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gonna look for a deep ball they send him in and there's going to be a penalty thrown down to scotland he's passed the line of scrimmage but we won't say anything it's intercepted at the five and brought down at the 10. it's going to be white hat saw it so it's going to be a penalty on the eagles throwing the ball past the line of scrimmage on that first penalty so that will be the ball game yeah and he's got him he released that ball away past line of scrimmage too so and it was intercepted so yeah as the time expired so that should do it we'll wait for it to become official central celebrating waiting for it to be official two penalties on the play whitehead's telling us holding on the eagles best pilot line of scrimmage that's the ball game [Applause] so central wins this one 18-12 we will be back in a minute after this quick break welcome back to breeze central where the cougars take down the eagles 18 to 12 and a very good ball game we'll call it for the conditions columbia made a couple mistakes that we knew we couldn't make without a doubt the interception that was returned for a touchdown but jared what are your thoughts other than that um overall i think we played uh overall i i think it was a little bit sloppy we had a lot of turnovers not turnovers penalties i'm sorry we had a lot of penalties that we could have capped on and a lot of penalties that we need to be better on in the future because those penalties can really hurt your team as you seen the interception we had on the screen pass that was also a big play in the game that definitely changed the game because we had the ball inside the 20-yard line so we were we were on a good drive and to have that taken away from us that was definitely a big turning point in the game absolutely columbia comes out with the first touchdown in the game we took one chance i think we took a couple late we took that one chance oh and it was an 85 yard touchdown to london little but then at the end of the game you know i think like we did control the line of scrimmage which is what coach hohner wanted to do and in the end we come up short we made one too many mistakes tough conditions central played in them too so you can't say that it was the conditions good ball game by both teams and columbia just made one more mistake and you can't make those mistakes fast forward if bree central wasn't a far enough drive for some of you we'll go to salem next week and i can say that last week i said we were going to salem this week so next week we go to salem and that is for sure that is for sure so we will be in salem next week with the 6 start time on behalf of columbia high school columbia school district mr reeves mr nickerson howie knapp thank you for your stats that are amazing every week jared jermaine thank you this is alex slummer we will see you next week eagles fall to 1-1 after the defeat to the central cougars go eagles baby [Music] you
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thank you for joining us for committee on education monday march 29th the 3 20 pm agenda and we are in conference room 229 this meeting including the audio and video of remote participants is being streamed live on youtube you will find links to viewing options for all senate meetings on the live and on demand video page of the legislature's website this is a meeting and youtube live stream event will include the 320 agenda for the comedian education as well as the 330 joint agenda for the committee on education and the committee on human services it in the unlikely event that we have to abruptly end this hearing due to major technical difficulties the committee will reconvene to discuss any outstanding business on wednesday march 31 2021 and a public notice will be posted on the legislature's website i'd like to take this time to remind our testifier that due to time restrictions on our hearings we will be limiting testimony to one minute per testifier per bill for the people participating remotely all testifier audio will be muted and video disabled until shortly before it is your turn to testify when i call your name staff will unmute you and your time will begin after your minute is completed staff will mute you so that we can move this hearing along in an orderly and efficient manner thank you we have one item on the 320 pm agenda and that is senate concurrent resolution 198 and senate resolution 163 urging the department of education to include civic online reasoning and media literacy in its information technology curriculum to testify we have teri ushijima for the department of education thank you terry good good afternoon chair kidani vice chair mccarthy and members of the committee and tereshijima interim assistant superintendent testifying on behalf of superintendent ishimoto we stand on our written testimony in support of scr 198 we support educating all students in civic online reasoning and media literacy which is included in the department statewide computer science digital citizenship education program the department is dedicated to providing all students with opportunities to learn and prepare them with the skills and experiences needed for our modern digital world thank you for this opportunity to testify thank you terry we have that's the only oral testimony we have we do have a couple other tests and testimonies members are there any questions of cherioshijimo one question how many of the schools have information technology curriculum and we we have our educational specialist with us and he can provide a response however it's also part of our general learner outcomes to be ethical users of technology so it is also embedded in our daily instruction that we do k to 12.
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what aloha my name is um mentioned we do have a statewide computer science program which is a it covers a wide range of topics that are aligned to the computer science teachers association standards and one of the concepts in the standards and impacts of computing which includes the concepts related to digital on media and um you know media and information literacy and in terms of the participation we are working with our 15 conflicts areas which we have a tri-level team of computer science teams that are all philosophy and collaboratively developing their respective computer science implementation plans which includes covering all the different concepts including the impacts of computing um that addresses your question so this is included in your k through 12 curriculum for general learner outcomes but for the information technology curriculum itself is that in middle school as well as high schools that is correct so it's um it's not a information information technology specific curriculum we're calling it computer science and it's a k-12 um progression of different um concepts and um areas that are covered and so at every grade level there's um like a profession of of standards and activities that build upon the foundation from kindergarten the way up to our secondary thank you members further questions do you guys have a problem with this as a yes you okay with this version okay thank you um this is the only uh item on our agenda and we are actually going to take a vote now the recommendation of the chair to pass this recommend this senate concurrent resolution and senate resolution as is cheer hotel chair votes eye on senate concurrent current resolution 198 uh vice chair votes unamended um senator de la cruz excuse senator kalua senator favela aye senator de la cruz is i members present all learning and affirmative adam recommendation is adopted thank you and this was for senate concurrent resolution 198 and senate resolution 160 and 163 correct thank you thank you this meeting is adjourned thank you for joining us on our joint committees committee on education and committee on human services for the 3 30 pm agenda we have one item it's senate concur concurrent resolution eight and senate resolution six to my right is vice chair of education committee senator donna mercado kim and to my far left is senator senator drew panuja also part of the education committee as well as senator favela who is joining us virtually and our chair of human services senator san buena ventura do you want to introduce your committee please yes thank you very much so um for human services other than myself i have virtually what i said senators okay so correction senate concurrent resolution six and senate resolution six urging the department of education to develop and implement a program to recruit and employ qualified blind persons to serve as orientation and mobility instructors and in other positions as teachers of visually impaired students and signed up to testify kathy betts director department of human services kathy please aloha i'm lea diaz i'm here on behalf of kathy betts the director of human services we stand on our written testimony with comments and i am available for any questions thank you also shelford canton for the national federation of the blind hawaii shelford are you there please uh representing national federation of the blind um we 100 support this resolution myself as a blind person i understand how important it is for it was for me to work with uh flying instructors who served as role models for me who taught me skills that that i would probably never learn from other side end instructors not saying that sighted instructors can't provide good services but the role model factor was key in my um my journey to me becoming myself a national orientation mobility certified instructor um right which right now i do have parents from the doing to call me regularly to ask if i can provide private services for their students or for their children which i feel shouldn't be happening right now i feel that they should be getting the services that their child desperately needs um and i think we need you know the best for our keiki in the state of florida um i i i know from personal experience that working with an nomc is the best option for rkt thank you that is the only two oral testimonies that we have we have a number of written testimony for some reason i do not have testimony from the department of education so i'm assuming that they are fine with this resolution members any questions of the testifiers if not um i am ready to take the vote chair san buena ventura if you do you need to go into uh recess okay it's your recommendation is okay so recommendation of the education chair will be to pass out these measures as is chair votes eye chair votes i for scr 6 and sr6 vice chair votes i senator de la cruz is still with us senator kanu senator favela center dollar cruz excuse member um madam chair four members present voting i your recommendation for both resolutions have been adopted thank you okay so for human services same recommendation chair votes eyes senator ihara excuse senator ocasio ain't senator missaluta excuse senator fabella i said um thank you share your recommendation has been adopted thank you very much this meeting is adjourned you
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hello chris cooper superintendent of clearwater schools here with a brief update our school board had a special meeting last night to review some changes that have been brought about by senate bill 40 at the state level that bill is basically taking taking the covet 19 mitigation orders and mandates out of the hands of the health experts at the state and even local level and put them in the hands of our local school board so the board looked at a lot of information and recommendations last night some of that information was covered 19 level numbers at the state level county level zip code level and even our skill school a level level uh just what's been going on with our code 19 numbers for quarantines and positives they also receive recommendations from the cdc from the kansas department of health environment from the sedgwick county health department and from our local learning options team that has members of our community that are on the front lines in our local hospitals all of those recommendations said almost exactly the same thing and that is to stay the course to not drop our guard at this point in the game as far as covet 19 mitigation strategies so they also received information from a survey from the clearwater teachers association and a statement from them and some advice and thoughts from the administrative team after reviewing all that having much discussion uh the clearwater school board has taken no action to change anything so what that means is we're still under our navigating change return to learn plan that was adopted august 10th of 2020 so that does mean that we will maintain our current mitigation strategies of mass and social distancing temperature taking those things there are a few minor administrative edit edits that once the governor's order that's in place as of today drops that might change some we also anticipate that the governor will issue another similar order and we do have an agreement with our teachers association that we won't be less restrictive than a county or state order at the time it'll be a little more confusing because i don't believe she plans to issue an order just for schools it's more for businesses but anyway i just wanted to let everybody know where we're at and that we have no changes and a lot of the conversation is about not putting things in jeopardy this spring that students had to miss out on last spring we want students to finish the year academically strong we believe we've given our kids a leg up and the best education we can this year by being on site throughout the school year we want students to have the opportunity to go to prom to have a graduation with people in attendance to to do spring sports and all those things that we so look forward to and just don't want to do anything to put those things in jeopardy this spring so that's all i have for today i will uh if anything changes i will do my best to communicate that out to the community take care
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good evening and welcome before we get started i'd just like to thank you for wearing your face coverings and appropriately respecting protocols that are set in place today is march 30th and this is a regular board meeting of the gilbert schools governing board we will call this meeting to order we'll begin with item 1.02 in a moment of silence and move to a pledge of allegiance led by mrs humphries would you please stand if you'll join me in the pledge i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you thank you mr humphries we're at item 1.04 roll call mrs wilson would you please help us with that miss laurie wood here mr reed carr here dr charles santa cruz here miss sheila eugetti here ms jill humphries here mr president all boar members are present you have a quorum thank you mrs wilson now moving to item two which is approval of tonight's agenda item 2.01 is there motion submit thank you mrs humphries is there a second second thank you mr jetty any discussion it's been moved and seconded that we approve this evening's agenda all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye aye aye those opposed the same motion carries five zero we'll now move to item 3 which is reports we will have item 3.01 and item 3.02 dr mccord anything by way of introduction i just want to turn it over to mrs bonnie betts for our monthly budget report good evening dr santa cruz dr mccord governing board members this will be a short report that reflects activity in the current year through february 28th and i'll just proceed so please note the maintenance and operations line highlighted in yellow here you can see that our adopted budget was 258 just over 258 million the revised budget is nearly 253 million but note the revised budget number two pending you have already approved the revised number two that was done early this month but we are trying to be disciplined reflecting the transactions and activity at the end of february when it was still pending so all of the the available balance you can see there is from the revised budget number two pending so some of the details on that so there has been a continual increase in student count throughout the year just a reminder remember that we are now funded on current year student counts so back in december our student count loss was somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 800 students but we made some decisions and drove the collection of adm throughout all of our schools and so at the time that we were ready to revise number two we actually gained nearly 2 000 adm so i just wanted to remind you that during the school year this is why we're constantly revising the budget because our student counts especially this year are constantly changing we also had an increase in budget balance carry forward remember that the pending revised number two does incorporate the annual financial report and it and it does incorporate the revised annual financial report and then the available balance that you see there the 13 million dollars let me go back a second that 13 million dollars available balance keep in mind that about 10 million dollars is not at the discretion of the school district so that all that money has been allocated out to schools and departments and then please also note that the expenses have been reduced due to the enrollment stabilization grant as well as the esser funds and then unrestricted capital at this point in time there's about a hundred thousand dollars unexpended unencumbered um in understood the capital so state grants the only notable fund here that we'd like to talk about tonight is the results-based funding remember that when it comes to results-based funding we really don't know what the dollar amount will be but we set the budget based upon what the prior year receipts were so we we have received and expended all the results based funding or at least allocated out all the results-based funding and you can see that the results-based funding amount declined by about a hundred thousand dollars so last year we had 12 schools that achieved the target and this year we had 10.
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pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for and all everybody we actually have an audience tonight um future board meetings april 27th 6 p.m may 11 and may 25th at 6 pm here you'll notice that we are not meeting two weeks or the second tuesday of april that is spring break we do have one thing under revision of the agenda on our new business so we'll move on to public recognition we have a recommendation to approve a 10 donation from joy adding for northfield high school from and also recommendation to approve a 350 donation from the fountain christian church for southwest high school fca have a motion in a second to accept the donations all in favor say hi all right that was school recognition i'll let you go with that mr d favorite all right thank you mr daisy so we'll go ahead and start in order uh with mr boone and then we'll go with mr snyder so mr moon you're on one of these times we're going to have to let beauty go before we are [Music] so thanks for having me i appreciate being able to represent southland elementary tonight our fellow books team uh competed just about like everything else they competed virtually last night uh typically uh the last several years that's been held at hartland career center but uh um we did it virtual this year and still thankful that uh you know kids can get their hands on books and just come together and so they've been working for the past several months on reading 10 books and i i kind of liken the battle of the books competition those of you that know mr tom vogelsby that taught english for a number of years south of high school that level of detail about you know what happened on page you know 119 in the fourth paragraph uh kind of stuff and your kids really do well um our kids answered uh in total about 80 percent of their questions accurately so that was maurice uh mrs unger miss natalie under and mr jennifer finney are our coaches and students on that team included avery henderson olivia rank ross andrews those are uh sixth graders fifth grade brock shane marker claire campbell ava goodfaster and grace rank and fourth grade sophia klein elan tyson and olivia frieden so congratulations to our fellow books team then uh this was two weeks ago uh tomorrow we had our first ever hosted southern elementary kindergarten roundup and typically that has been kind of a county-wide effort most of the county there at the honeywell center and because of the year that we're having uh we decided to do that in-house and so we welcomed approximately 50 soon-to-be members of the class of 2034 which is uh kind of hard to believe that's going to come quick so i think the older that you are the faster it comes so i've got ways to think about that so um but uh that we got some great feedback from parents and families like you even like as it was happening uh just uh less um chaos you know just less busy and um more like they had time to go to each kindergarten teacher and just you know see their room and just talk to them we we had 30-minute shifts and i believe that mrs moore did it the same way that we did the next night uh 30-minute shifts where we welcomed anywhere from eight to ten families and uh they they did the kindergarten screener uh did a little craft a little snack uh and just some time with the teacher and families just appreciated that more laid-back you know personally connecting with the school that kids are going to be in and so got some great feedback there and tonight would not have been possible without i didn't want to leave out any names so i listed them all hope that's okay that's your key favor uh mrs fadel and mrs steele kindergarten teachers mrs drake our little knights teacher was there too and she's sending up uh 19 of those new kindergartners so we're um we're happy to have her there that night then this is dupont mrs carell mrs banker mrs elliott miss robbins mrs dye and mrs mitchell and mrs heights all helped with the screener and then mrs wright mrs law mr weaver mrs ashley under and of course mrs weitzel who if you've been at kindergarten roundup at the honeywell center mrs weisel does a phenomenal job coordinating all of that effort and you know same with our in-house version and then our banner winners spring banners had several artists recognized by name the award ceremony ceremony recently and our two banner winners that will have something hanging in downtown for a good while this spring evelyn tyson in fourth grade and shelby hunt in sixth grade and so proud of our artists and appreciate mrs tyson and her efforts mr key paper if i may add them for a moment i did i didn't add this to the spreadsheet but um i was talking with a substitute teacher yesterday uh and he just wanted to make sure that i knew um how much he liked subbing at southwood elementary um he said you know no matter who the staff member is you know if he's in the hallway and you tell or just you know passing by that everybody's always very friendly and he said um you know i have seven other buildings and he said it's not always that way i was telling my teachers this morning and said there was a part of me that wanted to ask so where else do you set up i i didn't want to be i didn't want to be prideful but i told my teachers i'm proud of it because all it takes is a little bit of effort to put a smile on your face and a kind word and it makes a huge difference and so um just proud of our people that they're great and um it was just uh felt good to hear that yesterday so very good thank you all right mr schneider one thing i found [Music] um yeah first thing is a kind of a shared thing between uh southwood and northfield because both andrew and daniel and i were able to go i think mr key favorite went to the county honors being in choir performance friday march 12th and that was cool because that was the first thing that got cancelled um when all this coded stuff did a year ago so that that fact that they were able to do that we were able to go and those kids got to sing and play and they haven't had any concerts earlier this year we're going to start doing some in the spring things are opening up but that i didn't name all the kids here but we just want to say all the kids that were involved from southward and northville um we just wanted to say a great job by all and then i want to say again grant dale i didn't realize that kid had so much artistic ability he could not only swim and do a lot of things but he's been so he got this award more than 80 000 students vr teacher told me submitted over 200 230 000 works of art to the 2021 scholastic awards and grant was awarded two national medals for his artwork out of that 230 000 works of art that was submitted nationwide he was awarded a national gold medal for a ceramic piece called blob the impaled i don't have a picture of that to show you and the national silver medal with distinction for this portfolio that he turned in to show some of the work he'd done and that was one in 30 awarded nationally by this scholastic place that's this seems like an awesome thing that he accomplished there so we're very proud to grant and applaud his creativity preparation resolve through this unpredictable school year and so i think mr zwiebel or our teacher this year does a good job of sending the kids stuff in for these contests and things for them to get this recognition so good job by him too to take the time to do that and then today i found out we had four boys that did this entrepreneur through the i think it was through girlwall astronomy and it was you kind of told me about it earlier in the year to see if we have kids interested well i had a teacher that wanted to do it mr simcroft the english teacher and then he didn't have a ton of time but he wanted to get the kids started so then they needed more time to work on it because he couldn't devote just english time to business stuff so then we got with the business teacher mr bainey and they kind of worked together so mr suncroft could help mr vaney could give them time in business classes to work and to give advice they ended up coming up with this business called art like arc light historical tours that they picked all these places around wabash county included a lot of businesses and they said that this is what the kids wrote me today because i asked them to give me a little blurb that i could say and they said that that about mr sincroft but it was three of them that started it was keaton style clay herring and ben looked to start this program as an alternative project in english class they soon decided on a historical walking tour in wabash they later asked if ethan galbraith would join and he happily did and the idea of a walking tour stem from their mutual interest in history especially in wabash but it has grown to be so much more than that they immediately recognize the opportunity not only to educate and entertain inhabitants of wabash and hopefully its visitors but also to partner with other small businesses and be a real benefit to the local economy tourism brings people and people bring money these boys hope to not only provide an experience well worth the price of admission but also to make a difference in our community and help grow this town they've grown to love thanks to ethan keaton clay and ben for their work on creating arc-like historical tours and for mr sincroft and mr vane working together to support these students so i don't know if they're really going to do it it sounds like they're going to give it a shot but i think they've partnered with businesses to try to get their tours to go to them so i thought that was pretty good what started as just a pitch to start a business and i think they're really going to try me um we also had some artists at the art show the wabash county virtual they had a virtual spring art show and we had quite a few kids various grade levels that were finalists and winners those were emma bone emma warnock ryan brunette eden hoover jc crump avery napier jessica ray ainsley dale bayley byers grant dale jasmine fisher ethan galbraith lloyd chloe miller trinity shock me and clayton tomlinson a lot of what's cool about some of those names is they're getting connected you hear those names in athletics and art and academics it's kind of cool to see them well-rounded like that so i think that was my last one i believe it was and i have a couple things i want to add to that first of all i did learn that through the pitch contest that will actually be at the honeywell center those students that created those entrepreneurship uh programs uh nine hundred dollars were sent to all of our msd students who are part of that as like seed money for them to start get started so that's really cool 900 and i also want to say you you mentioned honor ban and honor uh concert uh honor choir um the director for the honors band uh mike lecrone actually commissioned um a song and it was actually for my uh a piece called roll of thunder for my dad and you're if you know i don't know my dad was a band director south of high school for 29 years before his early passing and so it was really cool to do that they were going to do it last year but of course like you said cove would hit um and then they brought it back again this year so it's really neat to hear that and for them to play that um in that honor so obviously they honored er connor who was also long-term uh long time uh band directors at walworth city schools so anyway it's really neat uh to hear them and to have that presentation was interesting last year on march 31st those kids were actually at the honeywell center all day long and then of course everything happened and everything just shut down because of course we had a southwood boys we're going to go to regional they've lost that too and all the other things that happen in the spring so i'm glad that things are are going a lot better and then i have a few other things that principals added here first of all uh southwood high school mr mcdaniel so we are very proud of our boys basketball team after a dominating win in the first round of regional play against seton catholic an absolute nail biter of a win in a second round against lafayette central catholic although our knights fell to celts in semi state play we want to congratulate them on an outstanding season coach burris has led a nice 2-3 semi-basketball opportunities in 11 years additionally the team brought a lot of excitement and school pride these last few weeks way to go nights and then also uh mr martin at shark creek said we'd like to recognize mrs amanda alliance this evening mr lyons is our librarian does a fantastic job of regularly providing our students with stem science technology engineering math based experiences she works hard to have student opportunities while playing and makes us use the many resources we have available thank you mrs lyons and then also congratulations to our sharp creek elementary students who won awards at the walrus county art show brendan swann kendall rife and bella myers each had their artwork selected to be made into street banners and callie mcclure was named shark creek's best of show winner so great job students there and i believe that is all for tonight mr daisy okay thank you i'll say one other word about mike lecron yes guest director i know i'm representing msd now but i'm a graduate of manchester high school where mike lacroix wrote our fight song rather than use a recycled coin song so he was he's the author of that but i'm fully committed to him all right moving on to uh public comment agenda items only do we have any comments on what we're going to be talking tonight we'll do our presentation oh yep i did scare that hi i'm so sorry yes that was right over at the top back up to the school recognition we'll do the wmap presentation all right i'd like to introduce mrs hann higgins uh who are our director of webwish miami area program and she's going to share with you and i have it right here mrs higgins your and it's it goes to a pdf so it looks a little bit different as far as a format but it's all good so because we have two newborn members and because things have changed it seems like there's always a flexibility in our positions in education and hers i asked her to come here and just share a little bit about the wabash miami area program and i know that the three veteran board members know a lot about it but it's always good to have a review but two board members too to to learn a little bit more and if you have questions throughout you can ask um she has uh the rest of the evening available so whatever questions you want to ask them my kids might disagree with you okay they might be happy all right go ahead um thank you for giving me the opportunity to come and speak again this evening this is not the first time i've addressed the board but um this is just kind of it's nice to be back and revisit this i wanted to give you some overall general information about special education um public law 94-142 was signed into law in 1975 so to put that a little bit into perspective i was three years old when when that wall was signed and i say that because my generation of teachers have grown up with special education and i think sometimes you forget that we we forget that so um in 1975 that this was a new idea and so people um corporations came together to form cooperatives which is kind of how our wabash mami area program cooperative was formed and obviously it's been 45 years ago so you can figure out how old i am and since public law 94-142 that that federal legislation has changed four times and the fourth change is called idea individuals with disabilities education act and it was passed in 2004 and it is the current legislation federal legislation that we operate under so we have the federal laws and then each state has the opportunity to interpret those laws and it took indiana four years to interpret the 2004 legislation so we were kind of in limbo for a while um and so we are operating under the general practices that were um signed into state law in 2008 we've had minor changes to that law um including an update in may of 2019 um it is article 7 is approximately 150 pages long just to give you an idea of the amount of legislation that we um we operate under on a regular basis so so that's just a little bit of history about special education the initial law of public on 94 142 was about access to buildings and even when i was in school my my memories of special education are those kids got on a bus and they went to another location now our um our priority is access to curriculum and so we continue to fight for our students with disabilities to have access to their general education curriculum um and have similar opportunities to their peers as far as instructional time with teachers so and i think uh the article seven it's kind of yellow because i see that in your office you look up sometimes so i think you pretty much all marked up and then it's a lot to keep in your head um so some benefits to belonging to the cooperative are just what we said the compliance pieces understanding that knowing how to do and operate under under the compliance pieces um and and then monitoring we so because we have these federal laws we have federal indicators that the state has to report out every year and so that all funnels through my office and that's one thing that i assist corporations in doing is making sure that we've met the legal requirements set forth by the federal and state law and department of education financial um we do share some teacher cost uh for those of you who've been on the board we did a major restructure and decentralization in 2016.
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uh thank you all so much for joining us tonight um i this has been the meeting that has been the most like anticipated to actually see the end specs for this amazing project and i'm super excited so i will just i'll hand the baton right off to you kara so okay well thanks everybody um you know this has been a very interesting project uh that i i think um we can all say that has kind of come at a very interesting time in danbury it's like a perfect storm of things happening right now are you okay but certainly um all good things uh to come and so i think um you know when we talk about the project it's really not just a building per se um actually let me pull up a visual and then we'll we'll go from there um dr cell can everybody still uh can you all see my screen did i lose you okay great no good okay um i wasn't sure what happened i kind of lost some audio for a second okay so i think it's um safe to say that this isn't really a typical building project uh where we're building a school just for enrollment um while that seems to be the driving force in danbury and i think we'll continue to be topic of conversation it certainly presented an opportunity to move forward some ideas and some vision that has been um talk at the table for quite a while now um before we get started though i do want to give a shout out now that melissa naydu is on uh and dan donovan i don't know if he's on here but um nights weekends before work after work um that's when this project really has been getting done um during the day we have met on a pretty regularly on wednesdays to talk with the high school team uh and a few of the other curriculum administrators to talk about how all of this affects um everything in the future you know graduation requirements um uh programming the way just the way that we operate and the the structures and systems that support teaching and learning and so we really feel strongly that this is a game changer it's not just a building it's a concept it's a way of doing school moving forward and we think it's going to present our kids with a lot of opportunity and and really just better informed students that go off to whatever it is that they're meant to do and so you have the document in front of you that talks a little bit about sort of the um the long-range plan the rationale obviously the enrollment again is part of this this is a part uh high school part middle school um concept and we can kind of talk about the breakdown and we talked a little bit about in the document the project rationale and again beyond enrollment that is really about career connected learning for students um so that they have an understanding and an exploration about what's out there in the world so that they're better informed it's not just about uh the common core math and literacy standards it's about where uh where are the things that i like uh where are my um where are my talents where are fields that i might be interested in how can i explore those uh in a way that's meaningful and in a way that's authentic and then provide opportunities so when i graduate high school there's some jobs at the other end of the line here and that you you know what you're working for and you're preparing for um in the ed specs we did put in some of the program goals i'll actually start with those i don't want to read everything to you um because it is in the document and i was thinking about doing a slideshow but it would really be exactly what's in this document so it would have been quite a long slideshow so i just i think talking about the program goes a little bit uh in terms of the academy piece for the high school side um i think will be important along with kind of going over the larger um the larger vision for not just this location but the broader scope for the high school side so the program goals for the academy of scientific innovation and medicine and academy of enterprise and economics those are the two names that we decided to house these pathways in the academy at this location it's really about providing students this choice and rigorous academic preparation aligned to the state standards um and and really in line with college and career education that bridges uh secondary and post-secondary opportunities and that's really key because that is what this is about um in route to that students have the opportunity to explore career related interests understand career trajectories i always use the cna as a very concrete example of what that what that could look like so for example students graduate at danbury high school now with a cna degree a cna certificate and a high school degree that prepares them for competitive colleges for direct entry nursing programs it prepares them to have experiences in advance to know if they even want to be in the medical field it prepares them to go off to the world of work immediately right after high school it prepares them to have a employment um during college to help them pay the bills um and just provides a host of opportunities so they're allowed to uh kids come out they're really like a triple threat they have opportunities and they can pivot in many directions and they're well prepared um and they should have a pretty solid foundation for post-secondary course post-secondary work um when we talk about some of the uh the academy pieces we're really talking about programs of studies for kids that are different this particular site will talk about health science and then the business career fields and the methodology that will engross students in is really about project-based learning and providing experiential opportunities all of these will be connected to our dps portion of the graduate at this particular location there's opportunities for all kinds of industry related credentials which are in the document and opportunities for leadership opportunities personal growth and and opportunities to network with with companies in our in our local area so i'm going to zoom out and give you the big picture of the entire system that's not just about this location and then i'll zoom back in and i will hop to my document here and if this is not large enough just let me know if i'm making you disney you could close your eyes for about 15 seconds okay okay so what we are proposing again outside of the location of the summit is that we transform our high school into the academies at denbury high school um and so all students have this opportunity it's not just about the students who get to go over to the matrix site um into this new shiny building the goal is to transform teaching and learning at the high school level for all students and that we provide choices um along the way for kids to explore to also to select to concentrate on before they leave denbury high school after a lot of conversation um some lengthy professional development very engaging professional development uh working with jay steele and connie mack they are the founding architects of the academies of nashville that we've talked about many times um in using department of labor statistics understanding national uh career clusters regional career clusters and then connecticut's career clusters these are the academies and the associated pathways that we have determined um that will best suit our students and will provide them with the most opportunity in the future these are not exactly a static so these should be reviewed yearly with program goals and they're monitored for viability every year moving forward so every couple of years we should do a deep dive into department of labor statistics opportunities and what's coming around the bend preparing kids for the future so we have six academies the academy of information technology and cyber security academy of professional public service the academy of scientific innovation and medicine academy of global enterprise and economics academy of art engineering design i get excited just saying these titles every time an academy of communications and design and the two academies that we're going to develop out first will be the ones housed at the uh at the summit location and those are the ones that are in bold here um academies uh each pathway typically will hold between 120 and 130 students um they could that could be more or less depending on the pathway but also some of the interest and demand um i'll talk a little bit about the academy of scientific innovation in medicine and uh starting with the biomedical pathway you have a chance opportunity hopefully to read some of the descriptions to understand what that's about this is a very hot and in demand field sports and human performance pathway some of the certifications that kids can get our physical therapy assistance which is very much in demand but also learn about the body wellness and and human performance um therapeutic health service pathways so this one here would house the cna the ems um and the uh uh ekg and phlebotomy so we have a few pathways housed in this one this will probably one of the largest pathways um in in in this particular academy medical technology and engineering this one we just recently added in to kind of balance some things out especially after having a very engaging conversation with medtronics with an engineer there who is connecting me with their outreach coordinators and this is a very big company and they're housed right here in connecticut and they're very excited to begin conversations in those areas and then we have the environmental and renewable energy pathway which seems a little bit like odd man out uh in the group but that's an area that we hope to grow out and and is certainly in demand in terms of renewable energy so um we are excited about that i'm getting another robo call from the denver public schools okay um and uh and and with that we also have the academy of global enterprise and economics so management and leadership pathway investment in finance that's going to be a really exciting one business and entrepreneurship another exciting and global supply chain and logistics which is a very fast emerging and developing field certainly not new but with the um amazon and and movement and shipping and sort of the the disruption that we've had um with the pandemic the amount of logistics uh that go into what's happening right now is is incredible and there's a lot of work and demand in that area so these two pathways i'm sorry these two academies are are what we have tagged for uh the summit site um we think there's opportunity there with not just new bonds but with the number of global companies that are located there and we think we also have because we have a fairly well developed business department already and we have some programming in the health service it's nice to have sort of a little bit of a foundation to take over to that site to begin with the rest of these pathways will be developing out as we move forward um these kind of demand a little bit less of in terms of equipment and build the exception of the engineering which that's for another day this is really about ed specs for the building um and we can certainly get into more conceptual conversations about this shift and what it means understanding what a ninth grade career in college academy is it's really an exploration course for this for all ninth graders before they make selections into these academies at the end of ninth grade so um i don't want to make this too much about the you know everything about the academies and the educational components behind it um we really should have like a workshop on it and get and kind of get down to you know details and ask questions and talk about graduation requirements and all those things that kind of will come come with the shift um this today is really about talking about the site the building um and the project that needs to get submitted to to the state um in uh glenn i'm going to be kind of calling on you for in about a second so i'm giving you giving you your 15 second warning um that will have some questions um but i also i want to talk a little bit about this piece here in terms of the the number of students that this building will service which is 1400 we've tossed around a little bit about uh you know how many students should be on each side we were informed that um it'll be 360 students on the on the middle school side which is very small and the balance of that would be on the high school side and so we did go back and make some changes along those lines can i ask you a question about that yes sir i'm deeply concerned about that this doesn't seem to address any of our middle school problems we have more than a 360 student middle school problem now yeah much less than two or three years when this is open much less the increased enrollment how does this address our middle school problem at all and what are we gonna do if we don't address it here we've gone to the state they've done the and and i just ordered another um uh another study for from our demographer there are seats empty uh at the west side and the only authorization we have for reimbursement that is for reimbursement let's let's be glad is that we could build something about 370 350 to 380 for middle school they that those are what the numbers support respectfully that makes no sense we were discussing a year ago saying i agree with that but i'm saying we uh that's what you asked where that's where the number comes we were looking at trying to put in five or six hundred there if you recall we were talking about it but uh the state uh now push back and immediately permitted for us to do at this point maybe we maybe we need to more aggressively push back against the state because this is ridiculous a year ago we sat in sites and facilities discussing it live at rogers park what we were going to do about a middle school and not wanting to put 300 more students at broadview or we couldn't do it at west side or couldn't do it at rogers park we didn't want 300 more kids that brought you because we already had 300 more kids we had to figure out where to put this is 360 kids two years from now maybe we need to push i don't doubt that the state said that maybe we need to push back against the state because this seems a little silly doesn't it well that's sort of with our position there are a lot of things that are on here joe um for example as we open uh you know the building just like we did with ais and those things can change and then we can make adjustments but the application that danbury's submitting and i'll let glenn deal with that a little bit maybe that's all they'll support in terms of reimbursements we could build what we want but the reimbursement is going to just be on you could put in 1100 high school kids and you could put in you know 300 um middle they're fine but if we if we exceed the middle school number they have a problem with the reimbursement so that's why they pushed us to this whole number queer respond any better than i can glenn are you there yes yes the um the the enrollment projections you're right i mean they take the they take the uh eight year highest and uh i don't have the numbers in front of me at the moment but um um you know based on what was submitted uh or what was talked about that's that's where you know you're right absolutely right dr sal is that the reimbursement is is what's key here anything above that in the eight-year projections danbury can build it the the state just won't pay for it what do we have to do to explain to the state that the eight-year projections for denver are always wrong that the eight-year projection we had going into 2019-20 not only was it wrong we were told we were getting 300 new kids we got 650 we got 65 percent of the of the 10-year and or eight-year enrollment increase in the first year six months after the demographer completed the study well that's why we asked the demographer to do another one and we're putting in there that um you know very possibly with the everything being lifted we may be seeing another surge and putting that in there if they make some adjustments then they then that's through our advantage but would it help would it help us to go to our delegation and attempt to have them speak to the people that do this and say guys this is dumb this doesn't solve our current problem much less our future problem all right i don't i don't know i'm asking the question i mean it's not our fault i don't know may i bring a little sunshine into this conversation sure thing antonio um so um everybody's getting excited because yeah it's my dogs so um let let's just be clear i wanna because we're among friends here uh let's just be clear about two things um schools are built and expanded based on uh eight-year projections uh the board of education prepares eight-year projections um the projections that were over uh exceeded were projections that we as a city as a board of education partners presented to the state so um the state doesn't do the projections uh the board of education does um and that's the reason why sal moved away from the old demographer and actually went with a company that a little more expensive but they're probably the best in the industry their eight-year projection peak florida middle school was only about 300 to 300 kids 300 to 330 kids and that's about three to four years out so that's the maximum that they ever envision a growth in the next eight to ten years so that is the only thing you can walk to the state with and request an expansion or a building with you can't you can't show that you only have 330 kids in your school and go build a school for seven or eight hundred kids because you're over building according to them they're not going to give you state money to deal with that so let's just be clear about two things the democrats documented was for 330 kids and i believe it's dan's on the line he probably has her right on the tip of his tongue i think it was three or four years out from now so we can't go out and build a facility for 500 children we'll never be reimbursed uh the entire project becomes a liability so that's the reason why we have to fit into the if you will the parameters of the demographer's projected enrollment increase which this project does very very well so um when we were talking about expanding some of our existing middle schools we always looked at expanding our existing middle schools to facilitate about 300 children because there is additional capacity uh at the west side uh uh middle school i believe it was about 80 children to go in there so we're even pushing the envelope with but i feel that by the time uh the audit comes by we'll have those children in our school system and we could easily justify building a 360 c addition to our school system to support uh you know the enrollment projections that's the way school building grants works if every school grant project is justified based on projections uh that i've been i'm doing this for 25 years uh and the reason for that is uh the the state will not allow you to overbuild schools and facilities when you don't really need them because it's a ton of their money that's going into doing that so um sal actually has to sign and swear uh that uh upon his kids and and his puppy and his wife that the democrats work is actually authentic it has not been modified by anybody in the board of education that it is uh supported by very good demographer work and that's what he does in the application process that we have to submit which is coming up the in september so i know that's all right antonio i understand the process i understand the process except the problem is the process when applied in practice is always wrong we do an addition at park avenue we're bumping up against the capacity every year we do an addition at shelter rock we have portables in the parking lot we do additions at west side we have portables at west side we build a freshman academy and it is almost probably too small the day we open it it's always wrong so the question becomes is is this not the time to go back to the state and explain to them guys our eight year projection we keep beating it we keep exceeding it maybe we need to adjust for that a b and i don't know anything about demography believe me i stayed as far away from math and science as humanly possible in schools why i went to law school somebody explained to me how the estimates in this document for the for the career academy are guessing nearing 3 500 students now at the high school and 4 000 students at the high school in 24 2425 that's a 500 student delta and we're only looking at 360 students in the middle school don't they go through the middle school to get to high school or am i off on that maybe maybe i'm not thinking about that the right way no i mean i'd i'd have to spend the entire night to try to explain to you the way these demographers work but yes they do i'll call it buggy on that offline they uh you're gonna have to buy me dinner for that one um they do uh anticipate existing movement within your grades and they anticipate a number of factors now i am going to tell you this danbury is very unique and uh in the state has identified us as a unique uh uh community uh that uh some of the trending and some of the specific uh industry accepted methods for doing demographer work doesn't always pan out for us and they recognize that that's the reason why they've given us a little leeway not a big leeway but a little leeway to go a little higher on the high school numbers okay a little higher on the middle school so the numbers we're talking to you about have already been barely i've already beat them up and i've already pushed them to the limit where they're they're not going any farther uh but but it is and and and look uh the the beauty of it is um some of our growth is just unexplainable uh and and and they're they're intrigued by it uh because it's and and so are the demographers they they just tend to uh to try to figure out where it's coming from how it's coming and how do you model it these demographers all sit back and say how do we model what's going on in danbury this unique community uh how do we model it you know and they can't so i here's what we have we have a nice flush a fluff factor in the demographer's work i've already pushed the state to give us some courtesy on those numbers we got to just keep our fingers crossed that we're gonna we're not gonna exceed these projections because joe one of the worst things for me to do is go through building like i did three three schools put three additions on by the time i get done closing the paperwork with the state we're completely over capacity you have no idea how crazy you go but the only way we can justify the reimbursement is we have to use the demographer's work the firm that sells you is the best in the state yeah okay thank you i just had a suggestion from melissa naydu that maybe we should make a demographer pathway [Laughter] i want nothing to do with that to prepare for the local demand okay um thank you yeah so and joe just to your point like i think we all initially thought too this would you know that we were thinking like 600 right so we totally understand that it's you know we are to antonio's point up against a different you know a different dynamic there in terms of how they how they do things versus you know maybe what our perceived need is i guess so um okay i think um what might be best to do is uh glenn i'm going to just kind of move to where the pathway labs are to start there because those are kind of the specialized areas that i think are interesting talk about the the two specialized areas um and then i'll let glenn kind of take over talking about maybe the blocking and the square foot and square footage and all how all that stuff works so i'm just gonna scoot to um what appears to be page 12 on this document um okay so a lot of the work you know came around when we were talking about which you know which pathways are going to go over here we had to really do some quick uh research uh we had a couple of site visits uh everybody was doing homework trying to understand you know what what is the best equipment and what is the best build for these types of rooms to support uh teaching and learning in a particular pathway so there's a couple of specialized rooms here um so the bio we have a couple of labs so the biomedical pathway has its own lab 24 kids make sure they're sinks um animatage um tables are if you don't know what they are please google that look them up you'll be blown away but our kids will be working with these um this very incredible equipment and it is very state of the art and hopefully that gets passed in the in the package um a human and a sports and human performance lab so think about almost like a physical therapy room where kids are students are learning about um the human body and performance and some rehabilitation and um and wellness and all things related to sort of the physical therapy route therapeutic health service pathway again this was your cna ems ekg and phlebotomy's pathway again another mataj table will be included in that hopefully and that this would be a very clinical looking setting very similar to a hospital-looking setting um i have some pictures and some ideas that we uh shared with with our architect friends here who helped us out just to give some visuals as we were kind of talking through um some things emt pathway this is exciting um when glenn gets glenn do you want to talk about this because this is a great you're doing a great job going through this okay okay okay so at the on the ground floor on the ground floor there'll literally be an ambulance bay where you can pull an ambulance bus in um there's also some simulation equipment so it is a classroom slash um you know um not sure what the word is but literally drive up drive in and you can train right in that room um in sort of a combination combination area so um i have a you know i have a couple of pictures too i can show you at the end but again real life simulation equipment um and things that students do we saw this in in nashville um in some of the you know one of the schools there actually was in one of their their marketing videos it was an ambulance bus in the classroom and all the equipment that the kids were using were as if um you know they were on scene and they were running protocols and it was amazing medical technology and engineering so this sort of brings the engineering side of things to the pathway um and so we'll have a little bit more of a light construction machine shop um equipment in that room some some printing stations for design and so kids could actually students could actually design some of uh you know research problems and find solutions design and then and then build and test um in your environmental and renewable energy pathway this is going to be very exciting um i don't know if you notice the greenhouse in here this is sort of uh this is going to be amazing outdoor class space on top of of the summit so a learning and lecture lab there running water temperature control roof garden aquatic tables really dig into the ecology and the environment up here and do some solar work as well there'll be some storage areas up there and then there's um these are just general design criteria for all the labs that you've seen um hopefully a chance to take a look at some of the curriculum um melissa melissa nedu uh and the group just went to town on really researching and and writing um for these sections so i i can't thank them enough this has been um you know and and we i'd literally make phone calls on the weekends at nights and and people were were going to town writing on this i just want to make sure i can't thank the the group enough um dan donovan missy uh they do so um i'm gonna scoot down to the other labs apologize this is this is a little non-linear um so for the academy of enterprise and economics which is more of the business management leadership side those obviously don't need to look like science-y kind of labs but we want to make really simulation rooms right so very corporate looking a little bit you'll see that we have you know large lcd displays monitors and stations device charging stations investment and pathway design again computer stations in here as well as an led dynamic stock ticker track stock market tracking simulation um software and you know we're in the process of researching a few of those video conferencing capabilities and just the the room in the environment to to simulate um that experience for kids but then you know also the equipment to actually do real work and to understand that work um business and entrepreneurship again some of these are very similar very business-like rooms the global supply chain and logistics so that's kind of a combination of the business but understanding the mechanics behind it um and the systems that make these things work and then an opportunity to build and unmanned aerial drones and to have sort of the work and design space to do that and so again here's the curriculum and the sample courses um there are so i think too there are some because we have to rewrite that there is some inconsistency so if you see something we'll point it out but we have to re reduce some of these areas i just want to point that out that's all cara that's the the formatting stuff yeah but that's okay it's still a draft like we said yeah yeah um media centers capstone coral instrumentation area so um this will house a middle school they will have music programs we'll also have music programs for the high school students as well um it'll have a pretty nice gym um and there's some of the specifications there that are listed out glenn jump in anytime yeah you're almost to where i want to go okay and then uh beyond the gym the cafeteria is uh you know that's one area that i think we still have to do a little more work on um it's a little bit a little bit small but um and then this other stuff here gets into the main office administrative areas and all the blocking do you want me to go down to the blocking or the or the today matrix okay yeah so is as uh um karen the team identified the the pathways the types of rooms and so forth um our team uh looked at each of those uh kind of spaces and and based on the [Music] needs of of the pathway labs or other types of classrooms identified the size and capacity of each of those clubs um you know throughout the uh throughout the program um those are this obviously the specialty types of spaces the classrooms the the core classrooms are pretty much what you would think that they would be in in you know danbury high school or any of the middle schools um the key challenge here is obviously we were dealing with there are dealing with an existing building and and how does how does uh each of these spaces might they fit into um into the program and into into the building so um you know we we kind of uh went through that and and uh based on the square footages identified what could fit in the in the existing um building space and then what spaces would be built on the ground level as new space and in order to do that we did a a blocking diagram and a relationship diagram so that we could understand how things were stacked um on all the floors and uh um you know what that might look like it's very abstract you know to um to to most uh but to to an architect uh it's a great planning tool to to move forward into the next step this of course is a road map that would be given to the design architects um and uh you know this is going to be a great tool for that you know next step in the process um so go ahead then i was going to go ahead yeah no i'm you know i don't know if you want to just is the blocking diagram in here [Music] we we tried to identify all of the all of the different spaces in the building along with the mechanical electrical needs of the of the building um some of the furniture needs um as well and and this is again very abstract but you know there's there's two two larger wings and then the center uh swing that is smaller so identifying what uh what kinds of spaces are going into each of those wings and the adjacencies of of the spaces um and so i think you know overall it's a uh a a great document to get started with the design you know design phase so for the board you know in terms of conceptually um it's a remarkable plan but you know it does change the way we do business um your care allude to graduation requirements in the board's graduation requirements we've up to 25 now so you know um with the core work that has to be done we do have the option we call alternative uh ways of getting credits that we could look at where some courses can apply um to meet them but what the port board needs to we all need to keep in mind in order for given all of our youngsters an opportunity to experience these academies and their um and their particular interest they may have in the pathways they have um we as our band kids our accelerated kids our kids that are getting support um we have a seven period day we probably have to go on eighth period day at the high school to give the alternative for youngsters to be able to take core and then come experience this so you know not only are we building a school but we're building an education platform that is distinctly different that will require different patterns and ways that our kids will matriculate through the curriculum and there is no there is no um leaving youngsters out because this i made a choice as a ninth grade or 10th and now i can't get in there is flexibility uh in this but it is not just the building it's gonna drive um all of the work that we do i know the board members were at the meeting when melissa came that night and kind of talked that through well this is this is what's coming this is what's real and um you've heard us talk about the academies in nashville the people from nashville have been advisers on this for us uh giving us uh the do's and don'ts and um industry standards and ways to go about the business and this team here in danbury focused on equity and access for all kids and with that the design does permit that permits a youngster to enter into ninth grade have some exploratory courses and then make some choices as to what they would like to do um along with their core so uh it's not a um you know once i make a decision i'm out kind of a thing so that's really exciting i don't know cara or melissa do you want to speak to any of that is melissa with us yes i'm here rarely am i given chances to speak because i'm so passionate about um we're holding on to our seats very good um yeah i mean as as dr sale alluded to you know we're talking about an enhancement to a high school curricular experience an enhancement that allows students to see their not only their place in high school but also where they can go after high school there's there's always discussion about um college and that discussion doesn't go away but what we do start discussing with students is when you go to college you're going to college to pursue a career and that decision is just as important as the college you're going to choose to go to so it is our intention with the curricular experiences we are going to build out in all of these pathways and i hope you do get a chance to read through the suggested courses that we can create um it's intentional so that students can experience what it is they see themselves doing in the future and it's through these curricular experiences that they're going to be able to make better decisions for themselves as they enter a post-secondary world whether that includes college or not um whether it includes military or not um the focus of their studies are going to better prepare them to make the decisions that they need to make upon leaving their compulsory school education thank you melissa so just to throw a few you know we were when we were trying to you know looking for rooms and thinking about inspiration you know we started to um come across simulation rooms that were just very exciting um for students that had combinations of clinical areas as well as student desks and meeting areas where a a teacher could see students who are working but also at desks with there's with other students collaborating um we talked a lot about um you know making experiences as authentic as possible so when you offer a course right that we tried to go all the way we we looked at equipment that other places have had uh installed in some of their uh similar type pathways where um so instead of pulling in the actual ambulance bus this is a simulation um area to to train students um some of the again just inspiration for for workspaces and design um we didn't talk a lot about the middle school side of things but um we'll be focusing very much on the design thinking process and and and ways to innovate and um you know when we all participated in the board workshop with the future design folks they took us through a design thinking process they pushed our thinking to start with the problem that we're trying to solve and we started to understand everyone's perspective in that problem so that when we designed a solution um there was empathy built into that solution we we reached a better place there was a connection to to the people we were trying to solve the problem for and that that enhances communication and understanding and deepens thinking really so um the middle school side will really focus in on that design thinking process but we will have uh design labs and maker spaces for kids to explore and to dive deep into their ideation and and ways to think about their learning in ways that they haven't done before so um you know these are just inspirational concepts that we've been tossing around just to give you idea of what kinds of things are on our minds when when we envision sort of the next wave of classrooms um and and kids actually you know getting their hands dirty and working and doing the work and learning through very authentic experiences in areas that actually have jobs uh at the end of that road so i'm gonna zoom out a little bit i'll take my screen share off for a bit and see if anybody has any questions only that i think the board always knew that this was not going to be a separate diploma in high school this was part of just as ace has been for years traditionally a danbury secondary school high school with a danbury high school diploma the same is what happened here the youngsters will not have a a football program a basketball program there they will when they go back to the main school which means we provide transportation um but you know it's all of that will take place um at the main campus if you would so structurally this is danbury west in a lot of ways um where the youngsters would be there and then return to the high school if they wish for other activities um you won't have the same gyms and you won't have the same feels there'll be that's what i think cara is talking about we've got to look at our graduation requirements and in the requirements it talks about alternative ways to achieve that and they could build that plan to achieve those very um accredited courses they need but maybe in a different pathway so all of that happens so just to be clear cara the way this works i think when we when the advice we had from um when we went to the academies is that our kids would have their experience in ninth grade would you talk a little bit about that because i think everybody should hear that sure so all students would come up to danbury high school for their 9th grade course so they're oriented to denbury high school and over the course of that year through next college and career exploration course they are oriented to all of the academies and all of the pathways and so that they would understand um the career trajectory if you will of where certain areas um you know the different stopping points along along a continuum of career paths that lead to different things and provide different opportunities you talk about salary there's a little bit of financial literacy embedded in that course as well so they understand these types of jobs produce these types of incomes but here are also the conditions for these jobs and the type of work that you would do and understanding your needs and wants um as a person and what might be a good fit um coaching students along the way to um not just learn about the careers but also have some opportunities to kind of get their get their feet wet a little bit i'm doing some site visits um having a career fair which is a very big part of this so um folks from all over come in and we you know start to build those partnerships to get kids to people to come in to talk to our kids um so that by the time um that they reach the end of ninth grade so obviously they're taking all their core courses but this is a specialty designed course for ninth graders um and so and we talk about workplace uh work based learning and and and how to how to um how to navigate that environment um but so so the students would select at the end of that year after learning about multiple areas um and visiting all of those sites all of those academies um what would be best suited for them so they get to make that selection and then they apply based on a lottery the lottery's an open lottery students put their maybe first couple of choices down and we would work out a system to do that as equitably as possible um the plan is to support all special education students and students who need esl services in all academies no matter where they are part part of the way to do that is to make sure that we're on an eight period day so that students have opportunity to take both their language services and any special education iep driven needs that they have in addition to these electives that that will enable students to uh reach certification or at least be exposed to several courses in a concentrated area for them to get a real deep dive of an exposure um to areas of interest so um that'll be part of sort of the action planning that we'll have to do is to get to um you know a scheduling system that allows for us to do that we do have some professional development lined up for for this summer that the high school team will engage in as well as the curriculum administrators and that is to learn how to schedule these uh best practice around these schedules we'll be working with the folks again from academies in nashville and then later in the summer we'll be doing more program at programmatic development we really had to jump start that internally with and that's reflected in the document that you see here today and thinking through the courses that students would take in the pathways the trajectories of those courses we have a lot of work to do with the on-roads and off-ramps of of coming into these pathways and what do you do if a student wants to change their mind and um you know how do we create enough flexibility within our graduation requirements so that um students will uh can make a change um without losing ground in in their graduation so you know we have a tremendous amount of work ahead of us uh we have started to put together a four to five year action plan on how to get us there um there's pedagogical shifts that are involved in this that are that go beyond just naming something an academy or pathway really having teachers understand what project-based learning is about um interdisciplinary uh teaching things that teachers have been um asking for for quite a while now you know when common core came out um and the standards kind of drove us into um silos if you will of teaching the english standards and the science standards and the math standards and uh kids learn best when those are intertwined and that they're able to apply those in real life situations so we'll be looking to do some training in that area along with teaming and really bolstering up activities and partnerships that's this is a whole other whole other meeting you know exploring partnerships with our with local communities we've started conversations with some area businesses i had a meeting with neuvons uh i just left elated because the group was so excited to hear that this was coming and you know they wanted me to present to their um their board soon and to get those conversations started because they have a real need for some of the things that we've identified here locally um and so it could be a mutually beneficial uh relationship with that i think uh here the states picked up on this work you guys are doing and are coming here right you want to talk about that uh yes so you know the positioning on this has been you know interesting in the sense that um and i have a meeting coming up uh that i've scheduled because i there's a lot of dots that need to get connected in the state in the state there's a lot of different departments at up at the state department that have seeds of all of this that they're kind of working on right these increased graduation flexibilities um governor lamont has put out a a doctrine on on increasing manufacturing high tech high high-skilled manufacturing which of course doesn't look like it used to you know it's it's computer everything's computer-based right this is not these are not dirty manufacturing floors and they're looking for laborers they're looking for really high-tech uh people to help to um innovate in and and through these manufacturing centers and we just don't have enough skilled labor so um you know governor lamont has some some skin in the game with trying to increase that workforce and um you know they brought in some some groups to help spark some things and then there's then there's just a few other groups at the state department that are all sort of working on this and i'd love to see a string some things together because i think the state will start to move in this direction we could be if if we do this well we could be a flagship in the northeast there's no doubt in my mind um you know this is doing a wall-to-wall academy model is a game changer um and i i it's not just a game changer for the kids but it could be a game changer for the community the community has needs um everyone you know what businesses come with their skilled labor and when there's no skilled labor and it becomes too too expensive to outsource they move to where those locations are and so we have an opportunity to to fill both both needs um here and um you know there's a lot of development on the partnership side and and the community side that we can do but there's a lot of people that are already interested and are very excited so so you know also as you can hear melissa talk about this who's a you know she's in the sciences you have teachers that have been teaching for years and now this is in their real house and you have a whole new excitement on their part too to select some and i think the board and district is going to just realize the impact not only for our kids but the the the enthusiasm from our staff um it just it just it just sends a thrill down my spine to think that we have an opportunity to do this just growing out of a building so melissa and cara and dan and that team that it did i think it's just going to be wonderful all the way around all the way around so i don't know why don't you just keep quiet maybe i'm sure the board has questions i'll open up amy go ahead well i'm as excited as you are it's very exciting but i i have a few well i'll start with just one question and that's you just said kara that ninth graders will all be oriented oriented towards all the pathways and then there's the lottery and 100 did you say how many get in a thousand how many no so there's so so there's about right now each pathway we're anticipating ballpark about 130 kids in each pathway not academy so each of those right gotcha so what happens to those ninth graders uh that you know were uh get exposed to what the pathways were go for the lottery and then they don't get in is it yeah is it a standard college prep program like they yeah so so what what we're talking about it's a good question and what we're talking about here are really um uh strategic electives a grouping of electives so we're where electives could be um you know kind of randomized right well first of all let me back up a little bit and say um if you if you didn't know you may have noticed that there's not like a you know an arts and theater academy or or something like that um we we brought that up we we uh dabbled in that quite a bit and had a lot of conversation around that um the bottom line with arts and theater and music is that that's for all kids right all kids should have opportunities to explore that and to have elective choices in those areas when it comes to selecting electives in an area we're talking about concentration of two or three courses um and and so there's just really a couple of courses that students would actually take to dig into some of this content um and and the real uh the academy and the pathway piece it's really about um you know the field field trips opportunity bringing people in the in the industry in to talk to the kids to get them excited um having um some connections between the classes in an academy about what with what students are doing so if student who's interested in in the healthcare area will have a lot of similar and crossover courses um in in an academy for which you know we're talking about the academy of scientific innovation and medicine there's one two three there's five different pathways in there um and uh and quite a few slots uh to to to work with so even if you didn't get into your uh biomedical pathway there's lots of crossover in the courses between the cna pathway and the uh the ems pathway um that's dead students can take and so you know not every student will get into every pathway their number one choice but if they're in the health academy they should more than likely if that's the area that they're interested in more than likely be able to get into a pathway that that's within the healthcare realm um you know and those are things that amy will continue to work out on the best way to do that there's going to be more demand in some areas than others so year over year we're going to have to reevaluate that so you know right now we have kids that want to go i think dan said there's like 200 applicants for the cna program every year that everybody gets in they take 60 students and and because that's all that we can take um and so you know the goal here is to increase those similar opportunities as much as we can and add and add to that and so certainly as you know once we get to a wall to wall academy model and where we have systems and structures in place we can expand and contract some of those um like i said from year to year based on on need and student interest and then also over a period of multiple years of evaluation say you know okay so do we still want to offer uh an integrated manufacturing pathway you know yes or no and and why you know what's supporting that decision-making process and that would be based on daver data and and statistics and and uh you know local area demand okay thank you you're welcome i actually had a question maybe and forgive me if you already answered this but just like so a student that applies for the lottery right and doesn't get it for that uh ninth grade year or what whenever they would start the academy is it possible that if a vacancy were to open up in their second year of high school or third year of high school for them to re enter the lottery or is there is it kind of are they baked into having to do the full amount of time at the academy to have the experience yeah those are that's a great question and those are i mentioned at the beginning that we're we have a lot of work to do with the on road no if it's too pretty and off ramps right like you know getting in and coming out right and if i want to make a change what's that process look like and how do we do that so it's not so disruptive um but but benefits the student and so those are all like kind of part of the action plan and the training that we'll we'll get into um into the nitty-gritty as we kind of work out the details but we've had some preliminary conversations about those and they're all great questions those are all things that have to be logistically laid out and clear for kids for parents for everybody on on how to do that best cool so so joe that's one of the things even at that if you and i decided to change the courses that we took should also apply to graduation so it doesn't impede them from moving ahead graduation rates and um you know and well we talked about those very questions can they make some other selections and and those things need to be answered as as we go through because the whole point of this is to is to have kids focus in that direction and as a sophomore you know jesus when kids go through college they change their major three times so i did 20s yeah we could reduce that look at that look at the hands going out so doing this would kind of focus them and yeah make make another turn but um you know those are all things that we can would have to work out but um but as long it doesn't impede my worry is always it doesn't impede their graduation may i also just quickly add to the the districts that have moved to towards models that are are the academy model the data actually shows that once kids actually enter an academy they it's rare that they want to move the percentage of students that want to leave the academy once they're in is very small and this is from research across the nation um part of that is due to um the fact that you're in a small engaged community you you actually create community um and once you're there you feel secure and you feel supported and and that's actually what the beauty of the academy model does for very large uh places like danbury high school um and and it creates that um feeling of security so so the data on kids wanting to leave once they're in is very small um and and we have actually thrown around the idea that there may be pathways that we um we have developed based on um local department labor of statistics data that kids might not be interested in right now and so when we looked at some of the pathways that we do have um it's okay in the first few years if you had you know instead of 120 kids per pathway maybe we do end up with 240 kids in a pathway um because it happens to be popular and and that does occur as well and so um and that's like to kara's point that um at the end of every year at the end of every two years you're evaluating your data on what kids are requesting what kids are not um and and that's you know the whole beauty of like improvement science when you start looking at the data on why kids are leaving why kids are are wanting this particular pathway why they do not want this pathway and making um decisions again based in um high demand high economic wage economy how do we keep innovating our own systems to make sure that what kids do want as long as it aligns with um the the ideals of the academy um that they're always continuously being met and so it really this is a this is a model that requires continuous improvement and continuous reevaluation of our systems to make sure that we're actually providing the services to our students that they deserve hey joe go ahead um my question falls somewhere halfway i think in between amy's questions and joe's questions i'd like to thank them for making me think of this question um if we're doing a wall-to-wall pathway program and this is just kind of part of danbury high school how do you do the pathway if you don't physically get into you don't win the lottery and you don't get into the summit how are we wall-to-wall pathway for the kid that may want to do it and like amy said is oriented towards it but didn't get in not just to the pathway but didn't get into the school no um well we have a slide for this well well let me look hold on by the way i love the program this sounds amazing let me see is this okay here's one um okay so disregard all my crazy names like which version so that's just my behavior um this is like version 9050 so this is you know um okay so so the the goal is you know so students so the very first academies that that we'll have obviously are these two here because we're going to develop we're going to we're going to work our tails off to get these other ones up and running so that sure kids have you know a place to you know everybody has a place to go um and hopefully it's within the areas you know at least within the academy it might be you know so so you know if you look at the academy of global enterprise and economics and you're kind of a business-minded kid and you want to you want to do something in that area you're not sure an entrepreneurial and a little bit of the business side any one of these will be it will be an exciting option if you don't get the first one the second one is you know there's a lot of crossover there um so but you know the the trick here too is you know like i said we have to get these up and running the the amount of uh curriculum writing that has to happen you know between now and then um is unbelievable so you know and and it's it's relationships with uh companies who can help support some of this stuff it's training for staff it is making sure that we find teachers with the right certifications or finding ways to support them to get those certifications to give them in the right seats for this and so you know the the bumpy part of this will be that that will have um in the beginning you know not every single one fleshed out in where we want it to be and so over the course of a couple of years we'll get there um but you know that there may be high demand for this in the beginning but then as everything else opens up um you know more more seats are available it's kind of like the lottery now where you know there's only so many seats and then we you know we have to kind of go back to the to the drug war but we're going to try really hard and again this is part of the budgetary process this is part of that you know um supporting supporting the the budget with a model you know with with being able to fund um you know opening up a new site and and allowing us to continue to develop the curriculum and and resources that we need to kind of to get this off the ground no matter what we do even if you just opened up a plain old high school 1400 kids we have we've got a lot of work to do right so i don't know if i asked a question right what do we do if there's a kid who's who does this or knows the orientation to these pathways is that every danbury high school student or only the students that win the lottery yeah explain in ninth grade oh i'm sorry i'm sorry okay so like i said we're going to try really hard to get all of these pathways one way or another there'll be a place for every student to go okay so i don't want you so every student will every so so we may have to double up on the on this pathway here joe to get to get a slot for for all the students but but we'll get there so every student comes up to ninth grade like 950 freshmen or so we'll have their foundational courses their typical courses they'll take their pe we'll try to get some of those uh core classes out of the way um they'll have their college and career course and um at the end of that they will select um a couple of these pathways you know that they're interested in and then we will develop a process for the lottery process and students will be notified and then so if you're a 10th grader and you get in here that means that you're taking the bus over to the summit location for your classes at the end of the day if you play sports you're in the theater program after school you you take the bus back to the to denbury high school you come back to high school so is the anticipation that all the freshmen are at the high school and the career academy is 10 11 12 correct okay i wasn't i thank you that actually i kind of yeah and i kind of glossed over a lot of that piece because i didn't want to i was afraid that you know uh you know this is about the technical specifications of the building and i went when i went to high school it was 10 11 12 so i'm actually used to that so okay yep so same idea then same idea and they make deflections so these are all kind of not quite upper academies but 10 11 12.
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go okay i see that we're live now thank you so much thank you uh before we go ahead and start our meeting i'm gonna go ahead and have mr de body explain the translation options mr debody can you please let us know what the options are thank you okay okay thank you mr body now i'm going to go ahead and call the meeting to order at 6 33 maribel can you help us with the roll call today is a special board meeting of march 30th 2021 at 6 30 pm members of the board in attendance president corinare president vice president andres quintero president clerk i think he's running a little late member linda chavez present member min pham president members of administration superintendent dr bauer present thank you maribel now if you can all join me in uh doing the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the united states of america to the republicans for which it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you and uh before we move on to agenda item number two i just would like to open today's meeting in honor of cesar chavez who tomorrow will be honoring his holiday um many of us are blessed to have that day off but regardless i know that our uh district as a whole we used to do a big march our children would gather um and i don't know when we'll get back to that but i do want to honor um his uh day coming up tomorrow um and i want to open up in his honor now i'm going to go ahead and move on to item 2.
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you we have three we were afraid we weren't gonna have a quorum um [Laughter] no um that's a great question cif gives us passes for board members so that you can attend all um it doesn't apply for playoffs that lead you in even a guest is caitlin there give it one more minute are we live hey tom this is phil do you hear us you just muted there you go hello tom can you hear us hey tom can you hear us i can can you hear me all right we do hear you thank you very much caitlyn never made connection whenever you're ready of the chico unified school district board of education and before we begin tonight i'd like to say a few words and ask for a moment of silence because the chico unified school district has lost another life recently the school site the district and our larger chico community are working to prevent other such tragedies while also continuing to mourn we all are deeply saddened by the tremendous losses our school community has suffered this year while there are no words to fill such a deep void i would ask the community to join me in a moment of silence to celebrate the lives of the students and staff we have lost and please keep their friends and family close at heart thank you and now if you'll stand for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all this evening's meeting is a short one with just two items on the agenda it's kind of paperwork to meet timelines for the state of california and our first item is the approval of our compliance items for absb 86 and it entails a number of different actions that have been taken and tonight mr hanlon will be explaining what we've done and what the board will be approving okay thank you madam president approximately two weeks ago absb-86 was approved by the legislature and signed by the governor and it provided for almost 12 million dollars in funding for chico unified school district to be used for opening schools or keeping schools open for things like staffing cleaning sanitization training supplies social distancing costs mental health support tutorial support and other things along those lines so we've gotten as has been typical throughout the pandemic from the state we've gotten mixed messages on what needs to be approved and what doesn't we have been told specifically that the items that we're bringing forward to you needed to be approved by april 1st and consequently we've been told that all we need to do is apply for the fund so in an abundance of caution we're bringing this to you to make sure that there is no we're dotting our eyes and crossing our tees to make absolutely sure by april 1st all the things that have been on the list that are required are approved by the board so that we have access because 12 million dollars is a lot of money so we bring before you the 2021 chico school district plan to reopen schools um also we've included the mou for was for cuta for both the traditional learning model but also the am pm which we currently are operating under and then also the cesea mou for the am pm model that we are currently operating under additionally we're also bringing to you the covid 19 prevention program safety plan for the district office the corporation yard and all 19 school sites all those plans are posted on um the websites at each of the school sites but also the district website as well um matter of fact all these items are so i'm bringing these forward we're bringing these forward to the board for approval to meet the april first deadline any questions board members does anyone have a question mr landau or caitlin either of you have questions on what we're about to approve i see nods know that's next yeah it we do have one we have someone who has indicated they'd like to have public comment before the board takes action so as we mentioned earlier mr shepherd was unable to be with us this evening and so i'd like to thank phil morgan for working the phone this evening and if we're ready he can go ahead and call our speaker thank you mr morgan i'm contacting addison franks a chief unified school district student is are you prepared to address the board i'm going to put you on the speakers um okay addison had indicated that that was for next week's meeting that she would like to send in the speaker card so she will have that read and put it for next week great thank you thank you phil okay board do we have anyone who'd like to initiate an action on this item dr kaiser i'd like to move the passage of the approval of the compliance items for absb-86 funding thank you do i have a second second thank you mr tennis board members on online on zoom do either of you have any additional information questions okay okay um i'd like to call for the vote and let's make this a by name vote lando lando i caitlin caitlin dalby aye dr kaiser dr kaiser eye mr tennis tennis i robinson i thank you board that's unanimous our next item is um also along the same line it's the um certification that we're going to spend the compliance certification that we're going to spend the remaining funds that have to be spent by i'll turn it over to mr baltimore because i suddenly can't find the date certainly not a problem so this agenda item is also brought to you in an abundance of caution as jim mentioned ab 86 was really passed on march 4th a day after our last board meeting and one of the provisions in the language extended the date in which the original coronavirus relief funds known as the crf funds those are the dollars that we used at the beginning of this year extended the deadline which had to be spent from march 1st of 2021 to may 31st of 2021 but we did need to certify that we would be in compliance with the funding we didn't know what that meant at the time so we actually created a certification forum for the board and we're asking you to take action this evening we report our quarterly expenditure of these dollars and so we will certify in that quarterly reporting mechanism that we are in compliance so again this is an abundant of caution we would have it on file in case the auditors actually asked for this document so kevin uh it says that the title was certified the expenditures by march 31st of this year on the paper may 31st so we have not so exactly we have not uh sent in the quarterly reporting for march 31st oh so we are telling you as a board that we will in fact spent the remaining balance of 294 000 as of december 30th we will have spent those by march 31st now again the deadline was extended to may 30th and for the board's comfort we can bring you back that final quarterly report from march 31st to show you that we have in fact spent all the funds and have certified compliance but again in an abundance of caution we're asking the board to go through a certification and then sign the document so we have it available for auditors so actually if the final remainder has to be spent by may 30th correct okay okay my indication is we have no request for public comment so is there any additional questions by any of the board members do i have a motion i move the passage of the 2.2.1 certification of expenditures uh current by march 31st and then the remainder by may 30th 2021.
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so the bond fund i really wanted to bring up the bond fund so we have two bond funds right now fund 631 is associated with the 2015 bond authorization from the election and is associated with the new 2019 authorization the only point i wanted to make here is you can see that the remaining balance as of the end of february is 1.1 million dollars in fund which is the 2015 authorization and fund 630.
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so um prior to 2016 we had probably between 100 and 110 employees and we moved that down and i think i have 23 and a half now and so we we share positions such as deaf and hard of hearing so for example msd may only have eight or nine kids for that have a hearing loss so it we pool our money with the other corporations and as a result we might have 30 kids that have a hearing loss and we can hire one teacher to service all 30 kids instead of each of you having to hire one teacher to serve a few number of students same thing with equipment by law we have to provide otpt speech services and especially our pt there's a lot of equipment that's associated with that so we share some of those costs and so for example i think we have at south well what started at southwood we had a student that needed what we call a standard which is a contraption if you will that once you the physical therapist puts you in it you you stand and we were able to purchase a piece of equipment that takes the student from a seated position to a standing position without leaving a share in essence and that run that was like six thousand dollars and so once that student outgrows that that particular piece of equipment will be able to pass that on to another student to use um so that's another benefit and then part b monies and all the reporting that goes with it each corporation gets an amount from the federal government for special education and that all right now comes to our office and goes through us and that's what we pay these services out of so there are all like a lot of federal grants a lot of strings maybe strings are not the right word but there are a lot of limitations and restrictions on how that money is used so we take care of that services again um otpt speech school psychologists we do programming for blind low vision and deaf and hard of hearing um who else that's the majority of that um and then resources and networking are big in my world we have lots of questions and the answers um are might be found by talking to other directors and that sort of thing because they're just unique they're unique questions unique situations and um the laws apply somewhat uniquely somewhat differently to each unique situation so um we find that helpful experiences we had this year an experience in another corporation where a due process hearing request was filed which in essence is a lawsuit against that particular school system um now that we've gone through that experience we know what to expect and i we have that opportunity that knowledge that we can share with our other corporations so that i think is very helpful and beneficial and then we do a lot of training for our special ed teachers and even our some of our gen ed teachers have participated in some of our training for example for autism so those are all helpful we are operating under what's called a joint service agreement joint service and supply agreement and that's the agreement that the five corporations have come together and the returning board members have seen that before and um signed different changes that we have made to that it is um kind of a general agreement it's not very specific and it's intended to be that way so we can apply it to lots of situations we serve the following corporations and you can see that list it totals to be 22 school buildings that we work in um and you know we travel we travel a lot we figure peru to manchester that's about a 45-minute drive we try not to do that on a regular basis we try to make sure we're a little corporation each day but sometimes it doesn't work out that we can do that and then we service mammals st ease whites whites has expanded it has some campus rose academy and so we provide services to that particular program apartment health and rehabilitation is a nursing home for medically fragile children that sits within wabash city's district and so we have a classroom there that we also provide supports in before we go on you notice that she likes to play with the different colors and nobody really cares about colors necessarily but uh you can see the significance i'm just joking here the significance of the different colors and things like that so um very good so it used to be what was the the logo was just like french and yellow orange and yellow was it and so they redid the logo to kind of go along with all the different school colors so try really hard to include everybody yeah so that's why it's like that and of course you saw that at the very beginning on the first slide maybe you'll be on the last one too so we are governed by the five super we yes we the cooperative five superintendents they make up for our governing board and then under underneath that they hire me to be the director of special education to oversee daily operations and staff and you can see we have two and a half office staff and 21 professional staff that we we work with and then um msc wabash county serves as our lea our local education agency and as a board we bring hires to you we bring recommendations you approve our budgets and signatures etc after it's been approved by the governing board we have to have an entity to do that and so and that is outlined in our jss agreement every year we do two special education counts december 1 and april 1 and then december so our december 1 of count for our entire entire cooperative was 1316 students with disabilities that is the umbrella that we have that is down by about 50 students from the last december and i think we can attribute a lot of that to covid and parents not pursuing preschool evaluations and white says that they've won the cart program now we have more competition if you will or msd has more competition with the virtual programming so msd's count was 350 students which makes up approximately 27 of the students and families that the cooperative serves so about a third of our msd students some services that we provide identifying students with disabilities we have school psychologists that are trained to do that right now as of right now you have to have an ed specialist degree in order to be a school psychologist so there's a lot of training involved in that we offer therapy occupational therapy physical therapy speech therapy um we actually have two speech therapists instead of one that's my error for msc um myself or my assistant director support can support state um case conferences so we've had some challenging conferences in the past where parents are upset with schools um and and so we go in and try to work through those situations with and come to a resolution for both the school and the parent we support programming for students it's not uncommon for mr snyder to say hey i need help with this how do you think we should go about this my level of health is so high so i do a lot of consulting with that and i really try to empower our principals to handle those situations when possible we do observations about 20 percent of our students that we serve have some type of behavior issue and so we spend a lot of time brainstorming we go and serve we try to come up with suggestions strategies etc um and then like i said make recommendations on how to um how to support kids we support special education teachers they send a lot of emails to keep teachers informed of updates and law updates and our iep system updates in changes in state expectations i know that shocks you but that happens um pretty regularly so um and then we offer training and this year the training has been virtual which the one nice thing about that is teachers can go back and watch that again if they forget so that's been helpful we support administrators you know again if you have a disciplined question i get those i get programming questions staffing questions we're gearing up um i think there are uh five or six openings in special education already for the 21 22 school year and so i've been talking about how to recruit for this particular area um and then support for our reporting um december one and april one the december one is a big deal because there's a lot of money tied to that particular count and then applying and utilizing our party knife so what kind of questions do you have for me tonight if he any of answered one that i had going in the end was the percentages on the whole versus the student population increasing and decreasing you said this year went down but for the most part we're able to diagnose more kids more problems or are there more problems out there like you mentioned 20 was of the students you work with behavioral issues yeah whatever direction things are going i think it's been pretty stable as far as the number of students that have been identified what's changed is the programming that's offered so when when carr came on board that was a huge jump in our special education numbers because typically those those students have challenges in the school setting and so they're looking for an alternate um type of learning environment so we saw a big jump with when that program was introduced but i would say in general it's been pretty consistent how do you work with the car students when you're not in direct contact as much as you could be in a school setting so it's more consultative in nature a lot of that is um checking in with them and helping them get started with with assignments checking in and making sure they can ask for clarification and they have the skills those resources so we might give them what i call a communication tool box and here are six questions if you get stuck one of these six questions likely will apply you know and how do you use those six questions um and then it's just checking in with that and staying on top of it a lot of those students struggle with attention deficit disorder adhd i did i started a file review before coded and the first five kids i reviewed all had some type of adhd mentioned in in their their records so by a thousand i mean i go back and i start from the beginning and review all of their records so trying to be better at recognizing those struggles and how to address them but it again is they may not know where to start or they may not know how to take break a task down and so it's working through through that with them maybe virtually um when we check in to assess those then completing their tests does that make sense yeah i guess it i'm just thinking mr would be a little bit more difficult though because you'd hate to see that kid the student become isolated that has the need for interaction you know they can fall through the crack easier i guess right and the other piece to that is there's usually a reason why they're not being able to function in a public school and um are we addressing those skill deficits in in the event they want to return to public school so many students don't even have the option at the time because they are actually expelled from school so this gives them another opportunity it's not you know it's not face-to-face and we would prefer face-to-face but it does give them an opportunity to continue on with their education how's it how early in like elementary do you start diagnosing this so i mean i know what this some disabilities are i guess i look like categorize a disability as differently i guess so that's why so under federal law we have some responsibilities to preschool students age three they are transitioning from a government a governor program called first steps and then those are the ones that have been identified maybe at work through age two and then we start providing services it depends on the eligibility area my bias is if there's any doubt that we err on the side of not making them eligible for us um as a student with a disability because um in general everybody lowers expectations for those students and so i hate lowering those expectations unless we have the data that clearly supports that if we're looking at a specific learning disability we're usually looking at the end of second grade beginning at third grade before we do an evaluation for that but if we have a physical issue or um you know we have believe it or not we have some personality conflicts between teachers and students and you know we try to sort all of that out and use data um to make those placement decisions but the majority of our students are probably identified by grade four or five i would think okay well i can just i can see you know some benefits of the you know our three-year-olds coming into these buildings because you know there might be you know chances of being able to you know to limit you know some of these that are going to you've got two more years at home that some of those things develop even worse um there might be a next chance to tear it back the other way as well closing that gap yes closing that cap and tim and i have actually had a lot of conversations recently about the percentage of our students that are on free and reduced lunch they're related high with our special education students and so are we addressing those those culture issues because they don't have the same level of supports as they come to us and and i'm excited about the opportunity for our typical for our students with disabilities at the preschool level to go into our typical preschools next year and for a three-year-old classroom in a four-year-old classroom because i think keeping our expectations high for that level of students helps us close that gap i appreciate you hearing that you don't want to label too quickly early on because there's a lot of factors playing into that child's life yes there's a lot of great kids out there that just get pushed down yeah we jay and i just worked on a case that um the students with a particular eligibility with mom and has moved to be with dad now and that has done very very well in that setting so is he is he really truly a student with a disability we're going to do a re-evaluation just to see i'd like to be able to celebrate more i don't want this to be this eligibility area this disability area to be something that they're tagged with for life some kids might end up having struggles for their for their entire life but if we can if we can celebrate and have a nice little party when they can accept that i think that's pretty cool all right for no other questions thank you mrs again for the overview and all that so i will add that from the financial standpoint another benefit is the fact that we started doing the medicaid claim which allows the school courts to receive some federal dollars and i just totaled that today and as a cooperative we've received 114 just over 000 through medicaid billing this year so obviously we have that since july first change in the law or we just haven't really done that we haven't really taken advantage of that in past years for whatever reason but we started doing that last year with the help of the area program and their staff and senator jose actually has a bill that he's authored to increase some of that looking at other states and how much money schools are getting for that so it'll be interesting to see how that that goes to it so all right thanks again we won't do the public comments and we'll again on to the consent agenda items the approval of the minutes from our last meeting we'll send in a second to approve the minutes from our last meeting all in favor say aye folks please motion approved it's payroll a little higher than normal again because eca is in the end of this four seasons not terribly much the higher section emotion in a second to approve payroll financial summary this just lays out the cash flow then for education fund operations fund for january and february actuals not much has changed as far as my statements down there at the bottom from what we went over again a lot of it's just based off of trends it explains you what the revenue actually reflects and so we should know by next for our april 15th basic grant what our reconciliation will be from our new adm count so that would show an increase then at that point for the months of april may and june and then by the end of this month i have to submit an estimate count for adm and what we think it would be this fall and that's what the money will be tied to starting in july through the next adm and so be working on some of those types of things as we prepare and update this as new information arises and so that lays out both the education fund and operation fund i know that property tax revenue flows in there on the operations towards the end of the year really bumps it up but on a year-to-year thing that it looks like a pretty good increase over 2020 then you're projected 21 then yeah on the operation side too for the and for the for the end amount yeah yeah and a lot of that is because we haven't had to transfer all that money out and put it into the self-insurance that's the big chunk of it so i'm sure we're doing it yeah i mean we're doing over a million dollars each year out of that fund just just for that and it's done so that's all i have okay um and we'd like to introduce tiffany okay hopefully those separately yeah all right um under hr uh the first one we're gonna do is under employment tiffany flora assistant director of special education for wmap effective july 21st mrs higgins speed today yes i we are am to have her um come on board with us she brings wealth of knowledge and um teaching experience she's taught from her school through high school she's worked with students with emotional disabilities i would say that's been the primary focus of your teaching career so working with kids that struggle with behavior issues which is usually by the time i get involved we're working on those big time um she has recently completed her the educational neuroscience um certification through butler university and so that is how you're bringing it it acts and reacts in situations and it really helps us understand um those those kids with challenging leaders not just special education students but any student that's been through a trauma that really works um for those so um i'm excited to bring her on board and have her um help us and see what her lens is of special education as we continue to move forward and improve the services that we offer our schools so all right thank you also under employment we have cody schumann the volunteer trap shooting coach at northville and southwood and under resignation sarah rank special head t-shirt southwood elementary effective at the end of the school year and that is human resources personnel i moved to the site thanks for coming tim her husband they uh i told her that they could sit together but they said his first school board meeting ever okay maybe they're arguing well you don't have to stay anymore that'll help with the argument okay under uh reports heartland career center you have one horse yes uh from the last meeting we approved some fundraisers for the kids going to the state competition national competition harlan will host the ymca day they do that every year it'll be in june for kids we gave them permission to have ivy tech have a adult cnc training our instructor right now is taking that class right now but that'll be from may 17th to september 22nd i think that's a 2700 cost for people to be into that and then they talked about the amount of kids wanting to come to hartford next year and at this point there's almost 800 kids wanting to go to work uh 773 and that's almost 100 more than last year it never stays that high but that's remarkable hopefully they find room for all of them yes yes that's right all right superintendent's department yeah i just have a couple things i put on the screen though um actually every day starting in that was november 30th mr drake actually would give me and also dr kuhn information as far as the quarantine list and so we continue to do that and you can see uh unfortunately we we were not doing this prior because in uh in november mr snyder can remember some of those those days yeah but anyway i just wanted to show that i haven't shown you this i don't think before but i enter the data that he gives me and it goes into this uh little graph but we're still about the same situation what we were all the way at the beginning of february we did have one positive case first time in quite a while that actually jumped it up a little bit there in the middle of march but again this includes students that are close contacts and quarantine because of a home situation or if they have code like symptoms or they're actually close contacts because of a school situation that typically all those other ones prior to the little increase there was more about things that were at home or at uh code-like symptoms so that's still trending well if you were here earlier at 5 30 you didn't have to be at 5 30 but we did have the governor on and we thought maybe there would be some changes but for school there are no changes as far as schools as far as the restrictions through the rest of the school year and also we are continuing to be a blue county so that means that we can't have 100 percent capacity in our activities 250 people at different events if it's off off-site but also they still have the restrictions of mass and social distances as much as possible and we are continuing with having like mr schneider said concerts programs uh field trips athletics um and those continue to happen so we appreciate uh everybody working hard to get the trend to go down so that's one thing i want to mention and also i'm gonna tag team here a little bit with mr drake but just to let you know i'll let mr drake start with this as far as sharing a little bit about our cares dollars cares actually stands for coronavirus aid relief and economic security act but along those lines it's also under the that umbrella is esser and we all know all these acronyms and all these letters but it's elementary and secondary school emergency relief act and so we have sr1 i don't know what happened there we had s or one um and then we will be getting s or two and sr2 will actually we've had the principles go through an activity to give us some different ideas as far as 20 of it needs to be used to make sure that we are having students what's the best word to use um actually just not necessarily remediated but being able to accelerate there we go accelerate their learning and then we have other ideas and we also talk to our discussions team today our teacher association before this meeting concerning letting the teachers give ideas to the principles and i will share that tomorrow the admin meeting principles that are here to get more ideas so i'll let mr drake then talk a little bit more about that as far as cares and what we did the first first section there so the first round that we received was a little over 180 thousand dollars it comes with strings just like all the other grants typically do and we allocated about 60 000 out of 180 to pay for ppe um cleaning devices cleaning hand sanitizer i mean all the stuff there all that cleaning even though we had a lot of it donated so the remaining 120 about 100 of that then we paid to our teachers to create virtual instruction we felt like by creating that incentive so teachers that wanted to do it could do it rather than forcing everybody to do it um it's funny how even the local schools have all chosen different strategies to do that um wabash did a little different than manchester and we did it different still but we worked really hard to not burden all of our teachers with virtual knowing they'd be so busy with quarantining and all that other stuff and so i'm very pleased with how that turned out um but about a hundred thousand dollars of that then went to the teachers to help pay for um for their stipends for their time above and beyond to teach those things and so like mr keyfavor said we have some ideas about this next round of funding um again accelerate learning [Music] and i don't know when you're going to bring up the summer school is this an appropriate time to talk about that there's that later we can talk about it later in the new business yeah and so one of the ideas you'll hear about in a little bit is uh we're going to really put our summer school program on steroids for our elementary kids most of our data internally is showing that they were probably the hardest hit as far as instruction and being challenged by last spring and even some of the ones that have been virtual this fall and so so we've got a strategy for that and i'm working with principals we really are trying to let principals make a lot of the suggestions because they know their teachers and their students so much better and some buildings have some needs that other buildings don't and rather than making one size fits all and so we'll be bringing more of those to you when we get some of those finalized but we'll have we'll be getting discussions probably in the next couple of weeks over strategies and where to best put those monies but again they come with strings uh they have to be spent by a certain amount of time you can't carry some things over and so this makes it more uh time-sensitive to make some of those decisions if we receive the information the application soon which they keep on telling us that but they said that two or three weeks now we'd like to bring a lot of that to you the april 27th meeting that we have that that may not happen if we don't if it's not released yet but that's kind of our goal to get things going so and then i'll go ahead and let you take over to your report too and what i have on the screen for you yeah thank you and so before i jump into this uh the um i want to just reiterate we've had several kids return from virtual school we are working to bring others back that are not doing quite as well as i think everybody their families hoped they would do on the virtual freedom that they had and so we're working very hard again to i think that makes us unique in the area um where mr key favor and that you guys approved where we're going to require medical license or medical notes to come to the virtual program and so um i know it might slip your mind but i can tell you it's a daily fight for our assistant principals and our principals and our teachers and myself and mr key favorite we work really hard to try to get those kids back in the building and almost all of them i think would agree that their kids will do better in the building they just have different reasons as to why that shouldn't happen for that particular story so so anyway i just want to make aware of that um i feel like this is the drama i meet pretty often um and there's a reason for that i feel like if you were just to catch some of the media put out by the department of education or by other schools around us um you can just hear how great dual credits are and so there's a report and the department of education sent it out to the entire state um and i wanted to highlight a couple of things so that you would be aware i've shared it with principals i'll probably try to share it with teachers we are certainly in the state of indiana leaps and bounds leading the country and handing out dual credits to high school kids and the state of indiana is incredibly proud of that um i think that i would argue that there's you need to take that with a grain of salt and i chose some of the data that's in their very report that they sent out to show that to you the left graph let me pull it up oh look at that look at that man again this is i didn't create these graphs these are copied straight out and in your reports i gave you a reference to find that information so that if you wanted to verify it or read more into it you could you'll see there that all the kids that dual credit in the state of indiana that are successful are there in the second bar graph 45 we're handing out hundreds of thousands of hours of college credit and the return on that is a 45 success rate is that bad yes well compared to neither that's twice as good oh that's true there you go that's oh how do you know we'll have to grab that's a good point mr driscoll you're right compared to not get any they're doing much better aren't they yes that is excellent but i see that as an over 50 failure rate over half the kids that get just dual credit are not meeting the success criteria and so then you can see the ap even the ap and dual is only at 74 i don't see that as being very successful either that is a lot of money those families are putting into college right i mean we all know that colleges are cheap and so they are sending their kids to college and even at the ap dual we're only at 74 percent sexual success rates um and so if you scroll down there i try to make the point that those dual credit people feel like they're saving money on the front end because they're getting to save all of those hours at college but on the back end i would question whether all of them are seeing the return on that investment for sure some of them are right uh 45 of them are but 55 are not and so that is why we work really hard to push kids into ap classes we need that rigor you need some of that challenge to do that because there is no accountability with dual credit um and the state is trying to make that better and so again maybe i should have stressed at the beginning this is that four-year college student the ones that we're sending off to iu and purdue and taylor and goshen andy wesley and iuk manchester all those places like the reason we send them there with college credits is so that they're successful and i feel like they are i feel like our students are but i just want to point out that the state is telling you how great your credits are and yet their own data is showing it's not quite as great but it's still good i don't know that i haven't seen that i would 45 i was looking at you know my kid graduated three and a half years why he carried 18 credits he absolutely did not take an ap class absolutely but he was in the same class as the ap kids and had he failed that ap test he would not have those credits so he did not he took it as a dual credit not ap and that is a great point i will tell you that not all dual credit classes are created the same well i'll agree with that but yeah i don't think we should diss too much on the dual credit well the fact that they're not created the same is where the accountability comes in and i would say that we work really hard to make sure our dual credits are rigorous um again there's no way for that accountability to show up because it's different for each school and that's the thing too it's not like it's for everybody and absolutely and obviously it does you know there's there's a lot of stories there's a lot of great stories like that but there are stories that you've seen that we've put grass to show um their gpas when they go to school um and and we've done ours that was very successful there's other schools around us have been successful all also but there's been other schools that maybe had way too many um and not everybody needs to you know i mean they're just pushing them down a little bit further than what they need to be so and that is kind of the second graph there they don't speculate as to what the challenge is for college and i think there's a lot of reasons behind it um i think some of that is we have a lot of people that don't have college experience behind them and so their first year kids going to college and that's just a whole new world so there's a lot of explanations behind it but this one again this is straight from their report according to their report the class of 2018 that just graduated two years ago 14 of those kids that got dual credits earned them as freshmen and so i would make the case that a freshman is a 14 year old 15 year old kid and we're giving them we're telling them that they are learning something at a collegiate level right the thinking and the reason that goes involved with that and we're saying hey this is going to get you out of whatever class but then when they go to college they don't necessarily have that skill we work really hard at msd not to do that but it is certainly licensed by the state um and actually it's encouraged and i if you scroll down just a little bit northfield high school enrolled a student as a freshman who came in with dual credits as an 8th grader that student happened to actually flunk a core science class but they earned dual credits and so i feel like that fits into this idea that not all dual credits have accountability right and so certainly some of them are worthwhile and i i hope i hope my message isn't to say that dual credits are bad um i think that it needs to be taken into account like a buffet along with other rigorous courses so i just want to put that out there because the department of education sent that out to the entire state the dual credits have their place but balancing them out with challenging classes that aren't just trying to get you the credit i feel like that's the message i'd like to send with that so a question now the teachers that teach the dual credit don't they have to be licensed by the university or whatever it gives them that credit yeah that's a great point the indiana commission on higher education works with colleges and they have tried to put that on the teachers in this area um but they have until it was until 2022 three now and they keep pushing it back and so currently you do not currently and prior to this time um you just had to sign up to teach it um and so they're trying to make it that case and so it was supposed to be by the end of next year and now they've bumped it to another year and so like i'm teaching dual credit through iu um i view it and all the colleges there's lots of money for this and so they're paying for my classes i don't get to take like a credit to earn master's but they're paying to credential me to teach dual credit because college is it's an income source for them as well right to get those kids to buy into their programs and so um so it's coming that idea of teacher the accountability the accountability being on the teacher to make sure they're trained to teach that but as it stands now that is not necessarily a requirement our cooperation with notre dame how's that working with this uh uh again with the ap tip stuff and mr schneider might he's been more involved in some of those conversations um the teachers that participated in it absolutely loved it we had some teachers that looked at the time frame of the commitment that it took and some of them were a little hesitant to get involved because it's an extra it's quite a bit of time but we saw great results in biology and in some of the english classes as well and so unfortunately this is the second year so our partnership ends but we are looking to continue as an affiliate school and that will give us some of the perks of the program but not quite all of the um cash incentives i think that comes with that i don't know miss cider diet coverage i have some teachers that want to continue and some it was a ton of extra work and they kind of want to break from it yeah yeah for sure teaching teaching things at a rigorous level requires us all that time right and so um but we i loved it and the teachers are just we are as a district we're going to fund that for another year okay yeah yeah we we are yeah we're encouraging it but we don't force it because if you do that the attitude well finding finding certified teachers that have their master's in math in math to teach math and then forcing them to do things that they and over their summers like yeah you guys get the pictures funding and finding those teachers is hard enough and so just so i have an accurate information base dual credit is not accepted everywhere yet right so that's one thing that's never really been taught when certain places market this early college thing to the hill absolutely you uh we always advise our students looking to take dual credits to check with the colleges they're looking to go for because those colleges will tell you exactly what they will and will not take and unfortunately and that's not part of my concern with the dual credit is depends on what the course is if it's a hard science man be careful might don't correct me if i'm wrong i'll just use my own as an example because i did a lot of research because my kids didn't want to go way off to college and of course we wanted to save money and all that maddy finished she's finishing her rn degree bachelor's degree in three years but none of the dual credits that she had from northfield could be core classes for instance they had to be they they allowed her to use them as electives which is good which is all right because that still saves you some money right the other thing is gpa this is the part that gets people that they don't understand so you you get these kids 15 to 20 credits in high school but if you didn't take them at that college they'll give you the credit save you the money but they won't give you the gpa which is important because these lower level classes some of your scholarships like your academic scholarships that most of our kids get are tied to maintaining a certain gpa in college to keep getting that scholarship every year but these lower level classes if you don't take them at the college that doesn't count your gpa so if you take a harder class and you don't do so well you not have nothing to balance that gpa i had my kids because of that we had tons of conversations i knew like maddie won the good huntington we lived fairly close to it she just went to huntington to take her classes because that's where she wanted to go now that's not very good i don't know where anybody wants to go to college but i have a building up for gpa like instead of going to heart one half a day or doing other things half a day i had to go to northfield in the morning and then drive huntington take them on campus so they're building that gpa for their next year if that makes sense you can jump in there if i'm saying anything no that's exactly that we really try to push kids to go to college that's what people don't understand you get a bunch of these credits and then your kids all of a sudden they're starting college at like a sophomore or junior level because they accept all the credits then if they bomb one that's what affects that success rate that's can depending on the student yeah and it's certainly again it does depend heavily on the students some kids can handle it earlier and some kids can handle different things so so that's it that's that's where we came from moving on to new business we have a recommendation to approve the extended field trip for sharp creek elementary fifth grade to the indianapolis children's museum on april 16th this year so the second motion and second to approve the field trip to sharp creek for our four shark creek the children's museum also high all right recommendation to approve the 2021 schools the summer school offerings sure because you used to uh we kind of handed that off now i've done the summer school stuff for about 10 11 years now so i am um handing that responsibility off uh to a couple of our admin that are so graciously willing to do that uh mrs moore will be heading our elementary programs and mrs boone will be heading our secondary programs and so we've been pretty uh consistent with how we've operated our summer school over the past 10 years and we will continue to do those things with a few extensions of programs due to the fact that we are receiving some federal dollars that will allow us to cover those costs for those of you that are new uh summer school the state allocates so much money for summer school that schools can apply for reimbursement for but there are certain strains that are attached to that you have to have so many kids uh uh so many courses and courses have to meet certain standards and so forth to seek that reimbursement and when we do receive that reimbursement because of so many schools that apply for it we don't ever get fully reimbursed for that either so we will still continue to seek reimbursement i will still continue to handle all of the financial and budgeting aspects of it the reporting aspects of it and so forth mrs boone and mrs moore will be handling more the day-to-day curriculum and staffing type of situations that we run into during the summer and so with that being said typically for an elementary summer school option we've focused on our partnership with the ymca for spark and we've also done our own remediation for those students that did not pass the irene test in third grade so we're still going to continue those things with an option to extend summer school not just to those typical students but for all students in grades k-6 that would benefit from this opportunity and we would extend that summer programming typically our summer program was maybe only a couple months long excuse me a couple weeks long we're going to extend this out for the entire month of june as far as that opportunity is concerned uh for two to three hours a day uh in our buildings and so if we have hopefully enough students uh to offer programming at both metro north and southwood elementary to cover grades k through six whether that's through extended learning opportunities through ireed remediation or through our partnership with the summer spark program with the ymca we will offer those opportunities then for our elementary students along with a more experiential opportunity some of you may be familiar with the old science and motion programming that we used to have we would like to start bringing some of those experiences back uh we changed the name of it a little bit to minds in action so not much of a big difference there but we just kind of wanted to start that type of opportunity again for our students and so this is kind of the first phase of that and so we are being selective as far as the grades that are involved in that and we'll allow that opportunity then for both metro north and southwood and sharp creek students to participate in on the secondary side reimbursement was always tied to credits we will continue to offer a couple different opportunities for students to earn credits one is through indiana online academy and then the other is through our own edmentum programming um that we offer now for our students and so uh india online academy is kind of a separate entity and those are for courses more for students that are trying to maybe get ahead or for courses that we don't typically offer and then the edmentum is more for those students that need to catch up a little bit and maybe even recover some of those credits that they got behind in or didn't earn during the school year we've also offered driver's ed but again that's not been ran through us that's through a third party that we've used and so we will continue to partner with the driving center to offer driver's ed courses as well and then the last summer opportunity is through the supervised agricultural experience program we've offered that for a number of years now some years we've been able to have it and some we haven't because again it's always been tied to the amount of students that have been involved but we've always tried to partner between southwood and northfield to make that program uh work and so we will offer that opportunity again for some of our students that are interested in taking advantage of that to earn uh high school credit so because of uh the additional federal monies that we can use towards summer programming we will still continue to seek reimbursement at the state level but whatever we don't get reimbursed for then we will use those esr dollars to cover the costs for those extended programs i hope your minds in action can take off yeah because that was such a great experience having the science of motion that was just yeah we're hoping it will too uh cami ross and patty seal kind of really taken the bowl by the horns uh with this program and so they're excited we we actually had this up and ready to go for last year but then with covet it got mixed so you know we've had this planned out for over a year now so they're pretty excited and pumped about uh trying to build that thing up so so tim i don't know if there's anything that you want to add or jay or fail to how we've operated summer school in the past and what we're looking to do this year with it for the new board members just the chances of us offering k-6 summer school is not usually something we do and so that is directly tied to those ones we are talking about and so probably next year or year out like i don't know how long they'll actually be able to stay there as a feasible option but for now we feel like it's a worthwhile investment so that being said what kind of cost is involved with that i mean i'm sure it's expensive i mean yeah salary teacher salary transportation transportation but teachers i was probably watching yeah typically in the in the past we've spent anywhere between forty to fifty thousand dollars and that's without doing some of this extended stuff without doing the mines in action so some of those additional things will be a little bit more of a cost so you have chart i see there's charges for each is there charge-free student if the parents pay or how does that work for for the like the minds in action no for so there is no cost for the k-6 elementary programs and that would include the extended school year the high remediation and the ymca summer programming so there's no cost there the mines in action there is a cost because of some of the field trips and traveling that is required as part of that to cover some of that i mean there's a couple nights that we're going to do some camping feeding the kids that type of stuff so that's what really those costs go towards those expenses we've tried to keep it as low as possible with that and then you know if we ever run into situations where families can't afford that then we look at alternative ways to make that happen for them uh when possible so we try to we try to not let the cost be a factor in their ability to participate approved the 2021 school uh summer school offerings on purpose ally all right and also then we have a recommendation to approve the school board appointment of a non-voting member to the county redevelopment commission for scott and christian we do have kevin normally serves as a the county redevelopment commission is that's that we send them off remember to kind of keep up with what's going on with that anything else you want to say about that no just recommend mr bowman to be that non-voting member again so still well still voices opinion obviously can you change a second to recommend the continued appointment of kevin to be our representative to the academy development commission all in favor say aye aye opposed we have no unfinished business any board policy i don't believe any public comment from for any item all right so any items from board members all right we're adjourned
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that makes a lot more sense thank you yes uh could i just ask the question and and i'm excited about the academy uh and excited about all the information that i've heard so far my only question is and i think you just sort of maybe cleared up uh on some uh reservation that i have uh when it comes to uh students um being selected by the lottery and uh so you're saying all freshmen if this if it's a thousand they're gonna have an opportunity to get an opportunity to uh attend this academy is am i hearing this right and that 950 student or whatever it might be is uh will not be put into a lottery until the next step okay and the reason i bring this up because you know as i go back over the years and i think about ais and west side magnet school and how the atmosphere uh as far as some parents uh versus other parents because if my child got in into uh the magnet school or uh the uh west side academy they were a little bit smarter a little bit brighter than you are so i think that other students that weren't able to get in are and are on a waiting list i think some of those comments should sort of need to bear into mind when you're dealing with parents because i think it's uh it's very important to some to consider those things and i know that um things are going to be based on a lottery system as you can't put a thousand here and a thousand here but it's it's it sort of hurts students and parents when that type of conversation is going on between parents about yeah my child got in so maybe yours on a waiting list and it might not never get in so uh that's that's a very negative uh point that i think that we need to consider uh and uh gladys you bring up a very important point um again conversation some of the conversations that we've had around this you know when when students um try to put this i don't know how people look but when students are you know when there's a application to to uh ais application to the middle school west side those those are really very much parent driven right so um and sometimes we some you know parents that have a little more uh um influence influence or or capital if you will to understand the system navigate navigated a little bit more vastly uh tend to have an advantage right and getting those out let's get that application in and um and so so so there's take that and put that in the parking lot and that's really kind of a parent-driven process what we want to do here with this ninth grade academy is empower the students to make those decisions for themselves and so at this point it's really less about the parent and it's really more about the student understanding the process understanding what the options are having the chance to explore those options and then making an informed decision um you know based on this the curriculum that all students get and that that's the game changer every student gets the same curriculum and they get coached in the same way to make those decisions at the end of the process of course parents will influence some of their choices but every every student will have that opportunity to to have that same um equity if you will and understanding what their options are and how to access those options thank you you're welcome joe i can't see if there's other questions joe does anyone else have any questions i was on mute there um i guess my my question is uh just procedurally uh do you want for these ed specs do you need to take another pass at them or do you want us to act on them tonight and send it to maybe a full board workshop or something like that well let me just this was just a draft for ideas i figured that's it but there is a good question joe there is a process antonio could you kind of explain what what is expected of eventually joe yes the board has to approve it that that is a definite but what's the process of your thinking through job antonio that's the application uh yeah no problem um this is the draft and it's a great working document um and i think what we would be looking for tonight is uh to to an endorsement to continue to further develop this and i'll continue uh an evaluation that this um preliminary ads will fit within the building footprint um and that we can make it work uh i think if we were able to get that um well not from this committee tonight uh committee that that would be great um but we we still have a little bit more work to do and i just have to tell you the amount of work that this group has done in a short period of time is really amazing i i put these folks on a deadline for submittal or final expects and they've been working nights and weekends getting it done so and this expect is probably better at this point than most that i've seen in my past career as a final document so you really uh i want to commend the entire team that pulled this together uh and not only that this is probably one of the most exciting programs i've probably will ever be involved in this is a trendsetter this building will be a trendsetter but that spec will be housed in it uh it will be a first of many so um i i think uh a simple endorsement that you like what you see so far and you um endorse the expect and the uh focus of the ed spec would be great tonight so we can continue to move it forward um as we come to a complete and final ed spec it will move very quickly so i think dr sal and kara by presenting these tonight to you and you guys getting a good chance to be educated on them is a very critical move to us eventually coming before the full board with a final version and having you vote on it very quickly joe can i ask you a question yeah go ahead joe as a matter of procedure if this is a draft and not the final draft that we're referring to the board i'm not entirely i mean i'm all in favor there's tongue iran this is not a a question about the the document but if this isn't a final document how do we how do we vote to approve it to forward it to the board because what the board would get wouldn't be the document we're voting on they'd get a different document uh just as a matter of procedure that seems somewhat wonky or or am i off doctor cell care and yeah i think tonight's purpose here was there's a lot of work that's going in it but it's a draft and i think what what antonio's saying guys are we going in direction that you're interested in for sure and then now we'll take it back there's we gotta look at this and make some modifications john's got to look at it and then uh we find that i don't expect to be much different unless the board said no it's not the way to go then went back to square one but then we can make some adjustments and then come back to the uh board and say here's a here's another here's a recommendation with some final draft for you to consider and then you know like we normally do we look at it the board names input we wait two weeks make any adjustments and then approve it i mean that's how i see it yep okay thanks i got the question too when do you think you have to give the state the final approved specs from the boards by the board so um we're working on sort of when that deadline um should be um remember the ed spec has to be approved and endorsed by the full board of education uh prior to us putting an application in the application is due september first well we have a tremendous amount of vetting to do um to make sure the expect can actually be met uh and we're gonna be doing that now that we we have a very good document in front of us to do that so joe i don't think we're looking for anything that's crazy formal we just want to make sure that what we're presenting tonight you guys are interested in uh this very tremendous amount of work document that has been produced uh is something that you guys are interested because now i will start to work to make sure that this fits in the building and working with the team that we have they will ultimately finish up the final document uh for you guys to approve as a full board so um you might not even have to do any type of emotion tonight but i would love to just hear from you in a sense of emotion that you guys uh endorse the uh the the the segway into uh you know this uh academy and where we're heading and the work that the team has done so far and maybe you look forward to the final document that's it that that works for me so i have an easy easy way for us to do that so let's just go around the five of us and let's uh give our little our thoughts about it i think this amazing project i think the work that the entire team has put on specifically with these specs is amazing i have been excited about this project for was almost two years when it was first uh the first nashville um you know idea was presented to the board and i'm really excited to see what it can do because i think there is a lot of value in stem and i think this is going to give an important choice to our students to kind of consider kind of where the whole world is going so i'm excited and it's got my full support so i that's that's what i got for that um i i too um endorse it and um i'm going to divorce myself from the cost what it's going to cost down the road and just say that it's a wonderful program and the kids will our kids will just benefit from it tremendously so i am all for i i love the project i'm hoping my kids are interested in going there when they get that when they get that far i get a few years left to go but no i think it's a great idea and and definitely pursue refine this clean it up do whatever we have to do but no this is definitely the right direction for sure i'm in total agreement with everyone um i love i was supposed to go to nashville and couldn't go at the last moment and i was so excited about it i'm amazed at what uh the team has pulled together and i just love this idea for our kids i think it's so uh it's so forward thinking i love that and i love that we might be a flagship in the northeast um that would be a wonderful feather in danbury's cap and i really i like that i think it's a great opportunity for our kids and it's exciting thank you so amy maybe i could we could charge them a tow when they come [Laughter] nashville nashville has made over eight million dollars that's how we pay for it we need to get a royal we need to get a royalty or something nashville has made over eight million dollars in hosting site visits so far well there you go that's that's the next that's the next phase of it for us right our next revenue stream yep yes court courtney can put that in the 2829 budget [Laughter] oh great thank you and by the way al had al went off to another meeting also i was going to say if i i thought i was here in the beginning it was he just there's there was a ptli meeting that i think he's attending oh there's p-o-p ptli they're presenting some of the budget stuff yes yes okay well i guess from that joe i assume everybody likes the idea we're gonna continue um you know refining this working with the city um letting them know what we're doing and and then um you know keep you updated regarding uh any any modifications that we need that's great and thanks to all of you for all your help yeah thank you yeah phenomenal really good glenn and uh mike and christina his team you know we i'm not gonna lie i was in a slight bit of a panic because i never wrote expects before so um you know he they stepped in and kind of supported us they gave us an outline to follow this is what this is what the state asks for and uh and you know they too were on um calls with me over the weekend so i just want to say thank you it happened to be the nicest day of the year so far so i appreciate your stopping to rake the leaves thank you joe can i just bring up one more thing i go ahead not on the agenda but it's about facilities glenn uh is working with us with this i've also had glenn um work with us regarding next year and the reopening of schools so um you know we'll be bringing information to you all about that um he was in the district today we did some visiting we've done some um we have standing committee looking at the reopening with the principles in terms of different scenarios um the state informed me yesterday that um they want to talk to me from davier on monday about our space issues i'm interested to see what they got to say but um on monday regarding that but uh all kidding aside glenn has been um really with us he knows our buildings he's done many additions and um so we're right now planning that if no matter what the state does if all of our youngsters come back what is it going to take to create um uh person in-person learning five days a week no matter what happens with dl or otherwise so glenn uh is working with us and so you'll be seeing more of him i just wanted to let you know that and thank him for all of his advice it's been very beneficial thanks thank you dr sal do you need us to give you a motion that we like the direction of the pathways thing do you do you need that for or maybe i don't think it hurts somebody would make that motion i i met mr chairman if i may make a motion joe go ahead i'll make a motion of the sites and facilities committee approves of the direction of the draft uh ed specs that are before us and encourage the administration to pursue them or in and complete complete a final draft for our uh review in this direction motion has been made is there a second yes i'll second it thank you did by amy all those in favor say aye aye aye motion carries yay thank you okay thank you so much all right thank you guys thank you everyone um yes motion made by kathy seconded by joe all those in favor you
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um just want to inform the public that members of the public shall have the opportunity to address the board of trustees on agenda items identified below um uh yeah um i just promoted him thank you um so when we have the uh opportunity on each item we will allow the members of the public uh by law we do need to put that uh on there and i do want to read it out loud now we're gonna move on to closed session um before we break out closed session i would like to open it up for any public comments regarding any items we discussed in a closed session for today um so i think avatar was going to help us with the public comments um it's carlos i'm here carlos welcome i made it yes sorry i wasn't paying attention to the screen okay good to have you um here so we're going to go ahead and open it up for public comments uh regarding any items to be discussed in closed session dr bauer can you review the items we'll be discussing in closed session today sure we're going to be um discussing uh 303 uh conference with labor negotiators employee organizations csca a 304 employee organization area 305 employee organization teamsters and unrepresented employees in 306.
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thank you dr kaiser is there a second i'll second that mr landau seconded thank you mr landau okay board members all those in favor of passage of the certification of spending the money certified or indicate by saying i i i see you waving caitlyn thank you passes unanimously okay it's uh according to my agenda that is the extent of the business we had to take care of to make sure we're in compliance with everything yes i'd like to thank the board for a quick meeting all of these items were already in play and had been utilized since we reopened in october for in-person learning but again as mr hanley mentioned it's just an abundance of caution to ensure that we have everything in place when the state asks for documentation so thank you for your time it's really appreciated oh hi dolby number two she's so adorable oh um thank you board and um you know when the state provides us with roulette wheels and we never know which compliance thing they're going to sit on this is our our way of of making sure that we do like superintendent staley said covering our crossing our t's dotting our eyes thank you board the meeting is adjourned you
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has a remaining balance of about 9.1 million in the facilities renewal category i'm bringing that to your attention because in the first work study in may albert and i will be presenting the summer projects to all of you so that you have an understanding of the projects that are are being completed over the summer and that is all i have to share tonight board members any questions comments ms betts once again you're very efficient thank you for that report dr mccord who moved item 3.02 anything by way of introduction yes dr santa cruz governing board members before i turn over to mrs betts and mr mcintosh i'd just like to say a few things last friday afternoon 152 teachers were told they're going to be rift that came as a shock to many if not all and for that i apologize as we discussed how to navigate this process with our attorney we were advised to be as concise as possible and stick to our policy the message that was delivered was cold and sterile and that was never the intention but nonetheless that's how it was given and it was received again i'm sorry for that we wanted a consistent message and no details were given on how individuals were chosen to be rift tonight we hope to lend some clarity to that process on why a riff is necessary i've received calls and emails about what i've just mentioned and i know several others are wondering as well again i hope we can help bring into focus a little bit more this evening since march of 2020 we've been faced with many difficult decisions regarding students and staff those decisions have been positive a positive or a negative impact depending on those decisions impacted the loss of student enrollment and the uncertainty of student enrollment for the next year has led us to this difficult decision that will be made this evening again these actions these decisions are never approached lightly and sometimes they slam in the face of my own mantra which is connect create and care as a 26-year educator superintendent who's has served during a walk out of boundary changes changing start and end times bought an override elections racial tensions virtual graduation and a worldwide pandemic and again a school closure that we'll be discussing this evening and a reduction in force i've learned two things forgiveness is our greatest superpower and that life can be extremely difficult i know life is extremely difficult for those who are impacted by the rift and i'm very sorry you have to go through this process bonnie shawn please proceed i was hoping does it work now okay great um i wanted to stand because there's a lot of complex charts in the next few slides and i wanted to be able to point to them so to begin go ahead sean if you go to the next slide so tonight i will be presenting information on enrollment as well as how enrollment impacts our budget and then i'll hand it over to mr mcintosh to talk about the staffing committee and the student student centered staffing process that we've engaged in over the last month or so so go ahead sean so this is our enrollment chart and note that we're starting in may of 19. so if you recall in the 1920 school year we all we actually gained about 600 students over projection so by the time that we finished the school year which was in about may of 20 you can see that our enrollment was just about 34 300 students since that time though do the pandemic the enrollment plummeted to even and it continued to decline through december of 20 down to just over 33 000 students so an enrollment is the metric that we use to determine to determine our staffing staffing district-wide misspells a quick question on that does that include those students who are in our brick and mortar and who are in our online program it does it's total enrollment so the 33 000 includes both of those so the the students have that aren't in either of those that's that's the loss that we're seeing that's truly the loss that we're seeing thank you and just to clarify further this is not adm this is it's not weighted adm this is actual students that's correct so as an example our kindergarten students are worth a half adm or a half student count but for purposes of this they're counted as a one okay so to put numbers to this graph so the 20 20 100 day enrollment was and 35 nine the twenty twenty one hundredth day enrollment is thirty four thousand two thirty five i wanna talk a minute about that the hundredth day enrollment normally by the time the hundredth day is here it stays exactly the same but due to the changes that are occurring with withdrawals and and add-ons it is continually changing albeit slightly not as much as it did the first hundredth day a hundred days but it is still changing reflective of the environment that we're in right now and then our projected twenty twenty two hundredth day is four hundred students less than that so this cal this was a calculation so i uh contacted and met with our student accounting specialist and she indicated to me that looking at cohort movement so the number of 12th graders that are leaving the organization and the number of 11th graders going into 12th grade and then also looking at the 6th graders going into the seventh and then determining which kindergartners are going into first grade she determined that there is an expected 200 student loss at the elementary and student loss at the secondary so that's where we arrived at the additional 400 students going into fiscal 2022.
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great thank you um at this time carlos do we have anybody uh wishing to address the board on public comment yes we do at this time we have five people first person is danielle d'ambrosio welcome danielle as soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin hmm are they there yes they are um okay there we go now i can unmute hello my name is danielle d'ambrosio and i am an area member i've been a lindell teacher for 20 years and i would like the board to know that in regards to schools reopening dr bauer's words were that it was going to be volunteer and that no one would be forced to return so that has been out there for many many weeks and months so yes i understand that we are now planning on opening i am one of the teachers who volunteered to come back who also put my name on the paper i also wanted to come back to work so bad that i was willing to go to a different school i was willing to teach a different grade level i was willing to do all of that just for the sake of being able to come back and get to work with students well now here we are bargaining and it's in the final hours of when this is all due and now the teachers that want to come back aren't even going to be given a stipend or any prep time so in case the board is wondering what the holdup is it is that like once again the teachers aren't being heard and again dr bauer's words have always been no one will be forced to return it was going to be volunteer basis only and the teachers are not even being given a stipend thank you for your time i hope you're listening and let's move forward with this and let's get this done thank you thank you anybody else mr moran yes we have sherry duarte welcome sherry as soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin okay hello my name is sherry duarte i am a teacher and a proud member of the area organization and i'm flabbergasted just simply flabbergasted that in in the 25 years that i've been in the school district i feel like i'm constantly having to fight for what's right for myself or my students but what's just right in general and it doesn't seem right to ask someone or excuse me tell someone that they need to go back to an environment that they don't feel safe in and as danielle just said a moment ago i don't feel safe or excuse me she said that she feels safe she wants she doesn't mind going back i mind going back and i was told by my superintendent that i wouldn't have to go back and i've told this to my principal um she asked me to come in and straighten up my room so it'd be ready and i said i don't understand why would i need to come and straighten up my room if i'm not coming in i have no plans to come in until it's safe for everyone that it's universal and i have students in a pod at my school site and yesterday after about an hour i couldn't figure out why my student hadn't logged back in and i heard from the um the leader of that pod that all the students were sent home because of a quota virus or possible coronavirus exposure well to me that's it right there how do we know in a group of 10 people that are supervised you know highly supervised that this event happened how are we going to prevent it in our large schools with populations you know up to 3 400 students i know it's only going to be a partial but anyway please don't make anyone go back to work before they want to thank you thank you mr moran next person is abby harris welcome abby as soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin thank you um my name is abby and i've been a teacher in holland rock now for um 11 years and i do have to say that i've been pretty proud on how this has all been handled so far up until about a week ago when we got the announcement that there was going to be an opening and there literally is no plan for the teachers there's no plan for the parents we have other school districts surrounding us who have had plans in place they've given it to their parents and teachers weeks in advance and the parents know what they're walking into at this moment we have students asking us every day oh we're starting school on the 12th and and they have no idea what that looks like and we have no answers to give them and i just think it's really irresponsible that this was kind of announced with nothing to back it up we it makes us as teacher look like we have no idea what's going on it makes our principles look like it they have no idea what's going on when they don't have answers that they can give to parents and students so i urge you to negotiate with aria to get a plan in place to make sure teachers are safe for that those that want to go back to not force the teachers back that don't want to go back and don't feel safe i just think we owe it to our community to keep up the good job that we had been doing up until this point and i just felt like right now it's just chaos thank you thank you mr moran next person is azra bibi welcome um as soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin ezra are they there maybe they stepped away ms b uh azra please unmute yourself and if they stepped away we can always come back to them yeah let's go ahead and come back to them okay next person is john fits you john as soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin i'm sorry i must have made a mistake i did not mean to raise my hand sorry thank you no worries thank you i think mr azra um let's try mr or miss azra again see if they're back hello we can hear you yes i'm here you welcome as soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin yes can you speak those would like you to would you like to address it more okay again yeah would you like to address the board today okay yes would you like to address the board on public comment um no okay thank you so much mr moran next person is dina lopez welcome dean as soon as you begin speak speaking the timer will begin hi my name is dina lopes i've been teaching in the district for almost 20 years now i live in allen rock and i send my children to mccollum i have spent many years of my life defending our district and our community and i have to say that right now i'm a little bit flabbergasted i miss my classroom more than words can say i want my kids to go back to school but it's the end of march and to find out that let's say it's tuesday we have wednesday thursday and then someone thinks it's a good idea for us to be back the day after spring break i love what i do i am very passionate about teaching don't throw me back in a classroom with no days to prepare for it i think that that's ridiculous i think that we need to have a better plan than just throw i feel like we're being thrown to the wolves right now and we deserve more than that our kids deserve more than that so please really really really think this through thank you thank you mr mona next person is jessica welcome jessica as soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin hello can you hear me yes oh perfect okay so i am also a alum rock uh teacher at linda vista and i also am completely floored by what's happening we need to chill out we're still in the middle of a pandemic people are still dying getting sick having long-term health effects and it is spreading in schools and if you look at europe and michigan it's still happening and we have no safety plan in place at allen rock there has been no planning in place teachers have not been a part of this and if you're going to tell us to come back and force us to come back it should be voluntary and that is what dr bauer promised us that teachers would have a choice in the matter and now we're hearing we won't and that is not okay and we need to have a safety plan in place and all of our kids and many of us have suffered through this pandemic and especially with these variants young kids and young adults are getting sick now and we need to plan for that and it should be lives over live lessons in person and the school year is almost done and our kids are doing good i mean and now they're going to suffer with distance learning if teachers have to be thrown into two different places in the classroom but also teaching on screen and you're going to take away our prep and our small group instruction after lunch and all of that um for what for what um so really think about this and think about the lives of the teachers and their families and the students what is the benefit of this um so thank you thank you next person is brenda sandejas welcome brenda as soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin uh good evening board members um thank you for allowing us to comment today i do want to speak on a couple issues i do want to thank trustee main fam for having his camera on today that means a lot to us the public and i also want to say that as a parent i am concerned i'm concerned of this plan i haven't seen it we as parents have no idea what's going on our children have no idea how this is going to happen and i think that this district has had this issue for many years where there is no communication and we get everything last minute we need to work on that we need to do better um we have a third wave already that i'm seeing on the news this is not a joke of the safety of our children and not only that our teachers as well should be our priority i want to ask you guys to consider whatever you guys plan to do be considerate of the staff the teachers parents and students and give that option to um the people that we call heroes right the people that uh stand by us when we need them so i'm here to stand accelerated with our teachers our staff and as a parent i want to say thank you to all the teachers thank you to everyone for everything that you do for our kids and i will say that i am very happy with my son's teacher alinda vista who has done a great job and it just doesn't see it makes sense to come in what a month and a half or two months in the schools and i think we need to really really create a plan and make sure that all schools have all these uh fans and everything that need i've only seen one school in the video i wonder if all schools have all these things that are promoted in this video so thank you you guys have a good day thank you brenda mr modern anybody else yes we have beatrice prado welcome back as soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening superintendent bower and board of trustees my name is beatrice i am an area member i am a teacher currently at painter before that i was at adelante and before that i was at chavez for 10 years i have dedicated nearly 25 years to this district and more than 33 years to education as a whole we teachers have sacrificed for our students and have devoted many many many hours without compensation we think of our students on weekends holidays and summer vacations they are part of us they are part of our families always we would do almost anything for them which has been demonstrated by teachers here and across the globe thousands of times but this is a pandemic not experienced in more than a hundred years we hear talk of a fourth surge what it means for us remains to be seen we hear of covet variants stronger than before we must ask ourselves are we safe are our children safe we know what is best for our students and our families we are devastated too that this year we cannot provide what they need we too have families and loved ones that are dependent on us to be here tomorrow i want to be here tomorrow stronger than this past year and i want to feel safe thank you good night thank you next speaker is adrian vane welcome adrian as soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin hello um my name is adrian vane and i am an 8th grade school teacher at joseph george middle school one thing that i am very open about is the fact that i am immuno compromised i know several other teachers that are immunocompromised as well when i went and got the vaccine because i have had both shots i was told that the vaccine may not work on those of us that take immunocompromised medicine and so i am very concerned about coming back to school especially since i have in one of my classes 29 students how are we supposed to social distance and be safe especially if the vaccine possibly cannot work on me and the kids don't have a chance at the vaccine yet this is not the right time we don't have enough ventilation in our classrooms the filters that we've seen provided in our classrooms are not hospital grade how are we going to come back so it's safe for those of us that it could be a serious health risk coming back i look at this with feeder i love my kids i love my job [Music] i don't want to feel like i'm in a position where i have to risk my health for my 141 students we need a plan to make sure that we the teachers are safe and the students are safe please keep that into consideration that it's not just the healthy that are saying that this is not a good idea thank you for your time thank you next speaker is area member naura solis welcome lauda as soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin hello hello hi hi welcome my name is laura solis i am 20 i have been teaching for 20 years at the wonderful school assessor chavez i usually don't speak but it makes me very sad to know that my risk my health is at risk um it it breaks my heart to know that i have to choose to either go back with the wonderful students that i have and i'm lucky enough to have someone who is related to cesar chavez at my school and to know that i have to choose to be there while i'm a single parent with my daughter who has given given the option to stay virtual and this earlier i had heard um trustee pham speaking to madam president and he asked if on the 12th of april would they start meeting together and she voiced that she would give people options and i'm hoping that madam president and the board of trustees you give that option that we do not have to go back if we are sick and if we have health issues and give us more time to prepare our classrooms we want to be with our students we love our job we wouldn't be here if we didn't so i'm i'm i'm begging i'm asking please to consider uh superintendent everybody on the board please you know think about if it was your family if it was your child if it was your sister mother would you want that to come back to you and have them bring something back to you when we are in a pandemic and we still don't have a cure thank you thank you next speaker is mr jaeger welcome mr jaeger can you hear me yes okay great thank you uh good evening um dr bauer on the board uh my name is ryan jager i've been a teacher here in allen brock for 21 years i teach at joseph george i'm also a member of the negotiating team and i find it crazy that here again olam rock is reacting to something that should have been planned a long time ago or had been in the works rather than the last minute the fourth quarter is now coming up there's 41 days left to 45 days left of school this year is a wash we need to focus on summer school that's what we need to be negotiating and we need to be negotiating for the next opening in the fall for everybody to worry and rush this now is just putting the cart again before the horse think about what we need to do think about the right thing summer school in the fall get a plan in place lay it out work it out instead of rushing at the last minute thank you thank you next speaker is sean swiss welcome mr sean as soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin okay my question i work at dorsal elementary school been there 15 years or so in this district my question is this what are the what is the actual data per school that most kids want like at dorsa how many kids really want to come back to school how many classrooms will be full if you're requiring all of us to show up okay the other question is what are the custodians going to do to sanitize every day between classrooms okay how are they going to do it because the system that you have at my school the little tiny air filters that you bought us is only covers 432 square feet whoever ordered those really didn't do much of a deep dive and see what their they cover right so we need to know the data of the kids coming back to school we need to know the air filter systems is going to keep us safe also who's going to take care of the kids during recess time how are we going to work on feeding these kids all that little stuff that that includes part of school how many hours are going to come to school how am i going to teach the kids online versus the kids who aren't going who are in class and last but not least if mrs bowers is so keen on opening our schools so quickly here's a challenge then why don't we have the administration people in the d.o start coming to the schools during the week that we we open up and spend a week at different schools and really get down into the nitty-gritties and see what we're facing i like miss bowers i really do i've known her since she was sort of like a mentor but you know my health and the teacher's health they come first my kids help they come also so please take that into consideration all the things that take to run a classroom to run a school thank you next speaker is miss louie welcome miss slow as soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin hi i'm uh kathy lowe i've been teaching at shepherd middle school for uh 14 years my mom was actually a teacher at um in allen rock before me um and she was uh dr bauer was actually her principal um back when i was in high school and um i have a lot of concerns um i've been keeping very close a close eye on coveted cases in our county and uh our district and our state in our country and across the world and covet cases are rising in some places very dramatically especially in europe and brazil um young people are dying 20 30 year olds are dying in brazil because of the variance there um they are rising in at least 27 states in the united states and new more contagious and deadly strains are spreading across the country and cdc is warning of another wave of cases um when we open our schools and that wave hits us what's the plan what's the plan for the kids our kids are very important to me i do not want to go back to school and put my kids my students at risk and their families and it's not okay to just open the schools and put them their lives at risk it's not all right it's it's wrong and you know it so you need to think about what happens when that wave hits us because it's coming you know everything i see around us shows me that no one's going to prevent it so what are you going to do thank you next speaker is alma mendoza welcome alma please unmute yourself hello sorry okay hello hello thank you my name is alma gabriela mendoza i'm a teacher at ryan school i've been there from 1986 on i'm one of your oldest teachers i am old and i am overweight and i am diabetic very high risk and i am willing to come back but i'm willing to come back when there is a plan in place i get it our kids need to be in school i see it every day i'm online with my kinders from nine o'clock until 12 30 1 o'clock in the afternoon every single day trying to help them but there's no plan i don't see a plan to keep us safe for all the little specifics that need to be in place we haven't seen anything if you have a plan then show it to us so we know what's going on otherwise you're risking our lives you're risking my life if i have to go back i have to go back i have a daughter to get through college who also by the way went to ryan went to renaissance me says nephews i teach every day there it's part of my family it's my community but i am not willing to risk my life to go back without a plan without something solid in place that talks about how are they going to sanitize how are we going to social distance what is going to be provided and how much time do i have to get my room ready it's a mess in there i haven't been in there to clean i've been in there to teach but that's it and i want to know take the teachers back take the kids back to class fine but then you board members need to be ready to go back to the board and meet also in person because if you're going to put us at risk you should be willing to put yourselves at risk that's the bottom line we're playing with lives here think about it get a plan if you have a plan show it to us negotiate it and we will all will we go back eventually i think but until you're willing to risk your life don't risk mine and don't risk my kids because i guarantee you thank you next speaker is nancy flores welcome nancy as soon as you begin speaking your timer will begin miss flores please and mute there hi good evening can you hear me yes good evening welcome thank you um i'm a teacher this is my tenth year in the district i'm happy with the district i don't have too many complaints other than normal little wines here and there but i went into my classroom this week there's not even soap in the soap dispenser okay i'm not even talking about alcohol wipes i'm talking about soap in the soap dispenser i'm talking about the the foamy sanitizer that thing that is on the wall has nothing in it there's no gloves there's nothing so how are you trying to invite us back burger king has more ppe than our schools right now i mean seriously and you're gonna throw people's lives just bam here we go because of we're getting some kind of bonus what's it worth what what are what are some what's it worth what dollar amount i've seen families on my zoom all of them having covered the little girls crying like it's ridiculous and i i'm not i'm not invited back right now this is not an invitation i i don't feel very comfortable oh like if i would have walked in and things were legit and solid and there's nose protectors and some kind of lamination throw up a shower curtain i don't care but right now i'm not walking into it and if i have to go back we're outside every day i'm not going into the classroom there's nothing there would you go into a restaurant right now with nothing would you go order something through a drive-through with nothing would you send your children your grandparents into somewhere with nothing so yeah i'm pretty heated but that's what it is that's what you get for nothing thank you miss flores anybody else mr moran yes the next speaker is mrs has-been welcome ms sasman as soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin hello can you hear me yes i'm shireen hasbun i'm an area member teacher and mother of two alumrock students my kids love hubbard and they love their teachers both teachers have done an outstanding job so shout out to mr terrio and miss graciano i ask you to please keep in mind that there are teachers whose health are at risk not all teachers will be fully vaccinated by the april 12 school opening as of today we have two days left and it takes time to set up a classroom when will teachers have time to set them up finally i think it's important to establish clear safety procedures with teachers and families before we open thank you thank you we have one more speaker stephen lynch welcome steven as soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening good evening last week's presentation that was given to the board uh telling about all the work that's been done to get ready for return to school was full of exaggerations and several lies this plan to get us back to school right now is putting the whole community at risk not just teachers but teachers and their it's also putting the community at risk these kids are still carriers of the virus although they may be asymptomatic they're going to bring the virus home and give it to grandma who doesn't have a health care plan and grandma will die the plan to have parents complete a survey each day saying that their child has no fever or cough is not near good enough we need real testing if you're going to have people coming to class you need weekly testing of students and staff students children tend to be asymptomatic their parents are not going to going to know if they're carrying the virus or not and having them complete a survey saying my kid doesn't have a cough is not good enough additionally they're going to get real tired of completing a survey after about a week and they're just going to check the boxes saying yes send my kid to school additionally what about the long-term health risks to the children there's not a lot of data on it yet but are you willing to risk long-term health problems for these kids the kids that get the virus even though they are asymptomatic they didn't even know they had it but years from now have health health problems from this the district has no good um safety protocols in place the hepa air filtration units that are that were bought are way too small i contacted the company and asked them about it they said that they are too small any return to the classroom involves a change in working conditions and that must be negotiated you cannot just say go back to school different rules don't do this it's a big mistake thank you mr moran yes we have four more speakers next speaker is julie arroyo welcome julie as soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening um i am a teacher at ocala steam academy i've been teaching there for 12 years now i'm also a wife of someone who's immunocompromised and my my child has asthma i worry about what i'm going to be bringing home to my my husband and my child when i go back to work um because i don't know what the plan is i have no idea what we are how we are planning to open i'd also like to mention that my child will be returning to his school on april 21st i have seen the principals of his school have shown us the plans of how the desks are going to be set up in the classroom the entrance how students will enter and exit the class uh the school site i know the plan for my child who is going back to school be after we open april 12 where so we allegedly are opening at april 12th it's been in place for a while i know nothing about what we're going to do we need to have a plan thank you thank you next speaker is sandra rivera welcome sandra as soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening board superintendent my name is sandra rivera i'm the alum rock educators association vice president and a fourth grade teacher this year at chavez elementary school while i'm also on your negotiating team i'm reaching out to you tonight to ask for a few things how many of you have ever had a part-time job where your shift goes from 4 pm to 7 pm but then that one person calls in sick they ask you to stay from your 7 p.m to 10 p.m but they pay me to stay for an additional three hours you are now asking teachers who have been working diligently to create new content new material new programs on your google classrooms on your drives giving students work both in on zoom and asynchronously to please now go into the classroom and help support students for another 90 minutes two hours in the time that they should be using to work individually with students or to be planning for more asynchronous work you're taking away their planning time their grading time their small group instruction time and yet we're not being compensated for that that is unfair as well as the fact that has many of board people have said to this board tonight that if we are being asked to return back you should also be asked to return back you can put six feet of space in between you and the next board member in the boardroom so please take these things into consideration it is not that the teachers don't want to come back it's not that we don't want to help our students it's that we are being asked that if the district is receiving millions and millions of dollars to incorporate this to show the teachers that you worth their life thank you thank you next speaker is claudia cuello welcome claudia as soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin good afternoon my name is claudia a parent of adam rock and i feel like a good start to begin um a sense of security would be to have an example set and an example for me would be to have to see all of you guys in the same room uh holding a board meeting i mean if you guys don't feel safe doing this immediately um you guys should really really think about how we feel as parents and along the staff that is speaking up right now they don't feel safe and there's a reason for that so definitely we would like to see um you guys step up on in that sense so we can feel more secure and i do agree with what what a person said now um we should be thinking about summer school and our upcoming year thank you thank you uh next person is lee pruitt welcome lee soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin thank you can you hear me yes okay i'm a school psychologist and a proud area member and i wanted to share a story from my work day just today um i participated in a zoom iep meeting the student and his entire family were all coveted positive the parent shared that her younger child and herself were experiencing challenging symptoms the student for whom the iep was taking place was also sick with covid's symptoms he is in fifth grade we're making assumptions about contagion based on science that is changing due to new variants and the inevitable variants that have not yet been identified children are impacted i had a meeting about one today and i just want to know how we can ensure that returning to school is safe for our students thank you there are no more one more popped up uh jesse montano welcome jesse as soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin miss montano please unmute yourself yes thank you carlos um yes i'm a teacher at painter's school and i don't think that this is fair for us teachers i'm also an area and a state council rep and i don't think this is fair for any of our teachers and our students i know it is hard for them but i come from a background where alum rock has been very uh i have a several students of my own family members one graduated from pala when it was palace so you know that was a long time ago uh the other one was a painter student as well and now hit her son is a kindergarten ever at painter's school which is a very good school however they are not re the school is not open i've gone to visit my classroom periodically and it is not ready you are to have a student when school is so close to almost being finished to go back to school to be expected to be ready and and ready to be going to school it is very hard i have to say that my grandson is wanting to go back to school but in his mind it's like he he thinks covert he thinks of the virus the virus the virus i think it's um not safe i also believe that you should have a plan in place most of the districts that are having this some of them have already got the plan some of them have put them to state to progress and i thought i don't think it's over all fairness and safeness which we have to think about our kids and i have been in a classroom at the end of last year before this all started when a parent was ill and her student was in my classroom so i know it's the scary feeling and i don't think we are ready and i don't think it's fair and i just want to let you know that alan rock really really really thinks has to think about this for overall students thank you thank you um and with that um mr moran was that it yes no more speakers thank you so we're going to go ahead and have a recess and go to closed session dr bauer approximately how long do you think we'll need i think we would need about an hour and a half okay so that would put us at about nine o'clock that's fine okay so we'll um go ahead and break out until nine o'clock at nine o'clock we'll return back um and meet you all again and uh trustees i just want to make sure you all have the link to go into closed session i think linda you're asking for a link want to make sure that you've got that and if not linda uh feel free to give me a call and um and we'll make sure you get that um i think other than that we should all have a link and we'll see you in closed session and we'll see the public back here at nine o'clock thank you hello can you hear me maribel yes trustee charles este so am i on am i on the meeting or not you are in the open session okay so there wasn't going to be any trusty comments just a public comment i thought uh trustee said it's um everybody's going to close session yeah but um i'm surprised i couldn't unmute myself um when that screen is on so um i guess i'll talk about it in closed session thank you maribeth oh you're welcome trust each other okay uh okay i'm back let's see i see trustee vegeta all right um so at this point there's nothing to report uh reconvening at 9 23 uh we'll go to item now five uh the board will consider the plan for school reopenings in the allen rock union school district uh dr brow yeah dr bauer i believe yes um i'm trying to see i'm gonna be asking the board to consider a recommendation and i'm gonna ask maribel to share it so that the board and the public can see my recommendation the district is currently providing distance learning to students under an mou with the allen brock education association dated august 10 2020.
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okay now um mr carr you did mention the average daily membership so we are compared to our peers by average daily membership or student count the enrollment data by school district is not readily available in the state of arizona but i just wanted to share with you that the loss of students that gilbert public schools is experiencing is also reflected in other school districts both in the east valley as well in comparably sized districts so you can see that this is our average daily membership we've lost two thousand two hundred and fifty four compare that to the expected two thousand enrollment so again that's associated with part-time students versus full-time students etc uh note that chandler has seen a loss of 2 700 average daily memberships or student accounts and mesa has seen a loss of 4 000 queen creek which is one of our district's neighboring districts has actually gained in enrollment they were one of the first school districts to go fully in person and they are still rapidly growing they are the most rapidly growing school district in the state of arizona at this time so that's only to provide you a context of the environment here in the state of arizona any questions on any of that on the enrollment versus the student account and again student count is what our funding is based on okay so next slide please so this is a chart that shows what has happened during this fiscal year directly related to the issues associated with the pandemic so note again that at the end of 2020 our final revised budget showed a 237.9 million dollar budget capacity we also knew that we were fortunate in october of 2019 to pass the 15 override which meant immediately we would see an additional 10 to 11 million dollars so our budget capacity rose to 258.7 million that that adopted budget also included the final governor ducey's increase to the base amount due to the 20 by 2020 for teachers throughout the state of arizona so that accounts for that large increase but now fast forward to november of 2020 you can see that the loss of enrollment at this point in time our loss of enrollment and our loss in average daily membership or student count was near 4 000 students and you can see that the budget that's reflected there is 232 million dollars versus 258 it's a loss of 26 million dollars in true funding so again this is a consequence of the fact that we are presently being funded by current year student counts in the past if we adopted a budget of 258 million it would stay throughout the year because the calculation was based upon prior year the past three years we've been funded based upon current year student counts any questions on that detail okay and as you go through time now so what happened after this november well in november we received a letter from the state of arizona saying gilbert you must revise your budget down because your budget capacity is expressed way above what we're actually calculating so at that point in time we worked with the enrollment stabilization grant we knew we were receiving that we knew we were short 26 million dollars or so we asked for 30 million the enrollment stabilization grant resulted in just over 14 million so we're still short but at the same time we also knew that esr1 was going to be around as well and then and then we also were continuing to see some increases in our student accounts over time as students in our online application were collecting their minutes and increasing adm and then enrollment started increasing increasing again at that point in time as well because gilbert was in a nearly a full-time in person school situation at that point in time so when we revised number one we had accounted for the enrollment stabilization grant as well and that that enrollment stabilization grant we opted to use that to fund salaries in 2020 so we did a revised afr so that what happened is that that increased our budget balance carry forward so this budget of 252.9 million included about a 31 million dollar budget balance carry forward when our adopted budget had an 11 million dollar budget balance carry forward okay so now fast forward again we are doing revised number two which i mentioned that you all approved in the first meeting in march and at this point in time we've accounted for both sr1 and sr2 and by the way esser1 is the elementary and secondary school emergency relief fund sometimes called um a recovery amount etc numerous dames are being used out there um and so um there there's esther one and esther two and both of those have been fully accounted for and so then our budget went from 252.9 million up to 260 million in the current year actually about 1.5 million dollars more than we adopted i'd like to make a cautionary remark though that so much of that is one-time money remember sr1 and sr2 is gone after we spend it it's not recurring and the budget balance carry forward that we started 11 million and now we're at 30 million those are also one-time monies that will not be recurring okay so next go ahead sean so now we're projecting into fiscal 2022 so the difficulty you can see the changes in budget capacity based upon enrollments going up and down up and down we had a lot more information in the past that would better able that would allow us to better project what our student count will be in the subsequent year it's really difficult to know what that will be but we know what's today and we know what the cohort movement is going to be so we we assumed for that budget development in 2022 that we would lose the 400 students so we accounted for the 1600 or so student loss in the current year plus an additional 400 which gave us an ongoing budget capacity of about 250 million dollars one other note about that that 250 million dollars includes 17 million dollars of carryover money which is important to note as that is largely one time as well so before i go to the next slide are there any questions mrs bets i might be a little bit ahead of myself in asking this question but i tried to read all of the comments and emails that we've received and i know that there is the proposition 208 money and that was a question but we that is not available to us for another year is that correct that's correct and and i do have a note in here about that very thing sorry that's okay that's okay this but maybe again similarly you might address this later but i'm interested can you explain the details of what where we are spending or have spent the sr1 and 2 money on because it looks to me like we have it it appears that we have money but i know that it's actually been spent not on salaries but on all kinds of things that we've had to fund while yes and so so the story there is uh we decided that the enrollment stabilization grant we would use in 2020 last year to offset the cost of teacher salaries at the last quarter of last year so in the current year the 2.3 million dollars of sr1 about 2.3 million dollars has been allocated to meet all of our pandemic mitigation efforts so extra cleaning materials extra custodial staff we added pp e face shields n95 masks we added the sanitization sprayers and and expanded our florida virtual to allow for our online students at wish to to go online so all of those costs that are largely one time in nature were applied to sr1 and then in addition with sr2 we determined that the best thing to do would be to move the staff salaries that were our excess staff salaries into sr2 so that we're able to balance our budget in the current year so the 9.7 million dollars of sr2 was used by moving primarily teacher salaries out of mno into sr2 so that full 9.7 plus the 2.3 has been spent and accounted for so the purpose of esser one in particular and i'm not sure about two was for mitigation more than anything correct it was first sent out because um because it was when esser one was approved and and the enrollment stabilization grant were all was also approved at the same time yes that's correct answer is the one from the feds correct right and the enrollment stabilization grant was actually from the federal government as well but it was passed through the state government right but the purpose of it was for us to to try to mitigate classroom safety correct that's correct ms betts if we can if i can ask you just to better understand the forecasting and how it plays into this um i know that you look at a lot of models and you we we have demographic studies and we follow trends as we try to figure out where student enrollment's coming it is the number one input to our budget that's correct if we were to ask you to be less conservative and assume that enrollment were to stay the same so we didn't see the decrease of 400.
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the district appreciates areas and all teachers efforts to transition to distance learning last year at the start of the pandemic the distance learning mou states that it will expire on june 30th 2021 or at such time as the school side opening or in full in-person instruction is permitted by the state or local order on march 23rd 2021 the state moved santa clara county into the orange tier for the state's covid 19 website the state has announced the county's move into the orange tier and the state has announced that schools may reopen fully for in-person instruction and that local school officials will decide whether and when that will occur as you know assembly bill 86 recently signed into law by the governor provides significant financial incentives for school districts who offer and providing personal instruction to the greatest extent possible for the remainder of the regular school year at a special meeting on march 23rd the board of trustees unanimously approved that beginning the week of april 12 2021 arusd will open up grade levels pre-k through eighth on a face basis to provide in-person instruction for students who have elected to opt-in to return to in-person instruction in district schools all parents and families in the districts were given the option to opt-in so that their child could if they wish return to some measure of in-person instruction in district schools the district received opt-ins from parents for 1832 students to return to in-person instruction the district team has been communicating and meeting with area since march 12th to try to reach an mou so that a sufficient number of teachers to return to providing personal instruction for those 18 1832 students who have elected in-person instruction unfortunately we have not been yet been able to reach a mutually acceptable agreement and the district will be shutting down for spring break for several days beginning this friday administration believes it is important to notify families and staff of what they should expect when they return after spring break the administration is committed to continue communicating and working with area and all bargaining units to prepare for the reopening of schools to best ensure the safe and smooth return to the classroom for students who have opted in for in-person instruction and based on the state's determination that schools may reopen fully for in-person instruction the administration is recommending and requesting that the board direct and authorized administration to notify all staff and the opt-in families that the district will be providing in-person instruction four days per week in the afternoons at the district's school sites and to take such actions that as are necessary to mobilize staff and resources to provide for the in-person instruction for those opt-in families for the remainder of the school year and to continue to provide distance learning for those families that did not opt-in this authority would include if necessary declaring the current distance learning mou expired for its terms and notifying area of its expiration respectfully presented thank you dr bauer for discussion purposes uh i'll go ahead and make a motion do i have a second a second okay uh at this time i'm gonna go ahead and open it up for public comment and then i'll bring it back for um board trustees comments or questions uh carlos do we have anybody on for public comment on this item we have one person brenda sandejas thank you welcome back brenda as soon as you begin speaking the timer will begin good evening board members um i do have a question with this um does this mean that if this is approved the students will be returning for four days without an mou agreement from um all bargaining units or what does this mean because i'm a bit confused because i know that you guys went into closed session and nothing was given but what does this do does this um go above bargaining units and just tell everybody to return or i just don't know how this works thank you mr moran yes we have adrian vane welcome adrian as soon as you begin speaking the time i will begin hello thank you um i spoke before um once again i am concerned about my safety i understand what dr bauer has put forth but what are the safety plans nothing in that thing said anything about the safety of our students of our staff we have i have currently 141 students that i teach daily and how am i supposed to do distance learning how am i supposed to teach them if they're coming back with no plan and i've seen the filters that are being provided in our classrooms those are not hospital grade those do not take away from the they do not protect us from copic 19.
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obviously we'd have more students would have more funding etc and then because we're going against your recommendation and that we were wrong what would have to happen when we find out we're wrong and we don't have that funding so next year which is one thing i vowed to never do after the downfall in 2008 but at that point in time we would have to stop spending immediately we'd have to freeze all hires and we may have to take money back that was allocated out to departments and schools and their worst cases and worst case we're we're doing a mid-year rift worst case or or a furlough that impacts everyone or a reduction in all salaries and and i just want to highlight that because one of the questions that i've received in quite a few emails and conversations is well why can't you just assume you'll have higher higher enrollment and if you're wrong reverse verse later and as much as we would like to do that if we're wrong on that call the impact to the individuals affected becomes much more enormous because you have no notice you have no timing you have no opportunity to find alternative employment it it magnifies the effect of this decision on the actual individuals is that an appropriate summary right anything else okay to move to the next slide so in this particular case i've been talking quite a bit about one-time funding versus ongoing funding so whenever you have salaries or salary increases for anyone whether it's a teacher classified staff member professionals of all of all functions throughout the school district those are those what you would expect to be ongoing so we would need to have ongoing resources for those so more student counts to that point if we got if we got all those students back we would have the ongoing funding to be able to support those salaries in the in the case of the current year and largely for next year as well there is a tremendous amount of one-time money that's available which is could and very well will result in a cliff a year from now where we have a lot of extra expenses but no way to fund them so in this particular case you can see that our normal i came in in 2018 in a normal budget balance carry forward is right around six million so in this final revised budget it was about three percent of our total 238 million dollar budget was budget balance carry forward go to the the fiscal year 2021 adopted we increased the budget balance carry forward by about 5 million which seemed seemed reasonable and still an appropriate amount at 4 percent now our our budget capacity plummeted by 28 million dollars or so now our budget balance carry forward is 4.7 percent of that total budget capacity moving into the revised number one where we have a great deal where the enrollment stabilization grant is included and the additional budget balance carry forward that we were able to add by other mitigation strategies that we used during the summer resulted in 12.3 percent of our total budget capacity being uh provided by budget balance carry forward it's important to compare the 258.7 million at 4.2 percent versus the 260.5 million at 12 so the same total budget capacity but you can see the percent of budget balance carry forward went from 4.2 percent up to nearly 12 percent so that is accounting for all of that one-time money that is going to be gone next year so then going into our new budget budget projection again a drop year over year of about 10 million again i assumed a 17 million dollar budget balance carry forward which is roughly six or seven million dollars more than you would expect so about seven percent of that budget is in budget balance carry forward any questions on that okay the final slide so if i summarize the history of the 2020 2021 budget what you're telling me is without the esser and the and and all of those things that came in in revised budget one revised budget two our budget for 2022 is actually over what we had two years ago i mean it what we're really showing here is where that esr money and those federal funds and the emergent funding was received and spent during this year's budget and we're down from that emergency money but we're actually up from two years ago and and we are primarily due to the override because we have a we went from a 10 to a 15 override there's other details in here though in addition so that 250.3 million dollars the decline of the 10 million is the the um there is an override contribution to that number so the override is 15 of your revenue control limit which is calculated based upon your student count but it's the prior year student count so in this budget the new budget our override actually declined by about two and a half million dollars because it's calculated based upon the 21 student count and all of this does not at all consider classroom site fund which is a large component of our teacher salaries okay and then the final slide go ahead shawn so this is you eugenie you asked about proposition 208 so as you all remember proposition 208 was approved in november of 20 this past november so the annual revenue that was projected at that time was approximately 800 million dollars projected to be approximately 800 million dollars the legislative session began in january and starting very early the conversation centered around should we exclude small small business owners from that tax premium and so this has not been approved at this point in time nor signed but the projection is that if that goes into effect and the legislature approves that then the prop 208 revenue could go down to as little as 370 or 80 million from 800 million and then okay you couldn't wait until it was your turn well we're waiting mrs betts could you just um ex we've spent a lot on things like hand sanitizer um the sprayers that we use on the buses and so forth do you have any idea what a ballpark figure that might be for some of those outlays for the everything we've used to mitigate in during the pandemic so um all of the costs we are presently tabulating but we do believe it will exceed the 2.3 million dollars associated with sr1 okay thank you so um in addition the final point about proposition 208 we've had numerous meetings with my peer groups over the last couple of months and we've had meetings with the joint legislative budget committee the jlbc as well as the office of strategic planning and budget ospb which is part of the governor's office and all of them are giving us information indicating that please don't expect the proposition 208 money until fiscal year 2023 remember that the final tax collections will not come in until april of 2022 and that and also there is some implementation cost associated with figuring out how to allocate out the money and all of that and so any any tax revenues that are received early would probably go to the department of ed to implement the program so we're not expecting to receive any of the proposition 208 monies until um july of 2022 which is the start of the fiscal year 2023 school year so the other thing that's out there right now president biden approved the last round of federal stimulus dollars or federal relief dollars and we are affectionately calling that sr-3 to date the application is not yet available they indicated that we won't know the dollar amount than any school district will receive in arizona until probably the end of april so we have no visibility about that and then finally 20 percent of any amount must be used for learning loss so expected to be used for summer school tutoring that that type of thing so based upon that that's all i have and i'm ready to turn this over to mr mcintosh unless there's any further questions for me this wood yes thank you dr santa cruz i my question is um so i understand and we understand because you've been presenting this to us all along the the esther money the one-time monies we've spent it on um also on substitutes and costs all the costs associated with that um there's been lots of one-time costs and different things that we've used to mitigate now i also understand the enrollment and you've gone through that month by month with us as well we've been tracking it looking watching so i guess though i have had some people say well can't you find other other ways to fund this what other ways you know are there other ways to fund it and i i was looking we've been looking through we've carefully looked at our budgets every month every all the time i was also thinking about basically we've had out of the last six or seven years at least that i'm familiar with plus before that we've had enrollment loss except for one year and some of it larger than others and we haven't riffed at all we've found we've mitigated we've scraped we've scrimped we've found ways we've tried to cut back on every other place that we could i just wondered what is your thoughts on any other mitigation strategy so and where we could find any mitigation strategy that we would come up with would again be subject to one time so we would be delaying the inevitable um the other thing is we sh we need to fund the need so if we if we have an enrollment increase we need to hire teachers back to fill the needs for those enrollment increases but if we don't have the enrollment to support them it would be it would be difficult to to maintain that fte the other other thing that's always playing on on all of us and if you remember otm worked feverishly a year ago on the compensation study to make sure that we can continue to be competitive and attract and retain personnel all personnel district-wide and so i do know to date that higley is offering a five percent pay increase and i expect that queen creek will do something comparable to that so um we could we could stem this off um for probably a year but we'd still be at the end at a cliff thank you but it's all about your priorities all right dr santa cruz is hungry i just wanted to um provide some clarity to miss what mrs wood um there was i believe is in about 2016 we did have to reduce our budget and lay off people we were able to mostly use attrition for that but we did have to there were a few people that were a reduction force at that time thank you anyone else i i i would clarify that i think it was before that before 2016 i'm looking at the kafir over the last five years um and if i look at the the kafir in 2015 we had 1831 teachers in 2020 we have and 1 six so each of those years we've actually we've seen some fluctuation but we've seen a general trend upward in the number of teachers that we've retained um and just to answer one of the questions that we've gotten well you know why what about district positions and so on in that same five-year time period we had 208 supervisory positions at the district level from that's going actually i should say supervisory period that's going from dean of students all the way up to superintendent in 2020 we had 146.
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