little bit here and we have um spoken at city council we have seen that um council member romelu sponsored a resolution in m live today there is a discussion of um the mayor having a resolution and um we have been engaged um in conversations with the sheriff's department and with community mental health and other stakeholders about unarmed responses to crises we understand that there is a current model where community mental health may go out unarmed and we also understand that there are times when it may they don't feel it's appropriate to go out and arm they may require a co-response from ann arbor police department or celine or the sheriff's department or anybody else in washington county and that they might deem that to be appropriate and um you know that could be for their safety or safety of clients or um certainly one of the things we think about is the fact that if community mental health goes out and there's a client who might need to be hospitalized but um is not willing to do so willingly if if there's a determination that they should be hospitalized for their safety that only a sworn officer has the ability to take them to the hospital without their express consent and so there are some cases where community mental health has felt like that was appropriate we however have been thinking about the ways in which people come in contact with the police and um find themselves in situations that would be that are more dangerous because police are armed and in many of those instances it can reduce the risk to everyone if crises are handled by people who are trained to respond to crises unarmed that does not mean disarming people who are currently armed it means finding people and finding a model where being unarmed is the standard is the baseline and developing that kind of public safety for the community um and so we know that there are several models out there and we are encouraging the exploration of those um we've all had conversations with many different groups of people and um i was fortunate to have a conversation with council member song and the mayor and one of the things we were talking about was thinking about things that we haven't seen yet here and um the necessity for us to stretch our imaginations a little bit more in terms of um what's possible for ann arbor i think one of the things about covet is that everyone zooms now and so it's pretty inexpensive to collaborate or consult with people in california or oregon or other places and find out how they're doing things it doesn't require a flight anymore um and so we're really hopeful that we can think of some things that we haven't tried in ann arbor yet and that might require i suspect it will require some expertise from other places conversations with council um and i'm sure the city administrator about how some of those things might be executed but um we are hopeful that we can um certainly engage in those conversations and that as these resolutions evolve that they will include some thinking that has not been seen heretofore in ann arbor commissioner todora hargreaves were you about to say something on that actually i i do i know when i spoke at the um last council meeting in regard to the resolution that was previously brought um one of the things that i specifically mentioned was that we at ikpak were looking forward to being part of the conversation um and i think that we do uh have a reason to be at this become the table specifically for the few things that you did point out because there are times when um individuals may feel they do need a police officer there and that's going to bring in um the policies and the procedures that the police department currently work with that may or may not need to be changed and so i do believe that we we do have a seat at the table um and much like i said during the last meeting it's something we need to continue to discuss with the county as far as how these calls get dispatched and who is involved in them and who isn't so any other um any other well i think one of the things that that so uh the mayor's resolution and dc3 that we um that i'm i talked i spoke to at the last council meeting are not identical and maybe dc3 is the overarching goal and maybe and maybe the mayor's resolution fits within that goal i i don't know exactly how well they dovetailed together however i think one of the things that um we appreciated about dc3 was its acknowledgment that there are communities who have been injured more by the war on drugs and punitive um and differential policing all over the place um and disproportionate um sentencing and convictions which we have seen in ann arbor uh in washington county sorry um and so we think that it's important to kind of address that notion that there have been some communities who've been disproportionately injured by that there was also a note i mean there was also a um line item sorry about um [Music] about expungements which we found to be um important and related to certainly reimagining public safety but also um a little bit outside our bailey but wick but certainly within the idea of sort of um restorative justice we're thinking about programs for disadvantaged kids and so those are things we certainly hope will you know sort of continue to be a part of resolutions reimagining public safety going forward um i believe council member uh laura you had your hand up first and then council member song yeah thank you for bringing this up um many of us uh haven't really took a deep dive into the resolution that the mayor and other council members have brought for the april 5th agenda but i i can't speak to uh dc3 that's been referenced in in terms of redirecting the marijuana excise tax that's been coming that's coming back has came back to the city um and we wanted to uh prescribe it in a way when i say that as the co-sponsors the original co-sponsors or myself council member nelson and hayner was too put them into programs that don't currently exist as you're describing getting creative getting imaginative also in response to the unearned response concerns that we have and unfortunately we saw yet another mass shooting um uh just you know yesterday um but to back back to this is to obviously involve a pocket poc is in all the conversations that that council members have when it relates to these matters and as such you see that in the proposed resolution uh it's coming forth on april 5th uh where a is clearly identified in that and um but here we wanted to talk about a lot of things and in fact since that passage i had some exciting conversations with staff about you know what could be done with this money um in terms of expungement and diversions and um you know the the probation officers aren't as busy anymore as they used to be um so anyhow really restructuring um you know uh some of the some of the resources that we have here to address the needs of going forward because we are obviously going under a dramatic uh criminal justice reform throughout this country um and anyhow we're going to be seeing you know three organizations with professionals and resources to better handle um and better care for for things so i won't go on too long about this but i am excited that it did get unanimous support um we i think had it by the end six co-sponsors uh including the mayor um so it was tremendously supported and really allows um for uh funding on programs that you mentioned earlier currently don't exist so we can get creative and people can start looking at ann arbor as the beacon uh for programs uh more so than than we have recently how's your memory song hey um so um i appreciate that little bit of background on councilmember and louie's uh resolution it is really exciting um i know the city had already been working on um some programs related to use of specifically foster care youth and having kind of like a summer works or actually no permanent work program so that um youth aging out of foster care would be able to be placed with be matched with different departments that were looking for work and this was a partnership with the neutral zone and i was on the board of the neutral zone i was really happy to follow that progress but funding kind of went by the wayside so hopefully this is something that specifically can be be um um budgeted for in the coming years um the clean slate work is really exciting i know i chatted a little bit with attorney slay about this i i've been following this in in the states and my family had helped fund project clean slate in detroit so detroit already has a really good leg up on this um they've got uh folks in in in the detroit um police department just making sure that expansions happen on the ready internally before you don't have to wait for fairs to happen um and that that time difference is such a boon to families who can't afford to have a family member incarcerated or have this on their record for for much longer right um so i encourage folks to take a look at project clean slate in detroit it's really you can check folks can check their status their pro bono attorneys can volunteer they they look for other attorneys um other volunteers too as far as the resolution that's coming up the next council meeting uh um i i don't know if i would really characterize it as the mayor's resolution i think folks you know a lot of us said we're tired of that that's that's okay i know he's a popular guy uh but you know what i was really excited about was that i was able to pull dr jackson and then also public health folks public health folks who were really instrumental in making sure that um the national public health group asserted that race is a public health crisis right the county had already passed that that statement and the city followed along last july before i was on on board um so i'm really hoping and that that insight from dr paul fleming at the university was really really um instrumental in kind of framing this other resolution um i'd love it if we can actually start taught speaking frankly to race and policing and i was i was really really happy to reference his research um in the data and and and share that with the folks who have worked on on this on this resolution so you'll see some of that reflected some of that language reflected um and you also see a language on continuum of care that really reflects on you know what the county is already doing um you know i'm a social worker this is this is this is what we talk about is making sure we connect the dots and that people get the help they actually need um so i think you know so hopefully between council member rom lobby's resolution and this one that's coming up folks can kind of connect the dots so that um there's a more expansive view of what policing and public safety can look like um and how social services are essential to that and if we can avoid incarceration i think we're all on the same page because you know if we can limit and avoid incarceration um then it helps everyone so that's my little feel about what's coming up you might have already seen a live article um i'm excited and i'm glad to hear that there's excitement in the community too sorry um any further discussion on that councilmember romelu thanks uh just a second time i apologize for for being long but i'm just equally excited um we have um you know uh now the support and the fundage to to go after some of these programs we've been been talking about for a long time and i know the clean slate um was talked about by my colleague i'm not as familiar with it as councilmember song is but just speaking with our own city attorney's office i know they're doing a lot of work internally right now and more is going to be required if we want to continue with expungement and break those intergenerational issues that are the consequence of the injustice um that served um but we're there's been a lot of legislation recently that's passed that's going to go into effect soon that's going to allow people to qualify for that but right now i think there's like 30 or 40 a year but speaking with sources talking about hundreds perhaps soon will be eligible locally here for expungement and some of them simply don't have the 30 or 40 dollars in court fees to pay for the the paperwork um so i'm hoping that that resolution that was passed marijuana excise tax will help pay for not just the staff but help pay for some of these small fines and fees that keep people locked in these chains so you know hopefully again i'm super excited and within weeks or months we will have more detail on on what that will look like but here locally we will argue we're going to be able to do a lot of good and i want to make a plug too is council member um song was making a plug for neutral zone i'm going to throw one out there for ozone house too because they do lots of work with young people coming out of the foster care system and they have job training programs um already so i hope you guys think about them as well in terms of already established programs that work for young people to do job training as older adolescents and young adults and so that's something that's already within their bailiwick and um they're kind of nationally recognized for some of that work as well so we have so many good resources in this community and i'm sure there are more as well that can contribute to um thinking about some of these restorative justice issues and so that's really um exciting to think about going forward um oh i'm sorry commissioner offman i think one of the uh centers that would probably be involved is the dispute resolution center also they are following up on some of the like foster kids and some other uh issues that are related to the youth and and trying to help them out the other thing i have is what we're doing is it looks like we are doing something in isolation of the of the county are there some other resources available in the county that also would augment what the city will be doing um are we duplicating things are we synergizing efforts uh because really we need we need to look at not only at ourselves but also the neighbors and neighboring cities and towns etc and if there are certain programs that are available if we add to that um i think we don't have to reinvent the wheel right and your suggestion i don't know if i reported back on this but i did have an extensive conversation with kathy wyatt who um talked about a lot of things that were going on at the county level and and then i was able to have conversations with the executive director and others at community mental health and so absolutely much of what is being talked about here has to be done in coordination with the county um because it doesn't make sense kind of ann arbor is not an island and so um we only have um you know our council only has control over its budget but um there is an understanding that there needs to be coordination with the county and that other municipalities will likely be considering in what ways they want to participate you know for example it would be very challenging for community mental health to have one kind of response in ann arbor and another in saline and a different one in pittsfield township and a fourth one in ypsilanti for example um so we know that there is quite a bit of coordination that needs to happen um and it doesn't look like right now anybody is it seemed perhaps that people were thinking about duplicating what cmh already does but um it turns out not to be the case and so um but there is as you're saying um an understanding that everything that happens here you know much of what happens here will have to be coordinated with the county so that it can work seamlessly and so that there isn't too much stress on you know the systems that exist that work across the whole county level um one one other thing is is also recently the the sheriff had waived about half a million dollar of fines of the individuals who were incarcerated so that is really something that the uh would benefit that was amazing all individuals that are um affected by by that and and uh i think later on i'll probably add a little bit at the uh different subcommittees and reporting i can also report a little bit on the uh crew and what we are doing and up in our subcommittee related to some of these issues being addressed and you know because there have been some programs like this around the country there's now data on what things like that can mean for a family or for individuals um when they have fees like that waived um when they have um you know drug offense charges expunged that you know for things that are now not illegal and um you can see how that impacts college students who aren't eligible for for federal loan programs or sometimes aren't able to do housing because of those kinds of things and we see how families are impacted when they get out from under fees for mandatory health screenings in jail for example or um you know when they were being charged for haircuts and so one of the things that the sheriff did that was um so progressive in addition to waiving the fees was kind of look at how those fees are charged going forward and so thinking about you know how we're going to charge people for these things that we deem to be mandatory as you might get processed through can we change the way we're doing that so there's not such a financial burden and so um it was wonderful that they were able to come to an agreement with the county and um allocate funds to um sort of expunge those fees but also that they're thinking about how to restructure them in the future so um the other people won't be won't have that same burden as well so um these are things that are um really interesting and um helpful and and and i would say in my personal opinion overdue but we're very excited to to see them happening and we're excited to see more as we think about how we can change public safety and how we can make it um make it worthy of how we see ann arbor right and that's a big thing it's not you know just the police it's not just community mental health um there are changes that need to be made in lots of different places and um we're excited to be thinking about them um particularly as we think about you know sort of unarmed crisis responders and maybe unarmed um you know work in other ways like you know traffic enforcement for citations that are civil infractions um does that require an armed response and so those are things that i hope we are thinking about as we go forward and just thinking about how we can do public safety better how we can be maybe a model for the nation but more importantly than that how can um public safety exist in ann arbor in a way that suits this community in a way that and you know and sort of rises to the expectations that we have for each other here um uh commissioners bill ups and todora hargraves do you guys wanna talk about your meeting with the union or union representatives or sure i'll start and uh commissioner todoro hargreaves if you want to jump in and make sure you cover anything i've missed that would be great so on march 16th we had a meeting with representatives of the officers and command union uh to discuss uh basically it was a meet and greet uh and part of the process was to discuss miscommunication and misinformation uh information like the union didn't want to meet with us igpak wasn't interested in meeting with the union all of those things that have been floating around which were not the truth we had a meeting to discuss that and to talk about uh common desires for um epoch and the police union to work together and be successful uh with the whole area of oversight uh we talked about the fact that there will be differences and disagreements that we are an independent group of 11 commissioners and but that uh our job and role is different than theirs uh but that we're working together to build bridges uh between them and with the community as a whole to get the community to understand what's happening with police officers but also uh for the police officers to understand what's important to the community uh that is a two-way street uh we talked about the process of of us reviewing uh reports because there was some miscommunication around that and and they were uh understanding now of our committee of three and the processes as to how we review things as a matter of fact they were very excited well very supportive of the fact that um we want to view body cam footage as a matter of fact uh they said a couple of the officers said they want us to make sure that we see all of the body cam video around uh situations um we agreed to meet again in april just to have an open line of communication to discuss um as things come up um differences or to explain positions and commissioner to dora hargreaves am i missing anything no i think you covered it all very well um you know it wasn't a very long meeting um we both asked we asked them questions they asked us questions basically just to clear the air and get to know each other um i thought one of the questions of interest was they wanted to they were interested in why we wanted lean access and when when i explained to them the only reason we wanted lean access was so we could get to the body cam footage then they understood and they were like yeah you know we want you to see the body cam footage so um i think that the the more that we're able to see that um more effectively without lean being used as a reason for it to take so long um we just realized we were all on the same page and we really did all we both had the same goal which was to review the body camera footage so i think that um helped um definitely clear the air which is exactly what we were trying to do with the meeting so it was good and it's important to point out that um the vast vast vast majority of complaints that we get are not from people in the criminal justice in in the in the lean system and so um lean stands for the law enforcement information network and which would allow us to see information about people um who who may have some criminal information in the system but because most of the complaints the vast majority of complaints we get are from citizens who have no criminal background lien becomes unnecessary in the beginning it was thought that it would help us review complaints faster because the city attorney's office or the police and or the police would have to would have less to redact um it became clear to us that that wasn't really necessary because that's not who our complainants are and and it took a while for that to become apparent to us um as we began to get more and more complaints it became clear that mostly they're citizens who who don't have the information in lean and so um you know that that isn't a part of the redactions that have to take place right when and when you look at the body camera footage some that we're seeing there's no rejection needed so the idea up front that it was going to take a long time to get us these videos um it just actually didn't come to fruition and there was a little bit of adjustment that had to be made on the part of you know um like city attorney's office was different people were doing redactions for a while and so now um we we have a very consistent input from the city attorney's office and so that's much more clear and much more streamlined and attorney slay work works much more closely with the police department and so that works um really well and so there's just a really smooth understanding of what they need to redact obviously incidental information information coming across a radio that's unrelated to what we're looking at we wouldn't shouldn't be privy to that so that might be sort of redacted something like that or um but it's not the kind of um reaction i think we thought that was going to have to be necessary in the beginning so um so nothing that um that like we thought would happen but that just took you know us getting adjusted to who our complaints are and um understanding what the process would be and so these are growing pains and turned out that that was one that really worked well and that it wasn't something that we needed to have i think we thought it was really important in the beginning but as we got to do the work more we realized it just it wasn't as important as we thought it was so that's great um great for them to hear that that clarification from us um and to go through the you know historically how this came about and where we were at with it so it was good to clear the air that way well i think it was um you guys did a great job and it was great to um clear up some of the miscommunication um but also just to open the communication channels so that there can be you know a an easier exchange of information um back and forth that could be certainly useful um the more informed we are the better we do our work any reports from any committees um go ahead no go ahead just we have uh just regular meetings with the human um rights commission about the crew report and we came up with a few points that we need to focus on because there are other groups in the county that are working on related issues of the crew report and we have um decided on things like mental health as one of the issues second is on the probation and payroll and that requires imposing some kind of fines sometimes or so on individuals who are not in a position even to pay for these small infractions and what that does to the the the cascade of one thing leads to the second and and you start with something related to maybe a few bucks at the stop sign or so and you did not pay and then now you are being brought to the court and uh imposed more on you or sometimes you might be apprehended or placed in jail for some time and and you have to pay for that so um the issue is i think the idea is is working on something like that across the county and we'll we say to wait and see what they are doing and also helping out those individuals by having them informed of what they need to do in case they have this issue they don't need to run away the other thing is is also there was an issue related to individuals who sometimes um drive without a license and and those individuals um they are not doing that because they want to break the law but because they don't have the means to acquire the license and there was some kind of talk about having other organizations that might help in sponsoring some of those individuals who are in in this type of bracket financial socio-economic bracket that probably would benefit from such funds or so and that would alleviate the problem of having this type of violation and the other point is the data and this is something that's lacking if we are going to be pursuing anything in the future if we don't have data we can't really do anything so we want to have like individuals who are uh being ticketed or being uh uh placed and brought to court in and all that and how those individuals can be helped what type of data available to them how many uh are coming from ann arbor versus other uh towns and cities of the county so we we need to have this type of data as individuals we cannot do that they need to have someone who is really a data expert to do that and we can probably integrate the data any way we want based on our needs or what type of study we are going to be doing so this is an ongoing type of conversation that we have and and it's very uh interesting to see um spectrum not from just us over here in town in an arbor but also across the county thank you um commissioner birch i lowered my hand instead of unmuting myself um i don't have to go first if um commissioner princess dora was up next or councilmember ron you know what you guys are moving around the screen and i thought you were first but i apologize thanks and go okay um just a few things that i wanted to update everyone on so last month i got to meet with the tenant leadership board at avalon which is comprised of different residents in the community they sit on this community engagement board called vocal voices of community advocates and leaders and they discuss advocacy and engagement opportunities for their residents um and it was a really interesting conversation they definitely just had a lot of questions about what it does um you know how you know we can continue to provide updates to them about things that we're doing ways that they can get involved um there was even like discussion on maybe setting up some sort of like liaison role between ikpak and their residents because it definitely was plainly stated that they feel as though they get overpoliced in the sense that for calls that seem um not as urgent they felt like lots of officers will show up and then that will heighten the situation and then it frightens the kids in the community and then residents are just kind of you know unsure about what's going on so i really appreciated that i you know had time to meet with them hold space for their questions concerns and just bring back um to you all that they are really invested in the work that we're doing um you know they want to know how that trust and community um can be built between the police and their residents so really really enjoyed that conversation um the only oh did you have questions about that lisa um the only the couple of things were that i saw that the notice had gone out on march 16th that the aapd is accepting applications for police chaplains and that this is a new program they started i would love to connect with officer doug martell about that just kind of how it was spurred what they're thinking um you know ways we can partner with them to either help with recruitment or um just just learn more about how we can support that initiative because it definitely sounds important you know that they're wanting to provide this level of community engagement where it sounds like the chaplain is providing support to officers and civilians just counseling around mental health suicide awareness prevention um it sounds like a really really great program so anyway we can support those efforts um i'm definitely looking forward to a conversation about that and then lastly um so i am now sitting on the task force that's reviewing public safety on uvm's campus because i'm a staff member there and something that the outreach committee um that i lead for that task force is reviewing is the public safety app that their department of public safety has and so i was just interested in maybe that could be a conversation we have with the aapd about a public safety app a way to sort of see um on a map where crimes are happening um it's an easy accessible way for community members to receive alerts um just about emergency notifications and it's also a way for people to provide anonymous tips so it's um pretty user-friendly accessible um i know it definitely resonates with the students and as we're just trying to think about ways to continue to center the community and their needs wondering if an app can just be another way to kind of um reach folks we might um not be accessing in that sense so those are my updates i wanted to add to your um your chaplain question we were i noticed something about the recruitment um flyer and i was um able to get feedback and commissioner todoro hargraves was having a conversation with um deputy chief metzer and um they were really open to our suggestions um there was a a way that they had worded the counseling issue that was um um that they were able to revise and tweak just a tiny bit and i and um and so i know that the police department is um you know very open to teaching us about the program and and getting input about it from us and so um that is certainly wonderful commissioner todo hargraves were you next up this is my assistant my personal assistant sorry um there were two things and um i was reminded when um commissioner phillips was talking about our meeting with the officers um we've been invited to some training that they've done um we've had seven officers who have become trained in law enforcement active de-escalation training so they those seven are now actively training the rest of the department it's a five-hour training session and um they have invited us to attend so i was thinking that we would start with the information managers um since we would be reviewing um complaints and police officer actions and then start opening it up to others and i can send you the schedule and everything once i work that out um with lieutenant fox and others to get folks on there another training and i don't know what the other information managers are feeling but i was feeling some pain this afternoon trying to juggle logging into the city system and you know figuring out what else i need to do and i know it is important that we use the city system because of the sensitivity of what we're reviewing so um i was speaking with um assistant city attorney slay and we're thinking that we will set up a training maybe with somebody from it who can help the five of us get a better understanding of what we need to do to get all our logins up and running um i know we need more than one um um because we need some some other logins besides the city one so um i'm gonna be getting that training set up also so i'll be in touch with all of you about that and i'll be buying some pretty large flash drives for everybody to store their information on because people have different systems and um that we've we've seen some differences in operating systems and whether you log on from a mac or pc or a tablet and so we're trying to get all that coordinated and one thing that might help make this more secure is if we're keeping documents that we're keeping not not the body cam footage or anything like that but our notes on a flash drive and you might be able to securely move that around while just kind of having things in one place so i'm gonna get a bunch of those for anybody who needs those um depending on your computer situation we do not want um the age of one's laptop to prevent anybody from participating in this process or the age of operating systems etc so um if anybody is having difficulty with that um you know certainly reach out to me and let me know that um i have been able to get in i've finally been able to open up my city email i've been able to get into evidence.com and um my process for doing that was different than commissioner todoro hargraves and so we know it might be different for everybody else so if you are an information manager if you would in the next couple days make sure you can log into all those systems and see body cam footage that it actually plays for you um i think everyone so all five of us should have things in a file available to us and then on um in april we'll sit down with the deputy chiefs and um and review those cases together but it's good to know like what works and what doesn't work long before that so we can get it fixed if we if we need to um and then just make sure we keep working out the kinks so um council member ram lawyer and then um commissioner walton thanks i'm going to take us a step back here um i just wanted to uh thank um francis uh and uh bonnie for for meeting with the union and having a conversation breaking the ice uh i think uh quite frankly it's overdue um and it's good to see that happen um much of what i contend with outside of meetings is is just the lack of information misunderstanding lack of trust really makes our jobs a lot diff much more difficult when um when those are the the surrounding um you know feelings and perspectives that people have so uh i appreciate that quick conversation that led to some common understanding um and can lead to further dialogue um i do as i've been sitting here for a long time i feel that there is much more in common than there is uh uh what uh is acknowledged and so uh just wanna thank thank uh the commission for for doing that and i hope it continues and if there's anything that someone in my position can do to help that please reach out um and i will be more than happy to provide whatever i can to facilitate those conversations and dialogue i think it's very important we keep touching on it was touched on again today about trust and we need to build that trust and so hopefully that can continue and i know this isn't a perfect world and i don't expect it to be that way after just a few um conversations but i i believe we're better off with having them um and then uh it's it's uh i guess you know for this commission and the the difficulties it's having with the work that's being asked if there's a need for personal devices perhaps the equipment or supplies this commission needs to do the work and investigate please ask we do have a budget um and i don't think you know when this commission was formed or anyone was really thinking that two or three years ago um that we'd be doing as much as we're doing now electronically so i think it's a very um you know a reasonable request if we have to make a request for the commissioners to have the devices given to the commissioners that need it what they need so we're all working on the same platform and you're not trying to vit that's not what you signed up for it's not the i.t commission so um so appreciate the work that you're all doing and i'll keep polling people to make sure that people do have the equipment that they need but um council member ram lawyer is correct if we if the commission needs to purchase some laptops that need to be you know loaned out to people as they do their work then that's definitely something that's within our purview to do that obviously they would belong to the city and i think our preference is that maybe we just borrow them from the city because they will update their stuff regularly if we got something it would get old soon so that might be a better solution but you know i'll i'll be reaching out to everybody touching base with you about your i.t needs particularly as you review cases but even as you do other work um commissioner walton and then commissioner othman thanks i just wanted to give a quick um update actually on the budget which is sort of a bit of a non-update because i don't have final word yet but uh the city administrator's office they did accept our budget as we had just have discussed before so we are putting forward a budget uh with no cuts from from previous years and in fact actually with a modest amount extra for some additional training and i.t yeah and i i guess it was training i would say when i was training we didn't get additional money for it but we are using more rit now and it is kind of linked with the city so there is a change in those fees um based on what we're using and what we're doing so but but yeah with a little bit of extra money for training and along those lines after the discuss discussion last meeting um hopefully next meeting i'm going to be bringing a proposed draft for sort of a training outline so that we can consistently new commissioners come in we'll have you know some some expectations of what they'll be doing in the first 30 and 90 days to get acquainted with everything and then some ongoing things for us there's lots of flexibility and it's not necessarily you must do these four things but we're tying it very closely back to nicole's things so the 13 principles and the different tracks they have where you can specialize your knowledge over time so just giving a heads up and if anyone's got thoughts on those specifically on things that should be in initial training uh and things like that please let me know and and i can build them into them i've got a chance to review her um commissioner walton's draft and it is um really wonderful and it talks about sort of onboarding training but it also talks about continuing education and one of the things that that i've kind of talked about a lot is that um oversight um is a profession and um and and just as police are professionals and and other people are professionals um oversight requires a certain amount of training and it requires ongoing training and and being well versed in um you know sort of of things from case law all the way to um sort of current perspectives in oversight and those things are unique you know obviously from policing although related to the oversight of policing and so um commissioner walton's plan um will be very helpful for all of us who are on the commission already in terms of staying current and making sure that we are informed but also reassuring the public that we are professionals at what we do and that we do have a certain amount of training in terms of what we do um i think part of the um the training plan includes that a certain percentage of us become certified practitioners of oversight and that is something that can be done you know over time um but that it is important to have people on the commission who have retained that level of training um in addition to the ongoing training that people have and um and and so um part of that is just making sure that we do our jobs well but part of it is also um the public having confidence that we're doing what we're doing not from the position of sitting and just and and sort of the ideas that we judge police where what we're really doing is thinking about oversight principles and um certainly those include transparency and accountability at the fore but there are many ways of getting at that as commissioner walton stated there are many different tracks community engagement is a track um thinking about collaboration with other agencies of the track and so all of these things are very important in addition to oversight principles and so um her plan will make sure that everybody is well-rounded um in that and that there is um sort of a continual a continuation of education for all commissioners um throughout their tenure on this commission so it's very very important um council member ram lawyer thank you appreciate the opportunity again um a couple things have been brought up here um the the chaplain program that was discussed earlier uh has been brought to my attention that we used to have that um for for many many many years so uh hopefully we can um go back and look at that we're not going to be reinventing the wheel there um there'll be a lot of history to see how that was done and uh just answer uh commissioner's questions and inquiry on that so uh bringing back something that did exist prior um to the last couple years um and then the there's i know there's a unfortunately it's that time of year where we have people coming off of boards and commissions and and you know come i think may there's a few commissioners here who are their terms are up uh i believe the process would be to reapply uh through the normal process and then of course uh myself and council members song and council members from the human rights commission will review the applications and uh and and put forth names but that's going to come up quickly uh it it just kind of jarred my uh memory when uh commissioner walton was talking about uh the budget and uh thank you so much for doing that uh you did you've done a terrific job in in the years you you've been on commission and putting that together and i'm glad to hear that that the uh it was approved i think the the pressure the political pressure that the commission and others in our community have put you know makes a difference um and uh we we gotta put our dollars where our priorities are and that's good to see um that was the case here and um anyhow that there's the training um we we got a lot invested in this commission with folks and the experience and i know it's taken a long time but when you start from scratch that's what happens sometimes we didn't really have a template to go off of here locally so it did take some while a while to get get things going but hopefully we can retain as many people as we can but it just put that out there the folks that are coming off to me that i'll give some thought on that and look forward to seeing everybody still so thank you we are on top of it um commissioner hoffman i did mention at the beginning of the meeting about the uh phase identification the software that's being used and proposed and uh uh bear my conversation with my son i just asked him about what does he think of of the system he said that over the past two years or so there was great improvement in the system itself however um the uh system uh is not good at if you have glasses if you have a mask or if you are trying to identify something from a video uh if you are trying to take a a still from a video it does not work the other thing he said that it should be equal to the fingerprinting meaning that if you have fingerprint it comes back to only one individual if you're going to have a uh an image or a picture and comes back with 20 individuals or five individuals or three individuals he said that that is an issue an issue with the sensitivity issue with the settings so unless there are improvements and on that front i think it's a little bit um you know he said that if it's not going to be as the fingerprinting i think that is a little bit uh not as as reliable at least at least with what they currently have so so there are some some uh um drawbacks of of the system and who knows maybe in the future the system will will become a little bit more reliable uh in terms of uh being used and and used properly and in uh in a helpful way so i will probably keep um also looking into this as time progresses and see what type of recommendations we would have based on on science and based on not just whether or not you know this software will go and use it and you know there is no data that will support so just we really need to be careful about that because no one is is questioning fingerprinting you know when it comes back especially if you have a good one there are partial ones you know sometimes this is what you work from but but i think if it's not going to be returning just one individual as fingerprinting i think um i would err inside of caution we um it's such a good point that you've made we know that right now the technology um is not as reliable as it should be but it's also not as valid as it should be in that it has difficulty distinguishing between women we know it has difficulty distinguishing people under a certain age and so there are a number of problems um with that but um these are things we'll get to explore as we work on the um you know facial recognition task force commission um i'm sorry council member song i just wanted to update folks that there's a lot of community organizing around this already and there's a site ban the scan a2.com that's already up and a town hall that they're organizing on april 29th um the it's a collaboration between a number of organizations in town um and you'll see that um there are alerts that you can sign up for and how to email counsel a lot of background information on the technology how it's been misused um i'm impressed it's a fancy looking site um and it looks like there's there's momentum behind this work um so it should be pretty easy going and i just want to clarify one thing um commissioner had said that this is technology that's being used it's not being used in ann arbor and there's no ambition to use it the the intention behind this was really come where the motivation behind this is coming from the community and just trying to make sure that um it isn't it won't be used so anyways it's abandonscanea2.com perfect thank you so much um if i am not mistaken um we are at the point where we could take public comments uh ms jeunesse do we have anyone waiting at this point were we able to retrieve the caller from earlier let's see what we have [Music] um no i don't see anyone okay um this is highly unusual but we may have done all of the work that we should have done in um one hour and ten minutes is there a motion to adjourn motion is there a second second all in favor aye aye any opposed we are adjourned somebody write this down i feel like we did a lot of work i know we do most of our work
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over the last 15 years the average tax increase to a home in bound brick is .62 and as you can see this year it's zero our current budget again from our strategic plan these are our five key areas from the strategic plan again we're going to improve our academic and instructional programs maintain our student-teacher ratios continue our extracurricular transformative uh transformation and updates try to reduce local taxes we did a zero tax increase increase health and safety measures because of the pandemic continue social emotional programs continue to expand our wellness mental health wellness programs continue in-district counseling model with clinical counselors expand our cte and work study program and adopt a new science curriculum 8-8 we're going to continue to increase instructional capacity continue the district as a high performing district continue to implement procedures and policies support instruction continue early reading intervention programs increase asi support expanding our summer school program for the learning law student pandemic maintain our extended school day program for grades one through eight summer school uh reading program k to one and expand i mean uh that should be pre-k and k i apologize and expand our self-contained program to the middle school our additional staff that's in the budget is a um work study site coordinator somebody to go out and check the work site workplaces for our kids to make sure they're compliant osha compliant make sure that all of their policies procedures are up to date before we send the kid out to a workplace to ensure that we're sending our kids to a safe workplace that's critical um a new special ed teacher a new structural lead that will be for the the um expansion into the middle school and then a new stem teacher for the middle school which is part of the additional amazon grant we got from the middle school so we have the amazon grant in high school now we have one for the middle school there are no staff reductions our our cost increases are pretty much straightforward healthcare um contractual workers compensations best light costs new staff um we did put in for a new section of roof over at smalley over the art room a new intercom system here at the high school reporting the chimney at community school and an automation project at smalling school temperature controls that's for the older section of um the building we didn't have a chance to do those controls so last year's or the current year's budget is 32 million 798 next year's budget is 36 509 it's a difference of 3.7 million dollars our fund 12 is 1.9 million so fund 12 is our basically our our revenue account stuff that's self-generating and then our overall budget last year was 37 million that takes into account your um title 1 title 2 title 3 brown lease things like that this year it will be 41 million for a difference of 3.6 million dollars in total year's unleased payment for the upcoming year is a little over 1.2 million um we have three after this upcoming year we'll have three years left on at least and that lease will end in uh the 23-24 school year so you have three years left on at least and then that addition on somalia is paid for district projects on the horizon obviously we're in the design phase for the lofty lafayette cafeteria then you have the lafayette classroom edition you're going to have to replace the high school uh turf field at some point in time relatively soon you got to replace the field lights restoration of the high school bathrooms high school boilers and we still have some led lights that we have to uh upgrade in some classrooms our per pupil costs have not really changed we're still ranking pretty highly out of the 71 similar districts um like us throughout the state and that's pretty much it it's pretty much pretty much a straightforward very vanilla budget i'll take any questions no we did not no and we've not got a response to that either none of the districts that reported the under count has gotten an answer from uh department of ed yeah not even we'll get back to you we need to get a circle back any other questions so like i said it's pretty straightforward budget uh maintains what we have you saw the additions to the budget um it pretty much keeps us going with the programs that we have um there are a couple uh minor uh maintenance projects in there i think to be honest with you the biggest one probably in there cost wise is probably going to be the intercom system believe it or not for the high school um and i can honestly tell you that having been in high school for a long time and i'm sure ed would agree with us we have some some some rooms that actually hear announcements we have others that don't so it is needed at the high school it probably falls into that safety security piece probably needs to be done the uh the chimney piece over at community school um you know as i told you before as we've been repointing here at the high school it's something that you guys really have to budget for yearly um it's repointing your your buildings are quite old um and you're really going to have to put money out to repoint yearly um you just gotta find find the worst parts of the district that needs to be repointed and do them as fast as you can and continue to just keep moving along um to maintain the buildings that you have because i don't see you going out and building a new building um although i will tell you that there is a lot of talk about um the school development authority coming out with some new rod grants um but again i just don't know the financial situation that bamboo will be in to um go after a rod grant for a building i just don't know if you guys would have the public support for taking out that kind of debt for a building you just don't know so um well again you know the original thought process here in bound brook again and you weren't here on the board um i know michelle was um mike was um i know camilla was jay you were you were probably here at the time um the additions that we put on like the addition we put on a small the additions were talking about putting out in lafayette the purpose of those additions were really to um at some point in time closed lamont lemonades so we're putting on additions to actually reduce the footprint of the district from six buildings to four uh unfortunately the problem that you have is the growth in the community is really forcing you to keep those all the buildings open and need the additions so that's the real concern is is the growth within the district itself um again when we did the we did the studies seven or eight years ago from white hall um our top out number was like 1900 kids for the district we surpassed that two years before we were supposed to even get to that and then when we did the new study the new top out number was like 2100 and we hit 2000 a year ago now obviously the pandemic you know our numbers are down a little bit like everybody else's but again that's because if you look at kindergarten pre-k parents kept their kids home now when we come back in september will all those kids show up i would assume that yes they will i don't think that they're going to stay home but again i could be wrong um i can't give you that answer um but at some point in time they're gonna show up show up they still think the other problem that you're gonna have is which we experienced the last time was the unaccompanied minors that is going to be a problem i can't give you a projection on that it's very hard because some of them are one bedroom some of them are two-bedroom um i i just can't accurately forecast that for you how awful the meridian one they weren't off that badly it might have only been been a handful of kids it was queen's gate that they were off quite a bit because queen's gate ended up being two-bedroom apartments that was off quite a bit i think the other thing that that we've noticed in bamboo is um and again i will talk to real estate agents but um houses in bamboo right now don't stay on the market more than probably two weeks real estate and bamboo goes pretty quickly and right now you have a lot of young families moving in so young families equals kids again um you could do you could do your demographic studies you could do your long-term studies you could do any any which way you want to do it if if you look at it from from the long term the long term would be to build a building a big building you you you would that kind of you if if i was advising you i would say build a building that holds a thousand elementary kits and clothes and and close as many small buildings as you can and reduce the the size and footprint of your district again that that that long-term thinking though there's a cost to it that i don't know if the people of bound work are willing to take in the short term for a long term gain i think the other thing that you have to remember and i think there is a part of this i would say use some patience is your buildings are quite old so you have three buildings that are a hundred years old or or better high school's over a hundred vermont's over 100 community schools over 100 your other buildings are 60 or 70 years old by themselves as is so i know that the department of education did ask us how old our buildings were when they started talking about these new rad grants and sda funding opportunities so there may be a focus coming to target buildings that are over 100 years old in that case you you may be in a good position to to you know your patience is always good because you may be in a position your buildings are in great shape right now you can handle your influx so be patient be patient see what the state is going to do three or four years from now if the state's not doing anything then at that point in time then you could then you could say okay let's go out to the taxpayers and say okay for a long term commitment this may be in the best interest to reduce your taxes long term it's not going to happen in the short term i would take lamont i would get rid of lamont and i'd go up four or five stories that's what i would do an imminent domain that that little piece of green brook academy and i would just take out lamont and go straight up everything go right up and then what i would do is once that building's done then i would take out um the annex and make that one big gigantic parking lot but again that's just that's just a long term if that's the way you wanted to play it but i can't i can't tell you how to do it any other questions okay [Music] next okay [Music] we have no committee needs to report at this time however we do have to go into an executive session up front here at this time so we are going into executive session under number three four seven and eight can i get a motion to go into executive session most of this is thomas ellie's second is all in favor all right we will be back in a little bit folks jump find it by the light well that'll be on camera forever hey agenda items only okay i have only one online and it's from mrs o'reilly 745 school house lane finance resolution warner club recommendations the superintendent made providing a better virtual environment and where can the boat view those recommendations and wondering how the staff received their cool classroom and digital citizenship training well we did that from tight learning to training for the teachers and um i have no problem posting my recommendations tonight on the website that's all there is online for agenda items you ready okay at this time can i get a motion to approve the minutes from 3 8 20 21 both regular and executive meetings mr battle second second mr thomas ellie uh i need to abstain because i was not here mike ms defazio has to abstain because she's not here for the minutes anyone else roll call book give me one second figure this out you can just read along fill them on the tape mr bear yes miss martinez yes miss morris miss musa yes mr osama yes this is thomas elliott yes mr vatalaire yes mr fazio abstain okay okay at this time we are going to personnel resolutions uh resolve that the superintendent recommends for approval the resolutions as outlined in personnel resolutions under district and high school 6.2 to 6.12 can i get a motion motion mr bow second second mr tomaselli any questions or comments motion was mr bail seconded by mr thomas see that special ed positions is filled finally right that's a big deal yeah for those that don't know i just need to sing from six five i just need to say from for personal that 6.3 makes me sad because i could always count on ms del conte to be in the audience for every day that i was here and i'm sure she's watching so i don't agree with that that's true hearing no other comments may i have a roll call mr bale yes miss martinez miss morris yes miss moussan yes mr rosamano yes this mr thomas elliott yes mr vandalia yeah mrs defazio yes good all right we are up to just hit the mouse so seven uh approval the result the superintendent recommends her approval the resolutions as outlined in personnel resolutions under middle and elementary schools seven point two through seven point five can i get a motion mr thomas ellie second okay hearing no questions or comments may i have a roll call mr bell yes miss martinez miss morris yes yes mr samantha yes this is madame mr yes uh eight resolved to the boundary board of education approves the resolutions as outlined in education resolutions under district and high school number 8.2 can i get a motion mr tomaselli can i get a second thank you ms mussen any comments questions motion by mr thomas seconded hearing none can i get a roll call mr bale yes mrs martinez miss morris yes miss moussana yes mr samantha yes mr thomas ellen yes mr vandalia yes mr fabio yes policies resolve the board of education approves the resolutions as outlined in policy resolutions under district and high school 9.2 can i get a motion welcome mr thomas ellie can i get a second second mr vada layer any questions or comments motion by mr tom miss morris yes miss blusana yes mr osama yes mr thomas ella yes mr vandalia yes mr foster yes 10 resolve the boundary board of education approves the resolutions as outlined in financial resolutions 10.2 through 10.15 can i get a motion motion mr thomas ellie can i get a second second any questions or comments motion by mr thomas seconded by mr bail i have to say it from 10.8 10.12 10.13 and then check three seven six seven five three six three seven six seven five three six four times four three seven six seven five thank you and then it was ten point one eight twelve 13.
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at pkms lunches will begin at 9 51 and they'll conclude at 12 12. and you have to remember that those students at the middle schools and the high schools they begin their school day earlier so then it's cms uh lunches begin at 10 30 and conclude last appeared to be 11 20 and then at chs just because of its size they begin at 9 45 and they conclude at noon principals were also able to work out schedules for their buildings that they'll be sharing with their staff at the elementary level that provide recess time both in the morning and in the afternoon for a mass break so that the students can go outside socially distant six feet and have that break period so those are some of the highlights of the plan are there other questions the board has at this time oh i know something that's very important that was very important to parents as well students that are are currently remote will maintain their same remote teacher students that are currently in person will maintain their current teacher of course students transferring from remote to in person will have we'll have some changes but we were able to keep keep that that was important to families and we were able to hold on to that for them firstly good great job to everybody for that huge juggling act amazing amazing um can you clarify the purpose of wednesdays again for me please so at the at the high school level and to a certain degree at the at the middle school level we have simultaneous instruction that takes place so at the same time that the teachers are teaching their students in person they're teaching their remote students at the same time and that brought in some extra planning and collaboration issues so we put that in place for for those levels after the school year next looking at to afford to next year is that going to continue or is it no um so our current plan in you know things can change but our current plan for next school year is to have a full return of students in the fall and the only remote sections would be due to uh documented medical exemptions okay good thank you have you had any pushback on the question transportation people actually providing or no parents have actually been very supportive and we're still trying to work we're still trying to work through to maybe even get the seven buses maybe down to six or down to five okay but we we've had um an outpouring of support from our community to try to make this plan work so then the next step would be um after transportation takes one more look at it reaching out to those families on those affected buses that said they'd be willing to drive to help bring those numbers down and just just so just to clarify for for everybody but um students making the change from sort of in person to remote and then remotely in person this is a one-time deal right this is we're done now for to the end of the year okay okay so i mean unless there's something in the circle that's why we we had to take a heart stance that the survey actually closed at noon on friday because uh we have to there was a lot of work that had to go into this and this is the the decision that was made um through the survey or through not making change then you stayed put will be in effect through the end of the school year and we're not we're not loosening any of the the um arrangements for people having to wear masks for the cleanliness in the buildings and all the other all the other items that are currently in place with the exception of three feet right so we're going to continue to do proper sanitation and disinfection on a daily basis for all of our building facilities um we're able to maintain the six foot social distancing when students are eating it's important to realize that that families need to continue to be diligent about the self-certification process because if if someone comes to school and they're symptomatic and now you have students within that radius there could be a greater number of students that have to be quarantined so it's going to be really important that if someone's exhibiting symptoms that they do not come to school that day another piece of information that was just shared with us today officially by king county health department is that the quarantine period for for individuals is being lowered from 14 days to 10 days as long as the individual remains asymptomatic throughout the entire 10 days and that would not require a test then it's just the tendency that does that require testing and there's no way to shorten that with any sort of testing correct just want to be sure yeah because the cdc would allow for a shortened time period with testing king county health department has not adopted that guide in line but they did reduce from 14 days to 10 days as long as the individual remains asymptomatic on a daily basis for that time period and as always that's 10 days from the day of exposure date of exposure find out about it correct and that's that applies whether you're vaccinated or not or not correct well if you're fully vaccinated if you're fully vaccinated you don't have to quarantine after exposure so let me let you know if sometimes yeah if you're fully vaccinated you're gonna have to quarantine after so we're talking about our teachers who would be potentially exposed to a student or university or other students well you know if there's a student who if there's a student who tests positive right yeah then you're gonna have to have other students quarantined and right my point is we don't have students who are vaccinated yet so it really just correct for that vaccination purpose is really protecting teachers yeah from the need to quarantine theoretically excellent correct do we have we do have any feedback at all and they definitely never asked this last time but how what percentage of the of the the teaching staff have been vaccinated um we know that the majority of our staff has been vectored but we do not have official numbers because uh we're not requiring people to disclose that yeah that information there's been a good take-up generally you think [Music] yeah and the information that will be sent out to staff and families later tonight with more to follow from their school and the transportation department great brown yes johnson yes nolan yes yes gorman yes fabulous thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you for all your work hard yeah it's amazing well i wish i could take credit for it but it's a team you know everyone
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congratulations ladies uh we also have a special guest miss julie oltof here is to uh um give a resolution as well hello you ladies um this is national women's history month and you all made women's history uh in your accomplishments so i'm from uh indianapolis today i am a state representative i have a resolution here that passed the house of representatives today it was read over at the senate and it passed through both houses and so this document and your name and your team will go into the public records for here on forever so let me read it to you this is house concurrent resolution number 32 introduced by representatives julie altoff and mike ellsworth sponsored by senators eddie melton and rick niemeyer adopted by vols voice vote on march 18 2021 during the first regular session of the 122nd general assembly a house concurrent resolution congratulating crown point high school's girls basketball team on winning the state championship whereas crown point high school's lady bulldogs basketball team one class 4a state championship on february 27 2021 with a final score of 44-34 whereas jessica carruthers led the lady bulldogs in scoring 25 points at the state championship game along with making seven rebounds and five steals whereas lily stoddard aided her team with an average of 10.7 points 9.1 rebounds 1.4 steals and 2.3 blocks per game this season whereas teammates jessica caruthers and lilly stoddard sorry if i messed up your name uh we're named indiana jr all-stars by the indiana basketball coaches association the only set of teammates to do so caruthers and stoddard were chosen to be part of the indiana basketball coaches association underclass all-state supreme 15 team whereas the lady bulldogs finished the season with a 25 to 1 record that's awesome it doesn't say awesome in here whereas crown point high school girls basketball team previously won state championships in 1984 and 1985 whereas head coach chris siebert and lady bulldogs coaching staff led the team through a safe and successful season during the covid pandemic and whereas the 2021 lady bulldogs basketball team brought excitement and pride to all the people of the crown point community and hoosiers across northern indiana therefore be it resolved by the house of representatives of the general assembly of the state of indiana with the senate concurring that the indiana general assembly assembly congratulates the 2021 crown point high school girls basketball team on their state championship so i have a copy like this for all of you that you'll get on your way out today congratulations you guys so proud thank you miss holt so i'm sure we're gonna we're gonna um call everybody by name and mr angel will have your accommodation for you and uh when we finish up we'll probably ask maybe mr darula and coach seibert to say a few words about your season you girls but uh if i can add real quick i just want to let you guys know that you've made the entire community proud and as a community member the amount of praise that you guys received for including everybody in your program was amazing to me that just says a lot about you not only as athletes but about people and i'll tell you that on several occasions i'd heard not just the players or the varsity or junior varsity but you guys all even allowing us as community members feel like we were a part of it with you was something um that you should all be very proud of so thank you and just before you go mr warning i just like to say so that i could get the uh you know rights and hashtag two in a row and 22 is how we're going to pass that if we need some sponsorship on the back mrs randall you just want to read them yourself since you have the list yeah there'll be an order in his hand perfect [Applause] emily phillips [Applause] mariana maldonado zoe wells hallie rawls [Applause] brooklyn [Applause] now i'm going to call her name but usually i just yell go over allie gobert i know nikki do you elena santiago rubio santiago ava zolkowski [Applause] okay coaching staff chris cyber scott reed [Applause] amanda stillman ashley parish okay i just would like to thank the the school board all of our administration dr terrell and everyone for your support throughout this run for believing that high school athletics could happen this year uh for supporting us and doing everything you can to make this possible there were a lot of people that did not think we would have a season did not think that it was something that was feasible or even advisable at times and for you guys to believe in us and to support us um and for our these girls who are great basketball players but even better ambassadors for our community better students and just a great representation of what student athletes should be it doesn't get much better and i'm truly humbled and honored to be your coach and to have a chance to work in such a wonderful community so thank you all very very much appreciate it just like to congratulate the girls um it was a it was an interesting season you guys had overcome a lot and it's not easy winning a state title especially in 4a basketball and so what a tremendous achievement you guys uh it was a team effort and it was fun watching you congratulations to the coaches on managing all this you know we lost we lost scotty for a while to covid and he came back here at the end it was a great help and you don't get here um and do these kind of things if you don't have a great leader and uh i think coach seibert did a really nice job this year uh and and he's a class act and so congratulations him him as well so great job ladies [Applause] one last thing before we ask you guys to to leave the uh the board meeting i know you have many other things going on it was national trainers week last week or is it this week all month all month we gave them a whole month well we want to we want to recognize our trainers especially you guys the extra burdens you had with kova and everything going on we appreciate you guys in the work that you did for our team and for all of our athletes uh we just appreciate you thank you have a great evening i want to give a little shout out to scott reed who was an assistant on our two previous championships yesterday is that right scott yes [Music] good good thanks ladies thank you very much see ya thanks for being here ladies have a good evening thanks for being here absolutely [Laughter] [Music] it'll be across the hall right here logan okay sorry um hey we're going to let logan go first and then we'll do his and then we'll have you come up and we'll do yours okay yeah we'll give mr babjack the honor here for logan frazier and jesse mendes all right um you guys hear me okay a couple of familiar faces to the crown point wrestling program some both of them returned to state this year and represented the community in the school very well uh very proud of the wrestling team and uh both of these young men um you know placed um and did it had a tremendous season so we're going to honor logan first for his second place finish i believe last year he finished third place second place this year so we'll draw our own conclusions for for next year right i know i know he's got it in him so it's been a pleasure to watch him so i'm going to read the accommodation for logan the crown point board of school of trustees is honored to commend logan frazier for notorious achievement be it hereby resolve that the board of school trustees for the crown point community school corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to logan frazier a member of the 2020 2021 crown point high school wrestling team for the prestigious honor of being named and earning state runner-up in the 120 pound weight class at the 2021 ihsaa wrestling state finals this board of school trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently to its minutes to be preserved for public posterity logan frazier congratulations logan you want to come together congratulations now for jesse um same combination with the exception i'll read the um the part that's a little bit different jesse mendes congratulations for your being named state champion in the 130 pound 138 pound weight class uh state champion at the 2021 ihsaa wrestling state finals uh three-time state champion freshman sophomore junior year one more to go congratulations jesse all right and then jesse if you want to hang tight yeah one more i just want to say one more thing to um you know the parent the parents that are here uh both of these boys were at the crown point tournament youth tournament yesterday uh kind of watching over the kids and helping out and um when my boy i have a nine-year-old he saw those two he saw logan and jesse and requested them as his mat coach and they coached him for his very first match which he won 10 to nothing and uh he was honored to have both of you guys um on the mat for his match and i just want you to realize like what an impact you guys have on these young kids that are coming up in this program so thank you for that personally all right guys again fellows we have uh miss julie oltof state representative here for uh she has a resolution for you as well i believe i'm sorry this is for it is for jesse right for the state champion yes next year logan that's right i'll be back i like it totally will be back so this um i don't know if you heard the one for the basketball but this started out in the house of representatives and it was read on the floor of the senate today so it passed the house went over to the senate so this is fresh off the press senator niemeyer says he's uh sends his congratulations but he couldn't make it they just got out of session at four o'clock and if you know traveling to indianapolis it's like two hours and 15 minutes no stopping 80 miles an hour not that i would do that but so let me read this to you this is house concurrent resolution number 31 introduced by representatives julie oltof and mike ellsworth sponsored by senators eddie melton and rick niemeyer adopted by voice vote on march 18 2021 during the first regular session of the 122nd general assembly a house concurrent resolution congratulating crown point high school's jesse mendes on his third state wrestling championship that's quite an achievement whereas jesse mendes won his third consecutive state wrestling championship on february 20th 2021 whereas jesse mendes finished his junior year wrestling season undefeated with a score of 34-0 whereas jesse mendes became the 39th wrestler in indiana's history to bring home three state titles whereas crown point high school boasts 14 individual state championships since 1955 whereas coach brandon loreck led the entire wrestling team to success while safely navigating the covet 19 pandemic and whereas jesse jesse mendez's hard work and determination continue to bring success and pride to the crown point community therefore be it resolved by the house of representatives of the general assembly of the state of indiana with the senate concurring that the indiana general assembly congratulates jesse mendes on his 2021 state wrestling championship win now this will go into the state records so your name is held right there as of today because it passed the senate i have copies for you like and your coach if you could give it to your coach that would be great and i'll give you the original congratulations so much we're proud of you i think we want to get a picture of both of you while we're doing that i think we would be remiss if we didn't also acknowledge that jesse is the number one ranked wrestler in the country in his white class it makes it a lot easier to keep working hard and you know keep striving for the state titles when we know you have a community behind us supporting what we're doing i mean hopefully we'll be back with a full team with blue rings we just like to thank you guys [Applause] families thank you just giving everybody a minute to settle in all right let's move to item three patrons comments uh this evening pages comments we have uh we do have christian washington uh written in to speak mr washington i believe you were given a little bit of preview of the guidelines correct please step forward state your name and address and uh you know the mic is yours welcome thank you very much my name is christian washington 8810 doubletree drive north is my address crown point indiana uh so good evening to the school board school officials as well as parents and fellow community members i've been a part of the crown point community it's okay about let this down okay all right that's good i've been part of the crown point community for the past seven years or so my wife and three children all school-aged and for the most part it's been a great experience we come here from st louis missouri and uh it's been a a really really cool experience it took us a second to settle in uh but for the most part we were able to find a really cool network and support system as we transitioned here i will say this is that we have come across some things that have rattled our family just a little bit we have seen some racial inequality uh as well as some some racial concerns um and at first i i looked at it and i saw it as isolated in incidents and events but the more and more came it seemed to be systematic and inherent to the community it's tough when you have a five-year-old that comes home and says dad mom someone told me that my skin looks like boo-boo and i probably smell like it too you can imagine you know that look in their face and now you have to tell that innocent child about society and the things that they'll come across for the rest of their lives it's kind of difficult when you have a teenager and they come home and they're angry and frustrated because they have people around them that will make racially driven remarks my son there was one incident where he was uh called a and the the young man would blast the black people song that's riddled with stereotypes and uh biases and he had to keep his cool uh and he didn't do too well with keeping this cool uh but it's tough to address those situations with a teenager i guess the the where the rubber hit the road for us is when i overheard a conversation with my son and his friend that happened to be african-american and they were totally frustrated because they had to deal with the racial remarks and it was no jokes that they had to deal with from day to day and uh and they got tired of being that voice of reason they got tired of being that voice saying hey it's a different way that we can approach this um and it was super frustrating so from that standpoint i stood back and said something has to change enough is is truly enough so before we move to crown point i'll be very honest i spoke with friends and you know they advised us not to move to crown point crown point if you don't know is not considered to be a minority friendly community but my wife and our family we're always up to the challenge and we believe wherever we go we can make a difference so i'm here to say that i'm here to stay and i'm ready to meet this head on so i'm reaching out to the school board i'm reaching out to the administrators i'm reaching out to the community and say can we come together and make a change can we do something to open up the lines of communication can we have the tough conversations and get to the very root of things let's stop treating the symptoms and get to the very base of things and make a change in our community because i love crown point uh for the reasons that we saw tonight man these students are so amazing and it's a product of the community that we have so i believe if we fix this facet of our community it will be attracting the diversity the prestige and the people that we need to in order to see this happen from generation to generation so again i'll shut up and i'll sit down but i'll post the question uh what do we do next because it's time for change thank you man thank you thank you mr washington as you know the the comments are meant to be a comment this evening i just want to say appreciate your concerns and your thoughts and the angles that they come from and hopefully we couldn't work together in the future we can move forward to the consent agenda uh item 4.01 is a regular business meeting of board of school trustees held in public i'm sorry i'm going to hand this over to dr terrell the consent agenda hand it over to dr terrell there we go thank you for your consideration this evening we have 4.01 the minutes from our meetings we have 4.02 the south lake career cooperative agreement 4.03 the approval to apply for grants for our ap exams for our students 4.04 donation for the industrial tech department at the high school 4.05 another purchase for the music program at our high school 4.06 the athletic booster donation for football uniforms 4.07 the personnel agenda and then 4.08 the voucher checks as listed this evening thank you thank you dr terrell for the recommendation to approve the consent agenda as presented we have a motion to approve so moved second moved by mr hoffman second by mr angel do you have any questions or comments for dr terrell on the consent agenda one question todd on the grant for the ap exams is that a sufficient amount of money i am going to defer to mr hardiman he's wanting to push your button i was ready when it was my turn to press the button supposed to ask me a question ahead of time now we've this amount we've uh we've applied for and received uh for the last three years i believe and so uh the allocation has uh has seemed to have met the need they've not increased it and that's the only thing i can base it on um so i will pose the question though to see if there's i'm not sure how many applicants that are submitted for this and if all of them do receive a portion of the funds or all of the funds if there if there's an additional lead please let your need please let me know okay thank you your questions or comments for dr terrell if not all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed emotion carries five zero thank you dr terrell and uh action items this evening 5.01 resolution number 795 opposing the hb1005 education savings accounts esa's and voucher expansion dr terrell so just to give you all a little bit of background and for those who are in the audience or watching online so the resolution we bring to you tonight is resolution 795.
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um we'll we'll turn it over to our student uh rep who's with us this uh this evening and i believe i know your last name is uh miss mel morgan thank you so welcome morgan hi good uh good to have you with us here this afternoon or this evening um if you want to introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about yourself and uh what's going on at dartmouth high school hi my name is morgan mello i'm a sophomore here at dartmouth high i participate in a lot of extracurriculars and a sport every single season here i'm very involved i like to be active in my school committee school community so i'm happy to report with the improving weather over the past few days in spring just passed and it's starting up right now students physical and mental health has been slowly improving over time which i'm sure you're all very concerned about especially with the start of the 2021 campaign for the high school seniors this year so unfortunately these seniors have been unable to get a lot of their activities which i know we've been struggling to get and plan for them just to start and so to celebrate the start and the end of their last year their senior year dartmouth's finest which is actually a rehearsal going on right now we'll kick off the start for the 21 for 21 campaign on friday april 9th at 7 30 which you can stream on dc tv our football team record still stands out one to one as the team prepares to travel to durfee on saturday all right despite these challenging times our team perseveres and continues to demonstrate our dartmouth pride along with our school sports dartmouth winter trap which i'm happily a member of we start with a virtual meet coming up on one on thursday actually so because meats are unable to be held in person we all will be competing virtually and posting our own times the coaches look forward to that it'll be an interesting change going into more competition we also had our state deca competition which i'm also thankfully to be a part of 16 students and i also competed at states this year it was online involved written tests and two role plays taking three hours for each video and an hour and a half for the test so after a lot of hard work and time put into these competitions i'm happy to report that four or five of us are going on to nationals internationals so along with other subcommittees and committees and just clubs at our school our student council has started a subcommittee focusing on abolishing parking passage passes which looks forward to working with the school board committee along with our political science club which is hoping to pass a coveted relief bill at federal legislation level to help low income families and our debate team also just participated in a spring fling tournament which evan garcia my other student council rep and i are a part of both of us will be advancing to states this year so we are also proud to announce that our esports team is newly created this year but now has four official competition squads the five-team member league of legends has risen to 13th place place out of 14 teams in our division with many more matches left in the season the three-member state rocket league squad is now ranked sixth over all out of 31 teams we have also just added a three-person local rocket league team and a three-person super smash bros teams both of which will be competing this week a nice start to an interesting and a new team so yeah that's what's going on well it sure sounds like there's a lot happening at dartmouth high and it sounds great all the wonderful things that you're doing um do any of my fellow uh colleagues have any comments or questions thank you for the update thank you for the update thank you it's great to see you here yeah this is youtube yeah well we welcome you and i hope to see you again soon thank you thank you thanks morgan thank you morgan okay the time is now 6 39 i'd like to call the public hearing to order do we need a motion make a motion that we open a public hearing for the fy 22 school budget second motion by mr nunes a second by mrs amaral to open uh the fy 22 a public hearing on our school budget any other discussion chair hearing none all in favor opposed motion carries unanimous unanimously uh the public hearing is open and once again i'll turn it over to uh typically this is when we'd have uh some audience members here and uh they would be uh sharing their thoughts or concerns or questions regarding the fy 22 budget i know that correct me if i'm wrong but the it was published notice was given in the standard times on the march 15 2021 edition and it was also asked in that article or that posting that anyone wishing to [Music] ask any questions or anything in regards to the fy fy22 uh budget hearing that they could send that to kathleen uh miss genter um and do we have anything in regards to a public comment on the budget hearing i have not received any comments you have not received any comments today thank you very much um i don't know what the committee's pleasure is at this point do we uh open and close it or is there anything else at this point no because we're going to talk about it later under old business so correct well that's fine so so jim i'm going to make a motion uh since there is no public comment um i'll tell you what how about if i make them if if we not close but if we adjourn it to the end of the meeting in case somebody after we have a budget discussion somebody happens to send something i'm fine with that doesn't anyone else have any issues so i make a motion that we adjourn our public hearing on the fy 22 budget until the end of our meeting a second okay a motion by mr nunes a second by mrs wade to adjourn our public budget hearing uh coming back to it at the um the end of our regular meeting any other comments questions jay hearing none all in favor opposed motion carries unanimous uh next up uh we have a resolution 21-04 i assume regular regular and late transportation contract uh mr kylie i would assume yes thank you very much thank you mr oliver so we had our bid opening for our regular and late transportation contract and i will read for the record resolution number 21-04 which is a resolution awarding a contract for regular and late transportation services whereas bid invitations for regular and late transportation services k-12 were duly advertised and the bid proposals received were opened at 11 a.m on march 10 2021 and whereas the bid for the only responding bidder trembleys bus company llc was reviewed and deemed to have met the published specifications therefore be it resolved that a contract for regular and late transportation services k through 12 be awarded to tremblay's bus company llc 284 myrtle street new bedford mass based on dartmouth public schools specifications dated february 22nd 2021 for the period of july 1st 2021 and ending june 30th 2022 the contract offered us for an initial period of one year beginning july 1st 2021 through june 30th 2022 with two additional one-year options to be exercised at the sole discretion of the school committee for a maximum end date of june 30th 2024 and the amount of 378.96 per roof per day motion to approve second motion by mr nunes the second by was that uh are you mrs amaral or mrs white mrs wait on the motion i do have some discussion uh just a couple of quick questions for you mr kiley where you say our responding better was that the only bit or the only responsible better it was the only bid the only bit the only bit okay and typically i know we are for those people watching at home and for some of our new school committee members that typically we enter into in the past and past practice to typically go with three-year transportation contact contracts could you just explain a little bit what was the reasoning behind looking at just the one year this year yeah so this is a one year with two one year options and the options are at our discretion so the flexibility is really all on our side um to be honest i think it's highly highly likely that we would use utilize all three years but given there's so much change in the world it's nice to have the option available to us in case something presents itself that we're not anticipating at the moment i have other i can talk a little bit about the price if well i was just curious as what the percentage is over the previous contract so our previous contract was for three years and it um was level priced for those three years similar to this would be if we if we exercise the options so we always expect that in that first year of the new contract we will sort of have to get closer to a current market value it for for the regular bus portion of this it's eight and a half percent increase over the previous contract um and that's the bulk of the cost some of the the other areas of the cost in terms of how much it costs for us to have a monitor on the bus and how much it costs to have late buses we're a bit of an issue in this in that there's a there's a quite a driver shortage and staff shortage in that business and i think that cost us some money the good news is overall this is um within the parameters of what i budgeted in the fy 22 budget so uh you know i think that it would be a good idea for us to exercise this there's a lot of uncertainty in the transportation market right now and uh you know i feel this is a favorable option for us okay thank you very much mr kyle dr jenkins uh so thank you mr chair mr kyle i remember last time we did this told us that it was increasingly common that school districts are are only getting one bid and that concerns me in a sort of historical sense you know past history and dartmouth i think there were some you know ideas that bids were written so that only one company would be qualified to actually bid is sort of an insider backroom deals and i'm not suggesting that's what's happening here i know that it's not i want to be clear about that but it creates sometimes bad appearances and it's good that it's i mean it's good in the sense of appearances that it's happening to everyone but i also don't wonder if this is something that i don't know is the state looking into this it's problematic for districts right when no district there's no competition for bus contracts i mean i'm a pretty lefty person but you know capitalism and market-based competition is good for uh consumers so i'm just sort of wondering whether you know budget officers superintendents the state anyone is sort of looking into what's going on here to see if schools can have some remedies around in districts around this i can say that the state is very well aware that this is an issue um it's a hard one to remedy the there have been several summits of school business officials talking about this there were in the in the last decade there's been several bankruptcies in these companies it's it's a difficult business and um when that has occurred it has been disastrous um in one case there was a bankruptcy where the school district didn't know until the kids weren't picked up that morning and the doors were locked and the phones were off and it was over and never you know so um we do you know we protect against that type of thing we have a performance bond and and you know not to say there wouldn't be issues if that occurred it would be but those businesses have really taken a hit in this economic crisis um you know they've not transported kids and as a result not been paid a portion of their you know of their contracts and um i i i don't know i don't see it going getting any better anytime soon i really don't and i don't this is in no ways to say we're dissatisfied with tremblays or not it just sometimes it can create bad appearances when it's there's like the fix is in and i know that's not the case here and so i just want to sort of talk about you know this is a fairly written bid and this is just sort of what's going on right now all right thank you anyone else i i'm yeah i'm not not specific to this resolution but just uh in terms of i'm i'm not like my children haven't you know been regular bus users i've been the driver the parent parent pickup person um until recently when you know my son does utilize transportation for non-district placement um in in awarding contracts historically like when we've gone with other when we've had other bids that have that we've secured contract with has the special ed transportation also sort of aligned with that bus company do they all sort of fulfill that or have you consistently like utilize like because i know that there aren't as there are other vendors as well for that but right we've we've kept those bids separate they're really you know two separate fleets and i think it makes sense to to do that um we've not when we have had during my tenure other vendor uh one other vendor uh provide transportation services we did not they did not also provide the special ed transportation service for that but yeah that's it anything else any other comments questions just the news yeah thank you mr chairman just to kind of piggyback on what dr jenkins said type of deal i mean there's four bus companies in this area that are you know doing business with all the different communities you know he had a swansea you know rehoboth that type of deal you know out uh probably into a rochester mata poison marion type of type of deal and to you know for somebody else to go out and to do to to take to try to bid on this contract i think would require them to go out find the drivers you know find the buses you know it's a big capital you know in this day and age is a big capital thing we have had in in my tenure uh you know the time when we had we'd get we would get three bids type of deal and you know you give it to the lowest response of a responsible bidder and you don't go out at that year in one year we did that and the committee had to pull the bid at the end of the first year because the company just couldn't handle the bid couldn't handle what we needed type of deal we had issues almost from day one so you know trembly's you know we've got tremblies and they do a good job as far as i can see and understand and i'm happy with with the way this is going okay no thank you if i could just add just for as a frame of reference the competition i agree it would be nice to have competition and make be sure we're getting a good price um i looked at about 25 other contracts right now for next year that are currently in existence or have just just come up and are in a similar situation where they're close to awarding a contract we're about two percent under the average of those contracts so almost dead on with the average of those contracts so you know it's um it's about what the market seems to seems to bear at the moment right yeah it's just a competition piece all right well thank you mr kylie thank you um so the original motion was by mr nunes right second by mrs white any other further discussion cheer hearing none all in favor aye opposed motion carries the passing resolution number 21-04 thank you thank you for your work mr kylie on that thank you next up presentations i'm going to turn it over to our superintendent of schools dr bonnie gifford introduce a spotlight on the dartmouth middle school thank you very much and once again we're delighted to have mr doan here um nope nobody with him tonight but uh i'm sure he's lying solo that's right he's flying so i like that and to present to what's going on at the middle school this year thank you for having me here this evening so just to share a few highlights with you uh throughout the course of this very interesting uh year as you probably are all well aware of is um we are one to one grade six through eight which has been um extremely beneficial specifically due to initially the remote and then transitioning into the hybrid um and then uh starting today we are live streaming with the co-op students that are home um we were fortunate enough to um acquire and i think um uh mr galashaw mr kylian and dr gifford for just um providing some additional funding so that we could acquire some additional technology as you're aware of our teachers move our students remain in their room so when teachers are moving some of our classrooms at the time the technology platform um was different so being able to acquire additional technology has enabled our teachers when they move from class to class to fully support [Music] the students and specifically from a live streaming perspective in which we uh we began today um but again um it's been essential it's been very beneficial uh the students have adapted very well and again it's been very fluid and our teachers i feel um with the variety of workshops that they've been involved in over the past few years has enabled them to transition as well with that being said the technology itself we've have adapted and we have um been able to utilize a variety of different platforms to support our instructional practices goguardian happens to be one of those again it's a homeschool connection uh software teachers are able to communicate with students students can communicate as well um it's been very effective whereas teachers really can monitor the students progress provide feedback um immediate feedback and so it's been extremely uh essential for that and we all know that students work at a different pace so um again teachers have been able to kind of support their needs and um it's something we've been utilizing we introduced it last year but this year especially we found how important um this platform has been for us next as you all know a google meet google me breakout room some breakout rooms is something that we've really utilized this year so we talk about small group instruction collaborative learning teachers can work with their entire classroom uh either whether it's virtual or within the classroom but if their specific students that may have specific needs um if there's some collaborative activities that they've introduced the teachers can create breakout rooms uh even some of our students we've been learning to do that as well where students can work together and utilize you know this means of instruction so it's been very beneficial and again i think our teachers were fairly prepared for it prior to this year they've been familiar with it and for those who had a little bit of learning curve and maybe the comfort level wasn't quite there they came to the realization that this was something that they needed to include in their instructional practices and it really has paid off and next up uh another example is our google jamboard and again that's just um it's kind of like a whiteboard and it's been uh we assigned we gave all our students a package when they joined us during the early fall and one of the things i wanted all the students to have were those white boards so when teachers were teaching remotely or we became kind of uh our cohorts were arriving and back and forth it was important that the students could raise their whiteboard and teachers could visually see whether they got the correct answer or not and then the google jamboard has just allowed us the students not to have that i mean they can utilize jamboard in which they can show their work and teachers as well uh can provide their students with visuals and so that's that's another tool that we've been using we can add to our toolbox and uh teachers really have adapted well and teachers have worked really well together and collaborating as we know some have more of a comfort level than others with technology i'd be lying to you if i said i put this all together this evening i did not but um again our teachers have really worked together and those who do have the strengths have have been more than willing to share with other staff members and right now i can say that everybody's on board with a variety of different instructional practices that we're utilizing to further support instruction next uh something that the middle school is dear to our heart is pbs and rare um rare is something initiative that we had in place prior to pbis and that's respect accountability responsibility of steam and we all know that this year has been very challenging um and we've all been really worried about the students and their social emotional well-being etc but we felt it was important to best our ability to continue with pbis and rare and just kind of be mindful of the importance of of the structured framework so we look at respect where our students created this bulletin board and everybody was given a letter r and on that they were able to identify how they perceive respect how they can convey that share that what they what they feel that represents our next bulletin board is accountability and again same thing each child was given an a and on that piece of paper they identified how they viewed accountability and some of the things that they could do to um you know further support that and we have responsibility and we have esteem so again it's a nice reminder for the students as well as staff we continue with our pbs students as well as staff of the month and uh that's extremely important we have our rare postcards and we also have different a little bit of celebrations when students are in a particular war they can come down to guidance and we have some treats for them etc so again through the course of the year just really trying to encourage i just want i just want to say we we also have a bulletin with flora delts there for staff members and i just wanted to just share like mrs tulson we had a staff member that had taken a lengthy period of time covered related and you know she she more than willing stepped up to the plate and went from the ela lab to eighth grade ela and no questions asked and so that's been kind of the mentality of our staff as well as students but a lot of the staff members here just really stepped it up and filled in positions to just support the colleagues that were out and that's um and that's been really positive and significant i think center set set a great example for our overall staff at large this is you're well aware of is our online academic learning center um i wish this was around when i was a student because this is uh we have 24 staff members are representing each grade level and each course subject for an hour and a half on tuesdays and an hour and a half on thursdays um you know i keep continually reminding students via the morning announcements as well as parents that please take advantage of this i mean it's a wonderful opportunity if you're a sixth grade student and you need a little bit of support in ela you can you know connect with an ela teacher in sixth grade um we have 24 teachers that i've indicated and we have approximately 338 students who have take have taken advantage of this um would i like that we have more sure but um 3 38 is a significant amount and again those are students who have taken advantage of this support and uh it's been very extremely beneficial as you're well aware of when we had our traditional after-school program we would have the homework club and that was supported by six staff members um but again this right now is is 24 staff members and grade levels and and content areas so it's been very beneficial just to add some of the community service it's been kind of a little bit challenging but i take a lot of pride in what our staff members and students have done over the years so again um and i'm hitting the button there we go and again the neatest family program this was a little bit challenging this year usually we have parents coming or families in need coming and we provide them with baskets and a gift card we had to adapt this year so we just provided all those families with 75 gift cards we did some activities some fundraising activities internally to be able to support that financially we collaborate with the town hall again we've done that over the past few years where they've identified families and so we've worked with them to support families throughout the holiday season we've uh we collected over 200 items we talked about clothing gloves hat and socks drives and so again a lot of a lot of students as well as staff contributed and we provided that to our local shelters this year again initiative toilet donation initiative so again the harbor house of new bedford we provided them with toothbrushes toothpaste etc so items and it's it's it's uh it's amazing how the students really you know take the leadership role and want to participate and and want to give back it becomes very contagious they're well aware of the needs and you know it's important i feel that uh you know we continue to promote that that service type piece and with that being said every year our guidance counselors stay with their students sixth seventh and eighth and then they rotate back through again so every year i ask the our eighth grade guidance counselor to identify a particular student that they we could identify as project 351 ambassador that was a project that was started in 2011 by uh then governor deval patrick as a way to uh commemorate dr martin luther king and by focusing on youth leadership uh state say by unity and community services so each year our eighth grade teacher having been with the student for two and a half years or this that that class um has a pretty good understanding and so they identify so this year there was an article i don't know if anybody had seen it in the dartmouth weekly but we had um audrey kircher and again this is allison cato galligan had nominated her and even with the pandemic uh she has been actively connecting visually with the ambassadors from the other schools within the state and so they talk a lot about um you know the type of things that dr dr martin luther king stood for and ways in which they could do collectively and individually to support those traits and so audrey has uh has always done a terrific job connecting with students students that maybe are struggling a little bit students who may be sitting alone in the calf she'll connect with them reach out and she's in the process now of kind of developing four specific activities that would support um these particular traits and so um you know just figured i'd share that with you that she is the ambassador from the middle school this year and that's a wonderful uh program that has been in place for some time and really not only recognizes students from different districts but also just uh keeps in mind the importance of of these particular characteristics and traits so um with that being said just in conclusion i i just i can't say enough for my staff um i'll speak on behalf of my staff because they're my staff i can't really speak on behalf of other schools but their ability this year just to really adapt um you know to go from remote to transition to the hybrid and then from the hybrid on the off days to even take it a step further and connect with those students maybe an hour and a half to two hours a day and now my starting today to really connect with them live streaming um they're just they're willing to support each other identify different ways that they can best connect and support students and then with that being said i just can't say enough great things about our students i mean it's been extremely challenging for them and they um they have adopted adapted they've been very respectful um you know we have a lot of structure in place um you know travel patents and just the way you approach things and you know using you know having materials in the classroom with students who would just get up and be able to get colored pencils and this and that i mean the systems that have been placed and they have really they've done a terrific job and even the utilization of technology how they've been able to you know take advantage of that so it's been a real plus and the community at lodge the community lodge has been extremely supportive as well so it's it's been a team effort all around and as a building principle i i really can't say enough things about um all that they've done and and what they've tried to accomplish and again just conti our mantra this year um the only expectation that i've really asked of staff and is just be kind be kind to each other and be kind to students be kind to parents and if you can just be kind we're going to get we're going to make it through the year and um that's that that's been our number one um you know objective expectation yes the teaching's going on but just be mindful of the needs of staff students and parents and so um you know that's where we are so i told that i'd keep it within a certain time frame do you have any questions um be more than welcome to you know right on time there uh thank you mr doan for your presentation i can start over here um dr jenkins uh thank you uh mr john i appreciate your presentation and i also want to just sort of echo your thanks to all your teachers and staff um i think it's been a hard year for teachers it's been a hard year for everyone but i think sometimes um people don't really know how much work that they've put in to to make these changes and so they have our gratitude i just have a couple questions for you um one could you maybe talk about the eighth graders usually do like a moving on moving up day where they go to the high school which i assume we're not going to be able to do um i haven't had a conversation with tebow the high school principal but i will say this um we was talking about our orientation for the incoming sixth graders and again um we can't invite the elementary students in the building and so we felt that the virtual program that we put in place last year was to the best of our ability it's not like the real thing being in person but we had all of the teachers introduce themselves um kind of a real welcoming message we gave a virtual tour of the building et cetera et cetera so that's the direction we'll go um i am planning with the support of the superintendent and uh and the assist superintendent is taking a look at graduation this year and maybe holding it two evenings where we have cohort a hopefully weather permitting in the stadium if not we utilize the high school and then you know tickets for family members and then we have it the next night for cohort b that way we kind of provide them at least with an opportunity to kind of experience that i know last year we had a virtual ceremony but uh that's my goal and plan for this year so that's kind of but the great eight party i feel terrible but it's a wonderful evening but that's dancing and food and it's just very unfortunate but um you know that's i can't foresee that taking place but the graduation um i feel it's important and we're going to do what we can to make sure that hopefully we can make that happen great and then my second question is um i know people are ready to kill me looking forward to next year but we got a plan for next year um i know um you know i'm just i'm really concerned about you know social emotional needs learning loss making all that up and i know the middle school has always done a great job with the i think you have like two after-school homework days that you've done are you gonna maybe try to expand that and keep some more virtual after-school hours or might we look at again some more in-person after school i just want to make sure that we're giving kids and we have the supports in place um to do some of i mean everyone's doing their best but it's it's not the same as being you know in person five days a week um so what are our plans for sort of maybe some after school supplementation next year how are we going to sort of beef that up from what we normally offer well one thing we've learned is i think i don't think i know the online learning center is has been really important and i think even as we move forward to maintain a certain component of that because we do have children that need to go home sometimes they have to wait for the younger brother and sister to get off from the elementary school there's a variety of things where they just can't remain at school so my hope and intent is to maintain this again not with 24 teachers because there is a course with that but that will be included in part of our after-school programming so that along with the homework club when we talk about after school really we have a variety of a wide variety of activities but again at the end of the day it's about students having the ability to interact outside of the academic setting uh developing relationship skills interactive skills so my hope is we get off get it off and running but if we have to adapt adapt to make some adjustments more from a virtual perspective we'll do that but the online piece that's something i think is extremely important if we can maintain that um we will great thanks that's all i have thank you this is amarillo yeah really i appreciate um the the presentation as well and and all that you've all of the highlights as to how everyone is just kind of working together doing their best with kindness and and compassion all the way and you know you noted this in your presentation but having all of that work that you had done with the highlander institute and how your staff had really um owned those uh different ways of of students kind of interacting in a um in an online way prior to the pandemic really lent itself to some you know some uh a little bit of ease for some of your staff but again we had no idea at the time but it did pay off yeah i don't know it might be uh there might have been some evening out as to everyone in the district with the learning curve all the levels but i'm sure that really was um you know something that was beneficial the online learning center that's wonderful at 24 staff doing that two times a week that is like fantastic um is that support after school available to any of the students that are in teca do they participate are they uh welcome to or have they have they um actually taken anybody up on any yeah what we've done for the tucker students is our guidance counselors from a grade level perspective they're in constant communication with them tech is a little bit different from a curriculum perspective so it's not kind of fully aligned to what we're doing so it's a little bit challenging in essence of connecting with the online learning so teachers have to adapt as well but um we have book clubs that we're running with some of our techa students um kind of socialization groups where they can visually connect with other students so that's something that's been ongoing and again it's it's been a bit of a challenge but initially when we got as you all know but i think as as the year progressed i think techer itself realized that they had to make some changes because um they were inundated with a lot of students who wanted to take advantage of that or parents who felt that was best at the time due to the pandemic and um so i think um you know a second semester kind of began january 25th so again that constant communication of just kind of monitoring students you know what they're are they having success are they completing work and discussing with parents and seeing what we can do like i said ie socialization groups um things of that nature so yeah thank you thank you i appreciate my my guidance staff has done a terrific job approximately 15 student 50 students maybe um but they did a nice job just kind of monitoring and checking in yeah i echo that to your staff your guidance counselors for really taking it upon themselves to help them that way and for the district for you know it was all about sort of shifting and and you know balancing on our feet and trying to trying to figure things out as as we went we didn't really probably you know and expect those challenges at the beginning but it's i mean for some students i mean you're not with a teacher every day online it's a little bit every other so it's yeah it's not yes it's not perfect but um right you know at least we needed to provide something and that's that's my best so thank you that's all i have thank you thank you mrs mr nunes yeah thank you mr chairman thank you mr doan for a fantastic presentation and i'm glad the slides went different because i didn't mind didn't print out too well but thank you for that uh just a couple of quick questions that on that uh after school academic support center you know tuesdays and thursdays you know if somebody's in the cohort that's like monday wednesday friday are they still able to jump in on tuesdays and thursdays yes do they have to wait till the following one it's their week in school no it's open to anyone open anyone yes okay and again just to echo my colleagues uh my thanks to everyone for what they've done this year you know much appreciated you know difficult times and you know they've everyone stepped up to the plate so thank you very much for that thank you and administration down we appreciate your support as well thank you mr news mrs way yes um again i'll just second what my colleagues have said as well i mean i just you know i have i'm the only one here who has a middle schooler this time around and uh he comes off you know every day that he's there he's really comes home happy and thrilled and loves being in school and you know he's we've had great feedback from his teachers and communication with his teachers you know it's been really given the circumstances a good year for him you know i wouldn't even say like grape i hate to say that when they're walking around a mask and you know and everything um you know i am also like um miss amaral i am driving my son to school and and we're doing pickups so i don't want to get too you know break too much into uh dr gifford's you know a conversation that she's going to have about expanding learning but i am kind of curious to see when we have so many more parents coming and doing drop-offs and pickups how that's going to i mean there are a lot of there are a lot of cars in there now and you guys are doing a wonderful job coming out and greeting you know parents and and everything i'm just curious how when we have the full all the students back and and again in addition to transportation you know i know you're still in the planning stages um but i'm i'm curious to hear how everything's going to play out you know with room size and lunches and everything else so i don't know again if dr griffin if you're planning to talk about that or mr donald speak to that i talked to mr doan today and we we're going to open it up to those questions after his presentation because we knew you'd have them so okay he's here so okay we have been doing a lot of planning so okay he can talk a little bit about that's the drop off and pick up i'll be my office with my door closed down i will be thinking about the parents i'll still be waving [Laughter] so i guess right i'll just kind of share initially when we planned on connecting with students on their off day the commission of education and governor did not advise us at the time that april 28th was going to be full reopening so with that being said when we found out we thought well do we remain kind of as is where teachers are connecting with students on their off day maybe just an hour or two and not do the fully live streaming but the more i thought about this and we kind of collectively as a group kind of looked at everything we came to the understanding especially looking at room sizes et cetera et cetera so i'll deal with the academic piece and then we'll get into the logistics of parking so we took a look and we said okay we're talking about three feet a p a pot the maximum amount of kids in the majority of our classroom is going to be 15.
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okay mr valdez esteem from 10.8 10.12 10.13 and check number i just would like to thank the sean wetter holocaust education foundation for the grant purchase classroom library books that's great thank you any other questions or comments hearing none may i have a roll call mr bail yes miss martinez miss morris yes miss new sound yes miss rasamano yes mr thomason yes mr vadillaire yes mr fabio yes at this time is there anyone on the board that has any other matters that you would like brought before the board i had a question it just hit me during your budget presentation we keep we've been getting money and talking about the summer and remediation and adding internet uh how will the students be determined is it gonna be open to anybody who wants it or will they be um right now um the we're looking at who's in who's in the red who's in the yellow and who's in the orange so those are the three groups we're looking at and targeting those groups um obviously there's going to be some some other other things that we're going to do this summer for enrichment um we haven't kind of laid all that out yet obviously we're still kind of in yeah of course you know okay is that do you know whether or not um the summer enrichment or or remediation is that going to be virtual or is that going to be an in person okay everything's imperfect and in fact okay so i know that's why it's taken us quite a bit is not only do we want to do group work we also want to have one-on-one instruction as well so we are you know doing a lot of planning i know mrs fisher is doing quite a bit of work and unfortunately she's been out for the last few days but she's doing quite a bit of work okay nothing else all right at this time it is open to the public for discussions on anything that needs to be discussed first first we're going to do the person just you know the drill hello lauren paxton president of thumb broke education association i was just wondering if there was a decision made on the sharing of the district open numbers there was a discussion at the last board meeting i thought we were going to do a month ago yeah well we kind of we i don't think we firmly said because i think we were going to wait until you came back and decided we that's where we landed was was monthly and i think we said we're gonna table until everybody was here which i think is really just you well it was kind of split yeah yeah they weren't sure it was time to split that's right we did go back what is your recommendation well what do we do right now as far as we just we send it out you send a letter letting you know that there's a coven case and that anyone that had close contact has been contacted because and then the health department basically gave us and said use this letter and they're asking us to post numbers on the website doesn't have to be on the website we're just looking for the the totals like the other districts provide again i don't see i don't see the necessity for a running total i don't understand why they need a running total yeah what i mean what is the purpose behind just just a general knowledge yeah you can link right to the somerset county website no it doesn't give the bamboo numbers we went to the new jersey website like it was suggested you couldn't find bomb book numbers as a community or family as a school district the reported coveted numbers and quarantine numbers for the school just like other districts do what what are you gonna do with those numbers you're gonna have them i mean other districts provided and i know there was a hang up of larger districts last time manville and middlesex provide it on their website it's right there middlesex actually has a pretty good one they do what the other uh larger districts do so i don't know the the rationale for saying it's a small school district that we can't do it when smaller school districts do it i i personally don't i mean it's just a number right yeah that was mine i don't care it doesn't matter a monthly total like a gift to us yeah i mean i don't care i mean i give you all right i think if you give yeah then i i mean it's just a number so it just saves the person from like having to make their own personal checklist every time a letter goes out you know because if we're telling them about each and every case as it comes along right they know anything and they they kind of know so i don't see any problem with putting out a number just giving a monthly at the end of the month in total yeah i mean you want to just give out the positive totals or do you want positive and quarantine totals because quarantine is different yeah we just do positive because it could be misleading it could be very misleading correct i think no i think that we should at the number of positive cases okay okay thank you [Music] any other questions from anyone sitting here hearing none do we have some online we do uh the first one is from patricia o'reilly 745 school the new jersey department of health has said that pre-k through 12 teachers are eligible to receive the cochlear painting vaccine is the district helping teachers get the vaccine or our teachers just told to go to the website and make their own appointment does the district know how many teachers have been vaccinated i think i answered that up front yeah i will say somerset county is trying to push teachers to get vaccinated i don't know if they want to know they did do that they're doing it on friday from 12 to 5.
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i'm not going to read it for you it is posted on our website but basically just brings to light that we are joining several other school boards and school corporations not in our just only in our county but also in our state letting know letting the legislators know that we do not approve of the expansion of school vouchers and then also the education savings accounts and a little bit more background for you when this first came up we talked about it tom i think you brought it back in from the school board association meeting and at that point in time i then contacted all of the other superintendents throughout our county and asked them if they would be willing to join with us many of them had passed similar resolutions already so all of them have agreed and tomorrow morning brooke allen our director of communications will be putting out a press release that indicates that of the all 15 school districts who have elected school boards and i think that's an important piece there the elected school boards have joined us in opposing this bill putting it out there that we do not support what they are looking at doing right now as far as the budget goes with expanding the voucher dollars and then also adding an education savings account so what we're asking for tonight is for you guys to pass this as a sign to our community to our county and to our state that we are joining so many others uh in opposition to this as well thank you dr terrell you've heard the recommendation to approve the resolution 795 which is opposing esa's and voucher expansion house bill we have a motion to approve so moved second i said moved by mr angel in second by mr hoffman we probably should have brought this up while our state representative was there we uh we'd had that conversation and she had to get back to indy tonight so this is for discussion so i would just like to say i vehemently oppose any of this voucher that's hurting the public education in the state of indiana so i'll make sure that's noted for the benefit of the public one of the things we're talking about in these educational savings accounts is giving money to parents to administer however they see fit whether or not their child gets an education there's no accountability of the funds there's no accountability of the education and they're just handing out this money and they what's the what's the top dollar amount the expansion threshold income threshold for voucher dollars would go uh from a family it would expand it by uh from 150 to 300 percent so a family of five could have an annual income of 170 000 and qualify for voucher dollars to go to a private school and again our concern with that is um they're going to schools that don't have the same accountability standards that we have the same requirements that we have to meet and the transparency just simply isn't there i i shared with todd something that we had gotten from the indiana school boards association and as part of this publicity push to oppose this i had a picture about the regulations for indiana schools and the book is about inch instant a quarter thick or inch and a half thick and for private schools it's 50 pages so that's that shows you graphically kind of the difference in what's going on the other thing that i would bring up because so many school boards and school corporations are speaking out on this issue um what has happened most recently now is the house and senate have decided to move this out of house bill 1005 and senate bill 413.
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so therefore many of the classes have 20 21 students so in seventh grade for example i have 71 students currently right now that i have to find another place for and that's just reality of it so that will be cafeteria a we have over we have approximately 300 some eighth graders that leaves me with a hundred and some students that i have to find a home for because our rooms of square footage are pretty much the same so that would be the gymnasium so that's where that live streaming comes into play that we're currently doing now where teachers is kind of going to be like a pilot program so i looked at the sixth grade myself and a few other staff members and the enrollment's a little bit low of the seventh and eighth and boy did i really i really want the sixth graders just because of their ages just to just just to be in their academic class so years ago as you know we had purchased many tables with the support of the district because we wanted to create kind of just an environment of collaboration and the ability to kind of situate tables and students will work together because the jungle gyms in the destin necessarily uh help with that so to speak so now i'm looking at these tables and say well what do i do how do i deal with this three six feet piece that we had initially right so we had to kind of put desks in there so now the sixth grade has predominantly you know we're situating them with desks many have them and then what we've done is we've taken plexiglass we've met with a vendor and we gonna place that in the sixth grade so that our students can remain in their academics now with that being said then i thought well if i'm a parent do i want my child let's say in the gym every day for live streaming the answer that would probably be no i would not so then we said well we've got to create some type of rotation so in eighth grade it'll be in the gym one day and return the academics the next day this is the reality of it and then i thought not only i but others we thought well listen we have students that have specific learning needs and physical needs and emotional needs so then we determine those students will remain in their academic classes and that's not in any way to segregate or to identify but to do it we need to do that take care of them yeah but we are still going to create a rotation so so i have yet i've shared this with staff members but not as a whole with the faculty because we're still kind of in those infinite stages but the the the teams themselves specifically in seventh eighth grade they'll identify a rotation that is equitable and again when they're in the classroom they will live stream so now from march 22nd up to april 28th all the students when they're home on their off day are going to have they have a live streaming schedule that schedule will remain as is so they'll get there for academics but they're going to get them in an alternative space but it will be with their teacher it will be with their teacher then i looked at special areas i have almost 80 gym students in a class i need the gym for the overflow so i met with mr kylie and said we got to get a tent on rain days and then the band same situation 50 to 60 plus students chorus if i keep the if i create i don't have space within the building to support them so the weather hopefully will be sunny every day until the end of the year but if not um you know we'll have some shelter outside i've tried to speak with the superintendent mr colley about maybe renting those as wedding venues on the weekends making a little extra money but that is that is the game plan strings itself and i met with heather and michael this morning and we're able to utilize the auditorium as their facility because they're there in the morning and they're there uh in the afternoon so that's kind of where we are academically but then i get into special areas and then i'm looking at art you know one class is 21.
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this position will report to the early learning board removing the prohibition for private funds to go directly to doe schools for the purpose of opening pre-k classrooms all classrooms formed using private funds to establish such classrooms must conform to all policies procedures and standards of the executive office of early learning we also have some technical and non-substantive amendments members questions chair san bueno ventura any questions amen you did a lot of work with this one chair thank god thank you so much thank you the recommendation of the chair then is to pass house bill 1362 hd1 with the amendments just read chair votes eye chair votes eye vice chair kim is excused senator de la cruz i vote i sent her favela was that an eye okay uh cheering you got four hours recommendations adopted thank you cheers and buena ventura for your vote thank you so much um oh human services committee same recommendation are you available to vote yes i'm here okay for committee on human services as related as it relates to hp 1362 hd she recommends password amendments uh chairman of ventura says i senator ihara senator joe hi senator salutcha votes i'm senator favela you have five eyes your recommendations adopted chair thank you this meeting the speeding is adjourned thank you for joining us for the joint committee hearing and committee on education and committee on health monday march 22nd 3 10 pm agenda um this is to hear house bill 812 house draft one relating to trauma informed education and to testify we have heidi armstrong assistant superintendent for the department of education hi please hi good afternoon chair kidani and vice chairs kim and baker i'm heidi armstrong from the department of education testifying on behalf of superintendent kishimoto the department offers comments on hb 812 hd1 the department supports the intent of this bill and is committed to the development and implementation of a trauma-informed approach in all of our schools trauma-important practices help our students build coping skills and self-efficacy which are helpful whether they've experienced trauma or not our testimony shares what the department's efforts and initiatives to dates are in this area and we request time to solidify these existing statewide efforts if the kailua kalaheo and castle complex area schools follow the nanakuli waianae model that was a wonderful model and it came with very specific supports that we have outlined in our testimony if this model were to be replicated there would be a significant cost factor and would require additional funding we are supportive of this model and should be and should funding be allocated thank you assistant superintendent armstrong and i'm sure that chair keoho appreciates you that you did not mispronounce his name members that is the only test oral testimony we have although we do have a couple other written testimonies are there any questions for assistant superintendent armstrong do you or your members have questions members any questions i don't chair i think we're good okay um with that then i am going to recommend that house bill 812 hd1 relating to trauma informed education passed with amendments will defect the date to july 1 2051 noting in the committee report that additional program expenditures may be necessary to effectuate the program members are the questions if not chair votes eye house bill 812 hd1 to pass with amendments chair hotel check with zion hospital eight one two um share with zach vice chair of outside senator de la cruz jennifer vella fine great five members president voting all informative your recommendations adopted and chair keoho your vote please thank you health committee same recommendation passing with amendment chair both eyes vice chair votes i senator mariwaki [Music] your recommendations adopted thank you members this concludes this hearing thank you for joining us for the 315 agenda of the committee on education this is monday march 22nd we will start with house bill 11 relating to education requires the board of education to develop statewide performance standards to be culturally relevant historically and scientifically accurate and non-discriminatory to testify we have cynthia poseville assistant superintendent for the department of education i'm sorry am i on the wrong one yep i am sorry we have terry ushijima interim assistant superintendent for the department of education terry please and good afternoon cherokee dhani vice chairman cardiff came and members of the committee and terry shijima interim assistance testified on behalf of dr kishimoto the department stands on its written testimony and support we share the legislature's desire to provide non-discriminatory and equitable education for all our students this is a very high priority for the department thank you for this opportunity to testify thank you members that is the only oral testimony we have we do have written testimony from the board of education with comments and office of hawaiian affairs and support chris caufield for the democratic party hawaii education caucus and support les momitan in support and susan davis in support moving on to the next item house bill 546 house draft two relating to education requires complex area superintendents to report directly to the superintendent of education makes appropriations to testify cynthia covell assistant superintendent for the department of education cindy please good afternoon chair kidani vice chairman of members i'm here today to testify on behalf of superintendent kishimoto on hb546sd1 um the department submits testimony with comments i'd just like to say that in section 1 of this proposed legislation it amends the hrs32a-604 to have complex area superintendents for schools report directly to the superintendent of education currently the complex area superintendents are the kaza's report to the deputy superintendent for board policy 500-9 and then in the second section the department would like to see clarification on this statement in section two page three lines one and two provided that each position shall be supervised by the office of information and technology services as written it places 45 positions under the office of information technology but includes title 9 civil rights compliance and cte positions thank you for the opportunity to testify and i'll be here thank you members that is the only oral testimony we have we have testimonial support from office of hawaiian affairs uh in support from robert robinshan and in support from les mommy members questions of assistant superintendent cindy i actually have one question um how often does the superintendent meet with the complex area superintendents formally we have weekly meetings with the kaza's and the assistant superintendents and the deputy superintendent kishimoto attends those not every week but at least two or three a month she's in those meetings so that that's the formal process we have for our weekly meetings with the kazes she also meets with them separately via phone with colvid via video depending on the situation depending on the topic so you're saying she meets with all the cats in a group a couple times a month and weekly meetings we schedule uh wednesday leadership called our wednesday leadership meeting so it's the complex superintendents the assistance of government deputy and the superintendent doesn't stay for the entire meeting but she usually joins so is she there to hear feedback from the complex area superintendent does she stay long enough to hear that she usually does again topic dependent on her schedule but yes that's our opportunity to share thoughts about key things going on back and forth okay well that's not the feedback i get but thank you members questions thank you cindy thank you okay moving on senate concurrent resolution 151 encouraging the department of education complex areas and charter schools to implement school-wide restorative justice practices in the state's public and charter schools to testify assistant superintendent heidi armstrong department of education heidi please hi good afternoon chair kidani and vice chair kim heidi armstrong department of education testifying on behalf of superintendent kishimoto the department stands on its written testimony in support of scr 151 encouraging the department of education complex areas and charter schools to implement school-wide restorative justice practices in the state's public and charter schools and i thank you for this opportunity to testify thank you heidi scott young md scott please yes hello honorable committee i'm scott young i'm a physician and director of the network for nonviolent communication the terran james young foundation 501c3 nonprofits and we have been working in the schools here on now for over five years to bring restorative practices to the schools and this resolution is important because restorative justice brings an additional form of justice and community building that empowers our students in their school life and in their life after they graduate from school please see my written testimony let me empathize that having restorative justice in school decreases discipline problems decreases suspensions increases student and teacher satisfaction and success increasing their gpa and the dropout rate has decreased restorative justice at its core means looking at the incident as to what happened not what rules were broken looking at what harm has resulted from this incident and what obligations come out of that harm and then what needs to be done to make this right again as much as possible rather than punishing we look at what needs to be done to make things right because unfortunately punishment has never truly solved the problem to change the behavior thank you very much dr young members that concludes the oral testimony we have a number of test written testimonies all in support members are there any questions for our testifiers if not moving on to the next item senate concurrent resolution 154 and senate resolution 118 urging the department of education to coordinate with the department of commerce and consumer affairs to implement a graduation requirement of at least a half credit in financial literacy during the junior year or senior year to testify terry ushijima assistant superintendent department of education terry please thank you cherokee dani and good afternoon and vice chair and members of the committee um i'm serious testify on behalf of dr kishimoto we stand on our recent testimony and offer comments on scr152 we support the teaching on financial literacy in schools respectfully the department requests that instead of focusing on mandating a half credit course requirement which reduces a student's elective credit choice the department be allowed to work with principals and the state student council to determine a way to ensure all students have had the financial literacy education prior to graduating from high school thank you for this opportunity to testify on scr152 thank you next to testify daelin yanagida chair junior achievement of hawaii dalen please aloha chair kidani vice chair kim and members of the committee my name is daylan yanagida on behalf of junior achievement of hawaii i want to thank you for this opportunity to provide testimony on scr 152 we stand by our testimony in strong support of scr 152 junior achievement is committed to work in collaboration with and provide resources to the department of education and delivering education courses in financial literacy ja has a 60-year history of providing this education and we remain committed to delivering our mission to our young people thank you for the opportunity to provide this testimony and i'm open to any questions thank you dalen uh we also have a written i mean yeah written testimony from um marvin dang that concludes the testimony members questions for our testifiers i have a question for terry please yes chair so terry you in your testimony ask request that the department be allowed to work with principals and the hawaii state student council to determine a way to ensure all students have had financial literacy prior to graduating from high school so what's the plan i mean this isn't something new in fact i know a number of years ago we had a financial literacy task force that gave some recommendations to doe whether any of that was done i don't know because this issue keeps coming off so what is the plan so the plan would be to work closely with our secondary principles forum and to also include our student council students we're thinking of taking a design thinking of hope where we want to honor students choices of being able to still take elective courses based on their interests and aspirations and we believe that with the collective effort of our principles and the voices of our students that we would be able to come up with a method to ensure or and to show that every student has had financial literacy we know that there's many opportunities for students to have financial literacy and they get it in different ways what we would be looking for is how to consistently be able to document and show that all of our students we know it's it's a very important life skill that they would all um show that they have taken the financial literacy course thank you i'm glad that you guys recognize that it's an important life skill appreciate that members further questions if not thank you terry moving on to the next item on the agenda senate concurrent resolution 153 requesting the convening of a working group to discuss the role of the authorizer its relationship with charter schools the accountability for the use of public funds and whether or not legislation is required to effectuate any desired changes to testify yvonne lau interim executive director hawaii state public charter school commission thank you chair kidani vice chair of mercado kim and members of the committee the commission is offering its testimony and strong support of scr 153 and thanks you for the opportunity to discuss and clarify its role as the authorizer and its relationship to its charter schools we look forward to working on this and we thank you for this opportunity i'm more than available to ask to answer any questions you may have thank you yvonne we have only one other written testimony in support from andrea quinn members are there any questions of miss lowe if not moving on to scr 160 and senate resolution 125 requesting the department of education to create a landscape management plan with goals to increase tree canopies on a public school grounds document existing inventory and talent and identify additional resources required to implement and sustain the plan to testify we have no oral testimony just one written testimony and support from daniel dannell members questions and moving on to our final item senate concurrent resolution 238 and senate resolution 198 requesting the department of education hawaii high school association big island intercollastic federation oahu interscholastic association interscholastic league of honolulu maui intercola interscholastic league and kauai interscholastic federation create a plan to implement bass fishing as a sanctioned high school sport to testify terry ushijima assistant superintendent department of education terry please good afternoon again chair kidani baister mokado and members of the committee terishijima testifying on behalf of dr kishimoto we stand on our written testimony and offer comments on scr 238 the hawaii high school athletic association already has a procedure in place for adding interscholastic athletic state tournaments the member leagues of hhsaa also have a process for sanctioning additional sports for interscholastic competition also the department's school athletic programs would have to budget for additional coaching positions supplies equipment and transportation expenses without any additional funds in their budgets adding another inter scholastic sport at this time will further affect school athletic programs efforts to maintain current sport offerings thank you for the opportunity to testify thank you terry members there are no further testifiers are there any questions for the department of education terri i have a question you have um you say you need to budget at least 42 coaching positions or approximately a hundred thousand dollars plus supplies 42 is for all the high schools um i have um mr ray fujino here who can answer your questions that's correct the 42 we're just saying if all high schools offered it that would be and one at least one head coach we averaging the average head coach gets paid about 2500 so we're just throwing that out as you know if the the most case scenario of all schools having one team such as this would be about a hundred thousand dollars just for coaching at this point um equipment and supplies you know i'm not a bass fisherman i i do fish but i understand it's done with boats and you know expensive equipment as well so that would be additional cost to the to the sport thank you ray that's all the questions i have members questions if not thank you that concludes the agenda and we will go into uh recess reconvening the committee on education the 315 agenda so for house bill 11 hd1 recommendation of the chair is to pass with amendments noting the concerns of the board of education and amending this measure to do the following page 3 line 20 changing shall to may page 4 section 3 that the board may consider that curriculum be historically and scientifically accurate and non-discriminatory with regard to race ethnicity sex gender identity or expression sexual orientation color religion ancestry or disability questions members if not chair votes eye okay a chair's voting eye on house bill uh i'm going to just take the vote for to see who if that everybody is still here vice chair votes i senator de la cruz i'm senator kanu senator favela okay all five members president voting affirmative recommendations adopted thank you house bill 546 hd2 recommendation of the chair is to pass with amendments amendments are to insert the proposed sd1 to place the complex area superintendents under the superintendent add 15 title 9 civil rights compliance officers one for each complex area add 15 data processing staff one for each complex area add 15 career and technical pathway positions one for each complex area members questions if not house bill 546 hd 2 chair multi okay trevor zion house bill 546 any members present voting with reservations any members voting in opposition hearing none five members present or voting i recommendations adopted thank you ser 151 encouraging the department of education complex areas and charter schools to implement school-wide restorative justice practices in the state's public and charter schools recommendation is the past with amendments deleting reference to justice as the aim should be to have a comprehensive system of supports prior to youth becoming involved with the justice system also technical and non-substantive amendments members questions if not recommendation scr151 pass with amendments chair votes eye careful time scr 151 any members voting with reservations any members voting in opposition hearing none five members present all voting eye recommendations adopted thank you for scr 152 and sr 118 urging the department of education to coordinate with the department of commerce and consumer affairs to implement a graduation requirement of at least a half credit in financial literacy during the junior year or senior year recommendation of the chair is to pass as is members questions if not chair say chair votes i on scr152 and sr118 uh any member voting in opposition any member voting with reservations hearing none all five members voting i recommendations adopted thank you for scr 153 requesting convening of a working group to discuss the role of the authorizer its relationship with charter schools accountability for use of public funds and whether or not legislation is required to effectuate any desired changes recommendation of the chair is surpassed with amendments including a representative of a conversion and hawaiian immersion charter school to the working group also clarifying that any legislative recommendations should include national best practices as applicable to hawaii public charter school system and focus on positive student outcomes in public education members questions if not chair votes eye chair votes i and scr 153 any member voting with reservations any members voting in opposition hearing none five members present voting high recommendations next is senate concurrent resolution 160 and senate resolution 125 requesting the department of education to create a landscape management plan with goals to increase tree canopies on public school grounds document existing inventory and talent and identify additional resources required to implement and sustain the plan recommendation of the chair and surpass as is questions not share votes all chair votes are in scr 160 and sr125 any members voting with reservations any members voting opposition hearing none five members president voting i on both measures recommendations adopted thank you and the final agenda item scr 238 and sr 198 requesting that department education hawaii high school athletic association big island intercollastic federation oahu interscholastic association interscholastic league of honolulu maui interscholastic league and kauai interplastic interscholastic federation create a plan to implement bass fishing as a sanctioned high school sport recommendation of the chair is to pass as is members questions yeah can i ask the author of this measure if he be amenable to amending it to include tilapia so if barrington students can go fishing in the kapalama canal yeah i'm open to the friendlier [Laughter] is that a serious no it's not yeah well if it was golden tilapia maybe okay if not recommendation of the chairs to pass as is terrible sorry terrible cycles if there wasn't sweat i would have gotten an a i used to catch plenty tilapia okay any member on the committee voting with reservations any members voting in opposition hearing man all five members voting eye on both measures recommendations adopted thank you members this concludes the following education committee hearing thank you for joining us this is monday march 22nd we are going to do our three o'clock p.m agenda which was a measure deferred to monday march 22nd 2021 this was for house bill 608 hd2 relating to the board of education requires the board of education to hold no less than six community forums annually with at least one forum and each county requires a board to include an open forum for public comments on non-agenda items requires a report to the legislature on implementing open forums the recommendation of the chair is going to be to pass with amendments inserting the contents of senate bill 810 sd1 amending the composition of the collective bargaining votes of the board of education as a part two to this bill the amendment eliminates the superintendent's vote in collective bargaining leaving the governor with three votes and the board with two votes members are there questions um you didn't post the amendment opposed city one um we should have done it because it's a complete chain right no we're adding part two maybe jdc cannot can hear it just want to cover our bases because it is new material even though we took it up in another deal because we're doing the same thing tomorrow but we posted the sd1 to make sure the public knows we're putting that in so what are you saying you have to re-refer this to jdc i would say ask jdc when they get it to hearing because we've got to have a hearing on anything when it goes over to jdc uh because we didn't hear it we just completely made when you add it in the best way would have been okay so let me yeah and we can talk with the talk to uh yeah winston them to clarify if we needed to post this or not so can we pass this out still yeah we can pass it off but i just in case there's a there's a question okay so donovan and her what donna is suggesting when it goes to jdc that we should pass we should ask them to post the the new language and have a here and yeah have a hearing because this was heard in another bill senate bill 810 when do you have to pass when do you have to um ask this over by tomorrow tomorrow you know what i would do is i would just post and ask for a waiver at least you posted that uh because i don't know if carl's gonna end up posting it if you want this bill okay can you go home on wednesday so what differ again defer to wednesday and post the thing and ask for the ask for a waiver on the phone okay if it's just we're just referring to the waiver right you can just defer yeah that's what i would do oh wednesday have a waiver just start just repost the bill you gotta have a waiver because you're gonna be hearing it okay hearing it okay so we're deferring this to wednesday okay thank you members to be safe meeting adjourned
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they gave us a number which we already gave out to to our staff so anybody who wants to do that they call a specific number they'll get an appointment and do that and that's in addition to the governor's office so awesome all right it's right over at patriot stadium the the summer the health and wellness center i guess that's there okay nice okay there's one more for mrs [Music] i think i've lost my internet i think i lost my internet i've been kicked out [Music] okay second question was from mrs was how likely will the district have full day in person school with eating lunch in school next year i would say that's probably 100 likely oh don't say it 99 99.99 you never know that's true don't say that yeah okay 99.99 that was it online okay at this time we are going to the approval of hip cases resolve the boundary board of education the approval of the resolutions as outlined in approval of hidden cases under high school 15.2 uh 15.1 and 15.2 can i get a motion okay mr thomas ellie second second mr bell any questions most of the mean time is thomas seconded by mr bail okay mr bale yes miss martinez yes miss morris yes miss moussana yep mr samantha yes mr thomas ellen yes mr battalion yes mr fazio yes 16.
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and move it right into house bill 1001 which is the state budget which is like a 2 to 300 page document and they're going to put this in and then just slip it in that way they don't have to have individual hearings on this matter so it's almost like they saw all of this pushback so rather than deal with the pushback and have the conversations they've now slid it into the back of a much larger bill and my concern and i shared this with brian we were talking texting back and forth today a little bit when you look at the state budget it looks really good we've got low taxes the forecast for the budget looks really good the what we're gaining as a state and coming in looks really good and so of course the budget's going to pass we're in a really good spot the key though is that we're slipping this in rather than having the difficult conversations about the true reasons behind what's happening and how we can come alongside and and fix it with them so that's the concerning part every professional organization from school boards to superintendents to urban to suburban to rural schools have all joined together to iasbo our business association leaders have all joined together saying that they don't agree with this and they'd like to have conversations and at this point in time that's just being shut down and and they're going to move through it and actually end the session early as opposed to going through it this way any other questions or comments i do if i can figure out oh i figured how to get the button on all right um i i just want to you know on the record just agree with all the comments here i think it's well stated and in addition that you know one of my concerns is just the funding to cut public spending on education and simply shift it to the vouchers from minneapolis when they really have no idea what's going on in the local school corporations cannot be in the best interests of our school corporations if i recall a few years ago our legislature had cut our funding and indicated that we should move to referendums and we should be more locally governed just eight years later to cut us again after we go and ask taxpayers to help fund our school corporations and i so one of my largest concerns that wasn't stated previously is that you know it's just a funding aspect of it and i agree with what dr terrell said which is um they were not willing to have the difficult conversation take a public vote and or raise taxes and this was done to avoid that and so it's going to put pressure on the local school corporations throughout the state and i just don't think that's proper governance you know comments yeah i mean i that's very disappointing what you just shared with us that they uh you know apparently there's room for pork at any level whether it's national or state to just kind of slide things in and avoid um facing issues head-on so disappointed to hear that but i am i did want to say uh dr terrell that i'm i was impressed with your leadership through the process and working with the surrounding school corporations to kind of build that alliance against this bill so wanted to thank you for that and i i'd be remiss if i didn't thank our superintendents and fellow school boards for their willingness to join alongside of us and uh make this push so they actually were like yes how soon can we do it yeah so good all those in favor signify by saying aye all right opposed that motion carries five zero thank you dr terrell and move to 5.02 is approval to accept funds from the blackbaud giving fund is that correct blackbaud giving fun mr hardman thank you mr president i learned quickly [Laughter] we have a donor from uh wheeler braider uh i believe this no marathon petroleum company uh that uses the blackbaud giving fund as a vehicle to donate funds to colonel wheeler middle school they have allocated or donated 74.50 uh on december 3rd 2020 and also 65 on april or august 18 2020 for a total of 139.50 we're seeking your uh approval to receive uh the funds in the amount of 139.50 this evening from the marathon petroleum company through the blackbaud giving fund thank you mr hartman you heard the recommendation to prove to accept 139.50 from the blackbaud giving fund on behalf of the marathon patrolling company for colonel john wheeler middle school we have a motion to approve so moved uh moved by mr hoffman and second by mr smith any questions or comments for mr hartman if not all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed vote carries 5-0 thank you mr hartman we moved to 5.03 is the new crown point city school corporation website design agreement miss allen thank you thank you good evening i'm bringing a recommendation to you this evening to develop a new corporation website which is very exciting and analyzing our current site and our needs we determined that going with a new vendor would be the correct choice this new website will have completely different look which i think is great it'll be mobile responsive ada compliant new training for our staff as well as enhanced customer service compared to our current vendor i'm seeking approval this evening for the contract with final site the amount of 88 800 over the course of the next five years uh thank you very much for the recommendation approve the contract with final site for retroactive through the data and contract signature to build a new corporation website and a five-year hosting agreement in the amount of eighty-eight thousand dollars eighty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars do we have a motion to approve so moved second i'm gonna turn my mic on for that second journal published by mr angel and second by mr babjack questions or comments from miss allen long overdue yeah i i think some may look at that in 88 000 but i just want to um contribute a little bit i know about this that i think it sounds very reasonable actually i i think that's a that could be a i don't know for for anyone not aware i think it could be a sticker shock number but i would like to just add that i i think it sounds fair for um for hosting for five years but with that said do you have any idea what our fee may be right now on an annual basis okay i didn't got it i would have thought it was built on uh do it yourself any other comments david the sticker shock was when my hair broke and her salaries this is peanuts compared to that we got off cheap okay we don't have any other questions or comments it's a move to vote i was in favor signified by saying aye aye aye opposed motion carries 5-0 it's pretty exciting thank you miss allen 5.04 policy revisions and additions got the second reading and adoption mr akiva thank you mr president board members follow up from february's meeting again we are presenting uh from our partner neola who we utilize to keep our board policies up to date we have presented for you this evening our updates which are just revisions and keeping us in code with state policy the policies presented here are from volume 33 number one and what we are recommending this evening is uh in the end approval so what i'd like to request is a waving of the second reading and moving to the approval for these policy updates volume 33 number one thank you mr q for the recommendation to prove to waive the reading of the policies in adoption by title only do we have emotion move to approve and wave the reading although we would certainly like to hear hardly read all almost and move by mr hopkins second second by mr angel i believe um you have questions or comments about uh only one comment and that is and we've had some very preliminary discussion about this before but i think we need to evaluate and consider a move to the indiana school boards association and have our policies more tailored to our our needs versus an adoption of neola that just cranks these things out for all the states so and we point in the future thank you we appreciate that and actually we are looking at that possibility we're kind of letting the dust settle on several other things that we've got going right now but that is in that is the plan and in the process that we'll be bringing to you within the next several months you know comments if not all those in favor signify by saying aye aye aye opposed welcome carries 5-0 thank you mr akiwa and we move to information items for this evening we have superintendent discussion discussion groups um do you have anybody have anything to report um hey mr hoffman i know you've been out of town um crown point uh rdc is pretty much business as usual nothing nothing real major but still handing out funds for facade improvements and street repairs and still working on the kind of a wall honoring jerry ross over by the tennis courts on north street and some things like that yeah they're working on little league fields so money money continues to get put back into the community about uh chief academic officer mr hartman this evening i wanted to just give you an update on our significant and i think it was illustrated this evening this significant need that we have to look at an inclusive culture in the school corporation we are we are moving forward with a an organization uh that is uh works with school districts uh within uh the united states and abroad in 50 different countries and so at some point in the future we'll be bringing to you a contract with this organization and it's a it's an area as was noted in our audit for inclusion that we needed to uh we need to address some situations even though it stems from special education we know that it's much broader than that and hopefully this will be a step that we will be able to take to be a more inclusive school corporation and and community thank you thank you mr chairman you know the director of elementary education ms ramirez thank you mr president and board members i would just like to follow up from our february meeting to share that we have had a successful kindergarten pre-registration moving it to an online platform that took a lot of work from chantal peers to our office staff in the buildings and we are very excited about welcoming the future class of 2034 so um lo and behold they are going to be registered and will be able to start in the fall so we are very happy to hear that also happy to celebrate that last week concluded our i read three windows this was one of our first high stakes tests that was administered and really again another hands-on effort from everyone from central office to building principals teachers to our food our cafeteria staff to our transportation for making sure that all of our students including our distance learners were able to come in to take this test that must be or this assessment that must be done in person we had nearly perfect attendance from all of our distance learners which is really encouraging and really sets the table for then our move into ilearn i read three scores will be um the preliminary kind of unofficial scores will be released tomorrow so we're very excited that given kind of the landscape of which we are in that we were able to have a successful assessment administration and um our full participation of students both distance learning and in person and lastly i would like to thank our elementary schools for their focus on disabilities awareness month they have really done yet again and continue to do a great job of raising awareness and celebrating inclusion and you can see the character development that is happening with our youngest students and this is really important work needed work and it's really a true testament to our building's desire to drive inclusion to do better as we know better and to continuously move forward to make sure that all feel included and celebrated if there are no questions that is it thank you mr ramirez now chief human resource officer mr akiwa yes thank you mr president i'm just two items to re report on one is staffing you know as we continue with our analysis of rollup for next year um i just need to take a moment to thank all of our building principals mr hardman mr g infermia and mrs ramirez and mrs pasquez for assistance and helping us frame up you know what our needs are what our targets are so we can begin our interviewing process so we're we're right now identifying targets uh to interview as we return from spring break so it's going to be very active april uh here as we position ourselves for staffing for the 21 22 school year uh and i'd be remiss if i didn't thank also here uh dr terrell and uh katie dowling for their assistance as well because these budget conversations are difficult um and you know enrollment's been a little bit elusive you know sabrina was there talking about k roundup and and k registration and uh they kind of came to the table here a little late but we're in a good position right now so um very encouraging to have healthy enrollment for next year at least at this juncture so i thought i would share that update with you um one final update and just a a thank you uh goes to our director of transportation and and sometimes these um situations really go unseen uh but karen toth is phenomenal for these existential changes she has to make in particular with kovid we've had a number of families um become displaced become homeless have to go move away from their for their homes for you know unforeseen reasons and unpredictable reasons and she has done a phenomenal job working with other school corporations to get these children bused to their schools even if they are displaced outside of our district which mckinney vento you know requires that we work with other school corporations to keep that home school sound i just have to take a minute to just thank uh publicly karen toth for her wonderful efforts supporting uh all the fluid situations out there in our school corporation thank you thank you mr aquila so that's funny you know it's happened to all of us at some point you know you say or do something and you get a reaction you're like what did i do wrong i realized when i went to mr akiba so uh thank you dr chill i forgot somebody director of secondary education mr g and fermi thank you mr president um i just did a few just informational items we do have another state champion from crown point high school i want to make you aware of that our latin club once again went down to the indiana junior classical league state convention and brought back a state championship i'm sure we'll have those students here and recognize them shortly but the thank you to mr walker miss weibrick and miss tereshevitz the sponsors um that's just kind of an annual event you know they go down there and do well also our academic super bowl team brought home a couple of first place victories uh lowell invitational they bested 17 teams and then uh the following week followed up winning the deck invitational first places in team titles including english science arts and math mr lambersy is gearing up to go down to state where they did a really fabulous job in the past and it's just good to see that our teams are out there being able to compete in these things whether it's blended virtual and in person but last year a lot of this was not accomplished and our kids missed out so it's good to see them having those opportunities do want to make sure you're aware that the spring musical the show will go on we will reschedule that to april 8th 9th 10th and 11th 7 pm showings in april 10th and 11th of for matinees big thank you to mr degenhardt the families of the cast and crew for for just kind of hanging in there we know last year that that was pulled the rug was pulled out the day they were going to go that was when everything shut down so excited to see they're going to finally get their opportunity to get that spring musical off and it's high school musical this year so that'll be fun and then finally this is just interesting to me the taft 8th grade girls basketball team won the conference title so hey maybe as we know success breeds more success throughout there so maybe in a few years they'll be up here in that big trophy as well so there any questions the secondary end of things isn't uh our primary competition for the latin group brownsburg that's correct thank you mr gene fermi and we can go to chief financial officer ms dolly thank you mr president um in case the board wasn't aware there was a petition for a variance for apartments over by beacon hill over by striken van till the broadway at 109th corridor about a month ago now i think it was actually your last meeting um we were fortunate that the bza was not in favor of this and gave an unfavorable recommendation to the city council who also would have not supported it had the petitioner not removed it from the agenda for consideration that's a positive for us 250 apartments and that space is diff would be difficult to manage from um an enrollment and a transportation about a zillion other but the community was very much against it as well so just as an fyi as of right now that's not an issue but we'll keep our eye on it um the most recent extension of cares act 3 monies included an extension of meal support so through september 30th we'll be able to continue to provide free breakfast and lunch to all of our students that will include meals throughout the summer for pickup and mrs maloney will be coordinating with the community health network with miss bonnie meyer to coordinate so buddy bags can distribute at the same time to assist get pushing food out within the community so people have proper access lastly a preview for april you will see the first set of resolutions to start the bond process so we had no remonstrators against our issue when it was put out there so now we'll start the process of issuing the approvals and the things that the board needs to do procedurally to move forward so we'll start with that in april finish up in may thank you mister i mentioned karezak three uh just a maybe a personal request or but as things come come forward there um if you wouldn't mind sharing with us it'd be appreciated some of the and we see the information in the news but if there's something particular pertaining to crown point and maybe even next board meaning planning an update of you know the funds that are you know potentially coming um or what we may be eligible for i don't know if i'm saying that properly but just you know keeping us in the loop there uh thank you appreciate it go to uh superintendent of schools dr todd terrell thank you i want to begin by thanking mr washington for being here tonight and his comments are heard and you know one of the things as we get ready to use we talked about strategic planning and what we're looking at with our district as we continue to grow as mr hardman mentioned with inclusion and looking at that full continuum of services for our kids we also know that this is a crucial piece that we need to address as well and we'll be working through that with strategic planning so mr washington we hope that we can count on you to have some help with this and appreciate your willingness to do so also kind of interesting the way things work out this is also a movement right now amongst the superintendents of lake county that we're all getting ready to begin with the direction of dr tony lux who you know well and spent a lot of time in maryville schools as well has really kind of taken this on as kind of his retirement project if you will and we're working together right now actually just late last week i received the book that we're all going to be using all of the superintendents in lake county going through a book study together looking at our cultural diversity and how do we increase or help move along that inclusion process to where everybody feels welcome and that we can continue to provide services and meet the needs that we need to there so timely comments this evening and we look forward to being able to address some of those issues as we move forward next week spring break you know when you look back at where we were when we started this thing in august as was mentioned tonight with some of the athletic teams that were here uh you know there were times we wondered what it would look like to even get to this point and we're rounding that corner and getting ready to head down the home stretch so with that we're looking at end of year activities trying to make those uh as appropriate as possible working through the guidelines that are coming from our state house from the governor's office also from the health departments really want to thank the patients and the support of our parents and our students and let me go back in students you know i know as parents they've had to deal with having kids at home but when you stop and think about the things that we ask our kids to do and the changes that they've been uh making along the way also i just appreciate the approach that our administrators our teachers and staff have had throughout this whole thing i know denise jansen's here with us representing our teachers union tonight you know there's a lot of other districts where it was constant pushback from the teachers and staff members about what do we need to do to get our kids in with denise's leadership and partnership you know we really appreciate the approach that our teachers took and that was yes there are concerns yes there are things that we need to talk through and figure out but it was that let's talk through and figure out so we really appreciate where they are and uh the way that they've handled this entire thing so just as we look forward to the spring coming you know hopefully things will continue on that uptick and we'll be able to our plan is right now for the 21 20 school two school year that we will be in person full in person back at normal pace and ready to go in august so summer schools will help us ramp up with that with being in person and really put us in a good position and a good place to move forward next year so thank you guys for the way you've allowed us to work through this your continual support and input as well and we appreciate that thank you todd i have a question yep um since they haven't been around for a while what what is the status of teacher vaccinations in indiana so right now as of last week is when it was opened up for all teachers to be on the list to have access to the vaccination the key was it wasn't always available and so being on the approved list to get them is one thing having uh places within our our community where that can actually happen was the challenge now at this point in time mr aquila you want to give us kind of an update of where we are yeah currently right now um other taxes i think today in general the population i think we're fourth 20 40 and above double check but i do believe in this quarter just in general um you know going and more people rush just the general public to get vaccinated on addition to our staff hopefully the supply can be there for us so that we were able to do this i asked that question i shared with todd the indiana school boards association periodically has they what they call a president's round table and it's a it's a online conversation with any board presidents who wish to participate and because of my role on the on the board of directors i lead those conversations and one school corporation indicated that they were able to partner with a local i believe it was a walmart and arranged for their teachers to go to that walmart to get their vaccinations unfortunately we don't have a walmart and there's within our school district or other big organization who's able to provide those vaccinations but those things are happening i would say that fortunately the other school districts within our county who have been able to host those maryville and then who was the other one we just had i think there's about a field house but it was maryville and then was it lake uh no new tech yeah so they hosted a large scale and but they gave us that information before it went public as well so we were able to share that out uh mr kiewa shared that out with our staff members as well to try and get them on the list so we try to whenever we find out about those opportunities we try to get that information out as quickly as we can our nurses have been amazing and how they've worked with getting the information and facilitating that too thanks to everybody involved in that okay thank you dr terrell and then uh other business of the board of school trustees does anybody have any anything you'd like to discuss this evening mr smith oh there we go jeez i'll get it um just i just want to point out that uh in the consent agenda we didn't get a chance to speak about it but i think to shed public light on it that the board that is part of the agenda the board in that that was approved is the board members themselves individually are able to be offered health insurance now and i just want to make sure that we shed light to that that it's not shoved through in a consent agenda the reason for that is that um you know i want to make clear that people understand the general public knows that the families are not part of that plan it's for the individual board members as part of their service and i just want to thank the administration and dr terrell for looking into what other school corporations are doing making sure we're staying competitive making sure that individuals are interested in running for school board that we get the best candidates possible and as we all know and the public generally knows that health care costs right now and to be competitive out in the private market is very very expensive so this provides an opportunity for several board members and i just want to say uh thank you and be transparent to the public and that was approved today and i think it's the right thing to do whether i'm here sitting here now or four years from now whoever it is i still think that's the right thing to do and i just think it needs to be stated so along those same lines i think it's real important to point out that we're we have a really healthy insurance fund right now in plan and so we're in a really good place with that and being able to provide additional employee groups with insurance not just the board but other groups as well this year and so you know it's just about treating our people right and providing opportunities for them any other business uh to discuss i got something else um i too just want to say thank you to mr washington i know it's not necessarily business but he and i have been longtime friends i coach his son in football and he's just a great family great people and i just hate hearing the stories that you shared today and i just you know i know dr terrell recognized that and you and i have had discussions about this and and uh i just want to thank you for being here it takes some courage and boldness to to express that but you know conversation has to start and it has to start in the public and i appreciate you being here my friend thank you mr smith both points well said thank you anything else to uh discuss if not we'll move to uh four statements of appreciation and recognition and uh how about we start back down there with you mr smith anything to uh i'm getting better with the switch so that's helpful um yeah i i want to apologize for everybody being a few minutes late tonight but uh tonight we started a flag football league over the first inaugural season through the crown point junior bulldogs and i know everybody's saying what's have to do with anything coach buzz has been tremendous in supporting our youth football program and we have seen a significant difference already i think we have over 60 football players out there volunteering their time helping to coach the youth football program coming around refereeing in the games um and so i think we got 240 kids sign up in the inaugural season for flag football in the spring over there so that's a lot uh for something we threw together in a short period of time and i'm not sure uh this would be a success without just coach buzz's support so i want to recognize him and the difference he's making in our community not only just in our program but our community already and his staff and those around there that they're willing to get involved and engage so we've always felt that you know our schools our community we want them involved in the community we want to make a difference our community and impact our community and uh he's taking those steps right away so excited for that and want to thank you mr baby uh brooke is it safe to say that you kind of had a hand in the recent upgrades i've seen on facebook posts by the individual schools and okay so that's good because i wrote your name down on this piece of paper i wanted to make sure that you were the right person but i figured it was i've i've just noticed a general um i guess improvement in quality of the post and some very good information posted about the individual schools you know everybody's got their each school has their own facebook page i don't know if they used to always have one okay i didn't that's good because i never noticed anything but i'm starting to see some really cool stories now and i think those play out really well and people are sharing them and and recognizing and noticing them so thank you for that that's that's another thing that has been long needed here so appreciate that i don't have any specific individuals other than everybody in this room one of the most difficult things that two things that i've been involved in in my years on this board one was moving a former superintendent out and selecting a new one and after we had made the decision to hire dr terrell i had a lot of nights where i woke up in cold sweats thinking did i make the right choice thanks that was yesterday not not because of you but just because of the pressure the enormity of that decision well we made the right decision and what i am feeling and i've expressed this entire number of times but i know mr hardman was around when i first came on the school board but i think we're returning to a camaraderie an atmosphere a team effort that existed during my first term on the crown point school board and it's very exciting to me it's got to be very exciting for the people working for us and for the community and i just see all sorts of positive things happening even even in the niola to know that there's conversations on going there that was something that was brought up a number of times and just dismissed and so it's it's good to know that we've got a lot of things happening i'm getting a lot of positive feedback uh we had an incident at the high school and because of the manner in which it was handled positive manner in which it was handled i i called the the principal and he says tom something wrong and i said no i just wanted to call and tell you what a great job you're doing appreciate the effort that you're making to handle things like this and then in that conversation he thanked me and the board for hiring dr terrell now the other thing that i wanted to pass on was it was very encouraging i haven't been around the board many years i've got friends on a lot of other school boards and i got a text message from from one of my other school board friends congratulating us on our basketball championship and saying it's always nice to keep that trophy in the region so good things thank you mr hoffman mr angel look at that first try um i would just like to a lot of the individuals that are probably watching online and so forth uh don't always take into account what's what and how decisions are determined and there's a lot of work that goes behind the scenes whether or not it's a grant that we need to file for or a 200 and some million dollar project that we need to file paperwork get bonds approved to make sure that our students are being educated to the fullest and best needs and i think and i want to make sure no one goes under appreciated that includes our cabinet here dr terrell and everybody else underneath including our support staff and all those individuals you know sometimes we just take for granted of how fortunate we are being in the financial situation we're in here at crown point that you're able to do a project without any tax increase and be able to do what's right and not everybody agrees with every decision you're going to make you need to know that ahead of time but when you keep in mind that the decisions we're making are what's best interest for the students the taxpayers and all those involved it's nice to sit up here and smile and make a few cracks during a meeting because i think what's being done is right and with what mr washington sometimes not everything is being done right so when those issues are brought up you address them you look in the mirror and you make the next next decisions to improve where you might be lacking so uh no real individual ones but to all of you that are facing me here tonight those that might not be here and dr terrell i do greatly appreciate is i know the rest when we have conversations it's hey not one of us might agree on everything but when you keep that in the back your mind that are we doing what's right for our kids a lot of the decisions are easy and we move forward with that and that in mind so that's my legendary jack too mr angel does not have the game pulled up on his laptop for those wondering well you can't see everything thank you mr angel you know and to keep it short myself uh to echo part of what you just said i think in a year like you said going back to august the year that we've had it's not a normal year it's not an easy year the kova distractions the culvert obstacles it would have been really easy as a corporation to say okay pause we're going to fight all these other challenges and we'll pick up everything else where it may have left off you know in march of 2020 but and almost the exact it's pretty exciting to see with everything that's taking place in the last nine months what could happen in a more you know normal knock on wood year so you know kudos to everybody for continue to move forward and and and we all know how much how many extra hours you know our nurses and administrators and teachers and the cabinet has put into to make that happen so it's appreciated and uh echoing the comments of the others uh thank you um would anybody else like to add any comments before we look for a motion to adjourn if not we have a motion to adjourn second race by mr hoffman with a motion to mr angel for just a second all those in favor signify by saying aye aye these new microphones are like you
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and the only space is 15 if we go three feet without plexiglass and so i said boy make our life a lot easier because i need staff to supervise the overflow how do i do that so and i don't have additional space for the overflow and stretch so we have right now in the process of plexiglasing on tables and areas to provide an environment in which the special area students can remain which is really important too because when you're a student in an academic class the same class all day the opportunity to get out and get into another classroom and interact with other students is extremely important so to maintain special areas the way they are um was beneficial in a variety of different ways and you know moving forward you know we're in the process of doing that there's a lot of logistical stuff going on right now even from a physical plant perspective um and then it leads us to lunch because as you know three feet but then we get this lunch it's six feet so i have 15 in a room well all 15 cannot eat in the room now i was going to do a half and half half eat and then the other put the mask on half eat but that is not part of the guidelines so you know this it's been busy the past few weeks so what we're doing there is um the teachers are going to create another rotation and currently right now we have a time frame within our day which is lunch and academic support so we'll make we'll that will maintain that that time frame but then we're going to utilize the auditorium some students will be going to the auditorium to have their lunch the sixth graders who are able we're able to maintain keep them in their academic classes they're gonna have to some of them are gonna have to go elsewhere for lunch so moving body shifting looking at places where we can support students and then the challenge of where do i find the supervision so i took a look at the schedule and we have curriculum planning time common planning time wonderful wonderful things that enable teachers to really get together and support one another and and just kind of do a lot of great work i've removed those april 28th the only thing that we've kept um was um block meetings which really is about just the opportunity for teachers to speak with guidance parents interacting as well those time frames in which teachers were working together in a variety of capacities now i've created a whole nother schedule where they're going to be in the gym three or four adults while those students in the gym will be live streaming cafetera a although students are live streaming we've created uh supervision for our lunches because it's not only going to be cafeteria a cafeteria b the gym it's also going to be the auditorium so i mean we're a school of almost a thousand i have colleagues in the state that have class sizes of maybe 14 and 15.
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resolve the boundary court of education uh the approval of resolutions of that line and approval of the hip cases under middle and elementary schools sixteen point one and sixteen point two can i get a motion promotion mr thomas ellie second miss amano um motioned by mr thomas ellen seconded by myself can i get a roll call mr bale yes miss martinez miss morris yes miss luzon yes mr samantha yes tommy yes mr baza yes can i get a motion to adjourn mr thomas ellie second second mr valerie all in favor all right all right most have a great night everybody
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other schools we know have class sizes of 28. we're kind of in the mid-range but we're just above that number piece where we cannot fully support lunch academics things of that nature in a particular classroom i was out in the parking lot today as we always are and i was late i was having the same thoughts because cohort a is a very busy day after school i don't know why it's just more parents that are thinking dropping of picking up um core b is a little light and then i'm thinking wow when we combine the both um and i know for a fact it's been a difficult year for parents challenging a lot of concerns and worries so a lot of them chose to bring their children and pick them up you know for concern about being on the bus will those parents start to utilize the bus i don't think so i don't know if i had to guess that probably not so i don't think so i'm reaching out to the police department because we know slocum is very very busy um we're utilizing part of slocum now just to park cars some parents are wrapped around the corner on hawthorne street and so um just to try to get some assistance specifically the first three days april 28th 29th and the 30th just so that they can help kind of move that traffic on slocum road and then we haven't we have an opportunity just to kind of really visualize stuff i mean i may find that i have to make some adjustments where i may say okay let's even though we're all back in school let's visualize that we're still in cohorts so maybe chord a parents are coming at a particular time and cohort b parents come well i hate to do that but um it's something maybe we'll have to think about so um that's something that is a concern of mine i don't have um it's almost like all right let's let's kind of have some plans in place but yet when it does happen then we'll have to just evaluate and reevaluate and just hope everybody's really patient as i've advised parents over the years it's always good to come a little bit later because if you come a little bit later nobody's there i always aim to be the last car through right that way we will have parents there we will have parents here a half an hour before you do and um i'm very strategic too yeah and i respect that they want to get a good place and and some of them especially grandparents they're so worried about their grandchildren and and it's it's really nice to see but they feel the need where wherever the location they need to be their car needs to be in that spot so when i kindly ask them to move up a little bit um we have a nice conversation for a little while and i try to rationalize as to why we should move but my granddaughter knows that i'm always here so yeah and that's why we have the staff we do out front because it's just extremely important just to kind of communicate and you know just kind of help people kind of navigate that process etc but that's kind of where we are again we're just we're in the i you know we've kind of put a plan in place that i'm comfortable with it's now a matter of just kind of taking a look at logistics making sure that structurally we're from a physical plant perspective we're doing what we need to do to make sure that there's three feet but but um i won't lie to you it's it's it's been a challenge it's it's uh and we're and so we have a meeting with staff this coming monday and then on the release time day the seventh is totally going to be dedicated to staff working with their teams to develop really a rotation and a kind of a comfort level to um you know to prepare for when the students come right now we have staggered times of in which we'll say okay sixth graders can now report the special areas and then seventh graders can report here i have to tell you and i think you're aware of it that by our students remaining in their rooms when we had a huge uptick with covid myself and mr rossi were the close contact tracers we were the ones that were running out and what we looked at each other and we said you know what we've really by having the students remain in that same setting for four classes and we felt bad about it if we didn't i mean the contact tracing would have just been enormous and the amount of students that would had to of quarantined and not be able to report to school would have been huge so that has paid off really well um but again logistically speaking having both also when we get to april 28th it won't be a a b b it's going to be a b c d e and f you know that initial original rotation and um the cohort a chord that you know that will change except then when we have graduation or if i have to do something logistically with parking i can send that message out that hey if cohort a group initially corey would do that so that's where some of the adjustments have as you know passing pals have been with us from day one they've adapted really well the two teachers have done a nice job and the students have done a nice job maintaining kind of traffic patents but we'll still do that staggered um in between classes not everybody's going to move as once because that's almost a thousand kids out and about so um you know we'll make an announcement sixth grade role seventh and eighth but that's kind of where we are we'll make maybe make some adjustments but um what i convey to you right now is pretty much what we need to do um moving forward can i thank you mr dome anything else uh mr nunes or mrs white but you know that's a lot to unpack you know you've been busy there's been a lot on your plate so i mean i guess my questions are um a few you know thinking about it when you go back to students that are going to be in the auditorium who are live streaming do you at this point consider that that will be an entire cohort that's live streaming while the others are in the class or will just be a select number of students from a class so you you know say like you think that you can accommodate 15 so you just have six that will be live streaming it will actually be split into the second co the other cohort we won't use the uh auditorium i'm sorry let's look at jim for example okay i mean i know the number sounds huge and it is but we'll have approximately 100 students in that gym right they'll all be on their desks we'll keep them six feet apart because that way they we can just utilize those areas for lunch right those students are going to follow the current right now live streaming synchronized schedule that they have okay and then we create this rotation today was in the gym one day the next day they'll go back to the classroom that they're with their homeroom teacher and that's where they would remain that day but all hundred students are going to follow if they're in the mcdonald block eighth grade team of four those that are in the gym have a schedule and that schedule they will follow four academics via their computer chromebook right they'll be able to leave to go to their special areas correct you know follow me so let's say after period one eighth grade as an academic those students will live stream wherever they're located outside the classroom and then perry do with the special areas they'll leave the gym area head to their special area and then when it's academics again they will report back so the teachers have a specific schedule that they'll follow and the students will know when when they access so they're following the same schedule as the students following within the class and when they're in for the academics hopefully i answered your question i think i was asking like how were those students so will the one cohort be in uh say cafeteria and the other cohort be i mean they're both with this teacher but will they be split according to their cohorts can i follow up on this what you're saying is if you have 20 students and you can fit 15 you're not going to do 15 it's going to be a different five students starting april 28th okay what's going to happen the teachers themselves within their teams will identify some type of internal rotation so that students you know we don't find one student that's in the gym every day right right so yeah i'm sorry i'm sorry no no no no no no no i got a lot of a lot of things moving in my head right now i didn't know yeah until she asked that question i didn't even think to ask it but that once you ask it it became clearly one student yeah thank you thank you dr what students enter april 28th it's not we have one cohort it's the middle school cohort right right the only time i'll utilize cohorts is let's say ie graduation where i need to divide or if we have some logistical issues regarding um pickup things of that nature and i guess my only other question this might you know relate more to uh to mr kiley as well is the tents have you been able to secure the tents at this point yes okay great good good well there's either a tent or a lot of umbrellas that's right well thank you very very much and i mean i have to give a lot of credit again just hearing that your staff are losing their common planning time that's uh that's huge so it's again another testament to all the sacrifices your staff and everyone's putting in to this year so thank you thank you thank you very much appreciate that thank you mrs white um there's not much left to say i mean it's i'm tired right now you've been in the hot seat for a while thank you um no i'll just say a great presentation i appreciate some of the information that you shared with the committee um i love the um you know the academic support after hours for 338 students i was unaware of that i think that's wonderful um and and i liked i just jotted down you know you it's very very simple um answers but um or statements when you said just i asked my my staff to be kind be kind to students be kind to the parents um we'll all get through this so i thought that was just a very thoughtful i will say that i appreciate you taking the time and my fellow committee members taking the time to ask a lot of the questions about uh what's go what's dartmouth middle school going to look like on april 28th um and people don't realize i know i know for a fact a lot of town members and parents really don't realize what goes into trying to make the logistics around all of this possible just the uh you said your mind's been spinning i you know just to figure this out figure out the logistics of moving kids around moving students around getting them utilizing the gym putting in tents for pe the auditorium there's so many moving parts to this um and you know it's just it's really impressive to see the amount of the dedication of your staff and your fellow you know administrators at dartmouth middle school trying to trying to make all this work for our kids it's no easy task i think what we had was working really well um but i understand that you know we're trying to do the best we can and of course and just just so everyone's aware especially everyone at home the very simple reason why we're looking at putting students in the gymnasium is because based on the current recommendations from the cdc we have to our classrooms a lot of our classrooms at dartmouth middle school just yeah three foot distancing we can't accommodate a full classroom so uh that is why we're having to look to alternative spaces uh that's the number the only reason why we're having to look for alternative spacing is because of the three-foot distancing requirements that are in our classrooms so i'll just say thank you thank you to you mr doan and i you know please uh pass along to your team as well as all your your entire team at dartmouth middle school uh the school committee's thanks and uh for their hard work and dedication to keep keep the education alive and uh well thank you mr oliver thank you uh dr jenkins i will also take this opportunity to be the broken record about my favorite favorite thing which is the fact that we don't have 20 21st century buildings to educate our students um you know mr doan mentioned class hours as being a key variable when we got the report from the architects one of the key things they noted in that report was that our class sizes are simply not up to 21st century learning standards for the amount of space we need in classrooms and i remember we can blame this all on me because i remember sitting in that meeting and thinking like why do we need more space all we need are some desks and whatever and lo and behold the fact that our classroom their classrooms themselves are undersized um against sort of what best practices are for physical spaces in classroom these days means that we're in this position um so we've been a little pennywise and pound fool this year in dartmouth right i mean it's great that we're reusing a very very very old mr news could probably tell us how old that building is i don't even know that it was a high school yeah is what 1958 1950 it's old and that's that's another reason why i mean the architects highlighted that in the report talking about our buildings our older building classroom sizes are not big enough according to best practices i'm grateful for what you're doing with what you have but i suspect in other communities they might have more flexibility because they have newer and better buildings that are better equipped to deal with our needs for for um for learning and again this is something that this community has to address we have to address it our buildings are no longer adequate to meet the needs of our students that's not on you that's just my soap box my broken record soap box just on a side note dr jenkins and uh dr gifford and mr kyle i really hope that once covid's over and we're back to some kind of novelty next year that we can take up facilities um i think that's an important topic mr nunes yeah thank you mr chairman again darren great job it's almost like you've thought just about everything but i'm i'm just sitting here and i'm kind of kind of get a little bit on not shannon's soapbox but my own soapbox and to the to the parents and the community out there you know as we move forward with this and you know april 28th comes along i think three key words are going to have to be patience changes and fluidly you know i mean patience as we go into this you know be aware that there could be some changes just because of everything that happens and the key thing is everyone i think has to be very fluid because something is going to probably pop up that somewhere down as much as you've thought of everything something's going to not be thought of and you're going to have to change it on the fly and all of a sudden everybody's going to get up in arms type of deal and it's like patience is going to be the virtue word here to everybody to just let this work out and get it fixed get it up and running which i know is going to be fantastic yeah and i you know my plan is and i spoke to dr gifford i i will send an informational letter out to parents breaking all of this down um we're still a little bit in the infa stage but i must be honest with the plan i've shared with you is pretty much i mean i feel pretty comfortable meaning not comfortable but i mean i don't see any alternatives with that being said but parents will be uh they'll receive an informational out i know we're discussing it this evening but when you know within a few weeks they'll get an information letter and pretty much outlining what steps we're going to take and et cetera et cetera so yeah super job yeah so my goal is really at the end of the day safe equitable manner that's been my mantra as we've progressed specifically over the past few weeks in preparing for the fruit for reopening is what can we do that's going to be safe for students and safe meaning only physically but mentally well-being and what is equitable um and so that's whatever we do whatever decisions we're making those are the two things that we look at good luck yeah thank you very much thank you thank you thank you thank you and thank you for your support greatly appreciate it very much so no problem have a good night have a great night travel thank you next up on uh this evening's agenda and the presentations are district technology update uh dr gifford mr galashaw is here oh right here mr gallacher wow with everything that's been going on with technology this year another department that's been extremely busy yes good evening mr galashaw thank you for joining us this evening yes pull this down i can't get um i can't have the direction in my ear for mr peratti i miss it it's like having jiminy cricket here doing double duty as the uh person and the floor director yes thank you for having me um i just want to give you a a brief uh update on technology it's been a little while uh so for the next two hours we'll talk about technological things and uh we'll talk about some of things we're doing so it's been a busy year i haven't seen you people in this capacity since before the pandemic and uh that hit hard and then we got busy with all the technological advances that we had to do for the district some of the things i want to talk about tonight is hardware some of the updates we've done in hardware i've done a lot of upgrades on presentation and smart boards as well as software online services online learning as mr doan mentioned some from the middle schools doing also wanted to say that it was nice having him here for that purpose to go a little more in depth of how technology is used in a school on more of an aerial view right now security and safety as well as servers and infrastructure the internet and the technology planning and evaluation i promise these topics they seem boring they seem a little dry but i make them really riveting so we'll go through that so hardware upgrades we did a lot of hardware upgrades we added about 250 new computers for the teachers one of the upgrades we did for the teachers was giving them laptops that were substantial to be able to perform other districts i know were using chromebooks for the teachers just doesn't perform at the level of a of a pc one with a processor so they were given computers we also added many many chromebooks some are behind you i was noticing they're behind you in the shot mr nunes during the production those just came in we'll be updating those we're up to nearly 5 000 chromebooks and we do have a lot of repairs we've had a lot of a lot of activity a lot of the kids taking them back and forth getting their use out of them a lot of times uh a cable might jar loose or a microphone might go bad we're able to either replace that cable or just reseed that cable so we can do the repairs and the technicians have been you know taking them home and on the weekends we've been doing them everywhere we can also uh through a grant that we are hired thank you mr carly we've added a lot of these boards some most larger than this one to all the classrooms and it's really something special to watch when you go to the elementary schools in particular um when the board came in i was there when the class uh sorry for the first time and this little class of fifth graders they they cheered they actually cheered because it's very very clear and i also enjoyed watching it because the teachers have their command center at the front of the room and it's really neat they have multiple monitors document cameras all kinds of devices and the the children at home are on the screen the children in the classroom are there and i've been able to witness some great things in the in the seeing the future of technology i saw one example of a teacher that was quarantined who was on the the meat or zoom is the meat we used with the class and the monitor was in the classroom and she was saying mr nunes are you paying attention so she was talking to her children from home during the quarantine and i thought it was really neat how they there was a whole dynamic going on even from home that was a great experience we've also repurposed some of the old smart boards the ones less than 10 years and putting them in less critical areas like a math specialist room or some small room like that and we're in the process of doing that now and we still have some more upgrades to happen throughout the district software we're constantly evaluating our software it's a very expensive item in our budget you know there's a lot of a lot of the content we do for various software packages so the instructional technology specialists are always looking at that to see if we utilize it to the best of its ability and also we have many apps that go down from from google and apple and again that's content that the the students are using through the through their ipads or through the chromebooks as they use we have online services a lot of the future of software is to place software online so kids go log into a service and use that product like we do with st math or other products that they do it allows for assessment also practicing and support for the kids and of course the online learning that mr doan had mentioned we had done it at three levels this year the high school doing edge annuity middle school doing techa and the elementary schools doing a home-grown system of teachers within our district that were hired for the purpose of doing virtual uh virtual learning it was really great to see an array of those models because as we move into the future it's given us the opportunity to assess which one will work for us in the future because i believe that online learning there'll be an element of that always now for for the future we will be discussing that on those online programs and see what we can pull from the best of those programs security and safety we joined the massachusetts student the data student alliance what they do is they sign data alliance agreements data privacy agreements with companies and they make sure that our data is properly used and properly held so it's a really nice way to have a clearinghouse of of a company that goes through all this software and signs agreements with these with these companies that sell software we're protecting our data we're doing backups and also um through a neighboring district who suggested we sign up for a grant for cyber security and we also were awarded that where the teachers there's an assessment involved of how how we we're doing our cyber security as well as training for the teachers which we are going to provide some pdp out hour for it's one hour so we've done upgrades on security cameras uh high definition cameras really really keen they see in so many places we've done training for our security both middle school and the high school we've done we've added uh security monitors at the elementary schools so they can watch that uh we've also updated the the recording devices that keep track of that for longer use and also quality uh film so it takes up more space on a server we've also given police access to these cameras so hopefully never have to use this but they can go into the schools in the case of emergency and see around they've also they've done it when we had a break in one of the schools the teacher the police were able to quickly assess the situation and this was over the summer and it was a really good thing and also in communication uh we've upgraded the phone servers that was kind of a gift we had a phones we had one of our phone servers go just die and the warranty had expired on it and then a month later another one died and here we are then the third one died so i went after the company saying no no no no this is this is not me so they replaced all of our servers so chi-ching we're good for that it's good stuff cool um we have a server infrastructure we've consolidated all of our servers putting them in one place here at the high school in a climate control room in the high school it also has a backup battery backup and incremental backups of data both on-site and in the cloud it's the best protection against ransomware because you need data backed up incrementally in different places so in the event if something happens you can retrieve it we'll be increasing our bandwidth this summer we uh increased it earlier this year to accommodate what we were doing but now that all these services are going in line the kids are so um use so many resources online the need for bandwidth expansion is there and we've done the upgrades that allow for even further expansion when we if we want to go that level and get it e-rated at a 50 discount um in the future i'm going to take a look at redesigning the wide area network we're connected through an old fiber network that connects all the buildings but in the future we're going to look at possibly putting out bandwidth connections from multiple buildings and split up our traffic in multiple directions and of course with technology planning and evaluation an update needs to be done to the technology plan which had no idea what just happened and i've got to really get caught up and explain to the technology plan that we've jumped years beyond what we thought was happening and also hopefully to reconvene the technology committee if we once we were able to get together and start doing that for next year some of the people behind the magic of the staff that we have on the instructional side we have a instructional technology specialist invaluable at the school levels sandy chica doing potter trish leary doing quinn temple mitchell doing the middle school jan thomas at the high school liz vossi at de melo that's in alphabetical order in case you're wondering that's not in favoritism or anything like that that's alphabetical order for them also we have some we have a small stipend position for school-based tech supporters that are able to do the little stuff of getting cables and doing little fix-it things mr peratti is one of those at the high school mr hellcampus also at the high school on the technical side we have people like chris branco who does integration who who works with the technology integration specialist on special projects if they're ever doing something chris is a good liaison to them being the technical side of that also deals with the servers and all the active directory and all the accounts uh tom is amazing tom fraz who he's a fix-it guy that uh just is non-stop he's got so many we're trying to fix so many things you'll see broken chromebooks everywhere he's fast he's thorough he's he's out of control he's really amazing and jesse does all the security the phones the network hallie lorac does our data and website and tracy watches the office of all the processing we're doing there so where do we go from here um what does the future hold uh we've had a glimpse of educational technology and it's exciting i must say it's it's kind of selfish i never thought i'd see in my career the jump the leap that we've had to do in technology so i've been appreciative of that i know there's a lot been a lot of you people have made the hard decisions about covid and bringing kids in and keeping them safe um i have to admit this has been uh a moment that is uh had a glimpse of the future i think what's important is we we look at things like online learning or the lessons we've learned from this process i'm hoping when we come back that we return some humanity to the process from the technological i know from a technologist you think that's surprising but i think there is that part of we made a massive leap forward and kids are plugged in and i think if we look at the lessons we've learned from that we can pull from that some of those lessons are that google chrome is here to stay google has supported that and they'll be doing that they have great um tech features and services like mr doane had mentioned goguardian they use also google classroom google meet things like that it's very inexpensive vehicle to deliver content for our information and what's great is i've had the opportunity to visit teachers that have embraced these new methods and tried different ways of annotating and projecting we have a math teacher stephanie church she showed me how she is able to take notes on a ipad and immediately take that annotation of those notes and the kids get it right into their their folder so they're able to take the notes with them so they spend a class time paying attention to the instruction rather than trying to write everything down so it's a great thing that they focus on the the content and not on trying to to annotate um but i've watched that and she said it's changed the way she's she's been teaching and she'll never go back and it's interesting so these are the things we're pulling from this this glimpse of the future the its are constantly evaluating the instructional tools the methods the resources so we extract what we can and we and they're able to train on some of the great programs that i know that mr doan had mentioned about jamboard and other products and we're constantly looking evaluating software and services one example of that is that we have a antivirus program on our computers i was talking to a district recently who is looking at a new antivirus program and the possibility that there could be a better product out there so we're constantly looking at that and also increased communication not only in the technology plan but also in a revamp of the website this summer it's been the current website so it's time to to inject it with some exciting new stuff and everyone it grabs everyone's attention so those people out there that are watching this broadcast if you have suggestions or if anyone else does it's always good to hear from it in fact we also involve the some test groups because we want people to be able to look at a website and appreciate it and understand it a lot of times in websites you can't find what you're looking for you don't know it doesn't follow a logical process we're looking for that so in closing in a span of a work week as i said it's been a busy busy year um i feel like this on monday like i can conquer the world and by friday i feel like the world has conquered me but it's good to have the weekend and we're right back at it on monday but you know in technology we're very tired but it's a good tired as i mentioned uh this is our renaissance this was something that i was so happy to see in my career time uh to see what technology would be like in the future and it's great to have that glimpse of the future and as we come back we we pull some of those great things that happen like online learning i some kids there's a lot of possibilities for online learning uh instruction methods of instruction uh as i mentioned the teachers and what they're doing flexibility where if someone can't be in class for whatever reason they can still be in class and same thing with teachers so it's opened up possibilities for technology and instructional technology because like i said this is a good time because i've been charged with the with using the vehicle to deliver the proper content that dartmouth wants to deliver to the students and that vehicle is technology and we've done what we can to do that we have so much more to do and and that's what we'll do and with that i would like to wrap it up i i had a those are my references uh that i just went by there but uh with that i know that the the evening is late so i'd say any questions thank you mr gallashaw i i appreciate your humor that you inject into uh sometimes a very uh interesting subject um just a couple of things first of all i'm thrilled that you were able to work with mr kylie and i don't know if it was us for funds or some of the other different grants that we were able to upgrade all a number of our our smart boards to the touch panels and i know that the the staff throughout the different schools that have received them are thrilled with the with the product so i think that's wonderful i also got to say um you know this goes back to really a year ago last spring in which it was a complete madhouse in the district and districts across the commonwealth as well as across the uh the country in which you know we had to scramble to to get devices out and you did it um and you accomplished that and um you know now we're a one-to-one district completely um once again i know through some probably some grant money as well as through um you know the the town's capital improvement um monies so i think that's wonderful that we're able to uh we're able to be a one-to-one district and um it just caught as you know and i don't need to tell you but with technology is constant constantly evolving and we're coming we're coming to rely more and more on it on a daily basis and on a daily um really on a class a class by class basis for remote learning for in-person instruction with document cameras with um remote learning with teca um with all these different pieces so um no i thank you and i think your staff uh mr galisha and especially you know i can remember when i first got on the committee uh you know we were really pushing for instructional coaches or the instructional technology coaches or the integration specialist i'm not sure what the term is here um but you know i'm really happy i think they play a key role in you know the the curriculum integration piece of the technology i'm infusing or infusing technology into the curriculum so i think that's great you know i brought this up last year i'm going to bring it up again and i'll bring it up next year the expansion of technology across dartmouth across the dartmouth public schools and over 5 000 chromebooks in addition to everything touching the network whether it be the telephone system the hvac system the cameras the security camera systems wi-fi printers copiers and so on um you know i really do believe that i think at the very least you could uh you're understaffed by at least one or two two technicians i think um the district owes it to you and owes it to the the instructional staff to make sure that we can we have the the capacity to continue to support and service all these all these technology devices so i i just hope i know we originally talked about putting in the budget last year pre-covered that it was cut because of because of covet and we're just it's just not feasible this year but i really hope we're able to do something in the near future because i think that the reality is that you know if the internet's down for you know 10 minutes we're we're in a big you know it's a big problem with how we're relying on it and not just the internet but um the touch panels whatever it may be so i i really hope that we can have a conversation uh next year about at least getting you another person because i i think you know bait and you know i'm not i'm preaching to the choir mr galashar but um as you know you know if you look at the private sector you look at the health care sector it's certainly um the the ratios are are completely different than where they're here in education and i think that um i think that we need to really look at this to continue to sport the reality is is that we need a lot you know we rely heavily on technology so with that um uh just to do but one of the things i want to mention is that the instructional technology specialist this doesn't happen the the technic the technical staff absolutely they're going above and beyond the instructional technology specialists i've watched district neighboring districts just so watering at the mouth because they did not have such a thing it was a remarkable insight by this district two or three years ago to expand that uh if you you should have told me to out by apple stock then too if you had that kind of insight but but uh it was a remarkable uh foresight that we could not have imagined this year happening the way it did but they've been invaluable instructional people teaching teachers how to do how to use thing being right there on the spot in the building uh one for every building so they've been the liaison to me for uh the the uh the technology which you remember no i agree that should you know it's a very good point that we're very lucky to to have the instructional technology specialists though so thank you mr gallashop um i'll sat down and uh with mrs waite yeah again i just very impressive presentation thank you you know i just i think it speaks volumes about you know what your team is doing but also again the staff you know and in addition to the instructional specialists i know that there are also teachers who got certified in google classroom themselves and you know and took on you know kind of informal roles within their departments and um i think you mentioned one i know like you know stephanie church for example math you know i know she's done she's certified so i i think um again the teamwork and you know someone who's you know coming into it i would see myself as being you know a little nervous it's so great to have you know a uh a colleague there that's you know patient and you know someone in the building you can access and you know the tremendous learning curve that these you know we think about how flexible and our staff have been i mean again for people who are coming into this in the beginning not feeling as as literate the the leaps and bounds they they must have made you know just you know professionally now that they're so comfortable i think it's uh again speaks volumes to everyone's efforts this year um i guess you know one of the things i'd say and you spoke to this as we kind of talk about the future um you know certainly this year we've been dealing with extended absences and quarantining everything else i do think that this you know the one-to-one and synchronous learning everything that we've learned as a district can really make a difference for the students who do have to stay home again i'd love to see you know in the past we've had an issue with absences and it's so difficult as a classroom teacher when you have students coming in after a week to catch them up you know and there are students who are for surgery and sometimes you're just sick and you you can't be on but i think it'd be great for those kids who for whatever reason you know have to be out for an extended amount of time that they can you know hopefully we can somehow bring back that you know keep maintaining that synchronous learning for them within you know not having to send them off into a different platform but maybe within their you know staying within their own teachers i think it you know eases some burden for the teachers themselves you know not to have to you know have different students that they're trying to catch up but i think it has a lot of opportunities for the future so i think that's important so yeah so i so again i just i'm really grateful for you know i'm grateful for everything that's been done you know you know handing out the computers and even lending the computers you know at one point the for town meeting i mean they we even some of these you know our computers were procured for those members so it's really been a community-wide effort um so thank you okay thank you mrs white thank you thank you and mr chairman thank you mr galashar as always interesting and very informative it's interesting uh you were kind enough to get me a chromebook because i don't own a laptop and that and uh which i don't know before i got all hooked up with cameras at home and everything else but you know got that to have one of those to be able to do the zoom meetings and it worked out perfectly and thank you for that even though every once in a while it would freeze but nothing to do there but you know a little follow up on what uh the chairman said talked about you know with the internet going down and the the other big problem too is the fact that every once in a while you'll see that comcast in an area goes down and everybody is dead you know the the students are trying to work and there's there's there's nothing they can do but uh it is what it is you know we have a grandson who's in the sixth grade at the middle school and i've seen him when he's had to be at our house type of deal with his book and he you know this chromebook and he's doing his work and even participating in phys ed online you know type of deal yeah you know doing it so it's really been a a good year and follow up a little bit with what uh miss wait said but do you see like online continuing in a sense that if you have a student that's home for an extended period of time because of you know sickness that you know maybe gets us and gets us away from in the most part needing like home tutors for these students because now they'll have the chromebook that they can you know log in from home and continue with their their classwork as long as they're able to type of deal yeah well it's funny because i had this conversation with the superintendent a week ago and i think what when i was building the presentation and what part of it is that what this year has done for us is give us a glimpse of the possibilities so now we have to redefine how we educate because there are more possibilities and desi has to to also come to the table because they still sometimes try to report student data in ones and zeros it's either on or off it's binary but it's such a gray area this year we have to have we had virtually absent virtually present uh you know it's unbelievable the codes we had to do and they're having to to to to adjust because life isn't like that it's such a a gray area but to to the to your point afternoons it's just that i think what's exciting is we've got a flavor a taste of what could happen and now the experts in education have to say okay with this possibility maybe we can't accommodate that child who needs one class that's so unique the the building that they they could take that class i mean we do things like dual enrollment we do other things so i think it's the it's a taste of the future of educat education complements of technology thank you mr chairman thank you mr nunes mrs amarillo thank you mr news my colleagues have said a lot one thing i will say that is so refreshing um just in the world not in our district necessarily because we've got a lot of these sort of people that kind of come to the table with this attitude is that it is wonderful to see how excited you are about the work that you do within our district um and and it sort of goes hand-in-hand with the obvious sort of successes that we've had in in this area i know my my fifth grader um her laptop her her chromebook didn't turn on and i said to her um we'll bring your because we're fortunate she has one as well and i said we'll bring that one in for the station i can't do that it has to be the district it's a rule follower man that one but um and in it right away boom boom boom you know it's been worked on and and so um so responsive to uh i don't really have any any technical questions i can anticipate what my colleagues are going to ask and and um but i i just really appreciate what you kind of bring to the table and how you've helped us get through this just wonderful wonderful job i tried to move fast and be because uh at a director's meeting a few weeks ago i was trying to explain ip addresses to the crew and i saw them gloss over and the superintendent says at school committee don't do that do the other thing so i got to move fast and just to the highlights and there's so much more to talk about it's so exciting but i only can give you the quick ones yeah go ahead [Laughter] so i just also want to say thank you for all your hard work and all your staff's hard work um i do want to say and this is particularly more for our you know our audience at home right that i think a lot of people think that you know moving from teaching face to face and online is just okay i move from standing in front of a classroom and talking to people and now i move and i talk to a camera and it's just so much more than that um as a teacher who's taught online who you know has taught face-to-face teaching online has really actually made me a much better teacher in a face-to-face because to your point we learn things and it makes us think really deeply about our teaching and what we're trying to accomplish that having been said i am a little bit more skeptical about the future about this because it's not just someone zooming in it's not just someone going into the google meet right using technology in an integrated way in your teaching is really carefully planned and deeply integrated that makes it difficult that when you it's when you have five people or ten people in another room you're thinking about how am i gonna gauge them and what are you gonna do when you have one it really makes it a lot more difficult to do that to to gauge that person and so i'm somewhat skeptical i do think there's possibilities for a class right when we have a class that we need um but i do think when we have long term absences it's not just going to be oh you can just zoom in and it's going to be exactly the same because it's not because that's not really what using technology to teach is it's not simply a camera it's a lot more than that and so i deeply appreciated your presentation but i also thought it might make sense for us sometime to have maybe some of the instructional technologists to come in and do a presentation and to talk about all the different you know softwares and tools they work with and how they work with teachers i think they they did that maybe a few years ago but maybe it might be another time to do it again probably not until the fall till we're you know beyond this baby you know um but i think it would really help our um our the general public and our viewing audience to understand like what do we mean when we mean teaching but with technology because again i think a lot of people based on their own experience think of it as you know talk and talk but it's not talk and talk anymore um and so i think they really need to be taught what it means to teach with technology so i'd love to see um people come to have people come in to share that with us because i think it would be really enlightening for us i would probably learn some things as a teacher yeah for our teachers i'm super excited i share with you that i think that everyone coming out of this pandemic you know preschool all the way up through higher ed we're all going to be different teachers as a result of this because this has made us think very deeply about how we teach not that we don't all the time but it really gets it to the nuts and bolts i think um but i i think it would be good for our viewers to really sort of open that up to see to see how much hard work this has been for everyone so i thank you for all the help that you've done in supporting us to make that transition um and i'm excited too about you know what we'll see moving forward thank you dr jenkins once again thank you mr gallashop for your thoughtful presentation uh mr nunes one quick one quick question just curious and that when the pandemic hit and covert and everything how many chromebooks have we purchased in the past year roughly yeah the that thousand pretty much i would say um yeah i went since the pandemic yeah yeah probably about oh about 1500.
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okay so we have five thousand not not quite five thousand i like to brag about five thousand we're below that and we're going to get to that number yeah but um been a lot of them yeah and we've we were fortunate enough mr kylie helped us we bought 700 of them when the pandemic hit and everybody else in all my counterparts were waiting and we were i think we'd seen a picture we put on the website because we got them and we put them all together in the summer and handed them out and the yeah yeah we've had a lot so um and we're getting quite skilled at fixing them uh some of them simple some interesting you know what happened it's a banana i was going to say you had a banana banana squished in the middle of it so but anyway yes about 1500 of the 5 000 almost 5 000.
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i was curious thank you sir please uh please share our uh congratulations and our thank yous to the rest of your team yes oh thank you yeah yeah thank you thank you john thank you thank you thank you now you can take on your other role back yeah get back to florida get back there so i'm running that teleprompter [Music] next up under old business fy 22 budget discussion will continue on the fy 22 budget and i'll i don't know if i'll turn it over to uh dr gifford first or i know there's a couple of little uh little tweaks that you um discussion right yes so i know obviously mr kylie knows all the numbers and the grants and what's coming in and out and all of that and he did send you a memo with our based on with our discussion how we're planning on moving um the position of the social worker into some of the grant money coming in and helping the town with their budget but we decided with that that we were getting all of this additional money and again we'll speak to that based on what we see as the need we would want to increase that to a two and a half social workers so one more social worker as you remember the middle school and high school both asked for one and we were planning on sharing um and and and our reading specialist as well that was in our quinn it was a replacement from a position that we did not replace yet we were putting it back in the operational budget but if we can use it use that money because for closing gaps etc uh to move that out and into that knowing that um we would want to put those and how things go over the next couple years put those back in the operational budget but again those are just really uh the big things that we wanted to um mention to you along with that we supplied you with the assistant what we created as assistant superintendent job description based on our just previous discussion trying to put together all of the all of the tasks that for the two positions that we're combining um with that so you have that and um i do want to turn it over to mr kiley to speak to the money and the grants and all of that because that's his that's his forte thank you dr gifford so um you know as dr gifford explained the 1.5 social worker positions that we increased and included in our fy 22 budget proposal you know were important and i think it showed our commitment to social and emotional well-being of students and um you know we we always wanted to do more than that i know there was some comments at previous school committee meeting about trying to do more than that and we've we've uh fortunately i think have the ability to um so we with the action of congress and the federal government will have additional funding heading our way we don't know no one knows a lot about it yet um there's been no official guidance yet um but it's going to be significant and it is going to be available to us through fiscal year 24.
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so when you hear that it starts you know i would hate to fund a salaried position for a year and then not have the funding the following year but when you start thinking about three years of potential funding source being available it starts to be more a reasonable line of discussion for for to fund these positions so um those what we do know about those funds um is that they are going to be tied to learning loss and to other impacts of the pandemic so very clearly when we were where the positions that we were talking about were reading specialists and uh you know social outreach workers absolutely they will be able to be funded through that um and you know the fact that we have that additional money it really made sense for us to try and support the high school students and middle school students with a full fte at both of those so this proposal tonight actually increases the support to the schools it also decreases the the request for the operating budget by a hundred and fifty eight thousand one hundred and seventeen dollars or point three four percent which gets our budget request that about a three and a half percent increase for next year from fy 21.
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um so you know with your support we'll we'll begin to move forward with that and that's what you know we're asking for uh certainly it's up for discussion and we'd love to know what you think about that but but we think that that is a way we can support kids and also try and be good partners with the town side of government and you know hopefully present a budget that has a pretty good shot of being approved that sound meeting thank you for your uh your presentation for your update uh mr kaiolin i'm all opening up to questions on the floor um to my colleagues dr jenkins so this sort of relates to my uh question to mr doan earlier and i'd love to see particularly in terms of after-school support enrichment you know even a week before but us being creative about how we ramp kids up and provide them the support they need um you know mr jones said oh you know there's a cost to doing that well you know that seems to me that that sort of federal funding would be good for those sorts of things any sort of extra support we can give to kids outside of school time because we are going to have to to make stuff up i think would be really great um you know i am hesitant to say okay you've had a really traumatic year and now let's pour like additional school time on you like after school i don't think that's what kids need um so i would love to see the feds be a little creative in thinking and how we think about this you know um even particularly for our younger kids doing some more social things after school that we pay for i think would be good for them developmentally um and might you know they if even if we can just get them together you know in a gym to to do fun physical things that can help with some of those social things that they're missing out on this year developmentally but not add sort of school and academic fatigue so i'd love to see us be really creative about creating some after-school activities around this and then i would say my other concern is you know just looking out um i think the town has you know has been a good partner to us and they've done i think a good job in sort of building room in their budget to build towards things right whether it be saving for the library you're saving up a little capacity every year to add a position it doesn't seem to me that we've been able to do that in a similar sort of way and i'm thinking about the technologist right that every year it's like right below the line but if we could say all right you know we're gonna request this much less this year and this much less next year and this much that they add up over you know the three years that we've rejected that thing that's right below the line um it would be nice to be able to see us to get there to have sort of a multi-year budget process whereby we say like look ideally we'd like to build up some reserve it's probably not going to be in our budget maybe it's in their budget but where we build to some of these positions that are super important but when you put you know a technologist up against a social worker like the social worker works every time you know it's hard kind of wins every time and so the technologist often just falls right under that line every single year so i'd love to see us get to a a place where we can do multi-year planning again i know that we're going to have to go through the process of looking at the needs and buildings but also to build up to some of those positions that might not that are actually a high priority but don't seem like it if that makes sense um because i think that's how we're going to have to get there with a technologist right is to set aside a little every year until we build up to you know what i mean towards that salary yep no i agree thank you dr gifford uh dr gifford talk to jenkins it's getting late i know you go by we'll answer danny mr nunes yeah thank you mr chairman uh i said i i think this is great that you know we've got some federal funds and as you know mr kylie said it's you know not a one year if you think about it's a three year process it's it's a three-year grant so which is good what i and i totally understand uh and i appreciate everything that the town has done for us every year and continues to do for us whether it's in the operating budget or it's the capital improvement budget and capital items and and things of that nature that we need i mean we've been able to tap into all that covert money that has done uh tremendous with air filters and chromebooks and the like you know ppe equipment and such what i'm just wondering is in instead of taking you know we're being good sports and we're reducing it 158 000 or somewhat 158 000 type of deal uh i'm just wondering if we took a little bit of that savings and in all seriousness to answer mr oliver's you know and and help mr galish are out and go get that technician you know see if we can get that that technician to to help us out i mean again i you know if with if so if the budget is re and i don't know what the cost would be okay and i won't put it no i'll put a number on it but you know we're still gonna you know per se submit a little bit smaller budget increase than we originally have been talking about in that but it takes one of the items that we need and we know we've got that person you know for for three years anyway because we've got the grant for three years that's taking care of everything else and possibly if there's an issue maybe we've got the grant money that takes care of that person if god forbid the budget falls apart so i'm just my thoughts i throw that out there well i think to your point um again once we kind of really have a good handle on what that number is if it's as significant as and and the parameters that they're setting where we need to spend it there might be other spots i'll just as a suggestion for example some of the schools ask for a special education extra special education teacher if we determine down the line that we have significant funds coming in and we can use it for those kinds of things if we have the budget number uh set but yet can make those adjustments in and out of that you know operational budget it it's kind of to your point mr nunes that can we get something else in the operations that when we can cover other things in the ground under the ground i think that's just i don't know kind of thinking out of the box a little bit right you know federal funds you know we can i i and listening to the conversation about it being you know educational related right i think we can sit here and say detect you know with all the with five thousand chromebooks i agree you know and all the infrastructure that we have in place for computers and i'm the last one to talk about computers but i think we can they can we can justify the technician educationally wise to right and i mean the other problem in that position yeah sorry the other thing we're concerned about too which we'll be watching very closely is um the class size numbers as far as you know we're watching that k in one because we're not sure how many parents held students back from k will our k classes explode or will they just move them to one so i i'm very pleased that we have hopefully this kind of money that will help us in the unknown that might be coming up that's my two cents mr chairman thank you thank you mr nunes this is wait yeah so if i could just you know piggyback on you know what dr jenkins was saying as well you know when i think about the students who are coming in and you know again looking at the lens of my own family too i think that we're going to have some students who really you know coming in as they've lost that freshman year they're going to come in as sophomores i mean when they didn't lose it but they lost the ability to mature in the normal fashion especially you know i i'm reading in it and again from middle school parents and you know some high school's parents where their children are having difficulty with their executive functioning so it's not necessarily that they're having difficulty with a particular subject it's just managing it all especially in this context and they're getting further and further behind and so i think you know i don't know that's not you know a place for an outreach social worker you know that's they're not on a you know necessarily in a special education plan but i think that they're from what i've read there a number of parents are feeling like again their children are have gotten behind they're frustrated they don't fully know how to navigate through all what google classroom has to offer which is quite a lot you know it does but you know that is i think you know those students are coming in with a lower self self-esteem and confidence and again it's not necessarily they've lost out on social it's just that they felt so frustrated and it isn't isn't reflective of their abilities so again i don't know you know this is a gap and this is going to be an issue that you know we could target and again i don't know if they're you know again special coaches or something but i think you're going to find that there's going to be quite a few say like you know less mature sophomores and again now they're coming into the building and they're trying to navigate everything you know really with with the full complement of students you know and and it's you know seventh graders and you know those transition years so it's just something that you know i've seen come up in conversations with you know friends and you know in my own world so just you know that's a two cents anyone else uh yeah you know i i will just kind of echo that too uh that um that's something that's of a huge concern is you know the students that that are we don't know what they're going to come in we know you know we don't know and in perhaps taking you know a stance as a district we're sort of like the benefit of doubt for those students who have made had significant loss then i also think about those students who are in special education and the significant loss and you know all of the nuances that go into legality of the education plans i would hate to see that loss translate into say a reason to take a child out of an inclusive classroom and put them in a substance substantial separate you know placement i would hate to see that happen and but all of our kids are going to come in at some loss and so hopefully there's some more definition around how those funds can be utilized and i have all the faith that we as a district will be creative uh and and really hit that head on and uh come up with some sort of plan that like to shannon's point not throwing a lot of like learning at them but making it fun and making it creative perhaps a little bit of i mentioned this last meeting building capacity within our summer programming but with the education but the socialization bringing humanity back into it i don't know if it was jonathan that said that um yeah and so we're gonna need that because as much as you know it's so confusing and we've we've kept we've told kids that social media wasn't good and engaging in computers isn't good all these hours online and now they're online all this time and my own my own um instructional practice and the work that i do has changed because i'm utilizing a lot of this technology in the ways that i teach families and um and so it's our whole society but i i have i have faith that uh we're gonna do it we're gonna do it to the best of our ability and we're gonna you know um uh examine our practices and and reframe what we do we're gonna kind of shuffle and slide and be flexible and getting back in the classroom and having your kiddo with with equity in mind going into the gym to learn instead of being home and learning you know that's not the end of the story we all know that and there's going to be a lot of things that are come our way and we don't know what that's going to look like yet so um we just got to buckle up be kind to one another and and and have a little grace in the way that we kind of interact with one another so i thank everyone i applaud everything that you've been doing um is it perfect no uh but it's it's pretty darn that's good with what we can work with so that's all i have thank you i just want to follow up a little bit to tie into what mr newn said in my my thought about longer term budget planning um this is three years of revenue but it is non-recurring revenue right and so i have deep concerns um particularly given this town's fiscal capacity of us um building anything more recurring into this this federal grant and that's why i was talking about like maybe a summer school or after school because it's not a hired person it's maybe a stipend to do something after that we can say all right we're not going to be able to do that in three years um i know you agree with this and i i you know talking out of both sides of my mouth you're saying like oh we need to hire these people but right we do but i don't want to pile too many things on this particularly hiring on to this money um and if we do start to hire we need to do the long-term budget cycle or three years from now we're going to find ourselves in a bad place um so we we've gotta i think tread lightly we need to take advantage of this funding but we cannot cannot um put ourselves and maybe maybe it'll just be mr nunes who's still here in three years i don't know mr news is always here right we'll let him deal with that uh in a good way mr ninja in a good way um but i i do worry about setting us up for a fiscal cliff if we if we either don't work with the town to get to where we need to be in three years or um if if we build anything more than this that is that is beyond that three-year plan yeah yeah yeah excellent points to all my colleagues um if i could we could just just touch base a little bit dr gifford in in regards to the um the new assistant superintendent of director of teaching and learning restructuring can you can we just talk a little bit about is because obviously a position is being caught if the assistant superintendent position is being created so what do you see as far as what pieces or what parts of the job description are missing or um because ultimately you know at the end of the day would be one that we know we can't in this budget cycle but at the end of the day you know what do you see being dropped well to be honest it's not a matter of things actually being dropped it's right now it's just a ton more i mean you you create you're putting together two really critical roles as you know right so it's just um the extra that we've all shared but the bulk of it is on this position the bulk of all of those things have been picked up by our current director tracy of course split amongst other administrators yeah i mean as kylie and i have taken on a few things but um you know the workload has just and we're all there we've all increased our workload but i just think that to think that we can have two very very critical positions combined into one with no no kind of movement at all is is one thing not fair to anyone um and the number of hours and that i think it needs to have some kind of recognition if you will and and the compensation that we suggested which was i can't remember ten thousand or something yeah no it's less we've talked to so much about this at all um because like yeah obviously ideally down the road it you know would be wonderful to have both positions but that's um that's neither here nor there right now all right okay that's really all i have right now my head's spinning oh no i know with just everything so anyone else was i couldn't really hear you was your quest because i i was wondering too and and i don't wanna if it is your question then i apologize as i heard you say something will be lost and it would be unfair to say that combining two positions that not everything is getting in there i i'm wondering specifically around that teaching and learning piece what is being sort of um i don't want to say lost but sacrificed if you will to combine it is there any is that what you ask them if it is i don't want you to ask you again kind of one thing i'll i'll say and i i didn't bring that remember that that list we brought we had all the colors and i had a pile for you to just remind you of those things so we could talk about a little bit more specific because it's hard to capture in obviously any job description of what's going on but one thing i will say we this encompasses pretty much what michelle did and what tracy does and has added to her plate the things that maybe you're saying i'm missing i can say we've picked up so um like the policy you know how michelle always ran the policy discussion which isn't a huge role we don't meet that often and there aren't thank goodness that many policy um jim's going to be doing that um i'm doing a lot of the residency now with the residency officer with the consults with that i actually have a hearing tomorrow to do those were in michelle's corner too um so so nothing's not being done it's just the few other few things that on in here and we've picked up and like sick bank we made mr galashara go to the stick bank we gave him and we gave you know the special education department a couple of things um a couple of different things like the pre-k overseeing the pre-k registration of course it's an integrated program so we gave miss townsend that but michelle always did that so that's but there but there is also the point that miss roy did have a a secretary or an administrative assistant that now is working she's still working underneath you right now yes right yep yep correct yeah so all that work is just being still being done that's great so it sounds like more of say the assistant superintendent tasks are so the curriculum and the instruction piece is is really the meat of and then the other additional i mean i read i have it in front of me but right um okay okay yeah so i just have a a question so when you have when we have a role that's created like this and again i'm just kind of going back through like history because i you know clearly knew um is this something that traditionally we need because we are creating a new position you know and i know we have you know tracy's doing an excellent job you know in in her role um and it seems to me like the thought is to like you know elevate her yeah but is that something because it is specifically an assistant superintendent that we have a responsibility to post publicly can it be an internal appointment i guess that's what i'm kind of because it seems you know i just went through i was you know my children respect i wasn't at that last meeting but i you know i'm going back through the minutes and you know mr oliver our probably chair had said that you know again it is our role to you know to with your advice to um post that you know approve that person or appoint that person so i guess so i guess i'm wondering like what is our like due diligence do we need to have that you know as a public you know out of district posting or an internal posting and then go through an interview process like what is the you know what is our like you know what is the process for that historically it there's no requirement to post a job at all if we choose to choose someone from internal that no there's no requirement or anything except obviously union position so we would post a union position okay anyone else all right thank you everyone for that thank you uh public comment update did you have a question no i didn't know if we're gonna oh no we want to reopen yeah yeah i'm coming back i'm just going back to my agenda yeah uh so yeah we'll um i don't remember the last time so essentially we uh made a motion to adjourn do we need to make a motion to reconvene reconvene and make a motion we reconvene the public uh school budget public hearing for fy 22 a second ocean membership news second by dr jenkins on the motion any of the discussion all in favor aye aye the public budget hearing is uh back in full effect uh ms skenter have you received any other or any comments in regards to the public budget hearing okay so that is good mr chair i'll make a motion to uh close the public budget hearing second motion by dr jenkins second by mr nunes on the motion any other discussion hearing none all in favor aye opposed motion carriage unanimously the public budget hearing is officially closed for the fy 22 budget next up superintendent's update dr gifford all right just a couple of quick things obviously i'm so happy we have a high school person coming to report on some of the things i had listed here but um we've had uh great news from the quinn pto that this was sent out that they're going to be providing the each classroom with some funds to do some virtual field trips so you know we've done some of those before so it's it's nice that they're paying for some of the things the cultural field trips cultural programs and some resources so that was good news from quinn i'm sure the other ptos are doing the same but at least we had that um they'll the fifth grade band and strings um instructions are starting they'll be starting up so mr flint let me know about that it'll be fifth grade instrumental programmable starting in april and it's planning on six weeks of instruction for the band and orchestra on wednesday and thursday nights at the middle school so i'm sure they're in contact with the kiddos that are going to be um working with that joining that of course all social distancing is in place i know i just want to reemphasize the uh 21 for 21 at the high school all the events that are happening right starting as you heard with mr he's not mr dartmouth anymore it's dartmouth's finest now so starting on that and we are yeah that it's really really great the work that they're putting in to make some fun things happen for the kiddos um we had the two football games with some spectators so that those went that went well and also just a shout out to dctv um and i know mr peratti helps out when all with the recordings i checked into one of the football games and it was really really great and you know everybody's just been fantastic for that speaking of mr peratti's class they he had some students create some podcasts for npr has a contest going and students if they win will be able to appear on some of their shows the morning edition and the all things considered so we'll see he's he what was that on i'm sorry he he the kids have created some podcasts and they submitting them for a competition into npr oh npr so we'll see of course nice but it gave them some inspiration to nice make their podcast even better so you know it's always always good um let's see if there's anything else um jim is going to talk about the um cip and uh just uh before we move over to him just to let you know we stopped by the schools today because of course we had the pre-k one come in everybody was happy things went well we had no major problems so um we put some pictures up on our facebook page just showing you know the classroom is pretty full but all the kids well behaved doing their thing and that's awesome so that was a good day it was a good day but you want to talk about the um sure thank you dr gifford so yeah we had a capital improvement planning committee meeting normally we meet in like january so we're uh this is our first meeting um and i i would say that it would they were very supportive and very open to our requests we have we have you might remember we have ten items on our list um none individually of you know huge dollar amount but 1.8 million dollars worth of requests cumulatively and um i feel confident that that they're going to be supportive uh of of a good number of those so i'm encouraged definitely by the discussion there and obviously the finance committee needs to also you know take a look at that but um after you know after cip endorses it but uh it was a good discussion so very positive and the only other thing i have is that the the fine speaking of the finance committee they have asked dr gifford and i to attend thursday night to discuss our budget so um we're we're prepared to do that i think zoom what time is that up uh i don't know don't have the invite yet i'm somewhere between six and seven ish range but uh i'll have more specifics we'll share we can share with you assuming that'll be a zoom meeting yes and well just get the link yeah yeah we can we can send the uh the link around once we get it excellent it just feels like we don't have as much i don't know i always always say at budget time i always get kind of excited to think about the ways we can reuse our money and reallocate things into better programs and we've had a lot to talk about at the different fincon meetings in the previous years but this year it's just kind of like yeah you know it just feels it well it is it's so different so different right not being able to say oh we need this we need let's try to manipulate that and anyway just trying to hold the fort now absolutely anything else right now no no no thank you both uh for that update uh i uh proposed meeting dates so yeah did we is that in the pack yet yeah yeah yeah yeah one of the emails it came uh just after it came with the main one so you might see it we're looking at well the first one april 5th would be our short meeting followed by the joint meeting which uh we we have so we would want to start at 5 30.
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